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How to Watch the WNBA on Saturday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
Published: Jun. 3, 2023 at 10:20 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Today's WNBA schedule has lots in store. Among those two games is the Minnesota Lynx squaring off against the Washington Mystics.
Catch live WNBA games, plus tons of other sports and shows, with a free trial to Fubo!
Today's WNBA Games
The Washington Mystics play host to the Minnesota Lynx
The Lynx hit the road the Mystics on Saturday at 7:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: Bally Sports
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- WAS Record: 3-2
- MIN Record: 0-6
- WAS Stats: 76.2 PPG (10th in WNBA), 75.0 Opp. PPG (third)
- MIN Stats: 78.3 PPG (eighth in WNBA), 87.8 Opp. PPG (10th)
Players to Watch
- WAS Key Player: Elena Delle Donne (21.4 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 3.0 APG)
- MIN Key Player: Napheesa Collier (18.8 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 2.7 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -9
- WAS Odds to Win: -466
- MIN Odds to Win: +348
- Total: 162.5 points
The Los Angeles Sparks face the Seattle Storm
The Storm go on the road to face the Sparks on Saturday at 10:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- LAS Record: 2-2
- SEA Record: 0-3
- LAS Stats: 85.8 PPG (third in WNBA), 87.8 Opp. PPG (10th)
- SEA Stats: 77.7 PPG (ninth in WNBA), 95.3 Opp. PPG (12th)
Players to Watch
- LAS Key Player: Nneka Ogwumike (18.0 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 3.0 APG)
- SEA Key Player: Jewell Loyd (26.0 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 2.7 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -5.5
- LAS Odds to Win: -241
- SEA Odds to Win: +192
- Total: 166.5 points
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ferguson Crest Estate, built by Fergie and her father in 2013, has been listed by Steve Epstein of the Epstein Partners at Keller Williams Realty. Through this home, Fergie helped her dad realize his dream of planting a vineyard and creating his own wine label that provided many years of memories for Fergie, her family, and those surrounding them.
The spa-like estate, with stunning panoramic vistas encompassing The Santa Ynez Mountain Range and much of The Santa Ynez Valley, served as a retreat for family and friends. This beautiful custom estate features a 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom turn-key home, +/-5,456 square feet of single level living and is sited on +/-6.27 acres. The temperature-controlled wine cellar has been home to a variety of wines created under the Ferguson Crest label including Syrah crafted from the vineyard situated on the property.
Large bi-fold doors offer a seamless indoor-outdoor living experience with generous wrap around patios surrounding the home. Ample space for entertaining or relaxing is available in an oversized spa near the fire pit and outdoor kitchen. Inside the home you will find two primary suites, one featuring a bar/kitchenette, an expansive great room, two full laundry facilities, numerous walk-in closets offering bountiful storage, and central air conditioning. The gourmet kitchen features a 6-burner Wolf range with griddle and pot filler, a large island and walk-in pantry. Parking is abundant in one of the four garages as well as the various motor courts.
Fergie's estate encompasses Santa Ynez Valley luxury living at its best!
Contact: Steve Epstein, Epstein Partners, Steve@TheEpsteinPartners.com
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Watch an earlier report on Senate Bill 1 in the video player above.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Months after the last hearing on a bill to restructure the Department of Education, Ohio lawmakers have enshrined the changes into law without voting it out of committee.
Among the thousands of pages in the biennial state budget is the wording from Senate Bill 1, legislation to strip most powers from the State Board of Education and transfer them to a governor-appointed cabinet position. After being voted out of the Senate along party lines in March, the bill last received a House hearing in early May.
Yet in budget discussions in June, Republicans touted the inclusion of SB1 as necessary to combat bureaucracy-driven inefficiency in the education department. Its sponsor, Sen. Bill Reineke (R-Tiffin), said in March that teachers and schools cannot succeed under the board’s “inherently flawed structure,” while others emphasized the robust hearing process the bill underwent – it had nine hearings between the chambers.
“This has had a lot of vetting, a lot of discussion, a lot of public discussion on it, and I think it’s something that’s been needed for a long time,” Sen. Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware) said of SB1 when the Senate approved the budget.
Reineke was not available for comment, his office told NBC4.
The bill renames the department to the Department of Education and Workforce, a change corresponding with a greater focus on career technical education and closing in-demand job gaps. It also establishes a governor-appointed director of the department, who must appoint two directors to oversee the Division of Primary and Secondary Education and the Division of Career-Technical Education.
Increasing state focus on career technical education was a bipartisan component of the bill; organizations that testified against the legislation highlighted the workforce prioritization as a much-needed change.
“While we support the elevation of career technical education and opportunities for students, we have significant concerns about the restructuring of the roles of the State Board of Education and the superintendent of public instruction included in the bill,” Nicole Piscitani, a lobbyist for the Ohio School Boards Association, testified in late February.
Ohioans approved a constitutional amendment to create the state board and a state superintendent in 1953. The current structure of the Department of Education grants the board power to craft policy affecting primary and secondary education. The board, made of 11 elected members and eight governor appointees, sets academic standards, issues and revokes educator licenses, administers state funds to school districts, and sets guidelines for educating disabled students.
Most of those powers would fall under the department’s newly established director. The board maintains some authority, including the authority to grant licenses, oversee licensee disciplinary actions and approve school district territory transfers.
In April, the state board approved a resolution asking the General Assembly to consider improving the education system in other ways, like boosting communication between the board and lawmakers so policy can be implemented swiftly. Two months before, Katie Hofmann, representing Hamilton and Warren counties on the board, submitted testimony urging legislators to remember why the state board was created – to give citizens a direct voice in the education department.
“If this committee wants to change the will of the people, then let the people decide,” Hofmann, who did not respond to a request for comment, wrote. “Put it on the ballot and see what voters think of your plan to remove the powers given to the State School Board and the ODE by the Ohio Constitution.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/ohio-board-of-education-loses-most-of-its-powers-in-state-budget/ | 2023-07-13 16:57:01 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/ohio-board-of-education-loses-most-of-its-powers-in-state-budget/ |
Nation's Top Cybersecurity Instructors Discuss Evolution of Teaching, the Cyber Jobs Gap, and Diversity
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EC-Council announced today its 2022 Academia award winning instructors of the year. The five honored instructors include a diverse group of teachers from academic institutions of higher education across the United States, chosen from over 500 different institutions that provide cybersecurity education.
"Training the next generation of cybersecurity leaders is critical in a nation where as many as half of all cyber jobs are currently unfilled. Nothing is more important to that education than the quality and commitment of our nation's cybersecurity instructors," said Wesley Alvarez, Director of Academics at EC-Council. "This year's winners reflect a high level of innovation and adaptability in their teaching, which is vital to produce cyber leaders who are ready to respond to new and evolving cyber threats."
Award recipients are selected based on the nominee's impact on teaching, an assessment of their instruction, student experiences, leadership, and engagement with the cybersecurity community at large. The winners include the Academia Instructor of the Year award, issued to Dr. Diego Tibaquirá of Miami Dade College (Miami, FL); and five Instructor Circle of Excellence Awards, issued to Nicole Dyess of Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL); Larry Atkinson of Lorain County College (Elyria, OH); Christopher Hope of Southern Crescent Technical College (Griffin, GA); Greg Hirsch of Vincennes University (Vincennes, IN).
Evolution in Teaching Approach
These award-winning educators spoke about how teaching pedagogy has evolved in the past years, with an emphasis on hands-on training, competency-based education, and other types of practical learning enabling students to move beyond knowledge acquisition and into the development of real skills immediately applicable to today's workplace.
"Taking a hands-on approach, I have to ensure that students are aware not just of textbook information, but current issues and the resolution that can be taken," said Christopher Hope. "I like the gamification approach to teaching," said Nicole Dyess. Dyess goes on to say, "Rather than focusing on testing, my approach is to give them hands-on professional development opportunities. Capture the Flag competitions are another important teaching method which I've found to be a valuable tool to level up students quickly."
Addressing the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap
Instructors and their students are acutely aware of the national cybersecurity workforce gap. According to industry sources, there are nearly half a million open positions in the U.S. alone. "I think there is such a shortage of students entering the STEM disciplines as it is," said Larry Atkinson. Atkinson goes on to say, "We must create new and state of the art programs and advertise those to our new generation of students."
Dr. Diego Tibaquirá, Academia Instructor of the Year, elaborated, "We need to start at the high school level, middle school level, and even elementary school level. We must educate the entire population on the risks and need for the field of cybersecurity."
Improving Diversity
Another key theme that arose in conversations with these top cybersecurity instructors is the matter of diversity. "As a woman in the field of information systems for over 20 years, it has often been a lonely journey. I understand the difficulties in balancing a family with school and work. I encourage all my students to always put their family first, but also remind them that by improving their skills and participating in Capture the Flags, they are in fact doing the best possible thing for their family. Students who can get employment in this industry will help secure their financial future and provide the best life possible for them." said Nicole Dyess.
Still, there are signs of progress. Most of the instructors spoke about improvements in the representation of women in their classes. "In one of my cybersecurity classes this semester, almost half of the class were females," said Dr. Diego Tibaquirá. "Our numbers have grown, but there must be a real, direct, and intentional approach to get those numbers up."
EC-Council Academia honors leading instructors and programs annually through the EC-Council Academia Partner Awards. In addition to the 2022 faculty awards, leading cybersecurity programs including Western Governors University, University of Maryland Global Campus, University of Phoenix, ECPI University, Forsyth Technical Community College, Maryville University, Collin College, and Queen's College of Business, Technology & Public Safety (Lambton College in Mississauga), were highlighted for their outstanding efforts and commitment to cybersecurity education this past year.
The EC-Council Academia partner program, led by EC-Council's academic division, offers free partnership opportunities to academic institutions globally. These partnerships establish cybersecurity education ecosystems that support students, alumni, faculty, employees, and communities. Through established partnerships, academic institutions can access extensive discounts on content, evaluate learning resources, offer student-stackable credentials, initiate faculty development, provide scholarships, and facilitate cyber competitions. To date, EC-Council supports upwards of 2,500 education networks and institutions globally, with over 1,000 recently participating since the relaunch of the academia program in 2018. EC-Council works with many top cybersecurity programs worldwide, including Western Governors University, the University of Maryland Global Campus, the NATO School, many National Centers of Academic Excellence, statewide education systems, and many ministry initiatives. EC-Council's Academia partner program helps certify tens of thousands of students annually with industry-leading credentials. For more information on EC-Council Academia, please visit www.eccouncil.org/academia.
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Great white sharks’ dominance doomed giant megalodons, scientists say
(CNN) - Scientists said they may have an answer as to why the giant shark megalodon went extinct.
They said they think the megalodon likely had to compete with the great white shark for prey, and the great white won the battle for survival.
The megalodon lived more than 23 million years ago and was almost four times the size of the great whites seen cruising oceans today.
However, in the fight for food, it lost out.
Scientists arrived at that finding using a new technique that looks at zinc levels contained in the teeth of dozens of shark species to see where each shark fit in the food chain.
Zinc plays a crucial role in bone development and preserves a record in the teeth of what kind of prey was consumed.
Scientists said they believe both great whites and megalodon sharks feasted on large fish, but the smaller-sized great whites didn’t require as much food to survive, giving them a competitive advantage.
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With 1:58 on the clock, the Ravens faced the demoralizing possibility of another home defeat, this time against their AFC North nemesis, the Cincinnati Bengals. Instead, they righted their ship with a clutch drive, relying on their bedrock elements: Lamar Jackson’s feet and Justin Tucker’s leg.
Here are five things we learned from their 19-17 victory on “Sunday Night Football.”
Faced with another desperate fourth quarter, the Ravens fell back on their most trusted components.
Sweet relief.
What else can we say after the Ravens stood 118 seconds away from another collapse on their home field, only to ward it off with a quartet of tough dashes from quarterback Lamar Jackson and another deadeye field goal from Justin Tucker?
Jackson felt it in the moments after the Ravens put their season back on track against the Bengals, an opponent that spanked them worse than any other in 2021. For the third time in three home games, they clung to a lead deep in the second half, only to lose it when their defense could not hold on a crucial drive. On this occasion, however, they had enough precious seconds to retaliate. To pull it off, they turned to the elements that have rarely let them down — Jackson’s whirring feet and Tucker’s metronomic right leg.
“If we make it to the playoffs, these are the type of games we’re going to be in,” Jackson said, steering the story back to the broader mission, which became a little easier with this not-at-all-easy divisional win.
There were many heroes on this night, when plenty of fans at M&T Bank Stadium probably expected the worst after watching the Ravens blow leads against the Miami Dolphins in Week 2 and the Buffalo Bills in Week 4. The defense corralled the Bengals for much of the evening, with a fierce opening, a timely interception from oft-maligned linebacker Patrick Queen and a goal-line stand punctuated by defensive tackle Calais Campbell blowing up a Joe Burrow shovel pass. Devin Duvernay again played Swiss Army knife for the offense.
But the Ravens went back to their bedrock when circumstances turned dire: Jackson, the player who defines them, and Tucker, the guy who does his job better than anyone in the long history of football. They embraced as Tucker ceded the postgame interview podium, the mutual appreciation between kicker and quarterback apparent for all to see.
This evening could have followed the same doomed script as the last two Ravens home losses.
They were driving in Cincinnati territory with a chance to build on a 10-0 lead in the second quarter when Jackson overthrew an open Demarcus Robinson, dumping the ball into the waiting arms of Bengals safety Vonn Bell. Burrow, the Ravens’ greatest nemesis from 2021, led an 83-yard touchdown drive the other way, cracking the Baltimore defense for the first time all night. Just like that, the ruling narrative of the Ravens’ season — a gangbusters start undermined by blown opportunities — was back on the table. By halftime, another double-digit lead was gone.
For the first time all season, it was Jackson who nearly let the Ravens down. In addition to the interception in the first half, he had two chances to connect for a touchdown on the opening drive of the second half and overthrew his target in each case. With No. 1 wide receiver Rashod Bateman sidelined by a foot injury, the Ravens could not afford to miss on these scarce home-run shots, but their franchise quarterback simply was not sharp.
The throws he missed loomed large when Burrow and running back Joe Mixon nicked and bruised the Ravens’ defense on a 13-play scoring drive in the waning moments of the fourth quarter. The Ravens trailed for the first time all night, and it was Jackson’s job to move them far enough so Tucker could take the stage.
As coach John Harbaugh noted, Jackson finds paths to victory that few other quarterbacks could imagine. “There’s nobody like Lamar,” he said. On a night when his aim was off, Jackson moved the Ravens within Tucker’s striking range by carving 19 yards through the heart of the Cincinnati defense. This time, it was enough.
Teammates know they should not take Justin Tucker for granted, but how can they help it?
After 15 years in the NFL, Campbell knows that even the greatest players falter on occasion. As mythic as they appear on their best days, they’re all too human on their worst. Which was what he tried to remind himself as he prayed for Tucker to make the 43-yard field goal that would send the Ravens home happy. “I try not to take it for granted,” the proud giant said.
Except that Tucker has taught teammates he might be the one infallible element in a game of disruption, chaos and violence.
“You don’t got to think,” Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins said. “You know it’s going in.”
After 61 straight made field goals in the fourth quarter and overtime, there’s really no other way to put it when it comes to Tucker. Did anyone in the stadium, including the most optimistic Bengal, think his final kick would do anything but split the uprights?
Ravens fans don’t have to be told to appreciate this consummate craftsman. He’s probably the second most popular player on the team behind Jackson. But at least once or twice a year, Tucker steps beyond routine brilliance and forces us to reckon with his absurd consistency in moments that shred the nerves of his peers.
Yes, the game-winner was a certainty, but what about his 58-yard make early in the third quarter? As Harbaugh said, a Tucker miss in that situation would have left the Bengals within easy striking distance for a go-ahead score. “That was not an easy choice,” Harbaugh acknowledged. Tucker made it look easy by drilling the kick dead center with room to spare. That’s what he does.
If anything, he might be getting better at age 32. Recall that in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, he made just eight of 19 attempts from 50 yards or longer. He’s 10 for 10 from that distance over the last two seasons.
Despite Cincinnati’s last drive, this was also a win for the Ravens’ defense.
The Bengals started out with quick throws, trying to minimize the Ravens’ chances of exploiting their threadbare offensive line. But as soon as they faced a third down, Campbell stormed up the middle to hit Burrow and force an incompletion.
Cincinnati faced third-and-12 on its next possession, and this time, Jason Pierre-Paul beat his blocker one-on-one for his first sack as a Raven. A blitzing Josh Bynes leveled Burrow to set up another three-and-out the fourth time the Bengals had the ball.
Though Burrow found his rhythm in the second quarter, aided by several missed tackles in the Ravens’ secondary, the defense played well enough to win in the first half, holding the Bengals to one of six conversions on third down and forcing them to punt on their first four possessions. The wide receiver trio of Tee Higgins, Ja’Marr Chase and Tyler Boyd, which Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey called “obviously” the best in the league, produced just 29 yards before halftime.
Remember, Burrow threw for 907 yards combined as he hung 41 points on the Ravens twice last season. He threw for 217 and produced a mere 17 points this time around.
Humphrey stood tall in coverage. His partner in crime, Marcus Peters, destroyed a double handoff for a 12-yard loss on that essential stand in the third quarter. Pierre-Paul batted away two passes on top of his sack. Queen had dropped interceptions in each of the two previous games, so he spent his week catching tennis balls to hone his hand-eye coordination. This time, he held on, and his turnover set up Tucker’s 58-yard field goal.
The Ravens won’t be happy that Mixon gashed their front on Cincinnati’s go-ahead drive. They absorbed another brutal injury hit when safety Marcus Williams dislocated his wrist in the second quarter and will be out indefinitely. But they picked up the offense’s slack as much as Jackson and Tucker had their backs at the end.
“They’ve been getting a lot of noise about how they’ve been playing,” Jackson said. “In our eyes, they played lights out.”
Whatever the Ravens need on offense, Devin Duvernay provides.
With no Justice Hill (hamstring) as a complementary option to Dobbins, the Ravens turned to Duvernay to give their ground attack an early kick. He made a terrific play on their first drive when he scooped up an errant snap by Tyler Linderbaum and carried it 17 yards along the sideline. He added a 12-yard gain off a sweep to set up Tucker’s first field goal of the night.
The Ravens were also without their No. 1 wide receiver in Bateman, so Duvernay did that job as well, snaring five passes on seven targets on a night when no one else in his position group caught more than one ball. His line would have been gaudier if Jackson had not sailed that potential touchdown pass beyond his grasp in the third quarter. Duvernay easily beat the coverage with his vertical route.
He was actually less productive than usual as a returner, but who could blame him when he was doing so much to hold the offense together? We have said it time and again through the first five weeks, but Duvernay is the most pleasant surprise on the team.
Ronnie Stanley’s return answered a few questions but left us wondering when he’ll play every snap.
The Ravens took a conservative approach with the 2019 All-Pro, removing him for significant stretches of his first game since the 2021 opener. Stanley certainly played better than he did in that aborted comeback, losing none of his 13 pass-blocking steps against the Bengals, according to Pro Football Focus.
Matched against a high-end edge rusher in Trey Hendrickson, he move smoothly and held his ground.
He was satisfied with how the evening went, even if he was frustrated to watch the deciding drive from the sideline as Patrick Mekari stepped in at left tackle.
“I thought I played pretty good for the snaps that I had,” he said. “I just went in with zero doubts about my ability, and I think that was a big difference from last year — to be going in fully confident.”
For weeks, we had waited for Stanley, who looked fit in practice, to decide his ankle was sound enough for game action. The home fans greeted him with a roar during pregame introductions, and the Ravens scored on the first two series he played. But his stop-and-start usage pattern raised new questions about when he will return to being the blindside anchor he was in 2019.
Stanley does not seem to doubt he will get there. He said he’s confident this gradual reintroduction is prudent after he came out of Sunday’s game with only minor soreness.
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“Coming back, and this being my first game in two years, you want to make sure that I’m easing back into the reps and not just taking every single rep in the first game back,” he said. “It’s tough as a competitor, and oftentimes, you get cold, you get stiff [and] you just want to keep playing, but I definitely understand it. I think it’s a good plan.”
Week 6
RAVENS@GIANTS
Sunday, 1 p.m.
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Attorney Rene Sandler talks to NPR's A Martinez about legal representation in criminal cases involving children, after a six-year-old is accused of shooting his teacher in Newport News, Va.
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Attorney Rene Sandler talks to NPR's A Martinez about legal representation in criminal cases involving children, after a six-year-old is accused of shooting his teacher in Newport News, Va.
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BOWS IN TOP 200 TO BECOME LEGENDARY ARTIST'S HIGHEST CHARTING ALBUM IN MORE THAN FIVE DECADES
NEW COLLECTION INCLUDES NEARLY ALL OF POPS' HOLIDAY OFFERINGS PLUS A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDING OF CLASSIC HOLIDAY POEM, "A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS," SET TO NEWLY RECORDED MUSIC BY SULLIVAN FORTNER
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 50 years after his passing, the legendary Louis Armstrong is back on the charts with the release of his first-ever Christmas album, Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule (Verve/UMe). The collection debuted in the Top 10 across multiple Billboard charts (dated Nov. 26), including Top Holiday Albums where it bowed at No. 9 and launches in the top 10 on Jazz Albums (No. 4), Traditional Jazz Albums (No. 4), Top Album Sales (No. 7), Top Current Album Sales (No. 6) and Vinyl Albums (No. 7). It debuted at No. 122 on the Billboard 200, becoming Armstrong's highest charting album since Hello Dolly spent six weeks at No. 1 in 1964.
"Louis Armstrong's first album of holiday-associated songs is an auspicious aural example of why he was a man for all seasons, singing and playing his Promethean trumpet in the cause of happiness," said Wynton Marsalis, president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF). "Whether you're seven or 70, these evergreen selections featuring the great composer/arranger Benny Carter, and the incomparable vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Velma Middleton are illuminated by Pops' down-home vocals. His reading of 'The Night Before Christmas,' with my New Orleans homeboy, Sullivan Fortner on piano, is a swinging Crescent City Christmas card. If anybody can bring joy to the world, Louis Armstrong can!"
"Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation is thrilled to see this iconic music from our favorite artist earn a spot on today's music charts, and we are thankful that Verve chose to share this compilation around the world," said Jackie Harris, LAEF executive director. "When the Foundation transferred the Armstrong archives to Queens College in 1971, we wanted to put his vast collection of music, papers and memories in a place where they could be easily accessed and presented for the world to enjoy. Just seeing how this holiday record is being embraced is proof positive that LAEF's archival placement is something to celebrate."
"It's been an amazing honor to work with our colleagues at UMe and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation team to get Mr. Armstrong's first holiday album out to the world," said Jamie Krents, President, Verve, Impulse and Verve Forecast Records. "Seeing him back on the Top 200 albums chart after almost fifty years is an absolute thrill for all of us at Verve."
"Louis Armstrong's timeless holiday tunes are among the best of the season and we're thrilled to bring them all together for his first-ever Christmas album," said Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO of UMe. "It's an incredible achievement that more than 50 years after his passing, Louis Armstrong is back on the charts. It's a testament to his remarkable talent and a wonderful early holiday gift for everyone."
Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule, available digitally, on CD, red vinyl and a limited edition vinyl picture disc, collects nearly the entirety of Armstrong's holiday output and presents the recordings as a cohesive body of work for the first time, marking his first-ever official Christmas album. The 11-track album features six Decca singles from the '50s, including "Cool Yule," "Christmas Night in Harlem," and the swinging "'Zat You Santa Claus?;" duets with two of his favorite vocal partners, Velma Middleton ("Baby, It's Cold Outside") and Ella Fitzgerald ("I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"); plus a very special gift to fans: a previously unreleased reading of Samuel Clement Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas." Paired with a newly-recorded musical underbed by New Orleans pianist Sullivan Fortner, the poignant recording marks the first new, non-live Armstrong track in more than 20 years and is notable for being the last recording he ever made. Rounding out the collection is the artist's signature hit, "What a Wonderful World," which has become something of a yearlong hymn of hope and celebrates its 65th anniversary this year.
Stream/purchase "Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule": https://louisarmstrong.lnk.to/LouisXmas
"A Visit From St. Nicholas" has been vividly brought to life with a beautiful animated video to usher in the holiday season. Produced and directed by Tom Readdy and Lucy Dawkins at the award-winning creative house Yes Please Productions, the video was animated in a vintage storybook style by animators Sam Shaw, Jac Clinch and Chris Bowles. Watch "A Visit From St. Nicholas" here: https://louisarmstrong.lnk.to/VisitFromStNicholasMV
Since his passing in 1971, Louis Armstrong's legacy as one of the most beloved and influential jazz artists of all time has only continued to grow, while his enduring catalog of recordings remains timeless. Born in New Orleans, Armstrong (1901-1971) began his career in the '20s, bringing his Dixieland background to Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles. By the time he became an internationally-renowned star in the '40s, the hardworking singer, bandleader, actor, and trumpet player was spending nearly 300 days on tour every year. One constant throughout these shows, however, was the spirit of Christmas.
As a child, Ricky Riccardi writes in the album's accompanying liner notes, Armstrong "did not have much time for Christmas… life necessitated that he drop out of school and go to work while still a young boy to help support his mother and sister." After his marriage to Lucille Wilson, however, the holidays took on a new meaning—particularly when the couple was on the road. Riccardi continues, "With the holidays approaching, Lucille bought a small Christmas tree and set it up in their hotel room. According to Lucille, Louis 'just looked at it and looked at it and told me, 'This is the first tree I've ever had.' Louis refused to let Lucille take it down and insisted they take it with them on the rest of the tour. The Armstrongs would continue this tradition, Lucille later remarking that they continued setting up 'a table tree and holiday fixings in whatever hotel in whatever country we happen to be in.'"
Perhaps, it is that love of Christmas that accounts for Armstrong's somewhat mysterious reading of "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Captured months before his death, on February 26, 1971, the recording was made by the ailing artist, alone on his home reel-to-reel tape recorder. Whether Satchmo was giving fans one final present, or simply finding comfort in his favorite holiday, it is certain that the recording, and this album, will deliver plenty of Christmas magic.
As one of his many acts of generosity, Louis Armstrong established the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, to, in his words, "give back to the world some of the goodness he received." Founded and funded by Louis and Lucille Armstrong in 1969, LAEF is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the legacies of Louis and Lucille Armstrong throughout the world. Its mission includes supporting musicians, jazz education, performances and programming. LAEF is a living legacy to Louis Armstrong, the most important creative force in the early development and perpetuation of America's music, jazz. His influence, as an artist and cultural icon, is universal, unmatched, and very much alive today.
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TORONTO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Corus Entertainment Inc. ("Corus" or the "Company") (TSX: CJR.B) will release its fourth quarter and year-end fiscal 2022 results on Friday, October 21, 2022.
A conference call with Corus' senior management will take place at 8 a.m. ET/ 7 a.m. CT/ 6 a.m. MT/ 5 a.m. PT. While this call is directed at analysts and investors, members of the media are welcome to listen in.
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This call will be archived and available for replay on www.corusent.com in the Investor Relations section beginning October 21, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET or accessible by telephone until October 28, 2022, at 1.888.203.1112 (toll-free North America) or 647.436.0148 (local or international), using replay code 3761855.
Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) is a leading media and content company that develops and delivers high quality brands and content across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company's portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 33 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital and streaming assets, animation software, technology and media services. Corus is an internationally-renowned content creator and distributor through Nelvana, a world class animation studio expert in all formats and Corus Studios, a globally recognized producer of hit scripted and unscripted content. The company also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, lifestyle entertainment company Kin Canada, leading 2D animation software supplier Toon Boom and children's book publishing house, Kids Can Press. Corus' roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, Magnolia Network Canada, The HISTORY® Channel, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX, along with broadly distributed Canadian streaming platforms STACKTV, TELETOON+, the Global TV App and Curiouscast. For more information, visit www.corusent.com.
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ICAN Act would remove practice barriers for nurse practitioners
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) announces its strong support for H.R. 2713, the Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act. AANP thanks Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Lauren Underwood (D-IL) for introducing this legislation, which would improve health care access for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries by removing barriers to practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) and other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs).
"This critical legislation would remove outdated barriers to practice that delay access to health care for our patients," said AANP President April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN. "Health care policies must be reflective of those who are providing high-quality care in our communities. The ICAN Act will move health care delivery forward for patients, providers and our nation."
NPs provide high-quality health care to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and health care settings. Over 40% of Medicare beneficiaries receive care from NPs, and NPs are the fastest-growing Medicare provider group. Yet, despite the essential health care NPs provide to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, barriers still exist within the programs that prevent the effective and efficient delivery of care.
The ICAN Act would increase access to health care services for patients across the country by removing outdated federal barriers to care. This bill would authorize NPs to order cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, certify when patients with diabetes need therapeutic shoes, have their patients fully included in the beneficiary attribution process for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, refer patients for medical nutrition therapy, certify and recertify a patient's terminal illness for hospice eligibility, perform all mandatory examinations in skilled nursing facilities and more.
"We urge Congress to pass this important legislation," said Kapu. "These common-sense updates to the Medicare and Medicaid programs will better reflect the current health care workforce and ensure patients continue to receive the high-quality health care they need and deserve."
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is the largest professional membership organization for nurse practitioners (NPs) of all specialties. It represents the interests of the more than 355,000 licensed NPs in the U.S. AANP provides legislative leadership at the local, state and national levels, advancing health policy; promoting excellence in practice, education and research; and establishing standards that best serve NPs' patients and other health care consumers. As The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner®, AANP represents the interests of NPs as providers of high-quality, cost-effective, comprehensive, patient-centered health care. To locate an NP in your community, visit npfinder.com. For more information about NPs, visit aanp.org.
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Former State Department employee pleads guilty to sexual conduct with minors in Philippines
Cheves was sent back to the US in March 2021
A former State Department employee pleaded guilty Monday to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors while working at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.
Dean Edward Cheves, 63, served at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021. During that time, he met multiple minors over the internet, according to the Department of Justice.
Between December 2020 and March 2021, Cheves communicated with a then-15 to 16-year-old Philippine minor whom he paid to produce and send sexually explicit images, the DOJ said.
ACCUSED FLORIDA CHILD MOLESTER ARRESTED AFTER TINDER MATCH REVEALS CONVERSATION TO COPS
In February 2021, Cheves engaged in sex acts on two separate occasions with another Philippine minor who he met online, using his government-issued cell phone to film the encounter.
The illicit material was later found on devices seized from his embassy residence in the Philippines, the DOJ said, adding that he was aware of the minors’ ages. Cheves was sent back to the U.S. in March 2021.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States deployed a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea on Tuesday for the first time in four decades, as the allies warned North Korea that any use of the North’s nuclear weapons in combat would result in the end of its regime.
Periodic visits by U.S. nuclear ballistic missile-capable submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements reached by the two countries’ presidents in April in response to North Korea’s expanding nuclear threat. They also agreed to establish a bilateral Nuclear Consultative Group and expand military exercises.
The USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class submarine, arrived at the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday afternoon, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said. It is the first visit by a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea since the 1980s, it said.
Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup called the submarine’s visit a demonstration of U.S. resolve in implementing its “extended deterrence” commitment, a pledge by the U.S. to use its full military capabilities, including nuclear weapons, to protect its allies, the ministry said in a statement.
He said the submarine’s visit “shows the allies’ overwhelming capability and posture against North Korea.”
During the Cold War in the late 1970s, U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines made frequent visits to South Korea, sometimes two or three times per month, according to the Federation of American Scientists. It was a period when the U.S. had hundreds of nuclear warheads located in South Korea. But in 1991, the United States withdrew all of its nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have taken on a new urgency after it threatened to use nuclear weapons in conflicts with its rivals and conducted about 100 missile tests since the start of last year. Last week, North Korea conducted a second test of a more mobile and powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the mainland United States. After observing that launch, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further strengthen his country’s nuclear combat capabilities.
Also on Tuesday, South Korean and U.S. officials held the inaugural meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group in Seoul to discuss ways to strengthen deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear threats.
“Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime,” the two countries said in a joint statement after the meeting.
President Joe Biden issued a similar warning after his summit in Washington with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in April.
“Both sides affirmed that the NCG will play an integral role in discussing and advancing bilateral approaches, including guidelines, to nuclear and strategic planning and responses to (North Korean) aggression,” the statement said.
The consultative body is tasked with sharing information on nuclear and strategic weapons operation plans and joint operations. The U.S. will retain operational control of its nuclear weapons. U.S. officials say the group’s establishment and other steps announced in April were meant to ease South Korean worries about North Korean provocations while keeping Seoul from pursuing its own nuclear program.
Earlier Tuesday, Yoon told a Cabinet meeting that the launching of the consultative group “will serve as an important starting point to establish a powerful, effective (South) Korea-U.S. extended deterrence,” and that their alliance has been “upgraded with a new, nuclear-based paradigm.”
The meeting was co-chaired by U.S. National Security Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and South Korean Deputy National Security Director Kim Tae-hyo.
North Korea condemned the Biden-Yoon agreements in April, saying they proved the allies’ extreme hostility toward the North. It threatened to further escalate its nuclear use doctrine in protest.
In a statement Monday, Kim’s powerful sister and senior adviser, Kim Yo Jong, warned that U.S. moves to reinforce its extended deterrence commitment to South Korea will make North Korea “go farther away from the negotiating table desired by (the U.S.)” and beef up its own military capability.
“(North Korea) is ready for resolutely countering any acts of violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Kim Yo Jong said. “The U.S. should stop its foolish act of provoking (North Korea) even by imperiling its security.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-bilateral-south-korea-us-consulting-group-meets-in-response-to-north-korean-nuclear-threats/ | 2023-07-18 13:23:55 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-bilateral-south-korea-us-consulting-group-meets-in-response-to-north-korean-nuclear-threats/ |
Which full-size bed in a bag is best?
Investing in a “bed in a bag” makes switching bedding styles every season fun and easy. A full-size bed is the size that many teenagers, college students and first-time apartment dwellers have in their bedroom. When purchasing a full-size bed in a bag, make sure the fabric and design are high-quality.
There are many stylish options for a full-size bed in a bag, including Amazon Basics 6-Piece Ultra-Soft Microfiber Bed-In-A-Bag Comforter Bedding Set. It’s made of soft microfiber and comes in a variety of prints.
What to know before you buy a full-size bed in a bag
Style
Since the bedroom is typically where the day begins and ends, it’s critical to select an interior design for the bedroom that provides a sense of tranquility and comfort. A bed in a bag is a simple and cost-effective way to decorate a bedroom. There are various bed in a bag styles, such as seasonal, decor-specific and classic styles. This makes it easy to buy a bed in a bag with the pieces of bedding needed to fit any desired bedroom aesthetic.
Full-size beds
Also known as a double bed, full-size beds are 75 inches long and 54 inches wide. This size mattress is most suitable for a single sleeper. Those who sleep in a full-size bed have plenty of space to stretch out and turn during the night.
Bed in a bag pieces
In an average bedroom, four pieces of bedding are found: a fitted sheet covering the mattress, a flat sheet, a blanket and pillowcases. A bed in a bag includes more bedding than what’s typically found in a bedroom.
A bed in a bag may come with a mattress cover, a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, pillowcases, a comforter or quilt, pillow shams and a bed skirt. The more items in a set, the more expensive it is. No matter how many pieces are included in a set, the colors and designs are coordinated. With additional pieces of bedding, the price is higher, but the value is still higher than purchasing the individual pieces separately.
Material
When shopping for a bed in a bag, consider the materials used and how they’re constructed.
- Comforters should have stitching with designs instead of just straight lines. When the stitching is done in straight lines, the filling will create baffles and may appear lumpy after washing.
- It’s important to note the thread count of the sheets. Bed in a bag sheets often have a thread count of less than 200. Open the package and feel the threads if it isn’t specified. They should feel soft and not scratchy at all. The thread count of the bedding should be between 200 and 400 to ensure softness.
- Note if the pockets of the sheets are deep. Regular-size sheets won’t fit a pillow-top mattress because they’re too shallow. However, deep pocket sheets are able to accommodate mattresses up to 15 inches thick.
What to look for in a quality full-size bed in a bag
Comforter set vs. bed in a bag
The difference between comforter sets and bed in a bag sets is that comforter sets don’t contain sheets or other extras such as pillowcases or bed skirts — standard comforter sets only include a comforter and two decorative pillow shams. A bed in a bag is a better value because of the extra pieces.
Number of pieces
Determine whether the basics are enough for bedroom decoration, or if more is required. If only the basics are needed, choose a six- or eight-piece bed in a bag set. In the event that more bedding accessories are required, get a ten- to fourteen-piece set.
How much you can expect to spend on a full-size bed in a bag
In general, a full-size set that includes a limited number of pieces such as a comforter and pillow shams costs less than a set with more pieces. Depending on the number of pieces and the quality of bedding, a full-size bed in a bag should cost somewhere from $40-$75.
Full-size bed in a bag FAQ
Who should buy a bed in a bag?
A. Since the pieces don’t need to be purchased separately, a bed in a bag set is both practical and economical. It’s also helpful because everything is coordinated. It’s a wise choice for anyone just starting out on their own or replacing all the elements of an old bedding set.
What is a pillow sham?
A. Unlike a pillowcase, a pillow sham is a decorative cover that is not intended to be used for sleeping. When it isn’t in use, it’s placed on the bed with the remaining pillows. Shams can also be used to support one’s back when seated in bed.
What are the best full-size beds in a bag to buy?
Top full-size bed in a bag
Amazon Basics 6-Piece Ultra-Soft Microfiber Bed-In-A-Bag Comforter Bedding Set
What you need to know: This reasonably priced bed in a bag includes 6 pieces and is made in an ultra-soft microfiber material.
What you’ll love: This full/queen bed in a bag set is available in a variety of colors and classic designs. Pieces include a comforter, flat sheet, fitted sheet, shams, pillow cases and bed skirt. The 100% polyester and microfiber materials are produced in an OEKO-TEX safety certified factory.
What you should consider: The sheets must be washed according to directions to avoid damage or shrinking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top full-size bed in a bag for money
Sweet Home Collection 7 Piece Bed-in-A-Bag Solid Color Comforter & Sheet Set
What you need to know: For an affordable, solid-colored bedding set, you can’t go wrong with this option from Sweet Home Collection.
What you’ll love: This machine-washable full size bedding set includes a comforter, fitted sheet, flat sheet and pillowcases. It’s available in a variety of solid colors. The materials are high-quality, produced from 100% double brushed microfiber and goose down alternative with an advanced box stitching design.
What you should consider: Some find the bedding colors pictured do not accurately match the colors received.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Intelligent Design Complete Bed in A Bag
What you need to know: Available in a variety of boho designs, this matching set is stylish and eye-catching.
What you’ll love: This eight-piece microfiber set comes with pillowcases, shams, a flat sheet, a fitted sheet, comforter and a decorative pillow.
What you should consider: Given the price, dry cleaning is better than machine-washing to avoid issues such as batting.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Former President Trump is facing intensifying political headwinds in South Carolina, a key early primary state that will play host over the weekend to one of the first high-profile stops of his 2024 White House campaign.
While he’s already racked up endorsements from prominent South Carolina Republicans like Gov. Henry McMaster and Sen. Lindsey Graham, both of whom are expected to attend Trump’s event at the state Capitol in Columbia on Saturday, others are keeping their distance.
The state’s junior senator, Tim Scott (R), hasn’t backed Trump’s 2024 campaign and is said to be seriously considering a presidential bid of his own. Likewise, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, another influential South Carolina Republican, has hinted that she’s weighing a run for the White House.
There are also growing rumblings of support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), according to several Republicans in the state, who warned that Trump’s grip on South Carolina’s GOP voters is far more tenuous than it used to be.
“The reason that Donald Trump is coming to South Carolina is because it’s an important state, but he’s trying to really lock up some of that support,” said Alex Stroman, a former executive director of the South Carolina GOP. “And I think that support is fairly soft.”
“I know people who have endorsed him who have felt like they were kind of pressured into it and had to do it, but don’t plan on being with him when the election happens early next year in South Carolina,” he said.
The visit could also give the former president the opportunity to build momentum in an early primary state that has played a consequential role in choosing presidential nominees in the past.
“South Carolina was really the divisive blow for him in terms of winning the 2016 Republican presidential primary,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist.
And national polls show that while Trump’s support has softened since leaving office, he is still in good standing with voters inside out and outside of the GOP.
An Emerson College survey released earlier this week showed Trump leading President Biden in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up by 3 points. The same poll also showed Trump holding a 26-point lead over DeSantis in a hypothetical Republican primary.
“You see that he is gaining steam, and now it’s time to cash in on that,” O’Connell said.
Trump’s appearance at the state Capitol on Saturday is expected to be a smaller affair than his typical rallies, which tend to draw thousands of supporters. One South Carolina Republican said that the former president’s allies have been calling around in the state in recent weeks in an effort to secure endorsements and attendees for the event.
“I think for now you have a lot of people hedging their bets,” the person said. “Some of the folks you would expect to show aren’t going to show, I don’t think. I’ve talked to several people in the last few days, and not a lot of them are saying ‘I’m going to see the former president on Saturday, come out and show support.’”
Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, pushed back on the notion that the former president’s support among the grassroots may be softening.
“President Trump will unveil his leadership teams, which will show the significant support he has from grassroots leaders to elected officials,” Cheung said. “He has continued to dominate in the polls and there is no one else who can generate enthusiasm and excitement like President Trump.”
A poll released this week by the conservative South Carolina Policy Council provided some early evidence for Trump’s struggles. Only 37 percent of likely South Carolina Republican primary voters said that the GOP should nominate Trump in 2024, while nearly half — 47 percent — said they would prefer someone else.
That someone else may be DeSantis. The poll showed the Florida governor leading Trump by a staggering 19-point margin in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up.
Dallas Woodhouse, a longtime Republican operative and the executive director of the South Carolina Policy Council, said that there’s a growing desire for change among voters in both parties, noting that 54 percent of voters in his group’s recent poll said that the country would be better off if neither Trump nor President Biden is elected next year.
“It’s not to say these people wouldn’t vote for Trump if he were the nominee,” Woodhouse said. “But they certainly desire the option to choose somebody else at this time.”
Woodhouse and other Republicans said that GOP voters in South Carolina and elsewhere “want to win and see some fresh ideas,” and especially after the party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections, there are lingering concerns about whether Trump is the candidate best positioned to recapture the White House.
“I get a sense that Republicans are being just walloped by inflation, that they have a desire to get back to debating issues,” Woodhouse said. “The issue with Trump is can you debate real issues? Or is Trump himself always the issue? And I think some voters are coming to think the latter.”
Trump’s Saturday visit to South Carolina marks his first real campaign swing since launching his third presidential bid in November. But he’s not the only Republican to make a foray into the Palmetto State.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headlined a major Republican fundraiser in the state last year and has been running digital ads there as he weighs a bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nod. Likewise, former Vice President Mike Pence has made several trips to the state in an effort to bolster his support among evangelical voters.
Haley and Scott — both South Carolina natives — also remain “very, very popular” in the state, Woodhouse said. Haley, a former South Carolina governor, has been particularly aggressive in positioning herself for a 2024 run, telling Fox News earlier this month that it’s “time for new generational change.”
And that sentiment appears to be resonating within the GOP ecosystem.
“Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin — these are folks that really represent ways of winning over a broad coalition of voters as Ron DeSantis did in Florida,” Stroman said.
But it’s DeSantis who many South Carolina Republicans say is the party’s must-see attraction.
“I think if Ron DeSantis showed up in South Carolina on Saturday that his popularity and the number of people clamoring to see him would be larger than that of Donald Trump’s,” Stroman said. | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/trump-heads-to-south-carolina-amid-growing-headwinds-in-state/ | 2023-01-28 14:20:23 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/trump-heads-to-south-carolina-amid-growing-headwinds-in-state/ |
Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items once buried with ancestral remains — a collection of culturally significant items that includes pendants, pots, bells and turtle shell rattles, some dating back 400 years.
The “funerary objects” were purchased in 1959 from the family of an amateur archaeologist who collected them from sites in upstate New York and have been housed at the university’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology. Their repatriation ceremony will be held Wednesday at Colgate, which is located on the Oneida’s ancestral territory.
“It’s making things right again. It’s correcting a wrong,” Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said in an interview. “The acquisition of these items, it’s quite an indefensible practice. They’ve been absent. They’re not where they should be … on the land back with our people.”
Halbritter said this is one of the largest single repatriations in the state and praised the cooperation from Colgate, which began a series of transfers in 1995 with the return of seven sets of remains and funerary objects.
The 1,520 returned items are called funerary objects because it’s reasonably believed they were placed with individual human remains either at the time of death or later.
The items being returned to the Oneidas also include glass beads, ceramic pottery, knives, harpoons and a stone pipe. They were collected by Herbert Bigford Sr. during excavations of eight sites between 1924 and 1957, according to repatriation records Colgate filed with the federal government.
A man by that name was the treasurer in 1952 for the local Chenango Archeology Society, whose members went on “digging tours” each summer and met in each other’s homes for programs on Native American archaeology, according to a story in the Sunday Press of Binghamton on the society’s plans for school presentations.
Some of the repatriated items date as far back as 1600. And more than 900 of the items came from a single excavation site in Stockbridge, south of the Oneida’s current reservation in central New York. That includes 286 Wampum, 106 shell beads, 179 glass beads and 68 wolf teeth, according to records.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded institutions, such as universities, to return remains and cultural items.
Nationwide, some 870,000 Native American artifacts — including nearly 110,000 human remains — that should be returned to tribes under federal law are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions, according to a recent Associated Press review of data maintained by the National Park Service.
Colgate officials said the ongoing repatriations involving the university are a step toward repairing relationships with Native American communities.
“This is important work, and it will continue until we are confident that all sacred items that can be traced back to their rightful owners are returned,” Colgate President Brian W. Casey said in a statement.
Some of the items being returned by Colgate had been on display or used for teaching in the past, though the university placed restrictions on their use for those purposes starting in 1994.
Representative of the Oneidas, Colgate and the museum will attend the repatriation ceremony Wednesday at the university.
The items will be safely stored while the Oneidas decide what to do them, whether it’s returning them to the earth or some other option, Halbritter said.
“Our ceremonies to repatriate these items will help ensure that our story is going to be told in our own voices,” Halbritter said, “and for generations to come.”
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AP Researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-university-returning-1500-artifacts-to-oneida-indian-nation/ | 2022-11-09 11:33:14 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-university-returning-1500-artifacts-to-oneida-indian-nation/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Sunrun Inc. ("Sunrun" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RUN). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Sunrun and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 5, 2022, Carson Block, principal of Muddy Waters, asserted in the Financial Times that Sunrun is "an uneconomic business built on three shaky pillars: the equity story of exaggerated 'Subscriber Values' and 'Gross/Net Earning Assets,' funding growth through abusing tax incentives, and issuing ABS that could be exposed to a RUN bankruptcy."
On this news, Sunrun's stock price fell $2.42 per share, or 7.94%, to close at $28.05 per share on October 5, 2022.
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Empowering the Next Generation of Professional Drivers
BLAIRSVILLE, Pa., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking, Inc., a leader in the transportation industry, is excited to announce the opening of their new truck driver training center in Blairsville, PA. This expanded facility has been designed to equip incoming drivers with the necessary skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience required to build safe and successful careers in transportation.
"With the growth of our organization, we needed a larger facility where we could develop our driver training programs," said Chris Cousins, PGT Trucking, Director of Training. "The demand for skilled and qualified truck drivers has never been higher, and our new driver class sizes have been growing week over week. This new location has given us the opportunity to create an environment with advanced resources, expert instruction, and real-world training that closely mirrors the challenges drivers face on the road."
The new training center is located less than one mile from PGT's Blairsville Terminal, within the New Village Institute campus, at 500 Innovation Drive, Blairsville, PA 15717. This facility offers incoming drivers:
- Comprehensive Curriculum: Designed to cover all aspects of flatbed trucking, including pre- and post-trip inspections, truck maintenance, navigation, trip planning and regulations, PGT's incoming drivers receive a well-rounded education that prepares them for the demands of the profession.
- Extensive Hands-On Training: Under the guidance of experienced instructors, drivers develop the necessary maneuvering techniques, driving strategies, securement standards and safety protocols essential for success in the trucking industry.
- Leading Technology: PGT embraces technology that enhances the driver lifestyle and helps drivers perform their daily duties safely and efficiently.
"This larger space provides us with the resources to train and support our drivers and solidifies our commitment to their growth and success here at PGT Trucking," added Cousins.
About PGT Trucking:
PGT Trucking, Inc., founded in 1981, is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. Headquartered in Aliquippa, PA, PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution. PGT operates over 1,000 power units and 1,500 trailers, exceeding customer expectations, focused on the Future of Flatbed®. PGT was recognized as a 2023 Best Fleets to Drive For®. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2022
NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a federal securities class action lawsuit has been filed class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased TuSimple Holdings, Inc. ("TuSimple" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TSP) securities during the period from April 15, 2021 through August 1, 2022 inclusive (the "Class Period").
All investors who purchased the shares of TuSimple Holdings, Inc. and incurred losses are advised to contact the firm immediately at classmember@whafh.com or (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774. You may obtain additional information concerning the action or join the case on our website, www.whafh.com.
If you have incurred losses in TuSimple Holdings, Inc. you may, no later than October 31, 2022, request that the Court appoint you lead plaintiff of the proposed class. Please contact Wolf Haldenstein to learn more about your rights as an investor in TuSimple Holdings, Inc.
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According to the filed complaint, on April 15, 2021, TuSimple effected its Initial Public Offering ("IPO"), selling 33.8 million class A common shares at $40.00 per share, generating $1.031 billion in gross proceeds.
On August 1, 2022, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "Self-Driving Truck Accident Draws Attention to Safety at TuSimple," which brought to light a number of previously undisclosed concerns that undermined defendants' representations and omissions concerning the Company's safety. The article referenced an April 6, 2022, accident involving a truck fitted with TuSimple's autonomous driving technology, noting that regulators disclosed the accident to the public in June after TuSimple filed a report on the incident, which "underscores concerns that the autonomous-trucking company is risking safety on public roads in a rush to deliver driverless trucks to market, according to independent analysts and more than a dozen of the company's former employees."
On this news, the Company's share fell almost 10%, to close at $8.99 per share on August 1, 2022.
Wolf Haldenstein has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
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With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with anticipation. The author was on a mission: See for herself that her children’s book about a boy and his grandmother baking for an Islamic feast was actually carried by her local Target store in Toledo.
“Oh my God! … It’s right there,” Khalil said on spotting “The Night Before Eid.”
“Oh yeaaaaah!” her daughter joyously exclaimed. Khalil giggled.
For Khalil, it was a pinch-me moment as an author — and also a big deal as a mother.
“This didn’t happen when I was growing up. It was like, ‘Are things really changing now?’” she said. “I’m just really happy that now my own kids will be able to see that and that they’ll know that their stories are valid and … are out there like a totally normal thing.”
For this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which started last week, Target rolled out its first dedicated Ramadan and Eid collection, including decoration kits with crescent and lantern-shaped cutouts. It’s one of the latest signs of big retailers in the United States catering to Muslim shoppers’ needs.
Many Muslim Americans enthusiastically welcomed the recognition, applauding retailers that are making it easier for them to bring their families the cheer that ubiquitously and publicly marks some other faiths’ holidays.
“As stores have accommodated for Easter and Christmas for centuries, I’m glad to see them bring in Ramadan items,” said Hass Beydoun of Dearborn Heights, Michigan. “We welcome it, because they are welcoming our culture and beliefs in their stores.”
Others echoed the sentiment on Target’s website: “Thank you so much for making Ramadan decor mainstream,” one shopper wrote. “We feel seen and heard!” wrote another.
Still, some have been debating the merits of buying Ramadan decor from big box retailers in America, where Muslims make up a small but growing part of the population, to encourage representation, versus supporting small, Muslim-owned businesses that have made such items. Some others caution against excessively commercializing a religious period.
Ramadan is a month of fasting, increased worship and charity. It’s often a time for festive gatherings; on social media, some share photos of their decorated homes or swap ideas for DIY Ramadan decor and children’s activities. Ramadan is followed by the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Target’s new Ramadan and Eid collection is sold online and in a few hundred stores in areas with numerous Muslim shoppers. The retailer, which didn’t provide sales figures, said it received positive feedback from shoppers and that the collection is part of its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Party supplies retailer Party City started selling Ramadan and Eid items in 2018 and has since increased such products amid growing demand. More than 280 stores, particularly in locations with large Muslim populations, carry the items, which include lantern string lights and table runners reading “Ramadan Mubarak,” or “Blessed Ramadan.”
“Our goal is to offer authentic and inclusive celebration options to all of our customers, particularly those who are underrepresented in the retail industry,” said Susan Sanderson, Party City’s senior vice president of brand marketing.
Walmart Inc., the nation’s largest retailer, said it recently started carrying items related to Ramadan and Eid but the merchandise is sold only online, not in stores.
Still, that’s a change from when Jomana Siddiqui received an Eid present in Christmas gift wrap in 2011; at the time, Siddiqui, whose business is based in Fullerton, California, said she didn’t see American retailers carrying merchandise for Ramadan or Eid. She tried to get malls and stores to put up signage acknowledging the Muslim holy days but was rebuffed.
From 2014 to 2016, she worked with Macy’s at South Coast Plaza mall in Costa Mesa, California, to design the display towers with “Happy Ramadan” signs for an event. In 2018, she started selling her own items at a pop-up shop at Macy’s in Westminster, California.
Even now, Siddiqui is struggling to convince major retailers to sell her modern-style items like “Ramadan Blessings” platters — and Ramadan and Eid-appropriate gift wrap sheets. She contends many retailers treat American Muslims, who are racially and culturally diverse, as a monolith and says they should avoid cultural stereotypes.
“Putting camels and palm trees on something doesn’t speak to Indonesian Muslims or a Mexican Muslim,” she said.
Fatima Siddiqui, who lives in the metro Detroit area and owns a calligraphy art business, wrote on Facebook that amid the excitement at retailers carrying Ramadan decorations, community members shouldn’t forget to support Muslim-owned small businesses.
Responses varied. Some shoppers said that while supporting such businesses is important, so is buying from the big, national ones to encourage more representation and for Muslim children to feel celebrated. Others argued that decorations offered by many of the small businesses were often expensive or that big retailers were more accessible. Others suggested buying from both.
“Why wouldn’t retailers partner up with small businesses to showcase their products that are handcrafted with thoughtful meanings?” said Fatima Siddiqui. This year, she organized a Ramadan market in Canton, Michigan, where vendors sold items including banners, wreaths and serving trays.
“Ramadan decor boosts our excitement and mood,” she said. “It helps our younger generation feel special because of the obvious displays of Christmas and other non-Islamic holidays.”
The decor can spark educational conversations with non-Muslims, said Yasmen Bagh, who lives in Jersey City and has founded a business selling outdoor inflatables in such shapes as mosques and lanterns.
“It brings awareness to your neighbors,” she said. “The images that they see on TV and what Muslims look like is usually like a bad guy; it’s changing that.”
Bagh is conflicted about big retailers stepping into the Ramadan and Eid space. “As a Muslim, it makes me happy; as a business owner, it makes me worry.”
Some other business owners say there’s room for everyone. And while some Muslims argue a focus on decor and other material items can distract from the month’s spiritual essence, others say a balance can be struck and that the products help children get engaged.
Mainstream retailers have gradually paid more attention to Muslim customers. Macy’s sells modest wear, including hijabs. Nike unveiled a hijab for Muslim female athletes in 2017, sparking mixed reactions and a discussion about inclusivity in sports. Other activewear brands followed with their own athletic hijabs. Since 2021, Mattel’s American Girl brand has been selling an Eid al-Fitr celebration outfit, which includes a long-sleeved turquoise abaya dress, for its 18-inch dolls.
The move to embrace Muslim shoppers is part of a broader strategy by retailers to better connect with increasingly diverse generations of customers. Some critics dismiss the effort as a marketing tactic to boost the bottom line.
Sabiha Ansari, co-founder and vice president at American Muslim Consumer Consortium, a nonprofit dedicated to developing the American Muslim consumer market, said she doesn’t mind whether the goal is to make a dollar. She’s just happy companies are embracing products catering to Muslims.
“People want to be recognized,” she said.
Back in Toledo, Khalil, the author, said her book is, first, for the Muslim children and, even adults, who haven’t seen themselves in books. It tells the story of Zain, who helps his grandmother who is visiting from Egypt, where Khalil was born, bake traditional cookies covered in powdered sugar for the feast. He shares the treats with his classmates, who love them.
For this Ramadan, Khalil spruced up her home with lights, lanterns and signs, mostly from small businesses. Her kids also painted a craft kit—that one was bought from Target.
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Associated Press reporter Mike Householder in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, contributed.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Theratechnologies Inc. ("Theratechnologies" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ISPO). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Theratechnologies and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 1, 2022, Theratechnologies issued a press release "announc[ing] that it has decided to pause the enrollment of patients in its Phase 1 clinical trial of TH1902, the Company's lead investigational peptide drug conjugate (PDC) for the treatment of sortilin-expressing cancers." Theratechnologies explained that it "voluntarily made the decision to pause enrollment and revisit the study design after consulting with its investigators. Efficacy results observed thus far were not convincing enough to pursue enrolling patients and did not outweigh the adverse events seen in some patients. As previously reported, these adverse events consist mainly of neuropathy and eye toxicity."
On this news, Theratechnologies' stock price fell $0.76 per share, or 36.02%, to close at $1.35 per share on December 2, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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The latest text-to-image model from Stability AI is also released as open access to developers alongside its API
NEW YORK, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stability AI, a leading open generative AI company, today announced the release of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0, the latest and most advanced of its flagship text-to-image suite of models.
SDXL 1.0 will be featured on Amazon Bedrock, the fully managed service from Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) that provides access to foundation models from leading AI startups and Amazon Titan via an API. The announcement is made at the annual AWS Summit New York, and is further acknowledgment of Amazon's commitment to bringing its customers the most powerful text-to-image foundation models like SDXL 1.0 from Stability AI.
"The latest SDXL model represents the next step in Stability AI's innovation heritage and ability to bring the most cutting-edge open access models to market for the AI community," said Emad Mostaque, Chief Executive Officer of Stability AI. "Unveiling 1.0 on Amazon Bedrock demonstrates our strong commitment to work alongside AWS to provide the best solutions for developers and our clients."
Starting today, the model is accessible via the Stability AI API, Stability AI's Github page and its Clipdrop and DreamStudio consumer applications. Alongside its release on Amazon Bedrock, SDXL 1.0 is available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that provides access to algorithms, models, and ML solutions so customers can quickly get started with ML.
This follows the research-only release of SDXL 0.9 in June, which provided a significant number of use case testing data that allowed developers to fine-tune the model for better results.
The refining process has produced a model that generates more vibrant and accurate colors, with better contrast, lighting, and shadows than its predecessor. The imaging process is also streamlined to deliver quicker results, yielding full 1-megapixel (1024x1024) resolution images in seconds in multiple aspect ratios.
Stability API's new fine-tuning beta feature will use a small set of images to fine-tune SDXL 1.0. With as few as five images, users will be able to specialize generation on specific people, products, and more. This feature is currently in limited testing with a number of early access partners, and will be released in the coming weeks.
SDXL 1.0 has one of the largest parameter counts of any open access image model, boasting a 3.5B parameter base model and a 6.6B parameter model ensemble pipeline. The refiner adds more accurate color, higher contrast, and finer details to the output of the base model.
Since the SDXL beta launch on April 13, ClipDrop users have generated more than 35 million images using the model, while Stability AI's Discord community has generated an average of 20,000 images per day.
"Model choice is paramount to maximize the value customers get from generative AI," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS. "That's why we built Amazon Bedrock to give customers access to a wide range of the top-performing foundation models, allowing them to find and customize the right foundation model to fit their needs with a fully managed experience. By expanding Amazon Bedrock's selection with the addition of Stability AI's SDXL 1.0 model, we're giving customers access to a state-of-the-art text-to-image model to build and scale exciting, new generative AI applications."
In 2022, Stability AI selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, building its foundation models on Amazon SageMaker. When Amazon Bedrock launched in April of this year, Stability AI's Stable Diffusion was one of the first foundation models to be made available on Amazon Bedrock. Today's release of SDXL 1.0 on Amazon Bedrock expands Stability AI's and AWS's relationship and commitment to helping customers build and scale generative AI applications easier and quicker.
SDXL 1.0 follows a number of exciting corporate developments at Stability AI, including the unveiling of its new developer platform site last week, the launch of Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool of drawings that has generated more than 3 million images in the week after its release.
To experience the innovation in image creation that SDXL 1.0 brings to the Stability AI and Amazon Bedrock user community, please click here.
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Video: Meet the giant therapy dogs helping hospital patients
When you think of therapy animals, you probably don't think of Great Danes, which are bigger than some horses.
But they are a big hit at a Minnesota hospital. Pun intended.
“If a nurse isn't aware of us coming in, doesn't know that the dogs are that big, they've been scared, Wayne Chmelik.
Chmelik brings Hulu and Tootsie, his two Great Danes, they have to avoid narrow spaces.
But despite their size, the dogs are about as friendly as they come.
“They are [friendly]. Unless you were a squirrel. Yes, they are just the most gentle animals that I’ve ever raised,” Chmelik said.
Hulu weighs 170 pounds and Tootsie weighs 166, both towering over the miniature horses in the local therapy animal association.
A while back, Hulu made friends with 3-year-old Nellie Koubsky, who briefly stayed in the hospital for appendicitis.
"Why did you come to the hospital, do you remember?” Rachel Koubsky, Nellie’s mom, asked her daughter.
“Because my tummy hurt,” Nellie said.
But just before the surgery, the biggest and friendliest dog Nellie had ever seen paid her a visit.
“Did he help you feel better?” Rachel Koubsky asked.
“Yeah,” Nellie responded.
“For a little bit?”
“Yeah, he was just cheering me up.”
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CHICAGO (WTAJ) — If you’ve ever wanted coffee to taste like your breakfast, IHOP has you covered.
Pancake-inspired IHOP indulgent coffee is available across the country for the first time through their partnership with Kraft Heinz. The IHOP Coffee is made with 100% premium arabica beans and comes in three unique flavors.
- Signature Blend for a rich and smooth medium finish
- Buttery Syrup to immerse your tastebuds in delicious syrupy pancakes
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip featuring an indulgent fudgy chocolate flavor
“With more than 56 million cups of coffee sold per year, it only made sense to bring the joy of our coffee to retailers nationwide with innovative flavors inspired by our best-selling pancakes,” Kieran Donahue, Chief Marketing Officer, IHOP® said. “Kraft Heinz is the perfect partner to bring our iconic flavors to our guests and help serve up joy each morning with IHOP® Coffee as part of our fans’ morning routines.”
To celebrate the launch, IHOP is inviting coffee lovers to try their new limited-edition Coffee Mug Diffuser. The IHOP Coffee Mug Diffuser, which looks like their IHOP coffee mugs, will fill your home with the scent of Buttery Syrup pancakes and is available for pre-order online from Amazon.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP)Drake’s offensive finesse controlled the first three quarters of their upset bid against Louisville.
Cardinals guard Hailey Van Lith’s grit and tenacious drives to the basket took over the fourth, and No 5 Louisville survived what would have been another dose of March Madness from the No. 12 Bulldogs.
Van Lith scored 26 points, 13 of them coming over the final five minutes, to pull Louisville to an 83-81 win Saturday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. She played only 27 minutes because of early foul trouble.
“I had a nice break there,” Van Lith said. “My team did a great job. of keeping us in the game while I wasn’t on the court. So that’s the only reason it was possible for us to win that game in the end. I was fully rested and ready to go.”
Her three-point play off a layup out of timeout with 16 seconds left put Louisville up by four before Drake answered with a 3-pointer by Sarah Beth Gueldner. Van Lith then made two more free throws to all but seal the win for the Cardinals.
Mykasa Robison scored 14 for Louisville (24-11), which advances to Monday’s second round matchup of the winner between No. 4 Texas (25-9) and No. 13 East Carolina (23-9).
A Final Four team last season, Louisville will be playing for a chance to advance to the Sweet 16 for the sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
Katie Dinnebier scored 20 points for Drake (22-10), which confused Louisville’s defense early with a series of backdoor cuts that had the Bulldogs shooting layup after layup. Anna Miller scored 17 for Drake.
The Bulldogs had five players score in double figures and scored 42 points in the paint. They made 21 layups as Louisville struggled to close passing lanes and close down on shooters.
“They abused us. It was a layup clinic. They pretty much scored at will,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “The second half, they just missed some (layups). I thought we wore them out some by being as aggressive as we were trying to press full court.”
Louisville did its best job on Maggie Bair, Drake’s leading scorer and rebounder this season. She scored just five points on 2-of-10 shooting, and five six rebounds before she fouled out with just under four minutes to play.
That was about the same time Van Lith took the game on her shoulders. Her mid-range jumper with 53 seconds left put Louisville ahead for good at 77-75. Miller had a chance to tie it again but missed a layup.
“I think they’re just a very physical, aggressive team,” Drake senior forward Grace Berg said.
BIG PICTURE
Drake: The Bulldogs have a solid history of reaching the NCAA Tournament with four appearances in the last seven seasons. But there have been no wins in that span. To change that, second-year coach Allison Pohlman will be leaning heavily on Berg, who has said she plans to return next season, and Miller, who took over a starting role the final third of the season. Berg scored 17.
Bair said she will not be coming back for another season. Drake hasn’t won a tournament game since reaching the Sweet 16 in 2002.
“It has nothing to do with anybody or anything at Drake,” Barid siad. “I just think I’m ready for a new chapter.”
Louisville: The Cardinals are rarely on the road so early in the tournament but look quite comfortable in Texas. They aren’t hosting the first two rounds for the first time since 2015, not including the 2021 pandemic tournament that was played entirely in the Lone Star State. Louisville twice advanced to the Final Four (2009 and 2013) opening the tournament away from home.
QUICK BUT SLOPPY START
The game started at a frenetic pace as Louisville launched 21 shots in the opening quarter and Drake made 8 of 12. But Drake’s efforts to push the pace of the game also led to 14 first half turnovers that set up 14 Louisville points as the teams went to halftime tied 39-39. Drake had just five turnovers in the second half.
CAN’T CLOSE IT OUT
Drake went 0-5 in games decided by 10 points or less this season.
UP NEXT
Louisville will play Texas or East Carolina. They won a December matchup with the Longhorns 71-63 at a tournament in the Bahamas. The Cardinals did not play East Carolina this season.
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The US Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in the most important case you’ve never heard of. Although Percoco v. United States has generated few headlines, its reach could alter the way businesses deal with regulators and legislators.
Sure, sounds a wee bit grafty. But the question the justices agreed to consider isn’t whether Percoco is a shining example of ethical probity. The question is whether he violated a federal statute aimed at punishing public officials who take bribes. The jury found he did, and the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected his defense that the law didn’t apply to him because when he took the money and placed the calls he was, technically, a private citizen.
The Second Circuit’s opinion makes fun reading. The text abounds with references to “The Sopranos” and schemes to “keep the ziti flowing.” But the relevant issue isn’t whether Percoco was a sleazy character who hatched sleazy plans. The relevant issue is whether those sleazy plans violated a murky 1988 congressional amendment that prohibits participation in “a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services” — what’s become known as “honest services fraud.”
This vague and obscure amendment has long been a boon to prosecutors precisely because of its vagueness and obscurity. As the legal scholar Albert W. Altschuler points out, the 1988 law “enabled lower federal court judges, like the priests of ancient Delphi, to explicate language ordinary mortals could not understand.” But writing language ordinary mortals can’t understand and adding it to the criminal code isn’t good for democracy or for the law.
For example, prosecutors argue that the prohibition should cover all those who “function” as employees, even when they hold no official position. The Second Circuit agreed. In its opinion affirming Percoco’s conviction, the court concluded that the law provides no basis to distinguish a “formal” from a “functional” government employee. The judges wrote that the law is broad enough to cover all those individuals “who are relied on by the government and who in fact control some aspect of government business.”
Percoco argues that this language is so broad that it could apply to a huge number of people, including lobbyists. To show the influence top lobbyists have, Percoco’s brief cites a 2012 study which found that lobbyists whose key Senators leave office lose a whopping $182,000 in annual revenue.
The Justice Department rejects the analogy, arguing that none of these well-connected lobbyists function, even informally, as public officials. That would be reasonable, except that the test for who functions as a public official is so murky — a major factor is whether government employees feel obliged to treat the lobbyist’s requests as commands. There are plenty of lobbyists so powerful that the lowliest bureaucrat trembles to cross them.
Consider the very real case of a legislator convicted under the statute after voting the way a lobbyist urged. In upholding the conviction, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit explained that even though entertaining legislators was part of the job, here the lobbyist — who was also convicted — had entertained the legislator too lavishly. How much is too much? Read the court’s guidance for yourself:
[A] lobbyist does not commit honest services fraud ... if his ‘intent was limited to the cultivation of business or political friendship.’ He commits those violations ‘only if instead or in addition, there is an intent to cause the recipient to alter her official acts.’
This guidance fails to guide. It seems to say that a lobbyist is innocent as long as the lobbyist doesn’t lobby.
This is Percoco’s point, and it’s a good one. Whatever one thinks of his conduct, the way the lower courts have construed the statute leaves prosecutors far more leeway than Congress likely intended. Critics who call the case a classic example of prosecutorial overreach aren’t entirely wrong.
The true problem isn’t the prosecutors but the statute itself. Put Percoco aside and think instead about the rest of us. A minimum democratic fairness demands that crimes be spelled out with crystalline clarity. When we interact with the government that serves us, we should not be left to guess whether we’re breaking the law.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An man is facing murder and other charges in the death of a Temple University police officer shot and killed near campus Saturday night, authorities said.
The Philadelphia district attorney’s office said 18-year-old Miles Pfeffer will face charges of murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and weapons crimes in the death of Officer Christopher Fitzgerald, who prosecutors said was shot in the head while responding to an incident near campus.
“Pfeffer is also alleged to have attempted to rob Officer Fitzgerald of his gun and to have gone through his pockets, while the officer was laying on the ground and fatally wounded,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement Sunday. “Pfeffer is further alleged to have committed a carjacking a short time after, close to the location of the officer’s murder.”
The Bucks County district attorney’s office said Pfeffer was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday at his Buckingham Township home by township and Philadelphia police as well as state police and federal marshals. “Police used the fallen officer’s handcuffs in placing the suspect under arrest,” county prosecutors said.
There was no immediate word on whether Pfeffer had an attorney; a number listed for his home was no longer in service.
Temple University officials said Fitzgerald had been on the university police force since October 2021.
“Officer Fitzgerald gave his life to selflessly serve and defend this community,” Jennifer Griffin, the university’s vice president for public safety, said in a statement. “This loss leaves an enormous hole in all of our hearts. He was a father, a husband, a son, a colleague, and a friend.”
University president Jason Wingard said he was “heartbroken” and called the shooting “a gut-wrenching reminder of our police officers’ daily bravery and sacrifices to protect our students, faculty, staff and community” as the city and the nation deal with “an unprecedented epidemic of violence.”
Ken Kaiser, the university’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying it was the first shooting death of a campus officer during his more than 30 years at Temple. “It just shakes everybody to the core,” he said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro tweeted that he and first lady Lori were “devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community.”
They sent prayers to his family, Temple police and the university community, he added, saying, “May his memory be a blessing.”
Joseph Regan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge, also expressed condolences.
“There are no words to describe the news of another one of our officers being shot,” Regan said in a statement. “This officer is a hero whose legacy and unselfish act will live in our hearts and memories forever.”
It was the first fatal shooting of an on-duty police officer in Philadelphia since 2020, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-temple-university-police-officer-fatally-shot-during-chase/ | 2023-02-19 20:00:59 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-temple-university-police-officer-fatally-shot-during-chase/ |
Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
The court’s action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.
The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge, with the same three justices in dissent.
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RICHMOND, Indiana (WCMH) – An incredible string of chance encounters and lucky breaks were what two women said helped them bring a days-long Amber Alert to an end.
The search for five-month-old twins Kyair and Kason Thomas started Dec. 19 when their mother’s running car was stolen from the Short North neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. Hours later, Kyair was found in a parking lot at Dayton International Airport, but there was no sign of Kason.
On Dec. 22, police announced the arrest of the suspect in the case, Nalah Jackson, but didn’t say if Kason had been found. That was until just a few hours later when the boy was discovered inside the stolen vehicle outside of a Papa John’s pizza restaurant in Indianapolis.
Shyann Belmar and Mecka Curry, the two women who played a pivotal role in leading the police to Jackson, and the eventual return of Kason spoke with Nexstar’s WCMH about the incident.
“I wanted to be for sure,” Belmar said. “In my heart, I knew I was for sure.”
Belmar said she initially came in contact with Jackson on Dec. 20, when she said she bought some toys from Jackson in an Indianapolis parking lot. Belmar said she then gave Jackson a ride to a gas station. The two women exchanged phone numbers and went their separate ways.
The next day, Belmar said she saw Jackson’s picture on Facebook.
“I wouldn’t move off of it because of the topic that it had with the mugshot,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Kidnapping,’ and I’m like, ‘This girl looks familiar’ … I wouldn’t move from off the picture until I could figure out where I knew her from, and I’m like, ‘I hope I don’t know her,’ but something told me, this looks like the girl that was in my car.”
Belmar said she hesitated to call the police because she wanted to be sure she had it right. She called and talked to Jackson during the afternoon of Dec. 22. Belmar then called Curry, her cousin, and the two came up with a plan to get Jackson into police custody.
The cousins explained how they drove Jackson to several stores, with hopes that she would steal something so they could call the police. When that didn’t work, they drove around with Jackson in the car while one of the women called 911, pretending to be talking to a friend while giving dispatchers information on their location.
“I’m like, ‘Babe, I’m on 65 South,’” Curry said. “They’re like, ‘Where are you at?’ ’65 South, babe,’ so at this point, they come behind us.”
Officers were able to locate the car and arrest Jackson.
Belmar and Curry then went for food, and as if they hadn’t done enough, came across a Honda Accord – the same car Jackson had allegedly stolen in Columbus nearly four full days before. In the back seat was Kason.
“I opened up the front door, I look inside, I see the baby and I smell his foul smell,” Curry said. “Instantly, I thought the baby had passed away. So, I’m screaming like, ‘It’s not good, it’s not good!’”
The women flagged down nearby police officers, who then took Kason out of the car. As of Monday, both boys are reunited with their family and doing well following the ordeal.
Jackson faces two counts of kidnapping as well as a charge of felony battery by bodily waste against a public safety officer for allegedly spitting on a sheriff’s deputy while at a detention processing center in Ohio. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/ohio-amber-alert-women-set-trap-for-suspect-before-chance-led-them-to-missing-baby/ | 2022-12-29 00:29:22 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/ohio-amber-alert-women-set-trap-for-suspect-before-chance-led-them-to-missing-baby/ |
National Public Radio claims Elon Musk is threatening to give away the news organization's Twitter handle because the non-profit decided to stop tweeting.
"So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?" Musk wrote in one email late Tuesday to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn.
NPR essentially quit Twitter last month after its main account was suddenly labeled as "state-affiliated media." The tag has also been used to identify several state-run media outlets in China and Russia.
NPR said the label was inaccurate and undermined the news organization's independence and credibility.
"NPR's organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent. We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public's understanding of our editorial independence," NPR said in a statement. "We are turning away from Twitter but not from our audiences and communities."
The company also noted that less than 1% of its annual operating budget comes from federal funding.
The last tweet from NPR's main account was posted on April 12, offering readers and listeners a list of other outlets where they can find NPR's journalism.
SEE MORE: PBS joins NPR in leaving Twitter over 'government-funded media' label
In an article published Tuesday, NPR reporter Bobby Allyn detailed messages received from Musk that explained why he was considering reassigning the organization's Twitter account.
"Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant," Musk wrote in one email. "Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR."
However, Twitter's online policy says an account's activity — or inactivity — is based on log-ins rather than tweets. Twitter tells users they should log into the platform at least once a month to keep their account active.
While it's unknown if NPR has logged in to their main account in the past 30 days, the NPR Twitter handle still appears to belong to the organization. When asked by NPR who the account could potentially be reassigned to, Musk replied, "National Pumpkin Radio."
This is just the latest spat between Musk and media organizations on the platform.
In addition to removing verification labels on several prominent news outlets, Musk also temporarily suspended the the accounts of several journalists last year who had been critical of his takeover of the social media company. Among them were reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN.
SEE MORE: Who's who on Twitter? 'Verified' impostors blur the lines
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INDIANAPOLIS — We're seeing ideas for the future of the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood.
Seven architect teams from Ball State University presented their renderings during an event Wednesday. Community members got to vote on their favorites.
Elements of the top three will be incorporated into a single project plan.
The students put together ideas for revitalizing the area of West 40th Street and Boulevard Place after meeting with people who live in the area. It's a real world lesson for the students who heard the "ideas and dreams" from the community.
The next community meeting will take place in January. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ball-state-students-share-ideas-for-butler-tarkington-revitalization-bsu-architecture-community-plan-proposal/531-1d7233fc-21de-4dc0-b686-c9363a93f899 | 2022-12-08 07:15:10 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ball-state-students-share-ideas-for-butler-tarkington-revitalization-bsu-architecture-community-plan-proposal/531-1d7233fc-21de-4dc0-b686-c9363a93f899 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold has been indicted by a grand jury, an expected procedural step that will allow the criminal case to continue.
Daniel Penny was charged by Manhattan prosecutors last month in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator who struggled in recent years with homelessness and mental illness.
Grand jury proceedings are secret and spokespeople for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to comment Wednesday, but the indictment was confirmed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
“I appreciate DA Bragg conducting a thorough investigation into the death of Jordan Neely. Like I said when the DA first brought charges, I have the utmost faith in the judicial process, and now that the Grand Jury has indicted Daniel Penny, a trial and justice can move forward,” Adams said in a statement.
Neely was shouting at passengers and begging for money when Penny pinned him to the floor of the moving subway car with the help of two other riders. Penny, a former U.S. Marine, then held Neely in a chokehold that lasted more than three minutes.
Penny has said he was protecting himself and other passengers, claiming Neely shouted “I’m gonna’ kill you” and that he was “ready to die” or go to jail for life.
A freelance journalist who recorded Neely struggling to free himself, then lapsing into unconsciousness, said he was acting aggressively and frightening people but hadn’t assaulted anyone. Neely was Black. Penny is white.
Penny’s lawyers, Steven Raiser and Thomas Kenniff, said in a statement that Neely had not intended to kill Neely, just hold him until police arrived.
“While we respect the decision of the grand jury to move this case forward to trial, it should be noted that the standard of proof in a grand jury is very low and there has been no finding of wrongdoing. We’re confident that when a trial jury is tasked with weighing the evidence, they will find Daniel Penny’s actions on that train were fully justified,” Raiser said.
Neely’s death prompted protests by many who saw it as an example of racial injustice, but some people have rallied around Penny, including several of the Republican candidates for president. A fund set up to pay for Penny’s legal defense has raised more than $2.8 million, according to his lawyers.
Penny, 24, was released on $100,000 bond following his May 12 arraignment. He will need to return to court to be arraigned on the new indictment.
Under New York law, prosecutors needed a grand jury indictment to move forward with the case.
If convicted, Penny could face years in prison. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/grand-jury-indicts-man-in-chokehold-death-of-new-york-city-subway-rider/ | 2023-06-15 02:46:24 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/grand-jury-indicts-man-in-chokehold-death-of-new-york-city-subway-rider/ |
2 killed in north Wichita crash
Published: Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:03 PM CST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Two people are dead following a crash from northbound I-135 to eastbound K-96.
The Wichita Police Department tweeted out information asking drivers to avoid the north interchange.
“I-135 to eastbound K-96 will be shut down for an unknown amount of time. Drive safely, Wichita,” said the city.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemPoint.com Inc. ("ChemPoint"), a subsidiary of Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) ("Univar Solutions" or "the Company"), a leading global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, today announced CFS North America, LLC. (CFS), a subsidiary of Camlin Fine Sciences Ltd., has chosen ChemPoint for the sales and distribution of its Xtendra BHT (butylated hydroxytoluenein) product throughout the United States and Canada. Xtendra BHT is a food-grade hindered phenolic antioxidant commonly used as a preservative in a wide variety of applications ranging from foods, animal feed, animal and vegetable oils to petroleum products, rubber and plastics.
Rick Hoener, global vice president and managing director of ChemPoint, said, "We are excited to expand our supplier network to include CFS. Xtendra BHT, manufactured by Camlin Fine Sciences, Ltd., compliments our current portfolio of preservatives and antioxidants and the team at CFS is well positioned to support the needs of today's growing food and personal care markets. This partnership will also support the evolving needs of industrial applications that require a versatile, general-purpose antioxidant."
BHT is an antioxidant for food applications and helps provide carry-through effectiveness in fats and oils by imparting stability to baked goods, cereals and packaging materials. BHT is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Kosher and Halal for use in food and food contact applications.
For industrial applications, BHT helps to avoid degradation and discoloration of plastics, coatings, inks, and pigments as well as helps to stabilize polymers when exposed to high temperatures and Ultraviolet (UV) light.
ChemPoint offers technical expertise across multiple industries. With its marketing proficiency and deep understanding of customer needs, the company helps products like Xtendra BHT reach new markets and applications, supporting its growth.
Jennifer Igou, general manager, CFS North America, LLC added, "We see tremendous value in ChemPoint's digital capabilities and driving growth into new applications and marketspaces. We look forward to leveraging the strengths of their organization to serve the North American marketspace with Xtendra BHT. As a global leader in the production of traditional antioxidants, CFS is committed to producing the highest quality for our customers."
For more information, please visit chempoint.com.
CFS is a provider of high-quality ingredients including shelf life solutions, aroma ingredients, health & wellness products and performance chemicals. Globally headquartered in Mumbai, India, with subsidiaries located in South America, LATAM, North America, Europe and China. With over thirty years of serving customers, we've learned that each one has a unique need and therefore must require a unique solution. Our global expertise, local insights and technical know-how enables us to deliver what's required! For more information, please visit our website at camlinfs.com.
ChemPoint.com, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Univar Solutions Inc., is a unique distribution business that provides marketing and sales services for specialty and fine chemicals in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The company engages in exclusive product line relationships with premier manufacturers, providing tailored solutions to more than 90 supplier partners and over 200 product lines globally. For more information, please visit chempoint.com.
Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR) is a leading global chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world's leading producers. With the industry's largest private transportation fleet and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together. Learn more at univarsolutions.com.
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VINITA, Okla. (KSN/KODE) — A $2-billion “Americana-themed” theme park roughly the size of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is scheduled to open in Oklahoma in 2026, developers announced this week.
The American Heartland Theme Park will be located along Route 66 near Vinita, in northeast Oklahoma.
“Our whole objective is to bring family entertainment and value to the world,” said Larry Willhite, the CEO of development firm Mansion Entertainment Group.
The 125-acre park will offer rides and attractions across “six distinctly American lands” to be known as Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. The park will also offer “restaurant-quality food” throughout, according to a press release.
In addition to the theme park, developers also plan to build what’s said to be the largest campground in the central United States on an adjacent 30-acre lot, comprising of 750 RV spaces and 300 cabins.
A 300-room hotel with an indoor water park is also anticipated.
The attraction is expected to bring almost 5 million guests each year — including an estimated 2 million from out-of-state.
“And our main goal is to make it affordable,” said American Heartland founder and chief creative officer Gene Bicknell. “So a family of mom and dad and a couple of kids, you know their whole dream is to take their kids to a park of this type.”
Bicknell added that a portion of the revenue from the park is earmarked for various charities, too.
“We have a record of helping orphans and people all around the world getting education and improving their lives. I hope this park will help generate that for this area and many more to come in the future,” said Bicknell.
The development will open in phases, with the RV park scheduled to open first in 2025. The 125-acre theme park is scheduled to begin operating in 2026.
“I’m not going to say anything is easy at this magnitude, but we have not had any hurdles,” Willhite said. “The state has been wonderful, and we also know we are going to face other hurdles as we grow and it comes to fruition.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/americana-themed-amusement-park-the-size-of-disneys-magic-kingdom-is-coming-to-oklahoma/ | 2023-07-20 16:48:01 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/americana-themed-amusement-park-the-size-of-disneys-magic-kingdom-is-coming-to-oklahoma/ |
BEIRUT (AP) — On his first public visit touring the destruction wreaked by this week’s deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday pointedly shamed the West for shunning his country.
The embattled president may see the disaster, which shattered much of northern Syria, as an opportunity to push for an easing of his country’s isolation — if not from the United States and the European Union, which have enforced sanctions for years over the long, brutal civil war, then from Arab nations.
“The West prioritized politics over the humanitarian situation,” Assad told a group of reporters while visiting the Aleppo neighborhood of Masharqa, devastated by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake. “It’s natural that they politicize the situation, but there is no humanitarianism, neither now nor in the past.”
Assad’s carefully choreographed tour came five days after the quake hit, a contrast to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been visiting devastated parts of Turkey for several days.
The tragedy presents a danger for Assad from the sheer weight of new misery the quake brings to Syrians. The country has been crippled by an economic crisis that has pulled 90% of its population into poverty. Now as many as 5.3 million people may have been left homeless in Syria by the disaster, the U.N. refugee agency estimated.
Major fighting in the 12-year-old civil war eased years ago, but Syrians have only seen conditions get worse. Many were already struggling to afford food and fuel for heating. Rising frustration has sparked rare protests and critical voices against Assad in government-held territory for the first time in a decade. Failure to deliver aid or recover from the quake could further stoke public discontent.
The quake — the world’s deadliest in decades with more than 23,000 dead — left widespread destruction across southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, both in the last rebel-held pocket of territory in the northwest and in swaths of government-held territory, particularly the city of Aleppo.
Officials in Assad’s government claim American and European sanctions are obstructing delivery of aid to Syria and slowing down search and rescue operations to save families still trapped under the rubble.
“Assad is trying to exploit the earthquakes to get out of international isolation,” Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, told The Associated Press.
“His regime’s call for the lifting of sanctions is an attempt at de facto normalization with the international community,” she added.
The EU said Syria did not formally request aid until three days after the quake, and six member countries are sending help via the U.N.’s World Food Program. The U.S. said it has temporarily lifted sanctions that would hamper earthquake relief. Assad and Syrian officials have not commented.
But the U.S. and the EU have made clear they will not end the sanctions imposed over Assad’s crackdown on the opposition and his forces’ brutal methods against rebels in the civil war.
Assad himself has not called for sanctions to be lifted since the earthquake. Khatib said she expects he won’t do so because it would make him look weak in front of his people after years of hard-line rhetoric against Western countries.
He may see hope in Arab countries.
Assad’s closest allies, Russia, Iran and China, all sent aid after the disaster. But so did key U.S. Arab allies, notably the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan.
Arab countries that shunned Syria since 2011 have been slowly reestablishing diplomatic ties with Damascus. A growing number of countries have called for Syria to be reinstated into the Arab League.
“These dynamics were already in place, led by the United Arab Emirates,” and the earthquake could accelerate them, said Nadim Houry, executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative, a think tank.
The quake allows Arab countries “to work in a non-controversial manner due to the humanitarian urgency and provides space for this rapprochement to materialize,” he said.
Delays in getting aid into opposition-held northwestern Syria have renewed debates about the U.N. system already in place to provide humanitarian help to the territory.
U.N. aid is delivered through a single border-crossing from Turkey because Russia has blocked the use of a second. The United Nations has also been delivering some aid to the rebel-held northwest from within Syria, across conflict lines, from Damascus.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that the U.N. has been in contact with the Syrian government about getting a cross-line convoy into the northwest quickly.
Assad and Russia have called for aid deliveries to the enclave to be done exclusively through Damascus, which the U.N. agencies and Western countries oppose, fearing he would divert aid to supporters. But experts say the Syrian leader and Moscow may use the urgency of the situation to push for a change.
“There is an urgent need now for more assistance. There needs to be a solution that doesn’t get politicized, while at the same time does not play into the hands of the regime,” Houry said.
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DALLAS (AP) _ Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (TSLX) on Tuesday reported a loss of $13.5 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had a loss of 15 cents. Earnings, adjusted for investment costs, were 51 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 48 cents per share.
The business development company posted revenue of $63.9 million in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $69.9 million.
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Anna Marks to succeed Sharon Thorne as Chair of Deloitte Global Board of Directors effective June 2023
LONDON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Deloitte Global announced the nomination of Anna Marks as the designated incoming Chair of the Deloitte Global Board of Directors, effective 1 June 2023, subject to final confirmation by the Deloitte Global Board of Directors. Marks is expected to succeed Sharon Thorne, who completes her four year-term on 31 May 2023.
"As Global Chair, my vision is to lead a high-performing, purpose-led board, building on the exceptional work of the past four years to govern in a collaborative, anticipatory, and impactful way and driving even greater cohesiveness throughout our global organization," says Anna Marks, Deloitte Global Chair Designate. "I am thrilled and deeply honored to be taking up this role and look forward to working with the Global Board and Global Executive, embodying Deloitte's purpose and values in all that we do."
Marks currently serves as a member of the Deloitte Global Board, sits on the Deloitte North & South Europe Board, and is a Deloitte UK Vice Chair. With almost 20 years of experience as a practicing audit partner, Marks has substantial experience across audit and due diligence, UK and US regulatory reporting, and corporate development activities. She has held a variety of senior leadership and executive roles including on the Deloitte UK Audit and Assurance Executive, the Deloitte North & South Europe Audit and Assurance Executive, and Chair of the Deloitte UK-Swiss Partnership Council.
Marks brings to her new role significant governance experience, starting on the Deloitte UK Board in 2010 during a period that oversaw Deloitte member firm combinations to form what is now Deloitte North & South Europe. Marks is a member of the Board of the Confederation of British Industry and Chair of the Audit Committee. She is a fellow, and has previously been a Board member and Trustee of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, a UK charity meeting the complex needs of people with profound disabilities arising from brain injury.
"It has been a pleasure serving with Anna on the Global Board in recent years, where I've had the opportunity to see first-hand the unique skills and leadership capabilities she will bring to this role, including her substantial governance experience, client impact, future-focused mindset, and global network of trusted relationships," says Sharon Thorne, Deloitte Global Chair. "Complementing her experience is her deep sense of integrity and purpose and a highly collaborative leadership style that will be critical to navigating today's complex business environment successfully."
Anchored in her personal experiences and early career working with families with children with learning disabilities, Marks is passionate about embracing diversity and cultivating an inclusive culture where everyone feels they can thrive. She is Sponsoring Chair of the Deloitte UK Ethnicity Council.
"The role of governance is vital to a high-performing organization, and I am confident Anna's experience and leadership attributes position her well to successfully step into the Global Board Chair role," says Joe Ucuzoglu, Deloitte Global CEO. "I am looking forward to working collaboratively with Anna to ensure our organization continues delivering with excellence for all of our stakeholders in a highly complex and dynamic global environment. I also want to thank Sharon for her extraordinary contributions over the past four years as our Global Board Chair. Sharon's leadership has been instrumental to the positive impact Deloitte is making on our clients, people, and communities."
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Tennessee fast-tracks new forensic jobs amid rape kit delays
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and top legislative leaders announced Thursday that they will fast-track more money to hire 25 additional forensic lab positions to help speed up the processing of sexual assault kits. The news comes weeks after authorities confirmed that the man charged with abducting and killing a Tennessee teacher had not been charged in the 2021 case of the rape of a woman due to delays in processing a rape kit. Cleotha Henderson was eventually indicted in the case just days after he was arrested in the death of Eliza Fletcher, a mother of two and a kindergarten teacher. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/29/tennessee-fast-tracks-new-forensic-jobs-amid-rape-kit-delays/ | 2022-09-29 22:58:14 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/29/tennessee-fast-tracks-new-forensic-jobs-amid-rape-kit-delays/ |
NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, February 18, 2023
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856 FPUS51 KALY 190757
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Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
NYZ033-191500-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 40. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and cold. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain or snow
showers. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows around 18. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain or snow showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Cold with lows 15 to 20. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with highs around 30.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening,
then snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight.
Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with lows around 20. Chance of snow
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet. Additional light snow
accumulation. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of freezing rain in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of snow. Cold with lows 10 to 15. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs 15 to 20. Lows
5 below to zero. Wind chill values as low as 15 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the afternoon. Cold
with highs in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent. Wind chill
values as low as 10 below in the morning.
$$
NYZ052-191500-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then freezing rain
and snow with sleet likely after midnight. Light snow accumulation.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and rain with sleet likely in the
morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Cold with
lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Temperature falling into the mid 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around
10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs around 30.
$$
NYZ058-191500-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs around 40. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and blustery, cold with lows in the
mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Freezing rain, snow and rain. Sleet likely after
midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature
around 30. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain with rain and sleet likely in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional
sleet accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Breezy, cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and blustery, cold. Highs
around 30. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs around 30. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
$$
NYZ065-191500-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 50. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Rain in the evening, then rain with sleet
likely after midnight. Light snow accumulation. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain with sleet likely in the morning, then a chance of
rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional sleet accumulation.
Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk. Highs in the
upper 30s. Lows 15 to 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid
30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
$$
NYZ041-191500-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the mid 40s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts
up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then rain,
freezing rain and sleet likely in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Cold. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the upper
20s. Lows 5 to 10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
$$
NYZ038-191500-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning. Rain showers likely.
Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southwest around
15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then freezing rain,
snow and sleet after midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold. Near
steady temperature in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, sleet, rain and snow in the morning, then
a chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Brisk, cold with lows in the lower 20s. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and blustery, cold. Highs
in the mid 20s. Lows 5 to 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Cold with highs
in the lower 30s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in the
morning.
$$
NYZ032-191500-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 40s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Cloudy. Snow or rain showers likely, mainly
in the morning. Little or no snow accumulation. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows around 19. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning, then rain or snow
showers in the afternoon. Light snow accumulation. Highs in the mid
30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Cold with lows around 15. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet. Light
snow accumulation. Cold. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Freezing rain and snow likely in the evening, then
a chance of snow after midnight. Colder with lows around 10 above.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Wind chill values as low as zero
after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning. Much
colder. Near steady temperature 10 to 15. Chance of snow 50 percent.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows around zero. Wind
chill values as low as 15 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Not as
cold with highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as 15 below
in the morning.
$$
NYZ042-191500-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the mid 40s. Temperature falling into the upper 30s in the
afternoon. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening, then
snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight.
Heavy snow accumulation. Cold with lows around 20. Chance of snow
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sleet likely. Snow in the morning, then freezing rain
and snow likely in the afternoon. Additional light snow
accumulation. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of freezing rain in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of snow. Cold with lows around 20. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 20s.
Temperature falling to around 20 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around zero.
Wind chill values as low as 10 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the afternoon. Cold
with highs in the mid 20s. Chance of snow 40 percent. Wind chill
values as low as 10 below in the morning.
$$
NYZ083-191500-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around
5 mph, increasing to around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cold with lows in the lower 30s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with lows in the lower
20s. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then snow
and sleet likely in the afternoon. Additional light snow
accumulation. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of freezing rain in the
evening, then a chance of snow after midnight. Cold. Near steady
temperature in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the mid
20s. Lows zero to 5 above zero. Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ043-191500-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening, then
snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight.
Heavy snow accumulation. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Chance of
snow 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow and sleet in the morning, then freezing rain, snow
and sleet likely in the afternoon. Additional light snow
accumulation. Cold with highs around 30. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and sleet likely in the evening, then a
chance of snow after midnight. Cold. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the mid 20s. Temperature
falling to around 20 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as 10 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ084-191500-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper 40s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 30s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with lows in the upper
20s. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then rain
and freezing rain likely in the afternoon. Little or no additional
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then a chance of rain
and snow after midnight. Cold. Near steady temperature in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Temperature falling into the lower 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around 5 above.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ082-191500-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 40. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain or snow
showers. Highs in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows in the lower 20s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning, then rain or snow
showers likely in the afternoon. Light snow accumulation possible.
Highs in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph
in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and blustery, cold with lows around
20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet. Light
snow accumulation. Cold. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs around 30.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of freezing rain in the
evening, then a chance of snow after midnight. Brisk, cold with lows
around 20. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk, cold with highs in the lower 20s.
Temperature falling to around 15 in the afternoon. Wind chill values
as low as 5 below.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Much colder with lows around zero. Wind chill values as low
as 10 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as 10 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ039-191500-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Light snow accumulation
possible. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet. Light
snow accumulation. Cold. Lows in the mid 20s. Highs in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of snow after midnight. Brisk, cold with lows in the
lower 20s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk, cold with highs in the lower 20s.
Temperature falling to around 20 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Much colder with lows zero to 5 above zero. Wind chill
values as low as 10 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as 10 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ040-191500-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Light snow accumulation
possible. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then freezing rain,
snow and sleet after midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold with
lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then a
chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Brisk, cold with lows in the lower 20s. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk, cold with highs in the mid 20s.
Temperature falling into the lower 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Much colder with lows around 5 above. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ047-191500-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the mid 40s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Temperature falling into the upper 30s in
the afternoon. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Freezing rain with sleet likely after
midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature in
the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain and rain with sleet likely in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional
sleet accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Breezy, cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and blustery, cold. Highs
in the upper 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs around 30. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in the
morning.
$$
NYZ048-191500-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Temperature falling into the upper 30s in
the afternoon. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs around 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and blustery, cold with lows in the
mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then freezing rain,
snow and sleet after midnight. Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with
lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then a
chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk, cold with highs in the mid 20s.
Temperature falling to around 20 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Much colder with lows 5 to 10 above. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ049-191500-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow and
freezing rain with sleet likely after midnight. Moderate snow
accumulation. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow, sleet and rain in the morning, then
a chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Cold with
lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Temperature falling into the mid 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around
10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
$$
NYZ050-191500-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow and
freezing rain with sleet likely after midnight. Moderate snow
accumulation. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet in the morning, then a
chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Cold. Near
steady temperature in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Temperature falling into the mid 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around
10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
$$
NYZ051-191500-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Temperature falling into the
upper 30s in the afternoon. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow or rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs around 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and blustery, cold with lows in the
mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Freezing rain and sleet after midnight.
Light snow accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature in the upper
20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, sleet, rain and snow in the morning, then
a chance of rain and freezing rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. A chance of
snow after midnight. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and blustery, cold with highs in the mid 20s.
Temperature falling to around 20 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Much colder with lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ053-191500-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to around 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow and
freezing rain with sleet likely after midnight. Light snow
accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature around 30. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and rain with sleet likely in the
morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely, mainly in the evening. Cold with lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s.
Temperature falling into the mid 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around
10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs around 30. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
$$
NYZ054-191500-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 40s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to around
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds around 10 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Brisk, cold with lows in
the mid 20s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Freezing rain, snow and sleet. Light
snow accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then a chance of rain
and snow after midnight. Cold with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk, cold with highs in the mid 20s.
Temperature falling into the lower 20s in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much colder with lows around 5 above.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below in
the morning.
$$
NYZ060-191500-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to around 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain, freezing rain and snow with
sleet likely. Light snow accumulation. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Cold with
lows around 30. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk, cold. Highs in
the lower 30s. Lows 10 to 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s.
$$
NYZ061-191500-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the mid 40s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds around 10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Freezing rain with sleet likely after
midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold. Near steady temperature in
the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain, rain with sleet likely with snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Cold. Near
steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk, cold. Highs in
the lower 30s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
zero.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s. Wind chill values as low as zero in the
morning.
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NYZ059-191500-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to around 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 50. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain, freezing rain and snow with
sleet likely. Light snow accumulation. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs
around 40. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Cold with lows around 30.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk. Highs in the
lower 30s. Lows around 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s.
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NYZ063-191500-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy, cold with lows in the mid
20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain, freezing rain and snow. Sleet likely after
midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold with lows around 30. Chance
of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Freezing rain with rain and sleet likely in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional
sleet accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Breezy, cold
with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and windy, cold. Highs in
the lower 30s. Lows 10 to 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s.
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NYZ064-191500-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 50. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west
with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Rain in the evening, then rain and freezing
rain with sleet likely after midnight. Light snow accumulation. Cold
with lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and freezing rain with sleet likely in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional
sleet accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk. Highs in the mid
30s. Lows 15 to 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s.
$$
NYZ066-191500-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
255 AM EST Sun Feb 19 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the evening.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 50. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south
with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Rain and freezing rain in the evening, then
rain and freezing rain with sleet likely after midnight. Light snow
accumulation. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and freezing rain with sleet likely in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no additional
sleet accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and brisk. Highs in the mid
30s. Lows 10 to 15.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow. Cold with highs in the lower
30s.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Help has arrived for a youth football player in need of a large-sized helmet.
Without the proper size of head protection, 12-year old Brandon Jackson can’t play football.
Jackson’s mother, Delanda Jackson, said the 7th-grader wants to play in the Kansas City Football and Cheer League, but because he’s bigger than the others, he needs a size 2X helmet, which is adult-sized, and hard to find.
“I’m hoping he gets to play football because that’s what I know he’s good at and he should enjoy,” Delanda Jackson said on Monday. “His coaches are loving on him and telling him he’s doing really good.”
Jackson, his family and coaches have hunted high and low for a helmet. The family originally believed a size 2X helmet would fit him, but after trying one, it was too snug.
Coaches are enthusiastic about helping Jackson because of his size and potential. He’s not yet a teenager, but he’s already 6-foot-2 and 320 pounds — the size coaches at every level seek in linemen on both sides of the ball.
Dustin Cundiff, who coaches Jackson with the Northland Revolution, said an older helmet won’t do, since it needs to be certified for safety.
“He’s worked so hard in practice, day in and day out, being able to keep up conditioning. I’d hate to see him not be able to play because of something as simple as a helmet,” Cundiff said. “His God-given size, it’s not something you can teach.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Jackson and his family met Chris Coffing, a national sales manager and professional helmet fitter with Riddell Sports. The company creates helmets for all 32 National Football League teams and numerous Division I college football teams.
A high-tech system Coffing uses made precise measurements of Jackson’s head, since a perfect fit ensures football safety.
Coffing learned of Jackson’s needs from Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle Orlando Brown. Riddell Sports and Brown have agreed to pool their resources and pay for Jackson’s new helmet.
“I appreciate it because I’ll be able to play a game. Last week, I was out of the game because I wasn’t able to get a helmet,” Jackson said.
Custom-made helmets could cost anywhere from $900-$2,000. But Riddell and Brown are happy to pick up the tab.
“We just love that a young man like yourself is wanting to play football,” Coffing told Jackson. “We want to give every person out there the ability to play.”
“Just giving him the ability to go out and play what I consider the greatest game ever is an awesome opportunity for him,” said Dustin Cundiff, Jackson’s coach with the Northland Revolution.
Coffing said it would take three or four weeks to make Jackson’s custom helmet. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/nfl-star-sporting-goods-company-help-12-year-old-struggling-to-find-extra-large-helmet/ | 2022-09-09 16:22:11 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/nfl-star-sporting-goods-company-help-12-year-old-struggling-to-find-extra-large-helmet/ |
Even though you might feel like everyone else has perfect skin, we promise they don’t! No one does. Not even the people on magazine covers.
While a little color on your cheeks is attractive, a lot of color is another story. Facial redness can be caused by a variety of different reasons. While redness can simply happen from your interactions with everyday things like spicy foods, extreme temperature swings, dry skin, caffeine or even stress, it can also be a sign of an underlying issue, such as an allergy, shingles or lupus.
Thankfully, after a little detective work, most of the time, it can be easily avoided or treated. Once you identify the root cause of skin redness, you might be able to avoid the trigger altogether or quickly remedy it by simply keeping the best color-correcting palette handy, or taking another easy step.
What Causes Skin Redness?
Skin redness can occur from everything from acne to seborrheic dermatitis to contact dermatitis. It might be hard to pinpoint exactly why your skin lights up each time, but certain steps can be taken to help lessen the possibility.
For starters, don’t overdo it on your skincare routine. Over-exfoliating is a key culprit of redness, especially in the face. Avoid physical exfoliants like facial scrubs made with harsh ingredients like walnut particles and keep your skincare routine simple and use hypoallergenic creams and detergents.
One of the most important things you can do to keep your skin healthy is to wear sunscreen. Not only will it help protect you from getting a sunburn, but it can also lessen the chance of the sun triggering common problems like dry skin, eczema and skin cancer.
Beware of other triggers. Rosacea and eczema sufferers may experience redness after drinking alcohol, exercising, using products with fragrance or taking a hot shower.
How to Combat Skin Redness
Try a redness-neutralizing cream or serum. Those with rosacea or another forms of red-toned discoloration can neutralize redness with a green-tinted moisturizer or serum.
Camouflage it with a special concealer. The best color-correcting palette will mask blemishes, under-eye circles and other skin imperfections. Sets can include just a few shades or several, but typically have variations of yellow, blue, green, pink and purple.
The color green, in particular, neutralizes the redness in your skin. Apply green concealer onto the most concentrated areas of redness and blend. A little can go a long way. Then follow with foundation and a light dusting of translucent powder.
If you’re shopping around for one, check out our selection of the best color-correcting palettes that have been vetted by a team of experts.
Opt for soothing ingredients. Reach for products that contain redness-reducing ingredients such as witch hazel, tiger grass, aloe, niacinamide and chamomile.
While skin redness can be annoying, it can be reduced by eliminating triggers and taking color-correcting measures, either with creams or concealers. Nearly everyone is prone to occasional bouts of redness. If all else fails, don’t hesitate to visit a dermatologist that does patch testing to help determine if it’s allergy related. They can prescribe anti-inflammatory creams or antibiotics, or recommend products that can help.
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In “The Blue Caftan,” Moroccan film director tackles LGBTQ+ love and celebrates embroidery craft
By MARIAM FAM
Associated Press
As Mina gets increasingly sick, her body withering away, her husband dotes on her: He washes her hair, helps her change, brings the sweetness of a fruit to her lips. But underneath the genuinely tender moments shared by this on-screen Moroccan couple simmers a longing — of a forbidden kind.
In her latest film, “The Blue Caftan,” Moroccan director Maryam Touzani delicately weaves intricate, overlapping tales of love, both traditional and largely taboo for many in her country and its region as she tells the story of a woman and her secretly gay husband who together run a shop making caftans. The marriage grows more complicated when the couple hires a male apprentice.
Wading into socially sensitive subjects is not unfamiliar terrain for Touzani who has won accolades at international film festivals and, just recently, was a jury member at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. “The Blue Caftan,” which had been shortlisted in the international feature film category for the 95th Academy Awards, is scheduled for release Wednesday in Morocco, where gay sex is illegal.
“I’m really hoping that it would be able to trigger a debate about the LGBT community and its place …, things that we don’t generally talk about because they are sensitive subjects,” Touzani told The Associated Press. “For a healthy society, it’s important to be able to talk about everything.”
Some disagree.
In Rabat, 27-year-old Laila Sahraoui argued some topics are best left behind closed doors.
“Moroccans … worry that their kids could imitate such ideas,” she said, adding that she wouldn’t watch the film. “Because of our Islam, we don’t like such things in Morocco. … It’s absolutely not appropriate for our society.”
But Touzani, 42, said others shared with her how important it was to portray characters like Halim, the husband.
“Morocco is a very complex country where there are very different points of view coexisting,” she said. “It’s about being able to just push certain boundaries and just to question certain things. … That’s what art can help us do as well, cinema especially.”
Filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, Touzani’s husband who co-wrote “The Blue Caftan” with her and is its main producer, said he is curious about moviegoers’ reactions, but feels confident.
“There’s a younger and younger audience and they want to see new type of movies, new type of cinemas in the Arab world,” he said. “The more conservative audience will probably not be very pleased.”
Part of art’s role, Ayouch said, is to disturb, to stir debate.
While he welcomes the recognition their movies garner abroad, he said it’s important for films like “The Blue Caftan” also to be experienced by audiences at home and in the Arab world.
For those having to “live their sexuality secretly,” he said, “films like this one can give them some courage to face who they are more publicly.”
In “The Blue Caftan,” Mina, the wife, has a sense of humor and a feisty side that she uses to protect her husband, who considers her his “rock.” She’s an observant Muslim; viewers repeatedly watch her pray.
Halim is a man torn. He has a gentle soul and takes pride in his craft — correcting a customer on a fabric’s exact shade of blue — while catering to shoppers in a changing world, with little patience for the time he takes to embroider by hand. He loves his wife, even as he slips into a cabin at a public bathhouse for secret sexual encounters with men.
Sexual tension builds up between him and the male apprentice, Youssef. As Mina’s health falters, Youssef increasingly helps the couple and a love triangle of sorts ensues.
Ultimately, Touzani said, it’s a movie about “love in its many forms.”
That includes love for the traditional craft of caftan embroidery, with sensual scenes of fabrics and stitches.
“One of the things I wanted to show in this film is the beauty of certain traditions,” she said. “There are other traditions that … need to be questioned,” she added, citing scenes when Halim challenges some burial rituals.
In one scene, Halim asks for Mina’s forgiveness, telling her that all his life he has tried in vain to get rid of “this thing.” She tells him she’s proud to have been his wife, then rests her head on his shoulder.
Being a woman of faith didn’t stop Mina from understanding her husband, Touzani said.
“We have the tendency of saying, ‘Well, if you are religious, then you cannot be this or you cannot be that.’ I believe that we can be many things at the same time because we are such complex beings.”
Speaking in Rabat, Hanane Boarfaoui, 38, said she was against storylines about homosexuality. “This must not be watched by our children, mothers and parents,” she said. “We are conservative people; we don’t accept this.”
Ahmed Benchemsi, a spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, said that while the number of those prosecuted for gay sex in Morocco “is relatively low” and the topic of homosexuality is less of a taboo there than what it used to be, “the law is still there and it hangs over the heads of everybody.”
Online, before the Morocco release of “The Blue Caftan,” some praised Touzani’s work as powerful and moving; others accused her of courting the West and catering to its sensibilities over issues more relevant to Moroccans.
“I don’t make cinema to please anybody,” Touzani said. “I just want to be as truthful as possible to my characters and to the stories I want to tell.”
Touzani’s feature-film directing debut, “Adam,” tells the story of two women whose lives intersect when one takes in the other, an unmarried stranger who’s looking for a place to stay until she gives birth after getting pregnant. She talks about plans to give away her baby to shield him from the stigma that would otherwise mar his future.
It was inspired by Touzani’s parents hosting a woman who showed up at their doorstep under similar circumstances. When Touzani was pregnant with her son, she felt “the violence” that the woman endured in having to relinquish her baby because “socially she couldn’t do otherwise.”
Broaching topics “unspoken of in Arab and Islamic societies” is one common thread between “Adam” and “The Blue Caftan,” said film critic Cherqui Ameur.
“We hope to have fewer taboos in our society through discussing all issues,” he said.
In 2015, “Much Loved,” a movie directed and written by Ayouch, in which Touzani worked in various capacities, was barred from release in the country. Authorities at the time charged that the movie, portraying female sex workers, was offensive to Moroccan women and values. The movie, excerpts from which appeared online, sparked uproar; it was defended by some on freedom of expression and human-interest grounds and criticized by others who said its language was crude and scenes too explicit.
Touzani said that while that was a complicated period, she felt the film pushed boundaries, and “there was something that opened up” following it.
Born in Tangier to a Moroccan father and Moroccan-Spanish mother, Touzani said they encouraged her to stand up for her beliefs. At one point, while a child, she wanted to become a lawyer like her father.
An avid reader, she ended up studying journalism in London but eventually turned to filmmaking.
She said she gravitates toward telling stories of people on the margins. On the screen, she wants to give them the voice they may not have and the possibilities that may not exist in real life.
“These are the people that inspire me, that touch me, that haunt me,” Touzani said. “These are the people that really make their way inside my heart and stay there naturally without me looking for it.”
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 2171.HK), a company focused on innovative CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, announces that a case report, titled "Long Term Complete Response of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma to Glypican-3 Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells plus Sorafenib, A case report", has been published in Frontiers in Immunology (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.963031/full).
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common histologic subtype of primary liver cancer, which is the sixth most common cancer type worldwide. Clinical efficacies of existing therapies for unresectable HCC are still unsatisfactory. CAR T-cell therapy has been approved for a variety of hematological tumors, but there are still great challenges for CAR T-cell therapies to treat solid tumors. We firstly reported GPC3 as a reasonable target for CAR T-cell therapy and thereafter advanced it into clinic.[1,2] In order to further enhance the efficacy of GPC3 CAR T cells, we proposed a new strategy by combining the GPC3 CAR T cells with sorafenib for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma[3]. To further validate this strategy in clinical setting, we conducted an investigator-initiated clinical trial at the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. The published case reported a patient with advanced HCC who achieved a complete response (CR) and a long survival period after the combination therapy of CAR-GPC3 T-cell plus sorafenib.
The case showed a 60-year-old Asian male patient with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related HCC who underwent surgery in May 2018. In August 2018, the recurrence of liver cancer and pulmonary metastasis occurred after the operation, and then he received transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) to treat liver lesions and interventional ablation to treat pulmonary metastases. Two months later, he progressed and was enrolled into the clinical trial. After the enrollment, the patient underwent leukapheresis for CAR-GPC3 T-cell manufacturing. Seven days after leukapheresis, the patient started to receive 400 mg of sorafenib twice daily. The patient received 4 cycles of CAR-GPC3 T cells (CT011) treatment and each cycle was divided into two infusions. Prior to each cycle of CT011 treatment, lymphodepletion was performed. A total of 4×109 CAR-GPC3 T cells were infused.
The CT011 plus sorafenib combination therapy was well tolerated. This patient obtained partial responses (PR) from the 3rd month and achieved CR in the 12th month after the first cycle of CT011 infusion. The tumor had no progression for more than 36 months and maintained the CR status for more than 24 months after the first infusion.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case with a CR after the combination therapy of CAR T cells with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The clinical outcome demonstrated that the combination therapy of GPC3 CAR T-cell and Sorafenib may be a new promising approach for GPC3+ advanced HCC patients.
Dr. Zonghai Li, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer of CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Limited, commented that, "There is great expectation for CAR T cells to provide curative potential in treating solid tumors. When enrolled into the clinical trial, the patient in this reported case had undergone local therapies such as TACE and interventional ablation but had not received systemic therapies such as anti-angiogenesis inhibitors. Based on the finding of our earlier preclinical research, we adopted the combination therapy of sorafenib and CT011 as treatment regimens. It was very encouraging to see that the patient achieved a complete response and a long survival period without recurrence for more than two years. While directly indicating that GPC3 CAR T may be used for early-line treatment of HCC, this case report also provides new evidence supporting the adoption of CAR T cells in the early-line treatment of other solid tumors."
About CT011
CT011 is an autologous CAR T-cell product candidate with proof-of-concept clinical data for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and has the potential to be the first-in-class globally. Dr. Zonghai Li — Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of CARsgen Therapeutics — led the world's first successful effort in identifying, validating, and reporting GPC3 as a tumor-associated target for the development of CAR T-cell therapies to treat HCC. CARsgen has completed enrollment of a Phase I trial in China.
About CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Limited
CARsgen is a biopharmaceutical company with operations in China and the U.S. and is focused on innovative CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. The Company has built an integrated cell therapy platform with in-house capabilities that span target discovery, antibody development, clinical trials, and commercial-scale manufacturing. CARsgen has internally developed novel technologies and a product pipeline with global rights to address major challenges of CAR T-cell therapies, such as improving the safety profile, enhancing the efficacy in treating solid tumors and reducing treatment costs. The Company's vision is to become a global biopharmaceutical leader that brings innovative and differentiated cell therapies to cancer patients worldwide and makes cancer curable.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hires prominent lawyer for impeachment trial
TX attorney general's lawyer represented Rick Perry, women who accused Deshaun Watson of harassment
A new lawyer for Ken Paxton on Wednesday raised skepticism that the embattled Texas attorney general's impeachment trial could be done quickly and attacked the case that could lead to the Republican's permanent removal from office as a sham.
Tony Buzbee is a prominent Houston attorney whose high-profile client list includes former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and women who accused NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual harassment and assault. His hiring sets up a clash between some of the state’s most well-known lawyers over Paxton's political future.
"The impeachment articles that have been laid out by the House are baloney," Buzbee said during a news conference at the Republican Party of Texas’ Austin headquarters. "The allegations are untrue."
The impeachment trial in the Texas Senate is set to begin no later than Aug. 28. "If we're really going to have a trial, it's going to take a lot longer than that," Buzbee said.
TEXAS HOUSE VOTES TO IMPEACH REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON
Buzbee joins several member of the attorney general's staff who are set to square off against two high-profile lawyers the House brought in to present the case against Paxton, who was suspended from office following his impeachment on 20 articles including abuse of public trust and bribery.
Buzbee and one of Paxton's longtime criminal defense attorneys, Dan Cogdell, criticized the House's rapid impeachment process as rushed and secretive. Lawmakers allied with Paxton mounted similar complaints in May before 60 of the House’s 85 Republicans, including Speaker Dade Phelan, voted to impeach.
"There was no due process before the House," said Cogdell, who represents Paxton in a long-stalled securities fraud case and a separate FBI investigation into many of the same allegations that led to his impeachment.
The case for Paxton's impeachment is set to be presented by Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin, who over decades in Texas have become practically as recognizable in courtrooms as the politicians and famous figures they have represented.
Buzbee said the current timeframe would not give Paxton's legal team enough time to take testimony from more than 60 witnesses and review thousands of documents. He suggested the trial might need to be put off until next summer.
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The trial date start, as well as a June 20 Senate meeting to consider trial rules, were set by a Senate vote. It was not immediately clear if those dates could be changed without a similar vote by the 31 senators.
Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations by members of his own staff that he used his office to help a donor. He was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, though he has yet to stand trial.
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Buzbee didn't directly address the substance of most of the allegations against Paxton during the 40-minute news conference. But he did contest that the donor, real estate developer Nate Paul, bribed the attorney general by paying for renovations to his Austin home. The lawyer showed images of receipts that he suggested disproved the claim.
Buzbee declined to say who was paying for his services, save that "I'm not being paid by the public." | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-hires-prominent-lawyer-impeachment-trial | 2023-06-08 13:32:21 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-hires-prominent-lawyer-impeachment-trial |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Four teenagers killed in a car crash on Monday morning may have been participating in a social-media-inspired “challenge,” police in Buffalo, New York, said.
Police said six teens, aged 14–19, were riding in a Kia that had been reported stolen the night before. The speeding car crashed and rolled over at around 6:30 a.m. Monday morning, ejecting five of the passengers from the vehicle.
Three of the passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while another was confirmed dead later that morning.
One of the ejected passengers, a 14-year-old female, survived, as did the 16-year-old male driver, police said.
The female passenger is in good condition at the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, while the 16-year-old driver was treated and released. The driver has been charged with third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He may also face additional charges, according to the district attorney’s office.
No other motorists were injured, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia confirmed at a Monday press conference.
“It was a one-vehicle accident — the car into the wall,” he said.
Investigators believe that excessive speed was a factor in the accident. Gramaglia added Monday that the teens may also have been participating in what he referred to as the “Kia Challenge,” meaning they may have learned how to break into and start Kia vehicles using USB chargers.
“I don’t have the exact model, but it’s a Kia,” Gramaglia told a reporter who inquired about the vehicle at a Monday press conference. “I know Kias are widely publicized … the ‘Kia Challenge,’ as it’s called. They are very easy, unfortunately, to steal.”
This method to which Gramaglia referred, which allegedly allows a driver to bypass a chip or a key to start certain Kia models, has been demonstrated on social media platforms, Nexstar’s WXIN previously reported.
In recent months, other police departments across the country have acknowledged similar break-ins and thefts, citing the lack of an immobilization device on certain Kia and Hyundai models. In Norfolk, Virginia, police have observed a 35% increase in Kia and Hyundai thefts in the first half of July alone, WAVY reported. And police in other municipalities, such as Beloit, Wisconsin, and Kentwood, Michigan, are urging Kia and Hyundai owners to take extra precautions.
Both Kia and Hyundai have also been targeted in a class-action lawsuit over the increased risk of theft associated with certain models, KTLA reported last month.
Gramaglia, meanwhile, said Monday that the incident involving the teenagers had been “horrific” not only for the victims’ families, but the police as well.
“This is a terrible, terrible outcome for such young kids that have their whole lives in front of them,” he said.
The incident is still under investigation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The California man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had an expansive goal to change the makeup of the Supreme Court “for decades to come,” according to a recent court filing that cites discussions the man had online.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, told unidentified internet users that his goal was to reverse the then-leaked draft decision of the since-overturned Roe v. Wade decision, according to an affidavit for a search warrant in the case, filed in Maryland federal court this week.
Killing one jurist could change the decisions of the court “for decades to come,” authorities said that Roske wrote, adding, “I am shooting for three.”
Roske explained that “all of the major decisions for the past 10 years have been along party lines so if there are more liberal than conservative judges, they will have the power.”
The details represent the newest indication that Simi Valley, Calif., man wasn’t focused solely on Kavanaugh, although it does not identify the other justices.
According to the filing, first reported by The Daily Beast, Roske’s cellphone history in May and June of this year included searches for “quietest semi auto rifle,” “Reagan assassination attempt,” “most effective place to stab someone,” “assassin skills,” “assassin equipment,” “assassinations,” “supreme court” and “how to be stealthy.”
Roske is charged with attempting to murder a justice of the United States. He has pleaded not guilty, and a tentative trial date has been set for next month.
Prosecutors say Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent of killing him. Roske pulled up near the home in a taxi shortly after 1 a.m. on June 8 carrying a suitcase with a gun and ammunition, a tactical chest rig with pepper spray and a knife, a flashlight, a laser, a thermal monocular and other burglary tools, according to court papers.
Spotted by two U.S. Marshals who were part of 24-hour security provided to the justices following the leak of the draft opinion, Roske was apprehended after he called 911 and told a police dispatcher that he was near Kavanaugh’s home and wanted to take his own life.
The leaked opinion draft led to protests, including at several of the justices’ homes. Roske’s arrest spurred the House to approve a bill expanding that around-the-clock security protection to the justices’ families. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/feds-kavanaugh-plotter-sought-to-alter-court-for-decades/ | 2022-07-29 00:58:03 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/feds-kavanaugh-plotter-sought-to-alter-court-for-decades/ |
- The appointment of the new Chief Business Officer strengthens the ability to execute the company's global strategy
- Dr. Mundra is passionate about medical research and is poised to accelerate MEDSIR's rapid growth as she brings extensive business and scientific experience
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDSIR, an international company specialized in the strategic design of clinical trials is pleased to announce the appointment of Jyoti Mundra, PhD, as Chief Business Officer.
In her role, Jyoti will help accelerate the growth of MEDSIR while enhancing MEDSIR's presence and business in North America. She will be leading global business and marketing team to provide clinical solutions to biopharma companies and build a network with hospitals and institutions.
"Jyoti's scientific background paired with her track record of high sales performance makes her great addition to our team and bolsters our presence in North America," says María Campos, Chief Executive Officer of the company.
"MEDSIR is building the market leading solutions for investigator lead clinical trials and provide strategic clinical solutions to biopharma companies. I am excited about the growth of MEDSIR and expansion in the North American market," said Jyoti Mundra.
About Jyoti Mundra
Jyoti has worked at various full service CRO's helping biopharma companies to advance their drug pipeline. Prior to joining MEDSIR, Jyoti served as a Director of Business Development at Sinclair Research and helped achieve hypergrowth leading to an acquisition by Altasciences. She also held similar roles at Champions Oncology and Covance to improve the productivity of drug development. Jyoti received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Rutgers University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Air Force makes history with successful launch of new hypersonic weapon: 'Game-changing'
The ARRW achieved a speed of five times that of the speed of sound
The United States Air Force conducted the successful launch of a hypersonic weapon off the coast of California this weekend, which flew at five times the speed of sound, a spokesperson said.
"Our highly-skilled team made history on this first air-launched hypersonic weapon," said Lt. Col. Michael Jungquist, the director of the 419th Flight Test Squadron and the Global Power Bomber Combined Test Force, who executed the test.
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"We're doing everything we can to get this game-changing weapon to the warfighter as soon as possible," Jungquist added.
Brig. Gen. Heath Collins, Program Executive Officer for Weapons, celebrated the "major accomplishment" after a B-52H Stratofortress released an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) at Edwards Air Force Base, in California, Saturday.
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"This was a major accomplishment by the ARRW team, for the weapons enterprise, and our Air Force," Collins said. "The team's tenacity, expertise, and commitment were key in overcoming the past year's challenges to get us to the recent success. We are ready to build on what we've learned and continue moving hypersonics forward."
The ARRW achieved a speed of five times that of the speed of sound and burned for its expected duration, the official said.
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New gift store opens on Main Street in Hutchinson, offering sports-related signs & shirts
Jerome Gardner thought long and hard about opening a store − he wasn't sure where it would be or what he was going to sell, but he knew he wanted to do something with both his hands and his mind.
Gardner was serving a life sentence for drug possession, namely marijuana and cocaine, but after 15 years in an Indiana jail, he was let out due to the change in laws related to drug trafficking. The female he was with was given 151 months − a little more than 12 years.
Once Gardner was set free, this Chicago man headed to Junction City to be with his brother who was in the U.S. Army. It was an easy choice, either go back home and be surrounded by the past or start a new path.
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After a marriage, a child and blue collar jobs, Gardner's dream is coming true.
"I could say I was a product of my environment, but that would be an excuse," he said. "My vision came from me growing up and maturing. I got 15 years of my life to think about those day and night − to go to sleep with that, to wake up with that and it didn't take long for me to figure out no this ain't for me."
Last week, Gardner opened Gardner's Gift Shop at 325 N. Main Street. The shop sells custom-designed or ready-made sports logos and other goods that are emblazoned on mugs, tumblers, mouse pads, pillows, front license plates and pretend street signs. He also hand-screens t-shirts and works with slate and baseball caps.
Gardner started from his home, but as the business grew, he knew he needed a store, so he chose one on Main Street.
He was getting a lot of his business from social media and word of mouth. Many of his customers kept coming back.
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Aside from sports, many of his designs are spiritual.
"He did a great job," said Cheryl Young who had a slate laminated with a picture of her son. "I will be back to get more." | https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2023/02/13/new-business-opens-on-main-st-in-hutchinson-has-themed-signs-shirts/69887005007/ | 2023-02-13 20:43:00 | 0 | https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2023/02/13/new-business-opens-on-main-st-in-hutchinson-has-themed-signs-shirts/69887005007/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") of Aritzia Inc. (TSX: ATZ) ("Aritzia" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated, innovative design house offering Everyday Luxury online and in its boutiques, was held yesterday via live webcast online. Each of the matters voted upon at the Meeting is discussed in detail in the Company's management information circular dated May 19, 2022 (the "Circular"), which can be found under the Company's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com).
The total number of votes cast by shareholders in person and by proxy at the Meeting was 289,093,294 votes. The voting results in relation to the election of directors were as follows:
The resolution with respect to the reappointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditor put before shareholders for consideration and approval at the Meeting, as described in the Circular, was duly approved by the requisite number of votes.
The Company has filed a report of voting results on all resolutions voted on at the Meeting under its profile on www.sedar.com.
Aritzia is a vertically integrated design house with an innovative global platform. We are creators and purveyors of Everyday Luxury, home to an extensive portfolio of exclusive brands for every function and individual aesthetic. We're about good design, quality materials and timeless style – all with the wellbeing of our people and planet in mind. We call this Everyday Luxury.
Founded in 1984, in Vancouver, Canada, we pride ourselves on creating immersive, and highly personal shopping experiences at aritzia.com and in our 100+ boutiques throughout North America to everyone, everywhere.
Everyday Luxury. To elevate your world.TM
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DrTalks.com has partnered with Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC, and 40+ experts to dive into the explosive potential of mitochondria at an 8-day virtual summit.
CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Join DrTalks.com with the creator of "Reclaim Your Energy Edge," Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC, from Tuesday, August 23rd through Tuesday, August 30th for the Restore Your Mitochondrial Matrix Summit, a free virtual event exploring the impact of mitochondrial health on focus, energy, and productivity. Featured guests include Kashif Khan (CEO of The DNA Company), Cynthia Thurlow (Best-Selling Author), and Dr. Wendie Trubow (Functional Medicine Expert). Each expert will be interviewed directly by Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC.
We all experience two kinds of energy: body energy and cellular energy. We talk a lot about body energy. It's what we feel with a jolt of caffeine and lack when we miss a few hours of sleep. But cellular energy is deeper. It's the energy we create within our cells to do everything from sleeping and singing to writing novels and creating business plans. And it comes from healthy, functional mitochondria - aka the powerhouse of the cell. To be focused, productive, and thriving, you need healthy mitochondria.
The Restore Your Mitochondrial Matrix Summit brings together more than 50 guest speakers, including doctors, women's health experts, functional medicine practitioners, naturopaths, chronic illness experts, and more to discuss all the ways our mitochondria impact our mental and physical well-being. Topics will center around mitochondrial health, including signs of mitochondrial dysfunction, ways to support healthy mitochondria, complementary treatments, and more. Attendees will discover practical and effective ways to boost their energy, regain focus, and become the powerhouses of productivity they KNOW you can be - because they used to be!
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(NEXSTAR) – The White House confirmed on Thursday that President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19. While he is said to be experiencing mild symptoms, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden is taking Paxlovid.
But what is Paxlovid?
Paxlovid is an antiviral therapy produced by Pfizer and given to patients with COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization for the pill in December, making it the first approved for use against COVID-19 in the U.S. It’s intended to reduce the severity of COVID symptoms.
The pill is available by prescription, and the FDA recently authorized state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe it to eligible patients. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said the move “could expand access to timely treatment for some patients who are eligible.” Previously, only doctors could prescribe the pill.
Paxlovid must be taken within five days after COVID symptoms begin, according to the FDA.
Currently, the antiviral pill is only authorized to treat patients 12 years old and older who weigh at least 88 pounds after they test positive for COVID. Paxlovid can be used in patients with mild to moderate COVID that are at high risk of progressing to severe COVID, which could lead to hospitalization or death.
This includes older people – Biden is 79 – and those with health issues like heart disease, obesity, cancer, or diabetes.
Paxlovid is given as three tablets: two nirmatrelvir tablets and one ritonavir tablet. The nirmatrelvir inhibits a SARS-CoV-2 protein, which stops the virus from replicating, and the ritonavir, which slows the breakdown of the nirmatrelvir, the FDA explains. The three tablets are taken together twice a day for five days.
Paxlovid isn’t approved to prevent a person from getting COVID, or in place of getting a vaccine.
The U.S.’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, took Paxlovid last month after testing positive for COVID. He later said he had a recurrence of symptoms after taking the antiviral pill.
While speaking at a global health forum, Fauci said he tested negative for COVID for three consecutive days after finishing his five-day Paxlovid series. On the fourth day, though, Fauci said he tested positive and began having worsening symptoms.
He referred to it as “Paxlovid rebound,” which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged may happen. The agency issued an advisory in May that patients may again have symptoms and a positive COVID test within two to eight days of finishing their Paxlovid series.
Fauci ultimately did a second round of Paxlovid, which the CDC has not determined to be necessary if patients experience a rebound of symptoms. Instead, experiencing symptoms after taking the pill “may be part of the natural history” of the virus.
Biden is now the second president to test positive for COVID. Former President Trump contracted the virus in October 2020 and was hospitalized for three days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Melanie Vásquez Russell and Michael Bartiromo contributed to this report. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-is-paxlovid-the-pill-biden-is-taking-after-testing-positive-for-covid/ | 2022-07-21 18:04:12 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-is-paxlovid-the-pill-biden-is-taking-after-testing-positive-for-covid/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Daylen Kountz’s 23 points helped Northern Colorado defeat Jacksonville State 86-82 in overtime on Saturday night.
The Gamecocks (2-4) were led by Demaree King with 25 points and five assists. Peyton Daniels added 19 points and his layup with 22 seconds left sent the game to overtime tied at 69. Juwan Perdue pitched in with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
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DENVER — Whenever a national soccer team unveils its roster for a major tournament, you can usually tell who the last player to make it was.
And since the big international tournaments usually mandate 23-player squads, you’ll hear that someone is “the 23rd player” on a team: a young prospect brought along to experience the big stage, perhaps, or a hard-working veteran rewarded for toiling outside the limelight.
On the U.S. women’s squad for Concacaf’s upcoming World Cup qualifying and Olympics tournament, the 23rd player is also clear.
But this one has two World Cup titles and a runner-up medal, Golden Boot and Most Outstanding Player trophies, an Olympic gold and bronze, a FIFA player of the year award, and two NWSL regular-season championships.
What Megan Rapinoe is about to do for the U.S. women’s soccer team is unlike anything she has done in her career. After over a decade as one of the program’s most famous players, she’s going to spend the next few weeks as almost a player-coach, guiding the squad’s crop of electric young prospects through their first official competition.
“First and foremost, I’m honest with myself, and I don’t need someone to tell me that I’m 36, almost 37,” Rapinoe said in a wide-ranging conversation with reporters this week.
“I was like, ‘Listen, I think that I have a lot to give, still,’” she said. “I mean, there were still question marks for me personally in the fall of, like, do I want to do this and is it something that I’m passionate about? I feel like playing at this level requires a mental, physical and spiritual commitment to the ultimate goal of winning — and if you don’t have that, it’s kind of miserable.”
» READ MORE: Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe return to the U.S. women’s soccer team for World Cup and Olympics qualifying
‘I want to do that’
Everyone knows that the physical part of it isn’t what it used to be. U.S. manager Vlatko Andonovski has already appointed Mallory Pugh as his starting left winger, and Rapinoe has no expectation of playing major minutes this summer.
“For players like Mal and Soph[ia Smith] and Trinity [Rodman], who are forwards, who are playing the same position with Megan — I think that she’s going to be instrumental to help them go through these games,” Andonovski said when he announced Rapinoe’s return. “Because at some point, whether it’s within the game or in between the games, they’re going to need Megan’s voice. And her responsibility is to help them be the best version of themselves.”
Rapinoe is reporting for duty.
“If that’s something that he wants within the team, if that’s something he feels like is needed within the team in order to win the World Cup ultimately, and obviously push on the team to be successful, then I want to do that,” Rapinoe said. “And I think he needed to answer some questions for himself about what the team looks like, and if something like that is going to be necessary or something that he would want.”
The conversations, she said, “were totally honest the whole time about everything, really. Which I appreciate, and he appreciates as well.”
She described herself as a “conduit” between the manager and players.
“Often times, a coach is not going to be able to connect with every single player,” she said. “And sometimes it’s better coming from a player than it is from Vlatko, and we can kind of support each other in that way.”
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‘The standard that is necessary’
Yet as often as such a player can be necessary, this sort of thing has rarely happened in the U.S. program’s decorated history. Most of the team’s legends either retired after a major tournament, or were retired by the manager not calling them up anymore.
So the question went to Rapinoe: have you seen anything like this before?
Christie Pearce Rampone at the 2015 World Cup came up. So did Ali Krieger’s surprising return to the fold right before the 2019 World Cup after two fractious years away from Jill Ellis’ squad.
Neither comparison truly fits. The 2015 team was full of veterans, and Rapinoe’s eight months away weren’t so fractious. But there’s a certain part of the Krieger situation that echoes here.
“You’re going to bring the standard that is necessary, and the standard’s kind of like a ‘If you know, you know,’ sort of thing,” Rapinoe said. “There’s a number of us that know it here, but it’s one thing to know it and it’s one thing to be able to pull people to explain it and create that environment where everybody’s sort of rising up. I think ‘Kriegs’ did that, and I think if I can do it as well as her, I think that’s good.”
The chill between Krieger and Ellis after the 2016 Olympics sparked howls of protests among U.S. fans. It also caused issues in the U.S. locker room — and Rapinoe had her own share of issues with Ellis over time.
But she has long had a strong relationship with Andonovski. Before he took over the national team, he managed Rapinoe’s OL Reign in 2018 and ‘19. That foundation helped keep things steady this time.
“I think over the course of time, seeing the rosters and games and the young talent that we have, I think it makes perfect sense,” she said. “I can bring a ton on and off the field and in the locker room, and I can help him do his job.”
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‘I still want to be me’
A few minutes later, she went deeper on the subject.
“I think it’s not for every kind of player,” Rapinoe said. “I think some players are like, if I can’t perform at the level I’m used to all the time and start and do all that — some players don’t want to do that. Some players aren’t interested in that.”
Before the U.S. team’s rabid fan base starts wondering who she’s referring to, she wasn’t referring to anyone. It’s been the case for the program’s entire history, and is the case in just about any sport.
“And it’s not like, oh, I’m better because I’m interested in that, but I just think there’s a little bit more to that,” Rapinoe said. “And I think having Vlatko, as well — not every coach wants that. He’s secure enough to allow me to be who I am in this environment.”
For all that has changed with Rapinoe over time, that environment has not. She wouldn’t have it any other way.
“With what he needs from me and what’s expected of me, I need to be able to perform at the very highest level,” she said. “I still have to be me, and I still want to be me. I don’t want to be out there, like, on a half a leg.”
Then Rapinoe lined up a zinger, just as she does her ice-cool penalty kicks.
“We want to go back-to-back-to-back,” Rapinoe said. “That’s some Michael Jordan [stuff].”
It might not be her job anymore to let it fly on the field, but she still knows how to take a shot.
» READ MORE: U.S. Soccer legend Briana Scurry is back in the spotlight with a new memoir and documentary | https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/megan-rapinoe-uswnt-world-cup-20220622.html | 2022-06-22 16:59:39 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/megan-rapinoe-uswnt-world-cup-20220622.html |
SIESTA KEY, Fla. — Dozens of people living in the Siesta Key area want a shot at making the island community a town.
Siesta Key is currently under the jurisdiction of Sarasota County.
The group Save Siesta Key is rallying the community together and working to get a measure added to next year's ballot. The measure would allow Siesta Key registered voters to decide if this area should become the town of Siesta Key.
But to get to that point, a lot of pieces need to come together first. A straw ballot is currently in Siesta Key residents' mailboxes. Those results will be independently tallied and sent to Siesta Key's local delegation of state lawmakers.
"I will be blunt, if you don't have voter turnout that is sufficient and that there is interesting in incorporation, I'm probably not going to be there for you," Michael Grant, House majority leader, said at Tuesday night's Save Siesta Key meeting.
Lawmakers will then have the opportunity to introduce a bill to the legislature to place Siesta Key incorporation on the local ballot. If the legislature passes the bill, those living in Siesta Key could see the incorporation measure on the ballot next year.
The head of this initiative said the community has been considering incorporating since the 90s. But now, the issue has resurfaced after three large hotels were approved for construction on the island.
"The current county commission has just blatantly set aside the special zoning district and thinks it just doesn't apply to them," Tim Hensey, chairman of Save Siesta Key, said.
Hensey said the three mega hotels that were approved go against what's allowed in Siesta Key's special zoning district.
"There were many dozens, if not hundreds, of speakers speaking against the hotels. But they still passed," Hensey said.
If incorporated, Save Siesta Key wants to end illegal, short-term home renting and let the community make decisions for itself. If a town government is created, Save Siesta Key plans to add a .5 millage rate to property owners.
Some critics say it'll be more expensive than it sounds.
"When the town commission gets in, they're going to need to raise the rate," Mark Smith, Sarasota County commissioner, said. "If it ends up going from .5 to 1.9, are we okay with that?"
That would be roughly a 60% increase in property taxes, Smith said. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/siesta-key-incorporation/67-dd103bef-ae1b-4480-99c3-e957f33125d0 | 2022-12-07 04:57:40 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/siesta-key-incorporation/67-dd103bef-ae1b-4480-99c3-e957f33125d0 |
Okera extends the power of Snowflake's Data Cloud, enabling modern data-driven organizations to manage and utilize sensitive data safely and securely
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SNOWFLAKE SUMMIT, BOOTH 1209C -- Okera, the Universal Data Authorization company, today announced the immediate availability of Okera on Snowflake, a new software as a service (SaaS) offering for the Snowflake Data Cloud. Leveraging the new SaaS solution, non-technical data stakeholders in business, security, and compliance can collaborate with a significantly smaller data engineering team to define data access control policies, validate that data policies are implemented as intended, and self-serve their own data privacy compliance reports and real-time analytics.
"Data governance remains a top priority for modern data-driven organizations who rely on their information assets to gain a competitive advantage," said Saqib Mustafa, Global Head of Partner Marketing at Snowflake. "Our partnership with Okera enables data-driven organizations to leverage Snowflake's native Data Access Governance capabilities, and do so in a collaborative platform that makes it easy for all data stakeholders to participate in the definition, validation, and updates to centralized and distributed data access policies."
Most security-minded organizations are well-equipped to secure data at-rest and data in-transit. Okera secures data in use, so the large investments in big data analytics and data science yield faster, recurring business value. Now delivered as a SaaS offering, Okera and Snowflake allow organizations to focus their efforts on delivering data-driven applications and insights, rather than managing on-premises infrastructure or highly technical policy grants.
Using Okera, universal data authorization policies are automatically materialized as Snowflake data access governance controls for native enforcement. Okera-authored policies are automatically and seamlessly implemented, allowing direct access with Snowsight or SnowSQL CLI, or via indirect access through a BI dashboard or reporting tool.
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"Organizations need a new, more nimble way to keep pace with evolving business needs while ensuring data is secured and compliant with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA/CCRA, and more. Delivered as a SaaS solution, Okera's offering for Snowflake makes it even easier to maximize the value of the Snowflake Data Cloud with fine-grained access control policies that are easy to understand, implement, and modify to meet the needs of all data stakeholders," said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo & Former Gartner Research VP, Big Data and Advanced Analytics.
"As a Snowflake Data Governance Accelerated partner, Okera is committed to helping data teams deliver business value faster and more confidently, while permitting data security and privacy teams to validate the appropriate security mandates and that data privacy regulations are implemented as intended," said Nong Li, CEO and co-founder of Okera. "As organizations continue to embark on their digital journeys, proper data governance becomes paramount. The Okera offering for Snowflake was designed to empower data-driven organizations while safeguarding against inappropriate data usage."
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Okera, the Universal Data Authorization company, helps modern, data-driven enterprises accelerate innovation, minimize data security risks, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. The Okera Dynamic Access Platform automatically enforces universal fine-grained access control policies. This allows employees, customers, and partners to use data responsibly, while protecting them from inappropriately accessing data that is confidential, personally identifiable, or regulated. Okera's robust audit capabilities and data usage intelligence deliver the real-time and historical information that data security, compliance, and data delivery teams need to respond quickly to incidents, optimize processes, and analyze the performance of enterprise data initiatives. Okera began development in 2016 and now dynamically authorizes access to hundreds of petabytes of sensitive data for the world's most demanding F100 companies and regulatory agencies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, ClearSky Security, and Felicis Ventures. For more information, visit www.okera.com or contact info@okera.com, or connect with the team on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
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Supreme Court hears case of Christian mail worker who refuses to work on Sundays
Gerald Groff believes the U.S. Postal Service should have accommodated his refusal to work on Sundays
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Christian postal worker Gerald Groff wants the U.S. Supreme Court to require employers to accomodate their workers religious freedom.
On Tuesday, he stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court moments after his lawyers argued his case in front of the conservative-leaning justices. Groff believes his Christian religion should exempt him from Sunday work. But he said the U.S. Postal Service forced him to work.
“It’s important to stand for what you believe and follow it and I hope that the court will stand with us today,” said Groff.
“No American ever should have to choose between their faith and their job,” said Kelly Shackelford, President of First Liberty Institute, who is part of Groff’s legal team in the case of Groff v DeJoy.
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Groff said the issue started in 2016 when the Quarryville, Pennsylvania post office began Sunday deliveries for Amazon. Groff transferred to a different office in Holtwood, to avoid the Sunday work. But Holtwood eventually started Sunday deliveries too. Groff said at first he was exempt. But later, he was required to work. So Groff quit in 2019.
“Mr. Groff was willing to work extra shifts on Saturday and holidays and double shifts during the day. So it was not an issue where Mr. Groff was working less and his employers, his coworkers were working more,” said lawyer Aaron Streett of Baker Botts, who also represented Groff.
The Department of Justice, who argued the case for the U.S. Postal Service, said Groff’s request did put a burden on other employees and it was costly for the post office.
“His absences created direct, concrete burdens on other carriers who had to stay on their ships longer to get the mail delivered. That caused problems with the timely delivery of mail and actually produced employee retention problems with one carrier quitting and another carrier transferring and another carrier filing a union grievance. That is an undue hardship,” Elizabeth Prelogar, Solicitor General Counsel of Record for the DOJ, told the Supreme Court.
University of Virginia constitutional law expert, Douglas Laycock, believes it’s a constitutional gray area.
“The judicial standard for the last 40 years has not been what Congress enacted. The standard, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is our main employment discrimination statute says employers cannot discriminate based on religion. Religion includes all aspects of religious belief and practice. If the employer can accommodate the employee’s religious practice without undue hardship to the business. So the question is what counts as an undue hardship?” said Laycock.
Laycock said the 1977 Supreme Court case called Trans World Airlines v. Hardison defined undue hardship as anything that imposes more than a minor cost on a business.
On religion cases, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are typically part of the courts conservative block. They were among the justices who noted the court could expand the definition. But, they raised concern over issues of morale and potential costs.
“I mean, you might have many religious people in a workplace seeking the same accommodation for Sundays off or other kinds of accommodations. And I guess it seems to me, as Justice Kavanaugh said, morale can be very important,” said Barrett.
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French Open hopes AI can help tennis players block death threats, other social media hate
PARIS (AP) — Frances Tiafoe says he receives death threats via social media after he loses professional tennis matches. Jessica Pegula says the same. So does Donna Vekic — directed at just her or her family, too.
“Everybody gets them after a loss,” said Tiafoe, a 25-year-old from Maryland who was scheduled to play in the French Open’s second round on Thursday and was a semifinalist at last year’s U.S. Open. “It’s just how society is today. I know how that affects people’s mental health. That’s very real.”
Sloane Stephens, the 2017 champion at Flushing Meadows and 2018 runner-up at Roland Garros, says she often deals with racist messages directed at her online, and said some prompted the FBI to investigate.
“It’s obviously been a problem my entire career. It has never stopped,” said Stephens, who is Black. “If anything, it’s only gotten worse.”
In a bid to try to protect athletes from that sort of abuse at Roland Garros during the 15-day Grand Slam tournament that ends June 11, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) is paying a company to provide players with software that uses artificial intelligence to block these sorts of negative comments.
Every contestant in every category — singles, doubles, juniors, wheelchair competitors and so on, for a total of around 700 to 800 — is allowed free access to Bodyguard.ai for use on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. A few dozen players had signed up for the service as of the start of this week, according to Bodyguard.
“This is really important for us: for the players to be very comfortable and be able to focus on the competition. Tennis is mental. It’s really what you have in your mind that counts; you’re making 1,000 decisions during a match,” said FFT CEO Caroline Flaissier, who put the cost to the federation at somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000.
“We know that there is a lot of cyberbullying,” she said. “We have to address that major issue, so we thought let’s do a test.”
That includes monitoring social media used by the FFT and the French Open itself. An FFT spokeswoman said Wednesday that 4,500 messages had been deleted out of the 79,000 received on those accounts since May 21.
Yann Guerin, head of sports for Nice-based Bodyguard, said the company’s software — which is constantly updated by employees who might notice new words or emojis that should be part of the screening — needs less than 100 milliseconds to analyze a comment and delete it if it’s “hateful or undesirable.” He cited the example of one player who participated in qualifying rounds last week, before the start of the tournament proper.
“He lost … so he was disappointed. Then he checked his phone and was like, ‘Whoa,’” Guerin said, estimating that more than 70% of the comments that athlete received would fall under the heading of “toxicity.”
“Very bad,” Guerin said. “Not bad. VERY bad.”
That’s nothing out of the ordinary, according to players.
“It’s a big issue in tennis. We get these stupid and abusive comments all the time. And to be honest, we are tired of it,” said Daria Kasatkina, a 26-year-old from Russia who was a 2022 semifinalist in Paris. “People just do that and they don’t get punished. Nothing. Only we suffer from reading all of this (expletive).”
Several players, from various countries, described distasteful messages arriving via apps.
Usually accounts are flooded after a defeat — often, they say, from gamblers disappointed to lose money wagering on a match.
“Last week, I had three match points in the quarterfinals (at the Morocco Open) and I ended up losing in a tiebreaker. And that was probably the worst it’s been. Ever,” said Peyton Stearns, a 21-year-old American who won the 2022 NCAA championship for the University of Texas. “You keep seeing these notifications: Boom, boom, boom, boom. You have to go through it. You report. You block. It’s a hassle and it drains you mentally.”
There are skeptics, such as 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic.
“You think it’s possible? Do you really think it’s possible to stop those things? There’s always going to be something negative and it’s always going to be about the results,” she said. “When you’re winning, you get positive comments. When you’re losing, you get negative comments. That’s just the way it is. It’s in every sport and it’s not only for women or for men. That’s how the world is.”
Then there are players such as Tiafoe or the French Open’s 15th-seeded man, Borna Coric, who didn’t sign up for the AI service because they no longer get bothered by the vitriol.
“I was, for sure, upset the first couple of times,” said Coric, who is from Croatia. “But then you realize that those are not good people. And they would never come to your face and say it.”
Vekic voiced a similar sentiment.
“I wouldn’t say I got used to it, but it’s something that doesn’t really get to me that much anymore at this point in my career,” said Vekic, a 26-year-old from Croatia who is seeded 22nd at Roland Garros. “These people are gambling and I lose a match — and they lose money. So what does that really have to do with me at the end of the day?”
Still, every player the AP asked was appreciative of the FFT’s effort.
“It’s a nice way to kind of help us feel a little bit less pressure with the comments and stuff. It makes us more comfortable posting or sharing and talking about matches when we know we’re not going to get like 100 death threats after. It’s crazy,” said Pegula, a 29-year-old American who has reached five major quarterfinals and whose parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres. “I mean, I get them, like, every day.”
The organizers of the year’s remaining two Grand Slam tournaments, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, are keeping tabs on how things go in Paris.
“We have relationships with the main social media platforms and we do take steps to flag comments that cause players concern,” All England Club spokeswoman Eloise Tyson wrote in an email. “We will be very keen to hear the feedback from the FFT and players regarding the technology they are using at Roland Garros.”
U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Brendan McIntyre said the USTA is “evaluating the product and determining whether this is something we would like to make available to players for 2023 and beyond.”
The No. 9-seeded Kasatkina, who faces Stearns on Friday, said she wasn’t sure whether she would sign up for the program in Paris. She tends to close the comments on Instagram before a tournament, anyway.
Then her eyes lit up as she considered another possible solution: earning the trophy.
“You get all these messages only if you lose,” she said, then added with a laugh: “If you win, then there’s only good things on social media. Everyone loves you so much.”
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers have returned to Washington after their Thanksgiving break and have just three weeks to tackle a long list of priorities, including keeping the government funded.
Starting this week it’s a race against the clock, especially for Democrats who will no longer have control over both chambers of Congress next years.
It’s set to be a busy few weeks for lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Democrats are working to pass the Marriage Equality Act and a bill to clarify the electoral college process. Following back-to-back mass shootings, President Joe Biden is also calling for gun reforms.
On the Senate floor Monday, Senate Majority Leader Rep. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats and Republicans must pass a government funding bill before the Dec. 16 deadline.
“There’s a lot we must do before the end of the calendar year,” Schumer said. “The last thing we can afford right now is to turn government funding into another political tit for tat.”
Schumer also said they must pass the Marriage Equality Act, “because millions of Americans deserve equal justice under the law.”
Following a spree of mass shootings in the days before the Thanksgiving holiday, Biden is now also urging Congress to pass gun reform.
When asked if he can do anything about gun reform during the lame duck, Biden said “I’m going to try … to get rid of assault weapons.”
But on NBC’s Meet the Press, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., pushed back.
“Simply passing more bills isn’t going to solve the problem,” he said. “We need to invest in more law enforcement.”
While tackling gun reform remains an uphill battle, Democrats and Republicans largely agree on getting more funding to the U.S. Military, as well as getting more aid to Ukraine.
But Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said there needs to be more oversight of the $37 billion in new aid the president is requesting.
“When we give them what they need, they win,” McCaul said on ABC This Week. “We’re not going to write a blank check.”
McCaul is promising to ramp up that oversight once Republicans take control of House in January. The shift of power in the House could make the next few weeks interesting on Capitol Hill.
The federal government runs of out of funding on Dec. 16. Democrats and Republicans will have to broker several deals to avoid turmoil. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/dems-make-final-push-before-losing-congress/ | 2022-11-28 23:42:29 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/dems-make-final-push-before-losing-congress/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: November 4, 2021 to April 4, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: December 12, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Block, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company lacked adequate protocols restricting access to customer sensitive information; (2) as a result, a former employee was able to download certain reports of the Company's subsidiary, Cash App Investing, containing full customer names and brokerage account numbers, as well as brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to suffer significant damage, including reputational harm; (4) and as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Block you have until December 12, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Block securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the SQ lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/block-inc-loss-submission-form?id=34069&from=4.
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SAN ANTONIO — Not long after the Sutherland Springs massacre, a group of Air Force service members gathered in the basement of a building at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph and scrambled to add thousands of people to the federal database used to vet prospective gun buyers.
For weeks they labored on a classified system to catch up on the vital work of entering the service’s violent felons into the National Instant Criminal Background Check system, known as NICS. They were 30 years behind and too late to keep former Airman Devin Patrick Kelley from buying guns.
Their toil came after Kelley used an assault-style rifle he legally obtained at a San Antonio Academy Sports store to kill 26 and wound 22 at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Nov. 5, 2017.
The Air Force admitted the failure, and a federal judge found the service 60 percent liable in the massacre, awarding $230 million to be divided among 84 survivors and family members of those killed. However, in a Monday filing, the Justice Department appealed the ruling, saying the court misapplied the law.
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The appeal is another hit to the Sutherland Springs families who have suffered so much, and it brings into question President Joe Biden’s commitment to battling gun violence in America.
Justice Department lawyers are not disputing the Air Force’s mistakes, but they argue these mistakes are “not a legally proper basis for imposing liability on the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), let alone for finding the United States more culpable for the deadly massacre than the shooter himself. The district court’s contrary judgments rest on multiple legal errors.”
The Air Force failed to enter Kelley’s fingerprints and information into the system at least four, and possibly six, times after he was convicted of domestic abuse.
The service court-martialed and convicted Kelley of domestic violence during his time in service at Holloman AFB, N.M. He fractured his young stepson’s skull, beat his wife, made death threats to his chain of command, talked of committing a mass killing, escaped from a mental health facility and spent a year in a military prison before the service put him out with a bad conduct discharge.
In 2013, the Comal County Sheriff’s Office named Kelley as a suspect in a “rape by force” case, but he wasn’t charged. In 2014, while living in Colorado, he was charged with animal cruelty for beating his dog, for which he agreed to deferred probation.
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In his 185-page settlement ruling, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez wrote that “the trial conclusively established that no other individual — not even Kelley’s own parents or partners — knew as much as the United States about the violence that Devin Kelley had threatened to commit and was capable of committing.”
He continued, “Moreover, the evidence shows that — had the government done its job and properly reported Kelley’s information into the background check system — it is more likely than not that Kelley would have been deterred from carrying out the church shooting. For these reasons, the government bears significant responsibility for the plaintiffs’ harm.”
Late last year, the Justice Department settled lawsuits that paid $88 million to the families of those killed at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., as well as $127.5 million to families in the Parkland, Fla., shooting due to the FBI failing to act on tips.
Whether the Sutherland Springs appeal is settled in or out of court, it will undoubtedly delay and deny help for dozens of suffering people for months or years. That’s a harsh message to people who have already waited so long for some gesture of healing and accountability.
While the Air Force’s mistake might be fixed, there are countless other loopholes that enable dangerous people to get firearms. Many politicians are unwilling to do anything about it. This appeal is yet another sign of lackadaisical federal and state approaches to gun safety.
In Uvalde, less than 130 miles from Sutherland Springs, dozens of others who have experienced the nightmare of a mass shooting are watching how this appeal unfolds. The appeal sends a terrible message. | https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/Editorial-DOJ-s-appeal-means-more-pain-for-17716384.php | 2023-01-13 19:25:29 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/Editorial-DOJ-s-appeal-means-more-pain-for-17716384.php |
Etsy is the first company to leverage Adyen's Giving round-up feature, allowing customers to round-up their totals to donate.
AMSTERDAM, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, and Etsy, which operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world, announced today that Adyen has enabled ten million Etsy buyer donations to the Uplift Fund, administered by the Brooklyn Community Foundation.
Etsy launched the Uplift Fund with the Brooklyn Community Foundation in February of 2021 to give its buyers an opportunity to join them in supporting creators who face barriers to building successful businesses. When US shoppers check out on Etsy, they have the option to round up their purchase price and donate to the Fund via Adyen.
"Adyen's solution has enabled us to seamlessly engage the Etsy community in supporting our Uplift Fund," said Morgan Blake, VP of Payments at Etsy. "It's been amazing to see how a small change in checkout can have such a major impact, especially as the past few years have highlighted the gap in resources available to many communities who are eager to use their entrepreneurial talents.
"Partnerships like this one with Etsy and Adyen encourage and simplify the process for people to give to charitable causes. That's what we're seeing here, with the remarkable milestone of reaching 10M buyers," said Jocelynne Rainey, President and CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation. "We are thrilled to host Etsy's donor advised Uplift Fund to support nonprofits nationwide that work to dismantle barriers to building a successful small business."
"We've seen great traction with Giving and we are thrilled to reach this milestone with Etsy," said Ingo Uytdehaage, CFO at Adyen. "Etsy has been a key partner in building out our Giving solution, including the round-up feature. By combining strengths with Adyen's technology and Etsy's two-sided marketplace, we were able to come together to find a solution that drives impact, in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We can't wait to see what else we accomplish together."
Giving is a product that enables Adyen's merchants to accept charitable donations during the online and in-store checkout process, and allows them to strengthen their bond with their shoppers by providing a platform for their preferred charitable causes. By doing so, Giving converts shoppers' good intentions into additional revenue streams for charitable causes. With a single tap on a point-of-sale terminal or the click of a button at an online checkout, shoppers can donate to the merchants' charity of choice. Giving transactions seamlessly integrate into existing checkout processes across all payment channels, and shoppers' donations are reported and settled to the charity of choice directly without impacting the merchants' existing reconciliation flow.
About Adyen
Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Facebook, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft. The cooperation with Etsy as described in this merchant update underlines Adyen's continuous growth with current and new merchants over the years.
To learn more about Giving, please go here.
About Etsy
Etsy, Inc. operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world. These marketplaces share a mission to keep commerce human, and are committed to using the power of business to strengthen communities and empower people. Its primary marketplace, Etsy.com, is the global destination for unique and creative goods. Buyers come to Etsy to be inspired and delighted by items that are crafted and curated by creative entrepreneurs. For sellers, Etsy offers a range of tools and services that address key business needs.
About the Brooklyn Community Foundation
Brooklyn Community Foundation is on a mission to spark lasting social change, mobilizing people, capital, and expertise for a fair and just Brooklyn. It is the first and only public foundation solely dedicated to Brooklyn, working in partnership with generous donors and community leaders to advance racial justice and bolster vital nonprofits. Since its founding in 2009, the Foundation and its donors have provided over $75 million in grants to nonprofits in Brooklyn and beyond. Learn more at www.BrooklynCommunityFoundation.org.
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Early cancer detection is key to improving survival rates and reducing costs of treating cancer.
CHICAGO, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Color Health today announced a partnership that will provide convenient, accessible, and comprehensive cancer prevention and screening solutions for the highest-burden cancers including breast, prostate, lung, cervical, and colorectal for more than 150 million Americans who receive health care through either their employer or union.1
Regular cancer screening increases the chances of detecting certain cancers early before cancer has a chance to spread. Yet screenings for the most common cancers remain underutilized with little to no progress over the past decade. According to a study conducted by the American Cancer Society, the COVID-19 pandemic further reduced breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screenings by millions in 2020. 2 And while many employers and unions provide health insurance that typically covers cancer screening, barriers in accessing these often life-saving services will contribute to a projected 1.9 million new cancer cases and more than 600,000 lives lost in 2023 alone.3
Even Americans with health insurance find accessing cancer preventive services challenging. Among cancer survivors and patients, for whom ongoing screenings are critical, the impact of coverage changes would affect their screening rates and increase mortality risk, according to a large national study led by the American Cancer Society.
Together, ACS and Color Health are introducing the Cancer Prevention and Screening Program that combines ACS's expertise in clinical, evidence-based research on cancer prevention and Color Health's leadership in health care delivery to help employers and unions improve cancer outcomes and reduce costs for their employees and members. This program enables employers and funds to provide:
- Highly accessible screening options, including at-home screening
- Connection to clinical services
- High-touch care advocacy
- Resources for further education
"Ending cancer as we know it, for everyone, requires collaboration, cooperation, and integrated work plans that address the entire cancer continuum—from prevention and detection, to treatment and survivorship," said Dr. Karen E. Knudsen, CEO for the American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Action Network. "The core of our partnership with Color Health is about saving lives and ultimately fulfilling our vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Rates of cancer screening, stage of detection, and treatment outcomes reflect some of the deepest disparities in American healthcare. Together, with Color Health, we are on a mission to clear barriers that impede access to timely and quality preventative care, especially among medically underserved communities who are less likely to be diagnosed early or receive equitable cancer care."
"Through all of Color's work, we have learned that the best way to make healthcare accessible is to incorporate it into people's everyday lives. Employers and unions are critical to American healthcare because they bring healthcare coverage to nearly half of the country," said Othman Laraki, CEO, Color Health. "As is the case with many other aspects of healthcare, treating late-stage cancer is both less effective and dramatically more expensive. Working with employers and unions to bring their populations up to ACS screening and prevention guidelines is one of the largest human and financial opportunities to improve health care in America."
As part of the program, employers and unions will also receive data that provides an aggregate view of their employee and member screening rates toward the goal of informing employers about the success of wellness and education programs. The new partnership also strongly aligns with the work ACS and Color Health are already doing in support of the White House Cancer Moonshot initiative that aims to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years.
"The Cancer Moonshot's mission is to end cancer as we know it by cutting the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years and improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer," said Dr. Danielle Carnival, Deputy Assistant to the President for the Cancer Moonshot. "To achieve these goals, the President and First Lady have called on everyone, including the private sector, to work to ensure that all Americans can equitably access and utilize all available cancer screening and early detection tools."
"Cancer touches all of us personally and represents some of the toughest moments for our Salesforce family. As employers — the source of health insurance for almost half of Americans — we have a responsibility to ensure that preventive health care is available and accessible," said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. "The American Cancer Society and Color Health Cancer Prevention and Screening Program will help save lives by enabling employers to provide more screening options and educational resources for employees and their families."
"Offering wrap-around benefits for cancer screening and prevention will make a significant difference in the ways we can empower our employees to take swift and proactive steps to maintain their good health," said Maria Scheeler, Administrator and Executive Director of Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund and Pension Funds of Philadelphia and Vicinity. "We are very proud to join the national movement to reduce the incidence of cancer and help save more lives."
As part of the partnership, a portion of Color Health proceeds will help support the ACS Hope Lodge® communities around the country that offer cancer patients and their families a free and safe place to stay when treatment is far away from home. "Every year, our 30+ Hope Lodge® communities provide families approximately 500,000 nights of free lodging tailored to the specific needs of cancer patients," said Dr. Knudsen. "It's just one of the myriad of ways ACS has been improving the lives of cancer patients and their families for 110 years. This partnership with Color Health will accelerate our mission to improve lives and increase the pace of progress against cancer."
The Cancer Prevention and Screening Program aims to bring employer and union workforce populations up to ACS screening guidelines by:
- Providing employers with visibility into cancer screening data to identify and address gaps in access within their population.
- Ensuring employees and members are aware of their primary cancer risk factors and ACS-specific screening and prevention recommendations for their demographic.
- Delivering cancer screenings directly to employees and members at home and helping them navigate coordination with their health care provider(s).
- Offering education, care coordination, and support for those not in compliance with guidelines, and those at risk or diagnosed with cancer, through care teams, including clinicians, care advocates, health coaches, genetic counselors, and mental health support groups.
- Nearly 40% of Americans will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, with one in two men and one in three women receiving a cancer diagnosis.4,5
- Cancer is the second leading cause of death, after heart disease, in the United States. In 2020, 602,350 Americans died of cancer-related causes.6
- For most major cancers, an early diagnosis significantly impacts survival rates (20-30%) and reduces costs compared to late-stage cancer diagnosis.7,8
- Over 250,000 people in the U.S. are expected to die from the most common cancers every year,9 yet a significant portion of Americans are behind on screenings, even among commercially insured populations.10
- About 49% of the country's population, roughly 156 million Americans, receive health insurance coverage from their employer.11
- Cancer is the top health care cost driver for employers as of 2022.12
- In recent years, the cost of cancer care for the most prevalent cancer types was estimated to be approximately $156.2 billion for privately insured adults younger than 65 years in the U.S.13
For more information, visit color.com/cancer.
About Color Health
Color is a complete platform for healthcare delivery, providing the technology, infrastructure, and logistics required to distribute large-scale health initiatives to diverse populations. Color works with employers, unions, government agencies, schools, and communities to provide equitable, accessible healthcare services. Color supports access for traditional and distributed workforces, as well as underserved communities, by removing barriers to care. Our model enables screening, counseling, and life-saving treatments to be utilized by more people, wherever they are. Connect with Color on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and www.color.com.
About the American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is a leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. For more than 100 years, we have been improving the lives of people with cancer and their families as the only organization combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support. We are committed to ensuring everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. To learn more, visit cancer.org or call our 24/7 helpline at 1-800-227-2345. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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2 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792956
3 https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763
4 https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics#:~:text=Approximately%2039.5%25%20of%20men%20and%20women%20will%20be%20diagnosed%20with%20cancer%20at%20some%20point%20during%20their%20lifetimes%20(based%20on%202015%E2%80%932017%C2%A0data)
6 https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-deaths/index.htm
8 https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-022-08457-6
9 https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-deaths/index.htm
10 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31377088/
12 https://www.businessgrouphealth.org/newsroom/news-and-press-releases/press-releases/2023-lehcspds
13 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784771
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RetailMeNot, a Ziff Davis company, marks the start of RetailMeNot's fourth annual Cash Back Day event. The 48-hour savings event begins today and runs through 11:59 pm PT on November 4th. This year, over 2,500 retailers are participating with offers of up to 20% Cash Back at fan-favorite brands, featuring the highest amount of brand partners for the event yet.
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BOSTON (AP) — The speed with which five Memphis police officers were fired following the traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital is unusual but could become more common, according to those studying police and criminal justice issues.
The five Memphis Police Department officers were fired Friday, less than two weeks after the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, Officials said the five were dismissed for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid.
It’s rare for a police department to act so quickly, said David Thomas, a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. Investigations can sometimes go on for up to a year, he said.
“It never happens this quickly,” Thomas said.
All five officers -- Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith – are Black, as was Nichols. The decision to fire the officers followed a probe by the Memphis Police Department. Nichols died three days after the traffic stop.
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also is looking into the force used in the arrest.
One recent turning point has been the advent of police body cameras, which can be quickly reviewed, along with cellphone video taken by passersby, said Thomas, who served 20 years as a police officer in Michigan and Florida.
“In the old days, you’d have the officer’s word. If the victim was still alive, you’d have their testimony, If someone had died, you’d have the medical examiner’s report. All of that would play a role,” he said. “With body cameras, the evidence is right there.”
Nichols was arrested after officers stopped him for reckless driving, police said. There was a confrontation when officers approached Nichols, and he ran before he was confronted again and arrested, authorities said. He complained of shortness of breath and was hospitalized.
Relatives have accused police of beating Nichols and causing him to have a heart attack. Authorities said Nichols experienced a medical emergency. Relatives have pushed for the release of police body camera footage and called for officers to be charged.
Body cameras can only tell a full story if they are on and working throughout an entire incident, Thomas said. Some officers may forget to turn them on. Others may deliberately turn them off.
“Law enforcement can no longer act with impunity,” he said. “Absolutely, officers will be let go more quickly.”
Typically before a firing, officials will determine if an officer has violated a department’s general orders, which set out the procedures and regulations officers are meant to follow, said Patrick Oliver, director of the criminal justice program at Cedarville University in Ohio.
“The seriousness of the job action is based on the severity of the violation,” said Oliver, who spent 28 years in law enforcement, 16 of them as a police chief, including as chief of the Cleveland Police Department.
Firing an officer is the most severe job action, Oliver said, suggesting that department officials feel confident they can support the decision.
“There is far more scrutiny of police today,” he said. “When I was in policing there was less of a likelihood that something a police officer was doing would be caught on video.”
Oliver added that many times videos will confirm police acted properly. “I would say that’s the majority of times," he said.
While unusual, it’s not unheard of for a city to fire an officer before criminal charges are filed, but that’s not necessarily the end of the story, said Stephen Rushin, a Loyola University Chicago law school professor who has studied police contracts.
Cities often give officers the ability to appeal disciplinary action, including termination of their employment, Rushin said.
"In many agencies, the initial decision to fire an officer begins a lengthy appellate process that can take months to complete,” he said. “At the end of this process, it is not uncommon for an officer to be rehired on appeal.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Swift-firing-of-police-is-rare-but-could-become-17734434.php | 2023-01-22 21:22:16 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Swift-firing-of-police-is-rare-but-could-become-17734434.php |
Preventative Maintenance is the Most Effective Way to Plan
for Busy Season and Ensure Readiness for Air Quality Emergencies
DENVER, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Motili, an industry-leading property and HVAC technology company, advises single-family homeowners and property managers to participate in preventative maintenance for their HVAC units before and after the busy season. As it's early summer, right before the heat and humidity increase, property owners and operators can prepare for the HVAC busy season with preventative maintenance. And, given the recent air quality emergency from the Canadian wildfires, maintenance can ensure HVAC units have fresh filters which increase the life of the unit. Preventative maintenance for HVAC systems can help avoid costly emergency maintenance and repairs amid the summer heat. It can also alleviate the stress of finding HVAC contractors when their schedules are busiest.
"Contractors are booked and backed up during the summer months. When the climate is hottest, consumer demand for air conditioning is highest," says Deborah Shipp, Technical Manager and Product Development Liaison at Motili. "By preparing with preventative maintenance, homeowners and property managers can save themselves the hassle of finding contractors in case of an emergency - such as the recent wildfires, and being stuck inside with no air conditioning and poor indoor air quality."
Resident satisfaction in multifamily residential units can drastically drop if emergency HVAC issues are not addressed quickly. Additionally, due to supply chain delays, many manufacturers have yet to catch up on production post-pandemic. With an increasing shortage of skilled labor, and supply chain issues, costs of HVAC maintenance will continue to increase regularly for the foreseeable future. To begin preventative maintenance after the HVAC busy season, property managers can begin budget planning in September to manage and plan for HVAC replacements and preventative maintenance for the winter months.
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Russia rejects US claims its UN council presidency is a joke
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador on Monday dismissed U.S. and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending the principles of the U.N. Charter, which Moscow is widely accused of breaking by invading Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters earlier Monday that the U.S. expects the Russians will use their presiding seat “to spread disinformation and promote their own agenda as it relates to Ukraine, and we will stand ready to call them out at every single moment that they attempt to do that.”
She and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both called Russia’s takeover of the council presidency an April Fool’s joke.
Under Security Council rules, the presidency rotates monthly in alphabetical order among its 15 members. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters there will be no change in the rules of the council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, and he said Russia will be “an honest broker.”
The council president presides over meetings and gets to decide the topics of key sessions, often presided over by foreign ministers and sometimes presidents. Lavrov on April 24 will preside over a session on “effective multilateralism through the defense of the principles of the U.N. Charter.”
There are also required monthly meetings, including on the Middle East, which Lavrov will also preside over, Syria and other global hotspots, including Mali, Libya, Yemen, Haiti, Africa’s Great Lakes region and Colombia.
Nebenzia responded to the U.S. ambassador’s expectation that Russia will spread disinformation about Ukraine by calling it “a Western narrative” and stressing that “we think just the opposite.”
He said Russia plans to hold an informal council meeting on Wednesday on what Moscow claims is disinformation being spread by Western officials and media about the Ukrainian children taken to Russia. He said the aim of the meeting is “to dispel this narrative” that they were abducted.
The issue was put in the spotlight when the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last month for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country’s commissioner for children’s rights, accusing them of war crimes for the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to Russia. Moscow called the warrants “outrageous” and “legally void.”
An Associated Press investigation first published in October found that the open effort to put Ukrainian children up for adoption in Russia was well underway. Ukrainian officials claimed at the time that nearly 8,000 children had been deported to Russia, but the exact number was difficult to pin down.
Britain’s deputy U.N. ambassador, James Kariuki, said Russia was in no position to talk about international law or U.N. values.
“It is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, violating the most basic principle of the U.N. Charter — you don’t redraw borders by force — and its president has been indicted by the ICC for the systematic abduction of Ukrainian children,” he said.
“The U.K. will keep using our seat on the council to challenge their illegal war, expose their disinformation, and protect the council’s vital work tackling other threats to international peace and security, including across Africa and the Middle East.”
Russia’s assumption of the council presidency also drew strong criticism from Ukraine and Baltic nations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the “bankruptcy” of the Security Council and reiterated his call for an overhaul of the U.N. body and other global institutions.
Estonia’s U.N. Ambassador Rein Tammsaar, speaking also on behalf of Latvia and Lithuania, called the Russian presidency “shameful, humiliating and dangerous” for the council’s credibility.
Under Security Council rules, a member directly connected to an issue should withdraw from participation, and Nebenzia was asked if Russia would recuse itself when Ukraine was discussed.
“No,” he replied, indicating that the U.S., Britain and France, which have been supporting Ukraine, would have to withdraw as well.
The Russian ambassador recalled that following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the U.K. and U.S. held the council presidency consecutively that September and October.
“Nobody raised the question of their legitimacy to hold the presidency,” Nebenzia said. “And nobody put on the table the question that they withdraw from discussing an issue that was perhaps the most hot and topical then.”
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Engaged couple says caterer canceled a month before wedding day without refund
FLOWOOD, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - An engaged couple in Mississippi said their wedding caterer canceled their order just a month away from their big day and have no refund to show for it.
The wedding bells will soon be chiming for engaged couple Scott Welch and Laurie Farris. The two got engaged in January.
“And then, of course, my girlfriend, she’s a big planner,” Welch said. “So, we started putting everything together. And first thing you got to do is get a caterer.”
They selected The Hungry Goat in Flowood to be their caterer. The company signed a contract with the couple to provide food for just over 100 people on their wedding day next month.
“We reached out to them, we got a price, it was a fair price. And we ended up having to add more people as invitations got accepted,” Welch said. “So, it grew. But they go, ‘No problem.”
However, at the end of April, the plans with the caterer came crashing down.
“We got the first email and it stated that they were canceling our event for personal reasons, we’d get a full refund. ‘That’s no problem. That sounds great. Thank you for letting us know, ahead of time,’” Welch said. “And then, by then, so we asked, ‘Well, how do we get our money?’ Then that’s when we were told we got to contact their lawyer and accountant.”
According to documentation, the couple paid close to $3,800 for their services.
The couple said they sent their last email on May 2 and haven’t received a response on when or how their money will be refunded.
Welch said others have had similar experiences.
“We’ve had one guy reach out, he had an event for, I think, rehearsal dinner for his son, and I think it was about $1,500,” Welch said. “We had another lady, she was a teacher, and they had an event, I think they were using them as a fundraiser. They actually ran her credit card on Monday. And they canceled everything on Tuesday.”
Welch said they have been able to find a new caterer since the original cancellation, but they did not expect to add the extra cost to their big day.
“It’s going to be double what we get initially budgeted,” Welch said. “So, that’s tough for anybody. So, that’s pretty, pretty low down. And that’s bad business, in my opinion.”
Welch and Farris said they are filing a small claims suit against The Hungry Goat, in hopes they will get a refund back.
WLBT reached out to both the attorney and owners of the business, but said they have not been provided with a response yet.
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The Detroit Lions grabbed their first win of the season over the Washington Commanders last weekend, but they will now hit the road for the first time this year. The Minnesota Vikings host Detroit, and they are 1-1 after a home win against the Green Bay Packers and a road defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles. Our experts have already made a best bet for the matchup, but they also have a player prop prediction for the contest, so let’s dive into their reasoning.
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Lions vs. Vikings spread and pick: Vikings -6 for Sunday’s game
Our experts already weighed in on their pick for the Lions vs. Vikings spread, and you can read their entire analysis here. Minnesota struggled in their Week 2 matchup at Philadelphia, but the Vikings have been a different beast at home, and QB Kirk Cousins continues to struggle in primetime matchups. A Sunday afternoon kickoff against the Lions isn’t exactly primetime, so we expect the hosts to roll and cover the -6 point spread. Although this is one of our picks, our best bet for Detroit vs. Minnesota can be found in this article.
Lions vs. Vikings player prop predictions featuring Jamaal Williams to score a touchdown (+160 at DraftKings)
Our experts’ player prop prediction for NFL Week 2 was on Jamaal Williams to score, and although he didn’t find the end zone, we’re going back to the Lions’ goal-line back to score a touchdown against Minnesota. Our analysis remains similar to last week, and Williams leads the league in average red-zone touches per game at five. Cleveland RBs Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb have 12 and 11 red-zone touches respectively, but they’ve already played three games.
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Detroit’s offensive line has been fantastic through two weeks, and Lions running backs average 3.79 yards before contact. Although Lions RB D’Andre Swift has three TDs this season, Williams has received the goal-line work. Minnesota allowed two rushing touchdowns to the Eagles last weekend, and we predict Williams will find the back of the end zone at least once on Sunday.
Lions vs. Vikings final injury report, who’s in and who’s out
Multiple Lions are on the injury report heading into Sunday’s contest, but no one has officially been ruled out. The players that did not participate in Detroit’s most recent practice are:
- G - Jonah Jackson
- DE - John Cominsky
- S - Tracy Walker III
- DE - Aidan Hutchinson
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Metropolitan police are investigating a pair of deadly overnight crashes.
The first one happened after midnight at North Tibbs Avenue and Steeples Boulevard on the near west side of Indianapolis.
IMPD described it as a single-vehicle crash involving a 2010 Chevrolet HHR. One person died.
The second crash happened around 1:50 a.m. at East 82nd Street and Westfield Boulevard on the north side of Indianapolis.
IMPD said the crash also involved a single vehicle, described in the police report as a 2015 BMW. A person also died in that incident, police said.
Both crashes remain under investigation. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/police-investigate-2-deadly-indianapolis-crashes/ | 2022-12-31 17:17:34 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/police-investigate-2-deadly-indianapolis-crashes/ |
Parkway’s Mikaylah Williams and Benton’s Marissa Schoth will be members of the West team in the Louisiana High School Basketball Coaches Association’s East-West All-Star Game Saturday at Louisiana Christian University in Pineville.
The girls game featuring seniors only is set for 1 p.m. The boys game follows at 3.
Parkway senior Makenna Miles and freshman Caleb Evans, the regional champions, will compete for state titles in the 3-point shooting contest.
Williams was the District 1-5A MVP. She led the Lady Panthers to an undefeated district title and the non-select Division I state championship.
The LSU signee also has been named the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year for the second straight year.
She averaged 19.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.6 steals in the regular season.
Schoth was a first-team All-District 1-5A selection. She averaged a double-double 15 points and 11 rebounds. She also averaged 3.4 steals and 3.4 assists.
Airline’s Lyndzee Greene McConathy is serving as the West head coach. | https://bossierpress.com/high-school-basketball-parkways-williams-bentons-schoth-set-for-state-all-star-game/ | 2023-03-16 21:45:08 | 1 | https://bossierpress.com/high-school-basketball-parkways-williams-bentons-schoth-set-for-state-all-star-game/ |
GENEVA (AP) — Two soccer teams exiled from cities in war-battered eastern Ukraine play each other Sunday in the safer western part of the country with the league title at stake.
The showdown between competition leader Shakhtar Donetsk and second-place Dnipro-1 at Arena Lviv can be decisive in a soccer season that is finishing on schedule in remarkable circumstances. The stadium was one of four in Ukraine, including Shakhtar’s home in Donetsk, secure enough in 2012 from Russian aggression to co-host that year’s European Championship with Poland.
Shakhtar leads by five points and needs just a draw this weekend to secure the title ahead of the last scheduled round on June 4.
“I think it will maybe be one of our best matches ever,” Ukrainian league chief executive Ievgen Dykyi told The Associated Press this week in a call from Kyiv. “Because the situation now is really hard and all the players understand about this.”
In Dnipro on Friday, the Russian military struck a medical clinic, killing at least two and injuring more than 20, including children.
Still, the soccer season continues with the blessing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a bid to help keep some normalcy in daily life.
The kickoff at 2 p.m. in Lviv will open the 29th round of games in the 16-team league. All 224 previously scheduled games in the league season have been completed despite the relentless war. There are now 16 games left.
That looked to be an unlikely achievement in Lviv back on Aug. 24 last year when air raid alerts were disrupting the second day of games.
It was also a national holiday, celebrating Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and the game between Lviv club Rukh Vynnyky and Metalist took 4-1/2 hours to complete after the teams stopped play four times to find shelter.
League officials had weighed starting the league season in Poland or Turkey but decided it was their “moral obligation” to stay in Ukraine. They relied on financial help from their fellow members of the 29-nation European Leagues group.
“It was like a symbol of sport to our people and our warriors,” said Dykyi, adding that soldiers connected with the league by sending video clips of them watching games online from the frontline. “They sent their really deepest ‘Thankyous’ that the championship can be played.”
In these conditions, fans have been almost entirely excluded. A limit of 280 people on site was imposed for each game.
“At this moment we have not the opportunity to bring back the supporters to the stadium because of the issues about safety and shelter,” said Dykyi, who worked in Kyiv for the past year.
He said his family shelters in their bathroom during air raid alerts.
“Now we have maybe, unfortunately, got used to this,” he said.
Fans around Europe also got used to seeing Ukrainian soccer teams in international competitions while Russian teams remain suspended by FIFA and UEFA.
The national team is playing in Euro 2024 qualifying and in September will face defending champion Italy in Milan, then will take on England at a neutral venue yet to be announced.
Shakhtar and Dnipro-1 advanced to knockout rounds in UEFA competitions this year, and a place in the group stage of the Champions League next season is the likely reward for winning the Ukrainian title.
The millions of dollars in UEFA prize money from European competition is even more important income for clubs which have seen so many sponsors and customers shut down during the war.
“A lot of teams are suffering a lot,” Dykyi said. “A lot of businesses of the club owners were destroyed.”
Shakhtar owner Rinat Akhmetov’s business included the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol that one year ago was a powerful symbol of resistance in the city devastated by Russian attacks.
Mariupol’s soccer club could not continue, though a place in the top league is held open for its return. The league made the same offer to the Desna Chernihiv club.
Dykyi becomes emotional telling the story of one Mariupol club official’s escape from the city last year on roads peppered with mines: “Mariupol is a terrible story.”
The uncertainty and insecurity for Ukrainian soccer because of the war meant Shakhtar last year lost its Italian coach, Roberto de Zerbi, who went on to be an acclaimed success in England with Brighton.
Shakhtar then hired the Croatian Igor Jovićević from Dnipro-1, which then appointed Oleksandr Kucher. He played at Shakhtar for 11 years and played in its storied 2009 UEFA Cup-winning team.
The close coaching ties add another layer to a game Sunday that is a kind of victory for all Ukraine.
“In the first months (of the war) it was a really scary situation,” Dykyi said. “We couldn’t imagine in this situation we can play our championship.”
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced Wednesday that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her a princess and revealing for the first time that they will use royal titles for their children.
Princess Lilibet Diana, who turns two in June, was baptized on Friday by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the Rev John Taylor, Harry and Meghan said in a statement. Lilibet’s title and that of her brother, Archie, who will be four in May, will be updated on the Buckingham Palace website later.
The announcement marked the first time that the children’s titles had been used in public.
The question of the children’s titles took center stage two years ago during Harry and Meghan’s television interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan, who is biracial, said that when she was pregnant with Archie “they” — presumably the palace — “were saying they didn’t want him to be a prince … which would be different from protocol.”
Meghan suggested that this was because Archie was the royal family’s “first member of color” and would have marked the first time a royal grandchild wasn’t given the same title as the other grandchildren.
At the time, royal experts said Meghan’s comments appeared to be based on a misunderstanding of the way royal titles are conferred.
Titles are conferred in line with a decree issued by King George V in 1917 that limits the titles of prince and princess to the male-line grandchildren of the sovereign.
As long as the late Queen Elizabeth II was alive, Harry and his older brother, Prince William, were the sovereign’s grandchildren. Harry and William’s children, as great grandchildren, didn’t receive the titles automatically.
But Elizabeth had the power to amend the rules, and in 2012 she decreed that the children of Prince William and his wife, Catherine, would be princes and princesses. This decree didn’t apply to Harry and Meghan.
However, the situation changed when King Charles III ascended the throne on the death of his mother last September. William and Harry are the king’s sons, meaning their offspring are now royal grandchildren and so entitled to be known as prince and princess.
Nonetheless, they have remained a plain “master” and “miss” on the Buckingham Palace website for the past six months. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/harry-meghans-daughter-christened-will-use-royal-title/ | 2023-03-08 23:37:56 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/harry-meghans-daughter-christened-will-use-royal-title/ |
Albert Lea man charged with meth found in traffic stop
Published 4:31 pm Monday, May 8, 2023
An Albert Lea man is facing drug charges after he was allegedly found with methamphetamine during a traffic stop in the city on Saturday.
Oziel Valdez, 49, was charged in Freeborn County District Court on Monday with one count of first-degree drug possession, one count of second-degree drug possession and one count of ineligible possession of a firearm.
Court documents state an Albert Lea police officer was on routine patrol in Albert Lea Saturday when he saw the vehicle traveling northbound on Frank Avenue. The officer was familiar with the vehicle and knew its registration had expired.
The officer traveled behind the vehicle as it made multiple turns, and eventually he activated his emergency lights and attempted to pull the vehicle over. It ultimately pulled over about 30 seconds later.
Valdez was the driver and only occupant of the vehicle. When talking with him, the officer saw a few small plastic baggies containing a white crystalline substance, and one of the baggies had a knot tied at the end of it.
After a search of the vehicle, officers found a Smith & Wesson M&P 40 with a loaded magazine in the center console of the vehicle. A box of 20 rounds of ammunition was in the back passenger seat pouch.
One of the bags of drugs field-tested positive for meth.
The total amount of suspected meth in the bags totaled 36 grams.
In court on Monday, Judge Ross Leuning ordered conditional bail be set at $200,000, with conditional bail set at $100,000.
Valdez has two previous second-degree drug sales convictions and one previous third-degree drug sale conviction. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/05/albert-lea-man-charged-with-meth-found-in-traffic-stop/ | 2023-05-09 02:48:24 | 1 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/05/albert-lea-man-charged-with-meth-found-in-traffic-stop/ |
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNC Broach Tool™ LLC has created a Broach G-Code Generator which can reduce your programming time from hours down to minutes. Programming a broaching cycle for your CNC Lathe or Mill is now as easy as entering 7-10 inputs and pressing a button. The web application will export up to 2000 lines of g-code program which the user can then copy and paste into their CNC program.
Programming a broach tool to cut in a CNC machine can be time consuming. This is because linear broaching in a CNC requires multiple passes which take small amounts of material, usually between .0006" - .0020", per pass. A keyway which has a radial depth of .400" and a depth of cut of .001" per pass, for example, would require 400 passes. When creating a long hand Lathe or Mill program, each pass requires a minimum of 4 lines of G-code. The general layout for each complete pass is as follows:
- Position/Reposition on X,Y, Z
- Feed in on Z axis
- Retract out on X axis
- Retract out on Z axis
The example above which has 400 passes would require 1600 lines of g-code. Sometimes the length of the program can be condensed by using a sub-program with incremental moves and multiple calls. This generally works unless you have limited clearance behind the tool. For example: Let's say you have a Ø.750 bore and are using our T6MML tool which fits a Ø.745 min bore. An incremental program with a .150" retract for every pass, will crash after the first pass when it retracts out of the cut on X. In this case, you will need to write a long hand program and set your retract point for each pass to an absolute position of Ø.745 instead of using an incremental position.
To use The CNC Broach Tool Program Generator:
- Choose your machine type: Lathe or Mill.
- Select the type of program you want to export: Long format or Sub Program
- Select which tool you'd like to use
- Enter the Bore Diameter, Keyway Width, Radial Depth, Z axis start & end points, Depth of Cut, & IPM
- For milling machines enter the feed axis and feed direction
- Accept the Terms & Conditions
- Copy the code (Ctrl C) and paste (Ctrl P) it into your program
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Raman Pratasevich's arrest was widely condemned after Belarusian authorities forced his plane to land while crossing the countryImage: Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA/AP
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Belarusian journalist taken from plane sentenced to 8 years
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The arrest of opposition blogger Raman Pratasevich shocked the world when Belarus forced his Ryanair flight to Lithuania to land in Minsk.
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Raman Pratasevich, the opposition journalist who was arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Belarus almost two years ago, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old was arrested in May 2021 after the plane he was on — flying from Greece to Lithuania — was told to land in Minsk as it flew over Belarus, Pratasevich's home country. The incident sparked international outrage.
He was charged with over 1,500 crimes including organizing unrest and plotting to seize power. The blogger had maintained a Telegram channel, Nexta, that was used to organize the large-scale protests that broke out after the August 2020 elections that were widely condemned as fraudulent.
"The Minsk regional court has sentenced Roman Pratasevich to eight years in a prison colony," Belarusian state news agency Belta said.
Pratasevich's outrage-sparking arrest
Belarus grounded the Ryanair flight by declaring a false bomb alert. When the plane landed, authorities took Pratasevich, his girlfriend and two others. The plane then left without them.
Pratasevich had been placed on the Belarusian secret service's terror list in November 2020.
Two others involved in the Nexta Telegram channel, Stepan Putilo and Yan Rudnik, were also sentenced to 20 and 19 years in prison respectively.
Following Pratasevich's arrest in 2021, he was shown several times on Belarusian state television where he gave apologetic statements. He said he was "fully guilty" at the beginning of his trial in February, according to a video published by Belta.
Pratasevich's confessions are believed to have been coerced.
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Belarus-EU tensions
The arrest marked one of the high points of Belarus's crackdown on dissent following the disputed election which gave President Alexander Lukashenko — who has been in power since 1994 — another term in office.
It also further stoked tensions with the EU, three members of which — Poland, Latvia and Lithuania — share a border with Belarus. | https://www.dw.com/en/belarusian-journalist-taken-from-plane-sentenced-to-8-years/a-65500722 | 2023-05-03 10:46:17 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/belarusian-journalist-taken-from-plane-sentenced-to-8-years/a-65500722 |
A "barricade situation" has drawn the FBI and other law enforcement officials to a U.S. Army base outside the nation's capital Sunday, according to the official twitter account of Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia.
The base tweeted shortly before 1 p.m. that its law enforcement officials, local police and the FBI had responded "to a barricade situation" Sunday morning.
"The situation is ongoing, & we cannot comment further at this time," the base tweeted.
It provided no other details except to say some of the gates to the installation remained open.
WUSA9 reported that the situation is inside a home.
Fort Belvoir sits on about 8,800 acres of land along the Potomac River in Fairfax County and is located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Washington.
The base is home to several Army command headquarters, elements of the Army Reserve and Army National Guard and nine Department of Defense agencies, according to a Department of Defense website that serves the military community. The installation has 2,154 family housing quarters and seven child youth service facilities, according to Fort Belvoir's 2022 strategic plan. | https://abc7ny.com/barricade-army-base-reserve-national-guard/12366151/ | 2022-10-23 21:09:55 | 0 | https://abc7ny.com/barricade-army-base-reserve-national-guard/12366151/ |
OAKDALE, Minn., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vista Verde Dental Partners is excited to announce a new partnership with Doctors Tyler Jensen and Nicholas Bussa to open their own Britely Dentures + Implants Studio in the greater Saint Paul area.
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"As we continue to expand quality services for denture and implant related work, we are proud to partner with Doctors Bussa and Jensen. Their high standards for clinical quality combined with their practical approach to dentistry makes them perfect partners within our Britely network" said Dustin Netral, President and CEO of Vista Verde Dental Partners.
According to the American College of Prosthodontists, about 120 million Americans are missing at least one tooth and more than 36 million Americans are missing all of their teeth. With today's technology and Britely Dentures + Implants Studio's "client-centric" approach, it is possible to restore your smile.
Britely Dentures + Implants Studio was founded with the idea to build an approachable model that delivers personalized options to all patients. Britely's affiliated studios deliver tooth replacement care including extractions, dentures, and dental implants at lower costs than the average dental office. With Britely's own on-site dental lab, we can provide convenience and savings that are passed along directly to the patient.
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Acquisition enhances SMA's automation solutions and expands global client base
HOUSTON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SMA Technologies ("SMA"), a leading provider of automation solutions for financial services, today announced the acquisition of VisualCron, an automation, integration and task scheduling tool for Windows environments. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Sweden, VisualCron provides an easy-to-use automation scheduling interface to streamline everyday tasks, saving time and reducing human error. Its namesake product complements SMA's powerful OpCon workload automation and orchestration platform that automates and manages workflows across business-critical operations from a single point of control.
"As companies accelerate digital initiatives to better serve their customers and streamline operations, the demand for automating processes, applications and workflows is growing exponentially," said Todd Dauchy, CEO of SMA Technologies. "The addition of VisualCron's technology and its talented team enables us to offer a leading automation solution to smaller organizations that don't yet require the power and scalability of our OpCon workload automation and orchestration solution."
Beyond expanding SMA's offering, the acquisition significantly increases SMA's customer base and geographic footprint and will accelerate growth in its core financial services market and other complementary industries.
"SMA has been a pioneer in automation for more than four decades, so we are excited to be part of its future," said Henrik Erlandsson, Founder of VisualCron. "As part of SMA, we will accelerate innovation and deliver even greater value for our clients."
The acquisition is the first for SMA since receiving a strategic investment from Thoma Bravo last month that will enable the company to significantly expand its offering of automation solutions for clients and accelerate growth geographically and in new vertical markets over time.
Kirkland & Ellis and Hannes Snellman LLP served as legal advisors to SMA.
SMA Technologies is the maker of OpCon, the leading workload automation and orchestration platform for banks, credit unions, insurance companies and other financial services businesses. The platform delivers enterprise power and scalability without the complexity or cost. OpCon enables companies to easily automate manual tasks and seamlessly orchestrate workloads across business-critical operations, saving time and reducing cost by eliminating human error and deploying IT resources on strategic initiatives. More than 1,000 clients trust SMA with their mission-critical operations. Please visit www.smatechnologies.com to learn more.
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Fire causes significant damage to business in Salinas
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- Salinas Police said they were first to arrive at a fire Saturday morning.
The fire had spread from a tent to three others against the rear of a building on Industrial Street and Terven Avenue. Officers said the fire also spread to the building causing "significant damage," per Salinas Police.
Officers evacuated surrounding shelters and said no one was inside the building. The owners of the tents were not there when the officers arrived.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced the details of its participation at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Europe's largest optical communications event.
The ECOC Exhibition begins on Monday, September 19 and continues through Wednesday, September 21.
ECOC will take place at Messe Basel in Basel, Switzerland with Marvell in booth #219.
At its booth, Marvell will showcase its comprehensive networking solution portfolio, including cutting-edge PAM4 DSPs, coherent DSPs, TIAs, drivers, switches and PHYs that are driving high-speed connectivity both between and inside data centers and carrier networks.
- In collaboration with Smartoptics and LightRiver, Marvell will demonstrate the IPoDWDM capabilities of its COLORZ® II QSFP-DD 400G ZR+ optics for Metro DWDM applications. The live demo at Marvell's booth will highlight open, disaggregated multi-vendor interoperability of a 3-node ROADM ring, including the optical domain orchestration and control software layer.
- Marvell will demonstrate its industry-leading 5nm 112G Long Reach (LR) SerDes designed for demanding cloud-optimized applications.
- Marvell will showcase its Spica™ PAM4 DSP, the industry's first 800Gbps PAM4 DSP to support 800G optical modules in QSFP-DD800 and OSFP form factors for inside-the-data center optical interconnect and its AtlasOne™ PAM4 DSP, the industry's first 50Gbps PAM4 DSP for 5G RAN fronthaul interconnect.
- Optical modules from across the ecosystem powered by Marvell technologies and silicon solutions will be on display.
- OIF members will showcase interoperability in four critical areas at this year's ECOC 2022. The work of OIF and its members in 400ZR optics, Co-Packaging architectures, Common Electrical I/O (CEI) channels and Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) implementations will be demonstrated - live and static - at OIF's booth, #701. Additional information can be found here.
Title: Evolution of Optical Connectivity to 3.2T
Date: Wednesday, September 21
Time: 10:45 a.m.
Location: Market Focus Theatre
Presenter: Xi Wang, Vice President of Optical DSP Business Unit, Marvell
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 11, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1008 AM PDT Wed Aug 10 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest Arizona, southeast California and
Nevada, including the following areas, in northwest Arizona, Lake
Havasu and Fort Mohave, Lake Mead National Recreation Area,
Northwest Deserts and Northwest Plateau. In southeast California,
Cadiz Basin, Eastern Mojave Desert, Morongo Basin and San
Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley. In Nevada, Lake
Mead National Recreation Area, Las Vegas Valley, Lincoln County,
Northeast Clark County, Sheep Range, Southern Clark County, Spring
Mountains-Red Rock Canyon and Western Clark and Southern Nye
County.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of washes and
other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Deep moisture will fuel thunderstorms capable of producing
heavy rainfall.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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INDIANAPOLIS — With gas prices soaring, many people in central Indiana may be looking for a summer destination that is closer to home. We took a look at six state parks people can head to this summer for some inexpensive fun.
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- Fort Harrison State Park
- Mounds State Park
- Summit Lake State Park
- Shades State Park
- Lieber State Recreation Area
- McCormick’s Creek State Park
Fort Harrison State Park
Located on the northeast side of Indianapolis, this state park blends together landscape and history. The 1,700-acre park features walking and jogging trails, picnic sites, fishing access to Fall Creek, and two national historic districts.
The former Citizen’s Military Camp is preserved around the park office in what was once known as Camp Glenn. There is also the park’s Museum of 20th Century Warfare, featuring exhibits about the lives and history of the soldiers who once marched the grounds of the fort.
A pamphlet about the park states the fort represented the first effort to create a national army out of a collection of state militias. The post served multiple roles as a troop reception center, classroom and soldier support facility during all major military conflicts from WWI to Desert Storm.
Summer activities at Fort Harrison State Park
- Dog park
- Nature center
- Shelters
- Recreation buildings
- Picnicking
- Hiking/multi-use trails
- Bicycle trail
- Fishing
- Saddle barn with horse trail rides, hayrides
- Inn restaurant
- Golfing
- Museum of 20th Century Warfare
Summer events at Fort Harrison State Park
- 06-18-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 07-09-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 07-23-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 08-06-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 08-20-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 09-03-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
- 09-10-2022 – Summer Concert Series, Fort Harrison State Park
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Mounds State Park
Located off I-69 east of Anderson, this park features 10 unique earthworks built by the prehistoric Adena-Hopewell people. The park became a state park in October 1930.
The mounds range from a few inches tall to several feet high. The largest earthwork, the Great Mound, is believed to have been constructed around 160 B.C. It is nearly a quarter-mile in circumference.
The mounds are believed to have been used as gathering places for religious ceremonies, from where astronomical alignments could be viewed. The positions of 100 of the brightest stars, as well as those of the moon and visible planets, can be tracked from the mounds.
The park offers a variety of activities ranging from a nature center to camping. Naturalist-led hikes and interpretive programs are offered every weekend throughout the year.
Summer activities at Mounds State Park
- Visitor Center and Gift Shop/Interpretive Naturalist Services
- Picnicking/Shelters
- Hiking Trails
- Fishing (White River)
- Rental – Recreation Building
- Camp Store
Camping
- Electric / 75 sites
- Youth Tent Areas
- Dumping Station
Summer events at Mounds State Park
- 06-18-2022 – Summer Solstice Celebration, Mounds State Park
- 08-10-2022 – National S’Mores Day, Mounds State Park
- 09-24-2022 – Archaeology Day, Mounds State Park
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Summit Lake State Park
Located near New Castle, this more than 2,680 acre park is a destination for anglers, swimmers, bird watchers and wildlife photographers.
The park includes an 800-acre lake, shady wooded areas and lots of open space. The DNR said the property is an important area for waterfowl because of the low-lying meadows and praries.
It is also a destination for campers, with 120 electric campsites.
A pamphlet about the park states the park’s history dates back to the 1950s when Henry County residents began to talk about having a recreational facility close to home. The Big Blue Recreation area was created and sold to the state of Indiana in 1988.
The name of the park comes from being located at the highest elevation in the surrounding area and near the highest elevation in the state.
Summer activities at Summit Lake State Park
- Picnic areas w/shelters
- Interpretive Naturalist Services
- Three Boat Launch Ramps
- Boat Motor / Idle speed only
- Fishing
- Hiking Trails
- Rental-Canoe, Paddleboat, Rowboat
- Swimming / Beach
Camping
Summer events at Summit Lake State Park
- 06-18-2022 – Gone to the Birds, Summit Lake State Park
- 06-24-2022 – Pollinator Weekend, Summit Lake State Park
- 07-03-2022 – Cornhole Tournament, Summit Lake State Park
- 08-19-2022 – Paddler’s Weekend, Summit Lake State Park
- 09-24-2022 – National Public Lands Day/ Free Fishing Day, Summit Lake State Park
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Shades State Park
Located about 17 miles southwest of Crawfordsville, this park is a favorite for hikers and canoeists.
The park boasts sandstone cliffs overlooking Sugar Creek and numerous shady ravines.
The history of the park goes back to the Native Americans who lived among the forest, ravines and cliff areas along Sugar Creek.
A pamphlet about the park states there are numerous legends around the origin of the park’s name. These stories include the illusion of deep shadows beneath the canopy of the forests and eerie feeling being the reason of its early name, The Shades of Death. Other stories range from it being a stronghold of the Native Americans and the legend of an early settler being killed to a young settler’s wife burying an axe in ther husband’s skull.
No matter the name’s origin, the name was dropped to The Shades because the DNR said the original name was considered unsavory.
Summer activities at Shades State Park
- Picnic areas w/shelters
- Hiking Trails
- 6 Ravine Hiking Challenge
- Fishing
- Interpretive Naturalist Services (Seasonal)
CAMPING
Summer events at Shades State Park
- 07-16-2022 – 75th Anniversary, Shades State Park
- 07-16-2022 – Shades 75th Anniversary, Shades State Park
- 08-13-2022 – Persied Meteor Shower & Star Viewing, Shades State Park
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Cagles Mill Lake
Located along the Eel and White river watersheds in Putnam and Owen counties, this sprawling 8,075 acre park was built throughout the 1940s as the first flood-control lake project in the Louisville District.
Mill Creek feeds the 1,400 acre lake and is home to Cataract Falls, resulting from two pre-glacial bedrock ridges buried beneath ancient lake sediments.
Within the bounds of the park is the Lieber State Recreation Area and the Cataract Falls State Recreation Area.
The Lieber State Recreation area was once populated by the Miami, Shawnee and Potawatomi before being sold to the U.S. government when the 10 O’Clock Treaty Line was laid out.
Now, the park boasts a state-of-the-art aquatic center with a zero-entrance pool, water bubblers and a tornado water slide. There are also shelters, a volleyball court, and a playground.
Other opportunities include hiking trails, boat acess, and camping.
Summer activies at Cagles Mill Lake
- Nature Center
- Basketball Court
- Boating / 2 Launch Ramps
- Fishing
- Fishing Pier
- Hiking Trails
- Horseshoe Pits
- Hunting
- Interpretive Naturalist Services
- Picnicking / Shelterhouse
- Playground Equipment
- Rental – Fishing Boats, Pontoons
- Waterskiing
- Swimming / Pool / Waterslide (Check office for hours.)
Camping – See campground maps under MAPS tab
Summer events at Cagles Mill Lake
- 06-11-2022 – Afternoon Bird Hike, Lieber SRA
- 06-11-2022 – Somewhere in the Moonlight, Lieber SRA
- 06-12-2022 – Wind Sockets, Lieber SRA
- 06-18-2022 – Creek Stomp!, Lieber SRA
- 09-03-2022 – Lieber’s Boomin’ Beach Bash!, Lieber SRA
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McCormick’s Creek State Park
Located in Spencer, Indiana, the state’s first state park is highlighted by a limestone canyon, flowing creek and scenic waterfalls.
The park was founded in 1916 after the death of Frederick Denkewalter, a physician that built a sanitarium on the present-day Canyon Inn site. When he died in 1914 his estate went up for sale and Owen County and the State of Indiana bought the land to maintain it in its park-like setting.
The park expanded over the years as the state aquired surrounding farms and homesteads as they came up for sale. A pamphlet about the park says the majority of the park’s improvements came in the 1930s when the Civilian Conservation Corps was in the park. The organization built most of the shelter houses, stone bridge and fire tower.
A limestone quarry within the park’s boundaries supplied limestone for the Indianapolis Statehouse. Now, the park is a combination of history set in modern surroundings.
Visitors visiting the park can catch cultural events in the park amitheatre or attend several special events hosted annually at the park.
Summer activities at McCormick’s Creek State Park
- Nature Center/Interpretive Naturalist Services
- Picnicking/Shelters
- Hiking trails
- Saddle barn and trail rides 812-829-8848
- Tennis courts
- Recreation buildings
- Recreation center
- Swimming/pool. Check office for hours.
- Canyon Inn
Camping
Summer events at McCormick’s Creek State Park
- 07-30-2022 – Wild about Wildlife, McCormick’s Creek State Park
- 09-10-2022 – Arts, Blues & BBQ, McCormick’s Creek State Park
- 09-18-2022 – Run to the Creek (5K Run/Walk & 10K Run), McCormick’s Creek State Park
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Nevada wants feds to declare mothballed nuke dump plan dead
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — After a decade in limbo, Nevada is pressing U.S. nuclear regulators to finally kill a mothballed proposal to entomb the nation’s most radioactive waste beneath a windswept volcanic ridge north of Las Vegas.
“The time has come to put this long-dormant and unproven federal project out of its misery,” the state said in a document submitted Tuesday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about to the Yucca Mountain project. “Fundamental fairness requires that this proceeding be ended if possible.”
The NRC, which regulates and licenses U.S. nuclear power plants and the handling of radioactive material, offered no immediate comment about the state request. Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the panel would review it.
The document urges the federal agency to reopen its review and finally end 40 years of Energy Department efforts to prove the Yucca Mountain site would be a safe place to put highly radioactive waste shipped in from power plants across the nation.
It derides the repository as “an unfunded zombie-like federal project that has staggered around the halls of Congress begging for appropriations support for more than a decade with no success.”
An estimated $15 billion was spent drilling a 5-mile U-shaped test tunnel and conducting studies of whether 77,000 tons (70,000 metric tons) of some of the most lethal material known to humans could remain safely buried for thousands of years at the site.
Some estimates put the final cost of building the repository at $100 billion, including drilling a honeycomb of underground rail tunnels and engineering a way to encase the waste and prevent leakage into underground water sources.
The U.S. has no long-term plan for managing or disposing of hazardous nuclear waste being produced and stored at reactors nationwide, but Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has spoken in recent months about the need to find one.
Nevada’s proposal came the same day the department announced it would spend $16 million to promote what it called “consent-based” site selection and management of spent nuclear fuel.
The government promised U.S. nuclear power producers in 1982 that it would find a place to put radioactive spent fuel. Congress in 1987 narrowed the choice to Yucca Mountain, a secure corner of a vast federal reservation where nuclear weapons used to be detonated about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of downtown Las Vegas.
But plans for the repository were mothballed after 2010, when then-U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, Congress and the administration of President Barack Obama shut off funding.
Some elected officials in rural Nevada favor the proposal and the jobs it could bring. But most of the state’s congressional delegation and lawmakers have vigorously opposed what Democratic U.S. Rep. Dina Titus on Tuesday called a “dangerous project to force a nuclear waste dumping ground on Nevada.”
“Nevada doesn’t use nuclear energy; we don’t produce nuclear waste; and we shouldn’t be required to store it,” Titus said in a statement.
Gov. Steve Sisolak, U.S. Sens, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, state Attorney General Aaron Ford and U.S. Reps. Steven Horsford and Susie Lee — all Democrats — also endorsed the state’s call for action. The state launched a website focusing on what it calls dangers and flaws in the plan.
The licensing process itself — a review of scientific and technical data amid challenges by the state and other opponents — has been projected to cost $330 million and take five years to complete.
The state said Tuesday it wants a “summary disposition” by the NRC, not a complete slate of hearings. Challenges of a range of Energy Department findings about the geology of the site and the transport of nuclear material would remain unanswered.
Nuclear power provides about 20% of electricity in the U.S., accounting for about half the nation’s carbon-free energy. Most of the 93 reactors operating in the country are east of the Mississippi River.
Nevada’s request to the NRC also noted that the effects of human-caused climate change were not studied before the Yucca Mountain project was halted.
A recent Associated Press look at energy policies nationwide found momentum building for the first expansion of nuclear reactor construction in more than three decades. A survey found that about two-thirds of states now say that nuclear, in one fashion or another, will help replace fossil fuels.
A $1 trillion infrastructure package that President Joe Biden signed into law last November will allocate about $2.5 billion for advanced reactor demonstration projects. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/21/nevada-wants-feds-to-declare-mothballed-nuke-dump-plan-dead-3/ | 2022-09-21 23:41:54 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/21/nevada-wants-feds-to-declare-mothballed-nuke-dump-plan-dead-3/ |
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (AP) - Results from Scotch football:
Hearts 0, Rangers 4
Aberdeen 4, Kilmarnock 1
Celtic 2, Motherwell 1
Dundee United 1, St. Johnstone 2
Ross County 0, Hibernian FC 2
St Mirren FC 2, Livingston FC 1
Ross County 0, Motherwell 5
Kilmarnock vs. St. Johnstone, 2:45 p.m.
St. Johnstone vs. Celtic, 7:30 a.m.
Hibernian FC vs. Motherwell, 10 a.m.
Livingston FC vs. Ross County, 10 a.m.
Rangers vs. St Mirren FC, 10 a.m.
Dundee United vs. Aberdeen, 1 p.m.
Kilmarnock vs. Hearts, 10 a.m.
Dundee United vs. Hibernian FC, 2:45 p.m.
Celtic vs. Hibernian FC, 10 a.m.
Livingston FC vs. St. Johnstone, 10 a.m.
Ross County vs. Dundee United, 10 a.m.
St Mirren FC vs. Kilmarnock, 10 a.m. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Scottish-Results-17487044.php | 2022-10-04 21:49:03 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Scottish-Results-17487044.php |
After a weekend of cool temperatures in the Bay Area, a gradual warming trend is on tap, with summer-like temperatures returning midweek.
A high pressure system will fuel the warm-up. On Monday, highs will still be on the cool side, but higher than during the weekend. San Francisco and other cities closer to the bayshore, like Mill Valley and Oakland, will reach the upper 60s.
The coast will also remain cool, as cloudy conditions there will inhibit any warming. Highs along the coast will reach only the upper 50s to low 60s.
Valley and inland spots will be warmer than the weekend too, with highs in the Santa Clara Valley, inland East Bay, and North Bay inland and valley areas reaching the mid to upper 70s. These spots will also see morning fog, which could be dense at times, creating low visibility.
Skies across the Bay Area will vary between partly cloudy and mostly cloudy throughout the day.
Monday Breakdown
San Francisco: San Francisco will see one more day with highs in the upper 60s, then turn a little bit warmer starting Tuesday. On Monday, sunshine will be limited, with cloud cover keeping the city cool again. Winds will be lighter and blow from the west up to 10 mph. Near the Presidio and areas west of Highway 1, highs will be cool again, reaching only the low 60s. At Lake Merced and San Francisco State University, highs will reach the mid-60s. The forecast is similar for areas east of Interstate 280 in San Francisco, with spots like Hunters Points and Southern Hills also reaching the mid-60s.
Pacific Coast and Peninsula: The cloud cover will keep most of the region cool for Monday. The morning will start off in the low to mid-50s. Daytime highs in the afternoon will reach the upper 50s for the coast and the 60s for the rest of the Peninsula. Winds will be light from the northwest between 5-15 mph.
Closer to the coastline, Daly City, Pacifica and Half Moon Bay will reach only the mid-60s. Bodega Bay and Dillion Beach will be coldest in the region, with highs reaching near 60. Tomales Bay will start off with fog, but most of the day will be cloudy with highs in the lower 60s. Cities across the mid-Peninsula will be slightly warmer. In South San Francisco, highs will reach the upper 60s, and in San Bruno, highs will reach the mid-60s. Across the rest of the Peninsula, cities like Hillsborough, Woodside, Foster City, San Mateo and Redwood City will reach the lower to mid-70s.
North Bay: The morning will start off cool again with lows in the mid-50s, but into the afternoon, temperatures will rebound into the pleasant 70s across most of the North Bay. In the morning, valley cities will wake up to fog, lasting until 9-10 a.m. Skies will be a mix of sunshine and clouds for the rest of the North Bay.
In Marin County, Mill Valley to Novato will reach the mid-70s. The Tiburon Peninsula will be slightly cooler with highs in the lower to mid-70s, and highs in Sausalito will reach only the mid-60s. In Sonoma County, from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park, the morning will start off with patchy fog, lifting by around 10 a.m. Highs there and into Petaluma will reach the lower to mid-70s. Sonoma and Boyers Hot Springs will be slightly warmer with highs in the mid-70s.
Napa Valley will start off with foggy conditions until around 9 a.m. Napa County will be pleasant, with highs in the mid-70s for the northern half from Yountville to Calistoga. The cities of Napa and American Canyon will be cooler, with highs near 70 degrees. In Solano County, Vallejo will be mostly cloudy with a high of 70. Skies in Fairfield will be mosty sunny with highs in the mid-70s.
East Bay: The morning will start off with mostly cloudy skies and lows in the mid-50s. Skies will become partly cloudy by the afternoon. Highs will reach the upper 60s to lower 70s for the bay and mid-70s inland. Winds will be on the gentle side, coming from the west around 5 mph.
Along the eastshore freeway from El Sobrante to Emeryville, highs will reach the mid- to upper 60s. In Oakland and cities along the Nimitz Freeway to Fremont, highs will be just a couple of degrees higher, in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Along Highway 4, from Martinez to Antioch, highs will reach the 70s. Inland cities from Walnut Creek to San Ramon will reach the mid-70s. In the Amador Valley, Dublin and Pleasanton and east into Livermore, highs will reach the mid-70s. Brentwood will be slightly warmer than the rest of the region, with highs in the upper 70s.
South Bay and Santa Cruz: The fog will still be an issue in the morning. Foggy conditions could last until 11 a.m. and may impact the morning commute because of low visibility. The morning will start off in the lower to mid-50s. For the Santa Clara Valley, mostly cloudy skies will keep daytime highs on the cool side, reaching only the lower to mid-70s. Palo Alto to Santa Clara and Milpitas will be cool, with highs around 70. San Jose will be slightly warmer, with highs in the lower to mid 70s. Cities east of Interstate 280, like Campbell and Cupertino, will be tad warmer with highs in the mid-70s. The warmest spots Monday will include Gilroy and Morgan Hill with highs in the upper 70s.
In Santa Cruz County, filtered sunshine is what you can expect after the fog clears. Felton and cities on Highway 4 will be milder, with highs in the upper 70s. Scotts Valley and cities on Highway 17 will reach the lower to mid-70s. Santa Cruz will reach only 70 degrees, with Watsonville, the coolest spot in the county, seeing highs in the upper 60s.
On tap this week
The Bay Area will gradually warm up this week, with daytime highs peaking Wednesday. Highs will run approximately five degrees above average on Tuesday and five to 10 degrees above average on Wednesday — highs that the Bay Area would normally get during the summertime.
A high pressure system will expand and much of the Western U.S. will be under dry and clear conditions.
Precipitation has been bleak so far this month. However, there’s a chance that the Bay Area could possibly end this month with above normal chances for precipitation.
Michelle Apon is a San Francisco Chronicle newsroom meteorologist. Email: michelle.apon@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @MichelleApon | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/Fall-weather-takes-a-break-this-week-in-the-Bay-17513101.php | 2022-10-17 12:26:27 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/Fall-weather-takes-a-break-this-week-in-the-Bay-17513101.php |
The final results of the 2022 midterm elections have been trickling in over the past several days, but no winner has been declared yet in either major race in Alaska — and won’t be for some time.
Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system means determining a winner often takes longer than in most other states. Voters in this system rank the candidates in order from their first preference to their last.
A candidate must win a majority of first-place votes to win outright without the election going to a second round. If no one wins a majority, the candidate with the lowest number of first-place votes is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed to the remaining candidates according to their voters’ second preferences.
The process continues until one candidate wins a majority of the votes. Alaska adopted the ranked-choice system in 2020.
Since no one won a majority in Alaska’s Senate race, it will proceed to a second round to determine the winner. Alaska’s lone House race could wrap up in one round, but additional rounds might be necessary.
Here’s where the Alaska House and Senate races stand:
At-large House race
Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola (D) has represented Alaska’s only congressional district since September after she won a special election to succeed Rep. Don Young (R), who held the seat for almost 50 years before his death in March.
Peltola defeated two Republicans, former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, the co-chairman of Young’s 2020 reelection campaign, to win the special election.
Peltola, Palin and Begich, along with Republican Tara Sweeney, advanced to the general election after receiving the most votes in a nonpartisan blanket primary, in which voters can vote for any candidate regardless of party registration. The primary occurred the same day as the special election.
Sweeney dropped out of the race soon after the primary, so Libertarian Chris Bye advanced to the general election.
With 80 percent of ballots counted in the general election, Peltola had a clear lead as of Friday with more than 47 percent of the vote, less than 3 points away from clinching the win. Palin was in second with 26.6 percent, and Begich was in third with 24.2 percent.
Peltola could be in a position to win the election in the first round and make additional rounds unnecessary. But whether she will prevail in the first round may not be clear until toward the end of the month.
Alaska’s Division of Elections website states that early votes submitted between the Friday before Election Day and Election Day will be counted seven days after Election Day, meaning this coming Tuesday. Early votes submitted prior to the Friday before Election Day were counted on election night.
Regional elections offices can start counting absentee ballots seven days after Election Day. All absentee ballots must be counted no later than 15 days after a general election.
Peltola could become the winner after the votes are finished being tabulated, which must happen by Nov. 23, one day before Thanksgiving.
If additional rounds are needed, they will happen on the 15th day after the election at the elections division director’s office in Juneau.
Peltola will likely have a large lead at the end of the first round even if she doesn’t clinch victory, so her opponents would need to receive an overwhelming majority of second-place votes to stay in contention to win the race.
Senate race
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) and Republican Kelly Tshibaka are set to face off in the final round of the Senate race after no candidate won a majority of the votes in the first round.
Tshibaka had a small lead over Murkowski by about 1.4 percentage points with 80 percent of votes counted. As of Friday, Tshibaka won 44.2 percent of the vote and Murkowski won 42.8 percent.
However, Murkowski allies expect the ranked-choice system to ultimately benefit the incumbent and push her to the top in the final round.
Tshibaka, Murkowski, Democrat Pat Chesbro and Republican Buzz Kelley advanced to the general election after winning the most votes in the nonpartisan, blanket primary in August. Kelley dropped out of the race in September and endorsed Tshibaka but remained on the ballot.
Chesbro had less than 10 percent of the vote, while Kelley won about 3 percent as of Friday.
Tshibaka, who served as the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration from 2019 to 2021, received the endorsement of the Alaska Republican Party and former President Trump. Murkowski has been criticized by her own party and the former president for voting to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
The process for determining the winner of the Senate race will be the same as for the House race. The winner could be decided by whichever candidate voters for Chesbro preferred between Murkowski and Tshibaka. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/heres-where-the-alaska-house-and-senate-races-stand/ | 2022-11-12 22:42:11 | 0 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/heres-where-the-alaska-house-and-senate-races-stand/ |
LANCASTER, Pa. — Police arrested a man on Wednesday after an investigation into two incidents in Ephrata Township.
Austin J. Martin, 19, of Leola, is facing charges of burglary and theft by deception.
Police say on June 29, Martin knocked on the door of a home on the 1000 block of Frys Road and told the homeowner that his loose horse that was on the roadway had made him crash his motorcycle.
He allegedly asked the man to pay him for the damages.
Police say the homeowner paid Martin $2,500 in cash.
A few days later, on Sunday, July 2, the homeowner found his home had been burglarized and money had been taken while his family was at church.
Police say during their investigation they found out Martin's motorcycle had actually been damaged in a crash on June 26, and his vehicle was seen on surveillance footage near the home at the time of the burglary.
Police say Martin confessed to the burglary while they questioned him and said he had spent the money on lottery tickets.
Martin is in Lancaster County Prison awaiting his preliminary hearing. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/man-facing-charges-burglary-house-lancaster-county-ephrata/521-c6de3ce7-0fdf-474e-863a-d029656e2fe7 | 2023-07-10 10:56:07 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/man-facing-charges-burglary-house-lancaster-county-ephrata/521-c6de3ce7-0fdf-474e-863a-d029656e2fe7 |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. and Canada sent armored vehicles and other supplies to Haiti on Saturday to help police fight a powerful gang amid a pending request from the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of foreign troops.
A U.S. State Department statement said the equipment was bought by Haiti’s government, but it did not provide further details on the supplies flown on military aircraft to the capital of Port-au-Prince.
A spokesman for the U.S. military’s Southern Command said he could not provide further details on the supplies sent, though he added it was a joint operation involving the U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force.
“This equipment will assist (Haiti’s National Police) in their fight against criminal actors who are fomenting violence and disrupting the flow of critically-needed humanitarian assistance, hindering efforts to halt the spread of cholera,” the State Department said.
The Pan American Health Organization said there are more than 560 suspected cases of cholera, some 300 hospitalizations and at least 35 deaths, with experts warning the numbers are likely much higher than what i's being reported.
The equipment arrived more than a month after one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs surrounded a fuel terminal and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Demonstrators also have blocked roads in major cities to protest a sharp rise in fuel prices after Henry announced in early September that his administration could no longer afford to subsidize fuel.
Since then, gas stations have closed, hospitals have cut back on services and banks and grocery stores open on a limited basis as fuel, water and other supplies dwindle across Haiti.
The owners of the fuel terminal announced Saturday that armed men had attacked their installations for a second time and fled with more than 28,000 gallons of petroleum products after overpowering surveillance and emergency personnel at the facility.
It was the second time this week that armed men broke into the terminal, which stores more than 10 million gallons of gasoline and diesel and more than 800,000 gallons of kerosene. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/US-Canada-send-armored-vehicles-to-bolster-17512109.php | 2022-10-16 02:31:52 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/US-Canada-send-armored-vehicles-to-bolster-17512109.php |
CONWAY, Ark. – Court documents are revealing more details in the case of a Conway man accused of killing his mother and then trying to convince friends and family that she had run away to Hawaii.
The probable cause statement filed by prosecutors against Raymond Martin Jr. outlined detectives’ investigation into the two-week search for his mother, Nancy Glover-Warren, and what the officers claimed was a months-long fraud attempting to make it appear that she had moved thousands of miles away, seemingly on a whim.
In fact, investigators claim, Martin choked his mother after an argument and hid her body in a freezer while he siphoned money from her accounts.
While the detectives’ inquiry into where Glover-Warren did not start until June 24, they said they learned that the woman had not spoken to anyone directly since April 17, when officers responded to a disturbance call just down the road from the home she lived at with both Martin and another adult child who had cognitive challenges.
During that call, officers reported finding Glover-Warren outside of the car and said Martin told them his mother was “acting erratic and had been drinking.” The officers added that Martin said Glover-Warren’s “mental health was declining due to a fall and multiple strokes.”
Family members said they next reached out on April 20 to inform Glover-Warren about the death in the family. Detectives said this was when the first message appeared to come from Glover-Warren and stated that she was on her way to Hawaii and would not go to the funeral.
The family said they thought it was odd for Glover-Warren to leave town with no warning and without lining up care for her adult child with needs, who Glover-Warren had cared for all of the child’s life.
It was after a failed attempt to make a video call with Glover-Warren on her birthday on June 24 that family members went to police, who went to the home in the 400 block of Zachary Trail to perform a welfare check.
Moments after officers arrived, family members said they received new text messages claiming to be from Glover-Warren in which she said she was angry the police were called and embarrassed that officers had talked to her neighbors.
Family members told detectives they then got a new series of messages claiming Glover Warren said she had spent her life caring for her family and that it was now her time to enjoy retirement. The messages also claimed Glover Warren had started a relationship with someone in Hawaii and that she was “very happy and carefree.”
Family members said they were also texted by Martin, who told them his mother was upset and claimed both he and Glover-Warren had spoken with officers, though the officer said there had not been contact with either at that point.
Police continued their investigation, talking with family members, friends and neighbors. Eventually, they were able to speak with Martin, who claimed he was staying with his adult sibling and that they made regular video calls with Glover-Warren.
Investigators said Martin went on to say Glover-Warren’s move to Hawaii was for her “mental health” and had been suggested by her doctor. The officers added that Martin told them it would be until January before they could speak to Glover-Warren over the phone.
The case seemed to break on July 5, when a friend showed a message to police that looked to have come from Glover-Warren. The friend had gotten a photo that the sender claimed was a beach in Hawaii, but detectives said they were able to determine it was a photo from a news article.
Officers said they requested all of the messages sent to family members from Glover-Warren. The family members noted that they had believed Glover-Warren had been in contact with police, based on Martin’s messages to them. Some also noted they had received messages about Glover-Warren attending a mid-May doctor’s appointment, though investigators learned the appointment had been canceled.
The officers were able to get a search warrant to track the location of Glover-Warren’s phone and trace it to the home on Zachary Trail. Detectives were also able to determine that social media posts made on Glover-Warren’s accounts claiming to be from Hawaii were also made at the home.
Investigators looked more at Martin’s activities and said he had withdrawn “a significant amount” of money from Glover-Warren’s accounts and even forged a $6,000 check in his mother’s name.
Detectives were able to obtain a search warrant for the home, where they found Martin and the other adult child. Martin was taken in for questioning while officers searched the home.
They soon found Glover-Warren’s body in an upright freezer in the garage, wrapped in a moving blanket with her hands bound by tape. Investigators noted that the frost accumulation on the body indicated that she had been in the freezer “for some time.”
The records show that Martin told detectives that he had a “troubled relationship” with his mother, who he claimed was suffering from dementia. He also told them he thought Glover-Warren was starting to get violent and call him derogatory names.
Detectives said Martin told them on the day his mother died she had pushed him down patio stairs and came at him with a knife before turning around to go back in the home.
The investigators said Martin told them he then grabbed his mother from behind and started choking her, keeping a tight grip even after she went unconscious until Glover-Warren was dead. Investigators said Martin told them he put a bag over his mother’s head because he was “unable to look at her because she had a single tear running down her cheek.”
Authorities said Martin told them he decided to clean out the freezer and put her inside, adding that he said he bound her hand and wrapped her in the blanket to make it easier to move the body.
Detectives said it appeared Glover-Warren was killed on April 19, saying Martin told them he came up with the Hawaii story after learning of the other family member’s death on April 20 and knowing his mother would have been expected to be there.
Officers said Martin also admitted to making large purchases with Glover-Warren’s debit card and making multiple cash withdrawals from ATMs, saying he planned on using the money to open a DJ business. Detective said he also said he did not come forward earlier because if he had there would be no money to pay for the home.
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High Schools Weather stops athletic contests
Due to storm systems in the surrounding area Saturday, two soccer matches and a tennis invitational were called off.
The DeKalb Invitational for boys tennis, including area teams from Angola, East Noble and West Noble, was called off in the early afternoon and will not be made up.
The girls soccer match between DeKalb and Concordia was suspended 15 minutes into the game with the Barons leading 2-0. The two goals were by Riley Exford and Jaylin Carroll. The boys soccer match between Prairie Heights and Lakewood Park was also suspended. Rescheduled dates are yet to be determined on both matches.
Prep Girls Soccer Westview shuts out Wawasee in 2022 season opener
SYRACUSE — Westview started its season on the road Saturday, defeating the Warriors of Wawasee in a 4-0 shutout.
Sophomore Briana Munoz scored a hat trick, and senior Kylee Liechty added another.
Munoz earned an assist on Liechty’s goal, while Paige and Morgan Riegsecker each earned one as well.
Senior goalkeeper Madison Hooley earned the clean sheet for Westview.
Wawasee is 0-2-1 this season.
Westview plays at Goshen on Monday.
In other area action, Central Noble tied 0-0 at Bremen to move to 1-0-1 on the season.
Goshen blanks Angola
GOSHEN — The Redhawks shut out Angola 6-0 before the game was called at halftime due to inclement weather in the area.
Miriam Ruiz Sanchez led Goshen with four goals while Andrea Diaz and Kennedy Yordy each added one.
Assists were credited to Diaz (2), Natalie May and Caylin Martinez.
The Redhawks (3-0) also won the junior varsity contest over the Hornets 5-0.
The Hornets (1-2) travel to Heritage on Thursday.
Elkhart Christian beats Chargers
ELKHART — Despite only having 10 girls on hand with players injured and ineligible, Elkhart Christian Academy defeated visiting West Noble 8-0 on Saturday.
Scoring for the Eagles were Allison Russell (6), Mya Ott, and Ivy Clapsaddle.
The Chargers (0-1-1) host Angola on Tuesday.
Prep Boys Tennis Fremont wins home invitational
FREMONT — The Eagles won its home invitational for the third straight year Saturday with a perfect score of 50, defeating Lakeland, Snider and Wabash in a round robin.
Players for Fremont who went 3-0 at each position were junior Brody Foulk at No. 1 singles, sophomore Colton Guthrie at No. 2 singles, senior Jeremy Rode at No. 3 singles, senior Aiden Dornbush and junior Andrew Mcentarfer at No. 1 doubles and junior Corbin Beeman and freshman Tyler Miller at No. 2 doubles.
Lakeland’s No. 1 singles player, Wyatt Priestley, and its No. 2 doubles pairing of Ethan Rasbaugh and Tyler Yoder were 2-1 for the day.
Lakeland and Snider tied for 2nd with 26 points and Wabash was 4th with 18.
Prep Volleyball Heights goes 2-2 at LaPorte
LAPORTE — The Panthers won two and lost two at the LaPorte Invitational on Saturday to move to 4-2 on the season.
Prairie Heights won by 2-0 scores over Kankakee Valley (25-16, 25-23) and Goshen (25-23, 25-19).
They lost to both Merrillville (25-16, 25-20) and Hanover Central (25-16, 25-18) in straight sets.
The Panthers host Westview on Tuesday.
Fremont wins first match of season at ECA Invitational
ELKHART — The Eagles won its first match of the season at the Elkhart Christian Invitational on Saturday, losing its first match to Elkhart Christian 2-1 (20-25, 25-23, 15-9) before defeating Westville 2-1 (25-19, 17-25, 15-10) to take second place for the day.
In the Westville match, Milania Miller had eight kills for Fremont. Claire Foulk had 17 assists and Paige Baker had four aces and three blocks.
In the ECA match, Baker had eight kills and Andrea Barry had 12 digs for the Eagles. Foulk had 15 assists and three blocks, and Addy Parr added four aces.
Fremont is 1-5 and will host West Noble on Tuesday.
Prep Girls Golf Churubusco defeats Legends
FORT WAYNE — The Churubusco girls golf team defeated Fort Wayne North Side at McMillen Park 193-220 on Thursday.
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Forget about Daemon Targaryen, HBO has a real-life power hungry scoundrel on their hands.
On Oct. 21, HBO confirmed that the season one finale of House of the Dragon, set to premiere Oct. 23, had been leaked—and the network is trying to get to the bottom of what the heck happened.
"We are aware that the tenth episode of House of the Dragon has been posted on illegal torrent sites," a spokesperson for HBO said in a statement to Variety. "It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East or Africa) region. HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the Internet."
In case you're feeling eager to check it out, HBO insisted that the leaked version doesn't even look very good anyway!
"We're disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show," the statement continued, "who will get to see a pristine version of the episode when it premieres Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, where it will stream exclusively in 4K."
While unfortunate, this certainly isn't the first time the Game of Thrones universe has fallen prey to leaks.
In August 2017, the fourth episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season leaked online just days before it was due to premiere. The leak was blamed on Star India, one of HBO's distribution partners.
Later that same month, the sixth episode of the seventh season also leaked online, but this time the network had nobody else to blame. HBO Spain, the international version of the cable network, accidentally posted the episode early.
Whoops!
As for what the House of the Dragon finale has in store, Olivia Cooke, who plays Queen Alicent Hightower on the fantasy series, teased to E! News in August that viewers should expect "Dread, dread, immediate dread."
We're confident it will be worth the wait.
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LONDON (AP) — Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed.
CEO Sundar Pichai informed staff Friday at the Silicon Valley giant about the cuts in an email that was also posted on the company's news blog.
The firings adds to tens of thousands of other job losses recently announced by Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook parent Meta and other tech companies as they tighten their belts amid a darkening outlook for the industry. Just this month, there have been at least 48,000 job cuts announced by major companies in the sector.
“Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth,” Pichai wrote. “To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.”
He said the layoffs reflect a “rigorous review" carried out by Google of its operations.
The jobs being eliminated “cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions,” Pichai said.
In a regulatory filing late last year, the company said that it employed nearly 187,000 people.
Pichai said that Google, founded nearly a quarter of a century ago, was “bound to go through difficult economic cycles.”
“These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities,” he wrote.
There will be job cuts in the U.S. and in other countries, according to Pchai’s letter.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts, or nearly 5% of its workforce. Amazon has said its cutting 18,000 jobs, although that's a fraction of its 1.5 million strong workforce. Facebook parent Meta is shedding 11,000 positions, or 13% of its workers, while business software maker Salesforce is laying off about 8,000 employees, or 10% of the total. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has slashed jobs at the company after he acquired it last fall.
Employment in the U.S. has been resilient despite signs of a slowing economy, and there were another 223,000 jobs added in December. Yet the tech sector grew exceptionally fast over the last several years due to increased demand as employees began to work remotely.
CEOs of a number of companies have taken blame for growing too fast, yet those same companies, even after the latest round of job cuts, remain much larger than they were before the economic boom from the pandemic began.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Patrick Rodgers took a step toward his first PGA Tour victory — and his first Masters appearance — on Friday, shooting a 5-under 67 to take a three-stroke lead midway through the second round of the weather-delayed Valero Texas Open.
Rodgers, who finished his opening-round 66 on Friday morning, birdied four of the final five holes in his second round at TPC San Antonio to post a 36-hole total of 11-under 133.
“It’s something I’ve always dreamt of,” said Rodgers, who’s making his 235th start on tour. “I’m excited for the chance. It’s going to be a really fun next couple of days.”
Corey Conners, the 2019 winner in San Antonio, was 8 under after a 72. Michael Thompson shot 68 and was another shot behind.
With the tournament in catch-up mode because of hours-long fog delays on Thursday morning, the afternoon half of the draw had no chance of finishing on Friday. Among the players on the course when darkness halted play, Roberto Diaz was 8 under with eight holes to play and Brendon Todd was 7 under with three holes left.
Rodgers’ tee shot on the 198-yard 16th stopped inside 8 feet, and he had another birdie inside 10 feet at 17. He reached the 593-yard, par-5 18th in two for his closing birdie.
“I love to make the rounds feel pretty seamless and easy,” Rodgers said.
The 30-year-old Rodgers starred in college at Stanford but is winless since joining the PGA Tour in 2015.
Conners fell out of the lead with mistakes in the middle of his round. He four-putted his seventh hole, the par-3 16th, including three attempts within 4 feet. His tee shot on the 17th hooked into the brush, and he took an unplayable lie, leading to bogey.
“A little mindless,” Conners said. “That was an unfortunate blemish on the scorecard. Certainly would like to have that over. But that’s how it goes.”
Conners, winless since his Texas Open triumph four years ago, rebounded by shooting 2 under on his second nine, with birdies on both of the par 5s.
Conners is already in the field at Augusta National next week, but the final spot at the Masters awaits the winner in San Antonio if he’s not already eligible.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, today announced that the company will present at Citi's 2022 Global Technology Conference on Wednesday, September 7 at the New York Hilton Midtown. John Hollister, CFO, is scheduled to participate in a fireside chat at 1:00 p.m. ET.
The fireside chat will be webcast on the Investor Relations page of the company website at silabs.com.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ Charah Solutions, Inc. (CHRA) on Monday reported a loss of $9.6 million in its second quarter.
The Louisville, Kentucky-based company said it had a loss of 34 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $77.1 million in the period.
Charah Solutions expects full-year revenue in the range of $310 million to $340 million.
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Updated October 27, 2022 at 6:46 PM ET
When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black Knoxville residents could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville General Hospital. They were barred from the city's other three medical centers.
Green, one of America's leading Black physicians, spent his life working to end health inequities like this. He installed an X-ray machine, an operating room, and a private infirmary in his building to serve Black patients. On the first floor was a pharmacy.
Today the Green Medical Arts Building has been replaced by a tangle of freeways that were built after the city's Black business district was bulldozed in a midcentury urban renewal project.
But the health gaps Green labored to narrow still divide this community. And if segregation is less apparent in medical offices today, its legacy lives on in crushing medical debt that disproportionately burdens this city's Black community.
In and around Knoxville, residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods are more than twice as likely as those in largely white neighborhoods to owe money for medical bills, Urban Institute credit bureau data shows — it's one of the widest racial disparities in the country.
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That tracks with a disturbing national trend. Health care debt in the U.S. now affects more than 100 million people, a KHN-NPR investigation found. But the toll has been especially high on Black communities: 56% of Black adults owe money for a medical or dental bill, compared with 37% of white adults, according to a nationwide KFF poll conducted for this project.
The explanation for that startling disparity is deeply rooted. Decades of discrimination in housing, employment, and health care blocked generations of Black families from building wealth — savings and assets that are increasingly critical to accessing America's high-priced medical system.
Against that backdrop, patients suffer. People with debt avoid seeking care and become sicker with treatable chronic conditions like diabetes or multiple sclerosis. Worse still, hospitals and doctors sometimes won't see patients with medical debt — even those in the middle of treatment.
"African Americans don't seek health care until we are really, really sick, and then it costs more," said Tabace Burns, a former emergency room nurse in Knoxville. Burns, who is also a leader in her church, said she routinely helps members of her congregation find medical care they should have sought earlier.
Nationwide, Black adults who have had health care debt are twice as likely as white adults with such debt to say they've been denied care because they owe money, the KFF poll found. Many Black Americans also ration their care out of fear of cost.
Burns recalled a friend who came to see her about an oozing growth on her breast. "She didn't have any insurance, so she just thought it would get better," Burns said.
Burns helped the woman find an oncologist to treat what turned out to be cancer. There was a cost to waiting so long, though. Because the cancer was so advanced, the friend had to undergo chemotherapy and have both breasts removed.
It could have been worse. "What if she didn't know me? What if she just continued to let her breast leak and it was necrotic?" Burns said. But, she added, if her friend hadn't been so worried about going into debt, she would have gone to the doctor sooner.
It's a terrible cycle, said Berneta Haynes, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center. "This legacy of segregation and structural racism underlies the racial health gap," she said. "It impacts health outcomes and access. And it impacts the level of medical debt."
In 'The Bottom'
The story of how Knoxville's Black residents came to be its primary victims of medical debt is written in the city's changing landscape.
Just outside downtown, below refurbished office buildings and former warehouses, is an area once called The Bottom, long the heart of the Black community.
This area persevered through decades of Jim Crow segregation and violence. In one of the worst episodes, mobs of white rioters in 1919 vandalized Black-owned stores and shot residents after a young Black man was accused of killing a white woman.
It was here that Black physicians like Green opened medical offices alongside grocers, pool halls, and funeral homes. Knoxville's first Black millionaire, a former enslaved man who'd made a fortune in horse racing and saloons, built a YMCA. Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway performed at the Gem Theatre.
Beginning in the late 1950s, the city systematically wiped out The Bottom and surrounding neighborhoods in an urban renewal and highway-building campaign. Officials razed more than 500 homes, 15 churches, and more than 100 Black-owned businesses, including Green's medical building.
More than 2,500 families were displaced. Many ended up in public housing projects. Others left Knoxville. Businesses never reopened. "It changed the whole landscape," said the Rev. Reneé Kesler, director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, a nonprofit that preserves Knoxville's Black history. "You'll have generations that won't recover from that."
What urban renewal left behind in East Knoxville was a neighborhood that's the poorest in the city — and has the largest share of Black residents.
A tiny fraction of residents are homeowners. Blocks are blighted by boarded-up buildings and overgrown lots. Down the street from Knoxville's oldest Black cemetery, a Dollar General recently closed — one of the few stores around that sold groceries.
The neighborhood's residents are sicker than those elsewhere in Knoxville, with higher levels of diabetes and other chronic illnesses. They are less likely to have health insurance.
They also have much more medical debt.
More than 30% of the people have a medical bill on their credit record, according to credit bureau data collected by the nonprofit Urban Institute. A few miles west in Knoxville's overwhelmingly white suburbs, fewer than 10% carry such debt.
It's not difficult to understand the difference, said Eboni Winford, a clinical psychologist at Cherokee Health Systems, a network of clinics that serve low-income patients. "Black people are less likely to have generational wealth to pass on, which means we don't have the pockets of money that we can just use if medical bills arise."
Nationally, the median white family now has about $184,000 in assets such as homes, savings, and retirement accounts, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The assets of the median Black family total just $23,000.
"What happened is we concentrated Black poverty," said Gwen McKenzie, a Knoxville City Council member who grew up not far from The Bottom. "From there, that's where it became generational."
'Always a sacrifice'
Monica Reed lives just up the hill from where The Bottom once was.
She considers herself luckier than most. Born in Knoxville and raised by a single mother, Reed became the first in her family to own a home, a small house built after the city demolished The Bottom. For the past 15 years, she's worked for a faith-based nonprofit that assists low-income residents of Knoxville.
"It hasn't always been easy," said Reed, who just turned 60. She raised her son by herself. And though she's always worked, her modest salary made saving difficult. "I just tried to live a frugal kind of life," she said. "And by the grace of God, I didn't become homeless."
She couldn't escape medical debt, though. Diagnosed with cancer five years ago, Reed underwent surgery and chemotherapy. Although she had health insurance through work, she was left with close to $10,000 in medical bills she couldn't pay.
She's been pursued by debt collectors and even taken to court. That's forced Reed to make difficult choices. "There's always a sacrifice," she said. "You just do without some things to pay other things."
Reed said she cut back on trips to the grocery store: "I don't buy a lot of food. Just plain and simple."
She has adjusted, she said. "You just do what you have to do." What angers Reed, though, is how she's been treated by the cancer center where she goes for periodic checkups to make sure the cancer remains in remission. When she recently tried to make an appointment, a financial counselor told her she couldn't schedule it until she made a plan to pay her bills.
"I was so upset, I didn't even find out how much I owed," Reed said. "I mean, I wasn't calling about a little toothache. This is something that affects someone's life."
Locking in disparities
Health insurance gains made possible by the Affordable Care Act have narrowed some racial health disparities, studies show.
The expansion of Medicaid, in particular, has brought new financial security to millions of low-income Americans. In a recent analysis of credit bureau and census data, researchers estimated that Medicaid expansion helped enrollees avoid more than $1,200 in medical debt.
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But many of those gains have remained out of reach in Knoxville. Tennessee is among 12 states that have rejected federal funding to expand the Medicaid safety net through the 2010 health care law.
Eight of the 12 are Southern states with large Black populations. The decision not to expand has disproportionately affected communities like East Knoxville that are already contending with deep racial disparities in health and wealth.
Of the roughly 2.2 million people locked out of health coverage because these states rejected Medicaid expansion, nearly 60% are people of color, according to a KFF analysis. About a quarter are Black.
Locked out of health insurance, many just try to hang on until they become eligible for Medicare, said Cynthia Finch, an advocate in Knoxville who has worked to improve health in the city's Black community. "People pray they don't get sick before they are 65," she said.
If Black patients go into debt, they face yet another challenge: a medical debt collections industry that targets Black debtors more aggressively than their white counterparts, particularly for smaller debts.
About 6 in 10 Black adults with medical debts under $2,500 say they or someone in their household has been contacted by a collection agency in the past five years, the KFF poll found. By contrast, only about 4 in 10 white adults with similar debt said the same.
At the courthouse in downtown Knoxville, the dockets are filled with debt collection lawsuits filed by some of the region's largest hospitals: Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, East Tennessee Children's Hospital, and Parkwest Medical Center.
That discourages many Black patients from seeking care even if they need it, said Cherokee Health's Derrick Folsom, who helps patients enroll in health insurance. "Somebody knows somebody who's getting sued for medical bills," Folsom said. "So they stay away from medical centers."
Reflecting on her experience with medical debt, Reed said she tries to stay upbeat. "I don't sweat the small stuff," she said. "What am I going to do against this hospital?"
But, she said, she has realized one thing about the nation's health care system: "It's not designed for poor people."
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The pod of pilot whales huddled together for nearly a full day in the shallow waters off a remote beach in Western Australia. At times it made the shape of a circle, or spread into a line, or even, for a few moments, formed a loose heart shape.
Some residents were thrilled by the unusual sight earlier this week. But authorities and researchers, baffled by the behavior, feared that a mass beaching was imminent.
The behavior was “really unusual,” said Kate Sprogis, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Western Australia. “Healthy pilot whales don’t generally behave like this, and when you see it, you think there’s something odd going on.”
On Tuesday afternoon, researchers’ fears were confirmed. The pod of almost 100 long-finned pilot whales rushed to the shore, stranding themselves on Cheynes Beach near Albany, in southern Western Australia.
Rescuers raced against the clock to save them. Once a pilot whale — which can grow up to 24 feet in length and weigh up to 6,600 pounds — is out of the water, its organs can be gradually crushed under its own weight. Even when whales are successfully returned to sea, they will often strand themselves again.
By Wednesday, 52 of the whales had died, authorities said. A team of local volunteer and conservation officials managed to move the remaining 45 back into the water and attempted to herd them back out to sea, using boats and kayaks to guide them. However, that afternoon, the whales re-stranded themselves further along the beach, authorities said. The Australia Broadcasting Corp. reported that the whales had again formed a huddle before drifting back to shore.
“Veterinarians will continue to assess the re-stranded whales and advise of the most appropriate course of action to ensure the most humane outcome for the whales,” the state’s department of conservation said in a statement.
Before the attempt to return the whales to sea, Peter Hartley of Western Australia’s department of conservation had said that the animals would be released as a group, but if there were whales in that group that were weak or hadn’t fully recovered, “we stand the risk that that will drag the other animals back to the beach.” Each whale would be assessed to determine if it was ready for release, he added.
Researchers do not know exactly why mass strandings occur. One theory is that they happen when the matriarch of the pod falls ill and swims into shallow water, and the other members of the pod follow, given their tight-knit social bonds, Sprogis said. Another reason could be that they were disoriented by a loud offshore underwater noise, she said.
It was equally unclear why the whales had huddled in the shallow water before beaching themselves, Sprogis said, adding that pilot whales generally do not display behavior to indicate that a stranding is imminent.
Mass strandings in Australia are not uncommon. The country’s deadliest such event occurred in 2020, when 470 whales were beached on a coastline in Tasmania, with most of them dying. Two years to the day, another 230 washed up along roughly the same stretch of coast.
A similar stranding event occurred in Scotland a week ago, when 54 whales died on a beach on the Isle of Lewis. By the time they were found, a majority was already dead, and rescue teams decided to euthanize the surviving animals after determining that the rough waves and shallow beach conditions made it unsafe to refloat them. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-whales-gathered-in-a-heart-shape-experts-feared-what-would-come-next/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-26 16:28:06 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-whales-gathered-in-a-heart-shape-experts-feared-what-would-come-next/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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