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Indicator Sciences Highlights 20% Inpatient Opioid Reduction at Troy Regional Medical Center
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. , June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Indicator Sciences, the provider of the CareEffects Stewardship consultative analytics service, today proudly unveils the results of a successful initiative at Troy Regional Medical Center. Implementation of the service has led to a 20% reduction in inpatient opioid use within just six months, underscoring its value and effectiveness.
Reducing excess opioid utilization is critical to prevent opioid-related adverse drug events, complications which occur in nearly 10% of inpatient admissions in U.S. hospitals, prolonging lengths of stay and increasing the risk of readmission.
Leveraging comprehensive context-of-care risk-adjustment analytics, CareEffects Stewardship identifies individual nurses whose practice patterns lead to increased opioid utilization compared with their peers. As nurses manage roughly 80% of inpatient opioids on a PRN (as needed) basis, there is an urgent need for closer monitoring of individual nursing practices. This pioneering approach paves the way for focused stewardship education, fostering improved patient outcomes.
Rick Smith, CEO of Troy Regional Medical Center, praises the program: "As leaders of a small hospital, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards preventable complications. CareEffects Stewardship has become an integral part of our pursuit of delivering the highest quality of patient care."
Led by Chief Clinical Officer Amy Minor, RN, a targeted nursing intervention was conducted, focusing on approximately 5% of the inpatient nursing staff. These nurses each exhibited a significant increase in opioid use per shift compared with their peers, after risk-adjusting for context-of-care.
Minor points to a success story: "One of our nurses, initially identified as an outlier, has since evolved into a practice leader. Our non-punitive approach has not just enhanced patient safety, but also nurtured a supportive and learning-centric environment for our nursing staff."
To learn more about the groundbreaking CareEffects Stewardship and how it's revolutionizing inpatient opioid safety, visit www.indisci.com
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police (APD) responded to a crash Saturday. Officials said it involved a pedestrian.
APD said a crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle at Menaul and Pan American has shut down eastbound Menaul from Pan American.
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A unique 1954 Chevrolet Corvette design prototype for an unreleased facelift is headed to auction at Gooding & Company’s Monterey Car Week event, scheduled for Aug. 18-19.
This car dates back to the very earliest days of the Corvette. According to the auction listing, it started out as one of approximately 15 hand-built show cars constructed prior to the start of Corvette production in 1953. Used for testing and appearances at General Motors’ Motorama shows, these cars weren’t assigned conventional vehicle identification numbers (VIN), instead getting an “S.O.” designation for “shop order.”
The car up for auction bears the serial number S.O. 2151, which marks it as the prototype for a proposed 1955-model-year refresh of the Corvette. The car was sent to GM’s design department, then overseen by legendary design boss Harley Earl, where it received a number of styling tweaks, including a nonfunctional hood scoop, front fender vents, an eggcrate grille, bumper-exit exhaust tips, and a new trunk lid based on the Corvette Corvair fastback concept.
A hint that this car was used to try out new design ideas is the placement of Corvette script, which is high on one side and low on the other for comparison. Designers also added a large gold “V” to the lettering to signify that the 1955 Corvette would be available with a V-8 engine, providing more muscle than the inline-6 engines used for the first two model years. S.O. 2151 was also painted in Bermuda Green, a GM production color of the time.
The completed body was mounted on a 1954 Corvette chassis equipped with an experimental solid-lifter-camshaft engine. The design prototype was officially completed on July 30, 1954, according to a tag riveted inside the engine bay.
The proposed facelift for the 1955 Corvette never happened, though. Worried about competition from the Ford Thunderbird, GM management decided to delay the facelift. Aside from the V-8 option, the production 1955 Corvette ended up similar to the 1954 model, but for 1956 Chevy gave the Corvette a completely new body.
S.O. 2151 escaped the fate of most GM design prototypes, surviving intact in private hands. How it exited GM is unknown, Motor Trend notes, but the one-off Corvette was preserved by a series of owners and treated to an 1,800-hour restoration to its 1954 state.
This piece of Corvette history won’t be cheap. Gooding & Company expects S.O. 2151 to sell for $1.5 million to $2 million at auction.
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NATICK, Mass., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TalentBurst, Inc.'s Life Science Division has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for Health Care Staffing Services Certification by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a health care organization's commitment to providing safe and quality patient care.
Health care staffing firms place temporary staff in organizations that direct or provide patient care. Awarding of a Health Care Staffing Services Certification by The Joint Commission demonstrates TalentBurst's efforts to address how staff are placed, how their qualifications and competencies are determined and evaluated, and how their performance is monitored.
TalentBurst underwent a rigorous evaluation process to earn this certification, including a thorough assessment of its systems, processes, and practices. A review team from The Joint Commission evaluated TalentBurst's compliance with related certification standards including program management, support, and delivery of services. The Joint Commission standards are developed in consultation with health care experts and providers, measurement experts, and patients. The reviewers also conducted onsite observations and interviews.
"Health Care Staffing Services Certification recognizes healthcare staffing firms committed to fostering continuous improvement in patient safety and quality of care," says Deborah Ryan, MS, RN, interim executive vice president, Accreditation and Certification Operations, The Joint Commission. "We commend TalentBurst for using certification to strengthen its program structure and management framework, as well as to enhance its staff recruitment and development processes."
TalentBurst's CEO and Founder, Brad Talwar, commented on the achievement, saying, "For over 20 years, TalentBurst has been a leader in the Life Sciences and Health Care Staffing services industry. I can't think of a better way to start 2023 than joining The Joint Commission community! My team and I are thrilled to be part of a diverse group of individuals, hospitals, and organizations that are positively impacting the lives of people, families, and communities. We are truly honored and blessed!"
The Joint Commission Certification award is a significant milestone for TalentBurst and serves as a testament to the company's unwavering commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. "This certification will, without question, signal to our clients and employees that TalentBurst adheres to high standards and exemplary service delivery and promotes a culture of excellence across our business enterprise. Adopting The Joint Commission's standards will enhance the quality of staff we recruit for the healthcare industry, enable retention, promote patient safety, and help create long-term, productive associations with our employees and healthcare organizations that we serve. The review and accreditation process helped us realize what we do well and what we can do better - and for this it is priceless!"- Namrata Anand, Executive Vice President of Global Strategy for TalentBurst stated.
For more information, please visit The Joint Commission website.
About TalentBurst:
TalentBurst is a leading provider of Health Care, Clinical, Scientific, IT and Engineering workforce management solutions including Staffing, Global Employer of Record, Agent of Record and Managed Services. With a focus on innovation, quality and customer service, the company has established a reputation for excellence and is dedicated to helping its customers succeed.
For more information about TalentBurst and its services, please visit www.talentburst.com
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The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them.
Opinions usually are scheduled for Thursday, but with time running out, the court will likely add days in which it will release its decisions.
Here are the major cases NPR is watching:
Affirmative Action
Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina
At issue are affirmative action programs at the the University of North Carolina, which until the 1950s did not admit Black students, and Harvard University, which was the model for the Supreme Court's 1978 decision declaring that colleges and universities may consider race as one of many factors, from the applicant's geographical and family background, to their special talents in science, math, athletics, and even whether the applicant is the child of the school's alumni.
The two cases overlap. Because UNC is a state school, the question is whether its affirmative-action program violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee to equal protection of the law. And even though Harvard is a private institution, it still is covered by federal anti-discrimination laws because it accepts federal money for a wide variety of programs. The cases were argued last October.
Read more about the cases:
Voting Rights Act
Merrill v. Milligan
At issue in Alabama's congressional redistricting plan adopted by the Republican state legislature after the 2020 census. More than a quarter of the state's population is African American, but in only 1 of 7 districts do minority voters have a realistic chance of electing the candidate of their choice. Black voters are either concentrated in that district so they are a supermajority there or spread out across the remaining six districts so that their voting power is diluted. It's a practice known as packing and cracking.
In January 2022, a three-judge federal court panel ruled unanimously that Alabama could and should have created two compact congressional districts with a majority, or close to a majority, of Black voters: two districts instead of just one. Two of the judges on the panel were Trump appointees, the third a Clinton appointee.
The state appealed to the Supreme Court, which by a 5-4 vote blocked the lower court ruling, which ordered a new map for the 2022 election, then nine months away. That was too much for Chief Justice John Roberts, a longtime critic of the Voting Rights Act, but who this time dissented along with the court's three liberals. He said he could find "no apparent errors" in the way the lower court applied existing precedents. What he didn't say was whether the court should revisit some of those precedents. The case was argued in October.
Read more about the case:
Indian Child Welfare Act
Haaland v. Brackeen
The case pitted several prospective adoptive parents and the state of Texas against the Indian Child Welfare Act — a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.
Texas and several families who are adopting American Indian children challenged the law in court. They contended it amounts to an unconstitutional racial preference, and that the federal law impermissibly intrudes on state autonomy. The case was argued in November.
Read more about the case:
LGBTQ rights
303 Creative v. Elenis
The case pits two constitutional principles against each other. On one side are laws that guarantee same-sex couples equal access to all businesses that offer their services to the public. On the other are business owners who see themselves as artists and don't want to use their talents to express a message that they don't believe in.
The plaintiff in the case is a Colorado web designer who argues that Colorado's public accommodations law prevents her from doing what she wants to do most — custom web designs for weddings. The reason: She believes that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. The case was argued Dec. 6.
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Independent state legislature theory
Moore v. Harper
At issue is the so-called independent state legislature theory, put forth in this case by the North Carolina Republican State Legislature. If adopted, it would give state legislatures the power to put in place all manner of election laws and rules without any review by the state courts. At its most extreme, the theory could eliminate not just state judicial power over elections, but governor's vetoes. And it might allow state legislatures to certify presidential electors who were not approved by the voters - an idea that Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully to put forth in 2020.
In the particular case before the justices, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the Republican-dominated state Legislature, in drawing new congressional districts after the 2020 census, violated the state constitution with an extreme partisan gerrymander.
The case was argued Dec. 7.
Read more about the case:
Sunday work at USPS
Groff v. DeJoy
Case tests how far employers must go to accommodate the religious views of employees.
Forty-six years ago, the court, by a lopsided margin, ruled that an employer need not accommodate a worker's desire to avoid work on the Sabbath if that would mean operating shorthanded or regularly paying premium wages to replacement workers. The court went on to say that employers should not have to bear more than what it called, quote, "a de minimis," or trifling, cost.
The de minimis language has sparked lots of criticism over the years, but Congress has repeatedly rejected proposals to provide greater accommodation for religious observers, including those who object to working on the Sabbath. Now, however, religious groups of every kind are pressing a new and more conservative group of justices to overturn or modify the court's earlier ruling. The case was heard in April.
Read more about the case:
Student loans
Biden v. Nebraska
A handful of Republican-dominated states – Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas and South Carolina – have asked the Supreme Court to permanently block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. The states contend that the president exceeded his legal authority when he implemented a program to cancel up to $20,000 in debt for people holding federal student loans.
The merits of the case are fairly straightforward. Does the 2003 law, known as the HEROES Act, give the president and his secretary of education the power to authorize federal student loan forgiveness? The case was argued in February.
Read more about the case:
True threats
Counterman v. Colorado
The Supreme Court this term revisits a question the court has never answered: When is a threat a "true threat?" What does the prosecution have to prove? Does it have to show that the defendant intended to frighten his target, or is it enough to show that his words would have that effect on a reasonable person?
The case involves Coles Whalen, a singer-songwriter from Colorado, and Billy Counterman, a man convicted and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for "stalking" Whalen and making "true threats" against her. The case was heard in April.
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Results demonstrate novel synergistic effects of IL-12 and T cell receptor signaling in anti-tumor immunity
PENNINGTON, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing intratumoral immunotherapies to stimulate the patient's own immune system to target and eradicate cancer, announced that their recent publication in Molecular Cancer Research is being featured as the June 2022 "Editor's Pick." The manuscript, titled "Intratumoral Electroporation of Plasmid Encoded IL-12 and Membrane-Anchored Anti-CD3 Increases Systemic Tumor Immunity," summarizes pre-clinical results regarding OncoSec's next-generation anti-cancer treatment approach, IL-12 combined with a polyclonal T cell stimulator.
"Our previous preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that intratumoral electroporation of solid tumors with plasmid IL-12 (TAVO™) can provide clinical benefit due to the ability of TAVO™ to deliver durable anti-tumor immune responses. This recently published manuscript further advances these findings and highlights the potential of our intralesional delivery of expression plasmids as molecular platform and innovative therapeutic approach for solid tumors," said Robert H. Arch, Ph.D., OncoSec's Chief Executive Officer.
"The incorporation of a polyclonal T cell stimulator coupled with an enhanced plasmid IL-12 results in potent stimulation of T cells by membrane-bound anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. This results in an effective anti-tumor immune response by enhancing proliferation and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) secretion of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells and reducing suppressive effects of CD4+ T regulatory (Treg) cells. We believe these data provide a strong rationale to further evaluate this approach for potential clinical development," said David Canton, Ph.D., OncoSec's Vice President of R&D.
About OncoSec Medical Incorporated
OncoSec Medical Incorporated (the "Company," "OncoSec," "we" or "our") is a biotechnology company focused on developing intratumoral immunotherapies to stimulate the body's immune system to target and attack cancer. OncoSec's lead immunotherapy investigational product candidate – TAVO™ (tavokinogene telseplasmid) – enables the intratumoral delivery of DNA-based interleukin-12 (IL-12), a naturally occurring human protein with immune-stimulating functions. The technology, which employs electroporation (EP), is designed to produce a limited, localized expression of IL-12 in the tumor microenvironment, which ultimately enables the immune system to target and attack tumors throughout the body. OncoSec has built a diverse clinical pipeline utilizing TAVO™ as a potential treatment for multiple cancer indications either as a monotherapy or in combination with leading checkpoint inhibitors; with the latter potentially enabling OncoSec to address a great unmet medical need in oncology: non-responders to anti-PD-1 treatment. Results from recently conducted clinical studies of TAVO™ have demonstrated a local immune response, and subsequently, a systemic therapeutic effect as either a monotherapy or combination treatment approach along with an acceptable safety profile, warranting further development. For more information, please visit www.oncosec.com.
TAVO™ is a trademark of OncoSec Medical Incorporated.
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‘Remain in Mexico’ policy in the spotlight at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Biden v. Texas starting Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Immigration is front and center at the Supreme Court this week. A case surrounding a Trump-era policy will be heard by the nine justices in Biden v. Texas. It boils down to a Biden administration decision to scrap a Trump-era rule that sent asylum-seeking immigrants back to Mexico to wait for their trials in the U.S.
On his first day in office, President Biden announced the reversal of the 2019 Trump rule, called the Migrant Protection Protocol or Remain in Mexico program. Immigration advocates argued the policy put asylum seekers in dangerous situations in Mexico.
But the states of Texas and Missouri sued, arguing reversing the policy is illegal. Lower courts agreed, keeping the measure in place as the Biden Justice Department appeals.
“You have the option to send them back to Mexico, you have the option to detain them, but you do not have the option to just release everybody,” said Julie Axelrod from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Axelrod submitted an amicus brief to the court supporting the states. She argues the security of the border is at stake. Axelrod thinks the Biden administration reversing the policy removes a deterrent that could prevent a rush of immigrants from seeking asylum in the U.S.
“What it’s done here is made basically a deliberate choice to sacrifice control over the border,” said Axelrod.
Karen Tumlin from the Justice Action Center argues it is well within the rights of the administration to abandon the policy.
“We know that tens of thousands of people were stranded, were harmed, were abused, were kidnapped while awaiting that day in court,” said Tumlin.
Tumlin said this case is a blockbuster with a lot at stake. She said the court will have to answer, ‘does a new president have the power to change a policy of a past president and the ability to execute mandates from voters?’
“The answer has to be ‘yes,’ right? The answer has to be, ‘of course.’ That’s how our democracy works. But that’s not what happened in the lower court rulings,” said Tumlin.
Oral arguments are expected to begin at 10 a.m. ET Tuesday. An opinion from the court is not expected to come until late spring or early summer.
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NEW YORK — For days after Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was shoved against a speeding subway train on her way to work, she lay in intensive care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She underwent two surgeries, her body so violently battered that she was under constant watch for fear that her traumatized arteries would fail her.
On Thursday, Ozsoy remained partially paralyzed but was gathering strength, testing her remaining mobility and cognizant of everything that had happened to her since early Sunday morning when a man thrust her head into the train as it pulled out of the Lexington Avenue/63rd Street station.
“At this moment, her journey is a very scary journey,” her husband, Ferdi Ozsoy, said in an interview.
Since moving from Istanbul in 2017, Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy, 35, has embodied New York’s “hustler” spirit, said a cousin, Deniz Gunduz. She had left a career as a page designer at one of Turkey’s most influential newspapers to pursue a more creative path. In New York, she embarked on a career as an artist and illustrator, simultaneously learning English and picking up a job as a barista. She is focused, motivated and unyieldingly independent, her relatives said.
Now, suddenly vulnerable, Ozsoy is at the center of concentric rings of care: nurses and doctors who monitor her in the intensive care unit; her husband and cousin, who are intermediaries with everyone who comes into contact with her; friends who arrive with food and embraces. Beyond those inner rings are New York City residents for whom she embodies a persistent fear of such violence, with her story crystallizing the endemic problem of safety underground.
Authorities have said the attack on Ozsoy was carried out by Kamal Semrade, 39, who was arrested late Monday at a homeless shelter near La Guardia Airport in Queens, charged with attempted murder and held without bail. His lawyer, Rebecca Heinsen, said in a statement that her client should be given the presumption of innocence and cautioned against drawing conclusions about him.
The chance of falling victim to violent crime on the subway is statistically low, but without a discernible motive, the apparently random attack revived fears about an unsafe subterranean city.
Inside the hospital, however, there is a single focus: Ozsoy.
On Sunday, she underwent a marathon of medical treatment that lasted more than 12 hours. She was given an MRI and a CT scan, and then was rushed into surgery after it was discovered her neck had been broken, Gunduz said.
She suffered a “cervical spine fracture, broken fingers, a laceration on her scalp and damage to four major blood vessels,” a prosecutor, Carolyn McGuigan, said at Semrade’s arraignment.
By Monday morning, Ozsoy was able to fully lift one arm, faster than doctors had anticipated. By Thursday, her husband said, she could lift both arms, though she could not move her hands, and her legs have remained paralyzed. The battery of machines that had sustained her had been reduced to an intravenous drip.
Family and friends have stayed by Ozsoy’s bedside day and night. Only two people at a time are allowed to sit with her in the hospital room, so others wait in a family room overflowing with food dropped off by visitors. Her husband or Gunduz have had to meet well-wishers outside the hospital to give them updates on Ozsoy’s condition. Her colleagues also started an online fundraiser for the family’s expenses.
On Wednesday, sitting in the back of Matto Espresso on Second Avenue in Manhattan, where Ozsoy had been scheduled to work on the day she was attacked, her husband and her cousin grappled with the chance nature of the attack and worried about their loved one’s future. “What is Emine going to do now?” Gunduz asked.
Ozsoy had been building her community and life in New York, her relatives and friends said. An avid artist, she would take her iPad to parks and draw for hours. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines, and she has worked with clients such as Airbnb, Puma, Chicago Magazine and the band Maroon 5, Ferdi Ozsoy wrote in a statement.
The “sweetest person you’ll ever meet,” Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was quiet and observant, her husband said. Art was how she expressed herself. Her vibrant illustrations captured people reading in parks and walking in the city. She was advancing at the cafe also, having just been told she was getting promoted to supervisor.
The Ozsoys met in Turkey in 2011 and married in 2014, Ferdi Ozsoy said. A native New Yorker, he said he had told her before they moved to America that New York would be a place to live her dreams. Although they decided to separate, he said, they remain “partners in life.”
He lives near Tampa, Florida, but they would talk often, and they met for dinner in New York a week before her attack. He said he could see that she was thriving in the new life she was building.
“She felt that, and she was able to live that,” he said. “Until Sunday.”
That day, Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy stepped into a transportation system that has struggled since the pandemic emptied it of riders. The subway is the city’s economic lifeblood, and its condition defines New York’s broader well-being.
During the long lockdown, ridership dipped, and people grew concerned about crime in the depopulated system. Mayor Eric Adams has unveiled programs that he has said are intended to help make the subways safer, with plans to flood them with police officers and mental health workers and to remove more than 1,000 homeless people.
But even as overall crime in the system has fallen in recent months, violent aberrations have persisted: an unprovoked murder on the Q train, a mass shooting on the R in Brooklyn, the fatal choking of a homeless man just this month on the F.
The attack on Ozsoy occupied a particular niche in New Yorkers’ fears: the sudden shove as an unstoppable train bears down.
On Sunday, Ozsoy was on her way to work when she boarded a train in Queens near her home in Jackson Heights. Semrade boarded the same train at the station, police said. Both got off at Lexington Avenue/63rd Street around 6 a.m., officials said.
As a train pulled out, Semrade approached Ozsoy from behind, grabbed her head with both hands and shoved her “with all of his force into the moving subway car,” said McGuigan, the prosecutor, at Semrade’s arraignment. “She hit the train in her face and head, rolled along it, then crashed back to the platform, where she was instantly paralyzed,” she said.
At 6:04 a.m., Eli Naim, Ozsoy’s boss, who oversees the Matto Espresso cafe chain, got a call from her number. But when he picked up, Ozsoy wasn’t the one on the line.
A woman whom he did not know told him that there had been an accident on the subway and that Ozsoy was injured, he said. He could hear Ozsoy in the background telling someone to “call Eli.”
In Florida, Ferdi Ozsoy got a call from a police officer after the attack, informing him that his wife was at the hospital, but he wasn’t told about the severity of her injuries. Shortly after, he got another call, he said, this time from a doctor telling him that Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy had made him her medical proxy before surgery.
“That’s when I called Deniz,” Ferdi Ozsoy said. “I said, ‘Deniz, I’m not in New York. Please go next to her.’”
Through everything, Gunduz has been updating Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy’s parents and four siblings in Turkey about her condition as they seek emergency passports and visas to come to New York.
For the family, the attack was a personal, intimate blow.
“We never think it is going to happen to us,” Ferdi Ozsoy said. All New Yorkers, he added, should contemplate the violence that had occurred and what it meant for the city.
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THURSDAY MORNING: We begin our Thursday with partly cloudy skies and areas of fog. Isolated showers will be possible as well. Patchy fog should thin out by mid-morning. Temperatures reach the mid-80s by midday.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON: Expect partly sunny skies through the afternoon with perhaps a few more isolated showers. Temperatures reach the upper 80s. Heat index values will be a bit higher.
THURSDAY NIGHT & OVERNIGHT: Skies will be mostly clear into the night with temperatures slipping a bit more, perhaps down to 70 by Friday morning.
FRIDAY & BEYOND: Expect more sunshine Friday. But a weak cool front does drift into parts of the state. It will come with no rain. But it does ease the humidity just a bit. So this weekend, look for abundant sunshine both Saturday and Sunday. Highs will be hotter, likely in the lower and almost mid-90s. But overnight lows will be cooler, perhaps in the upper 60s.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII) announced today that it will release its second quarter 2023 financial results on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, and will hold a conference call and webcast at 9:00 AM central time on the same day to discuss the results. The call will be hosted by Mike Speetzen, Chief Executive Officer and Bob Mack, Chief Financial Officer.
The financial results will be posted on the company's website at ir.polaris.com. The company will issue an alert over a news wire when the earnings materials are publicly available, including a link to those documents.
Conference Call and Webcast Details
A slide presentation and webcast link will be posted on the Polaris Investor Relations website at ir.polaris.com. To listen to the conference call by phone, dial 1-877-883-0383 in the U.S., or 1-412-902-6506 Internationally. The Conference ID is 6854927. A replay of the webcast will be available by accessing the same webcast link on our website at ir.polaris.com.
About Polaris
As the global leader in powersports, Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII) pioneers product breakthroughs and enriching experiences and services that have invited people to discover the joy of being outdoors since our founding in 1954. Polaris' high-quality product line-up includes the Polaris RANGER®, RZR® and Polaris GENERAL™ side-by-side off-road vehicles; Sportsman® all-terrain off-road vehicles; military and commercial off-road vehicles; snowmobiles; Indian Motorcycle® mid-size and heavyweight motorcycles; Slingshot® moto-roadsters; Aixam quadricycles; Goupil electric vehicles; and pontoon and deck boats, including industry-leading Bennington pontoons. Polaris enhances the riding experience with a robust portfolio of parts, garments, and accessories. Proudly headquartered in Minnesota, Polaris serves more than 100 countries across the globe. www.polaris.com
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1 dead, 10 injured in two Memphis shootings believed to be connected, police say. The killer is still at large
By Paradise Afshar and Holly Yan, CNN
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever killed one person and injured 10 others in a pair of shootings that investigators believe are connected, the Memphis Police Department said.
Officers arrived at Live Lounge in Memphis at about 12:43 a.m. Sunday where two shooting victims were found and taken to a hospital in critical condition, police said.
Five more shooting victims were taken to area hospitals by private vehicle in non-critical condition, police said.
While at the Live Lounge scene, officers learned of more shooting victims nearby.
There, police found a deceased male victim and three more victims who were taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Five of the 10 people injured were released from the hospital by Sunday afternoon, the police department said in a statement on Twitter. “The five victims who were in non-critical condition have all been released from the hospital,” the statement said. “The five additional victims remain in critical condition.”
Police say they believe the two scenes are connected, but no suspect has been arrested.
“There is no “solid description of the suspect(s)” Memphis police tweeted.
It’s not clear what led up to the shootings, and it’s unclear whether the shooter or shooters knew the victims.
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County at 901-528-CASH (901-528-2274)
The US has suffered 78 mass shootings in less than two months, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The non-profit defines mass shootings as those in which four or more people were shot, not including the shooter.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved vehicle cover to protect a parked vehicle against unwanted hail damage," said an inventor, from San Antonio, Texas, "so I invented OH HAIL NO. My design would also help to keep a parked vehicle clean and dry."
The invention provides hailstorm protection for a parked vehicle. In doing so, it helps to prevent broken windows, dents and other damage. As a result, it provides added peace of mind. The invention features a durable and secure design that is easy to apply and use. Additionally, it is easy to store when not in use and it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Austin sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-AUP-1324, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing to appear in US court
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism is to appear Monday in federal court in Washington to face charges.
The arrest and extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi are a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas’ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas’ud would be the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.
His appearance was set for 1 p.m. EST.
The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Citizens from 21 countries were killed. Among the 190 Americans on board were 35 Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after a semester abroad.
The bombing laid bare the threat of international terrorism more than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It produced global investigations and punishing sanctions while spurring demands for accountability from victims of those killed. Several victims described as surreal the news that Mas’ud was finally in American custody.
“It was quite a moment,” said Kara Monetti Weipz, sister of victim Rick Monetti, a Syracuse University student, and the president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103. “It was unbelievable that it was really happening after all these years, and especially after the last two years.”
The announcement of charges against Mas’ud on Dec. 21, 2020, came on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing and in the final days of the tenure of then-Attorney General William Barr, who in his first stint as attorney general in the early 1990s had announced criminal charges against two other Libyan intelligence officials.
The Libyan government initially balked at turning over the two men, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, before ultimately surrendering them for prosecution before a panel of Scottish judges sitting in the Netherlands as part of a special arrangement.
The Justice Department said Mas’ud faces two criminal counts related to the explosion.
U.S. officials did not say how Mas’ud came to be taken into U.S. custody, but late last month, local Libyan media reported that Mas’ud had been kidnapped by armed men Nov. 16 from his residence in Tripoli, the capital. That reporting cited a family statement that accused Tripoli authorities of being silent on the abduction.
In November 2021, Najla Mangoush, foreign minister for the country’s Tripoli-based government, told the BBC that “we, as a government, are very open in terms of collaboration in this matter,” when asked whether an extradition was possible.
Torn by civil war since 2011, Libya is divided between rival governments in the east and west, each backed by international patrons and numerous armed militias on the ground. Militia groups have amassed great wealth and power from kidnappings and their involvement in Libya’s lucrative human trafficking trade
A breakthrough in the investigation came when U.S. officials in 2017 received a copy of an interview that Mas’ud, a longtime explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, had given to Libyan law enforcement in 2012 after being taken into custody following the collapse of the government of the country’s leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
In that interview, U.S. officials said, Mas’ud admitted building the bomb in the Pan Am attack and working with two other conspirators to carry out the attack. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
That affidavit said Mas’ud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah. He handed Fhimah a medium-sized Samsonite suitcase containing a bomb, having already been instructed to set the timer so that the device would explode exactly 11 hours later, according to the document. He then flew to Tripoli, the FBI said.
Al-Megrahi was convicted in the Netherlands while Fhimah was acquitted of all charges. Al-Megrahi was given a life sentence, but Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He later died in Tripoli, still protesting his innocence.
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Associated Press writers Julie Walker in New York, Sylvia Hui in London, Jack Jeffery in Cairo and Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York, contributed to this report.
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Jan. 6 committee aims to show 'Trump was at the center' of plot to overturn election with primetime hearing
Hearing expected to include new video, interviews with top officials
When the Jan. 6 committee gavels in its primetime hearing Thursday night, the stakes will be high as its members seek to show Americans that Donald Trump was the key to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Nearly 18 months after the attack on the Capitol by a mob of former President Trump's supporters, the series of hearings may be the committee's best chance to capture Americans' attention before the midterms.
The committee will have to compete with inflation, rising gas prices, shortages in baby formula and more for political attention.
But with the hearing expected to include video of interviews with top Trump officials and potentially family members, created with the assistance of a former ABC News president, the committee believes it can do just that.
WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR DEMOCRATS IN PRIMETIME CAPITOL RIOT COMMITTEE HEARING
"The vast majority of the material you will see … is previously unseen," a select committee aide said Wednesday. "Whether it is recording video or audio of witnesses we've interviewed, whether it is records that we've obtained over the course of our investigation.
"We will be revealing new details showing that the mob on Jan. 6 was the result of a coordinated, multistep effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Trump was at the center of that effort."
Thursday's hearing is expected to be just one of several televised hearings from the Jan. 6 committee, with the next already announced for Monday.
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A select committee aide said the Thursday event will serve as an "opening statement" to grab Americans' attention and to preview subsequent hearings.
Republicans also appear to see this week as a key moment, as they're putting together a coordinated counter-programming blitz to fight back against the committee.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., will lead a press conference Thursday morning about the committee. That event follows several national media interviews, media calls and other events at which House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Banks, R-Ind.; and others attacked the committee throughout the week.
"I am working closely with President Trump, Leader Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan and my colleagues to help lead House Republicans in pushing back against lame-duck Speaker Pelosi's sham political witch hunt," Stefanik told Fox News Digital.
She and other Republicans are making a variety of arguments in opposition to the committee.
Among them are that the committee is not legitimate because Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didn't seat McCarthy's chosen Republicans on the committee; that Democrats are focusing on the wrong issues amid inflation and other crises; and that the committee is ignoring the physical security of the Capitol to focus on the juicier Trump-related storyline.
"The Capitol did not attack itself."
"We should study the events that led up to it. Why the Capitol was left unsecured on Jan. 6 when there was intelligence dating back before Jan. 6 something was going to happen," Banks said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
But those supportive of the committee say it is taking Capitol security into account. It has a separate investigative team dedicated to security failures. Republicans are just using that point to deflect from Trump's false claims the election was stolen and alleged culpability in the attack, committee supporters say.
"The Capitol did not attack itself," a spokesman for Jan. 6 Committee Ranking Member Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital.
Thursday's hearing will come after months of the committee conducting interviews, depositions and subpoenaing more than 1,000 people and gathering more than 140,000 documents.
While much of the grisly footage of smoke filling Capitol hallways and Trump supporters beating police officers is familiar to Americans, the interview and deposition footage may be the newest look for most viewers.
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Among those reported to have been interviewed by the committee are Donald Trump Jr., former Attorney General Bill Barr, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and more.
It's not clear which interviews the committee might feature Thursday. There will be testimony from two live witnesses — Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and filmmaker Nick Quested. But a select committee aide said Wednesday the hearing in general will emphasize "ongoing threats to our democracy" related to Trump and Jan. 6.
"As much as certain Republicans attempt to say the committee is illegitimate, a sham and political, those claims will not hold a lot of weight when the committee shares what it knows, shares the truth and shares the facts," a person close to the committee told Fox News. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/january-6-committee-aims-trump-center-plot-overturn-election-primetime-hearing | 2022-06-09 11:56:06 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/january-6-committee-aims-trump-center-plot-overturn-election-primetime-hearing |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens and lawful residents, with some improperly detained by the government for weeks after their sentences, said a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday.
The lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Northern California also says that inmates singled out as being born outside the U.S. are denied access to rehabilitative programs.
Lawyers representing former and current inmates said in a news release announcing the lawsuit that California’s policies and practices target immigrants and refugees based on place of birth, race and other prohibited classifications.
Corrections officials refer hundreds of people each year to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, for possible deportation, even those born in the U.S., the lawsuit states.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said they are reviewing the filing.
According to the complaint, Brian Bukle was referred to ICE because he was born outside the country even though corrections records indicated his status as a U.S. citizen. He was transferred into ICE custody at the end of his sentence in June 2020 — missing Father’s Day with his son — and was released after more than a month only after an immigration lawyer intervened.
Corrections officials also flagged another plaintiff, Anouthinh “Choy” Pangthong, to ICE even though he is a U.S. citizen born in a refugee camp. He spent nearly 19 years in prison fearing deportation and needed an attorney to remove the federal hold, the complaint states.
Pangthong said in a statement that at one point he almost hoped to stay in state custody “to just avoid being ripped apart from my home and family. Deportation would mean losing my loved ones and a life rooted in the community and state I call home.”
The complaint states that the state agency’s department operations manual directs staff to refer inmates who are foreign-born to federal immigration authorities for possible deportation, even though many people born abroad are naturalized U.S. citizens or permanent residents who cannot be deported.
The complaint filed in Alameda County provides examples of inmates, some identified only by their initials, denied access to re-entry and other rehabilitative programs because they were flagged as foreign-born.
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This story has been updated to correct that Brian Bukle is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/lawsuit-california-prisons-target-foreign-born-inmates/ | 2023-04-28 01:16:28 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/lawsuit-california-prisons-target-foreign-born-inmates/ |
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The stepmother of a New Hampshire girl who vanished in 2019 at age 5 and is presumed dead plans to plead guilty to unrelated perjury charges and agree to cooperate with prosecutors, who charged her husband with second-degree murder in the child's death, according to a document filed in court Wednesday.
Other charges against Kayla Montgomery, 32, would be dropped, according to the agreement in Hillsborough County Superior Court. Prosecutors are recommending that she serve a two-year jail sentence and the rest of her time be suspended. She's scheduled for a plea-and-sentencing hearing Friday. A judge would need to approve the agreement.
Montgomery has been in and out of jail this year. Under the plea agreement, prosecutors would drop charges that she lied to state health officials about having Harmony Montgomery in her care in order to collect welfare benefits, and receiving stolen firearms.
The perjury charges allege that she lied to a county grand jury about the location of a prior job and the time of a prior shift in 2019.
Her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery, pleaded not guilty to killing Harmony, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.
Authorities didn't know Harmony was missing until last year. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Plea-deal-reached-for-Harmony-Montgomery-s-17590236.php | 2022-11-16 23:01:13 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Plea-deal-reached-for-Harmony-Montgomery-s-17590236.php |
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NEW YORK (AP) — After 2020, Rudy Giuliani is not someone most politicians would summon to hold a news conference on their behalf.
As the frontman of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, Giuliani made notorious appearances before cameras where he espoused baseless theories — once while doing an impression of actor Joe Pesci as dark streaks of what appeared to be hair dye ran down his face — and another outside a Philadelphia landscaping company. This past week, his unsupported accusations and the fallout of those claims became the centerpiece of hearings from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
But one place the former New York City mayor is in high demand these days is on the campaign of his son, Andrew Giuliani, who on Tuesday is hoping to become the Republican nominee for governor of New York.
The campaign is considered a long shot, with the favored U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin as the presumed front-runner in the Republican race with the endorsements of the state’s GOP and Conservative Party. And in an otherwise favorable year for Republicans, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to win the office in November.
New York is one of the bluest states in the country, where Democrats have more than twice as many registered voters as Republicans and have held the governor's mansion for 15 years. It's also a state where — outside of Republican voters — the only name less popular than “Trump” might be “Giuliani.”
Andrew Giuliani mentions both names often.
The 36-year-old worked as an aide in Trump’s White House and as a commentator on the conservative network Newsmax, but has never held elected office before.
Before launching his campaign, he had been principally known for appearing, while still a child, next to his father at his 1994 mayoral inauguration. He comically mimicked his father’s gestures and repeated his words, antics that were parodied on “Saturday Night Live” by Chris Farley.
As he campaigns for governor, the younger Giuliani still seems to be doing an imitation of his father. He not only shares some of his mannerisms, but has frequently used his appearances to make false claims about the 2020 presidential election, including falsely stating that Trump won the election.
Andrew Giuliani has also been accused of somewhat conspicuously omitting his first name on his website and campaign materials, perhaps to give the impression among Republicans that his father might the candidate.
“People would say, well with a famous last name, it’s easy to run in politics,” Giuliani said, responding to the criticism during a debate on Newsmax.
“I would tell you with a name like Andrew, it’s very difficult to be the leading candidate for governor in a Republican primary,” Andrew Giuliani quipped, referring to former three-term New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who resigned in disgrace last year amid sexual harassment allegations.
Andrew Giuliani said he was very proud of his father and called him “New York’s greatest crime fighter.”
Before he was known as Trump’s attorney describing unfounded international election plots on television, Rudy Giuliani was hailed a national hero for leading New York City through the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He had been a U.S. attorney in New York famous for prosecuting mafia figures and later was a Republican mayor known for tackling crime with his “broken windows” theory of policing. The philosophy involved deterring serious crime by cracking down on minor offenses such as public urination or panhandling window-washers known as “squeegee men.”
Critics said the theory was not effective and targeted minorities, but in his campaign, Andrew Giuliani has called for the return of “broken windows” policing “all around the state of New York.”
Andrew Giuliani has frequently appeared with his father at news conferences, rallies and other campaign events, the two standing side by side behind a podium or in the back of a truck decorated with a “Giuliani” sign. Often they wear red Giuliani campaign hats — a design that evokes Trump’s famous “Make America Great Again” hat.
Rudy Giuliani has sought to assure people that his son’s experience includes watching his father serve as mayor.
“It is true he was a child during most of my tenure, but I don’t know. Do you consider a 15-, 16-, 17-year-old a child? He worked with me on those things when I was there,” Giuliani said at a news conference on Thursday. “In many of those situations, your candidate Andrew Giuliani has helped me. He knows it backwards and forwards from the time he was a kid.”
In New York, the backing of a political party and its apparatus has in most every case mattered. Zeldin, with his resume and wide support on the right, is expected to win Tuesday, said Thomas Doherty, a political strategist and former aide to New York’s last Republican governor, George Pataki.
Doherty said Andrew Giuliani has name recognition but a thin resume and is not seen as a serious contender.
“I’m sure that whatever votes he gets, he’s getting on the name of his father,” Doherty said. “There’s nothing wrong with that except for the fact that there’s nothing on his resume that says ‘I can be governor of New York.’”
Zeldin made that point during the last GOP debate, derisively referring to Giuliani’s experience in the Trump administration as the “Chick-fil-A runner at the White House outranked by the White House Easter egg bunny.”
Outside of his childhood antics at his father's inauguration, Andrew Giuliani was in the headlines when he sued Duke University in 2008, claiming he had been improperly cut from the golf team. The school said Giuliani’s dismissal was based on bullying behavior, which he denied. His lawsuit was dismissed in 2010.
He worked on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and then in the Trump White House. He served as an associate director of the Office of Public Liaison and later as a special assistant to the president.
Rudy Giuliani said his son’s “four years with Trump — that’s like five college educations. He’s much better prepared for this.”
The former mayor acknowledged some will be skeptical of his son and may think he’s too young and inexperienced to be the governor of a state of nearly 20 million people.
“You’re taking a chance. You took a chance on me," the candidate's father said at Thursday's news conference. "The chance is worth it because he’s got that exceptional spirit, Teddy Roosevelt kind of spirit.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Andrew-Giuliani-invokes-famous-dad-in-bid-for-NY-17267390.php | 2022-06-27 04:36:52 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Andrew-Giuliani-invokes-famous-dad-in-bid-for-NY-17267390.php |
Police say no ‘foul play’ suspected in death of missing Georgia man
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - The family of the Georgia man who died during a business trip to Baton Rouge says they have been told he likely died of an accidental overdose.
The family of 42-year-old Nathan Millard said investigators told them Tuesday that an autopsy on Millard showed “no internal or external trauma” to the body.
The Baton Rouge Police Department later confirmed during a news conference that “foul play” is not suspected.
“There doesn’t appear to be any foul play at this point. I know that he was placed there obviously by another individual. We would like to know who and why. But just from the autopsy results that were given by the Coroner’s Office, at this time it doesn’t appear to be any signs of foul play,” said Captain Kevin Heinz.
Millard was on a business trip in Baton Rouge when he was reported missing. His body was found on Monday near a highway, about two weeks after he was reported missing.
Police said they are now looking into how his body got there.
“It does appear that he was left there, that that’s most likely not where he died. I don’t want to go into details on our investigative efforts, but efforts are underway to locate and to talk to whoever may have put him there,” said Heinz.
Investigators said it is possible he was with others when he accidentally overdosed, and they moved his body to another location.
“And look, we’ll ask whoever put him there. If something happened and there was a moment of panic, come forward. We just want to know what happened to him. Our goal is to find out what happened to him,” Heinz said.
Millard was last seen around 11:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at Happy’s Irish Pub on Third Street in the downtown area, officials said.
According to police, surveillance video of Millard at other businesses later in the night showed that he appeared to not be in distress and was there of his own accord.
“He appeared to be at those locations under his own power, and it didn’t appear that there was anything taking place criminally,” Heinz said.
East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark said the final autopsy results are pending further studies, including toxicology testing. He added the cause of death and manner of death are pending the completion of the final autopsy report.
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Slow down in school zones
As the new school year begins, police departments are putting out a warning.
As students return to the classroom, drivers will see more buses on the roads and children in the streets.
School starts on Tuesday in the Warrick School District, which means for drivers, it’s time to slow it down.
"It happened to my son. He was running and he got hit," said Tom Nerida, whose son was in middle school when he was hit by a car running with his friends.
“Luckily it was a soft hit, but what if it's a harder hit?"
Things would have been much worse.
To prevent other parents from a similar experience, Lititz borough police are reminding drivers that school is starting on Tuesday, which means it's time to slow it down.
"You shouldn't be speeding past schools. Kids run out, you know? People don't really look at speed limits like they should, and they don't obey them, so I think reducing it will kind of make people think twice."
Drivers will be required to decrease their speed to 15 mph in designated school zones. And there will also be a larger police presence, especially during drop-off and pick-up times. | https://www.wgal.com/article/slow-down-in-school-zones/41012405 | 2022-08-29 02:32:42 | 0 | https://www.wgal.com/article/slow-down-in-school-zones/41012405 |
Post Office wants NJ homeowners to improve their mailboxes
📫 U.S. Postal Service wants homeowners to make changes to their mailboxes
📫 The annual request comes during Mailbox Improvement Week
📫 Repairing mailboxes helps improve the appearance of the community
It’s Mailbox Improvement Week and the U.S. Postal Service is asking all homeowners in New Jersey and across the nation to inspect and make repairs to their mailboxes.
“Repairing suburban and rural mailboxes improves the appearances of the community and makes delivering and receiving mail safer for carriers and customers,” according to a released statement.
Due to the wear and tear that occurs to mailboxes every year, especially during the rough winter months, the Postal Service makes this request every year.
Some of the typical activities homeowners may need to do include:
🔴 Replacing loose hinges on a mailbox door
🔴 Repainting a mailbox that may have rusted or has started to peel
🔴 Remounting a loosened mailbox post
🔴 Replacing or adding house numbers
If a homeowner decides to install a new mailbox or replace a worn one, he or she must use only Postal Service-approved traditional, contemporary, or locking full/limited service mailboxes.
Be careful when purchasing curbside mailboxes because the use of unapproved boxes is prohibited. Customers may use a custom-built mailbox, but they should consult with their local post office to ensure it conforms to guidelines applying to flag, size, strength, and quality of construction.
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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., a subsidiary of State Farm Insurance, has agreed to pay the federal government $100 million in restitution over its alleged mishandling of flood insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina.
The settlement marks the conclusion of legal proceedings that began more than 16 years ago when two whistleblowers filed a lawsuit against the Illinois-based insurance company.
State Farm also agreed to dismiss counterclaims it filed against the whistleblowers. The company had alleged that the whistleblowers breached their employment agreements and violated other laws by taking company documents while working as independent adjusters. The settlement was reached on July 20 and reported Wednesday by the Sun Herald.
Cori and Kerri Rigsby, sisters and former adjusters based in south Mississippi, sued the company for fraud after they said they witnessed the company shifting state claims to federal flood insurance that should have been paid by private wind insurance.
The Rigsbys won their case in 2013, focused on one home in North Biloxi, Mississippi. The sisters said State Farm defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program by charging it for flood damage to a policyholder’s home when the destruction was caused by wind.
In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the jury verdict unanimously. The court rejected claims by State Farm that the whistleblower case against the insurer should have been dismissed because its existence was leaked.
U.S. District Court Judge Sul Ozerden ordered State Farm to pay $750,000 in damages, with 30% going to the Rigsbys and the rest going to the federal government.
State Farm will pay the $100 million in restitution to the federal government, not individual policyholders
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On a chilly October night in 2021, Lesa Morrison's back began to ache. She was 36 weeks pregnant with her fourth child, due in November.
"I just thought it was my back because I have a bad back," said Morrison. "And then I was like, hmm, maybe not."
She rushed to the local emergency department at SMP Health - St. Aloisius hospital in Harvey, North Dakota. The ER doctor on duty knew Morrison had a "history of fairly rapid deliveries" from her previous pregnancies, according to medical records obtained by Scripps News. The doctor checked her cervix; she was 2.5 cm dilated, and then her water broke. Morrison was in labor.
She and her husband John Morrison immediately worried about the health risks associated with having their baby a month early, but those fears were magnified when the ER doctor made a decision they weren’t expecting.
He said he was going to discharge Lesa from the ER and John would then have to take her to another hospital 73 miles away.
"They just said, 'Well, you're going to be taking her in your own vehicle,'" said John Morrison. "And I look at the doctor, I'm like, 'Uhhh, no.'"
He asked for an ambulance. He told the doctor he didn't feel it was safe for him to drive his wife in active labor to another hospital more than an hour away.
"I said, "She needs more personnel that knows what’s going on,'" John Morrison said.
The ER doctor, who declined to be interviewed for this story, noted in his records that night, "We do not have a transfer ambulance available at this time; so, transfer by private vehicle with her husband will take place.”
John Morrison says the doctor handed Lesa her discharge papers and said, “You guys, you’ll make it.”
Without any other options, they raced out of the hospital, making a quick stop at home to grab blankets.
“I was so nervous, like I wanted to, like, scream or cry or something. I just was so angry,” said Lesa Morrison.
Lesa Morrison, 33, and John Morrison, 34, and their 18-month-old daughter Paizlee Morrison in their home in Harvey, North Dakota. (Zach Cusson / Scripps News)
The doctor’s decision to send Lesa to another hospital more than an hour away triggered a federal investigation by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2021. CMS found SMP Health - St. Aloisius violated a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) when it turned her away.
EMTALA applies to hospitals that receive federal funding through Medicare, which accounts for a majority of U.S. hospitals. The law is supposed to prevent emergency departments from turning away patients who have an emergency condition, such as active labor.
Our Scripps News investigation found Lesa Morrison's case is not unique. We uncovered over 200 incidents across the country in which pregnant patients have been turned away by ER staff, in violation of EMTALA. Our investigation found that pregnant people, as a result, have been put in dangerous situations, giving birth to babies in parking lots, ambulances and in cars on the side of the road. Tragically, some pregnant people and babies died.
Our nationwide analysis spanned dozens of court cases and 11 years of federal data and records. It raised serious questions not only about the limits of EMTALA’s power but also the federal government’s lack of enforcement.
'We didn't make it'
John and Lesa Morrison left the ER at SMP Health - St. Aloisius in their red Suburban at 9 p.m. The only lights on the road were the Suburban’s flashing hazard lights and the headlights from oncoming traffic.
Lesa was still in her hospital gown, sitting in the passenger seat, and she tried not to panic. John was going 85 miles an hour on Route 52, a two-lane highway connecting the small towns in the middle of North Dakota. He remembers watching out for deer and moose.
“Not only did I have my life in my hands, I had pretty much my whole family,” said John Morrison.
As he raced toward the hospital, he called 911 and asked for an ambulance from a nearby town to meet him along the way.
Volunteer emergency medical responders Mandi and Chuck Berger were sitting at home when they heard the call come through a 911 dispatch app on their phone. They jumped in their truck and headed to the highway where they hoped to intercept the Morrisons.
Mandi Berger (left) and Chuck Berger are volunteer emergency medical responders in Drake, North Dakota. (Zach Cusson / Scripps News)
“We get out to the stop sign on 52 and we see a Suburban go by with flashers on,” said Mandi Berger.
They caught up with the Morrisons and started to escort them down the highway, until they saw flashing emergency lights. They believed the lights belonged to the ambulance sent to help them. Everyone pulled over at mile marker 130 on the side of the road.
The emergency lights were not the ambulance; instead it was a McHenry County Sheriff’s vehicle with two deputies who, like Mandi and Chuck Berger, heard the call to help John and Lesa Morrison.
“John got out of the Suburban and he had this frightened deer-in-the-headlights look on his face,” said Mandi Berger. “And he says, ‘Baby's coming.’”
Mandi ran to Lesa’s door and reclined her seat. “I set her foot on my shoulder (and told her), ‘Just breathe’,” said Mandi.
As the baby's head began to crown, Mandi saw the umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck.
“My heart dropped when I saw that,” she said. “If it’s wrapped more than once, this could really be bad.”
She told Lesa to try not to push. With Chuck’s help, Mandi slipped her two fingers under the cord and pulled it over the baby’s head.
Lesa then gave one last push, and the rest of the body came out.
But the baby was unresponsive.
Mandi immediately put the baby on Lesa’s chest, rubbed her back, flicked her feet and tried anything to get the newborn to cry.
A few moments later, just as an ambulance finally arrived, Lesa and John’s newborn daughter, Paizlee, began to cry.
“After it was all done ... it's like, holy s***, we just had a baby on the highway,” said John Morrison.
Newborn Paizlee Morrison at Trinity Hospital in Minot, North Dakota, after Lesa Morrison gave birth to her in the front seat of her car on the side of Highway 52. (Photo courtesy of Lesa Morrison)
Violating federal law
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was originally enacted by Congress in the 1980s to stop hospitals from refusing emergency care to patients who couldn’t pay, but it also set national standards of care for emergency departments.
That means anyone who walks into an ER must be assessed for an emergency condition, and if a qualified provider determines there is one, they are required by law to provide treatment to stabilize the patient.
“It also changed our cultural expectations, I think, around emergency departments that they have an obligation to us,” said Elizabeth Sepper, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
The law lays out specific protections for anyone seeking care in the ER, including people in labor and their newborns. Labor and delivery units are considered “dedicated emergency departments” under EMTALA because it's an area of a hospital where people in active labor can go to directly seek care for their emergency condition.
“All hospitals were going to be places that would deliver babies because lots of people have babies and in the United States, people have their babies in hospitals,” said Sepper.
Violations are on a spectrum, from simple ones like not hanging proper signage in the ER to potentially life-threatening ones, like in Lesa Morrison's case. Following its investigation, CMS found the doctor at SMP Health - St. Aloisius failed to stabilize Morrison, who was in active labor, and failed to provide an ambulance to transfer her to another hospital.
Documents revealed the ER doctor told CMS investigators the hospital did not have fetal monitoring devices. He had “many years of experience in OB [obstetrics]” and “in retrospect he should have done things differently, but he felt the patient had plenty of time.”
Reporters attempted multiple times to speak with the hospital's current CEO, Ryan Mickelsen, who took over almost two years after Paizlee’s birth. He did not respond to any emails, phone calls or in-person visits. Records show that in the wake of CMS’ findings, the hospital pledged to train staff on EMTALA requirements and audit all patient transfers.
“It kind of gives me closure that they were reprimanded and investigated. You know, how many more people is this happening to?” said John Morrison.
Scripps News wanted to find out that answer, too. We discovered cases involving pregnant patients made up about 15% of all EMTALA investigations.
From coast to coast, Scripps News learned 389 emergency departments have violated EMTALA statutes while attending to pregnant patients, racking up at least 683 federal violations since 2011.
The most common EMTALA violation in the case of pregnant patients was the “failure to provide medical screening examinations.” In some cases, CMS determined patients were discharged from the ER after a medical screening was done by an unqualified nurse instead of a doctor.
Other cases highlighted gaps in awareness or knowledge about the requirements set by EMTALA. We found a variety of hospital staff, like security guards and front desk attendants, turning pregnant people away from seeking care at the ER.
“There's long been a concern that emergency departments try to shift pregnant people out of the ER,” said Sepper. “It would not be surprising at all ... that these cases are representative, but they're not the sum total of the violations.”
Because of the way potential violations are reported, experts say the true number is likely much higher. EMTALA is a complaint-driven system, so the burden of filing a complaint lies with patients who may not even know the law exists and medical professionals who may fear reporting violations.
“I know that there are facilities that don't want to report [EMTALA violations],” said Mary Ellen Palowitch, a former emergency department nursing director and former lead EMTALA compliance expert at CMS. “There's a little bit of fear that if I call you out on dumping a patient on me, the next time I need you to take my patient, you may be less inclined.”
Our investigation found of all the cases that were investigated by CMS, at least 241 involved pregnant people going to the ER for care and being turned away. This included pregnant people who needed to be examined after car accidents; people who were in active labor; people heavily bleeding from miscarriages; and people with ruptured ectopic pregnancies, a life-threatening emergency in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus and requires surgery.
In a 2017 case from Savannah, Georgia, a doctor transferred a woman who was 27 weeks pregnant to another hospital when she was in active labor. The baby was breech; the feet were coming out first. CMS investigators documented the hospital had a neonatologist and a labor and delivery unit available at the time they turned the woman away. One doctor warned it was “unsafe” to transfer the woman, but the patient was transferred anyway.
When the woman arrived at the next hospital, it was too late for an emergency C-section. Records show doctors had to push on the woman’s abdomen to get the baby’s head out of her vaginal canal. The infant had to be resuscitated as soon as it was born.
Another case in Bowling Green, Kentucky, happened in 2021. A woman went to the ER with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and was at risk of dying from internal bleeding. She was inappropriately transferred to another hospital despite there being “an on-call provider capable of providing stabilizing treatment.”
When we took these Scripps News findings to Elizabeth Sepper, she was alarmed.
“What you're describing are very much the kind of past practices that EMTALA was supposed to do away with,” she said. “My reaction is, why are [hospitals] doing it?”
“All moms and babies deserve to be safe and well cared for throughout pregnancy and delivery,” said Dr. Chris DeRienzo, senior vice president and chief physician executive at the American Hospital Association, a group that represents more than 5,000 hospitals in the U.S. “The practice of medicine is just not black and white. We spend a whole career living in that gray space, and there's a wide spectrum of care needs that moms who are in labor may require.”
He says given that millions of women deliver babies in hospitals each year, he has confidence in the U.S. health system.
'We don't deliver babies here'
Our Scripps News investigation discovered that EMTALA violations involving pregnancy spanned across 44 states and included small hospitals and large ones, in both rural and urban areas. Reporters found hospitals had violated the federal law despite having labor and delivery units in-house and obstetricians on call, but some hospitals did not have maternity wards.
In 2012, a Kentucky nurse went so far as to use her own car to transport a woman who was 28 weeks pregnant to a “local grocery store parking lot” to call an ambulance because the hospital did not provide obstetric care.
In 2014, an ER nurse in rural Mississippi told a 37-weeks-pregnant woman in active labor: “We don’t deliver babies here.” But records show the ER department had an “emergency obstetric kit” on hand. The nurse was suspended for three days.
Palowitch says it used to surprise her that hospitals turned patients away because they didn’t specifically provide OB services.
“If a woman comes in, in active labor, and she is going to deliver, that's part of the ER docs’ training. They're a jack-of-all-trades,” said Palowitch.
A hospital that does not have OB services has a duty to provide care to pregnant patients in the ER. Dr. Alison Haddock, an emergency physician in Houston, says ER doctors are prepared for standard deliveries, but sometimes there can be complications.
“It's a tough situation to be in as an emergency physician when you don't have that OB-GYN backup to help you,” said Haddock, a board member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Emergency physicians must deliver babies during their residency training, but Haddock says many go on to work at hospitals that have labor and delivery units. It may be years before an ER physician delivers another baby after residency, so ER doctors heavily rely on the availability of OB-GYNs. Which is why she says labor and delivery units closing could be part of the problem.
“As part of our training, we have all delivered babies before … but we also know our limitations," said Haddock.
For years the closure of labor and delivery units has disproportionately impacted rural hospitals needing to cut costs. The American Hospital Association estimates half of all rural hospitals didn’t offer obstetric care in 2020.
While hospitals sacrifice labor and delivery units, people don’t stop having babies. And they increasingly rely on emergency departments to help them, like in Lesa Morrison’s case.
We learned SMP Health - St. Aloisius closed its labor and delivery unit in 2013. But the Morrisons say the ER doctor should have been able to deliver their daughter.
“It's scary. You know, you trust the doctors around here to have your best interests at heart,” said Lesa Morrison.
From left to right, William Morrison (12), Paizlee Morrison (18 months), Hailee Morrison (11), and Dianne Morrison (5) in their home in Harvey, North Dakota. (Zach Cusson / Scripps News)
The cost of being turned away
In most cases Scripps News reviewed, care was delayed, putting pregnant people and their babies in potentially life-threatening situations. But sometimes it was too late. We found since 2011 CMS has investigated at least ten cases in which women or babies died after they were turned away, like in Martha Lynette Daniels' case in March 2021.
Daniels was 35 weeks pregnant with her second child when a relative took her to the local emergency room at Greene County Hospital in Eutaw, Alabama.
Reporters attempted to interview Daniels for this story, but her attorney declined on her behalf. Scripps News obtained records from the CMS investigation and court documents that detailed what happened.
After Daniels arrived at the ER, records show a family member called 911 from the hospital parking lot and said Daniels was “in labor about to have a baby and they telling her they don’t deliver babies.”
When Greene County EMS arrived at the hospital, records show, Daniels was in the passenger seat of her car and “two nurses were standing under a hospital awning some distance away” but “no apparent care was delivered prior to EMS arrival.” A paramedic documented that Daniels was fully clothed and they could see a “bulge in her groin.” They said Daniels “pointed to her groin and advised ‘I already had it.’” A paramedic cut her clothes and found the baby had already been “delivered from the waist up.”
The baby was unresponsive, and paramedics performed CPR. The ambulance then transported Daniels and her baby to a hospital in Tuscaloosa, 36 miles away. CMS records show the baby, whom Daniels had named Maleah, “was pronounced dead upon arrival.”
“That is not what we're supposed to do. That's not what's supposed to happen,” said Haddock. “That was a denial of a medical screening exam.”
A few days after Daniels gave birth, CMS launched an EMTALA investigation. The agency found Daniels was never brought inside the emergency department nor assessed by the hospital's nurses or doctors.
One nurse told investigators they had gone out to Daniels' car to try to get her into a wheelchair before EMS arrived, but the baby was already in her pants. They “did not assess the baby.”
CMS determined “the hospital's failure to provide a medical screening exam, stabilizing treatment and arrange for an appropriate transfer ... posed an immediate and serious threat” to Daniels and her baby.
CMS did not kick Greene County Hospital off Medicare, nor has the hospital been fined. We found enforcement actions are rarely taken against hospitals turning pregnant women away.
No hospital has ever been terminated from Medicare for violations against pregnant women. Instead, CMS works with hospitals to bring them back into compliance with the law.
Palowitch says the agency isn’t interested in terminating hospitals from Medicare because it would likely close that hospital the community needs. But she says more needs to be done to deter hospitals from violating EMTALA, like imposing more fines against them.
CMS can forward EMTALA investigations to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) within the Health and Human Services Department (HHS). OIG reviews the case and decides whether to fine the hospital.
Scripps News found since 2011, only 12 hospitals have been fined for EMTALA violations against pregnant patients, totaling $632,500.
“Because there aren't that many, I think a lot of facilities are like ... ‘They're not going to pick on us, so I'm not going to worry about it,’” said Palowitch. “If there were more consistent cases ... I think it would make a difference.”
The Office of the Inspector General of Health and Human Services declined our request for an interview. Scripps News sent the agency a list of questions about the lack of civil monetary fines, which it did not answer. Instead, a spokesperson provided a statement saying in part, “HHS-OIG is committed to using its enforcement authorities under EMTALA to help ensure that those essential protections are provided.”
Greene County Hospital CEO Dr. Marcia Pugh did not respond to our requests for an interview. But in response to the Daniels' investigation, records show the hospital agreed to provide an on-site emergency birthing class and EMTALA training to all nursing and medical staff. The hospital also committed to ongoing monitoring by its board to make sure it is following EMTALA.
New challenges
Until recently, EMTALA hasn’t received much national attention. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration reminded hospitals of their obligation to care for pregnant people under the federal law.
It was in response to confusion and fear over the wave of state laws banning and criminalizing abortion; the same procedures involved in abortion care can also be used to manage miscarriages and other potentially life-threatening pregnancy complications.
Since the overturning of Roe, ER doctors have been forced to choose between providing the care EMTALA requires and violating state abortion bans, which can subject them to jail time, heavy fines or the confiscation of their medical license.
“Women will die,” said Palowitch. “That's my fear is that because we have these laws and this legal side and politicians that have now inserted themselves into really a medical decision-making process.”
Last year, EMTALA’s protections for pregnant people seeking emergency care were challenged in the state of Texas for the first time.
A judge in that state ruled when a pregnant person goes to the ER, state law trumps EMTALA. The ruling prohibits CMS from enforcing EMTALA when a pregnant patient claims they were denied an emergency procedure to terminate a life-threatening pregnancy in the state of Texas.
The Department of Health and Human Services is appealing the court's decision that also protects members of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) and the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA).
“This lawsuit was really about whether Texas gets to leave, essentially, health care providers cowering in fear of criminal prosecution or if they have some space to treat patients in emergency situations,” said Sepper. “It's sort of shocking to have EMTALA limited in this way.”
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is raising awareness and urging pregnant people to file complaints with state health departments if they encounter problems in ERs.
In May CMS announced two hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated EMTALA when they denied Mylissa Farmer an emergency abortion procedure. At 18 weeks pregnant, Farmer's water broke prematurely, and doctors determined the fetus would not survive, putting Farmer’s life at risk. Yet, no hospital would allow doctors to help her, and instead she had to drive almost five hours to a clinic in Illinois to obtain an emergency abortion.
Right place, right time
In February of 2023, the first responders who helped John and Lesa Morrison that October night on the side of the highway saw Paizlee for the first time since they helped deliver her.
“To see her now, it's awesome,” said Mandi Berger. “It's always going to be that one call that I will never forget.”
Chuck and Mandi Berger, emergency medical responders, hold Paizlee Morrison for the first time since 2021, when they helped deliver her on the side of the road. (Zach Cusson / Scripps News)
Mandi and Chuck Berger now carry blankets in their truck just in case they ever need to help deliver another baby on the side of a road.
“It just makes you feel like you can't trust the hospital,” said Chuck Berger. “All it takes is a minute, somebody could be dead. And then that's on that doctor's head.”
John and Lesa Morrison don’t plan to expand their family anytime soon.
John (left) and Lesa Morrison with their 18-month-old daughter Paizlee Morrison (right) on Highway 52, mile marker 130, where Paizlee was born. (Zach Cusson / Scripps News)
“Usually when we go by the site, like the other kids will be like, ‘Ope, there's where Paizlee was born,’” said Lesa Morrison.
The remote mile marker on Route 52 is now a part of their family story. Paizlee will be two this October.
“Out of all of the kids we've had, she was the scariest,” said John Morrison. "When the baby was born, the cord was wrapped around her neck. And, you know, I wouldn't have known what to do. So, I'm glad we had the first responders."
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Wichita Falls Police are investigating the scene of a fatal shooting at an apartment complex on Weeks Park Lane.
According to WFPD Crimes Against Persons Sgt. Brian Sheehan, around 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 28, police and emergency medics responded to 4100 Weeks Park Lane, where they found a woman deceased from an apparent gunshot wound.
According to our news crew at the scene, officers taped off an area in the apartment complex and are investigating.
The victim’s name has not been released, and Sgt. Sheehan said next-of-kin has not been notified.
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LONDON, UK — Millions of people in Britain stayed home or sought shade Monday during the country’s first-ever extreme heat warning, as hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moved north, disrupting travel, health care and schools.
The red heat alert covers a big chunk of England and is due to last through Tuesday, when temperatures may reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time, posing a risk of serious illness and even death among healthy people, according to the Met Office, the U.K.'s meteorological agency.
According to British news agency Sky News, flights in and out of RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire have been halted because the "runway has melted." The Royal Air Force base is the largest in the country.
The Royal Air Force appeared to confirm the report in a tweet, saying that aircraft were being diverted to other airfields to land.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Britain is 38.7 C (101.7 F), a record set in 2019. The country isn't at all prepared to handle such heat — most homes, schools and small businesses in Britain don't have air conditioning.
The village of Cavendish in eastern England hit 37.5 C (99.5 F) by 3 p.m. and Wales provisionally recorded its highest-ever temperature, the Met Office said, a recording of 37.1 C (95.5 F) at Hawarden in northeastern Wales.
At least four people were reported to have drowned across the U.K. in rivers, lakes and reservoirs while trying to cool off.
While Monday may bring record highs to southeastern England, temperatures are expected to rise further as the warm air moves north on Tuesday, Met Office CEO Penelope Endersby said. The extreme heat warning stretches from London in the south to Manchester and Leeds in the north.
“So it’s tomorrow that we’re really seeing the higher chance of 40 degrees and temperatures above that,’’ Endersby told the BBC. “Forty-one isn’t off the cards. We’ve even got some 43s in the model, but we’re hoping it won’t be as high as that.”
Hot weather has gripped southern Europe since last week, triggering wildfires in Spain, Portugal and France. Almost 600 heat-related deaths have been reported in Spain and Portugal, where temperatures reached 47 C (117 F) last week.
Climate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events, with studies showing that the likelihood of temperatures in the U.K. reaching 40C is now 10 times higher than in the pre-industrial era. Drought and heat waves tied to climate change have also made wildfires harder to fight.
Officials in southern France’s Gironde region announced plans to evacuate an additional 3,500 people from towns threatened by the raging flames. More than 1,500 firefighters and water-bombing planes are trying to douse the flames in the region’s tinder-dry pine forests.
In Britain, train operators asked customers not to travel unless absolutely necessary, saying the heat was likely to warp rails and disrupt power supplies, leading to severe delays. Some routes were running at reduced speed or shutting down entirely from mid-afternoon, when temperatures were expected to peak.
Flights were disrupted at London’s Luton Airport because of what was described as a “surface defect” on the runway amid the high temperatures. The airport said engineers were called to the site and repair works were underway.
Some medical appointments were canceled to relieve strains on the health service. Some schools closed, and others set up wading pools and water sprays to help children cool off. Most British schools have not yet closed for the summer.
The extreme heat even led Parliament to loosen its strict dress code. The Speaker of the House of Commons said male lawmakers could dispense with jackets and ties for the week.
The high temperatures are even more of a shock since Britain usually has very moderate summer temperatures. Across the U.K., average July temperatures range from a daily high of 21 C (70 F) to a low of 12 C (53 F).
But nightfall on Monday will bring little relief from the heat, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures of 29 C (84 F) at midnight in London. Monday night will be “very oppressive” and it will be difficult to sleep, Chief Meteorologist Paul Davies said.
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On the lookout for something interesting to do in the Valley this week? Look no further, as we’ve got the lowdown on how you can catch the Phoenix Suns in action, spend Halloween night at a spooky Victorian residence, or encounter dinosaurs at the Phoenix Zoo.
Details are below. And for more things to do around town from Monday, October 31, to Thursday, November 3, visit Phoenix New Times' events calendar.
Rosson House, the 1895 Queen Anne Victorian house at Heritage Square, 113 North Sixth Street, gives haunted house vibes all year round. But on Halloween night, Monday, October 31, you can enjoy a number of spooky activities inside the historic mansion. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the house and see objects like a mourning dress, wicker coffin, and a replica Ouija board. Afterward, head to the museum store for food and drinks. Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for kids. Costumes are encouraged, and the event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. More information can be found here. Jennifer Goldberg
Tuesday Night Classics: A Few Good Men
Long before he won Emmys for The West Wing and Oscars for The Social Network, screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin crafted the play A Few Good Men. Filled with snappy dialogue and soliloquies about honor and duty, it later became a blockbuster flick directed by Rob Reiner and filled with legendary performances by Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Harkins Theatres will show the 1992 film, which is celebrates its 30th anniversary later this year, at 17 locations across the Valley on Tuesday, November 1. The screening starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $5. Find a full list of participating locations here. Benjamin Leatherman
Are you ready to believe in the Phoenix Suns again? They’re off to a great start to the season, rocking the rim and racking up a handful of wins against teams both tough (the always fierce Golden State Warriors) and not-so-tough (the ailing New Orleans Pelicans). Its due to starters like Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton putting in their typically stellar performances and players like Cameron Payne and your new hero Jock Landale bringing some heat off the bench. Next up for Phoenix is a home game against the middling Minnesota Timberwolves at Footprint Center, 201 East Jefferson Street, on Tuesday, November 1. Can the Suns keep things rolling? Tipoff is at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $18 if you’d like the answer to that question. Benjamin Leatherman
Have a close encounter with a T-rex at the Phoenix Zoo.
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Dinosaurs in the Desert
For the over 1 million annual visitors to the Phoenix Zoo, 455 North Galvin Parkway, it may come as no shock that its offering up yet another amazing reason to visit. If you haven’t been in a while, and you're a fan of beer and dinosaurs, you may want to consider getting reacquainted with one of the Valley’s best spots to get your steps in and see some wildlife. For the next six months or so, dozens of animatronic dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures will be situated throughout the grounds of the zoo, including the Troodoon, Allosaurus, Compsognathus, Titanoboa, and Tyrannosaurus rex. Each will include displays detailing facts and info for patrons to check out while doing self-guided tours of the displays. The Phoenix Zoo is open daily from 9 to 5 p.m. Admission is $39.95 for adults and $29.95 for kids 3 to 13. Click here for more details. Tom Reardon
In case the various skulls, taxidermied creatures, and other macabre objects contained within Curious Nature, 5032 North Central Avenue, didn’t already tip you off, the local “natural history emporium” and boutique doesn’t shy away from death. Instead, its owners take a somewhat Victorian-era view of the subject, embracing it as an inevitable consequence of life. Its décor and various creative workshops reflect this theme, including the monthly Still Life and Death Art Night. Attendees can paint, sketch, photograph, or artistically render a collection of specimens, skeletons, or other items from Curious Nature’s collection during the latest session from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, November 3. There's a $10 fee to participate and you’ll have to provide your own supplies. Click here for more info. Benjamin Leatherman
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Indian opposition lawmakers visit violence-wracked state in bid to pressure Modi’s government
NEW DELHI (AP) — A group of Indian opposition lawmakers on Saturday visited a remote northeastern state where deadly ethnic clashes have killed at least 130 people, in a bid to pressure the government to take action against the violence, which began in May. The delegation of 20 MPs, who are part of a new opposition alliance called INDIA, arrived in Manipur state for a two-day visit to assess the situation on the ground. The ongoing violence and bloodshed have displaced tens of thousands in recent months: mobs have rampaged through villages, torching houses and buildings. Tucked in the mountains on the border with Myanmar, Manipur is on the brink of a civil war. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/indian-opposition-lawmakers-visit-violence-wracked-state-in-bid-to-pressure-modis-government/ | 2023-07-29 12:45:48 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/indian-opposition-lawmakers-visit-violence-wracked-state-in-bid-to-pressure-modis-government/ |
Companies to Undertake Feasibility Study and Establish Development Plan for Commercial SAF Production
DEERFIELD, Ill., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNZA), an innovative carbon capture and utilization ("CCU") company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, today announced they have been selected by Air New Zealand and the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) to support the second stage of a study to determine commercial viability and sustainability of domestic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in New Zealand.
The study will explore the use of domestic New Zealand waste products to produce SAF, primarily focusing on forestry residue. LanzaTech will transform the waste raw materials into low-carbon ethanol through its commercially deployed gas fermentation technology, and LanzaJet will convert ethanol into SAF with its proven and scaled-up Alcohol-to-Jet technology.
"A sustainable fuels industry enables countries to gain energy independence with domestic production of fuels alongside infrastructure and economic development, while having a positive benefit on climate change – and that's what we're looking to enable in New Zealand," said Jimmy Samartzis, Founding CEO of LanzaJet. "We are eager to begin working with Air New Zealand and the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment to demonstrate the feasibility of SAF production in New Zealand."
LanzaTech, which was founded in Auckland, New Zealand, will be responsible for conducting a supply chain risk assessment while also evaluating the potential for using domestic waste to produce ethanol through gasification.
LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren said, "We must accelerate deployment of SAF facilities globally to create new jobs and deliver much needed volumes of sustainable fuels to a sector that has limited options today. We appreciate the leadership shown by Air New Zealand and the New Zealand government in enabling a future where domestic wastes and residues can be meaningfully repurposed, enabling energy security and regional growth opportunities."
LanzaTech and LanzaJet have selected Z Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ampol Group and New Zealand's largest fuel retailer, to support the study's second stage by evaluating the end-to-end supply chain, including feedstock options and the economic impact to the regions.
Z Energy's CEO Lindis Jones said, "While there is no silver bullet in this energy transition, it's clear SAF will play a critical role in reducing the aviation sector's emissions. Z is looking forward to being a valuable partner alongside LanzaJet and LanzaTech by leveraging its local supply chain expertise, its previous experience supplying biofuels to customers including Air New Zealand, and the expertise of the wider Ampol Group."
Air New Zealand, the nation's national carrier, and the New Zealand Government are investing to support this study, following a yearlong request for proposal (RFP) process to understand which technologies are available globally and evaluate how they can be tailored to the New Zealand context.
The study supports Air New Zealand's broader ambitions to decarbonize and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. In order to prove viability for a commercial-level SAF production facility, partners must demonstrate technical, economic, supply chain, and environmental solutions.
After completion of this study, which is expected by midyear of 2024, a decision will be made on proceeding with the next stages of the project, including further development and engineering work.
ABOUT LANZAJET
LanzaJet is a leading sustainable fuels technology company dedicated to accelerating the energy transition by embracing the circular economy. As a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology provider and producer with patented alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology, LanzaJet is creating an opportunity for future generations by accelerating the deployment of SAF and other clean technologies critical to addressing the climate crisis and transforming the global economy. Further information is available at https://www.lanzajet.com/.
ABOUT LANZATECH
Headquartered in Skokie, IL, LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNZA) captures waste carbon and transforms it into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products. Using a variety of waste feedstocks, LanzaTech's technology platform is contributing to a future where consumers are not dependent on virgin fossil feedstocks for everything in their daily lives. LanzaTech's goal is to challenge and change the way the world uses carbon, enabling a new circular carbon economy where carbon is reused rather than wasted, skies and oceans are kept clean, and pollution becomes a thing of the past. For more information about LanzaTech visit https://lanzatech.com.
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Sept. 17, 1924—June 27, 2022
Louise M. “Shorty” Feest, age 97, of Somers, passed away peacefully on June 27, 2022.
Louise was born in Racine on September 17, 1924, a daughter of the late Henry and Ethel (nee: Coutts) Durben.
On November 15, 1947, at St. Rose Catholic Church in Racine, she was united in marriage to Glenn R. Feest. He preceded her in death on November 29, 2009.
Over the years, “Shorty” was employed with Jockey International, Sears in Kenosha, and the Star Bar and Grill. She and her husband farmed for many years in Somers. In her leisure time, she enjoyed crocheting and playing Bingo.
Following their retirement, she and Glenn retired to Shawano Lake creating many memories. She returned to Somers in 2018.
She was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Kenosha and Sacred Heart Church in Shawano, Women of the Moose Chapter 155, and the American Legion David Leet Post 552 in Somers.
Survivors include her children: Barb Wallen, Linda (Larry) Hudson, her twin sons, Don and Dan (Sharon) Feest, and Diane (Brad) Armstrong; fourteen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren, and her two great-grandsons.
Along with her parents and husband, “Shorty” was preceded in death by a daughter, Nancy Banta, and her siblings: Catherine Hess, Harry, Albert, Harold, and Mike Durben, and Helen Stewart.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 2224 -30th Avenue, Kenosha. Relatives and friends are invited to meet at the church for the Mass. Entombment will follow in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park. A visitation for “Shorty” will take place at the funeral home on Monday, July 11, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
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BURBANK, Calif., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience-Building Leader Program, the nationally recognized series of leadership certifications for front-line supervisors, middle managers, and senior leaders, today announced approval for GI Bill Education Benefits Funding. The Department of Veterans Affairs will provide funding reimbursement for the RBLP, RBLP-C, and RBLP-T certification exams under Chapters 30, 32, 33, 35, & 1606.
Now, more than ever, organizations in every industry need leaders who know how to Build and Lead Resilient Teams. The Resilience-Building Leader Program, along with its growing list of college, university, and training company partners, look forward to providing high-quality education and certification experiences for veterans of the United States Armed Forces.
"I am especially proud of this achievement. As a veteran myself, I used my GI Bill education benefits to earn graduate degrees in both business and education. Here at RBLP, we are looking forward to certifying members of the military veteran community in Building and Leading Resilient Teams." - Dr. Gene Coughlin, Founder/CEO at RBLP.
The Resilience-Building Leader Program is the certification body for the Resilience-Building Leadership Professional® (RBLP™) series of leadership certifications. Our mission is to certify leaders. We certify front-line supervisors (RBLP), middle managers (RBLP-C), and senior leaders (RBLP-T) in building and leading resilient teams.
The Resilience-Building Leader Program relies on a network of Authorized Education and Training Partners that offer certificate, coaching, training, and development programs in Building and Leading Resilient Teams. Our partners use a curriculum developed and updated regularly by Resilience-Building Leader Program. The curriculum is designed to meet or exceed the education/training requirement for each level of Resilience-Building Leadership Professional (RBLP) certification.
Resilience is a human resource strength in organizations that can and should be developed. Collective resilience is the team's ability to overcome adversity, and then adapt and grow together because of that adversity.
Our vision is to create a worldwide community of practice committed to Building and Leading Resilient Teams. Resilient teams are the key to both individual and organizational resilience. Resilient teams are stronger together and they make learning and change possible. Our purpose is to share this truth with leaders everywhere.
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As an Army special forces helicopter pilot, Charley Jordan saw many years of combat. The veteran now grows flowers and says it’s an act of healing. He’s also getting trained to share the therapeutic benefits of flowers with other vets suffering from PTSD.
Blake Farmer of WPLN reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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FRISCO, Texas, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The PGA of America announced today an expansion with Chase Sapphire as the Official Credit Card of the PGA of America.
This renewal broadens Chase Sapphire's reach with the PGA of America and will provide Chase Sapphire cardmembers access to multiple benefits at the PGA Championship and KPMG Women's PGA Championship.
At this year's PGA Championship, held May 15-21 at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, the Sapphire Lounge will be located on the 10th hole to the right side of the green and offer Chase Sapphire Reserve cardmembers prime views of the action, as well as exclusive access to premium food and beverage offerings.
"Chase Sapphire looks forward to offering new benefits to cardmembers through the expansion of our long-term relationship as the Official Credit Card of the PGA of America," said Marleta Ross, General Manager of Chase Sapphire. "We are honored to be the credit card of choice for the discerning PGA of America fan and to be part of PGA's growth with the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship."
Chase Sapphire is also the presenting partner of The PGA Shops at the PGA Championship, the official merchandise location for spectators to purchase Championship apparel and accessories. Sapphire Reserve and Preferred cardmembers can show their cards for complimentary shipping or complimentary on-site locker storage of their purchases. Chase Sapphire also will provide free radio headsets featuring the Championship's SiriusXM radio feed to the first 500 Reserve and Preferred cardmembers each day outside The PGA Shops.
The Sapphire Lounge at the 2023 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, taking place June 21-25 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, will offer spectators an impressive view of the fairway on the 18th hole. By simply showing their Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card, spectators will gain complimentary access to this elevated lounge space at the event.
"We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Chase Sapphire and are excited for their new involvement with the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship," said PGA of America Senior Director, Partnership Strategy & Management Luke Reissman. "Chase Sapphire's presence at our Championships will elevate the experience for spectators as they enjoy the many benefits of being a Chase Sapphire cardmember, including access to unique experiences and unparalleled customer service."
This commitment to the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship (PWCC) coincides with the Chase's continued mission to support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The PWCC annually hosts student-athletes enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and other Minority-Serving Educational Institutions. This year's PWCC will be played May 8-10, at Shoal Creek Club and Bent Brook Golf Course in Birmingham, Alabama.
About PGA of America
The PGA of America is one of the world's largest sports organizations, composed of nearly 28,000 PGA Professionals who work daily to grow interest and inclusion in the game of golf. For more information about the PGA of America, visit PGA.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
About Chase
Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading financial services firm based in the United States with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. Chase serves nearly 80 million consumers and 5.7 million small businesses, with a broad range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. Customers can choose how and where they want to bank: More than 4,700 branches in 48 states and the District of Columbia, 16,000 ATMs, mobile, online and by phone. For more information, go to chase.com.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hygiene and health company Essity has finalized the acquisitions of the Canadian company Knix Wear Inc. ("Knix") and the Australian company Modibodi, both leading providers of leakproof apparel for periods and incontinence. With these acquisitions, Essity will become the global market leader within leakproof apparel*, the fastest growing product segment in Intimate Hygiene which includes Feminine Care and Incontinence Products.
Knix offers a broad assortment of intimate apparel with leading positions in the growing leakproof apparel category. The company has a strong presence in the US and Canada and sells mainly direct-to-consumer through online channels. Essity has acquired 80% of the shares in Knix. Founder and CEO, Joanna Griffiths, holds the remaining 20% share and stays on as President of Knix. Read the announcement of the acquisition of Knix.
Modibodi provides leakproof apparel for periods and incontinence. The company has a strong presence in Australia, New Zealand and the UK and operates an online, direct-to-consumer business model, with growing sales in retail and through e-tailers. Read the announcement of the acquisition of Modibodi.
Knix will be consolidated into Essity's accounts as of September 1, 2022, and Modibodi as of August 1, 2022.
*Estimate based on market data compiled by Essity.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A planned pipeline to export oil from Uganda is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni, opposition figure Bobi Wine said Tuesday, voicing his opposition to a project that’s increasingly controversial over environmental concerns.
Wine, a singer and former lawmaker who ran for president in 2021, is the most prominent Ugandan to object to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline that has run into headwinds as activists pile pressure on France’s TotalEnergies and its Chinese partner to pull out.
The European Union legislature passed a resolution last month urging TotalEnergies to delay work on the pipeline by at least a year, citing rights violations and environmental fears. Campaigners say the 897-mile (1,443-kilometer) heated pipeline — to link oil fields in western Uganda to neighboring Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port of Tanga — violates the spirit of the Paris climate accord. They are trying to prevent the EU from providing any funds to the project.
Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, said last month that he supports the EU Parliament’s stance, drawing anger from some here who charged that he’s not sufficiently patriotic.
In an interview with the AP Tuesday, Wine denied the charges and asserted that Museveni would be “dangerous” with oil wealth at his disposal, noting that the forced displacement of villagers to make way for the pipeline would mirror his own mistreatment as a political activist.
“As we speak now, there are gross human rights violations that are going on,” he said. “It’s important that we look into that. If Gen. Museveni (got) a nod (for the pipeline) without questioning human rights violations, then it would be an endorsement that human rights violations are actually policy here in Uganda.”
Uganda isn’t ready to be an oil exporter with Museveni still in charge, he said.
“Until we have a leader that is accountable to the people, until the leadership is transparent and answerable to the people, until the leadership that we have is indeed a servant leadership, our oil can wait,” he said.
The oil pipeline is a sensitive issue for Museveni, who once spoke of “my oil” and whose government believes petrodollars will lift many of the country’s 45 million people out of poverty. Reacting to the resolution by EU lawmakers, Museveni warned last month that if TotalEnergies “choose to listen to the EU Parliament, we shall find someone else to work with.”
Opposition to the pipeline has sparked indignation among other Ugandan officials who say stopping it would injure the country’s economic interests.
Uganda is estimated to have recoverable oil reserves of at least 1.4 billion barrels. TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation said in February that the total investment would be more than $10 billion.
Some oil wells will be drilled within Murchison Falls National Park in western Uganda. There the Nile plummets 130 feet (40 meters) through a gap just 20 feet (6 meters) wide and the surrounding wilderness is home to hippos, egrets, giraffes and antelope. The pipeline would then pass through seven forest reserves and two game parks, running alongside Lake Victoria, a source of fresh water for 40 million people.
The ecological fragility of the area that the pipeline will traverse is one reason why some activists oppose the project despite assurances from TotalEnergies that the pipeline’s state-of-the-art-design will ensure safety for decades.
Others like Wine, 40, say their political concerns are serious, too.
“We should fight so much to see that this Museveni is not empowered,” he said, speaking of Uganda’s potential oil wealth. “So we should fight so hard that Museveni does not get his violent hand on our oil. Once he gets his hand on our oil, we are screwed.”
Museveni, 78, who rose to power in 1986, is popular among some Ugandans who say his rule has brought Uganda relative peace and economic stability. But some others see him as a dictator similar to the ones who previously ruled Uganda. Museveni has had the constitution amended to remove the age limit for presidents, and he has resisted calls for him to say when he would retire.
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LONDON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Outfit7 has announced its participation in the Green Game Jam 2023, where 40 games from companies around the world are teaming up to raise $1 million to protect three wild ecosystems. The multinational company aims to raise awareness about wildlife conservation through events hosted in its flagship games, Talking Tom Gold Run and My Talking Angela 2. In addition, Outfit7 will make a donation of $60,000 to Re:wild in support of harlequin toad conservation. Re:wild is a non-profit organization that protects and restores the wild. They work closely with the Atelopus Survival Initiative, which is dedicated to protecting harlequin toads, one of the most threatened groups of amphibians in the world, including in the Amazon Rainforest.
"Joining Green Game Jam 2023 is a testament to our commitment to making a positive impact in the world," said Xinyu Qian, CEO of Outfit7. "Both in-game events provide an engaging and fun way for players to learn about the importance of preserving the Amazon rainforest, and to inspire them to take action to protect it."
Starting today, Talking Tom Gold Run players can participate in the "Grow & Go" event, where they collect special water droplets to nurture their very own in-game tree. As players help their tree grow, endangered animals from the Amazon appear, and players are rewarded for their conservation efforts with in-game treats, including in-game currencies. Meanwhile, in My Talking Angela 2, the green action is taking place on Talking Angela's brand new Balcony. In this new feature, players help Angela grow flowers, aiming to attract and take care of bees – wildlife that is vital to sustaining the Amazon ecosystem. Both events will be available from June 1 to June 12, 2023, then every weekend until the end of June.
Players can give their environmental action a boost by using the promo code "BEE" in My Talking Angela 2 for 2,000 extra coins, and "TREE" in Talking Tom Gold Run for 300 extra water tokens.
To join the exciting in-game events in Talking Tom Gold Run and My Talking Angela 2 or to learn more about the campaign visit https://talkingtomandfriends.com/ggj.
ABOUT OUTFIT7
Outfit7 Limited is a dynamic force in mobile gaming, reaching a global audience of billions with its award-winning games. Powered by creativity and industry-leading expertise, the company's talented international team of over 400 people pushes the boundaries of the possible every day. Outfit7's 20+ games have now been downloaded worldwide over 20 billion times and up to 470 million fans play with them every month. Its portfolio also includes numerous chart-topping animated series, theme parks, and a licensing program. You can find more information at www.outfit7.com.
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June 24 boxing card moved from Fiserv Forum to the Waukesha Expo Center
The locally centered boxing card planned for June 24 at Fiserv Forum has been moved to the Waukesha Expo Center, promoter BMB Promotions announced Thursday night.
BMB head Nick Fisher said Fiserv backed out based on ticket sales, which was disappointing but understandable. The Expo Center will accommodate 1,200 to 1,500 people, Fischer said, and BMB is hoping for a sellout.
The main event is a 10-round bout between Adrian Granados (21-9-3) and Jayson Velez (30-11-1), and the card includes many fighters from southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
The June 24 date was to be the second boxing event at Fiserv, following an April 1 show promoted by Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Boxing that featured Milwaukee mixed martial arts veteran Anthony Pettis vs. aging, multi-weight class champion Roy Jones Jr.
Those who purchased seats via Ticketmaster or via individual boxers will receive directions on how to get their money back, although refunds could take some time, Fisher said. A link for ticket purchases for the new event can be found on the B.M.BPromtions414 Facebook page.
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While rumors abound that the next generation of Nissan’s GT-R sports car, the R36, will feature some form of electrification, the automaker on Tuesday came out with the announcement it is developing an electric GT-R, albeit a prototype based on the R32 Skyline GT-R of the early 1990s.
Nissan said the project was born out of the desire of an engineer who originally joined the automaker because of a longing for the GT-R, to add electrification technology to the car.
“I want to build a more exciting car by adding the latest electrification technology that I am involved with to my favorite car,” the engineer said in a statement.
The project currently goes under the title of R32 EV, and Nissan is yet to provide any details on how it will go about converting the R32 GT-R to electric power.
The R32 was the first GT-R to feature the legendary 2.6-liter turbo-6 known as the RB26DETT. Thanks to twin turbochargers and a sturdy iron block, the engine could be tuned to reliably deliver much bigger numbers than its 276-hp rating. Even that official rating is widely accepted as an understated figure, with Nissan only quoting it due to a gentleman’s agreement between Japanese automakers at the time to limit power to the 276-hp figure. While the engine is a huge part of the GT-R mythos, electric motors are more than capable of delivering the type of excitement GT-R fans seek.
It’s possible Nissan could eventually offer an EV conversion for the R32 GT-R and the car’s successors. Nissan’s Nismo division in recent years has been offering replacement parts for classic GT-Rs to help keep the cars on the road. The company even offers a full restoration service that involves stripping the car down to its bare body shell. An EV conversion kit could be something else Nismo offers in the future. Other automakers have already explored this path, including Ford, Mini, and Volkswagen.
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LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly faced criticism Wednesday after telling gay soccer fans heading to the World Cup in Qatar that they should show some “compromise” and be “respectful of the host nation."
The comments were quickly disavowed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office, while a senior figure in the opposition Labour party called them “shockingly tone deaf."
Homosexuality is criminalized in Qatar and Cleverly was asked about the issue in the wake of British activist Peter Tatchell being questioned by police after holding a one-man protest in front of Qatar’s National Museum, holding up a sign accusing the country of jailing members of the LGBTQ community.
“I have spoken to the Qatari authorities in the past about gay football fans going to watch the World Cup and how they will treat our fans and international fans," Cleverly told LBC Radio. "They want to make sure that football fans are safe, secure and enjoy themselves, and they know that that means they are going to have to make some compromises in terms of what is an Islamic country with a very different set of cultural norms to our own.
“One of the things I would say for football fans is, you know, please do be respectful of the host nation. They are trying to ensure that people can be themselves and enjoy the football, and I think with a little bit of flex and compromise at both ends, it can be a safe, secure and exciting World Cup.”
Qatar has said all are welcome at the World Cup, including LGBTQ fans, but that visitors should respect the country’s conservative culture, in which public displays of affection — even among heterosexuals — is taboo.
Qatari law calls for a prison sentence of one to three years for adults convicted of consensual gay or lesbian sex. European soccer federations last month announced their intention for captains to wear an armband with a rainbow heart design as part of an anti-discrimination campaign during international matches.
Downing Street quickly rejected Cleverly's language, saying that people should not have to “compromise who they are."
Opposition parties also criticised Cleverly's comments, with SNP Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald tweeting: “Foreign Secretary seems in essence to be advising people travelling to the World Cup in Qatar to show some respect and not be gay. This is abhorrent.”
Labour shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said: “This is shockingly tone deaf from James Cleverly. Sport should be open to all. Many fans will feel they can’t attend this tournament to cheer on their team because of Qatar’s record on human, workers, and LGBT+ rights.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein faces a shorter prison sentence in California after a Los Angeles jury failed to reach a verdict on whether the disgraced mogul planned his attack on a woman he was convicted of raping.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial on the issue Tuesday after the panel reported it could not agree on special allegations that Weinstein planned his assault on a model-actor in 2013, and whether she was “particularly vulnerable.”
If the jury had found that either circumstance applied, Weinstein would have faced an enhanced maximum term of 24 years when he is sentenced next year. Tuesday’s development means Weinstein, who was convicted of rape and sexual assault charges a day earlier, will face up to 18 years in prison.
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of rape and sexual assault in New York in 2020. He is appealing that sentence, as he will likely do with the California verdict.
Weinstein was charged with raping or sexually assaulting four women, but after a monthlong trial, was only convicted of charges based on one woman’s allegations. Jurors acquitted Weinstein of charges based on another woman’s account, and were unable to reach a verdict on two other women’s allegations.
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Fit and Well Idaho: International Men’s Health Week
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — International Men’s Health Week is coming up from June 13 through June 19.
The week brings awareness to health issues that affect mainly men, and that is the topic of this week’s fit and well Idaho report.
Family doctor Ryan Melvin says this week serves as a good reminder that men’s health isn’t just going to the doctor once a year for your physical, it is all encompassing, physical, mental, and spiritual health, and all of it is important.
Physical health consists of cancer screenings exercise and eating well.
Mental health consists of being able to process what life throws at you. Melvin says the most important of these in his opinion is spiritual health, which doesn’t have to mean religion.
“Some people feel connected to the earth, just being out in nature, some people go to church, some people pray and meditate, some people have different religions, so my thought is a sense of purpose, a sense of overarching, bigger than me purpose,” said Melvin.
Melvin says Men’s Health Week is the perfect time to take care of yourself and make any necessary appointments during this time.
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PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3ICE, North America's premier three-on-three professional ice hockey league, has announced a partnership with Sportradar, the leading global sports technology company creating immersive experiences for sports fans and bettors, to maximize data and analytics as well as provide integrity services for its inaugural season, which starts on June 18 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The agreement designates Sportradar as the official analytics provider for 3ICE.
Under the partnership, Sportradar, through its Synergy Hockey product, will be collecting and providing 3ICE with real-time and post-game data and analytics for every game. This information will be used to enhance business operations for 3ICE, including hockey operations, marketing, and social media. Sportradar will also utilize analytics to expand the reach of the league and its players. Additionally, Sportradar will monitor all of 3ICE's competitions via its Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS), conduct an audit of the league's integrity policies, and provide educational webinars to players, coaches, and staff.
"Protecting the integrity of the league and delivering accurate data are pillars to our growth and help us establish our brand with our fans," said 3ICE Founder and CEO, E.J. Johnston. "This partnership with Sportradar will facilitate fan engagement and educate our players and staff on industry standards, which will strengthen our sport and allow us to eventually build sports-betting on 3ICE for our fans around the world."
"Sportradar has a rich history in supporting and increasing the footprint of ice hockey leagues all around the globe, and we look forward to leveraging our experience, while showcasing our innovative products and services, as 3ICE prepares for its inaugural season," said Jill Exley, Integrity Partnerships Director, North America, Sportradar. "3ICE is bringing a completely new look and feel to traditional ice hockey and we're confident that Sportradar's data and analytics, as well as industry-leading integrity services, will be critical components to helping the league grow in a safe and responsible manner."
About 3ICE
3ICE is a new and totally independent three-on-three professional ice hockey league in North America, created by Founder & CEO E.J. Johnston. Designed to give fans the speed, skill and excitement they love 100% of the time, the on-ice action moves at an unprecedented pace, providing the ultimate hockey experience. For more information on 3ICE, please visit www.3ice.com.
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TORONTO, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Backup and Availability Data Quadrant, naming five providers as Gold Medalists.
Backup and availability software provides business continuity and recovery to ensure organizations' data and information are resilient and can be restored following disasters or outages. Organizations typically use backup and availability software in case of software or hardware malfunction, data deletion, and cyberattacks. Malicious attacks have increased globally in the past few years, and 2022 saw some of the big tech giants being targets of cyberattacks, resulting in loss of information.
To protect against such events, organizations are considering which backup and availability software to invest in this year. SoftwareReviews has identified the top providers with insights based on verified survey data collected from 946 end-user reviews. The leading providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' data quadrant.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score, called a Composite Score (CS), that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
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- Datto SIRIS, 9.0 CS, ranked high for backup of cloud-based data.
- Rubrik CDM, 8.9 CS, ranked high for ease of implementation.
- Zerto Platform, 8.9 CS, ranked high for replication for high availability.
- Acronis Cyber Backup, 8.6 CS, ranked high for automated backup testing and verification.
- Veritas Backup Exec, 8.5 CS, ranked high for customer support.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real end users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
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Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which begin nationwide on Friday, typically include a mix of politics, faith and community service.
For this year’s celebration, the 37th since its federal recognition in 1986, a descendant of King hopes to spur progress by helping more Americans personalize the ongoing struggle for racial equity and harmony. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon, said people must move beyond platitudes and deepen their own commitments to the needed progress.
“We need to change our thinking,” said King, who is CEO of The King Center in Atlanta.
Under the theme “It Starts With Me,” the center launched its slate of Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday with youth and adult summits to educate the public on ways to transform unjust systems in the U.S.
The summits were streamed online and are available for replay on the center’s social media accounts.
“It seems like we’re going through these cycles, because we’re trying to approach everything with the same mindset that all of this (racial inequity) was created,” King told The Associated Press.
“Change can be very small,” she said, “but transformation means that now we changed the character, form, and nature of something. That’s something we have not seen yet.”
Other King holiday weekend events include a statue unveiling in Boston, a symposium on police brutality in Akron, Ohio, and community service projects in many U.S. cities. The holiday kicks off another year of advocacy on a racial justice agenda — from police reforms and strengthening voting rights to solutions on economic and educational disparities — that has been stymied by culture wars and partisan gridlock in Washington and nationwide.
Residents of Selma, Alabama, which played a central role in King’s legacy, woke up to extensive damage Friday from a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes across the South. The city became a flashpoint of the civil rights movement when state troopers viciously attacked Black people who marched nonviolently for voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
King wasn’t present for the march known as “Bloody Sunday,” but he joined a subsequent procession that successfully crossed the bridge toward the Capitol in Montgomery. The Pettus Bridge was unscathed by Thursday’s storm.
On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden is due to speak at a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historic Atlanta house of worship where King preached from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The church is pastored by the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who recently won election to a full term as Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.
And on Monday, the federal observance of the King holiday, commemorations continue in Atlanta, as well as in the nation’s capital and beyond.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will hold his annual King holiday events in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday. Martin Luther King III is expected to attend Sharpton’s breakfast gala in Washington with his wife, Drum Major Institute President Arndrea Waters King, who will be honored alongside former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Monday afternoon in New York City, Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network, is scheduled to convene more than 30 prominent state and local elected officials for a public policy forum at the House of Justice, his organization’s headquarters in Harlem.
In the decades since its establishment, the King holiday has become an opportunity for elected officials and candidates seeking office to establish their civil rights and social justice credentials. Bernice King said partisanship among politicians has been a major obstacle to legislative solutions on civil rights.
Overcoming that is “going to require elevating to a place where your loyalty is to humanity, not to party,” she said.
“If we don’t find humane ways to create policies and implement practices out of those policies, we’re going to continue in this vicious cycle of a downward spiral towards destruction and chaos.”
Outside of establishment politics, many King holiday weekend events are opportunities for Americans to give back, reflect on the civil rights icon’s legacy or deal locally with racial discrimination in their own communities.
A massive monument to Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be dedicated Friday in Boston, where the leader first met his wife, Coretta Scott King. In the early 1950s, he was a doctoral student in theology at Boston University and she was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.
The $10 million sculpture called “The Embrace” consisting of four intertwined arms was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when King Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It was designed by Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group and was selected out of 126 proposals.
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of EmbraceBoston, the organization behind the memorial, noted the significance of the sculpture’s placement at the Boston Common, America’s oldest public park and a high traffic area with millions of city residents and visitors walking its paths every year.
“I think Boston has this reputation of being this city of heroes and abolitionists, like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass, simultaneously with this reputation of not being friendly and in some cases being described as racist. So there’s this tension between these two images of Boston. Having the memorial there is part of our intention to transform our city’s perspective.”
In Akron, Ohio, the family of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed after police officers shot at him 46 times as he fled last July, will hold a symposium on public safety and mental health with local civil rights leaders on Saturday. Walker’s case received widespread attention from activists, including from the King family.
And for the seventh year, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will mark a post-King holiday National Day of Racial Healing. On Tuesday, communities nationwide are scheduled to hold town halls to continue dialog on healing that the foundation says is needed to achieve racial equity.
“Regardless of who you are, there’s a journey of healing that everyone must consider,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the Kellogg Foundation. “We’ve all been impacted by racism.”
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Check your ticket: $1M Mega Millions prize sold in South Florida
DANIA BEACH, Fla. - After no one in America won the Mega Millions jackpot of $830 million this week, Floridians learned one person in the Sunshine State scored after purchasing a $1 million ticket. It turns out that lucky person bought it in South Florida.
The winning ticket was purchased at Stirling Petroleum Inc. at 3991 Stirling Road in Dania Beach, reports WPLG. It's a Mobil gas station located near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood. The winner of the second-place prize matched the first five numbers, but not the Mega Ball: 15.
The first five numbers were: 07-29-60-63-66.
FOX 13 has reached out to the Florida Lottery to confirm whether they are in contact with the winner.
READ: Raising Cane’s founder buys Mega Millions tickets for all employees
As for Friday night's drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot is now $1.025 billion. The new jackpot is the fourth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history.
The $1.02 billion is the value of the annuity option paid annually over 30 years. However, nearly every person who wins the prize selects the cash option, worth an estimated $602.5 million.
The odds of winning the Mega Million jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
According to Mega Millions, Friday’s prize is just shy of the $1.050 billion jackpot won in Michigan on January 22, 2021. The record jackpot is $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina on October 23, 2018. That prize remains the world’s largest lottery prize ever won on a single ticket.
Here’s what lottery boards, insurance companies, and private wealth management advise lottery winners do to keep their personal life and funds safe and secure.
Watch out for scams
Lottery players need to look out for scams whether they’ve won or not.
Some scammers falsely identify themselves as lottery employees to steal money from unsuspecting people, Mega Millions warns.
"No representative of Mega Millions would ever call, text or e-mail anyone about winning a prize," the multi-jurisdictional lottery board’s website says.
Lottery scammers are "persistent," use real or made-up company names, and offer a "free play" or "prize" to try to look legitimate, warns Mega Millions.
Scammers can also ask for personal information or payments that they claim are for "taxes" or "fees."
Helpful tips that Mega Millions offers include being suspicious of any lottery winning from a game that’s never been played, as well as being suspicious of emails that come in with "misspellings or poor grammar."
The lottery board also warns that people should be suspicious if a contact asks to keep correspondence confidential or asks for banking information.
"No real lottery tells winners to put up their own money in order to collect a prize they have already won," Mega Millions notes.
Get professional advice
Lottery winners should put together a team of financial experts if they’ve won a large prize, Mega Millions says
The lottery board recommends that winners look into resources, financial planning tools and personal specialists from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a national professional organization that has more than 428,000 CPAs affiliated with it.
Lawyers and financial advisers could also be worth considering, according to State Farm Insurance.
Seek help if gambling is a problem
If a lottery winner or someone close to a lottery winner has a gambling addiction, Mega Millions says getting help from a gambling addiction association might be a key step.
Two organizations the lottery board recommends are the National Council on Problem Gambling and Gamblers Anonymous.
The National Council on Problem Gambling has affiliate locations in 34 states, while Gamblers Anonymous has hotlines in each state along with in-person and virtual meetings.
Secure the ticket
Lottery winners should make "several copies" of their winning ticket, according to State Farm.
These copies can be shown to lawyers or accountants while the original ticket remains stored in a personal safe or bank deposit box.
State Farm also warns that lottery winners should read each game’s rules and contract before signing their winning ticket.
"In some cases, signing your ticket might prevent you from creating a blind trust later," notes the insurance company’s "What to do if you win the lottery" article.
Protect your privacy
State Farm says lottery winners should keep their winning private before they turn in a ticket.
Winners should also be prepared to change their contact information. This is because many lotteries share names or require interviews or press conference participation for transparency reasons.
"Be sure to change your phone number and set up a new P.O. box beforehand to avoid being inundated with requests," State Farm writes.
The insurance company notes that some winners might be able to form a blind trust through their attorney, so that winnings can be anonymously received.
Make a plan for the money
While forming a team of financial experts is an important step for most lottery winners, State Farm says winners should make a general list or plan about what they wish to do with their money.
"Write down your personal, financial, lifestyle, family and charity goals, and return to that plan later to help keep things on the right track for the long run," the insurance company says.
Put off making big decisions right away
Winning a few million dollars would tempt any person to make a big purchase or lifestyle change — but private wealth managers at Cresset Capital advise against this.
"You need to consider how your employment contributes to your sense of self and your mental well-being," Cresset Capital says in its "What To Do (And Not Do) If You Win The Lottery" article.
Instead of choosing early retirement or making some other dramatic move, the Chicago-based financial planning firm says lottery winners might want to consider taking on part-time jobs or engaging in higher education, volunteer work or passion-filled hobbies.
Cresset Capital also cautions lottery winners against "becoming an ATM for family and friends" in order to avoid jeopardizing financial plans early.
"This is not to say that you should keep all of the money for yourself, but take time to consider how and when you want to give so that you do not become resentful or end up being used for your wealth," the firm writes.
Question whether you should take a lump sum
Some winners are fine with taking a lottery’s lump sum, while others could benefit from taking an annuity payment (a series of equal payments broken down over a period of time).
Cresset Capital advises winners to seek input from a financial adviser to determine which option is best for them.
"Compare after-tax returns, investment returns, your life expectancy, etc.," Cresset Capital writes.
"Careful planning and consideration can result in a higher overall value of your win."
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Conditions were warm and dry today because of high pressure that built in after yesterday's cold front. This will move eastward by tomorrow, bringing rain chances back into the area. Temperatures are still in the upper 70s and gradually decreasing as cloud cover continues to build into the area. It will stick around throughout the night and into tomorrow morning as we wake up to a low of around 61 degrees.
Despite there being rain chances for tomorrow afternoon, temperatures are still expected to warm into the lower 80s for the high. Moderate rainfall will begin early tomorrow and last overnight into the next day. Tuesday will be similar with partly cloudy skies and rain chances for much of the day until evening. After that, dry weather dominates the forecast for the rest of the week and into the weekend as well with high pressure building back in. This is great if you have any outdoor plans for labor day weekend. High temperatures will stay in the lower to mid 80s for most of next week with lows in the lower 60s and upper 50s. | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/cloudy-skies-and-warn-temperatures-for-sunday-evening/article_7d293e06-f828-11ed-afbd-e3f7b67ccf65.html | 2023-05-22 03:04:28 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/cloudy-skies-and-warn-temperatures-for-sunday-evening/article_7d293e06-f828-11ed-afbd-e3f7b67ccf65.html |
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado’s appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.
The woman, Autumn Scardina, called Phillips’ suburban Denver cake shop in 2017 requesting a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside and was pink inside to celebrate her gender transition. At trial last year, Phillips, a Christian, testified he did not think someone could change genders and he would not celebrate “somebody who thinks that they can.”
Jake Warner, an attorney representing Phillips from the conservative Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, said the ruling was wrong. He said requiring Phillips to create a cake with a message contrary to his religious beliefs amounts to forcing him to say something he does not believe, violating his right to free speech.
Judge Timothy Schutz noted Phillips’ wife initially told Scardina the bakery could make the cake before Scardina volunteered that the design was meant to celebrate her gender transition.
One of Scardina’s lawyers, John McHugh, said Scardina did not ask the shop to endorse her idea, just sell her a cake that they would sell anyone else. He said whether or not Phillips sells a cake to someone cannot depend on what the client tells him when he is making the cake.
Both Scardina and Phillips spoke outside the court of larger issues involved. Scardina said the case was about the “dignity of LGBTQ Americans and Coloradans and the rule of law.” Phillips said he was fighting for the rights of all Americans to live according to their consciences “without fear of punishment” by government.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had acted with anti-religious bias in enforcing the anti-discrimination law against Phillips after he refused to bake a cake celebrating the wedding of Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins in 2012. The justices called the commission unfairly dismissive of Phillips’ religious beliefs.
The high court did not rule then on the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to LGBTQ people. But it will get another chance when it hears a different case in coming months challenging Colorado’s anti-discrimination law.
The case involves Denver-area designer Lorie Smith, who wants to offer wedding website services but says her Christian beliefs would lead her to decline any request from a same-sex couple to design a wedding website. She also wants to post a statement on her website about her beliefs but says Colorado’s law violates her free speech and religious rights.
In agreeing to take the case, the Supreme Court said it would only examine the free speech issue.
Smith is also defended by Alliance Defending Freedom. Phillips’ lawyers unsuccessfully asked Colorado’s appeals court to delay hearing arguments in his challenge until after the Supreme Court rules in Smith’s case.
Scardina, an attorney, attempted to order her cake on the same day in 2017 that the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case. Scardina testified she wanted to “challenge the veracity” of Phillips statements that he would serve LGBT customers.
Before filing suit, Scardina first filed a complaint against Phillips with the state and the civil rights commission, which found probable cause that Phillips had discriminated against her. Phillips then filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado, accusing it of a “crusade to crush” him by pursuing the complaint.
In March 2019, lawyers for the state and Phillips agreed to drop both cases under a settlement Scardina was not involved in. Warner told the appeals court panel that Scardina was required to appeal to the state appeals court first before filing a lawsuit and — since she did not — the ruling against Phillips should be thrown out because the state court judge who heard the lawsuit did not have jurisdiction.
McHugh argued the settlement did not reach a conclusion on Scardina’s discrimination claim so there was nothing to stop her from filing a lawsuit against Phillips to pursue it.
After trial of the lawsuit last year, Denver District Judge A. Bruce Jones rejected Phillips’ argument that making the cake would constitute compelled speech, saying it was simply a product sold by a business that couldn’t be withheld from people who have traditionally been treated unfairly and are protected by the state’s anti-discrimination law. He said Phillips’ decision not to provide the requested cake was “inextricably intertwined” with his refusal to recognize Scardina as a woman. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-colorado-baker-fighting-ruling-over-gender-transition-cake/ | 2022-10-06 17:35:21 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-colorado-baker-fighting-ruling-over-gender-transition-cake/ |
Irem Country Club
Holes in One
On May 21, Dave Decker carded an ace on the 135-yard Hole 17 using a 9-iron. Witnesses were Mark Walsh, Wally Pigler, and Dale Clouse.
On May 8, Dallas resident Dave Hanadel scored his first ace using a 9-iron on the 135-yard Hole 17. Witnessing the feat were George Hanadel, Jim Blaum, and Nick Davenport.
Irem Women’s Golf Association
Medal Play
May 12, 2022
Gross: Merri Walter.
Net: Pat Noble, Marie Eyet, Jane Sileski.
Chip-ins: Trudy Matley, Hole 2; Merri Walter, Hole 4; Jane Sileski, Hole 15.
Birdies: Beth Lunger, Holes 1 and 10; Bok Choi, Hole 14; Marie Eyet, Hole 2.
Weekly Putt Winner: Jane Sileski.
Blue Ridge Trail Golf Club
Blue Chip Ladies Golf League
Tee to Green
May 24
First Flight: Janet Kresge. Second Flight: Mary Perchak. Third Flight: Bernie Jespersen. Fourth Flight: Jaclyn Michael.
Birdie: Donna Gramkowski, Trail 4.
Low Par 5s
May 17, 2022
First Flight: Kerrie Wincek. Second Flight: Mary Perchak. Third Flight: Deb Charnichko. Fourth Flight: Sue Pohutski.
Birdies: Janet Kresge, Ridge 2 and 3; Marina Terwilliger, Ridge 1; Mary Perchak, Ridge 4.
Chip-ins: Deb Charnichko, Blue 5 and Ridge 5; Marina Terwilliger, Ridge 1.
Wyoming Valley Country Club
Holes in One
On May 30, John McDermott scored a hole-in-one on the 126-yard Hole 15. Witnesses were Ezz Sarieh, Al Belluchi, and Paul Tomek.
On May 22, Dave Stashik carded an ace on the 169-yard Hole 13. Witnesses were Melissa Define, Bob Tarnowski, and Maria Tarnowski.
On May 13, Ed Brady had an ace on the 180-yard Hole 5. Witnessing the feat were Pete Johnson, Jim Jesikiewicz, and Mike Blazick.
Women’s Golf Association
Open Day Medal Play
May 24, 2022
Class A: Debbie Mileski, low gross; Kathy Goeringer, low net. Class B: Sue Irvin, low gross; Marie Mihalos, low net. Class C: Jeanne Elinsky, low gross; Becky Kulbaski, low net. Crystal: Carol Lippincott, low gross; Joyce Gelli, low net.
Birdies: Karen Hazleton, Holes 7 and 9; Lisa Miller, Hole 9; Kathy Goeringer, Hole 9; Melissa DeFine, Holes 7 and 11; Marie Mihalos, Hole 7.
Chip-ins: Maureen Umphred, Hole 5; Karen Hazleton, Hole 7; Karen Kempinsk, Hole 2; Pat Alansky, Hole 1; June Olszewski, Hole 8; Peg Torbik, Hole 5; Rose Tedesco, Hole 9; Lynn McCarthy, Hole 5.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai's enhanced 2023 Palisade has been named Family Vehicle of the Year by the Midwest Automotive Media Association (MAMA) at the Chicago Auto Show's opening event. The Palisade stood out for its fresh exterior and new available convenience technologies including a 12-inch navigation, WiFi hotspot, Digital Key 2 Touch, new Bluelink® features and driver's ergo motion seat. Many vehicles were evaluated at drive programs by MAMA members throughout the 2022 year.
"The Palisade continues to impress with its family-friendly capabilities and new driver assistant technologies," said Ricky Lao, director, product planning, Hyundai Motor North America. "The Palisade's enhanced Forward Collision Avoidance, Highway Drive Assist and Remote Smart Parking Assist reinforce Hyundai's commitment to safety."
"Every year MAMA's 170+ media members review dozens of new vehicles that qualify for our Family Vehicle of the Year Award," said Harvey Briggs, MAMA president emeritus. "In judging based on utility, performance, value, technology, and other criteria important to families, Hyundai Palisade came out on top among a very strong class of contenders."
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3 Colorado 18-year-olds charged with murder in rock-throwing death
DENVER (AP) — Three men accused of killing a 20-year-old woman while throwing large rocks at passing cars have been charged with murder and other crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak, all 18, each face identical charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, second-degree assault and attempted second-degree assault in the death of Alexis Bartell — and alleged attacks on six other cars in suburban Denver, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced.
Two other drivers suffered minor injuries, according to investigators.
The office of Karol-Chik’s lawyer, Holly Gummerson, declined to comment. A message left for Kwak’s lawyer, Emily Boehne, who was in court, was not immediately returned. Koenig is represented by a lawyer from the public defender’s office, which does not comment to the media on cases.
According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Bartell was talking on the phone with a friend when she was hit by the rock on April 19. After the call went silent, the friend tracked Bartell’s location with a phone app and found the woman dead in her car, which had crashed into a field.
Karol-Chik told investigators that Koenig slowed down so Kwak could get a photo of Bartell’s car after it crashed into a field. He said all three got excited every time they hit a car with landscaping rocks taken from a Walmart parking lot, but acknowledged he felt “a hint of guilt” passing by her car, according to court documents.
Kwak said he took the photo because he thought that Karol-Chik or Koenig would want to have a “memento” of what had happened, according to the arrest affidavits.
Karol-Chik told investigators with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office that he and Koenig had thrown rocks and even a statue at passing cars on at least 10 other days before Bartell was killed. Kwak heard about what they had been doing and asked to join them, according to Karol-Chik’s account in the affidavits.
Karol-Chik and Kwak offered different accounts about who threw the fatal rock. Koenig did not speak to investigators after he was arrested, according to the arrest affidavits.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Kayana Traylor scored 18 points and No. 9 Virginia Tech held off Tennessee 59-56 Sunday in a Jimmy V Women’s Classic matchup.
Jordan Horston led Tennessee with 26 points and 11 rebounds, but missed a pair of late shots that would’ve tied it.
Trailing 58-56 with 3 seconds left, Horston was off on a jumper. Down three with 1.1 seconds remaining, her 3-point try from the top of the key bounced off.
”I hate losing,” Horston said. ”I have to keep reminding myself this is not the end-all.”
”(Horston) poured her heart out,” Tennessee coach Kellie Harper said. ”I thought she was being a leader.”
Cayla King scored 11 points and Georgia Amoore and D’asia Gregg each had 10 for the Hokies (8-0).
”Everybody stepped in and did a little bit of something,” Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks said.
”Jordan was unbelievable,” he added. ”She’s a tremendous talent.”
Tamari Key scored 11 for the Lady Volunteers (4-5).
Virginia Tech shot 35% from the field (20 of 57) and 28% (9 of 32) from 3-point range.
The Lady Vols struggled from the field (20 of 60, 33%) and on 3-pointers (2 of 14, 14%).
Tennessee played without leading scorer and rebounder Rickea Jackson, who was absent because of a coach’s decision.
The Hokies led by as many as 12 in the first half. Tennessee closed the gap with 9-3 run to end the half trailing, 34-30.
The Jimmy V event is named for late North Carolina State men’s coach Jimmy Valvano and raises money and awareness for the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Though off to its fast start, Virginia Tech is still looking to play its first ranked team. It likely won’t get that chance until it entertains Notre Dame on Dec. 18.
BIG PICTURE
Virginia Tech: Point guard Georgia Amoore is an integral part of the Hokie arsenal. In last week’s game with Nebraska, she collected the program’s first triple-double. She had 24 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
Tennessee: The Lady Vols played without three players – Jasmine Franklin and Jillian Hollingshead were injured, and Jackson (17.6 points, 6.6 rebounds) was held out. No details were provided.
UP NEXT
Virginia Tech: The Hokies hit the road to start Atlantic Coast Conference competition Wednesday at Boston College.
Tennessee: The Lady Vols play Chattanooga on Tuesday in the first of three home games before a showdown at Stanford Dec. 18.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PA Consulting (PA), the consultancy that's bringing ingenuity to life, and PulPac, the Swedish R&D and IP company behind the proprietary production process of Dry Molded Fiber, have launched the Bottle Collective. The Collective will create a fiber bottle alternative to help minimize the use of single-use plastic bottles in food, drink, consumer health, and FMCG industries.
The Bottle Collective is committed to industrializing a recyclable, high-speed, low-cost Dry Molded Fiber bottle process. This technology will be a viable alternative to single-use and commodity plastic bottles and applicable for multiple products and categories. PA Consulting's mechanical engineering, design, automation, and material sciences teams, along with PulPac, have already developed the first functioning prototypes. Multiple leading brand partners have already joined the Collective to continue developing and scaling fiber bottles by 2025.
Dry Molded Fiber uses renewable pulp and cellulose resources to produce low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging. The patented manufacturing process uses less CO2 than plastic and conventional wet molding options. Almost no water is used in manufacturing to create a highly versatile container mold for consumer companies. For instance, fiber bottles could work with water, dairy, non-carbonated soft drinks, adult beverages, detergent, skin care, hair care, etc. Bespoke shape, size, and decoration capability will also allow for full expression of a brand's equity.
Tony Perrotta, PulPac Partnership Lead at PA Consulting, said: "We are thrilled to announce the Bottle Collective. Together with leading global consumer brand partners, we can fast-track the development of the world's first Dry Molded Fiber bottle. This will make the most of our renewable resources while delivering significant positive impact to reduce today's single use plastic pollution. We have the technology. We have a functioning prototype and process. We are now ready to enter the next stage - demonstration that our Dry Molded Fiber bottles are capable of being produced at the speed, volume, and cost necessary to match the massive scale of this global industry challenge."
Sanna Fager, Chief Commercial Officer at PulPac, said: "Plastic bottles are the holy grail of plastic replacement. They have an estimated annual production volume of up to 500 billion pieces and are a significant source of plastic pollution worldwide. We are proud to share some of our patent-protected advances with PA Consulting, combining Dry Molded Fibers' forming versatility, broad barrier applicability, and high production efficiency. Backed by strong partnerships across the value chain, we can bring competitive unit cost into the fiber-bottle space, enabling the shift away from today's single use plastic. We encourage all brands and relevant industry actors to join this force for sustainable change."
Click here to learn more about the Bottle Collective.
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FIRST ALERT ACTION DAY: Valley rain and mountain snow
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A pair of storm systems will bring gusty winds at times, along with periods of valley rain and mountain snow to go with much cooler temperatures the first half of the week. Temperatures will remain below average through the week with a colder storm system possible next weekend.
Today: Showers. High near 62. Breezy, with a southwest wind 17 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tonight: Showers. Low around 50. South southwest wind 9 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
M.L.King Day: Showers. High near 58. South wind 9 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Monday Night: Showers. Low around 48. South wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Tuesday: Showers likely, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Southwest wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 36.
Wednesday: Patchy frost before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 55.
Wednesday Night: Widespread frost, mainly after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 32.
Thursday: Widespread frost, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 62.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36.
Friday: Areas of frost. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 57.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 54.
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Juliette Laracuente-Huebner needed seven pairs of shoes to win the 2023 Indoor State Championship Meet held in Ohio all by herself.
The Highland High School senior won four individual titles out of seven total events -- good for a Division II/III school state title in March.
“So I have two flats, high jump spikes, long jump spikes, triple jump spikes, and then practice sprint spikes and competition sprint spikes," Laracuente-Huebner said. “It was crazy being like, going up against teams that have 15 girls there and I was the only one who was representing Highland and it was like, ‘Oh well, I just beat them out all by myself.'"
Laracuente-Huebner earned gold medals in the high jump, 60-meter hurdles, triple jump and long jump.
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The way she won the school the state title was far from straightforward. As a matter of fact, she had to overlap various events in order to partake in the next.
“So I was high jumping and long jumping at the same time,” Laracuente-Huebner said. “Literally I would have to rip off my high jump spikes, and then I would have to sprint over to long jump and try to take a few jumps, and then come back. I almost missed my hurdle race!” she said reviewing her day's schedule. “And then I was triple jumping, I think I did like one or two, and then had to go do the hurdle finals. I started about 10 o’clock and I did not leave the track until about 7:30.”
Laracuente-Huebner's coach, Chip Wendt, noted how impressive the athlete's mental toughness was to be able to switch back and forth between events in a short period of time -- sometimes within seconds.
Sports
“The most special thing about Juliette is her work ethic,” Wendt said. “In all my years, and I’ve been here since ’85, ’86, I’ve never seen any individual in any sport, at this level work this hard.”
Laracuente-Huebner's next hurdle is the OHSAA state championships, where she hopes to translate her winning momentum outdoors.
While taking her track and field talents to the professional stage is the ultimate goal, Laracuente-Huebner is first attending the University of Cincinnati, where she hopes to become a heptathlete on the track and a nurse in the classroom. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/high-school-track-star-overcomes-many-hurdles-to-win-state-title-all-by-herself/4346132/ | 2023-05-18 20:03:13 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/high-school-track-star-overcomes-many-hurdles-to-win-state-title-all-by-herself/4346132/ |
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Hundreds of Party City stores are now available to shop on demand through the Uber Eats platform
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and Party City, the global celebrations leader, announced a partnership to bring party supplies and much more to customers nationwide. Party City is the first celebrations retailer to be available on Uber Eats.
Just in time for the summer holidays and celebrations of dads, and grads, hundreds of Party City stores across the country will be available to shop through the Uber Eats platform. From birthday balloons to bachelorette must-haves, pinatas to paper goods, consumers will be able to shop for thousands of items and have them delivered right to their door. As always, Uber One members will benefit from a $0 Delivery Fee and 5% discount on all Party City orders with a $15 minimum purchase. All consumers will benefit from up to 40% off their next Party City order of $20 or more with code "TIMETOPARTY." Taxes and fees apply. See app for details.
"As we head into summertime, there's so much to celebrate, and at Uber Eats we're always looking for ways to 'bring the party'," said Christian Freese, head of Grocery and New Verticals for Uber Eats in the US & Canada. "From festive decorations to party essentials, by partnering with Party City we can help America spend less time planning and more time creating memories with friends and family."
"We're always looking for new ways to provide our customers with a seamless and convenient shopping experience," said Susan Sanderson, Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing at Party City. "We're thrilled to partner with Uber Eats to expand on-demand delivery capabilities for our customers across the country. From the tiny event details to the full tablescape, this exciting new partnership with Uber Eats helps us achieve our goal of being there for all the ways you celebrate."
This partnership continues Uber's ongoing commitment to retail and grocery delivery—Party City joins PetSmart, Office Depot and more on the Uber Eats app retail category. In the U.S. and around the world, Uber is uniquely poised to meet consumers' growing desire to save time and get more of what they need delivered on-demand within hours—if not minutes—rather than days.
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Uber's mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 15 billion trips later, we're building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
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About Party City
Party City is a part of Party City Holdco Inc. (PCHI), a global leader in the celebrations industry, with offerings spanning more than 70 countries around the world. PCHI is also the largest vertically integrated designer, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of party goods in North America. PCHI operates across multiple businesses within its Retail Division and Consumer Products Division. On the retail side, Party City (partycity.com) is the leading omnichannel retailer in the celebrations category, operating more than 800 company-owned, franchise stores, and Halloween City (halloweencity.com) seasonal pop-up stores. The Consumer Products Division includes design and manufacturing entities Amscan, an industry leader in celebration décor, tableware, costumes, and accessories, and Anagram, the global market leader in foil balloons. PCHI is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. with additional locations throughout the Americas and Asia.
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This week’s new entertainment releases include a whopping 36-song album from Morgan Wallen, the arrival on Hulu of the best picture Oscar nominee and Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” and CBS has a new TV series inspired by the film “True Lies.”
With “Creed III” coming to theaters soon, Prime Video has you covered for all your Creed and Rocky needs — “Creed” and “Creed II,” along with every Rocky film from No. 1 through “Balboa” are available. And Riley Keough and Sam Claflin star as bandmates in a ’70 rock outfit who are at each other’s throats in the Amazon Prime Video series “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
Movies
— With “Creed III” coming to theaters on Friday, Prime Video has you covered for all your Creed and Rocky needs. “Creed” and “Creed II,” along with every Rocky film from No. 1 through “Balboa,” will be available to watch on Prime Video starting Wednesday. You could also do a Sofia Coppola double feature of “The Virgin Suicides” and “Lost in Translation” while trying to decide which Coppola-inspired T-shirt to purchase from Uniqlo’s celebration of the filmmaker (also available next week).
— Best picture Oscar nominee and Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” comes to Hulu on Friday, giving stragglers plenty of time (well, nine days) to watch the riotous and bodily social satire before the Oscars, where it’s also up for best director and best original screenplay. It’s the English-language debut for Swedish director Ruben Östlund who takes a scalpel to the privileged classes on board a luxury yacht, starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon and Woody Harrelson as a Marxist ship captain. I wrote in my AP review that “The beauty and pleasure of something like ” Triangle of Sadness ” is in the details, like the well-observed and precisely crafted awkwardness over who should pay the restaurant bill, or the rules about who gets to sit in the front row of a fashion show shifting in real time.”
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
Music
— Morgan Wallen is back with new music — a lot of music. “One Thing at a Time” has a whopping 36 songs, including “Man Made a Bar” with Eric Church. His sister, Ashlyne, joins him on “Outlook.” “This record represents the last few years of my life, the highs and the lows,” Wallen says in his announcement. (Some of the lows include facing rebuke for being caught using a racial slur.) Early singles include “You Proof” and “Thought You Should Know.” The album ends with the tune “Dying Man” and the lyrics: “Codeine, it got Elvis/Whiskey, it got Hank/I always thought somethin’ like that/ Might send me on my way.” The album drops Friday.
— Willie Nelson approaches his 90th birthday later this year with plenty going on — he just won a Grammy for best country album, he’s among the 2023 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and he has a new album: “I Don’t Know a Thing About Love.” Nelson and his band recorded fresh interpretations of 10 classic compositions penned by the legendary American songwriter Harlan Howard. The songs include “Busted,” the story of a dirt-poor farmer bemoaning his overdue bills, crop failures, and other financial woes while maintaining a sense of hope for the future.
— A huge box set celebrating the musical tie between Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello now serves as a memorial to Bacharach, the iconic composer who died earlier this month. “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello” is a comprehensive 45-song set that includes live performances of Bacharach and Costello performing several songs from the album “Painted From Memory” and three rare and unreleased live performances from 1998 and 1999, including a stark and gripping “In The Darkest Place.” The collection will be available in a variety of formats, including streaming starting Friday.
— Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
Television
— Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis never made a sequel to their 1994 action, comedy movie “True Lies,” directed by James Cameron, but CBS has a new TV series with the same title inspired by the film. Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga now co-star as Harry and Helen Tasker. Harry is a secret international spy who pretends to have a career in computers that takes him on the road a lot. On a mission in Paris doubling as a romantic getaway for the couple, Harry’s double life is exposed and she must join the team. “True Lies,” executive produced by Cameron, debuts Wednesday on CBS.
— “Alaska Daily,” the ABC drama created by “Spotlight” director and co-writer Tom McCarthy and starring Hilary Swank, returns from hiatus Thursday. The series follows the staff at a struggling Alaska newspaper whose new star reporter, Eileen Fitzgerald, was hired to join an ongoing investigation about murdered Indigenous women. It’s inspired by the decades-old problem of missing and murdered Alaska Native women.
— Amazon has adapted “Daisy Jones & the Six,” the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid into a limited series debuting Friday. Riley Keough and Sam Claflin star as the lead singers of a 1970s rock band who make beautiful music together but behind-the-scenes they’re either at each other’s throats or trying to fight their feelings. The story charts the band’s early days, fame and abrupt breakup with flash forwards to older versions of the characters looking back on the story. Reese Witherspoon’s media company, Hello Sunshine, executive produces.
— Alicia Rancilio
Video games
— Times were tough in China at the end of the 2nd century, with the Late Han Dynasty battling to cling to control as rebels rose up. Throw in some dragons, demons and other mythical monsters and you have the blood-drenched setting of Koei Tecmo’s Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Your character is a nameless warrior who’s just trying to stay alive amidst all the chaos. You do have some mad martial arts skills and a handful of magic spells, and if things get hairy you can summon a supernatural beast of your own. Wo Long comes from Japan’s Team Ninja, developers of the brutal hack-and-slash classics Ninja Gaiden and Nioh. Prepare to unleash havoc Friday on the PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One and PC.
— Lou Kesten | https://www.mcall.com/2023/02/28/new-this-week-in-tv-movies-video-true-lies-wallen-and-creed-film-fest/ | 2023-03-13 08:20:45 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/2023/02/28/new-this-week-in-tv-movies-video-true-lies-wallen-and-creed-film-fest/ |
SHOUGUANG, China (AP) _ Gulf Resources Inc. (GURE) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $3.9 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Shouguang, China-based company said it had net income of 37 cents.
The specialty chemicals company posted revenue of $15.7 million in the period.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-0-0-5
(five, zero, zero, five)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-0-0-5
(five, zero, zero, five) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17690724.php | 2023-01-03 05:57:39 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17690724.php |
WASHINGTON — Actor Angus Cloud, known for his role in HBO's "Euphoria," has died. He was 25.
Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. TMZ first reported the news.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family said in a statement. “As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways. Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence."
The actor's death comes shortly after his father's death. Cloud had recently posted a picture of his father on Instagram with the caption "Miss you breh."
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
The official Instagram account for the HBO show posted a tribute to Cloud on Monday night.
"We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud," the post read. "He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time."
Cloud hadn't acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting director Jennifer Venditti noticed him. Series creator Sam Levinson made him the co-star of the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/angus-cloud-euphoria-star-dead-at-25/507-b78fb7c0-496b-4581-9880-a3f43b838278 | 2023-07-31 22:47:57 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/angus-cloud-euphoria-star-dead-at-25/507-b78fb7c0-496b-4581-9880-a3f43b838278 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
9-9-9-8-8
(nine, nine, nine, eight, eight)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
9-9-9-8-8
(nine, nine, nine, eight, eight) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17373458.php | 2022-08-15 05:53:42 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17373458.php |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
22-23-27-33-35
(twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-five)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
22-23-27-33-35
(twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-five) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17321464.php | 2022-07-22 04:18:15 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17321464.php |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
13-15-16-36-39
(thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, thirty-six, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $150,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
13-15-16-36-39
(thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, thirty-six, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $150,000 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-LuckyDay-Lotto-Midday-17489049.php | 2022-10-05 18:14:46 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-LuckyDay-Lotto-Midday-17489049.php |
BMW on Wednesday unveiled the i5, the first-ever all-electric version of the automaker’s 5-Series luxury sedan, which is scheduled to reach dealerships later this year as a 2024 model.
The 2024 BMW i5 will launch in the U.S. in eDrive40 and M60 xDrive guises priced from $67,795 and $85,095, respectively. Both prices include a mandatory $995 destination charge. The all-electric i5 variants will be sold alongside gasoline 5-Series models, with a plug-in hybrid joining the lineup in the 2024 calendar year.
The base i5 eDrive40 model has a single-motor, rear-wheel-drive powertrain rated at 335 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque, enabling 0-60 mph in a BMW-estimated 5.7 seconds on the way to an electronically limited 120-mph top speed.
The M60 xDrive upgrades to a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive setup producing 590 hp and 586 lb-ft. This drops the 0-60 mph time to 3.7 seconds and raises the top speed to 143 mph when equipped with performance tires (130 mph with all-season tires). This sportier model also gets standard adaptive suspension, a 0.3-inch lower ride height than the base model, and upgraded brakes.
Both models use an 84.3-kwh battery pack comprised of four modules with 72 cells each and three modules with 12 cells each, mounted under the floor. This arrangement gives the pack a lower profile, and means the i5 boasts the same passenger space as internal-combustion 5-Series models.
BMW estimates a maximum 295 miles of range for eDrive40 models equipped with the standard 19-inch wheels, while the i5 M60 xDrive has an estimated 256 miles of range.
DC fast charging at a maximum 205 kw allows for a 10-80% charge in about 30 minutes, BMW claims, and i5 owners get two years of complimentary 30-minute charging sessions at Electrify America DC fast-charging sites. An 11-kw Level 2 AC onboard charger is included as well, along with battery preconditioning, including a function to prevent excessively low temperatures that might affect fast charging.
The i5 is close in concept to the BMW i4 and i7, in that it’s an all-electric version of a gasoline model. The main exterior styling differentiator is a sealed-off grille, while on the inside the i5 gets the same array of tech features as other redesigned 5-Series models.
The dashboard is largely bare except for a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and 14.9-inch infotainment screen, squeezed together to create the appearance of one continuous display. BMW claims the iDrive 8.5 infotainment system has a more intuitive interface, and it also includes an Air Console gaming platform to provide entertainment during charging sessions.
A range of tech features, including natural language voice recognition, gesture control, wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, and a head-up display, are available as well.
BMW will also offer its latest driver-assist system, called Highway Assistant. Part of the optional Driving Assistance Professional Package, it enables hands-free highway driving at speeds up to 85 mph, along with automated lane changes. Driver monitoring aims to guard against misuse.
Automated parking tech is also available. One system can automatically maneuver the i5 into perpendicular parking spaces, while another can back the electric sedan out of tricky spots, such as tight garages or driveways recording the maneuvers as the driver does them.
After the i5, the next electric car debut from BMW may be the Neue Klasse EVs, due in 2025. Unlike the i5 and other recent BMW EVs, they’ll be based on an EV-specific platform. U.S.-market versions will be made in Mexico, and will likely pivot to a cylindrical battery format. Regardless of what the i5 might suggest, BMW does plan to build affordable EVs in the near future as well.
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A complaint filed on Tuesday by a think tank alleges that coffee giant Starbucks has discriminatory diversity policies.
35 current and former Starbucks executives and directors are named as defendants in the suit, including interim Chief Executive Howard Schultz.
The National Center for Public Policy Research filed the complaint objecting to what it called Starbucks' hiring goals for Black employees and other groups, Reuters reported.
The complaint accuses Starbucks of giving contracts to "diverse" advertisers and vendors and connecting executive pay to diversity. It says of the company's leadership that the initiatives benefit "them personally to pose as virtuous advocates of 'Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity,' even as it harms the company and its owners." | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/starbucks-leadership-sued-over-diversity-policies | 2022-09-01 00:31:52 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/starbucks-leadership-sued-over-diversity-policies |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
5-1-0, WB: 1
(five, one, zero; WB: one)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
5-1-0, WB: 1
(five, one, zero; WB: one) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Night-game-17318721.php | 2022-07-21 03:18:43 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Night-game-17318721.php |
SINGAPORE, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.com, the world's first social-infused digital asset trading platform is thrilled to announce the listing of Bible Coin with USDT trading pair on its platform. With this listing, crypto enthusiasts can now go toe-to-toe and trade BIBL/USDT on XT.com conveniently.
Bible Coin is a Binance chain BEP-20 digital currency. Moreover, BIBL functions as a peer-to-peer native currency with value-added privileges. BIBL can be purchased, traded, staked, and used to perform crypto-related transactions. Bible Coin's native cryptocurrency BIBL has a total supply of 10,000,000,000 BIBL. However, only 50% of that total supply is available for circulation, with the rest set aside as staking rewards for the future. BIBL will facilitate P2P transactions and donations, as well as provide staking rewards and enable remote elections.
Apart from XT.com's continuous token listing, it aims to pave the way for its users to earn passively through cryptocurrency. It plans to achieve this breakthrough by listing only the best cryptocurrencies that are tradable on its platform. The participants who trade BIBL/USDT are also eligible for withdrawals.
That's not all, users can perform BIBL/USDT withdrawals at any time, everywhere. XT.com proudly encourages everyone to participate in trading BIBL on its platform from now on. On the other hand, the listing of BIBL represents a monumental innovation that forms a huge part of XT.com's goal of expanding its crypto trading services landscape. XT.com continues to build a remarkable footprint of its crypto listing portfolio now and beyond.
About Bible Coin
Bible Coin is a cryptocurrency project that aims to provide solutions to the concerns of the modern church. By the use of blockchain technology, Bible Coin (BIBL) seeks to introduce custom solutions to overcome the challenges that churches face ranging from lack of funds for missions to donations being stolen and mismanaged. The Bible Coin team believes in the power of blockchain technology and demonstrates the improvements to the current system – especially how cryptocurrency transfers enable instant and traceable donations to the church and its missionary activities.
Website: https://bibl-coin.com/
About XT.com
By consistently expanding its ecosystem, XT.com is dedicated to providing users with the most secure, trusted, and hassle-free digital asset trading services. Our exchange is built from a desire to give everyone access to digital assets regardless where you are.
Founded in 2018, XT.com now serves more than 4.5 million registered users, over 500,000+ monthly active users and 30+ million users in the ecosystem. Covering a rich variety of trading categories together with a NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social infused digital assets trading platform, XT.com also supports social networking platform based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.com.
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This past week I completed 19 weeks of service as the foreman for the Monmouth County Grand Jury. While many citizens do everything they can to get out of jury duty, I welcomed the opportunity. As a former elected official and current citizen activist, I love public service. I am also deeply committed to upholding the rule of law and honoring our collective civic responsibility to ensure that justice is served.
As part of my service as grand jury foreman, I was responsible for swearing in every witness who testified before us.
The witness oath is as follows:
“Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give before this Grand Inquest is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?”
For each witness, this was sworn or affirmed on a Christian Bible. This must change immediately. We are not a Christian theocracy. We are a constitutional republic. Witnesses and all New Jersey citizens are bound by the laws enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the state constitution and state statutes. Our citizens are absolutely not legally bound by anything in the Christian Bible. This is why every witness should swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on a copy of the U.S. Constitution.
To be clear, I am not anti-religion. I attended Catholic school for 18 years. I hold a masters degree with distinction in theology from St. John’s University and I was a high school religion teacher. It is because of this academic and professional experience as a Catholic theologian that I am absolutely certain that swearing in witnesses on the Christian Bible, the Jewish Torah, the Muslim Koran, the Hindu Gita, etc., has no place in our courts.
I am requesting that Gov. Phil Murphy and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner immediately direct all judges and court staff to use only the U.S. Constitution to swear in witnesses to grand and petit juries, as well as in all local, county and state courts of law.
James W. Keady, Spring Lake
The writer is a former Asbury Park councilman.
GOP abortion stance based on opportunism
Until 1991, Kansas was progressive regarding women’s rights. Women’s suffrage was first proposed in Kansas in 1867 and approved in 1912, eight years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
As noted in Thomas Frank’s 1991 book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” a far-right splinter group of the Kansas Republican Party joined forces with Operation Rescue, the national anti-abortion group, which held a “Summer of Mercy” in Wichita. It attracted protesters from all over the country, and organizers signed them up as Republicans, urged them to vote and run for office, and many in Kansas did just that.
Previously, the Republican Party had no position on abortion, but leaders saw the potential of joining forces with Christian fundamentalists, who were dedicated to opposing abortion and who would knock on doors, chain themselves to fences and risk their lives, all for free. The Kansas Republican Party, would, from now on, be linked with the Christian Right, and be against abortion.
Seeing the success in Kansas, the national Republican Party mimicked the model. The Republican position on abortion was never morally driven, but based on sheer opportunism.
Now, the people of Kansas have spoken, in overwhelmingly rejecting the possibility of a complete ban in the state constitution. Let it be a model for the rest of the country.
Shirley Allen, Hopewell Township
Police presence is needed at schools
I disagree with high school student Armani Ruffin in his recent guest column, “We don’t need any more police in our schools.” I submit that his solution is oversimplified, as are his funding statistics.
School shootings, violent criminal gangs at both the middle and high school levels, SWAT-ing calls and lurking predators are just some of the issues that any of our communities can be confronted with on any given day. The responsibility for dealing with these kinds of violent episodes is not in the job description of our educators and support staff, nor should it be. It’s in the job description of police officers.
Ruffin’s observations about the failures of police and other authorities in school shootings around the country are completely valid. There are, however, hundreds, and quite probably thousands of violent events, big and small every year, that were prevented simply because there was a visible police presence at a school building.
Ruffin clearly feels like the police are in schools to punish, not to protect. I believe that the opposite is the intention and, by and large, the outcome.
I submit that part of the solution is allocating additional resources toward training police officers to be more effective, empathetic, and valuable members in the social justice community. In today’s world and society, to make the blanket suggestion that “We don’t need any more police in our schools”, is just not a responsible, well-reasoned or balanced view.
John Rounds, Lawrenceville
If Trump gets nabbed, what about the Bidens?
I sometimes wonder if columnist Tom Moran can walk in a straight line. He leans so far left, I feel that he can only walk in a circle.
He writes in “The tantrum over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago,” that “(Attorney General Merrick) Garland’s courage is a beautiful thing to behold…”.
I wonder when this courage is going to be displayed when it comes to Hunter Biden and his father. If Donald Trump committed a crime, then justice should be served. But the same goes for Hunter and President Joe Biden.
I hope the FBI and the Department of Justice don’t gloss over all of the purported wrongdoing of the Bidens and pursue the truth. I can’t wait to read Moran’s column if this should ever happen and uncovers criminality.
Don Montefusco, Maplewood
This cat has nine lives
Since he was a young executive in the 1970s, former President Donald Trump has been involved in behavior that can be described as criminal. He is like a cat with nine lives. Now he is being investigated for his involvement in the insurrection at the Capital.
The Jan. 6 insurrection riot could well be Trump’s undoing. Now, the FBI has raided Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. The evidence against Trump appears to be overwhelming. Will the U.S. Justice Department do the right thing?
Joseph Wardy, Rockaway
Raise salaries and more will teach
Isn’t it time to face the real problem in attracting math and science teachers?
Their talent is in demand and they do not see it as sufficiently rewarded by teaching in New Jersey. To fill positions requires more compensation. If that can’t happen under salary decisions made by local school boards, the state must take on the responsibility.
Well-taught math and science produces talent that is in demand; it pays for itself.
Richard Fuller, Fair Haven
Let’s learn from history
Recently I watched the movie “All the President’s Men,” which told the story about the reporters and the newspaper that broke the story of the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
As a student of history and politics, there seems to be a recurring theme to what has happened to the 45th president.
Having experienced Watergate, we’re now finding out about the failed attempt to take over our government by a president who could not accept defeat and wish the next president congratulations.
I know the feeling of not getting elected again. It was hard to experience.
As we know, history repeats itself in broad terms. Let’s hope we can learn from history.
John G. O’Sullivan, Monmouth Junction
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Someone beat the odds and won the $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot.
According to megamillions.com, there was one winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought in Illinois.
The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.
The jackpot was the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
The $1.28 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $747.2 million.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game is coordinated by state lotteries. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/ticket-bought-in-illinois-wins-1-28b-mega-millions-jackpot/ | 2022-07-30 13:04:31 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/ticket-bought-in-illinois-wins-1-28b-mega-millions-jackpot/ |
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At a ceremony in Washington, D.C. yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce presented Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. ("ACT") the President's "E" Award, the highest honor given to U.S. exporters. ACT is one of just eleven manufacturers in the United States receiving the President's "E" Award this year. ACT was recognized for its sustained growth in a wide range of international markets over the past four years. The President's "E" Award was created in 1961 by Executive Order of President John F. Kennedy and is the highest recognition any U.S. entity can receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.
In recognizing ACT, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, "Advanced Cooling Technologies has demonstrated a sustained commitment to export expansion. The "E" Awards Committee was impressed with the scale of ACT's sales to twenty-seven international markets. Your achievements have contributed to national export expansion efforts that support the U.S. economy and create American jobs."
Adam Say, International Business Development Manager of ACT, added: "We are honored to receive this award. Our purpose is to solve our customers' most challenging thermal problems with the best value engineered products and innovative technologies, no matter where they are in the world."
Since inception, ACT has strived to become the best thermal management company in the world. In working towards this vision, it was paramount for ACT to demonstrate success internationally. Over time, ACT's commitment to evolving its compliance team, establishing a global sales force, exploring international tradeshows, and finding strategic customers that push the envelope on innovation brought it to a point where ACT could target cutting-edge thermal solutions.
ACT's global growth includes a variety of markets, countries, and technologies, some spanning a decade or more. In the medical field, ACT developed partnerships with Inheco (Germany) and GE Healthcare (US & Asian/Europe markets), both of which provided critical equipment in the battle against COVID-19. In the spacecraft market, ACT landed a multi-million dollar contract with URSC in India after several years of discussions and visits across the globe. In the HVAC market, ACT had one of its largest installs at the Samsung Hospital in South Korea. ACT continues finding new opportunities through strong relationship building and product-market fits, including technologies positioned to meet the growing demand for clean energy and the globalization of civil and commercial space programs. "We look forward to continued and growing partnerships with current and future customers across the globe," said Bryan Muzyka, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ACT. He added, "We're building an organization that can compete at a high level internationally, from product development and manufacturing, to export and logistical knowledge, to high quality technical responsiveness, to meet the increasing demand for highly engineered thermal solutions in the global market."
For more information, please visit www.1-ACT.com
About Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc.: Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. is a premier thermal management solutions company, providing design and manufacturing services to meet our customers' needs across all points of the product lifecycle. ACT is the only U.S.-based Heat Pipe manufacturer that routinely ships Heat Pipe products for terrestrial, spacecraft, and high-temperature applications. We serve our global customers' thermal management and energy recovery needs in diverse Markets including Defense, Aerospace, Electronics, HVAC energy recovery, Medical, Enclosure Cooling and Calibration Equipment. We specialize in providing innovative and performance-optimized thermal management technologies and solutions that meet the unique needs of each customer.
About the President's "E" Award: The President's "E" Award was created by Executive Order of the President to recognize to persons, firms or organizations which contribute significantly in the effort to increase U.S. exports. The building ACT occupies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania has a rich history of E Award recipients dating back to 1943. RCA, which once occupied the same building, received an E Award in 1943 and went on to receive two (2) E Star awards. This building has seen the manufacturing of many different types of vacuum tubes (Navy Plant, RCA Television, ACT Military and Industrial) and now it will hold its second Presidential E Award recipient.
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By RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer
AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — A young United States team was nearing victory in its World Cup return. Then Walker Zimmerman needlessly plowed into Gareth Bale.
Bale converted the resulting penalty kick in the 82nd minute, giving Wales a 1-1 draw Monday night that left the Americans feeling frustrated and made their path to the knockout stage more precarious.
“You feel like you have the game and you’re going to win the game,” midfielder Brenden Aaronson said. “It’s a punch in the face.”
Tim Weah put the Americans ahead in the 36th minute off a pass from Christian Pulisic, scoring in front a crowd that included his father, former FIFA Player of the Year and current Liberia President George Weah.
Back in the World Cup after missing the 2018 tournament, the United States had only to close out the final minutes. But Brennan Johnson made a throw-in that Aaron Ramsey cut back to Bale, who had his back to the goal near the penalty spot. Zimmerman’s sliding tackle took out Bale’s left leg, and Qatari referee Abdulrahman Al-Jassim pointed to the penalty spot.
“He probably just puts his leg not for the ball but to try and get in the way of me hitting the ball,” Zimmerman said. “So I kind of went through him and I think I still got the ball. But clever move — I wish I would have seen him out of the corner my eye.”
Shooting in front of the Red Wall of supporters, Bale sent his kick past goalkeeper Matt Turner for his 41st goal in 109 international appearances, salvaging a point for Wales in its first World Cup match since 1958.
“Obviously, a difficult game,” Bale said. “First half was not how we wanted to play and the United States played really well. We played quite poorly.”
Next up for the United States is a high-profile matchup Friday against England, which opened with a 6-2 rout of Iran. Wales faces the Iranians.
The top two teams advance.
“It think it’s pretty clear — a disappointing result for us,” Turner said.
Weah, just 22, was part of a new-look American team that is the tournament’s second-youngest.
Yunus Musah, at 19 years, 358 days the youngest American to start a Cup match, started the move to Weah’s goal when he headed the ball to Josh Sargent at the midfield stripe. Sargent dished off to Pulisic, who burst up the middle of the field. On his fourth touch Pulisic rolled the ball ahead to Weah, who timed his run perfectly to break in ahead of Neco Williams.
From near the penalty spot, Weah used the side of his right foot to poke the ball over the left thigh of sliding goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey for his fourth goal in 26 international appearances.
“It’s a dream come true for every attacker, for every player to score in a World Cup,” Weah said, “and I did that tonight in front of my fans, my teammates, my family.”
In the 750th international U.S. match, the Americans started a U.S. Cup record 10 players from European clubs, with only Zimmerman from Major League Soccer. DeAndre Yedlin, who entered in the 74th minute, was the only American with previous World Cup experience.
Sargent nearly put the Americans ahead in the 10th minute when he hit a post with a header from Antonee Robinson’s cross.
After the U.S. dominated the first half with 66% possession, Wales switched to a three-man attack and had 67% in the first 15 minutes of the second. Ben Davies’ header in the 64th minute was pushed over the crossbar by a leaping Turner.
The match was played in the Arabian desert west of Doha at rebuilt Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, lit in brilliant colors and featuring an exterior facade meant to replicate undulating sand dunes. The U.S. Soccer Federation sold about 3,300 tickets, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was on hand in the crowd of 43,418.
“The nerves were there,” Pulisic said. “Now we have to figure out how to put that together for 90 minutes.”
CARDED
Sergiño Dest, Weston McKennie, Tim Ream and Kellyn Acosta received yellow cards.
TRAINER’S ROOM
U.S. midfielder Gio Reyna was held out because of what coach Gregg Berhalter said was tightness without specifying. Berhalter envisioned him playing against England.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT).
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CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) – Two Florida paramedics have been suspended after a man they pronounced dead was found to be breathing.
On Wednesday morning, Clearwater Fire and Rescue sent two medics to a home in an unincorporated portion of Pinellas County for a reported cardiac arrest.
Medics pronounced the 65-year-old patient dead “shortly after their arrival,” according to a statement from Clearwater Fire and Rescue. They left the area once the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office arrived to investigate the apparent death.
Largo Fire Rescue crews were then called to the home after a deputy discovered the man was still breathing. About 28 minutes elapsed between the initial call and Largo medics’ arrival, Clearwater Fire and Rescue said.
The man was taken to the hospital, where he was still recovering from cardiac arrest as of Saturday.
Often confused with heart attacks, cardiac arrest is an electrical problem, like an irregular heartbeat, and a heart attack is a circulation problem, like a blocked artery, according to the American Heart Association. Seconds after a cardiac arrest, a person will become unresponsive and cannot breathe, or is only gasping.
If a cardiac arrest is not treated within minutes, a person will die, the AHA said.
“Upon notification of this incident, we immediately removed both fire medics from their normal duties and discontinued their abilities to provide patient care, in conjunction with the county’s medical director,” Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said in a statement to Nexstar’s WFLA.
The two medics who initially responded to the call have been placed on administrative duty and are clinically suspended by the Pinellas County EMS Medical Director’s Office. Both the medical director’s office and Clearwater Fire and Rescue are looking into the incident.
“On behalf of the city, I apologize for the actions and the inactions of our crew during this incident,” Chief Ehlers said. “We have strict policies and procedures in place that were not followed, according to our preliminary review. These two did not perform to the standard of care that our citizens expect and deserve.”
Interim Clearwater City Manager Jennifer Poirrier concurred with Chief Ehlers, writing in a statement to WFLA, “when this does not occur at the level at which we expect, it is incumbent upon us to determine exactly what happened, why it happened, and then ensure it will never happen again.”
Earlier this month, the New York State Attorney General’s Office began investigating after an 82-year-old woman was found breathing at a funeral home hours after she was pronounced dead at a Long Island nursing center. That case came a month after a continuing care home in Des Moines, Iowa was fined $10,000 after a funeral home discovered a woman sent to it in a body bag was still alive.
In August 2020, a woman with cerebral palsy living in Southfield, Michigan was pronounced dead only to be found alive at a funeral home. Emergency responders were called after the family of 20-year-old Timesha Beauchamp reported that she appeared to be having serious breathing problems. A doctor, who wasn’t at the scene, pronounced Beauchamp deceased after one of the first responders reported by telephone that she had been unresponsive for 30 minutes and showed no signs of life.
Beauchamp was later taken to the hospital after funeral home staff saw her chest moving. She remained hospitalized in critical condition until her death in October 2020. Her family filed a $50 million federal lawsuit against the city of Southfield and the four first responders who attended to Beauchamp.
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TORONTO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Workforce Management Emotional Footprint Awards, identifying six providers in the Enterprise and Midmarket spaces Champions.
Workforce management (WFM) software helps organizations manage and optimize the productivity of their employees. WFM involves forecasting labor requirements, managing staff scheduling, tracking time and attendance, and more.
SoftwareReviews has identified the best workforce management software providers for 2022 based on verified survey data collected from real end users. These providers have received high scores in the organization's Emotional Footprint.
The Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) is a result of aggregated emotional response ratings across the areas of service, negotiation, product impact, conflict resolution, strategy, and innovation. The NEF is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the provider and its product from the software user's point of view.
The 2022 Enterprise Workforce Management Software Champions are as follows:
- WorkForce Software, +85 NEF, for being trustworthy.
- Ceridian Dayforce, +77 NEF, for being reliable.
- ADP Vantage, +74 NEF, for saving time.
The 2022 Midmarket Workforce Management Software Champions are as follows:
- BambooHR, +97 NEF, for being respectful.
- Paylocity, +92 NEF, for including performance enhancements.
- isolved People Cloud, +90 NEF, for continually improving.
To compare and evaluate workforce management software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' dedicated category page.
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LAS VEGAS, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As 450 of the best Scrabble players in the world converge from 31 countries for the NASPA Double Down – reuniting them here after 22 years, host organization NASPA is setting up tables, chairs, and streaming rigs today at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in preparation for a great meeting of minds.
Over 300 of the players will spend the first week from July 14-19, competing in an open competition in six divisions to see who are the best players in North America. Then, after a one-day break, over 200 players will vie for the world title in an invitational competition from July 21-26. The top winner in each event takes home $10,000.
On most days, a daily schedule of 7 or 8 one-hour games (with a lunch break) offers the media a chance to interview players between games, while capturing the intense atmosphere of competition throughout the room. Viewers can follow full standings for all games, along with one feature game each round streamed with expert commentary. On the last day of each competition (July 19 and 26), attention will be focused on the top two finalists, who will play a head-to-head series to determine the champion.
NASPA CEO John Chew said, "Our game is 75 years old this year, and what better way to celebrate that than to see if one of four World Champions can reclaim their title in Las Vegas? We're going to see some incredible games full of amazing words!"
Since 2009, NASPA has been the governing body for over 19,000 competitive Scrabble players in the United States and Canada.
SCRABBLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the USA and Canada, and of Mattel, Inc. elsewhere. NASPA and its activities are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Hasbro or Mattel.
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Convatec technology is only medical device of its kind
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Convatec has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its InnovaBurn® placental extracellular matrix medical device for management of complex surgical wounds and burns, including partial-thickness second-degree burns.
Each year, almost 500,000 people seek medical treatment for burn injuries, according to the American Burn Association's ameriburn.org, which cites the most recent estimates available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of these patients, about 40,000 were hospitalized for their burn injuries.
The InnovaBurn® medical device joins Convatec's InnovaMatrix® platform as the first and only placental-derived medical devices designed for management of burns, complex surgical wounds and hard-to-heal wounds. Manufactured with Convatec's proprietary TriCleanse™ Process, InnovaMatrix® products, including the new InnovaBurn® ECM, give physicians a next-generation medical device that preserves the inherent benefits of the placenta along with the reliability, reproducibility, and safety of a medical device. InnovaBurn® is commercially available.
"InnovaBurn® is an innovative advancement in ECM technology for patients with partial-thickness, second-degree burns," said Debra Noble, sales director of Convatec's U.S. Burn Division. "InnovaBurn® allows burn patients the benefits of the latest and best placental ECM technology. Our unique source material helps us to manufacture some of the largest ECM sizes in the industry much more affordably, so more patients have access to this brand new technology. Physicians tell us they appreciate the special sizing and InnovaBurn's ease of use that help them manage larger wounds like burns."
Indicated for the management of wounds, InnovaBurn® is a xenograft controlled for genetic variability and environmental and lifestyle factors, including diet and activity levels. The device also can be used on traumatic lacerations, dehisced incisional wounds, pressure and venous ulcers, post-Mohs surgical wounds, post-surgical incisions, and diabetic ulcers.
InnovaBurn® requires no preparation, no specific placement orientation, no tissue tracking and no special storage. It conforms and adheres to the wound site.
InnovaMatrix® products are manufactured with Convatec's proprietary TriCleanse™ Placental Extracellular Matrix Process, which thoroughly decellularizes the ECM, disinfects the tissue and deactivates viruses while maintaining the ECM's structural proteins that can help with healing. This creates a clean, efficient matrix for host cells to bridge across and remodel the defect.
InnovaBurn® was cleared by the FDA through the 510(k) medical device pathway. Medical devices are products that are reviewed by the FDA and meet specific criteria via the 510(k) or Premarket Approval pathway. FDA-cleared devices undergo rigorous review. InnovaBurn® joins the InnovaMatrix® product family, which also includes the InnovaMatrix® AC placental ECM device that is available in several sizes; InnovaMatrix® FS, the fenestrated form designed for wounds with heavy exudate; and InnovaMatrix® PD, the particulate form.
Convatec's Advanced Tissue Technologies, formerly Triad Life Sciences, focuses on regenerative medicine and developing biologically derived innovative products to address unmet clinical needs in surgical wounds, chronic wounds and burns. Regenerative medicine and biologically derived therapies are frequently used to treat hard-to-heal wounds, which affect about 8.2 million Medicare patients each year in the U.S., according to Advances in Wound Care's May 2021 publication 'Human wound and its burden: Updated 2020 Compendium of Estimates.' Founded in 2017, Triad Life Sciences, based in Memphis, Tennessee, was acquired in 2022 by Convatec Group Plc.
For more information about InnovaMatrix® products, visit www.triadls.com and follow on LinkedIn @ConvatecWound, on Twitter @ConvatecWoundUS and on Facebook @ConvatecInc.
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Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, and a promise to be forever caring, our products and services are available in over 100 countries. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE: CTEC) and in 2021 revenues were over $2 billion. To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – Depending on your tolerances for alcohol and costumed buffoonery, SantaCon is either a beloved holiday tradition or the most reviled event of the year.
In any case, it’s probably a good idea to know when these fun-loving Santa Clauses are coming to your town.
SantaCon isn’t so much a “convention,” as the name suggests, but rather a huge gathering of folks dressed as Santa Claus, often for the purposes of going on a festive pub crawl. The idea has been growing in popularity for decades, with hundreds of cities in the U.S. (and many abroad) having played host to their own SantaCons in recent years.
This year, approximately 90 SantaCon events are scheduled to take place throughout the country in the coming weeks — and those are just the ones with details on the SantaCon.info database. There are even more Santa-themed pub crawls planned for additional cities and towns, though they may not operate under a “SantaCon” name.
These events’ origins can be traced back to 1974, when a theater group in Copenhagen decided to stage an anti-consumerism demonstration by dressing in Santa outfits and handing out items they swiped from a department store’s shelves, The New York Times reported. A few years later, the founder of an underground club in San Francisco suggested a similar event, but the group didn’t act on it until 1994, when one of the members was inspired to organize a silly Santa-themed celebration after seeing a postcard featuring several Santa Clauses playing pool in a gay bar, according KQED, a San Francisco PBS member station.
The first SantaCon — known at the time as “Santarchy” or “Cheap Suit Santas” — was more law-abiding than the Copenhagen event, with a few dozen participants crashing Christmas parties, partaking in snowball fights and even visiting a strip club while dressed in full Santa garb.
The group held another Santarchy in 1995, though the celebration took on a rowdier atmosphere thanks to the increased number of participants and the prevalence of alcohol, KQED reported.
“It was not ever intended as a pub crawl, ever,” Rob Schmitt, one of the brains behind San Francisco’s 1994 Santarchy event, once remarked in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
In the years that followed, organizers in nearby regions began hosting their own gatherings. The then-budding internet soon helped SantaCon became a nationwide phenomenon.
Of course, not everyone is enthusiastic about SantaCon. Schmitt himself said in 2017 that he’s not a fan of “the way it is now.” Santarchy co-founder John Law also told The Village Voice a few years before that he didn’t “want to be blamed” for the idea, largely because SantaCon had come to be associated with drunken revelry. Plenty of bars and restaurants have declined to participate during SantaCon too, instead directing participants elsewhere.
Fans, however, claim a lot of good comes from SantaCon. Organizers across the country have used their events to publicize local toy drives or raise money for charity. And plenty of bar owners willingly offer their spaces as Santa-friendly stops along the pub crawl, including the hundreds of bars in San Francisco that view SantaCon as a revenue-generating “Black Friday” of sorts for the service industry, Nexstar’s KRON reported last year.
Thinking of suiting up this year? Visit SantaCon.info for dates and locations of the SantaCons near you.
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SHERIDAN (WNE) — In its first year returning to competitions, the Sheridan High School marching band earned a superior rating at state.
The SHS group was one of just four 4A schools to receive the top score.
"I'm 'over the moon' with how the group performed," SHS Director of Bands Chad Rose said Monday. "To march in front of 5,000, well over half of which are current or former marchers, is a very terrifying experience."
Rose said the group of approximately 125 students went in with the goal to get a superior rating but knew it would be a challenge. Every other band had at least three grades (10-12) of students who had marched before.
Rose said the SHS band has just five members who had previously field marched when they started this journey.
He credited Sheridan Junior High School music teacher Erin Schanzenbach for preparing students so well.
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Superior is the highest rating a marching band can receive at the state contest. In addition to the high marks, the SHS marching band also received caption awards for exceptional performance in three areas: marching, music and winds.
"This is just the first step for us, and the kids are really excited to see what we can do moving forward," Rose said. "Their goals are higher now than the moments before we stepped out of the tunnel and on to the field." | https://trib.com/sheridan-high-school-marching-band-earns-superior-rating-at-state-competition/article_b58f6422-4ff0-11ed-80e8-43064efb3dbf.html | 2022-10-19 22:13:34 | 1 | https://trib.com/sheridan-high-school-marching-band-earns-superior-rating-at-state-competition/article_b58f6422-4ff0-11ed-80e8-43064efb3dbf.html |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy prepared Wednesday for a face-to-face meeting at the White House, the new Republican leader hoping to negotiate significant federal spending cuts in a broader deal to prevent a debt limit crisis.
Biden has refused to engage in direct negotiations over raising the nation's legal debt ceiling, warning against potentially throwing the economy into chaos. McCarthy all but invited himself to the White House, pushing to start the conversation before a summer debt deadline.
McCarthy arrives carrying no formal GOP budget proposal, but he is laden with the promises he made to far-right and other conservative Republican lawmakers during his difficult campaign to become House speaker. He vowed then to work to return federal spending to 2022 levels — an 8% reduction. He also promised to take steps to balance the budget within the decade — an ambitious, if politically unattainable goal.
The political and economic stakes are high for both leaders, who have a cordial relationship, and for the nation as they work to prevent a debt default. But expectations are low that this first meeting will yield early results.
“Everyone is asking the same question of Speaker McCarthy: Show us your plan. Where is your plan, Republicans?” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ahead of the afternoon meeting.
"For days, Speaker McCarthy has heralded this sitdown as some kind of major win in his debt ceiling talks," Schumer said. But he added, “Speaker McCarthy showing up at the White House without a plan is like sitting down at the table without cards in your hand.”
The nation is heading toward a fiscal showdown over raising the debt ceiling, a once-routine vote in Congress that has taken on oversized significance over the past decade as the nation's debt toll mounts. Newly empowered in the majority, House Republicans want to force Biden and Senate Democrats into budget cuts as part of a deal to raise the limit.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress last month that the government was reaching the limit of its borrowing capacity, $31 trillion, with congressional approval needed to raise the ceiling to allow more debt to pay off the nation's already accrued bills. While Yellen was able to launch “extraordinary measures” to cover the bills temporarily, that funding is to run out in June.
Ahead of the White House meeting, House Republicans met in private early Wednesday to discuss policies. McCarthy met with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday at the Capitol.
McConnell has a history of dealmaking with Biden during the last debt ceiling showdown a decade ago. But the GOP leader of the Senate, in the minority party, says it's up to McCarthy and the president to come up with a deal that would be acceptable to the new House majority.
Still, McConnell is doing his part to influence the process from afar, and nudging Biden to negotiate.
“The president of the United States does not get to walk away from the table,” McConnell said in Senate remarks. “The American people changed control of the House because the voters wanted to constrain Democrats’ runaway, reckless, party-line spending.”
Slashing the federal budget is often easier said than done, as past budget deals have shown.
After a 2011 debt ceiling standoff during the Obama era, Republicans and Democrats agreed to across-the-board federal budget caps on domestic and defense spending that were supposed to be in place for 10 years but ultimately proved too much to bear.
After initial cuts, both parties agreed in subsequent years to alter the budget caps to protect priority programs. The caps recently expired anyway, and last year Congress agreed to a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that sparked new outrage among fiscal hawks.
McCarthy said over the weekend he would not be proposing any reductions to the Social Security and Medicare programs that are primarily for older Americans, but other Republicans want cuts to those as part of overall belt-tightening.
Such mainstay programs, along with the Medicaid health care system, make up the bulk of federal spending and are politically difficult to cut, particularly with a growing population of those in need of services in congressional districts nationwide.
The federal budget's non-mandatory programs, in defense and domestic accounts, have also proven tough to trim.
Agreeing on the size and scope of the GOP's proposed cuts will be a tall order for McCarthy as he struggles to build consensus within his House Republican majority and bridge the divide between his conservative and far-right wings of the party.
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The difference between song and record of the year at the Grammys can be confusing. So confusing, that we messed it up on a story on npr.org, and had to issue a correction.
Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
A pop critic looks at two benefit shows in Nashville that put a rainbow-hued spotlight on the way a buzzword like "visibility" can become more than symbolic, especially in moments of crisis.
The K-pop phenomenon BTS is on a break right now. But their fans are not — especially thousands of them in the Philippines, who call themselves the "titas" or aunties of BTS. All of them are over 30.
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Which Netgear wireless router is best?
Nearly every business or home these days needs high-speed internet to function properly. The best way to ensure that the internet will connect to everyone in the space easily is through Wi-Fi. Wireless internet connection runs through a wireless router that emits a connection to every device in a nearby vicinity. One of the biggest brands that provides wireless routers is Netgear. Finding the right wireless router from Netgear, such as the NETGEAR Nighthawk X10, will depend on the needs and space it will be used in.
What to know before buying a Netgear wireless router
Megabits per second capacity
Probably the most important feature on a wireless router for actual internet speed, megabits per second, or Mbps, determines how fast data transfers onto and out of a device. While internet plans play a part in how fast the speed a space has is, the capabilities of a wireless router are the biggest barrier between higher or lower internet speeds.
Single band or dual band
Another major factor for any wireless router is whether it has a single or dual-band ability. To optimize speed, dual-band routers connect some devices to one frequency and others to another or both. This allows for a more consistent and higher-speed connection than a single-band router. However, dual-band routers tend to be more expensive than their counterparts.
Number of devices being used
One of the external factors that helps determine what router to use is how many devices will be connected to the router at the same time. Some routers are built specifically to handle several different devices at once, while others are designed to provide high-speed internet to just a few at a time.
Router range
The range of the router gives a general estimate of how far away from the device a phone or computer can be and still connect at a solid internet speed. For larger homes or offices, having a router with several thousand square feet of range will be incredibly important; however, for an apartment or smaller home, the need for range above even 1,000 square feet may not be necessary.
How much you can expect to spend on a Netgear wireless router
The price for a wireless router depends heavily on its range, number of connected devices, speed capacity and frequency. For a lower-end device, users can find a wireless router for $100 or less. However, for a higher level of needs, expect to pay more than $200.
Best Netgear wireless router
Top Netgear wireless router
What you need to know: One of the best all-around wireless routers on the market that still offers wired ports for specific devices that may require LAN connection.
What you’ll love: The router provides tri-band connection for up to 4600 Mbps of internet speed for high-quality use. The wireless router also has four different antennas to help send a signal in every direction of a home.
What you should consider: Some users report droppages in connection on a semi-consistent basis is frustrating for those who stream videos or work at home.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Netgear wireless router for the money
NETGEAR Nighthawk Smart Wi-Fi Router
What you need to know: This is a solid wireless router that works well for basic needs while costing significantly less than other models.
What you’ll love: Despite the reduction in prices, the wireless router can still comfortably connect with up to 25 devices at the same time. Additionally, the router is easy to set up, with most users only needing 5 minutes to have the device up and running.
What you should consider: With a max Mbps of 1750, the router is not going to work perfectly for users that play video games online.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
NETGEAR Nighthawk 8-Stream AX8 Wi-Fi 6 Router
What you need to know: This is one of the better routers available from Netgear, with a max speed of an impressive 6 Gbps.
What you’ll love: The wireless router is equipped with four antennas to provide 2,500 feet of range. The router can also connect to a storage device and create a personal cloud storage.
What you should consider: The difference between this router and more affordable models may not be large enough for shoppers to pay the $400 price tag.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NETGEAR Nighthawk 4-Stream AX4 Wi-Fi 6 Router
What you need to know: This is a solid, mid-range router that offers above-average connection at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: The two adjustable antennas provide up to 1,500 feet of range. The router also supports Amazon Alexa voice control.
What you should consider: Some users report droppages in coverage every now and again.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 Smart Wi-Fi Router
What you need to know: This is a powerful wireless router built for large spaces while still being semi-affordable.
What you’ll love: The router is capable of up to 3200 Mbps, alongside connecting to 50 devices at the same time. The device covers up to 3,500 feet due to its tremendous range.
What you should consider: Several users report having to reboot the router several times throughout their use of the device.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming 6-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router
What you need to know: This is a great gaming wireless router built to lower ping rate and lag times.
What you’ll love: It’s equipped with four antennas and Wi-Fi 6 to reduce ping rates by up to 93%. The router is also capable of 5.4 Gbps for very fast internet speeds.
What you should consider: At around $300, the router may not be worth the money for non-gaming internet users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System
What you need to know: This is a full Wi-Fi system that comes with satellite routers for optimal connection in large spaces.
What you’ll love: The Orbi can cover up to 5,000 square feet of space and connect with more than 100 devices at the same time. The router and satellites also come with an app to test speeds and manage devices from anywhere.
What you should consider: The router and two satellites cost nearly $700. At the same time, the users report just average internet speed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has kicked off an executive search to replace longtime CEO Kevin Brinegar.
Brinegar is retiring from the Indianapolis-based chamber after 21 years.
Brinegar has received the Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana's highest civilian honor, and led the Indiana Chamber to become the second-largest state chamber in the country.
“Finding an individual to replace someone of Kevin’s caliber and intellect is somewhat like trying to find a unicorn, but I — along with the rest of our board of directors — am confident that our collaboration with Medallion Partners will find exactly the right person to lead the Indiana Chamber into the next phase of its remarkable journey,” Indiana Chamber Board Chairman Paul Perkins said.
The Indiana Chamber commissioned Carmel-based Medallion Partners to partner with its search committee of board members on its CEO search, which is now underway. A new CEO will be tasked with promoting business interests at the statehouse, such as by advocating for more career training, less smoking and tax policies favorable to businesses.
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The aim is to have a new CEO at the helm by late summer or early fall. The new leader would work with Brinegar for several months.
"The organization boasts a total of eight related entities, including a foundation, workforce and wellness programs, as well as the state’s largest political action committee. That’s the backdrop in which the new leader will step into and why we are making sure to have such a thorough and transparent process to find that uniquely qualified individual," Perkins said.
The Indiana Chamber dates back to 1922 and now has 25,000 members across the state. It offers businesses public policy advocacy, networking opportunities, programming, seminars and publications.
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Lorain officer-involved shooting under investigation by Lorain County Sheriff’s Office
Published: Oct. 7, 2022 at 12:18 PM EDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO) - Lorain police said there was an officer-involved shooting Friday morning on the city’s West side.
Lorain Police Lt. Jacob Morris said the shooting took place on Meister Road near Collins Drive.
According to a 19 News crew, the crime scene is within the Evergreen Village housing edition.
Our crew said investigators have taped off an area that appears to surround the leasing office.
According to Morris, the officers involved have not reported any injuries.
Morris said the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office is handling the investigation.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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NICHOLAS COUNTY, W.Va (WOWK) – The principal at Zela Elementary School in West Virginia’s Nicholas County got quite a surprise while checking the dumpster Monday morning.
According to security footage posted by the Nicholas County Board of Education, Zela Elementary School Principal James Marsh was unlatching the lid of a dumpster outside the school around 7:15 a.m. Monday, May 1. As he removed the latch, the lid began to move and a black bear poked its head out of the dumpster, inches away from Marsh.
The video shows Marsh dart away from the dumpster as he spots the bear. The bear then immediately runs in the opposite direction around a shed and toward a wooded area.
“Who says principals don’t deserve hazard pay????” the Nicholas County BOE said in a Facebook post accompanying the video.
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Taste of Summer with Dale’s Steak Seasoning
Bacon Wrapped Shrimp Recipe
JACKSON, Miss. (MISSISSIPPI WEEKEND) -
We’re kicking off summer with Dale’s Steak Seasoning!
All season long we will be featuring recipes that are perfect for the grill with Mississippi Weekend’s Taste of Summer with Dale’s Steak Seasoning.
This months recipe is Bacon Wrapped Shrimp Skewers which serves about 6 - 8 people.
Ingredients
- 9-12″ wooden skewers
- 1 lb regular cut bacon
- 2 lbs extra large shrimp (21-25 count), peeled and deveined
- 1/2 cup Dale’s Steak Sauce, plus more for serving
Directions
1.) Soak the skewers in water for 30 minutes before assembling.
2.) Preheat all burners on a gas grill on medium-high heat for 10 minutes.
3.) Meanwhile, cut each of the bacon strips into 4 equal pieces. Wrap one piece of bacon around one piece of shrimp, just barely overlapping the bacon in the curve of the shrimp. Pierce the skewer through the curve of the shrimp (where the bacon overlaps) to keep the bacon in place. Repeat with all of the shrimp and bacon, putting 4 pieces of shrimp on each skewer. Leave about 1/2-inch of space between each piece of shrimp on each skewer (so that they cook evenly and the bacon renders on all sides) on the grill.
4.) Turn the flame under one half of the burners on the grill to low heat. Place the skewers on the half of the grill over low. Cover and cook for 3-5 minutes, without touching, until the bacon is golden and crispy and the skewers remove easily from the grill. Turn each skewer, cover the grill and cook on the other side for 3-5 more minutes. Turn once more and baste with Dale’s Steak Sauce; cook for one minute. Turn and repeat, basting on the other side.
5.) Serve immediately with additional Dale’s Steak Sauce.
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Debate begins on bill that would expand access to abortions in Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Lawmakers launched into an emotional debate over expanding access to abortions in Maine, delivering impassioned appeals Thursday even as passage was a foregone conclusion in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
The bill introduced by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross and Senate President Troy Jackson would give the state one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country.
It would allow abortions any time before birth if deemed necessary by a medical provider. Current state law bans abortions after a fetus becomes viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks, unless a mother’s life is at risk.
Assistant House Republican leader Amy Arata, of New Gloucester, urged her Democratic colleagues to break ranks, calling it an “extreme” proposal that was unnecessary and “not a compassionate bill.”
“I’ve been criticized for being too moderate. But you know what, there’s a hunger for rational and reasonable voices in government. And you can be a voice of reason by opposing this extreme bill,” she said.
Rep. Colleen Madigan, D-Waterville, was one of the lawmakers to put the bill in personal terms, noting that her mother didn’t have a choice when she gave birth to a baby with a fatal anomaly and watched her newborn son die over the course of a day.
She said lawmakers have no business stepping into such tragedies. “If you’ve never had to be in those circumstances, be grateful,” Madigan said.
The bill is one of several abortion-related bills before lawmakers this session, and the debate began days before the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that women had a constitutional right to an abortion, returning authority to the states.
The debate began respectfully.
Rep. Adam Lee, D-Auburn, said many Democrats were demonized by abortion opponents for supporting the bill. But he said it was a difficult decision for lawmakers on both sides of the issue.
“We need to realize that we aren’t bad people. Neither side. This is a tough decision for all of us,” he said.
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Car found buried in backyard of home
ATHERTON, Calif. (KGO) - Authorities are investigating after a vehicle was found buried on a residential property just outside of San Francisco.
It was discovered Thursday morning in Atherton by landscapers working on a project for the current homeowner.
Investigators said they believe it’s been buried there since the 1990s.
Initial calls came in around 8:50 a.m. Thursday from the 300 block of Stockbridge Avenue in Atherton.
The Atherton Police Department says landscapers called them after discovering a buried car in the backyard of a home.
Officials said the vehicle was buried about 4 to 5 feet into the ground.
Crime scene techs and cadaver dogs were immediately called out to the scene. Police said the dogs made a slight notification of possible human remains, but none have been found.
Aerial video shows crews working throughout the day excavating the site and collecting evidence.
An official said there were unused bags of concrete throughout the vehicle, still in bags.
Atherton is one of the wealthiest communities in the Bay Area, home to many palatial homes and quiet streets.
Nearby neighbors say they’re shocked by what’s happened.
“But usually, it’s pretty safe and everyone is kind of doing their own thing. Everything’s fine,” one person said.
Police said they think the vehicle was buried before the current homeowners took possession of the house.
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South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday as the Gamecocks keep close watch on the foot injury of reigning Player of the Year Aliyah Boston.
The Gamecocks received all 29 first-place votes in the poll released Monday, a day after Boston left a game with her injury. Coach Dawn Staley said Boston was “questionable” going forward but added that the “team doctor wasn’t too, too concerned.”
South Carolina’s next game is Tuesday at home against No. 15 UCLA.
Stanford remained No. 2 after cruising through a tournament in Hawaii. It’s the 618th appearance for Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer, tying the late Pat Summitt for most all-time. Summitt’s teams only missed being in the poll 14 times during her Hall of Fame career at Tennessee.
UConn, Ohio State and Indiana rounded out the top five.
The Huskies are one of four Big East teams to be ranked this week as Marquette entered the poll at No. 24. It’s the first time the Big East has four ranked teams since the conference realigned in 2014. The league is 56-14 so far this season, including going 8-2 against ranked teams.
“We’ve been trying to earn a little more respect,” Marquette coach Megan Duffy said of the Big East. “Tried to schedule tougher non-conference (games). ‘Nova’s playing people. Us going to the Bahamas was great. Creighton’s doing what they’ve been doing since last season. Getting some of those quality wins is everything.”
North Carolina moved up two spots to No. 6 after rallying to beat then-No. 5 Iowa State in the Phil Knight tournament. The Cyclones fell to eighth.
The Tar Heels visit the Hoosiers on Tuesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Indiana returns home after winning two games in Las Vegas at a subpar venue that lacked basic necessities.
Notre Dame remained No. 7 while Virginia Tech and Iowa finished off the top 10. At No. 9, Virginia Tech has matched its best ranking ever and is in the top 10 for the first time since 1999.
Tennessee fell out of the poll this week marking the 56th time in the 827-week history of the poll that the Lady Vols weren’t ranked. Kansas State also fell out with Gonzaga moving in at No. 23.
FALLING CARDINALS
Louisville dropped to 18th in the poll this week after falling to South Dakota State in the fifth place game at the Battle 4 Atlantis last week. It’s the Cardinals lowest ranking since Jan. 11, 2016.
Louisville entered the top 10 in the preseason poll in 2017 and hadn’t been out since, a span of 98 consecutive weeks. It was the longest active streak.
“It’s a compliment to the consistency that we built here,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said of being ranked in the top 10 for so long. “Obviously are goal would have been to stay in the top 10, but it’s a new team and growing.”
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By ANNE M. PETERSON and RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writers
The U.S. Soccer Federation reached milestone agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally, making the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes matching money.
The federation on Wednesday announced separate collective bargaining agreements through December 2028 with the unions for both national teams, ending years of often acrimonious negotiations.
The deals grew partly out of a push by players on the more successful women’s team, including stars like Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, who were at the forefront of the gender equity fight while leading the team to a Women’s World Cup championship in 2019. The struggle became so much a part of the team’s story that chants of “Equal pay! Equal pay!” rose from the crowd as U.S. players celebrated winning the title in France.
Morgan and Rapinoe could still be beneficiaries of the deal, though the next Women’s World Cup is in 2023 and the makeup of the team will have changed by then.
“I feel a lot of pride for the girls who are going to see this growing up, and recognize their value rather than having to fight for it. However, my dad always told me that you don’t get rewarded for doing what you’re supposed to do — and paying men and women equally is what you’re supposed to do,” U.S. forward Margaret Purce said. “So I’m not giving out any gold stars, but I’m grateful for this accomplishment and for all the people who came together to make it so.”
The men have been playing under the terms of a CBA that expired in December 2018. The women’s CBA expired at the end of March, but talks continued after the federation and the players agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by some of the players in 2019. The settlement was contingent on the federation reaching labor contracts that equalized pay and bonuses between the two teams.
Perhaps the biggest sticking point was World Cup prize money, which is based on how far a team advances in the tournament. While the U.S. women have been successful on the international stage with back-to-back World Cup titles, differences in FIFA prize money meant they took home far less than the men’s winners. American women received a $110,000 bonus for winning the 2019 World Cup; the U.S. men would have received $407,000 had they won in 2018.
The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup later this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup, as well as for the 2026 and 2027 tournaments.
Each player will get matching game appearance fees in what the USSF said makes it the first federation to pool FIFA prize money in this manner.
“We saw it as an opportunity, an opportunity to be leaders in this front and join in with the women’s side and U.S. Soccer. So we’re just excited that this is how we were able to get the deal done,” said Walker Zimmerman, a defender who is part of the U.S. National Team Players Association leadership group.
Women’s union projections have compensation for a player who has been under contract to increase 34% from 2018 to this year, from $245,000 to $327,000. The 2023-28 average annual pay would be $450,000 for a player making all rosters, with the possibility of doubling the figure in World Cup years depending on results.
The federation previously based bonuses on payments from FIFA, which earmarked $400 million for the 2018 men’s tournament, including $38 million to champion France, and $30 million for the 2019 women’s tournament, including $4 million to the champion United States.
FIFA has increased the total to $440 million for the 2022 men’s World Cup, and its president, Gianni Infantino, has proposed that FIFA double the women’s prize money to $60 million for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, in which FIFA has increased the number of teams to 32.
For the current World Cup cycles, the USSF will pool the FIFA funds, taking 10% off the top and then splitting the rest equally among 46 players — 23 players on the roster of each team. For the 2026-27 cycle, the USSF’s cut increases to 20% before the split.
After missing the 2018 World Cup, the men qualified for this year’s World Cup in Qatar starting in November. The women’s team will seek to qualify this year for the 2023 World Cup, cohosted by Australia and New Zealand.
“There were moments when I thought it was all going to fall apart and then it came back together and it’s a real credit to all the different groups coming together, negotiating at one table,” said federation President Cindy Parlow Cone, a former national team player who became head of the governing body in 2020. “I think that’s where the turning point really happened. Before, trying to negotiate a CBA with the women and then turn around and negotiate CBA terms with the men and vice versa was really challenging. I think the real turning point was when we finally were all in the same room sitting at the same table, working together and collaborating to reach this goal.”
The women ended six years of litigation over equal pay in February in a deal calling for the USSF to pay $24 million, a deal contingent on reaching new collective bargaining agreements.
As part of the settlement, players will split $22 million, about one-third of what they had sought in damages. The USSF also agreed to establish a fund with $2 million to benefit the players in their post-soccer careers and charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women.
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Tiger Woods goes viral for all the wrong reasons at Riviera
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods had some explaining to do Friday, about a putter so cold he nearly missed the cut at Riviera, and about a chauvinist prank he played on Justin Thomas in the Genesis Invitational.
In his return to elite competition for the first time in seven months, Woods caused quite a buzz in the opening round for all the wrong reasons.
It started when he ripped a 323-yard drive, some 10 yards longer than the 29-year-old Thomas. Walking off the tee, Woods discreetly put something in Thomas’ hand, which Thomas tossed to the ground when he realized what it was — a tampon, to remind him that Woods hit it farther. Woods laughed and put his arm around Thomas.
Social media came to life when the moment was posted. On Friday, one fan shouted, “Tampon!” at Woods after he made a rare putt.
Woods apologized after his bogey-bogey finish for a 74 in the second round, which left him over the projected cut line. By the end of the day, he moved up enough spots that he was certain to be around for the weekend. He was 11 shots behind Max Homa.
“It was supposed to be all fun and games and obviously it hasn’t turned out that way,” Woods said. “If I offended anybody in any way, shape or form, I’m sorry. It was not intended to be that way. It was just we play pranks on one another all the time and virally I think this did not come across that way.”
Outside of swearing following bad shots, Woods rarely brings this kind of attention to himself inside the ropes.
The golf wasn’t much better, either.
He missed birdie chances early and par chances late, and the finish was a polar opposite from his opening round when he closed with three straight birdies for a 69.
Woods came within inches of an ace on the par-3 14th, his fifth hole of the round, but he missed a 5-foot birdie chance two holes later.
“I did not putt well today,” Woods said. “I blocked a lot of putts early, and this is probably the highest score I could have shot today. Probably should have shot probably five or six better than this easily. Just didn’t make the putts early and the middle part of the round when I had those opportunities. And they weren’t very hard putts.”
He still was 2 under for the tournament, even for his round, when he came up short of his target on the par-3 sixth hole, the famous green with a bunker in the middle. The ball rolled down the edge to the front of the green, and the pin was cut to the top left.
Arms crossed and a lob wedge in his hands, he studied multiple options. He could have pitched it to the back of the green and up the slope and let it run back toward the hole.
“If I chipped it up on top, there’s a chance that it could actually come back to the front part of the green,” Woods said, adding that’s what happened when he tried it Wednesday during the pro-am.
He changed to the putter to rip up the slope, left of the pin to leave himself about 10 feet away for a chance at par. One problem.
“The hill caught it more than I thought it would,” he said.
It took speed off the ball and it turned right, down the edge of the bunker and into the sand. He blasted out to 5 feet and made a fast putt with enough break that he had to start it outside the cup.
That was the start of a bad finish. On the eighth, his tee shot found a bunker and he caught it heavy, hit his third over the green and did well to putt from the first cut of turf to tap-in range for bogey.
On his final hole at No. 9, he came up short and plugged into the bunker. All he could do with a front pin was blasted out through the green, and his par putt caught the lip. Another bogey left him at 1-over 143, outside the top 65 when he signed his card.
“I had two bad calls on the wind on 6 and 9 and end up costing me two shots there,” Woods said.
The tournament host is playing for the first time since 2020 because of injuries to his right leg from a car crash a year later.
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
403 AM PDT Thu Aug 4 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-050315-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
403 AM PDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs
76 to 86. Light winds becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall.
Lows 51 to 61. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms in the
morning, then showers and scattered thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs
70 to 80. Light winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening.
Lows 45 to 55. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 84. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 86.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
47 to 57.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs 74 to 84. Lows 44 to 54.
$$
CAZ070-NVZ005-050315-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
403 AM PDT Thu Aug 4 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the
afternoon. Highs 89 to 99. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Haze after midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows 60 to 70. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers in the morning, then
scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs
84 to 94. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening.
Lows 56 to 66. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 57 to 67.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 60 to 70.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
88 to 98.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows 59 to 69.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 84 to 94.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows 56 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 85 to 95.
$$
CAZ071-050315-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
403 AM PDT Thu Aug 4 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the
afternoon. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming west 10 to 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Scattered thunderstorms and isolated showers. Haze after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Lows
55 to 65. West winds 10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the morning, then
scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs
81 to 91. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows
48 to 58. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 52 to 62.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 50 to 60.
Highs 82 to 92.
$$
CAZ073-050315-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
403 AM PDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning, then showers and scattered
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs 74 to 84. Light winds
becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Showers and isolated thunderstorms in the evening,
then scattered showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Lows 47 to 57.
Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Showers and scattered thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall. Highs 67 to 77. Light winds becoming
southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening.
Lows 43 to 53. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs 75 to 85. Light winds becoming south around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 76 to
86.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
47 to 57.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance
of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 75 to 85.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows 46 to 56. Highs 72 to 82.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs 74 to 84.
$$
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A hiker was killed Saturday when he slipped while going down a mountain in New Hampshire and fell to the bottom of a waterfall, authorities said.
The hiker, who has not been identified, rode up Cannon Mountain in a tram with two others and the group was planning on walking around the summit before heading back down on the tram, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said.
They changed their minds at the top and decided to to hike down instead, authorities said. They weren't following a hiking trail and one of the hikers slipped when they got to an area that was rocky, wet and steep, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 79.
Musharraf, a former special forces commando, became president through the last of a string of military coups that roiled Pakistan since its founding amid the bloody 1947 partition of India. He ruled the nuclear-armed state after his 1999 coup through tensions with India, an atomic proliferation scandal and an Islamic extremist insurgency. He stepped down in 2008 while facing possible impeachment.
Later in life, Musharraf lived in self-imposed exile in Dubai to avoid criminal charges, despite attempting a political comeback in 2012. But it wasn’t to be as his poor health plagued his last years. He maintained a soldier’s fatalism after avoiding a violent death that always seemed to be stalking him as Islamic militants twice targeted him for assassination.
“I have confronted death and defied it several times in the past because destiny and fate have always smiled on me,” Musharraf once wrote. “I only pray that I have more than the proverbial nine lives of a cat.”
Musharraf’s family announced in June 2022 that he had been hospitalized for weeks in Dubai while suffering from amyloidosis, an incurable condition that sees proteins build up in the body’s organs.
“Going through a difficult stage where recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning,” the family said. They later said he also needed access to the drug daratumumab, which is used to treat multiple myeloma. That bone marrow cancer can cause amyloidosis.
Shazia Siraj, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai, confirmed his death and said diplomats were providing support to his family. The Pakistani military also offered its condolences.
“May Allah bless the departed soul and give strength to bereaved family,” a military statement said.
Pakistan, a nation nearly twice the size of California along the Arabian Sea, is now home to 220 million people. But it would be its border with Afghanistan that would soon draw the U.S.′s attention and dominate Musharraf’s life a little under two years after he seized power.
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden launched the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks from Afghanistan, sheltered by the country’s Taliban rulers. Musharraf knew what would come next.
“America was sure to react violently, like a wounded bear,” he wrote in his autobiography. “If the perpetrator turned out to be al-Qaida, then that wounded bear would come charging straight toward us.”
By Sept. 12, then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told Musharraf that Pakistan would either be “with us or against us.” Musharraf said another American official threatened to bomb Pakistan ”back into the Stone Age” if it chose the latter.
Musharraf chose the former. A month later, he stood by then-President George W. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to declare Pakistan’s unwavering support to fight with the United States against “terrorism in all its forms wherever it exists.”
Pakistan became a crucial transit point for NATO supplies headed to landlocked Afghanistan. That was the case even though Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency had backed the Taliban after it swept into power in Afghanistan in 1994. Prior to that, the CIA and others funneled money and arms through the ISI to Islamic fighters battling the 1980s Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
The U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan saw Taliban fighters flee over the border back into Pakistan, including bin Laden, whom the U.S. would kill in 2011 at a compound in Abbottabad. They regrouped and the offshoot Pakistani Taliban emerged, beginning a yearslong insurgency in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The CIA began flying armed Predator drones from Pakistan with Musharraf’s blessing, using an airstrip built by the founding president of the United Arab Emirates for falconing in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The program helped beat back the militants but saw over 400 strikes in Pakistan alone kill at least 2,366 people — including 245 civilians, according to the Washington-based New America Foundation think tank.
Though Pakistan under Musharraf launched these operations, the militants still thrived as billions of American dollars flowed into the nation. That led to suspicion that still plagues the U.S. relationship with Pakistan.
“After 9/11, then President Musharraf made a strategic shift to abandon the Taliban and support the U.S. in the war on terror, but neither side believes the other has lived up to expectations flowing from that decision,” a 2009 U.S. cable from then-Ambassador Anne Patterson published by WikiLeaks said, describing what had become the diplomatic equivalent of a loveless marriage.
“The relationship is one of co-dependency we grudgingly admit — Pakistan knows the U.S. cannot afford to walk away; the U.S. knows Pakistan cannot survive without our support.”
But it would be Musharraf’s life on the line. Militants tried to assassinate him twice in 2003 by targeting his convoy, first with a bomb planted on a bridge and then with car bombs. That second attack saw Musharraf’s vehicle lifted into the air by the blast before touching the ground again. It raced to safety on just its rims, Musharraf pulling a Glock pistol in case he needed to fight his way out.
It wasn’t until his wife, Sehba, saw the car covered in gore that the scale of the attack dawned on him.
“She is always calm in the face of danger,” he recounted. But then, “she was screaming uncontrollably, hysterically.”
Born Aug. 11, 1943, in New Delhi, India, Musharraf was the middle son of a diplomat. His family joined millions of other Muslims in fleeing westward when predominantly Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan split during independence from Britain in 1947. The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting.
Musharraf entered the Pakistani army at age 18 and made his career there as Islamabad fought three wars against India. He’d launch his own attempt at seizing territory in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir in 1999 just before seizing power from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Sharif had ordered Musharraf’s dismissal as the army chief flew home from a visit to Sri Lanka and denied his plane landing rights in Pakistan, even as it ran low on fuel. On the ground, the army seized control and after he landed Musharraf took charge.
Yet as ruler, Musharraf nearly reached a deal with India on Kashmir, according to U.S. diplomats at the time. He also worked toward a rapprochement with Pakistan’s longtime rival.
Another major scandal emerged under his rule when the world discovered that famed Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, long associated with the country’s atomic bomb, had been selling centrifuge designs and other secrets to countries including Iran, Libya and North Korea, making tens of millions of dollars. Those designs helped Pyongyang to arm itself with a nuclear weapon, while centrifuges from Khan’s designs still spin in Iran amid the collapse of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
Musharraf said he suspected Khan but it wasn’t until 2003 when then-CIA director George Tenet showed him detailed plans for a Pakistani centrifuge that the scientist had been selling that he realized the severity of what happened.
Khan would confess on state television in 2004 and Musharraf would pardon him, though he’d be confined to house arrest after that.
“For years, A.Q.’s lavish lifestyle and tales of his wealth, properties, corrupt practices and financial magnanimity at state expense were generally all too well known in Islamabad’s social and government circles,” Musharraf later wrote. “However, these were largely ignored. ... In hindsight that neglect was apparently a serious mistake.”
Musharraf’s domestic support eventually eroded. He held flawed elections in late 2002 — only after changing the constitution to give himself sweeping powers to sack the prime minister and parliament. He then reneged on a promise to stand down as army chief by the end of 2004.
Militant anger toward Musharraf increased in 2007 when he ordered a raid against the Red Mosque in downtown Islamabad. It had become a sanctuary for militants opposed to Pakistan’s support of the Afghan war. The weeklong operation killed over 100 people.
The incident severely damaged Musharraf’s reputation among everyday citizens and earned him the undying hatred of militants who launched a series of punishing attacks following the raid.
Fearing the judiciary would block his continued rule, Musharraf fired the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court. That triggered mass demonstrations.
Under pressure at home and abroad to restore civilian rule, Musharraf stepped down as army chief. Though he won another five-year presidential term, Musharraf faced a major crisis following former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in December 2007 at a campaign rally as she sought to become prime minister for the third time.
The public suspected Musharraf’s hand in the killing, which he denied. A later United Nations report acknowledged the Pakistani Taliban was a main suspect in her slaying but warned that elements of Pakistan’s intelligence services may have been involved.
Musharraf resigned as president in August 2008 after ruling coalition officials threatened to have him impeached for imposing emergency rule and firing judges.
“I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes,” Musharraf, struggling with his emotions, said in an hourlong televised address.
Afterward, he lived abroad in Dubai and London, attempting a political comeback in 2012. But Pakistan instead arrested the former general and put him under house arrest. He faced treason allegations over the Supreme Court debacle and other charges stemming from the Red Mosque raid and Bhutto’s assassination.
The image of Musharraf being treated as a criminal suspect shocked Pakistan, where military generals long have been considered above the law. Pakistan allowed him to leave the country on bail to Dubai in 2016 for medical treatment and he remained there after facing a later-overturned death sentence.
But it suggested Pakistan may be ready to turn a corner in its history of military rule.
“Musharraf’s resignation is a sad yet familiar story of hubris, this time in a soldier who never became a good politician,” wrote Patterson, the U.S. ambassador, at the time.
“The good news is that the demonstrated strength of institutions that brought Musharraf down — the media, free elections and civil society — also provide some hope for Pakistan’s future. It was these institutions that ironically became much stronger under his government.”
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Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana contributed to this report. Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing data on hundreds of Los Angeles County poll workers.
Konnech Corporation's Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, while computer hard drives and other “digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the county district attorney's office, according to the office.
Local prosecutors will seek his extradition to California.
“We are continuing to ascertain the details of what we believe to be Mr. Yu’s wrongful detention by LA County authorities," Konnech said in a statement that ended: “Any LA County poll worker data that Konnech may have possessed was provided to it by LA County, and therefore could not have been ‘stolen' as suggested."
Konnech is a small company based in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2020, it won a five-year, $2.9 million contract with LA County for software to track election worker schedules, training, payroll,and communications, according to the county registrar-recorder/county clerk, Dean C. Logan.
Konnech was required to keep the data in the United States and only provide access to citizens and permanent residents but instead stored it on servers in the People’s Republic of China, the DA’s office said.
The DA's office didn't specify what specific information allegedly was taken. But officials said it only involved poll workers, not voting machines or vote counts and didn't alter election results.
“But security in all aspects of any election is essential so that we all have full faith in the integrity of the election process,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
“With the mid-term General Election 35 days away, our focus remains on ensuring the administration of this election is not disrupted,” said a statement from Dean C. Logan, the LA County registrar-recorder/county clerk.
There wasn't any evidence that any election worker was bribed or extorted and an investigation was pending into whether any of the data went into inappropriate hands, the DA's office said.
Konnech previously said that all the data for its American customers were stored on servers in the United States, the New York Times reported Monday.
The paper reported that Konnech and Yu, who was born in China, became the target of claims by election conspiracy theorists that the company had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had supplied information on 2 million poll workers.
There wasn't any evidence to support those claims, but Yu received threats and went into hiding, the paper said.
Konnech also has contracts with Allen County, Indiana, and DeKalb County in Georgia, the Times said.
On its website, Konnech said it currently has 32 clients in North America.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors, according to newly released documents from closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
Johnson, in a statement Tuesday, said he had no recollection of the conversation with Andrew Hitt and accused the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection of attempting to “smear" him by selectively releasing text messages.
“I have no recollection of the phone call referenced in the texts, and therefore do not know the context of any comment I might have made,” Johnson said in a statement. “My goal since the November 2020 elections has consistently been to restore confidence in our election system.”
Hitt, who resigned as state party chairman in July 2021, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Feb. 22. The transcript of his interview was released on Monday. Hitt did not respond to messages from The Associated Press left Tuesday seeking comment.
Hitt provided the committee with a text message he sent to Mark Jefferson, the Wisconsin Republican Party executive director, on Dec. 7, 2020. That was just a week before Wisconsin's electors met to cast their ballots for Biden, who defeated then-President Donald Trump by nearly 21,000 votes in the state. At the same time, Republicans were discussing ways around having the state's electors awarded to Biden.
“Ron called me right after and now is arguing for us to have the legislature choose the electors. OMG," Hitt's text message to Jefferson said.
“What is he doing?” Jefferson replied.
“There is a huge amount of pressure building on them to find a way around the electoral college,” Hitt told Jefferson.
“How can he feel good about promoting that though?” Jefferson said. “Does he believe we won here?”
Jefferson declined to comment Tuesday.
Hitt told the Jan. 6 committee that he opposed having the Legislature award electoral votes, that he didn't think Republican legislators would do it, and that he told Johnson that attorneys for the Legislature had weighed in and said lawmakers didn't have the power to do that.
Hitt testified that he didn't recall Johnson giving any reasons for why he wanted the Legislature to award the electors or that Johnson wanted him to do anything about it. Hitt described Johnson's comments as a “general complaint.”
“He didn’t ask me to call anybody,” Hitt testified.
Hitt was among 10 Republicans who met secretly in the Wisconsin Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, the same day as Democrats met to cast the state's electoral votes for Biden. Trump supporters wanted the fake electors in battleground states to be accepted in order to hand the election to Trump.
The texts between Hitt and Jefferson showed their concerns about the plan.
“Now how are we gonna get this silly electors meeting canceled? I fear that we won’t," Jefferson texted Hitt, in reference to the Republicans.
Hitt also testified that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani wanted to keep the Republicans' meeting secret. Giuliani said in one conference call that there should be “no press, no heads up” about the meeting.
On Jan. 4, 2021, according to a question asked by a Jan. 6 committee member, Jefferson texted Hitt that “freaking Trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the Senate President."
Johnson's staff attempted to get the slate of fake electors delivered to then-Vice President Mike Pence, but Pence's staff rejected them.
Johnson did meet privately with Republican Wisconsin legislative leaders on Nov. 10, 2021, and told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel then that state lawmakers should take over the running of federal elections, rather than Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who was in that meeting, said Tuesday that Johnson did not bring up the possibility of having the Legislature cast electoral votes.
Johnson, in his statement Tuesday, said it was “indisputable that there were a number of irregularities with that election.” He said the elections commission issued guidance that was against the law, in reference to successful lawsuits brought by Republicans. Johnson also referenced six election bills passed by Republicans that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed.
“I want to fix the problems, Democrats only seem interested in playing politics and making it easier to cheat,” Johnson said.
The Jan. 6 committee last month released an 814-page report after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained more than a million pages of documents. It has been releasing transcripts of its interviews since then. The committee urged the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against Trump.
Johnson has repeatedly downplayed the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, while also raising concerns about widespread voter fraud despite there being no evidence to back it up. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-documents-detail-Sen-Ron-Johnson-asking-17692474.php | 2023-01-03 23:15:25 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-documents-detail-Sen-Ron-Johnson-asking-17692474.php |
You could get a free flight if you adopt a kitten
(CNN) – Future pet owners looking to adopt a kitten can now do so and get a free flight.
Frontier Airlines is offering free flight vouchers to people who adopt one of three kittens from the Las Vegas Animal Foundation.
If an adopter steps up to take home “Delta” or “Spirit,” they’ll get two vouchers worth $250 a piece, totalling $500 “per pet parent.”
The person who adopts the kitten named “Frontier” will get four flight vouchers, totalling $1,000.
The vouchers are good to use through the end of 2023.
The Las Vegas-based nonprofit said the three kittens arrived at its facility near the end of December. They were only around a couple of weeks old.
The kittens will be adoption-ready once they hit six weeks old and weigh at least one and a half pounds.
Frontier Airlines said it was “delighted” the nonprofit gave one of the kittens its moniker.
The airline also said it’s thrilled to offer the extra incentive to help get the kittens adopted.
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--Latest in Series of Shryne Group Employee-Led Service Projects Include "Love is Pho Real" Program Serving Meals to to Seniors while Supporting AAPI-Owned Businesses--
LOS ANGELES, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STIIIZY, the #1 cannabis retailer in California and flagship brand of Shryne Group Inc., presents its "Joint Efforts" social impact program during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Founded during the pandemic last year, Joint Efforts is a series of volunteer initiatives that encourage and allow Shryne Group employees to give back to the greater community. As one of the most engaged cannabis companies in the industry, Shryne Group is committed to doing good and empowering and inspiring others to do even more.
"Cannabis connects to community," said Tak Sato, President of Shryne Group Inc., parent company of STIIIZY. "Through Joint Efforts, we're able to unite the community and work together as agents of change, whether through programming, fundraising, or really anything we can do to support underserved and underrepresented individuals and organizations in our neighborhoods."
During the month of May, Shryne Group is highlighting AAPI-owned businesses and supporting the greater AAPI community through various programming. One such campaign "Love is Pho Real" turns the spotlight on AAPI-owned restaurants and small businesses, then shares their offerings with community members in need. In L.A., for example, Shryne Group is partnering with Little Tokyo Florist and distributing flowers to seniors at the Sakura Garden assisted living center. In the Bay Area, the company is feeding seniors and families at the West Bay Pilipino Multiservice Center and partnering with United Playaz to bring programming and services for underserved and at-risk youth in the area.
Committed to driving impactful change in the community, Joint Efforts will continue throughout the year and benefit multiple causes throughout the state and beyond. Next month, Shryne Group will partner with the Dream Awake Foundation to create social impact across the border, sending food, toys and other supplies in need to orphanages in Mexico. Past Joint Efforts include STIIIZY From the Heart delivering meals and toiletries to seniors in San Francisco, Earth Day volunteer service programming with the Compton Community Garden, Women's History Month partnerships with the Downtown Women's Center, Weed for Warriors medical cannabis donations, and more.
More about the STIIIZY brand and its Joint Efforts programming is available online at www.stiiizy.com.
About Shryne Group Inc.
Shryne Group Inc. is a Los Angeles-based cannabis holding company with a vertically integrated asset and license portfolio covering the breadth of California, the largest legal cannabis market in the world. The company has 21 open retail locations across California with plans for 40+ locations open by the end of 2022. Shryne Group has cultivation, manufacturing and distribution facilities in Humboldt County, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Lompoc, and has more than 2,500 employees across business lines. While rooted in California, the company also sells products in Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan.
Shryne Group's flagship brand STIIIZY has a passionate following and is inspired by authentic cannabis culture, with the goal of providing high quality cannabis products at affordable prices. The STIIIZY product line is the #1 selling vape brand nationally, the #1 overall cannabis brand in California, and the #3 selling cannabis brand overall nationally. For more information, visit www.shrynegroup.com.
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CONCORD — State and local police helped calm a man who had come to the State House and made threats on his way to Attorney General John Formella’s office across the street Tuesday morning.
State House staff reported that the unidentified man first appeared at the office of House Speaker Sherman Packard on the third floor. After making threats some feared alluded to “suicide by cop,” officials said, he abruptly left.
State police reviewed surveillance video that confirmed the man had exited the State House. Walking towards the AG’s office, state and local police stopped the man outside the building.
“This afternoon the New Hampshire Department of Justice received information that a distraught person was on his way to the Attorney General’s Office from the State House,” said Michael Garrity, Formella’s director of communications. “NHDOJ investigators worked with state police and Concord police to locate the individual and speak with him. The person did not violate any laws and the situation was resolved without incident.”
A large police presence took place outside and inside the State House once authorities learned of the man's threat.
The matter drew far less attention at this time of year because legislators are not paid mileage to attend State House meetings during the summer months. As a result, few lawmakers make the trip to Concord for legislative business in July and August.
All lawmakers will be back for a one-day session Sept. 15 to take up the vetoes of Gov. Chris Sununu. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/safety/state-local-police-calm-distraught-man-at-state-house/article_748d2871-4020-579e-b9de-0256f9326051.html | 2022-08-18 14:00:38 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/safety/state-local-police-calm-distraught-man-at-state-house/article_748d2871-4020-579e-b9de-0256f9326051.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Selena Gomez joined first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at the White House on Wednesday for a conversation about youth mental health.
The singer/actor has been public about her struggles and revealed in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Biden, Murthy and Gomez held a conversation in the East Room with several young people, including a mother and a recent Rutgers college graduate, who shared how they had improved their mental outlook.
The strategies they shared ranged from going through multiple therapists to find one who is right for you to using baking as a way to encourage conversation with others facing similar challenges.
“Mental health is very personal for me and I hope that by using my platform to share my own story … I can help others feel less alone,” Gomez said.
Biden praised the participants for sharing.
“It takes courage to, you know, be honest about the struggles that you faced and to tell your stories.,” the first lady said. “And it takes courage to understand that your voice can make a difference and to show your creativity and talents, you know, to all of the world.”
Murthy said open conversation will help change “hearts and minds” and help remove the stigma associated with mental health.
MTV Entertainment sponsored the conversation in advance of the second Mental Health Action Day on Thursday. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/jill-biden-selena-gomez-lead-talk-on-youth-mental-health/ | 2022-05-19 10:43:56 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/jill-biden-selena-gomez-lead-talk-on-youth-mental-health/ |
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