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US inflation will likely stay high even as gas prices fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans may finally be catching a break from relentlessly surging prices — if just a slight one — even as inflation is expected to remain painfully high for months.
Thanks largely to falling gas prices, the government’s inflation report for July, to be released Wednesday morning, is expected to show that prices jumped 8.7% from a year earlier — still a sizzling pace but a slowdown from the 9.1% year-over-year figure in June, which was the highest in four decades.
The forecast by economists, if it proves correct, would raise hopes that inflation might have peaked and that the run of punishingly higher prices is beginning to ease slightly. There have been other hopeful signs, too, that the pace of inflation may be moderating.
At the same time, an array of other economic developments are threatening to keep intensifying inflation pressures. The pace of hiring is robust and average wages are up sharply. And even as gas prices fall, inflation in services such as health care, rents and restaurant meals is accelerating. Price changes in services tend to be sticky and don’t ease as quickly as they do for gas, food or other goods. Those trends suggest that overall inflation may not drop significantly anytime soon.
President Joe Biden has already pointed to falling gas prices as a sign that his policies — such as releases of oil from the nation’s strategic reserve — are helping combat the higher costs that have hammered household budgets, particularly for lower-income families.
Yet Republicans will push ongoing high inflation as a top campaign issue in this fall’s elections, with polls showing that high prices have driven Biden’s approval ratings down sharply.
On Friday, the House is poised to give final congressional approval to a revived tax-and-climate package pushed by Biden and Democratic lawmakers. The bill, which among other things aims to ease pharmaceutical prices by letting the government negotiate Medicare’s drug costs, is expected to cut the federal budget deficit by $300 billion over a decade.
Yet economists say the measure, which its proponents have titled the Inflation Reduction Act, will have only a minimal effect on inflation over the next several years, though it could could slow price increases a bit more later this decade.
Economists have forecast that Wednesday’s inflation report will show that consumer prices rose 0.2% from June to July, according to FactSet. That would mark a steep drop from the 1.3% jump from May to June.
But excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core inflation likely stayed high. Economists project that core prices rose 0.5% from in July, still a sharp rise, though down from the 0.7% jump in June. Such an increase would leave core prices 6.1% higher than a year ago, up from a 5.9% year-over year increase in June.
If overall inflation did ease in July, it will largely reflect a 16% plunge in prices at the gas pump from their peak in mid-June, when gas hit a national average of $5 a gallon. The average price fell to about $4.20 by the end of July and was just $4.03 by Tuesday. The continuing drop means that lower gas prices will likely pull inflation down further in August.
Other items may have also helped lower price gains in July: Food costs, though they likely kept rising, probably did so at a slower pace than in June. Prices for used cars, clothing and rental cars may have fallen, too.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed needs to see a series of declining monthly core inflation readings before it would considering pausing its interest rate increases. Though the Fed more closely tracks a different inflation measure, it also monitors the figures in Wednesday’s report, known as the consumer price index.
The Fed has raised its benchmark short-term rate at its past four rate-setting meetings, including a three-quarter point hike in both June and July — the first increases that large since 1994. A blockbuster jobs report for July that the government issued Friday — with 528,000 jobs added, rising wages and an unemployment rate that matched a half-century low of 3.5% — solidified expectations that the Fed will announce yet another three-quarter-point hike when it next meets in September.
Financial markets are betting that the Fed will raise rates several more times this year, to a range of 3.5% to 3.75%, but will ultimately have to cut rates by next summer because traders expect the higher rates to cause a recession.
Some trends do point to lower future inflation. The supply chain snags that have elevated prices for cars, furniture, appliances and other goods are easing.
The number of ships waiting to be unloaded at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port has fallen for six straight months, according to Oxford Economics. Shipping costs have generally leveled off or declined, including for trucking and rail services, Oxford said, though they remain high.
And a drop in Americans’ expectations for future inflation may also keep higher prices from becoming entrenched. Such expectations can be self-fulfilling: If people believe inflation will stay high or worsen, they are likely to take steps — such as demanding higher pay — that can then send prices higher in a self-perpetuating cycle. Companies often raise prices to offset higher their higher labor costs.
But a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, released Monday, showed that Americans now expect lower inflation in the next few years than they did a month ago. Yung-Yu Ma, chief investment strategist at BMO Wealth Management, said lower inflation expectations may allow the Fed to react less aggressively to reports, such as last month’s burst of hiring, that suggest the economy is still strong and that inflation could remain high.
“It’s a modestly good sign,” Ma said of the inflation expectations data. “It gives them a little bit of room to not take a more aggressive approach.”
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The final month of the regular season has arrived, and the local basketball hierarchy is still unclear. Outside of Paul VI — which has not dropped a local game this winter and continues to pummel impressive opponents — no D.C.-area team looks untouchable so far this year.
Further down the list, Friendship Tech rides a 17-game win streak into the No. 20 spot.
1. Paul VI (20-1) Last ranked: 1
The Panthers had a strong week in the WCAC, beating No. 3 St. John’s at home before going on the road to defeat Gonzaga.
2. Bullis (20-1) LR: 3
The Bulldogs have maintained a steady dominance in the Interstate Athletic Conference, earning comfortable wins last week over St. Albans and Episcopal.
3. St. John’s (18-2) LR: 4
The Cadets lost a road game to top-ranked Paul VI, but bounced back with a victory over The Heights.
4. Hayfield (16-1) LR: 6
The Hawks had no issues last week, beating Annandale and Thomas Jefferson by 30-plus points.
5. Gonzaga (18-3) LR: 2
The Eagles had a rough week, falling to No. 16 Good Counsel and No. 1 Paul VI.
6. Patriot (18-2) LR: 7
The Pioneers’ three wins last week included a nonconference victory over Richmond’s L.C. Bird.
7. Bishop McNamara (19-4) LR: 8
The Mustangs beat O’Connell and No. 18 DeMatha by the same score last week, 71-68.
8. Sidwell Friends (14-4) LR: 5
The Quakers lost in conference for the first time this year, falling to No. 10 St. Andrew’s at the buzzer.
9. Jackson-Reed (22-6) LR: 9
The Tigers took care of business in D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association play last week, beating No, 15 Theodore Roosevelt and School Without Walls.
10. St. Andrew’s (16-3) LR: 12
After their dramatic win over Sidwell, the Lions picked up another conference win against Maret.
11. Battlefield (19-1) LR: 11
The Bobcats topped Osbourn and Osbourn Park last week.
12. Shabach Christian (20-5) LR: 15
The Eagles won their only game last week, beating Mt. Zion Prep by 13.
13. Wise (16-1) LR: 10
The Pumas suffered their first loss of the season last week, falling to Bowie by three.
14. Riverdale Baptist (16-2) LR: 13
The Crusaders lost their first game since mid-December, falling to Virginia Academy.
15. Theodore Roosevelt (20-2) LR: 14
The Rough Riders suffered its first local loss of the winter against No. 9 Jackson-Reed.
16. Good Counsel (14-8) LR: 19
The Falcons had a strong week, beating No. 5 Gonzaga and Bishop Ireton.
17. Meade (16-1) LR: 17
The Mustangs have kicked off 2023 with 10 straight wins.
18. DeMatha (13-9) LR: 16
The Stags dropped another WCAC game last week, falling to No. 7 Bishop McNamara by three.
19. Damascus (16-0) LR: 18
The Swarmin’ Hornets continue to impress in Montgomery County.
20. Friendship Tech (19-5) LR: Not ranked
After starting the season 2-5, the Titans have won 17 straight.
Dropped out: No. 20 Whitman
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SYOSSET, N.Y., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Merchant Systems has announced a partnership with InfiniTrak LLC, a leading provider of software-based solutions that facilitate pharmacy compliance with the federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). This partnership allows Micro Merchant Systems, developer of the PrimeRx pharmacy management system, to offer InfiniTrak's integrated solution directly to its network of PrimeRx pharmacies.
"As our pharmacies are aware, the final DSCSA's critical 'track-and-trace' requirements take effect later this year," explained Micro Merchant Systems CEO Ketan Mehta. "PrimeRx already manages the Inventory portion effectively, including supporting the complete QR code scanning functionality to capture Lot #, Expiry date, GTIN, and Serial numbers. However, there are many other portions of the law that require integration with a vendor like InfiniTrak, a true and complete solution for Pharmacies. InfiniTrak provides a seamless way for pharmacies to fully meet this compliance requirement, along with other law requirements, without having to leave the PrimeRx platform."
The DSCSA was signed into law in 2013 to improve the safety of the nation's drug supply chain. Provisions of the law have been implemented over a multi-year period, culminating this year with a system to electronically identify and trace prescription drugs as they are distributed throughout the United States. Pharmacists, who serve as the last stop in the distribution supply chain, have several responsibilities under the law.
InfiniTrak allows pharmacies to meet compliance requirements with a suite of solutions developed precisely to accommodate DSCSA provisions.
"DSCSA is a complex law with many moving parts," said Sam Pizzo, InfiniTrak's Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances. "We developed InfiniTrak as a way to help pharmacies meet their compliance requirements with minimal effort or disruption to their product receiving workflows."
"The PrimeRx network is a natural fit for InfiniTrak, and we are pleased to make our services available to these pharmacies," Pizzo added.
About Micro Merchant Systems
Micro Merchant Systems is a leading provider of technology-based solutions for the independent pharmacy community. The company's PrimeRx operating system serves as the solution's "command central." Pharmacies can add functionality, based on their unique needs, by choosing from an extensive portfolio of solution modules. All pharmacy types – single store, multi-store, compounding, long-term care, clinic, 340B, specialty, enterprise – rely on Micro Merchant Systems for innovative solutions that keep pace with rapidly-changing needs.
Contact: Michele Daniels
(516) 408-3999
sales@micromerchantsystems.com
About InfiniTrak
InfiniTrak is a pioneer and industry leader in track-and-trace technology. InfiniTrak was created with the dispenser in mind, utilizing user-friendly solutions that automate and improve functionality and easily integrate with pharmacy operations and systems. The company's intuitive tools simplify compliance, enabling full DSCSA compliance for current and upcoming FDA mandates.
Contact: Sam Pizzo
(844) 463-4641
Info@infinitrak.us
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(AP) — Many people who made their mark on the world passed in 2022. Here is a look back at dozens who left us this year.
January
Dan Reeves, Jan. 1, 2022: Dan Reeves, who won a Super Bowl as a player with the Dallas Cowboys but was best known for a long coaching career that included 4 more appearances in the title game with the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons, died January 1, 2022. He was 77.
Peter Bogdanovich, Jan. 6: Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 82.
Sidney Poitier, January 6: Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died January 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Bob Saget, January 9: Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died while on a stand-up tour. He was 65.
Ralph Emery, January 15: Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died January 15 of natural causes, his family said. He was 88. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Charles McGee, January 16: Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died January 16. He was 102.
André Leon Talley, January 16: André Leon Talley, a towering and highly visible figure of the fashion world who made history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, died of a heart attack. He was 73.
Louie Anderson, January 21: Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer. He was 68.
Don Wilson, January 22: Don Wilson, the co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, died at 88 in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four children, The News Tribune reported. The band’s hits included “Walk, Don’t Run,” and the theme song for “Hawaii Five-O.” With over 100 million records sold, the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Mugler, January 23: French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler, whose dramatic designs were worn by celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Cardi B, died. He was 73. No cause of death was given. Mugler, who launched his brand in 1973, became known for his architectural style, defined by broad shoulders and a tiny waist. The use of plastic-like futuristic fabric in his sculpted clothing became a trademark.
Moses J. Moseley, January 23: Moses J. Moseley, who appeared as a pet zombie on the TV series “The Walking Dead,” died. He was 31. Cheryl Kaleda of Premier Talent gave no further details.
Howard Hesseman, January 29: Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class,” died from complications following colon surgery. He was 81. As Dr. Johnny Fever on CBS’ “WKRP in Cincinnati,” Hesseman became a counterculture icon at a time when few hippie characters made it onto network television.
Cheslie Kryst, January 30: Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 winner of the Miss USA pageant and a correspondent for the entertainment news program “Extra,” died after jumping from a Manhattan apartment building. She was 30.
February
Monica Vitti, February 2: Monica Vitti, the versatile movie star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” and other Italian alienation films of the 1960s, and later a leading comic actress, died. She was 90. “Goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema,” the current culture minister, Dario Franceschini, wrote in a statement.
Betty Davis, February 9: Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and ‘70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis’ landmark fusion of jazz and more contemporary sounds, died. She was 77. Sometimes referred to as “Madonna before Madonna,” Davis was the rare woman to make funk albums in the 1970s, and her three albums from that time were showcases for her fearless personality and sexuality and insistence on control of her material and her image.
Ivan Reitman, February 13: Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” died peacefully in his sleep at home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. He was 75. Known for big, bawdy comedies that caught the spirit of their time, Reitman’s big break came with the raucous, college fraternity sendup “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which he produced. He directed Bill Murray in his first starring role in “Meatballs” and then again in “Stripes,” but his most significant success came with 1984’s “Ghostbusters.”
Brad Johnson, February 18: Brad Johnson, who jumped from rodeo cowboy to portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots and film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg’s “Always” and “Melrose Place,” died at the age of 62. Johnson died February 18 of complications from COVID-19 but his death was not revealed until June 4.
Gary Brooker, February 19: Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s’ most enduring hits, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home. He was 76. He had been receiving treatment for cancer. A statement posted on the band’s official website said: “With the deepest regret we must announce the death on February 19 2022 of Gary Brooker MBE, singer, pianist and composer of Procol Harum, and a brightly-shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry.”
Lindsey Pearlman, February 19: Actor Lindsey Erin Pearlman, who had roles in “General Hospital,” “American Housewife” and other shows, was found dead days after she was reported missing in Los Angeles, authorities said. Her body was found Friday morning when officers responded to a call for a death investigation in a residential neighborhood of Hollywood, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Jamal Edwards, February 20: Jamal Edwards, a British music entrepreneur who championed U.K. rap and grime and helped launch the careers of artists including Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and Stormzy, died. He was 31. His mother, broadcaster Brenda Edwards, said Monday that her son died the day before after a sudden illness. She said the family was “completely devastated. He was the center of our world.” Edwards founded the online music channel SBTV as a teenager in 2006.
Mark Lanegan, February 22: Mark Lanegan, the singer whose raspy baritone and darkly poetic songwriting made Screaming Trees an essential part of the early Seattle grunge scene and brought him an acclaimed solo career, died at age 57. No cause was given. In a memoir released last year, Lanegan said a severe case of COVID-19 left him hospitalized in a coma.
Sally Kellerman, February 24: Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “MASH,” died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. She was 84. Kellerman had a career of more than 60 years in film and television. She played a college professor who was returning student Rodney Dangerfield’s love interest in the 1986 comedy “Back to School.” And she was a regular in Altman’s films, appearing in 1970’s “Brewster McCloud,” 1992’s “The Player” and 1994’s “Ready to Wear.”
March
Katie Meyer, March 3: Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer, who memorably led the Cardinal to victory in the 2019 NCAA College Cup championship game, has died. She was 22. Her death was ruled a suicide. “There is no indication of foul play, and Meyer’s death was determined to be self-inflicted,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Mitchell Ryan, March 4: Mitchell Ryan, who played a villainous general in the first “Lethal Weapon” movie, a ruthless businessman on TV’s “Santa Barbara” and had character roles on the soap opera “Dark Shadows” and the 1990s sitcom “Dharma & Greg,” died of congestive heart failure at his LA home. He was 88. His career spanned more than a half-century, beginning with an uncredited role in the 1958 Robert Mitchum film “Thunder Road.”
Emilio Delgado, March 10: Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children’s lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died from the blood cancer multiple myeloma. He was 81. As Luis, Delgado, a Mexican American, got to play an ordinary, non-stereotypical Latino character at a time when such depictions were few and far between on TV, for adults or children.
Traci Braxton, March 12: Singer and reality TV star Traci Braxton died at the age of 50. TMZ reported Traci’s husband Kevin Surratt said she had been battling cancer. “We have come to a time where we must inform the public that after a year of privately undergoing a series of treatment for esophageal cancer our beloved Traci Braxton has gone on to glory,” Surratt told TMZ. Traci got her career start in “The Braxtons,” a musical group featuring herself and her sisters Toni, Towanda, Trina and Tamar, during the ’90s.
Brent Renaud, March 13: Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine. The 50-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas, native was gathering material for a report about refugees when his vehicle was hit at a checkpoint in Irpin, just outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
William Hurt, March 13: William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as “Broadcast News,” “Body Heat” and “The Big Chill,” died of natural causes peacefully, among family, his son said. The Hollywood Reporter said he died at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 71. Hurt was four times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
John Clayton, March 18: Longtime NFL journalist John Clayton died following a short illness. He was 67. Nicknamed “The Professor,” Clayton spent more than two decades covering the Pittsburgh Steelers for the The Pittsburgh Press and the Seattle Seahawks for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Clayton moved to ESPN in 1995, becoming one of the lead NFL writers for the company. Clayton appeared on TV and radio for ESPN and worked at the company for more than 20 years.
Don Young, March 19: Alaska GOP congressman Don Young, the longest-serving member of Congress — known as the Dean of the House — died “while traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved.” He was 88. Young, representing a state known for its natural beauty, wildlife, ecology and environment, also pushed back against federal control of Alaskan lands; established a 200-mile fishing limit to support the state’s fishing industry; and helped pass the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act in 1997, which set guidelines for wildlife refuges.
Madeleine Albright, March 23: Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, died of cancer, her family said. She was 84. A lifelong Democrat who nonetheless worked to bring Republicans into her orbit, Albright was chosen in 1996 by President Bill Clinton to be America’s top diplomat, elevating her from U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, where she had been only the second woman to hold that job.
Taylor Hawkins, March 25: Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50. The band said in a statement his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.” Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at a festival in Bogota, Colombia, on the night he died. Hawkins’ final concert was 4 days before at another festival in San Isidro, Argentina.
Jeff Carson, March 26: Country music singer and songwriter Jeff Carson, who scored hits with “Not On Your Love,” and “The Car” before becoming a police officer, died of a heart attack in a Tennessee hospital. Carson was 58. His singles “Not On Your Love” and “The Car,” won Carson his first Academy of Country Music award for video of the year. Carson’s career had 14 singles on the Billboard chart in his career.
Paul Herman, March 29: Paul Herman, a prolific actor who appeared in “The Sopranos” and “The Irishman,” died on his 76th birthday. TV fans might best remember Herman for his recurring role on HBO’s “The Sopranos” as Peter “Beansie” Gaeta, a pizzeria owner and former mobster who maintained a friendship with Tony Soprano amid tensions with incarcerated mob boss Richie Aprile.
Tom Parker, March 30: Tom Parker, a member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted, died after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was 33. Parker announced his diagnosis in October 2020, and underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
April
Estelle Harris, April 2: Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, died. She was 93. As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
Bobby Rydell, April 5: Bobby Rydell, a pop singer and star of the 1963 film “Bye Bye Birdie,” died of pneumonia. He was 79. The Philadelphia native saw 34 of his singles land on the Billboard Hot 100, with the most well-known being “Wild One.” Others include “Volare,” “The Cha-Cha-Cha,” and “We Got Love,” according to Variety. Rydell was still touring with a performance scheduled for June in Atlantic City.
Gilbert Gottfried, April 12: Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, died from a rare genetic muscle disease that can trigger a dangerously abnormal heartbeat. He was 67. “The first comedian I saw who would go on and all the other comics would go in the room to watch,” standup comic Colin Quinn said on Twitter. Gottfried also did frequent voice work for children’s television and movies, most famously playing the parrot Iago in Disney’s “Aladdin.”
Liz Sheridan, April 15: Liz Sheridan, an accomplished actress of stage and screen who had her breakout role in the 1990s playing Jerry’s mom on “Seinfeld,” died peacefully in her sleep, TMZ and Deadline reported. Her death came just 5 days after her 93rd birthday and nearly two weeks after her fellow “Seinfeld” star Estelle Harris, who played George Constanza’s mother on the sitcom, also died at age 93.
Art Rupe, April 16: Music executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a premier label during the formative years of rock ‘n roll and helped launch the careers of Little Richard, Sam Cooke and many others, died at the age of 104. Rupe’s most lucrative and momentous signing was Little Richard, a rhythm ’n blues and gospel performer since his teens who had struggled to break through commercially.
DJ Kay Slay, April 17: Pioneering hip hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay and worked with top stars, died of complications from COVID-19 at age 55. His family release a statement through New York radio station HOT 97, where he hosted “The Drama Hour” for more than two decades.
Robert Morse, April 20: Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru,” died after a brief illness. He was 90. More recently, he played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in “Mad Men,” the hti AMC drama that debuted in 2007. The role earned him an Emmy nomination in 2008 as best guest actor in a drama series.
Orrin Hatch, April 23: Former U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, who served in the U.S. Senate for 42 years, died at 88 in Salt Lake City. His cause of death was not specified. Hatch was the longest-serving senator in Utah history, spanning the terms of seven U.S. presidents from 1977 to 2019.
Naomi Judd, April 30: Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, died at age 76. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.” The statement did not elaborate further. The Judds were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame the next day.
May
Mickey Gilley, May 7: Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, died at the age of 86. Overall, he had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No. 1 songs. He received six Academy of Country Music Awards, and also worked on occasion as an actor, with appearances on “Murder She Wrote,” “The Fall Guy,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Fred Ward, May 8: Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” died. He was 79. A former boxer, lumberjack in Alaska and short-order cook who served in the U.S. Air Force, Ward was a San Diego native who was part Cherokee. One early big role was alongside Clint Eastwood in 1979’s “Escape From Alcatraz.”
Adrieane Payne, May 9: Former Michigan State basketball standout and NBA player Adreian Payne died in a shooting. He was 31. A 29-year-old was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Robert McFarlane, May 13: Former White House national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, a top aide to President Ronald Reagan who pleaded guilty to charges for his role in an illegal arms-for-hostages deal known as the Iran-Contra affair, died from complications of a previous illness at a hospital in Michigan. He was 84. ″I did indeed withhold information from the Congress,” he told reporters at the time. “I believe strongly that, throughout, my actions were motivated by what I believed to be in the foreign policy interest of the United States.″ He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, along with five other figures from the scandal.
Richard Wald, May 13: Richard Wald, a longtime journalist who helped build ABC News into a powerhouse following a career in newspapers, died days after he suffered a stroke. He was 92. Explaining why he joined NBC News in the late 1960s, Wald often said, “I didn’t leave newspapers. Newspapers left me.” He was NBC News president from 1973 to 1977, where he installed Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley as “Today” show hosts. He also let screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky trail him for two days, and became the model for the network news president in the satiric film “Network.”
Vangelis, May 17: Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, died at 79. “Vangelis Papathanassiou is no longer among us,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted, calling him an “electronic sound trailblazer” whose death is “sad news for the entire world.”
Marnie Schulenburg, May 17: Marnie Schulenburg, a soap actress who played the character Alison Stewart on CBS’ “As the World Turns,” died from complications of metastatic breast cancer. She was 37. “Please don’t say Marnie lost her battle to cancer. It’s simply not true. I watched her kick cancer’s ass every day since diagnosis,” her husband, actor Zack Robidas wrote in a post on Facebook.
Roger Angell, May 20: Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, died of heart failure. He was 101. He was voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame for writing. At age 93, he completed one of his most highly praised essays, the deeply personal “This Old Man,” winner of a National Magazine Award.
Andy Fletcher, May 26: Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who for more than 40 years added his synth sounds to Depeche Mode hits like “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Personal Jesus,” died at 60 from natural causes at his home in the UK. “Fletch had a true heart of gold and was always there when you needed support, a lively conversation, a good laugh, or a cold pint,” the band said in a social media post.
Ray Liotta, May 26: Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” died. He was 67. Liotta was in the Dominican Republic shooting a new movie and did not wake up. His fiancee found him. Robert De Niro, who co-starred with Liotta in “Goodfellas,” said in an emailed statement that he was saddened by Liotta’s passing. “He is way too way young to have left us,” De Niro said.
Alan White, May 26: Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, died at his Seattle-area home after a brief illness. He was 72. White joined Yes in 1972, replacing original drummer Bill Bruford. In a band noted for frequent lineup changes, White was a constant and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017.
Bo Hopkins, May 27: American actor Bo Hopkins, best known for his roles in “Wild Bunch” and “American Graffiti,” died of a heart attack. He was 80. During his career, he appeared in more than 100 films and television roles. He appeared in his final film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” in 2020. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Ronnie Hawkins, May 29: Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, died after an illness. He was 87. “Hawkins is the only man I ever heard who can make a nice sexy song like ‘My Gal is Red Hot’ sound sordid,” Greil Marcus wrote in his acclaimed book about music and American culture, “Mystery Train,” adding that “The Hawk” was alleged to “know more back roads, back rooms and backsides than any man from Newark to Mexicali.”
June
Marion Barber, June 1: Former NFL running back Marion Barber III died at 38. He was found dead in his Forth Worth apartment after police were called to do a welfare check. Throughout his career in the NFL, Barber rushed 4,780 yards, on 1,156 attempts, an average of 4.1 yards per attempt, and scored 53 touchdowns on the ground. As a receiver, he caught 179 passes for 1,330 yards with six TDs.
Alec John Such, June 5: Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of Bon Jovi, died at the age of 70. No details on when or how John Such died were immediately available. Bon Jovi credited John Such for bringing the band together, noting that he was a childhood friend of drummer Tico Torres and brought guitarist and songwriter Richie Sambora to see the band perform. John Such had played in a band called the Message with Sambora.
Jim Seals, June 7: Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” died at the age of 80. Their other popular songs included “Hummingbird,” and “You’re the Love.” Seals and Crofts also released the controversial “Unborn Child,” an anti-abortion song that came out the year after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and was banned by some radio stations.
Philip Baker Hall, June 12: Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” died at the age of 90. Among Hall’s many other credits were Michael Mann’s “The Insider,” as “60 Minutes” producer Don Hewitt, and Lars von Trier’s “Dogville.” Hall appeared in “Say Anything,” “The Truman Show,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Zodiac,” “Argo” and “Rush Hour.” Hall played the neighbor Walt Kleezak on “Modern Family.” His last performance was in the 2020 series “Messiah.”
Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar, June 16: Two actors on the Netflix series “The Chosen One” were killed and six other cast or crew members were injured after the van they were riding in crashed near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula.
Tyler Sanders, June 16: Tyler Sanders, known for appearances on “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “The Rookie,” and “Just Add Magic: Mystery City,” Sanders was found unresponsive in his Los Angeles home, TMZ reported. He was declared dead at that time, and authorities did not suspect foul play.
Mark Shields, June 18: Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields, who shared his insight into American politics and wit on “PBS NewsHour” for decades, died at 85. “Mark Shields had a magical combination of talents: an unsurpassed knowledge of politics and a passion, joy, and irrepressible humor that shone through in all his work,” PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff said in a statement. “He loved most politicians, but could spot a phony and was always bold to call out injustice. Along with Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil, he personified all that’s special in the PBS NewsHour.“
Tony Siragusa, June 22: Tony Siragusa, the charismatic defensive tackle who was part of one of the most celebrated defenses in NFL history with the Baltimore Ravens, died at 55. “There was no one like Goose — a warrior on the field and a team unifier with a giving, generous heart who helped teammates and the community more than most people know,” said Brian Billick, the coach of that 2000 team. “We would not have won the Super Bowl without him. This is such stunning, sad news.”
Mary Mara, June 26: Mary Mara, who appeared on television shows including “Ray Donovan,” “Dexter” and “ER” in an acting career that spanned more than 30 years, died in a drowning accident. She was 61. She acted in movies including “”Mr. Saturday Night” with Billy Crystal and “Prom Night.” Her last credit was in 2020, in a movie called “Break Even.”
July
James Caan, July 6: James Caan, perhaps best known for his role in “The Godfather,” in which he played the violent and reckless Santino “Sonny” Corleone, died at the age of 82. Caan was already a star on television, breaking through in the 1971 TV movie “Brian’s Song,” an emotional drama about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, who had died of cancer the year before at age 26. Younger audiences may know him from his part as Walter in the Christmas comedy “Elf.”
Shinzo Abe, July 7: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. He was later pronounced dead after receiving massive blood transfusions, officials said.
Tony Sirico, July 8: “Sopranos” star Tony Sirico, known by fans of the beloved HBO mobster series as Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gaultieri, died July 8 at the age of 79. “It pains me to say that my dear friend, colleague and partner in crime, the great TONY SIRICO has passed away today,” actor Michael Imperioli wrote. “Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i’ve ever known.” Sirico was also known for his roles in “Goodfellas,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Cafe Society” and others.
Larry Storch, July 8: Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died of natural causes. Storch was 99. Storch’s credits included “Funny Valentine,” “Sweet 16,” “Sex and the Single Girl,” “S.O.B.,” “Airport,” “Treasure Island” and “Oliver Twist.” On TV, he guest-starred on such shows as “Married… With Children,” “Archie Bunker’s Place,” “Trapper John, M.D.,” “Fantasy Island,” CHiPS,” “The Love Boat,” “Get Smart,” “Love American Style,” “Gilligan’s Island” and “Car 54 Where Are You?”
Ivana Trump, July 14: Ivana Trump, former President Donald Trump’s first wife, died in an accident from blunt impact injuries to her torso. She was 73. NBC reported that a New York City official said Ivana Trump was found on her apartment’s spiral staircase when authorities arrived at her home. Ivana and the former president married in 1977 and had three children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
William Hart, July 14: William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such classic “Sound of Philadelphia” ballads as “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” died from complications during surgery. He was 77.
Nolan Neal, July 18: Nolan Neal, a former contestant on “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent,” died at age 41. The singer was found dead in his Nashville apartment, his cousin Dylan Seals told both TMZ and People. Neal made it to the quarterfinals on the 15th season of “America’s Got Talent,” where he performed his original song “Send Me a Butterfly.”
Taurean Blacque, July 21: Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor who was known for his role as a detective on the 1980s NBC drama series “Hill Street Blues,” died at age 82. Blacque had two biological sons and adopted 11 children and was the spokesman for the county of Los Angeles Adoption Service. In 1989, Blacque was asked by President George H.W. Bush to become the national spokesperson for adoption. He was survived by 12 children, 18 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
Shonka Dukureh, July 21: Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in this year’s movie about Elvis Presley, was found dead in a bedroom at her home in Nashville, police said. She was 44. Nashville police said there were no signs of foul play. The actor, who also shared the stage at Coachella this year with Doja Cat, had a theater degree from Fisk and graduated from Trevecca Nazarene with an education degree.
Bob Rafelson, July 23: Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died. He was 89. Rafelson directed and co-wrote “Five Easy Pieces” and produced seminal New Hollywood classics including Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” and Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider.”
Paul Sorvino, July 25: Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” died of natural causes. He was 83. Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.” He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
Tony Dow, July 27: Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77. “Tony was not only my brother on TV, but in many ways in life as well. He leaves an empty place in my heart that won’t be filled,” Jerry Mathers, who played Beaver, said in a Facebook post. “Tony was always the kindest, most generous, gentle, loving, sincere, and humble man, and it was my honor and privilege to be able to share memories together with him for 65 years.”
Nichelle Nichols, July 30: Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, died at the age of 89. Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ rabid fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies. It also earned her accolades for breaking stereotypes that had limited Black women to acting roles as servants and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.
Bill Russell, July 31: Bill Russell, who redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country, died at 88. The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., supported Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first Black coach in any major U.S. sport.
Pat Carroll, July 31: Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner for “Caesar’s Hour” and the voice Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” died at age 95. She won an Emmy for her work on the sketch comedy series “Caesar’s Hour” in 1956, was a regular on “Make Room for Daddy” with Danny Thomas, a guest star on “The DuPont Show with June Allyson” and a variety show regular stopping by “The Danny Kaye Show,” “The Red Skelton Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show.”
August
Vin Scully, August 2: Vin Scully, who for more than 60 years was the voice of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, died at the age of 94.The Dodgers announced Scully’s death on social media, calling the incomparable legend of the broadcast booth, “the heartbeat of the Dodgers.” He was a MLB Hall of Fame inductee in the 1980s, becoming one of only a handful of announcers to receive the honor. In 2016 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Baseball Digest lifetime achievement award.
David McCullough, August 7: David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, died at 89, less than two months after his wife, Rosalee. Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary. “Hamilton” author Ron Chernow once called McCullough “both the name and the voice of American history,” while on Burns tweeted that McCullough was a friend and “gifted teacher” to him.
Olivia Newton-John, August 8: Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s favorite Sandy in the blockbuster film version of “Grease,” died. She was 73. She had 14 top 10 singles just in the U.S., won four Grammys, starred with John Travolta in “Grease” and with Gene Kelly in “Xanadu.” The fast-stepping Travolta-Newton-John duet, “You’re the One That I Want,” was one of the era’s biggest songs and has sold more than 15 million copies.
Lamont Dozier, August 8: Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, died at age 81. Over a four-year period, 1963-67, Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland crafted more than 25 top 10 songs and mastered the blend of pop and rhythm and blues that allowed the Detroit label, and founder Berry Gordy, to defy boundaries between Black and white music and rival the Beatles on the airwaves.
Anne Heche, August 12: Anne Heche, who suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a Los Angeles area home Aug. 5 and fire erupted, was declared legally dead a week later. She remained on life support for organ donation. In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in “Donnie Brasco” and Tommy Lee Jones in “Volcano” and was part of the ensemble cast in the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Wolfgang Petersen, August 12: Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” died from pancreatic cancer at 81. Heralded as an antiwar masterpiece, “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen’s direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
Dorli Rainey, August 12: Dorli Rainey, a self-described “old lady in combat boots” who became a symbol of the Occupy protest movement when she was photographed after being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, died at 95. In November 2011, in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Rainey, then 84, joined protesters in blocking downtown intersections. She was hit when Seattle police used pepper spray to clear the crowd. The photo become a worldwide symbol for the protest movement. “It’s a gruesome picture,” she told the AP. “I’m really not that bad looking.”
Virginia Patton, August 18: Virginia Patton Moss, who played Ruth Dakin Bailey in the Frank Capra Christmas classic died Thursday, Aug. 18 of natural causes at the age of 97. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, moved to Hollywood as a teenager to pursue acting. During her 7-year-long career, she appeared in plays and movies before retiring at the age of 24 to marry Cruse Moss and move to Michigan.
Leon Vitali, August 19: Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, died at 74. Vitali was so fascinated by Kubrick and his processes that he made an unusual decision: He gave up on acting and devoted himself entirely to the famously demanding director for over two decades.
Tom Weiskopf, August 20: Tom Weiskopf’s golf skill went far beyond his 16 victories on the PGA Tour and his lone major at Troon in the British Open. He was always candid, often outspoken and unfailingly accurate in the television booth. He found even greater success designing golf courses. Weiskopf died at his home in Big Sky, Montana, at the age of 79, his wife said. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2020.
Tim Page, August 24: Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page died of liver cancer at his Australian home. He was 78 years old. He stood out for his flamboyance and extravagant personality as well as his talent and commitment as a photographer. He inspired the drug-addled photojournalist played by Dennis Hopper in the Francis Coppola-directed, Oscar-winning 1979 Vietnam War movie “Apocalypse Now.”
Len Dawson, August 24: Whether it was in the huddle during the early days of the AFL or behind the microphone as the NFL grew into the behemoth it is today, Len Dawson carried himself with an unmistakable swagger and self-assurance that earned him the well-worn nickname “Lenny the Cool.” He was a Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl championship, then a Hall of Fame broadcaster who brought football into the homes of millions on the iconic HBO show “Inside the NFL.” He was 87.
Joe E. Tata, August 24: The proprietor of the fictional Peach Pit diner from “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Joe E. Tata, died at the age of 85. From 1990 to 2000, Tata starred as Nat Bussichio in the ’90s teen drama. While he’s known for that role by many, he had quite a resume. He played various roles on hit television series like “Batman,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “Magnum P.I.,” “Hillstreet Blues,” and more.
Charlbi Dean, August 29: Charlbi Dean, the South African actor and model who had a breakout role in “Triangle of Sadness,” which won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died at age 32 from a sudden, unexpected illness. Dean also had a recurring role as the assassin Syonide on the DC Comics television series “Black Lightning,” which aired on the CW from 2018 to 2021.
Mikhail Gorbachev, August 29: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president and the man known for ending the Cold War, died at 91. Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation. His decline was humiliating. His power was hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
Earnie Shavers, August 31: Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, died. He was 78. Shavers’ death came a day after his birthday. He didn’t take up boxing until he was 22. Shavers fought from 1969-1995, which included two abbreviated returns from retirement. He finished 74-14-1 with 68 knockouts. “He was one of the hardest punchers in boxing,” Larry Holmes said.
September
Marsha Hunt, September 7: Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, died. She was 104. She was well under 40 when MGM named her “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress.” And by the early 1950s, she was enough of a star to appear on the cover of Life magazine and seem set to thrive in the new medium of television when suddenly “the work dried up,” she recalled in 1996. The reason, she learned from her agent, was that the communist-hunting Red Channels publication had revealed that she attended a peace conference in Stockholm and other supposedly suspicious gatherings. Alongside Hollywood stars Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Danny Kaye, Hunt also went to Washington in 1947 to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was conducting a witch hunt for communists in the film industry.
Queen Elizabeth II, September 8: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended to the throne in 1952 and reigned for 70 years, died at the age of 96. Britain’s longest-serving monarch is the only sovereign most Britons have ever known. The queen had been a constant presence as Britain navigated the end of empire, the swinging ’60s, the labor strife of the 1980s, international terrorism, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The BBC played the national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” over a portrait of her in full regalia as her death was announced, and the flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-staff as the second Elizabethan age came to a close.
Bernard Shaw, September 8: Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor and a pioneering Black journalist remembered for his blunt question at a presidential debate and calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 from Baghdad as it was under attack, died at 82. “In all of the years of preparing to being anchor, one of the things I strove for was to be able to control my emotions in the midst of hell breaking out,” Shaw said in a 2014 interview with NPR. “And I personally feel that I passed my stringent test for that in Baghdad.”
Ramsey Lewis, September 12: Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country’s most successful jazz musicians, died. He was 87. Lewis is revered in jazz circles for 1960s hits like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” “Hang on Sloopy” and “Wade in the Water.” He earned three Grammy awards and seven gold records. The trio’s first record in 1956 was “Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing.”
Ken Starr, September 13: Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died at 76. In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. House of Representatives. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. House Republicans used Starr’s report as a roadmap in the impeachment of the president, who was acquitted in a Senate trial.
Jean-Luc Godard, September 13: Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the film world’s most influential directors, died at 91. Godard died peacefully and surrounded by loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, his family said in a statement. The statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland, as the cause of death.
Irene Papas, September 14: Irene Papas, the Greek actress and recording artist renowned for her dramatic performances and austere beauty that earned her prominent roles in Hollywood movies as well as in French and Italian cinema over six decades died. She was 93. Papas became known internationally following performances in “The Guns of Navarone” in 1961 and “Zorba the Greek” in 1964, acting alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. In all, she starred in more than 50 movies.
Henry Silva, September 14: Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, died at age 95. He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and other “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the assassination of the president that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his last film appearance, Silva was cast in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
Maury Wills, September 19: Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, died. He was 89. During his 14-year career, Wills batted .281 with 2,134 hits and 586 stolen bases in 1,942 games. Wills broke Ty Cobb’s single-season record for stolen bases with his 97th swipe on Sept. 23, 1962. That season he became the first player to steal more than 100 bases.
Louise Fletcher, September 23: Louise Fletcher, best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in the 1975 Milos Forman film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died of natural causes. She was 88. Her portrayal of the sadistic Ratched, opposite Jack Nicholson, continued to be her most acclaimed until her death. The film, based on Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, won all five major Academy Awards after its release — including an Oscar for Nicholson and the Best Picture trophy.
Pharoah Sanders, September 24: Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, died at the age of 81. The saxophonist’s best-known work was his two-part “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” from the “Karma” album released in 1969. The combined track is nearly 33 minutes long.
Coolio, September 28: Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died at age 59. Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” that sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise” and was played constantly on MTV. The Grammy, and the height of his popularity, came in 1996, amid a fierce feud between the hip-hop communities of the two coasts, which would take the lives of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. soon after.
Bill Plante, September 28: Bill Plante, one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died of respiratory failure. The award-winning CBS correspondent was 84 years old and lived in Washington, D.C. Plante retired from CBS News as senior White House correspondent in 2016 after 52 years with the news division. He served four tours in Vietnam – with award-winning reporting on the fall of Saigon and Cambodia – covered the civil rights movement, all the presidential elections from 1968 to 2016, and was the anchor of the “CBS Sunday Night News” from 1988 to 1995.
October
Sacheen Littlefeather, October 2: Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” in 1973, died after a fight with breast cancer. She was 75. In June, the Academy apologized to Littlefeather for her treatment when she took the stage to speak on Brando’s behalf during the broadcast, and she attended an in-person presentation of that apology on Sept. 17.
Loretta Lynn, October 4: Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, died at her home in Tennessee. She was 90. Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.
Judy Tenuta, October 6: Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Goddess of Love” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died of ovarian cancer. She was 72. Her heart-shaped face, topped by bouffant hair with a flower accent, conveyed an impression of sweet innocence that was quickly shattered by her loud, gravelly delivery and acidic humor, expletives included. The accordion she made part of her act was “an instrument of love and submission,” as she fondly called it.
Robbie Coltrane, October 7: Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, died at a hospital in his native Scotland. He was 72. He appeared in all eight “Harry Potter” movies as the young wizard’s mentor and had a wide variety of other parts, including a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough” and Pip’s guardian Mr. Jaggers in a 2012 adaptation of Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”
Angela Lansbury, October 11: Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died just five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, “Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and was nominated again in 1962 for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent and the title character’s mother.
Bruce Sutter, October 13: Bruce Sutter, the full-bearded closer who paid for his own elbow surgery as a low minor leaguer and later pioneered the sharp-dropping pitch that came to dominate big league hitters for decades, died at 69. Sutter played in a era when closers routinely got more than three outs. He threw more than one inning for 188 of his saves and five times pitched more than 100 innings in a season.
James McDivitt, October 13: James McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, died at the age of 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images. He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Leslie Jordan, October 24: Leslie Jordan, the actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story,” died in a single car crash in Hollywood. He was 67. Jordan earned an unexpected new following in 2021 when the longtime Los Angeles resident area spent time during the pandemic lockdown near family in his hometown. He broke the sameness by posting daily videos of himself on Instagram.
Ash Carter, October 24: Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, died of a heart attack. He was 68. “I made the decision to admit women to all military specialties without exception,” Carter said in a later interview on the decision. “They are 50% of the population. We can’t afford to leave off the table half of the population who can, if they’re the ones who have the best qualifications, do the job.”
Julie Powell, October 26: Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, died of cardiac arrest. She was 49. Powell’s 2005 book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” became the hit, Nora Ephron-directed film “Julie & Julia,” with the author portrayed in the movie by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Child. Her sophomore and last effort — titled “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession” — was a bit jarring in its honesty. Powell revealed she had an affair, the pain of loving two men at once, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing sex with a stranger.
Jerry Lee Lewis, October 28: Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died at 87. In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined the Country Hall of Fame this year. The Killer not only outlasted his contemporaries but saw his life and music periodically reintroduced to younger fans, including the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary “Trouble in Mind.” A 2010 Broadway music, “Million Dollar Quartet,” was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Perkins and Cash.
November
Takeoff, November 1: At just 28, rapper Takeoff had cultivated a rich hip-hop legacy with Migos — along with a reputation as the trio’s most lowkey member — before he was killed in a shooting outside a Houston bowling alley. He had hoped to gain more respect for his lyrical ability through “Only Built for Infinity Links,” an album he released with Quavo in October. “It’s time to give me my flowers,” Takeoff said on a recent episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” acknowledging his reputation as “chill.” “I don’t want them later on when I’m not here.”
Dow Finsterwald, November 4: Dow Finsterwald became a footnote in history as the first player to win the PGA Championship in stroke play and the last U.S. captain of a Ryder Cup before continental Europe was invited to join. Finsterwald, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour, died at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 93.
Aaron Carter, November 5: Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead at his home in Southern California. He was 34. Carter opened for the Backstreet Boys tour in 1997 — the same year his gold-selling debut self-titled album released. In 2017, Carter opened up about his substance abuse on an episode of “The Doctors.”
Kevin Conroy, November 10: Kevin Conroy, the prolific voice actor whose gravely delivery on “Batman: The Animated Series” was for many Batman fans the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader, died from cancer. He was 66. Conroy was the voice of Batman on the acclaimed animated series that ran from 1992-1996, often acting opposite Mark Hamill’s Joker. Conroy continued on as the almost exclusive animated voice of Batman, including some 15 films, 400 episodes of television and two dozen video games, including the “Batman: Arkham” and “Injustice” franchises.
Gallagher, November 11: Gallagher, the long-haired, smash-’em-up comedian who left a trail of laughter, anger and shattered watermelons over a decades-long career, died at age 76 at his home in Palm Springs. His act included observational humor (“What about Easter? Whose idea was it to give eggs to an animal that hops”), political commentary (“They don’t call a tax a tax. They call it a revenue enhancer”), invented sports (synchronized Ping-Pong) and his trademark Sledge-O-Matic destruction.
John Aniston, November 11: Actor John Aniston died at the age of 89, his daughter Jennifer Aniston confirmed. The veteran actor was best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis in “Days of Our Lives.” He won a Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement award earlier this year for his 37-year role on the soap opera. “Soap operas have just the right amount of recognition,” he said in an interview with the Television Academy Foundation. “You get just enough to satisfy your ego but not enough to disrupt your life. Whereas some people, my daughter being one of them, can’t go anywhere.”
Robert Clary, November 16: Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” died. He was 96. He remained publicly silent about his wartime experience until 1980 when, Clary said, he was provoked to speak out by those who denied or diminished the orchestrated effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews. A documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. The forearms of concentration camp prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers, with A5714 to be Clary’s lifelong mark.
Nicki Aycox, November 17: Actress Nicki Aycox, known for her roles in “Supernatural” and “Jeepers Creepers 2,” died at the age of 47 after a battle with leukemia. Aycox played the original Meg Masters in the show “Supernatural,” a character who was possessed by a demon.
Jason David Frank, November 20: Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children’s series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” died at the age of 49. Neither the cause of death nor when exactly he died was released. Early in the first season, Frank’s Tommy Oliver was first seen as a villain, brainwashed by the evil Rita Repulsa. But soon after, he was inducted in the group as the Green Ranger and became one of the most popular characters on the show.
Wilko Johnson, November 21: Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an unexpected career renaissance after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, died at 75. Johnson helped give Dr. Feelgood a dangerous edge with his choppy, relentless guitar style and thousand-yard glare — a look terrifying enough to earn him a role later in life as silent executioner Ser Ilyn Payne on “Game of Thrones.”
Irene Cara, November 26: Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” died at the age of 63. The exact date of her death was not immediately revealed. Cara sang on the soaring title song with the chorus — “Remember my name/I’m gonna live forever/I’m gonna learn how to fly/I feel it coming together/People will see me and cry” — which would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award for best original song.
Freddie Roman, November 26: Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, died of a heart attack. He was 85. He performed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Bally’s Grand in Atlantic City, and he roasted the likes of Rob Reiner, Chevy Chase, Jerry Stiller and Hugh Hefner. He also conceived of “Catskills on Broadway.”
Donald McEachin, November 28: Rep. Donald McEachin, a Democrat representing Virginia’s fourth Congressional District since 2017, died after a battle with colorectal cancer. He was 61. Eachin’s chief of staff, Tara Rountree, said in a statement, “We are all devastated at the passing of our boss and friend, Congressman Donald McEachin.”
Brad William Henke, November 29: Former NFL player and actor Brad William Henke died at 56. Henke was best known for his role in “Orange Is the New Black.” Henke’s career took him to the NFL before he found success acting, graduating from the University of Arizona, where he played defensive line, and joining the New York Giants in 1989, according to his IMDB page. He would go on to play in Super Bowl XXIV with the Denver Broncos before he retired in 1994 after suffering a number of injuries.
Christine McVie, November 30: Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as “You Make Loving Fun,” “Everywhere” and “Don’t Stop,” died at 79 after a short illness. McVie was a steady presence and personality in a band known for its frequent lineup changes and volatile personalities — notably fellow singer-songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
December
Gaylord Perry, December 1: Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died at the age of 84. Perry’s 1974 autobiography was titled “Me and the Spitter,” and he wrote it in that when he started in 1962 he was the “11th man on an 11-man pitching staff” for the Giants. He needed an edge and learned the spitball from San Francisco teammate Bob Shaw.
Bob McGrath, December 4: Bob McGrath, one of the original cast members of Sesame Street, died peacefully at his home at the age of 90. McGrath joined Sesame Street as a founding cast member in 1969, playing the character of Bob Johnson. He would remain part of the cast for several decades before his retirement in 2016.
Kirstie Alley, December 5: Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit “Cheers” and in the “Look Who’s Talking” films made her one of the biggest stars in American comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died after a brief battle with cancer. She was 71. In recent years she appeared on several other reality shows, including a second-place finish on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2011. She appeared on the competition series “The Masked Singer” wearing a baby mammoth costume earlier this year.
Mills Lane, December 6: Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame boxing referee who was the third man in the ring when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear, died at his home in Reno. He was 85. Lane suffered a stroke in 2002. Lane officiated more than 100 title fights, sharing the ring with greats such as Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis, and was respected for his fairness and toughness. Mills Lane was also a judge and district attorney, respected for his fairness and toughness — just as he was in the ring.
Grant Wahl, December 9: American sports journalist Grant Wahl died while covering the World Cup in Lusail, Qatar. He was 48. American media said Wahl, known for his longtime writing for Sports Illustrated, was unable to be revived after falling ill while covering a match between Argentina and Netherlands. While Wahl said he tested negative for COVID-19, he was told he likely had bronchitis and was prescribed antibiotics and cough syrup. Wahl ended the statement explaining he felt “a bit better… but still: No bueno.”
Gary Friedkin, December 9: Actor Gary Friedkin, known for his roles in such shows as “Happy Days” and “Young Doctors in Love,” died from COVID-19 complications in an Ohio hospice. He was 70. Friedkin was born in Ohio but eventually moved to Los Angeles and started his acting career, which also featured a role as an Ewok in the “Star Wars” trilogy.
Paul Silas, December 11: Paul Silas — who touched the game of basketball as a player, coach and president of the National Basketball Players Association — died. He was 79. Silas began his career as a head coach with a three-year stint leading the then-San Diego Clippers starting in 1980. After spending more than a decade as an assistant, he returned to being a head coach and spent time with the Charlotte Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Charlotte Bobcats.
Kawānanakoa, December 11: Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died. She was 96. “Abigail will be remembered for her love of Hawai‘i and its people,” her 69-year-old wife said in a statement, “and I will miss her with all of my heart.” Kawānanakoa held no formal title but was a living reminder of Hawaii’s monarchy and a symbol of Hawaiian national identity that endured after the kingdom was overthrown by American businessmen in 1893.
Angelo Badalamenti, December 11: Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” died of natural causes. He was 85. Badalamenti worked with other directors too, including Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke!), Danny Boyle (“The Beach”) Paul Schrader (“The Comfort of Strangers”) and Walter Salles (“Dark Water”). He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.”
Mike Leach, December 12: Mike Leach, who helped revolutionize football from high school to the NFL with the Air Raid offense, died following complications from a heart condition. He was 61. In 21 seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State, Leach went 158-107 after taking an unusual path to the profession.
Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, December 13: “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, died at the age of 89. His reign as Mafia boss ended when he, notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger and others were charged in a sweeping racketeering case in 1995. Salemme and Bulger fled after they were tipped off to the impending indictment by Bulger’s FBI handler, John Connolly Jr.
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, December 14: Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” died at the age of 40. The Los Angeles coroner said Boss’ cause of death was suicide. “I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children – Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia,” Ellen DeGeneres stated on Twitter, alongside a photo of the two embracing in a hug backstage. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/in-memoriam-those-we-lost-in-2022/ | 2022-12-28 03:35:21 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/in-memoriam-those-we-lost-in-2022/ |
Threat assessment training to recognize and intercept workplace behaviors that could turn violent is very important, a majority say, but it's unclear which department takes the lead
Companies receiving threats related to Roe v. Wade, gun control, return to office, LGBTQ+ and diversity issues
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. corporations are facing an increased volume of threats driven by persistent political, social and economic issues, including Roe v. Wade, gun control, diversity, equity and inclusion, the war in Ukraine, return-to-office and COVID-19. Concerned about the rise in threat data as well as keeping employees, their CEO and senior executives safe as they return to offices and work remotely, physical security, cybersecurity and IT, human resources and legal and compliance leaders feel increased pressure to identify threats to save their company money and reduce liabilities. But through year-end, about one-in-four (26%) of these executives at American companies anticipate they will miss at least 51% of threats, while another 31% anticipate they will miss 26%-50% of threats before they cause harm or damage.
These are some of the findings unveiled today in the "2022 Mid-Year Outlook State of Protective Intelligence Report," a new study commissioned by the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence. The report showcases C-level perspectives at U.S. companies with over 5,000 employees across four functions responsible for protecting businesses – physical security, cybersecurity and IT, human resources and legal and compliance leaders – regarding physical security challenges and opportunities unfolding in 2022 and the impact on business continuity and resilience.
"Our study reaffirms that threats to businesses are many and varied, ranging from hostile written, verbal or physical actions against others, radical rhetoric or hate speech on social media and actions that compromise IT security or compliance with laws, to extreme weather events that can make working conditions unsafe," said Fred Burton, Executive Director of the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence. "As such, cross-company threat data-sharing continues to be critical and even minor lapses in communications can result in serious security concerns. All companies should heed this guidance, but especially those considering restructurings and workforce reductions, as our study found 75% of human resources, 72% of legal and compliance, 66% of physical security and 60% of cybersecurity and IT respondents said in the past year because of a failure to notify their department in advance, violence or harm occurred at their company when an employee was furloughed or fired."
"To function in this new turbulent normal, to grow and thrive, organizations must cultivate a culture of security. Information, action, communication, training and habit can mitigate business and mission-critical threats and liabilities, preserve business integrity and ensure critical resilience," said Lukas Quanstrom, CEO of Ontic.
Quanstrom continued: "Communication silos still exist and different departments are inefficiently assessing the same threat. But it is heartening that U.S. companies continue to actively consolidate their multiple threat intelligence, monitoring and alerting solutions. Our research says it can't happen fast enough: a majority said three-quarters of threats that disrupted business continuity resulting in harm or death at their company in 2022 could have been avoided if physical security, human resources, cybersecurity and IT, legal and compliance shared and viewed the same intelligence in a single software platform."
Key findings from the survey include:
- 98% said threat assessment or threat management training to recognize workplace behaviors that could turn violent or cause damage is important for their team to successfully execute their job, including 71% who say it is very important;
- 66% said in 2022 their company received or investigated one or more threats weekly, including one-quarter that are on track to receive or investigate up to 260 threats annually.
- 64% agree at their company employees do not report erratic and violent behavior or other warning signs in a timely manner
- 63% agree their company downplays risk to emulate a safe environment
- 54% do not have a mechanism in place that allows employees to anonymously report issues and 43% rely on employees to take the "if you see something, say something" approach to security, whether they are working from home or on-site at a company location
- Among 110 publicly traded company executives surveyed:
The 2022 State of Protective Intelligence Report (February 2022); Mid-Year Outlook – State of Protective Intelligence Report (May 2021) and inaugural 2021 State of Protective Intelligence Report (December 2020) are also available for download here.
A total of 400 respondents completed the survey, which was conducted from June 8 – July 1, 2022. These included chief security officers, chief human resources officers, chief legal officers, chief compliance officers, chief information security officers, chief technology officers, chief information officers and physical security decision-makers at U.S. companies with over 5,000 employees in the automotive, banking and financial services, consumer goods, education, energy, government, healthcare, insurance, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, retail, technology, telecommunications, travel and hospitality industries.
The Center is a trusted resource for those in the security, safety and protection communities. It's a place to share strategies and best practices, insights on current and historical trends and lessons learned through dialogue, discourse and alternative analysis from some of the industry's top practitioners.
Ontic is a protective intelligence software innovator transforming, expanding and changing how Fortune 500 and emerging enterprises protect employees, customers and assets from physical security threats. Ontic's SaaS platform helps preserve business continuity and build long-term organizational resilience by collecting and connecting data to create a comprehensive view of potential threats and take necessary actions to mitigate risks. Ontic also provides threat assessment, threat management and strategic intelligence services that include expert training, guidance and program development using best practices and proven protocols. Ontic was named 2022 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan and the top industry innovator among a dozen other vendors in the Frost Radar™: Digital Intelligence Solutions, 2021.
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It looked like it was going to be one of those perfect June days; temperatures in the low 70s, little wind, sunshine with a few clouds. My friend Dave Stanley and I had choices. We could catch up on yardwork that was badly needed after the previous week’s storms. Or, we could spend the day in some of Bingham County’s backcountry. Those that know us and those that read this column know what we decided.
The trip to the hills was uneventful until we met our friend Mark Pratt moving cows. We took a little time to visit and see if there was anything we could do to help, then went on our way. We had traveled quite a distance when we realized we were still seeing some of Mark’s cows, the herd was strung out for miles.
We finally reached the jump-off point for our hike and set off with day packs full of water, food, fishing gear, and cameras. My little German shorthair, Sage, came along too.
The trail largely followed a small creek with many willow and quaking aspen patches. This time of year, that meant lots of birds and we were serenaded by multiple species throughout the trip. This was one of those relaxed, enjoyable hikes. Other than winding through some brush and trees it was an easy walk. We explored the area for beaver activity and were thrilled to find several dams and other beaver sign. In a future column I’ll talk about why I was so pleased with this.
Other than birds, and the sound of our own voices, we enjoyed the quiet of this little valley. Sage was more ambitious than either Dave or I and had little interest in resting when we stopped for a snack. She changed her mind after I bribed her with some cheese.
Dave put his fly rod together and went off to try his luck. Sage and I followed to watch and take a few photos.
Sage is only 6 months old and easily distracted. Cows were in the area and I didn’t want her to get any ideas, so I kept her on a leash for the duration of our trip. For the most part, this was a good decision but not so much when it came to photography. It seemed like she had an uncanny ability to yank on my arm just as I was about to take a photo.
Later she proved to have the same skill while I was attempting to fish. She also took an unhealthy interest in the fly dangling from my leader. Despite these little annoyances we were all having a wonderful outing. Eventually Dave checked the time and we were astounded to realize the hours had just flown by. Reluctantly, we began our hike back.
We returned to the truck a little tired (except Sage who was having a blast) and ready for a drink of cold water. Mark Pratt pulled up to visit as we were unloading equipment. Mark explained that his cows were strung out because gates had been left open. He also asked us to give him a little help unloading a bull into a nearby corral. That went smoothly and Mark headed back to deal with cows. Dave and I soon followed. One more stop— Mark and his wife Wendy were pulled off the side of the road so we stopped to chat and see if they needed any help.
A day in Idaho’s back country resulted in a great hike, some fishing, photography, new experiences for my pup, and a chance to visit with good friends. It doesn’t get any better than that; Dave and I knew we made the right decision. | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/freeaccess/connelly-a-day-in-bingham-county-s-back-country/article_a56a9742-a2b6-597f-b3c4-e9dd9d2fcb0d.html | 2022-06-24 03:43:23 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/freeaccess/connelly-a-day-in-bingham-county-s-back-country/article_a56a9742-a2b6-597f-b3c4-e9dd9d2fcb0d.html |
Here's when Florida's Pandemic EBT benefits will be issued
Beginning in October, Florida students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch will be eligible for a Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT).
Summer 2022 P-EBT benefits will be issued to all school-aged children who have free or reduced-price lunch through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) during the 2021-2022 school year.
Each eligible student will get a one-time summer 2022 P-EBT benefit of $391.
The benefit is expected to be issued beginning in October and will run through November 2022, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Summer 2022 P-EBT benefits will also be issued for children under age 6 who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) assistance during the summer and are participating in a childcare setting.
How to get the Florida Pandemic EBT benefit
Households already receiving SNAP benefits will receive Summer 2022 P-EBT benefits on their existing EBT cards. Households that received P-EBT benefits during the prior school year will receive benefits on their existing P-EBT card, and households that do not have an EBT or P-EBT card will receive a P-EBT card in the mail with benefits automatically loaded.
Those who lost their card and need a replacement should call 1-833-311-0321.
If you lost your P-EBT card, or your think your student/child qualifies, but you have not received funds on your card by November 30, 2022, you should call 1-833-311-0321. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/heres-when-floridas-pandemic-ebt-benefits-will-be-issued | 2022-10-14 22:46:04 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/heres-when-floridas-pandemic-ebt-benefits-will-be-issued |
AUSTIN, Texas — Raul Meza Jr.'s alleged crimes span over 40 years, with victims from age 8 to 80. Even though time has passed, the memory of the investigation stays with the detectives who were on the case.
"There's many parts of it I'm sure are forgotten, but there are other parts, it reminds you – it's like it was last week," said Bruce Mills, former homicide detective for the Austin Police Department.
After the murder of Jesse Fraga on May 20, police will be looking into up to 10 cases, dating back to 1996, potentially involving Meza. Mills, who was a homicide detective on Meza's case in 1982, said investigators will have to look for similarities to piece together these cases.
"Certainly, you will look at your unsolved cases, not just locally, but anywhere that fit that or have characteristics of this type of case," Mills said.
Mark Gillespie, a former forensic director for APD, said evidence will also be a large part of the investigation.
"The key, I think, in many of these cases, especially with cold cases, are physical evidence," Gillespie said.
But he said time can be the greatest issue when investigating evidence.
"Evidence could be degraded, you know, could be destroyed," Gillespie said. "Every time it's handled, you run the risk of contamination or loss of evidence."
He said the same is true for talking to witnesses.
"One of the biggest challenges they'll have is just time itself," Gillespie said. “Time has an effect on memories, on recollection.”
Gillespie said a solution could be bringing other investigators back to help with the cases – investigators like Mills, who still remember it to this day.
"It's one of those – it's never out of your memory," Mills said. "I mean, if I happened to drive through southeast Austin, I recall the case."
Mills said if police need him to interview Meza or need his help, he would be willing.
"I want to stay close to it, to see this individual never has an opportunity to commit that type of crime again," Mills said. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/bruce-mills-cold-case-investigations-raul-meza/269-e1578d48-786e-4167-8e1d-059ebf7caa70 | 2023-06-01 13:35:15 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/bruce-mills-cold-case-investigations-raul-meza/269-e1578d48-786e-4167-8e1d-059ebf7caa70 |
Paddleboarders fend off 15-foot shark in ‘terrifying’ encounter
KIHEI, Hawaii (KHNL/Gray News) - Two paddleboarders in Hawaii say they got a scare when they were recently in the water.
Friends Patrick Wardle and Megan Valentine told KHNL they were out paddleboarding in South Maui a few days ago when they encountered a large tiger shark.
“We were just floating, enjoying the best of what Maui has to offer, and all of a sudden we saw this large shape approaching,” Wardle said.
The friends were on an inflatable paddleboard together around noon that day about a mile out from shore in Kihei.
“I thought maybe it was a giant manta ray or baby whale,” Valentine said. “Obviously, as it got closer, it became very clear that it was a massive shark.”
They estimated the shark was about 15 feet long.
“We took the paddle and put it on its nose,” Wardle said. “I’ve heard you really try to engage with them and kind of deflect them, but the paddleboard got like a boost forward because of the strength of the animal.”
The pair said the shark just kept coming at them.
“It lunged out of the water and took about two feet of the paddle in its mouth, chomped down, and snapped it in half,” Wardle said.
But that wasn’t all. They say the shark came back a third time.
“The shark chomped on the back of the paddleboard, kind of shaking it,” Wardle said. “I remember its eye just looking at me.”
The paddleboarders said the shark broke their paddle and punctured the board, but they managed to stay on and escape.
“It was terrifying,” Valentine said.
They said they used their arms to paddle back to shore and it took them about 45 minutes with the back of the board deflated.
The pair said they have a new appreciation for life — and sharks.
“Don’t want this story to scare people, but definitely something to be aware of,” Valentine said. “It’s a magnificent creature and totally terrifying but I respect it.”
The two said they have returned to the ocean after the scary encounter and are continuing to do what they love.
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The Indiana Dunes National Park drew the second most visitors in its history last year.
More than 2.8 million people flocked to Northwest Indiana's lakeshore to sun on beaches, swim in Lake Michigan, climb towering sand dunes, hike, camp, kayak, boat, cross-country ski, ride horses, go birding, visit a working farm or learn about local history.
Attendance has shot up since it was turned from a National Lakeshore styled after the Cape Cod National Seashore into a full-blown National Park.
"Indiana Dunes National Park continues to draw millions of people from around the country," Supervisory Park Ranger Bruce Rowe said. "We saw a remarkable increase in visitation with our name change in February of 2019. Attendance went from generally less than 2 million to around 3 million visitors each of the last two full years."
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Visitation shot up from 1.75 million in 2019 to 2.13 million in 2019, when it first became a National Park, according to National Parks Service figures.
An estimated 2.29 million people visited in 2020 followed by a record 3.17 million in 2021. Attendance dropped to 2.83 million last year.
"We have seen variations in our numbers throughout our history, and that trend seems to be continuing even at these elevated attendance figures since our name change," Rowe said. "We usually can't explain these year-to-year variations other than in some years factors like weather or national travel trends or the economy can affect our attendance. Unless something radically changes, as it did during the pandemic for example, we expect future attendance to continue around 3 million with some years being a little below and others a bit above that mark."
In 2021, the most recent year for which data was available, visitors to the Indiana Dunes National Park — ranging from Chicagoans making a quick day trip to tourists from all over the world — spent an estimated $156 million in Northwest Indiana. That visitor spending supported an estimated 1,880 jobs and $88.8 million in income in Northwest Indiana.
The Indiana Dunes National Park, also a major draw for downstate Hoosiers heading up to one of the few parts of the state that isn't landlocked, generated an estimated $231 million in economic output.
It's one of the few National Parks in the Great Lakes region, along with Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota, Isle Royale National Park in Michigan and Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, making it a regional draw for Midwesterners who want a National Park experience without having to travel out west.
"In addition to the positive economic impacts to the economy, we recognize that there can be negative impacts such as crowding and congestion, particularly in the beach communities that are surrounded by the National Park," Rowe said. "We are working cooperatively to develop bike trails, improve pedestrian access and other ways to access the park to help reduce the number of cars descending on the beach areas on busy summer weekends."
A study by Certec Inc. and Indiana Dunes Tourism found National Park visitation generates $155 million in tax revenue while supporting 6,588 jobs in Porter County. It found the name change resulted in a shift in visitors, who now include more college graduates in professional occupations and more seniors over 60.
Last year, the Indiana Dunes National Park, which had been free to visit for decades, started charging $25 for admission of up to seven days, even for people only looking to go to one of its beaches for a few hours on a weekend. It also started charging $45 for an annual pass, incentivizing regulars to sign up for the annual pass.
Many vocally complained, especially beachgoers long accustomed to not having to pay for a leisurely afternoon of surf and sand.
"We believe it is too soon to say what effect the new entrance fee had on our visitation," Rowe said. "While it is possible that it could have negatively affected our attendance this year, we won't know until we get two to three more years of data."
More than 300,000 fewer people went to the Indiana Dunes National Park last year, but Rowe said such fluctuations are typical and usually not the result of only a single factor.
"There have been swings in our visitation throughout our park's history and that trend seems to be continuing even at these elevated attendance figures since our name change," he said. "We expect future attendance to continue around 3 million with some years being a little below and others a bit above that mark."
The Indiana Dunes National Park stretches across 15 miles of Lake Michigan lakeshore and includes more than two dozen different sites. In addition to popular beaches like West Beach, Mount Baldy Beach and Kemil Beach, it encompasses many spread-out inland sites like the Miller Woods, Pinhook Bog, Tolleston Dunes, the Cowles Bog, the Bailly Homestead, the Herron Rookery Trail and the Great Marsh Trail.
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The race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and challenger Adam Frisch for Colorado’s massive 3rd Congressional District is too close to call, as election officials continue to count ballots.
As of 9:04 p.m., Frisch, a Democrat from Aspen, had pulled ahead of Boebert, a Republican from Silt, 51.9% to 48.1%, the secretary of state’s office reported. So far, 241,308 votes had been counted, nearly 50% of the district’s 487,094 registered voters.
As election officials continue to count ballots, the results could change. But if Frisch’s lead holds, it would mark the second time in a row that an underdog candidate swept in to unseat the incumbent in the district.
As of 8:30 p.m. neither candidate had claimed victory or conceded.
Frisch garnered major national attention and even surpassed the deep-pocketed Boebert’s fundraising efforts in recent weeks. His strategy lay in his measured approach, regularly calling out the congresswoman’s divisive statements and noting whenever she was traveling the country rather than meeting with constituents in Colorado.
The former Aspen City Council member regularly called Boebert a member of the “anger-tainment” industry and criticized her for not passing any legislation in her first term. One of his most-repeated lines during town halls and debates stemmed from Boebert’s fixation on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “I’m Adam Frisch, not Nancy Pelosi,” he would say.
One of Frisch’s top priorities, he said, is to try to join the congressional Problem Solver’s Caucus, a bipartisan group of representatives that aim to tackle some of the country’s most pressing problems.
Among the most serious issues facing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers the Western Slope and as far east as Pueblo, include an ongoing megadrought within the Colorado River Basin. Fueled by climate change, that drought means less water for the agriculture industry and the communities that support the state’s farming and ranching operations.
Wildfires threaten parched areas throughout the district, and the floods or mudslides that follow endanger infrastructure of local and national importance, such as Interstate 70. Plus the country’s push away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sources threatens the state’s oil and gas industry.
On the campaign trail, Frisch repeatedly stressed the need to bring federal funding back to Colorado to help local stakeholders find the best way to mitigate drought and wildfire risk. He also underscored the need to shift to renewable energy sources while indicating that Colorado’s coal and natural gas could help the country achieve more energy independence during that transition.
Throughout her reelection campaign, the congresswoman repeatedly avoided saying whether she would concede the race if she lost, falling in line with her attempts to spread misinformation and falsehoods about the country’s election security.
Controversy marked Boebert’s first term far more than policy successes. Her Christian nationalist rhetoric – calling for a religious takeover of America – most worried political and religious experts who warned that the comments threatened the country’s democratic foundations.
State officials are investigating whether Boebert broke any laws by cashing in on large amounts of mileage reimbursements from her own campaign coffers. And a congressional aide testified this year that the congresswoman met with then-President Donald Trump’s White House officials before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, while they discussed what options the vice president had faced with certifying the 2020 election.
Despite it all, however, Boebert enjoyed widespread support among Republicans for much of her first term. Those right-wing voters appreciated her curt demeanor and saw her as an equal and opposite reaction to progressive representatives such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi.
But not all Republicans in the district stood behind Boebert. State Sen. Don Coram challenged her in the June primary but lost by a wide margin. Frisch’s victory on Tuesday likely relied on many of those disenchanted Republican voters casting their ballots against the congresswoman.
Although Frisch repeatedly stressed his business acumen and desire to work with Democrats and Republicans alike, he’ll join a divided Congress rife with party politics, which will almost certainly make passing substantial legislation a challenge.
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Patrick Kane is Broadway-bound, and the New York Rangers are far from the only top contender making big moves with still three sleeps left before the NHL trade deadline.
The Rangers acquired Kane from Chicago in a three-team trade Tuesday night, adding the three-time Stanley Cup champion to their core that reached the Eastern Conference final last year and a couple of recent additions, including prolific scoring winger Vladimir Tarasenko.
“I think Patrick recognized it was a good fit for him and it’s a good fit for us,” general manager Chris Drury said. “We’re certainly excited that he wanted to be traded and that it was to the New York Rangers.”
Adding Kane — hours after Metropolitan Division-leading Carolina made a trade and days after NHL-best Boston got bigger and tougher — moves New York into the thick of the championship race.
“This decision puts me in the best spot to immediately win another Stanley Cup,” Kane said after waiving his no-movement clause to go from the Blackhawks to Rangers. “I look forward to this next step in my career.”
Some of the other top teams around the league did not wait for the Kane trade to happen to get their deals done. Carolina is buying low on an underachieving young scorer, Toronto is making wholesale changes to prepare for the playoffs and two perennial contenders are looking toward the future.
The Hurricanes got Jesse Puljujarvi from the Edmonton Oilers, who were also active in adding Mattias Ekholm from Nashville, and the Maple Leafs completed three separate deals with an eye on navigating a difficult road through the Eastern Conference. Toronto acquired big defenseman Luke Schenn from Vancouver, sent Rasmus Sandin to Washington for a first-round pick and veteran Erik Gustafsson and traded forward Pierre Engvall to the New York Islanders.
General manager Kyle Dubas said it was no secret the Maple Leafs “wanted to become more competitive” and that’s evident now that they’ve brought in six new players in the past two weeks. Engvall, traded for a 2024 third-round pick, is one of two additions for the Islanders, who are chasing one of two wild-card spots in the East and were eager to augment their forward depth.
Out West, Minnesota paid that same price in a deal with Washington for well-traveled forward Marcus Johansson, who has now been traded five times in under six years, including the second time the Wild have added him. Minnesota also got injured winger Gustav Nyquist from Columbus for a 2023 fifth-round pick, which the Wild got from the Bruins for facilitating the trade with the Capitals last week.
“These two players, I think, are what we were missing, what we needed.” Minnesota GM Bill Guerin said. “They’re highly skilled guys, excellent skaters. I think they’re going to provide us with that natural ability out there.”
Keeping true to GM Brian MacLellan’s plan to reset quickly to try to win again as soon as next year, the Capitals sent Boston’s first-round pick that they got last week to Toronto with Gustafsson for Sandin, who turns 23 next week and is signed through next season at the bargain price of $1.4 million. Washington also re-signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a $12.15 million, three-year extension.
Nashville, which like Washington has been a playoff mainstay, continued selling by trading Ekholm to Edmonton for defenseman Tyson Barrie, forward prospect Reid Schaefer, a first-round pick this year and a fourth-rounder in 2024. Ekholm gives the Oilers, who are giving up more than three goals a game, some balance on the blue line behind the top two scorers in the league: MVP favorite Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
“And I know they have a bunch of other guys that really can put the puck in the net,” Ekholm said. “Coming in as a defensive defenseman, I know that if we can (handle) our defensive side of the game and I guess I’m doing my job, then I think we have a great chance of winning hockey games.”
The Hurricanes would love to roll through the loaded East and figure Puljujarvi can help them do that. They sent the rights to 22-year-old unsigned draft pick Patrik Puistola to the Oilers in a swap of Finnish forwards.
The Hurricanes aim to unlock Puljujarvi’s offensive abilities after the 2016 No. 4 pick has put up just 117 points in 337 NHL regular-season and playoff games. The move helps replace what Carolina expected out of Max Pacioretty before the veteran winger re-tore his right Achilles tendon last month.
“Jesse possesses a great blend of size and skill, and he will add to the depth of our forward group,” Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell said. “He has familiarity with some of our other Finnish players, and we see him as a great fit for our team and locker room.”
Puljujarvi, 24, joins countrymen Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Antti Raanta with the Hurricanes. He played on a line with Aho for Finland at the 2016 world junior championship and led the tournament with 17 points in seven games.
“I think I’m going to be a good fit,” Puljujarvi said. “I’m getting a new opportunity, and I’m excited for that. I hope this is going to be good for me, and I’m going to work really, really hard to do everything right and be best player I can be and help the team in Carolina.”
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I don’t need space here to defend Oregon State Rep. Paul Holvey (District 8). His record as a fighter for working people and defender of the natural environment speaks for itself. He has been re-elected multiple times with more than 80 percent of the vote.
Instead, I have a question: Why a recall now and not a challenge in the next election? I have heard no charges of malfeasance or the kinds of behavior for which the recall exists. I find only that a couple people who claim to represent a union disagree with Holvey’s legislative actions.
It appears that the people behind the recall understand a basic fact: If everyone votes in a regular election, it won’t even be close. So they have resorted to a recall, forcing an extra vote in a non-election year, in the dog days of August. So what is this recall really about? Why do people who do not live in Holvey’s district feel they can shower their money in our neighborhoods and subvert our vote from the last election?
The question on this recall attempt is not about the record of a state representative. The question is this: Do you agree that democracy should be abused?
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It’s been one blow after another: a pandemic, a sharp but brief shutdown recession, the worst inflation in four decades, war in Ukraine, a bear market, and a trio of bank blowups.
Through it all the economy has proven surprisingly resilient, expanding by an inflation-adjusted 5.3 percent from just before COVID hit to the first quarter of this year. Unemployment is at a 55-year low.
Perhaps more surprising is that the Federal Reserve still has an outside chance of navigating a “soft landing” — the exceedingly difficult challenge of slowing the economy just enough to cool inflation without inducing steep job losses.
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We can kiss a soft landing goodbye, of course, if Congress and President Biden don’t work out a deal to raise the debt ceiling before the US Treasury runs out of cash.
If the government defaults on its financial obligations, and the self-inflicted crisis isn’t resolved quickly, the fallout would almost certainly crush financial markets and cause a deep recession.
“No one should assume that the Fed can protect the economy from the potential short- and long-term effects of a failure to pay our bills on time,” Fed chair Jerome Powell told reporters on May 3.
But let’s put the doomsday scenario aside for the moment. Here’s a look at the fundamentals and what they say about where the economy is headed.
Inflation
Background: The Fed took too long to react to rising consumer prices, but then rapidly jacked up rates from near zero to a range of 5 to 5.25 percent, the highest level since 2007. Inflation has cooled but remains uncomfortably high.
The data:
(Personal Consumption Expenditures index, excluding energy and food.)
- Pre-COVID inflation rate: 1.7 percent monthly average for 2019.
- Pandemic peak: 5.4 percent in February 2022.
- Most recent: 4.7 percent in March 2023.
- Fed target: 2 percent.
Outlook: The Fed expects core PCE to end the year at 3.6 percent. That’s more optimistic than the consensus forecast of private economists, which puts PCE at 4 percent at year-end.
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Most forecasters expect the Fed to pause raising rates to see whether price gains indeed moderate further. Officials haven’t ruled out another hike, though Powell said during the May 3 news conference that “we’re much closer to the end of this than to the beginning.”
Financial markets are betting that rates could start falling as soon as September. Unfortunately, that’s based on the consensus view that the economy will slide into a recession, forcing the Fed to lower borrowing costs as a cushion.
Housing market
Background: Higher mortgage rates have slowed single-family home sales to a crawl. Prices are falling in some markets around the country, a trend that Greater Boston will probably follow.
The data:
(Single-family homes, March vs. a year earlier.)
- Greater Boston sales: down 22 percent.
- Greater Boston median price: $660,000, up 1.5 percent.
- US sales: down 2.4 percent.
- US median price: $375,700, down 0.9 percent.
(Source: The Warren Group, the National Association of Realtors)
Outlook: Home sales will remain under pressure nationally, though the market may be bottoming out, according to Bill McBride, who writes the CalculatedRisk housing market newsletter on Substack. Prices will continue to deteriorate, but a dearth of inventory means a steep decline is unlikely.
Employment
Background: The job market has confounded everyone. Even as interest rates rose and growth eased, the unemployment rate hasn’t been this low since 1968. Job creation has slowed but continues well above the pre-pandemic pace.
The data:
(April)
- US unemployment: 3.4 percent.
- US jobs added in past year: 4 million (up 2.6 percent).
The outlook: It’s clear the job market is downshifting.
Hiring has slowed to an average of 285,000 jobs a month this year through April from 354,00 in the last six months of 2022. Job openings declined to 9.5 million in March from a record of more than 12 million a year earlier.
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Conclusion
Inflation is coming down, but it’s going to take a long time to get back to the Fed’s 2 percent target.
While no one is expecting a housing bust like the one that caused the Great Recession, prices will stagnate in some places and drop in others.
That leaves all eyes on the job market.
The Fed won’t ease up on interest rates until demand for workers returns to more normal levels — or Uncle Sam fails to pay its bills for the first time in history.
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Hype for Grizzlies season “at an all-time high”
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - At last, the 2022-2023 NBA is almost here, and Grizzlies fans are excited to see their team add to the historic season from this past year.
With preseason less than a week from tip-off, the Memphis franchise held their annual preseason media day, where executives and players answer lingering questions from the offseason and questions on the outlook of the season and franchise.
One thing was for certain, the Grizzlies are a force to be reckoned with this season.
“Excitement is at an all-time high,” said Grizzlies GM Zach Kleiman.
Kleiman was the first-up for media day, speaking on player acquisitions, departures, and injuries, but he also spoke on attendance outlook.
He said the numbers don’t lie.
“Ticket sales, season ticket renewals... the excitement level matches what I think you all have seen from these guys,” Kleiman said.
“It should be an absolutely fabulous year,” said Dennis Flanagan, Comptroller for Silky O’Sullivan’s
Across from the Forum, Silky O’Sullivans on Beale Street prepares for record crowds, trying to staff accordingly when those games tip off.
“My guess is every game will be about a sellout, which is a great bonus from years past,” Flanagan said. “This should be nothing but good things coming our way.”
Momentum from the season, especially when the Grizz win, will carry over into the afterparty, Flanagan hopes.
The Grizzlies will be featured in more nationally televised games than ever before in franchise history, 18 to be exact, putting the Bluff City on a pedestal for all to see this season.
“It’ll put us in the league with L.A. and these big-time cities with big-time players,” Flanagan said. “You know, we’ve got a big-time player with a big-time team. It’s going to be exciting.”
“I’m excited that there’s hopefully a very packed forum, night after night this year, because these guys deserve this,” said Kleiman. “We’re excited to go out and try to do something really special this year.”
The Grizzlies open regular season play against the New York Knicks Wednesday, October 19.
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NEW YORK, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Citizens Bank today announced that its Healthcare Finance business, part of the CIT division, provided a $50.3 million loan to a joint venture led by Rethink Healthcare Real Estate to refinance the Medical Pavilion at White Oak, an on campus medical office building located adjacent to the Adventist White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Opened in 2019, the Medical Center is located approximately seven miles northeast from Washington D.C. in an emerging healthcare and life science hub off Interstate 95. The Pavilion, which is directly connected to the hospital and to covered parking, houses a comprehensive cancer center, primary care services, and cardiology and other specialists.
"Once again, we are pleased with the execution by First Citizens Bank's Healthcare Finance team in providing financing that supports our focus on maintaining high-quality medical office buildings and specialized care facilities," said John Winer, President & Chief Investment Officer, Rethink Healthcare Real Estate.
"We are delighted to again work closely with Rethink, who has a proven track record of developing and managing high quality medical office buildings and outpatient medical facilities in attractive markets," said William Douglass, who leads the bank's Healthcare Finance business.
"We are pleased to continue to grow our banking relationship with Rethink Healthcare Real Estate through the financing of this state-of-the-art, Class A medical office building," said Steven Reedy, a managing director for First Citizens Bank Healthcare Finance business.
Healthcare Finance, part of the First Citizens Bank's Commercial Finance division, provides comprehensive financing and banking solutions to middle market healthcare companies across the U.S. By using a client-focused and industry-centric model, Healthcare Finance can tailor its products and services to help clients meet their needs for capital.
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Griner’s home, but WNBA players still competing overseas
Brittney Griner is back in the United States after an arduous 10-month saga in Russia. Yet nearly half of her WNBA peers opted to compete abroad this winter to supplement their incomes.
None are playing in Russia, for obvious reasons — Griner’s ordeal and the country’s ongoing war with Ukraine — but 67 of the league’s 144 players are in Australia, Turkey, Italy and about a half-dozen other countries.
“Our players are going to do what’s best for them in consultation with their families and their agents,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said. “And we’re certainly here to help them think through the security risks and things like that. I think you’re seeing players take advantage of other opportunities, and we’re certainly going to provide them more opportunities to do things with the league in the offseason and keep the momentum going around the great play that they put on the court every year.”
Griner, an All-Star with the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained following her arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February on drug possession charges while returning to Russia to play for her overseas team. She was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia before the U.S. and Russia made a high-level prisoner exchange Thursday that allowed her to return home.
Griner has not spoken publicly nor announced announced her career plans since she was freed. But if she wanted to return to the court, she would be welcomed back by the WNBA, the Mercury and USA Basketball.
Engelbert said she’d give Griner and her family some space and time before any discussion about returning to the league, whose season begins May 19. South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, who coached Griner on the 2020 Olympic team, feels that playing again could be helpful to the dominant center.
Playing overseas brings in salaries for a handful of WNBA players that top $1 million. It’s a lucrative alternative to the marketing deals that the WNBA offers players to remain in the U.S. during the offseason and promote the league; top players like Griner can now make $700,000 when factoring in all possible revenue streams offered by the WNBA.
But there’s no denying that the disparity in pay between professional men’s basketball players and professional women’s basketball players — Griner included — is still vast. The top salaries for WNBA players are much less than the minimum salary of about $953,000 for NBA players (excluding those on two-way contracts) for various reasons, primarily the difference in profit margins and media rights.
The NBA’s revenues topped $10 billion for the first time last season, and the league has a $24 billion, nine-year television deal. Its next one, set to kick in around 2025, is expected to be worth significantly more. The WNBA does not publicly release its revenue numbers.
WNBA players have never asked to make the same as their NBA counterparts — they acknowledge it’s impossible — but have asked for an equal revenue share.
So, the WNBA players look outside of the U.S., and Turkey has become the main destination for this winter with nearly two dozen of them playing there. Top players can make a few hundred thousand dollars playing in Turkey — significantly less than what they could earn in Russia.
Breanna Stewart, who plays for the Seattle Storm, chose to play in Turkey because it was closer to her wife’s family in Spain.
“You want to have a better lifestyle, a better off-the-court experience, and just continue to appreciate other countries,” she told The Associated Press during the FIBA World Cup in September.
Last offseason, 73 WNBA players went overseas. Five years ago, it was about 90 players. The decline points to the growing options in the U.S., especially with the marketing agreements, which Englebert said tripled this year.
“The owners really stepped up on the compensation side for the players in this collective bargaining cycle,” Engelbert said at the WNBA Finals, “and I think the kind of quid pro quo for that was prioritization, showing up on time for our season.”
Players also can take part in the Athletes Unlimited league, which started last year in the U.S. The five-week season has 13 WNBA players signed for this year, up from two during the league’s inaugural year.
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Uber to offer free reindeer sleigh rides in Finland — world's first on-demand excursion of its kind
Your sleigh ride is here.
Uber is officially launching the world’s first-ever on-demand sleigh rides in Lapland, Finland.
From Dec. 12 to 18, riders in the area can call an Uber Sleigh — a winter-festive ride complete with a blanket and pulled, of course, by reindeer.
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Travelers will be able to book a sleigh ride directly in the Uber app.
The ride will take passengers on a two-hour journey through Lapland’s snow-covered forests.
Uber is launching its Uber Sleigh rides in Lapland, Finland, for a limited time in the month of December. (Mikael Buck/Uber / Fox News)
Riders will also be given a tour of Rovaniemi — the capital of Lapland and the official hometown of Santa Claus.
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The real Christmas miracle?
The rides are free.
Uber is offering free sleigh rides in Finland for the holidays — a "limited edition reindeer sleigh experience." (Mikael Buck/Uber / Fox News)
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, Uber vice president and general manager of EMEA Mobility Anabel Diaz described how travelers can experience a "once-in-a-lifetime tour of one of the most beautiful places on earth" with just the click of a button.
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"At Uber, we’re always looking at ways to bring a little magic to every trip," she said.
Each Uber Sleigh ride in Lapland is pulled by reindeer and includes a blanket for the two-hour journey. (Mikael Buck/Uber / Fox News)
"We’re delighted to bring Christmas dreams to life with the launch of Uber Sleigh in Lapland."
Uber Sleigh will only be available to book via the Uber app from Dec. 12 to 18 during the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. time slots.
Visits to Lapland are expected to surge 46% this year, according to the Visit Rovaniemi tourism board.
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It's been a week of weird finds for the Transportation Security Administration: A six-pack of nunchucks and other sharp objects -- and now a dog in a backpack.
"A dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray" at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin this week, the TSA said on its verified Great Lakes region Twitter account on Tuesday afternoon.
Animals need to be removed from carrying cases and the empty carrier sent through the screening machine, the TSA said.
"When traveling with any animal, notify your airline & know their rules," the agency said in its tweet.
This latest discovery comes after last month's find of a live cat trapped inside a suitcase at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
That cat -- with the unforgettable name of Smells -- was treated to a human-sized Thanksgiving feast after his ordeal.
Flying with a pet
Major airlines in the United States charge fees for traveling with a pet on board a flight -- sometimes in excess of the cost of airfare itself.
American Airlines and United Airlines charge $125 one-way. Southwest and Delta charge $95 one-way.
If you want to travel with your small pet in the cabin of a plane, TSA has some helpful hints so you can do it the correct and humane way.
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10 adaptive athletes gather in the Sun Valley to train with Higher Ground
After the nine-week intensive training program in Dallas, they travel to Sun Valley to work with Higher Ground and put their new skills to work.
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The Adaptive Training Foundation helps people heal from traumatic injuries. This week, 10 of their athletes are in Sun Valley celebrating how far they have come.
“Through our gym in Dallas, we work on mindfulness, mediation, we work on breathwork, we work on really finding who you are beyond the doctor diagnosis, the disability that all these athletes have experienced, the traumatic injuries that they have experienced throughout their lives and using tools and building habits that help them move beyond that and find their new sense of self,” said Colin Anderson, with the Adaptive Training Foundation.
The athletes vary in age and abilities, from leg or arm amputations to paralysis. After the nine-week intensive training program in Dallas, they travel to Sun Valley to work with Higher Ground and put their new skills to work.
This week, they will be mountain biking, fly fishing, and white-water rafting, and it is one way the athletes can see how far they have come.
“We have tons of opportunities to get comfortable being uncomfortable because comfortability is a way where you find stagnant and then there’s no growth,” said Anderson.
Higher Ground hosts these sorts of activities for people all year long, and not just for people with physical challenges, but also mental challenges. They say there is something special about this particular group of athletes.
“The amount of energy they have and how hard they want to push themselves, and they are just so motivated and willing to try it all,” said Cara Barrett, with Higher Ground.
One athlete who is paralyzed from the waist down following a surfing accident says she is grateful for the entire experience, and what ATF has done for her.
“I wanted to gain enough strength in my arms to be able to pull myself up the rope without the use of my legs, so we’ve just been working on building a lot of shoulders back arms as well as core stability to improve my balance when I’m sitting,” said Cassie Eckroth, an athlete.
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Woman killed after crashing into tree
Published: Apr. 20, 2023 at 3:59 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
DUNCAN, Okla. (KXII) - A Marlow woman was killed after crashing into a tree Wednesday night near Duncan.
According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Mary Jones, 32, was driving west on Plato Road when she veered off the road and hit a mailbox, before crossing back across both lanes of traffic, and crashing into a tree.
Troopers said Jones’ vehicle rolled 1/4 times coming to rest partially in the westbound lane of Plato Road. Jones was pinned for about an hour and 45 minutes before being extricated by the Duncan Fire Department.
OHP says Jones’ condition and the cause of the crash are under investigation.
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Which ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toy is best?
Shopping for someone who’s a big fan of “Gabby’s Dollhouse”? There are several toys available, including cuddly plush characters, colorful playsets and light-up headbands.
“Gabby’s Dollhouse” toys are geared toward children in preschool through age 5, the same demographic as the hit DreamWorks show on Netflix. The toys, which feature the title character, Gabby, and her quirky kitty friends, mostly focus on imagination, creativity and role play. If you’re looking for an introductory playset that features several popular characters, the Gabby’s Dollhouse Deluxe Figure Set is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toy
About ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’
“Gabby’s Dollhouse” is a DreamWorks TV show that debuted on Netflix in January 2021. The show features both live-action and animated characters and follows Gabby through her adventures in a magical dollhouse with her kitty friends, including MerCat and DJ Catnip.
Gabby’s friends each have distinct personalities and interests, which only makes the show more interesting. Gabby also opens a surprise Dollhouse Delivery at the beginning of every episode.
Who watches ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’?
The show is geared toward preschoolers through age 5. However, it’s also popular among some older age groups, particularly children who are 6-8 years old. Considered ideal for early learners, it teaches kids important social concepts such as taking turns, listening to peers and problem-solving.
Types of ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toys
Although the TV show is fairly new, there are a surprising amount of Gabby toys on the market already. These are some of the most popular types of Gabby toys.
- Dollhouse: One of the most popular toys is Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse, which is designed after the dollhouse featured in the series. Like many dollhouses, it features several rooms that come furnished. But, it also accommodates compatible mini playsets and 3.5-inch figurines.
- Playsets: These playsets range from fairly compact to large, such as a usable kitchen. Some accommodate the same 3.5-inch figurines that go with the dollhouse, while others are large enough for role-playing with the kids as the stars of the show.
- Play rooms: These mini playsets are styled after rooms that kids will recognize from the show. They can slot into the Purrfect Dollhouse but they’re also fun to play with on their own. They usually come with at least one 3.5-inch figure and some accessories.
- Figurines: These small 3.5-inch figurines are compatible with Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse and most playsets and play rooms. You can buy them individually or in sets that feature Gabby and a range of her kitty friends. Some characters are more popular than others, so make sure your child won’t be disappointed by the selection.
- Dolls: You can buy Gabby dolls that are larger than the figurines, measuring around 8 inches tall. They’re great for imaginative play but won’t fit the dollhouse or playsets. Plush toys: Soft and squishy, these plush toys are super huggable and great for any kids who love plushies. You can find several popular characters from the show in plush form. Some even talk and play songs.
What to look for in a quality ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toy
Moving parts
Except for plushies, almost all these toys have moving parts. The mini playsets, for example, often have hinged pieces like cabinets and refrigerators. Mini figurines often have articulating parts, including heads that turn as well as arms and legs your child can pose. There are a few Gabby’s Dollhouse playsets that have spinning or rotating pieces, as well.
Small parts warnings
Most Gabby toys, particularly any playset related to Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse, have small-parts warnings. As a result, they’re not intended for kids 3 years old and younger because they may pose choking hazards. However, some larger Gabby’s Dollhouse toys, including 8-inch plushies, are suitable for kids ages 3 months and older.
Character diversity
The show features a broad range of fun kitty characters, and some are found in more playsets than others. Most mini playsets only include one or two characters, whereas deluxe playsets may include up to six. Although all its characters are loved and embraced, certain ones are more popular than others, making some toys somewhat harder to find. This can be disappointing if your child is a particular fan of a less popular character.
Price range
The most affordable Gabby toys include mini playsets and plushies, which are priced at $12-$20. Some larger plushies and dolls run $25-$45. Deluxe playsets, including Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse, cost $30-$60.
‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toy FAQ
How do you store ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ toys?
A. Many people who have Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse simply store the compatible playsets and accessories inside the dollhouse because it has hinges that can fully close. However, those who don’t have the dollhouse may need to explore other storage options. For example, many people opt for storage totes with lids to store playsets and their tiny accessories.
How often are new Gabby’s Dollhouse toys released?
A. New toys related to the show usually come out when new seasons debut. There are usually three new seasons of the show a year, so new toys come out every few months.
Best Gabby’s Dollhouse figures
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse figures
Gabby’s Dollhouse Deluxe Figure Set
What you need to know: This mini-figurine set includes Gabby and six of her friends, including MerCat and Kitty Fairy.
What you’ll love: The 3.5-inch character set is highly-detailed in terms of colors and features. Gabby and her friends have articulating parts, which may encourage role play. The figurines are designed to fit inside Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse.
What you should consider: The set doesn’t include DJ Catnip and Pillow Cat, two popular characters from the TV series.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse figures for the money
Gabby’s Dollhouse Friends Figure Pack
What you need to know: This pack contains a Gabby figure, plus three of her kitty friends.
What you’ll love: Just the right size to use in Gabby playsets, these figures are great for imaginative play. They’re suitable for ages 3 and up. You also receive a surprise accessory in each pack.
What you should consider: It can be hard to get the figures to stay standing up on some surfaces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gabby’s Dollhouse room sets
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse room set
Gabby’s Dollhouse Sweet Dreams Bedroom With Pillow Cat
What you need to know: This colorful playset is inspired by the color and details from Gabby’s own room on the TV show.
What you’ll love: The mini kitty is a favorite accessory for its friendly face and unique shape. It’s one of the most interactive playsets among those that work with Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse. Kids are big fans of the rainbow colors.
What you should consider: It has a small parts warning, meaning it’s not suitable for ages 3 and younger.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse room set for the money
Gabby’s Dollhouse Bakey With Cakey Kitchen Set
What you need to know: The Cakey Kitchen set features kitty-themed appliances and accessories, including a refrigerator with a door that opens.
What you’ll love: Several of the Cakey Kitchen accessories have moving parts to simulate baking and cooking. It comes with two surprise accessories hidden in mini boxes. The playset is compatible with Gabby’s Purrfect Dollhouse.
What you should consider: A handful of buyers reported they were disappointed with the playset’s construction quality.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gabby’s Dollhouse playsets
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse playset
Gabby’s Dollhouse Purrfect Dollhouse Playset
What you need to know: Standing over 2 feet tall, this dollhouse provides hours of fun for serious Gabby fans.
What you’ll love: It features three levels with two rooms on each, including a kitchen, bathroom and playroom with slide. It comes with Gabby and Pandy Paws figures, plus furniture for every room and a handful of accessories.
What you should consider: The cardboard windows pop out easily, which leaves some parents and caregivers frustrated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse playset for the money
Gabby’s Dollhouse Changing Garden Treehouse Playset
What you need to know: Larger than some playsets but not oversized, this is great for anyone looking for midsized Gabby toys.
What you’ll love: Taking inspiration from the Cotton Candy Tree from the show, this playset offers magical fun, with Kitty Fairy and Gabby figurines to play with. There are plenty of aspects to play with, including a secret room in the back.
What you should consider: Some buyers had trouble putting the ladder on the treehouse so that it won’t come off, but it’s only a minor issue.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gabby’s Dollhouse plush toys
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse plush toy
Gabby’s Dollhouse MerCat Plush Toy
What you need to know: This mermaid kitty is a firm fan favorite, so this plush toy is sure to go down well with most kids.
What you’ll love: This plush measures around 8 inches, end to end, so it feels magically large for little kids. It’s made with great attention to detail, including shiny scales and a sea star barrette. It’s extremely soft and squishy.
What you should consider: The stuffing inside can move around a bit and clump over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gabby’s Dollhouse plush toy for the money
Gabby’s Dollhouse 13-inch Talking Pandy Paws Plush Toy
What you need to know: This plush version of Pandy Paws, one of the favorites from the show, is a popular Gabby toy among fans.
What you’ll love: This large plush toy measures around 13 inches tall. It talks and sings when its paw is pressed and is able to sing two songs and recite 10 sounds and phrases. It’s soft and exceptionally huggable.
What you should consider: The app that comes with this toy is a little tricky to use for younger kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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RENTON, Wash. — A suspect accused of shooting two people in Renton and one person in SeaTac on Thursday was ordered to be held in jail on $3 million bail, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors initially asked to hold the suspect, identified as Mamadou A. Diallo, on $5 million bail, arguing he is a danger to the community. A judge found probable cause for three counts of assault in the first degree.
Diallo has not been officially charged, but KING 5 chose to name him due to the nature of the alleged offenses. Prosecutors said they anticipate getting the required documents necessary to charge Diallo early next week.
On Thursday around 1:20 p.m., Renton police were dispatched to a shooting at 64 Rainier Avenue South. Dispatch reported that a male suspect was shooting at another vehicle. The victim fled into a nearby store where he collapsed from his injuries. He sustained seven gunshot wounds to his upper left leg and lower abdomen, according to court documents.
The suspect left the scene in what was described as a brown, four-door sedan.
Another 911 call came into the dispatch center reporting an assault at a Safeway located at 200 South Third Street. A male suspect had reportedly knocked down an elderly man before getting into a vehicle with the same description as the one involved in the shooting. Surveillance video showed the suspect shoving the man to the ground after making a purchase, getting into a four-door gold SUV and leaving the parking lot, according to court documents.
Renton police were dispatched to another shooting at a Kia dealership at 200 SW Grady Way around 1:40 p.m. A victim was shot in the hand and in the leg. Witnesses said they heard gunshots, then saw the victim running from the parking lot toward the service bay. At the same time, they saw a gold car driving west through the dealership's parking lot away from the victim. One witness identified the car as a gold Dodge Journey.
Surveillance video showed the suspect fit the description of the suspect in the Safeway assault, according to court documents.
The King County Sheriff's Office Communications Center received numerous 911 calls around 2:10 p.m. on Thursday reporting that someone was shot at South 160th Street and 34th Avenue South in SeaTac and was laying on the ground.
One caller said the shooter fled the scene traveling southbound on 34th Avenue in a gold SUV, according to court documents.
When King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies arrived at the scene, they found one victim laying on the ground with numerous gunshot wounds to the torso. King County Medics said the victim's wounds were life-threatening, according to court documents.
Multiple witnesses said they saw the shooter get out of a gold Dodge Journey with no license plates and a silver roof rack, speak to the victim, then proceed to shoot the victim from point-blank range four or five times.
Witnesses described the suspect. One witness was able to provide several pictures they took of the vehicle to law enforcement.
Valley Communications advised KCSO that two shootings had occurred around 1 p.m. in Renton and the suspect was driving a vehicle fitting the same description as the one involved in the shooting in SeaTac.
Around 2:16 p.m., a KCSO sergeant spotted a vehicle fitting the same description getting onto southbound Interstate 5. Multiple KCSO deputies followed the vehicle to Tacoma where they initiated a traffic stop and took Diallo into custody.
Without being prompted, Diallo told deputies there was a firearm in the car. Deputies spotted a pistol box on the front passenger seat and what appeared to be one spent shell casing inside the vehicle, according to court documents.
Diallo spoke with investigators after he was taken to KCSO's SeaTac precinct. He denied shooting anyone but did confirm he recently bought a pistol and that he had the pistol and numerous loaded magazines in his car, according to court documents.
He initially denied being at Safeway where the elderly man was shoved to the ground, but after being shown CCTV video, confirmed that he was there and that he had gone to the store to buy cigarettes, according to court documents. Diallo was also shown CCTV video of his vehicle leaving one of the shooting scenes and confirmed that it was his car.
Throughout the interview, Diallo said multiple times that he does not like Black people, and he does not like spending time with Black people. The three victims Diallo is accused of shooting are all Black men.
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Goal to accelerate method development for implementation of Capitainer's qDBS-sampling for clinical diagnostics in the US and globally
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish medtech start-up Capitainer today announced that the company has entered a collaboration agreement with Timothy J. Garrett Laboratory, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Dr. Tim Garrett is one of the leading experts and an authority in the US when it comes to applying mass spectrometry within the area of metabolomics and its clinical applications with a huge network of collaborating partners including clinics at UF and externally.
The aim with the new collaboration is to accelerate method development and pave the way for broader use of the qDBS technology in clinical diagnosis. Capitainer has shown to have a superior product for self-sampling with excellent usability and volumetric accuracy and precision. However, there is a shortage of clinical laboratories and methods for microsamples collected at home, and the collaboration will accelerate development of necessary laboratory tools.
"I'm excited about developing precision diagnostics that will enable future health care and look forward to this collaborative effort," said Dr. Timothy Garrett, an associate professor in the university's Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine. "Our success would mean a changed landscape for medical diagnostics."
Dr. Donald H. Chace, Capitainer's North Americas representative will also add his vast experience in dried blood spot analysis, covering Neonatology, Clinical Chemistry, Newborn Screening, Mass Spectrometry and Forensic Science. This combined with Garrett's access to a network of clinics for collaboration will, Capitainer believes, create the ideal foundation for new testing method development and validation.
"I have known Tim for ten years. Now we can together develop new clinical analysis in areas of screening, diagnostics and metabolomics research starting at the 1st Step. A new, improved, more precise, protected dried blood spot." says Dr. Chace.
Capitainer's qDBS-sampling technology has been validated in real world population studies. No less than 97% of the cards sent back by regular mail to the lab met the approved quality standard for analysis. Additionally, a major study published in Clinica Chimica Acta on the advantages of volumetric microsampling DBS devices in monitoring patients with phenylketonuria (PKU), demonstrated conclusively the superiority of Capitainer's solution over conventional cards and competition, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009898122012566.
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Giants’ McKinney accepts responsibility for ATV accident
By TOM CANAVAN
AP Sports Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants safety Xavier McKinney accepted responsibility for the off-road accident that injured his left hand during the bye week and will force him to miss at least the next four games. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday for the first time since the mishap in Mexico last week, McKinney said his injured fingers were surgically repaired when he returned to the United States. He wore a hard cast on his hand and a sling over his shoulder. McKinney was vague in giving details about the accident which he said happened on Wednesday of last week. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/11/08/giants-mckinney-accepts-responsibility-for-atv-accident/ | 2022-11-09 00:33:02 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/11/08/giants-mckinney-accepts-responsibility-for-atv-accident/ |
More than 500 musicians and leaders in the classical music community have signed an open letter to the administration of The Juilliard School, demanding that the famed performing arts institution take immediate action regarding sexual misconduct allegations against composer Robert Beaser, the former chair of Juilliard's composition department. The open letter was first published Friday.
Sexual misconduct allegations against Beaser, as well as the late composer Christopher Rouse, were first published in the German-based VAN magazine last week.
On Monday, Juilliard confirmed to NPR that Beaser stepped away from teaching and his other responsibilities at the school as of Friday afternoon. Both the composition faculty and students received notifications of this development from the school's provost, Adam Meyer.
The emailed letter sent to faculty reads in part: "We will continue to conduct the investigation in a confidential manner. We want to assure you that our processes and procedures provide for fair and impartial treatment of all involved, and we are committed to our work to resolve this matter."
As of Monday morning, more than 500 musicians and leaders in the classical music community had signed the open letter. Calling Beaser's alleged conduct "a decades-long abuse of women and power," the signatories wrote: "Though we recognize and appreciate the need for due process, the volume of allegations, testimony, and supporting evidence of Beaser's misconduct are undeniably unsettling. Until the investigation is resolved, Beaser's presence in the Juilliard composition department could jeopardize the emotional well-being of students and inhibit a safe and healthy learning environment."
The letter signers include dozens of leading composers, educators and performing arts presenters across the U.S., many of whom are Juilliard graduates. The signatories include composers Vivian Fung, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Nicholas Britell, Missy Mazzoli, Vijay Iyer and George E. Lewis, and current professors at such institutions as Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities as well as Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard itself.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until November 21, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (NasdaqGM: FLGT), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 22, 2019 and August 4, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
If you purchased securities of Fulgent and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgm-flgt/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by November 21, 2022.
Fulgent and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On August 4, 2022, the Company disclosed the receipt of a Civil Investigative Demand issued by the U.S. Department of Justice "pursuant to the False Claims Act related to its investigation of allegations of medically unnecessary laboratory testing, improper billing for laboratory testing, and remuneration received or provided in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law," and that the Securities and Exchange Commission was conducting an investigation into certain of the Company's reports filed with the SEC from 2018 through the first quarter of 2020.
On this news, shares of Fulgent fell $11.02 per share, or 17.29%, over the following two trading sessions, to close at $52.72 per share on August 8, 2022.
The case is Pugley v. Fulgent Genetics, Inc., et al., No. 22-cv-06764.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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– Sports content studio has engaged screenwriter Janine Eser to adapt Denhollander's memoir subtitled "My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics" –
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The cutting-edge sports content studio, game1, announced today that it has optioned Rachael Denhollander's memoir What is a Girl Worth: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics and has engaged Janine Eser to adapt the book into a screenplay. Eser recently adapted the screenplay to Trevor Noah's bestselling memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which has Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o attached to star.
"We are honored to partner with Rachael on such an important project," said Beverly Nuako, Vice President of Development at game1. "Her relentless pursuit of justice is an inspiration. We are also privileged to have Janine Eser's thoughtful approach and vision to adapt this extraordinary book. It can't be overstated how critically important it is to represent the hardships that many brave women endured as an effort to challenge a pervasive culture of silence."
The feature film will follow the life of Denhollander, recounting her life up to meeting former USA Gymnastics Team and Michigan State University doctor the subsequent fight to bring justice for his serial abuse of young girls seeking medical care. Despite powerful institutions attempting to cover up his abuse, Denhollander launched an investigation that would ultimately unmask one of the most prolific sexual abusers in recorded history, while building an army of survivors that would take him down. Following her leadership, more than 200 women participated in the criminal prosecution and sentencing of Nasser, leading to his life imprisonment.
"The real story of the Nassar case isn't what happened in the court room – it's how we got there," said Denhollander. "It's the story of what survivors face every day, the cost of speaking up, and all the times the miracle almost didn't happen. It's the story of what happens when each person chooses what is right, over and over again, no matter the cost, and those choices come together and change the world."
In addition to Nuako and Denhollander, game1 contributor Therese Andrews will also play a key role in the development and production of this film, with all three women serving as Executive Producers, while Basil Iwanyk, Greg Economou, and Mark Ciardi will serve as Producers of the film.
"Rachael's strength and perseverance are unparalleled," concluded Andrews. "In the end, her story is incredibly uplifting, filled with hope, perseverance, and ultimately triumph."
Designed to create and own high-end original sports-based content, game1 is changing the landscape of sports storytelling through the creation, production, and distribution of premium, cinematic content in the form of feature films, scripted & unscripted television, digital & social content, as well as audio content & podcasts. The studio, based in Los Angeles and New York, will create a bridge between curated sports-based intellectual property and the Hollywood film industry actors, writers, directors, and producers. For more information, please visit game1.com and join us on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Salvation Army’s MAP showering services will move locations
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - As temperatures increase, the Topeka Salvation Army’s Mobile Access Partnership showering services will be transported to a new location.
On Thursday, March 30, the Salvation Army’s MAP has ended, but that means the shower unit will move to the Children’s Palace from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Monday, April 4. To recognize and thank each partner that has assisted the Salvation Army’s MAP program, the organization hosted a luncheon for all participating partners on Friday, March 31.
The partners include Stormont Vail Health, Valeo Behavioral Health Care, Street Dog Coalition, the Topeka Police Department, the Rescue Mission, and many more. Thanks to each program’s collaboration, the salvation army offered needs for anyone without a home.
“I think it is important because it is a collaboration with all the resources in town, and they are in one location,” said Shelly Robertson, development director for the Topeka Salvation Army. “In addition, it offers those that need showers or places to eat, a place to come to, and there is not a lot of those resources on this side of town.”
This program is usually held during winter to provide care for the homeless in freezing temperatures. Robertson says she hopes the Salvation Army can bring back the mobile services next winter.
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Tim Hortons®, Canada's favorite coffee brand, to enter South Korean Market
BKR Co., Ltd (BKR) has entered into master franchise and development agreement with Tim Hortons
BKR is one of the largest QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) companies in South Korea
TORONTO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Tim Hortons®, Canada's iconic coffee brand with a nearly 60-year history, is expected to enter the South Korean market later this year under a master franchise agreement with BKR Co. Ltd., one of the largest QSR companies in South Korea.
Tim Hortons®, famous for its fresh premium coffee, donuts and delicious food, serves original Canadian classics like Double Double™ coffee and Timbits® donuts, fresh sandwiches, wraps and more. Tim Hortons® uses only 100% premium Arabica beans and ethically sourced coffee. Under its brand philosophy 'Always Fresh', Tim Hortons® coffee is created using a unique blend of 100% premium Arabica beans roasted with care to deliver the consistent taste of Tim Hortons® every time.
The brand currently has approximately 5,600 restaurants across 15 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, across the Middle East, China, India, Thailand, and the Philippines.
"South Korea is one of the world's largest and fastest growing coffee markets. We are proud to have such an experienced partner in BKR. We are excited about meeting our South Korean guests and introducing them to the premium quality coffee and delicious foods that Tims fans around the world know and love" said David Shear, President – International, Restaurant Brands International, parent company of the Tim Hortons® brand.
Tim Hortons® is one of North America's largest restaurant chains operating in the quick service segment. Founded as a single location in Canada in 1964, the Tim Hortons® brand appeals to a broad range of guest tastes, with a menu that includes premium coffee, hot and cold specialty drinks (including lattes, cappuccinos, espresso, teas and our famous iced coffee based beverages), baked goods, hot breakfast sandwiches, breakfast snacking items, and other food products. Tim Hortons® has approximatively 5,600 restaurants in Canada, the United States and around the world. Tim Hortons® is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International Inc. ("RBI"), one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and approximately 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – BURGER KING®, TIM HORTONS®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. More information about the company is available at timhortons.com.
BKR is a premium QSR (quick service restaurant) company that operates the Burger King® brand in Korea. Since entering Korea by opening the Jongro branch in 1984, it has been loved by Korean consumers for the past 39 years for its differentiated menu and unique store interior design. Burger King®, which has established itself as a "premium QSR brand that serves the most delicious hamburgers," currently operates more than 480 stores Korea nationwide. Under corporate philosophy and brand principle as 'high-quality products, friendly services, and clean store', Burger King® Korea is serving delicious menu experience.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, which reflect management's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events, initiatives and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements about our expectations regarding the ability of the Tim Hortons business in South Korea to enter the market in 2023. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from RBI's expectations are detailed in filings of RBI with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K and include the following risks: risk related to our ability to successfully implement its domestic and international growth strategy and risks related to its international operations; risks related to our ability to compete domestically and internationally in an intensely competitive industry; global economic or other business conditions that may affect the desire or ability of our customers to purchase our products; our relationship with, and the success of, our franchisees and risks related to our fully franchised business model; and the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising programs and franchisee support of these programs. Other than as required under applicable laws, we do not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, change in expectations or otherwise.
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Woman whose testimony led to Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. rape conviction reveals identity
In December, Harvey Weinstein was convicted in L.A. of the 2013 rape of “Jane Doe 1.” On Thursday, he got a 16-year sentence that, added to the 23-year sentence he’s been serving in New York, likely ensures the 70-year-old ends his life in prison.
On Friday, Jane Doe 1 finally revealed her identity to the Hollywood Reporter.
She is Evgeniya Chernyshova, a 43-year-old mother of two who was born in Siberia, won a modeling contest at age 15 and eventually moved to Italy, where she was a model and actor. At some point she moved to Southern California; she now runs a floral design business in Beverly Hills, according to an interview published Friday by THR.
Harvey Weinstein gets 16 years in prison after his rape conviction in L.A. The sentence all but assures he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
About two weeks ago, after Weinstein’s conviction but before his sentencing, Chernyshova sued the disgraced mogul in civil court under her alias, alleging sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In October 2017, speaking anonymously to The Times after reporting the rape to police, she told the same story that was shared in court and with THR:
Weinstein, whom she had met briefly once before in Rome, introduced himself anew during Oscars week in 2013 at an Italian film festival at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. When they were in Rome, he had invited her up to his room, but she declined, she told The Times.
An Italian model whose testimony led to an L.A. jury finding Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape has filed a civil suit against him.
Later that night she returned to her hotel and changed into a robe, only to have Weinstein call up from the lobby “without warning” — she hadn’t told him where she was staying — and demand to know her room number. He told her they had to talk. She didn’t reveal her number, but he showed up at her door anyway, knocking loudly and telling her he just wanted to talk and was “not going to f—” her.
Chernyshova told THR that she let him in because she was embarrassed by the loud man outside her door.
She told The Times in 2017 that once he was in her room, Weinstein repeatedly bragged about his power and influence and told her not to fight him. She tried to show him pictures of her children and her mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy at the time, as she cried and begged him to go away, she said.
Harvey Weinstein was convicted of multiple charges of sexual assault and cleared of others, closing out a significant chapter in the #MeToo movement that saw the former Hollywood mogul’s career collapse under a wave of abuse allegations.
“He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,” she said in 2017. “He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.” When he left, she said, he told her she was very beautiful and that she could work in Hollywood. Later, he invited her to several parties at his house, but she didn’t attend any of them.
“He acted like nothing happened,” Chernyshova said in 2017. “I barely knew this man. It was the most demeaning thing ever done to me by far. It sickens me still. … He made me feel like an object, like nothing, with all his power.”
Chernyshova appears to have a few regrets. One of them is that she stayed anonymous.
“I did it because I was ashamed and humiliated,” she told THR. “I thought it was a good decision to protect my kids. But it was a horrible decision for myself because I’ve been cut off from everyone. It isn’t right to go through this hell alone.”
Chernyshova is well known in Italy, where she appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue and as an actor in Italian films, The Times reported in 2017. After the attack, she told THR, she fell into depression and began drinking heavily. She and her husband separated, and he has since died.
As the public face and pugnacious spirit behind his company, Harvey Weinstein made himself synonymous with a kind of prestige cinema that was designed to attract discerning audiences and scoop up Oscars by the armful.
She told The Times in 2017 that she revealed the rape while counseling her daughter about a week before the New York Times published the first investigation of Weinstein. That was followed days later by a similar piece from the New Yorker. Previously Chernyshova had told only her priest, her nanny and a friend about her experience with Weinstein. Her daughter pushed her to report the incident to the police, which she did.
Chernyshova also wishes she had never opened the door of her hotel room that night in 2013.
“That is the thing I have regretted for the last 10 years — that I did open this door,” she told THR, echoing what she told The Times in 2017.
On Dec. 19. 2022, an L.A. jury convicted Weinstein of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object, based on Chernyshova’s account of that night at the hotel.
Jurors have begun deliberating at Harvey Weinstein’s trial on multiple counts of rape and sexual battery in Los Angeles. If convicted of all charges, Weinstein would face a de facto life sentence in a California prison.
“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night. I will never get that back,” she told The Times in a statement after the verdict was read, still identifying herself as Jane Doe 1 after her three days of painful testimony in his trial. “But I knew I had to see this through to the end. ... I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”
And before Weinstein’s sentencing Thursday, trembling and crying as she spoke in court, Chernyshova told the judge, “There is no prison sentence long enough to erase the damage. ... He deserves to experience the same shame, humiliation and fear as I did.”
After sentencing the disgraced former producer, Judge Lisa Lench ruled that Weinstein could not serve his New York and L.A. sentences concurrently, likely fulfilling Chernyshova’s wishes. Weinstein, who is 70, will not be eligible for release until at least the 2050s.
Times staff writers Richard Winton and James Queally contributed to this report.
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A tropical cyclone is strengthening in the Bay of Bengal and is on course to hit western Myanmar and Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, where around 1 million people live in flimsy shelters in what many consider to be the world's largest refugee camp.
Cyclone Mocha is the first to form in the Bay this year and is expected to strengthen further before making landfall on Sunday, likely in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, near the border with Bangladesh.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Mocha strengthened Friday into the equivalent of a category 1 Atlantic hurricane and is moving north at 11 kilometers per hour (7 miles per hour).
The storm's winds could peak at 220 kph (137 mph) -- equivalent to a category 4 Atlantic hurricane -- just before making landfall on Sunday morning, the agency said.
India's Meteorological Department said Friday Mocha had intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm and warned fishermen and trawlers against sailing far into the Bay over the coming days.
The agency forecast a storm surge of up to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) was likely to inundate low-lying coastal areas in the path of the cyclone at the time of landfall.
In Bangladesh, that includes Cox's Bazar, home to members of the stateless Rohingya community who fled persecution in nearby Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017. Many live in bamboo and tarpaulin shelters perched on hilly slopes that are vulnerable to strong winds, rain, and landslides.
There are also concerns for hundreds of Rohingya refugees housed on an isolated and flood-prone island facility in the Bay of Bengal, called Bhasan Char.
Ahead of Mocha's expected landfall, aid agencies are ramping up their emergency preparedness and response with local and refugee communities.
The UN refugee agency in Bangladesh said in a tweet that "emergency preparations in the camps and on Bhasan Char are underway" in coordination with the government and local aid agencies.
"In preparation of cyclones, hundreds of Rohingya refugee volunteers have been trained on identifying risks, informing their communities, evacuating people when needed and responding after disaster strikes," the UNHCR said in a tweet.
In neighboring Myanmar, residents in coastal areas of Rakhine state and Ayeyarwady region have started to evacuate their homes and seek shelter ahead of the cyclone's expected landfall, according to local independent media Myanmar Now.
The ruling Myanmar junta has issued cyclone warnings and claimed to be taking precautionary measures such as readying disaster management committees to respond to a potential disaster, according to state media Global New Light of Myanmar.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said widespread flooding, landslides and high wind gusts are expected around the area of landfall and across Myanmar's interior.
The last named tropical cyclone to make landfall in Myanmar was Maarutha in April, 2017. Though Maarutha was the equivalent of a tropical storm at landfall, with maximum winds of 92 kph (58 mph), it brought heavy rains and damaged nearly 100 homes.
In October 2010, Tropical Cyclone Giri was the last storm to make landfall with hurricane-force winds. It made landfall as a high-end Category 4 equivalent storm with maximum winds of 250 kph (155 mph).
Giri caused over 150 fatalities and roughly 70% of the city of Kyaukphyu, in Rakhine state, was destroyed. According to the United Nations, roughly 15,000 homes were destroyed in the state during the storm.
The worst natural disaster to hit Myanmar was Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, killing 140,000 people, severely affecting 2.4 million and leaving 800,000 displaced, aid agencies said.
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The crash happened about 5:50 p.m. Friday, April 28 on Riley Street at 132nd Avenue.
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Murder-suicide claims life of Soledad native, Navy sailor
FALLON, NV (KION-TV) -- Authorities in Fallon, Nevada, are investigating a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of two enlisted sailors, including a Soledad native.
Tiffany Nicole Kerlee and Anthony Kent Mustizer were identified by the Naval Air Forces as the people who died in the incident. Tiffany was a native of Soledad.
Michael Kerlee, Tiffany's father, tells KION that detectives told them there's evidence that Mustizer shot and killed Kerlee before turning the gun on himself.
Investigators would only confirm to KION that the murder-suicide investigation is ongoing.
"This is tough. We're devastated," said Michael Kerlee. "This completely blindsided us."
Tiffany's parents said Tiffany was two months away from exiting the military, applying for a government position and that she was trying to get a college degree.
Michael and Kat Kerlee described Tiffany as strong, independent and witty. They said they were aware of a relationship between Tiffany and Mustizer and last spoke to him in July.
"We treated this guy like a son. He called us mom and dad. And then he turns on us like this?" said Michael Kerlee.
According to investigators, Tiffany Kerlee and Anthony Mustizer's bodies were found on July 25th.
The Naval Air Forces released a statement to KION that reads the following: “The case currently is under investigation by the Fallon Police Department with the Navy’s full support and cooperation. The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center extends our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of our deceased Sailors; our thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time.”
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The one of the nation's largest managers of money market funds posted revenue of $381.1 million in the period.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbor Group International, LLC ("HGI"), a privately-owned international real estate investment and management firm, today announced it has provided a $90 million senior mezzanine loan to Extell Development Company ("Extell") to finance the construction of 1520 First Avenue, a 30-story, 420,000 rentable square foot office building in Manhattan's Upper East Side. HGI, alongside InterVest Capital Partners, Rexmark and Pacific Western Bank, contributed to the loan financing, which totaled $425 million. Construction of the mixed-use medical office and retail space is expected to be completed in 2025.
Upon completion, the building will feature over 390,000 rentable square feet of medical space, of which 196,000 rentable square feet is pre-leased to the Hospital for Special Surgery, an internationally renowned musculoskeletal health and surgery center. The scale and location of the site are ideal for tenants seeking trophy medical space on the Upper East Side. The property will also feature ground floor and lower-level retail space.
"Across the country – especially cities with a high concentration of residents – there's an increasing need for world-class medical space," said Richard Litton, President, HGI. "To support this demand, we are pleased to finance the development of a specialized office space designed to accommodate the unique needs of medical tenants and their patients."
The building's First Avenue location in the heart of the Upper East Side's medical corridor is near several transit options, including three MTA bus stops adjacent to the property and the MTA 6 subway line within walking distance, offering both tenants and patients with convenience and accessibility. The Upper East Side contains one of the highest concentrations of hospitals in the country, positioning the property as an attractive leasing option, blocks from leading hospitals, attractions and New York's Central Park and East River.
About Harbor Group International
Harbor Group International, LLC, and its affiliates control an investment portfolio of $18 billion including 4.9 million square feet of commercial space throughout the United States and the United Kingdom and 60,000 apartment units in the United States. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, HGI maintains offices in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv.
About Extell Development Company
Extell Development Company is a globally recognized owner and developer responsible for building over 25M+ gross square feet in past and future development since the company was founded in 1989. Extell develops and manages multiple asset classes including commercial, residential, hospitality, education and mixed use. The Company will have closed $4 billion of new financings in 2022.
About InterVest Capital Partners
InterVest Capital Partners (fka Wafra Capital Partners) is an SEC registered investment adviser based in New York, focused on asset-based lending, leasing, and other structured finance verticals, as well as real estate debt and equity investments.
About Rexmark
Rexmark is a real estate investment manager headquartered in New York City focused on debt and equity investments throughout the United States and Europe. The firm leverages its extensive real estate expertise, comprehensive market knowledge and broad network of relationships to source, underwrite and execute attractive transactions.
About Pacific Western Bank
Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $41 billion in assets headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an executive office in Denver, Colorado. The Bank is focused on relationship-based business banking to small, middle-market, and venture-backed businesses nationwide. The Bank offers national lending products including asset-based, equipment, and real estate loans and treasury management services to established middle-market businesses on a national basis.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where elected officials have a long history of praising self-sufficiency and condemning federal antipoverty programs, a welfare scandal has exposed how millions of dollars were diverted to the rich and powerful — including pro athletes — instead of helping some of the neediest people in the nation.
The misuse of welfare money rankles Nsombi Lambright-Haynes, executive director of One Voice, a nonprofit that works to help economically vulnerable communities in Mississippi.
“It’s shameful and disgusting, especially when we’ve been a state where we hear discussion every year about poor people not needing resources and poor people being lazy and just needing to get up to work,” she said.
The state has ranked among the poorest in the U.S. for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going toward direct aid to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to fritter away tens of millions of welfare dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to the state auditor and state and federal prosecutors.
Former Human Services Director John Davis has pleaded guilty to charges tied to welfare misspending in one of the state’s largest public corruption cases.
The scandal has ensnared high-profile figures, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who is one of more than three dozen defendants in a civil lawsuit that the current Human Services director filed to try to recover some of the welfare money wasted while Davis was in charge.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money helped fund pet projects of the wealthy, including $5 million for a volleyball arena that Favre supported at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi Auditor Shad White said. Favre’s daughter played volleyball at the school starting in 2017.
Another $2.1 million of TANF money went toward an attempt to develop a concussion drug by a company in which Favre was an investor, White said. Favre has asked a judge to dismiss him from the lawsuit, with his attorney arguing that the Department of Human Services — not Favre — is responsible for “grossly improper and unlawful handling of welfare funds.” Favre is not facing criminal charges.
Some of the money that was intended to help low-income families was spent on luxury travel for Davis and on people close to him, drug rehab for a former pro wrestler and boot camp-style gym classes for public officials.
In contrast, some welfare recipients say they found little relief but plenty of bureaucratic headaches from collecting modest monthly TANF payments.
“What may seem like an easy handout program is not,” said Brandy Nichols, a single mother of four children age 8 and younger.
Mississippi requires TANF recipients to prove they are actively looking for employment and Nichols, of Jackson, said the job search is time-consuming.
“It’s work, and sometimes work takes away my ability to find a true, stable job,” she said.
TANF is for families that have at least one child younger than 18. To qualify in Mississippi, the household income must be at or below 185% of the federal poverty level. The current upper income limit for a family of three is $680 a month.
The Associated Press researched poverty statistics for 1982 through 2021, which show Mississippi was the poorest state for 19 of those 40 years and among the five poorest for 38 years. In 2021, the U.S. poverty rate was 11.6% and Mississippi’s was the highest in the nation, 17.4%.
Federal statistics show a dramatic decrease in the number of Mississippi residents receiving individual TANF aid starting in 2012, the first year Republican Phil Bryant was governor, and continuing into the term of current Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. Bryant chose Davis to lead the Department of Human Services.
During the 2012 budget year, 24,180 Mississippians received TANF. By the 2021 budget year, that was down to 2,880 in a state with nearly 3 million residents.
Robert G. “Bob” Anderson, the current Mississippi Department of Human Services executive director, told Democratic state lawmakers in October that about 90% of people who apply for TANF in Mississippi don’t receive it, either because their applications are denied or because they abandon their applications.
Those who do qualify get the lowest payments in the country, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
April Jackson, a single mother with children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years old, said she received about $190 a month in TANF when she was pregnant with her third child.
Eleven years ago, the monthly payment “bought diapers and stuff like that.” But she said that after she started receiving child support from the father of her oldest son, Human Services ended her TANF benefits because she was suddenly over the income limit for the aid.
“It messed me up real bad,” said Jackson, who lives on a tight budget. “I wasn’t able to pay my part of the bills. I couldn’t buy my kids clothes for school or the shoes they needed.”
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said that in 2020, New Hampshire had the highest TANF payment in the country, $862 a month for a single parent and one child. Mississippi’s monthly payment for a family of two was $146.
In 2021, Mississippi increased its TANF payments by $90 per month, per family — the state’s first increase since 1999 — at Anderson’s recommendation. The increase cost $2.8 million, and Republican Sen. Joey Fillingane said during a Senate debate that it was all paid by federal money, not state money.
“We’re not talking about a lot of money,” Fillingane said. “These are the poorest of the poor in our state.”
“Of course, those are all our dollars,” replied Sen. Melanie Sojourner, one of 18 legislators — all Republicans — who voted against the increase.
The federal government sends Mississippi about $86.5 million a year for TANF and allows states wide leeway in spending. Records show Mississippi does not always spend its entire allotment, sometimes carrying millions of dollars from year to year.
During Mississippi’s 2016 budget year, the Department of Human Services sent $17.3 million in direct aid to recipients, about half of the state’s TANF spending. During the next three years under Davis, the department decreased the amount of TANF money going to individuals.
By the 2019 budget year, Human Services was spending $9.6 million on direct aid, 16% of the TANF money. About $27.6 million, 46% of the money, was going to the Mississippi Community Education Center. The organization — run by Nancy New and one of her sons, Zachary New, who have pleaded guilty to state charges in the welfare misspending case — said it was fighting poverty by working on parenting skills, school dropout prevention, job readiness and other programs.
For Nichols — who spoke to Democratic state lawmakers about her experience on TANF — maintaining steady employment has been difficult at times because some of her children have health problems and she has to care for them.
She has worked as a cashier, waitress, housekeeper and certified nurse assistant. But when she has been unable to find a job quickly, she has had to work volunteer hours in a state Department of Human Services office as a condition for keeping TANF payments.
“That’s not career development,” she said. “That’s called being stuck in limbo.”
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Bob McGrath, original ‘Sesame Street’ cast member, dead at 90
By Dan Heching and Chris Boyette, CNN
Bob McGrath, an actor who played the friendly neighbor Bob Johnson as an original cast member of the beloved children’s program “Sesame Street,” has died, according to statements from his family and Sesame Workshop shared on social media.
He was 90.
“The McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family,” the family statement shared on Facebook read.
The Sesame Workshop paid tribute to McGrath’s nearly five decades on the show in a thread on Twitter.
“A founding cast member, Bob embodied the melodies of Sesame Street like no one else, and his performances brought joy and wonder to generations of children around the world,” the statement read in part. “We will be forever grateful for his many years of passionate creative contributions to Sesame Street and honored that he shared so much of his life with us.”
McGrath appeared in the “Sesame Street” pilot in 1969 and went on to work on 47 seasons of the show, departing the series in 2017 but still representing it at various events in recent years.
McGrath, who was an accomplished tenor and musician, performed in “concert halls from Las Vegas to Saskatchewan to Tokyo many times over,” according to Sesame Workshop. He helped make several of “Sesame Street’s” best known songs — like “People in Your Neighborhood” and “Sing a Song” — memorable childhood staples.
“Sesame Street” cast member Alan Muraoka paid tribute to the man he called his “role model.”
“Words cannot begin to express what Bob meant to me: a role model, a mentor, a friend. His kindness and wicked sense of humor were such a joy, and I loved him so much,” Muraoka wrote on Instagram. “Rest well my friend. You did good.”
“You can’t help but be influenced by all of the wonderful research and good messages that are shown on ‘Sesame Street,'” McGrath said in a 2015 interview about some of his takeaways from being on the landmark program. “I learned how important it is to listen, really listen, carefully to what your children have to say.”
McGrath, a father to five and a grandfather, is survived by his wife Ann Logan Sperry.
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Leading consumer electronics consumer financing FinTech welcomes ten new board members to guide the company's rapid growth.
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glow today announces the establishment of its new Board of Advisors comprising of seven former CEOs of telecoms companies, two financing experts and the CBI President. The role of the Board is to help the Company achieve its strategic growth objectives and market expansion. The establishment of the new Board follows Glow's new FinTech launch with a major global OEM in the UK and its expansion to the Netherlands, Germany, the Nordics and the USA.
Joining the Advisory Board are:
Niek Jan Van Damme
Former CEO, Deutsch Telekom Germany, current Telstra Board Member; Also Chairman of the Board, NGN Fiber Network; Board Advisor, LotusFlare
Lord Karan Bilimoria
Current President of the CBI, member of the UK's upper chamber, the House of Lords and founder of Cobra Beer
Jim Mooney
Former Executive Chairman of Virgin Media; former Sirius and RCN Board Member
Nadir Mohamed
Former CEO of Rogers, current TD Bank Board Member, among others
Paul A. Gould
Current Managing Director and EVP at Allen & Co, LLC, current Liberty Global PLC and Warner Discovery Inc. Board Member; Board of Trustees for Cornell University, and previously served as a director of DirecTV
Manuel Cubero
Former CEO of Kabel Deutschland, current United Internet Board Member;
President of the European Cable Communications Association
John Meeks
Current Managing Director, TA Associates; former Asurion investor
Blaik Kirby
Current Group President, Bell Canada Consumer and SMB
Glenn Lurie
Former CEO, AT&T Mobile & Consumer, current Board Member of Avis;
Former CEO of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
Eelco Blok
Former CEO, KPN, current Board Member of Telstra and the OTE Group; Co-chairman of the Dutch National Cyber Security Council, a Director for the international association, GSMA
The Board's combined skills will help guide Glow through new and exciting opportunities as well as strengthen our commitment to being a trusted financing partner.
Glow Financial Services is a global consumer electronics financing FinTech working with large channel partners. These partners include mobile operators, OEMs and retailers. In addition to high finance and servicing services, the FinTech provides a unique financing platform that drives competitive advantage for clients. For more information, visit www.GlowGFS.com
For information, please contact Rich Frostig, PR Director: rfrostig@GlowGFS.com
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New York Giants hired Brian Daboll in the hopes he could get more production out of quarterback Daniel Jones and the offense.
The first preseason game of Daboll's tenure revealed signs they may be heading in the right direction.
Graham Gano hit a 24-yard field goal as time expired, Daniel Jones was solid in limited work and New York beat the New England Patriots 23-21 on Thursday night to open the preseason.
It gave Daboll a victory in his head coaching debut against his predecessor and the team he started his NFL career with.
Despite some breakouts by the offensive line, the Giants moved the ball well, with Jones completing 6 of 10 passes for 69 yards. Running back Saquon Barkley had four carries for 13 yards and one catch for 8 yards.
“I thought (Jones) operated the offense well. He led them down on the first drive,” Daboll said. “We stalled there in the red zone. Good first start, but certainly things to clean up.”
Antonio Williams had a 2-yard touchdown run and Gano made three field goals.
“There's going to be good, there's going to be bad. We got to go back and watch film and learn from it, but that's what the preseason's for,” Barkley said. “Try to sharpen up the tools, sharpen up the game."
Brian Hoyer and Bailey Zappe each threw touchdown passes for New England which, except for rookie left guard Cole Strange, gave quarterback Mac Jones and most of its projected starters the night off.
The Giants elected to play their starters for one quarter, which amounted to the first two series.
Zappe was 19 of 32 for 205 yards and touchdown. Hoyer was 5 of 8 for 59 yards and a TD. Kevin Harris had a 3-yard touchdown run and Kristian Wilkerson finished with eight catches for 99 yards.
The Giants led 20-14 in the fourth quarter before the Patriots took the the lead after a 20-yard TD pass from Zappe to Lil’Jordan Humphrey.
But New York responded on the ensuing series, with Davis Webb leading the Giants on an 11-play, 69-yard drive capped by Gano’s winner.
It wasn’t all positive for the Giants, though. Starting left guard Shane Lemieux played the opening series before leaving with a toe injury. He was replaced by rookie Josh Ezeudu.
Defensively, two of New England of free agency acquisitions made their presence felt. Cornerback Terrance Mitchell forced a fumble and finished with four tackles. Linebacker Mack Wilson had five tackles and was credited with a quarterback hit.
One of the biggest questions for the Patriots has been who’d be tasked with play calling for the Patriots following the departure of former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to become the Las Vegas Raiders coach.
There still doesn’t appear to be a definitive successor.
Senior football advisor Matt Patricia and offensive assistant Joe Judge, back in New England after being fired by the Giants after two seasons, have both taken turns doing it throughout training camp.
That continued Thursday with Patricia handling the duties for the first two series. Then, after rookie Zappe was inserted in the second quarter, Judge took over the headset.
Coach Bill Belichick said it's still a work in progress.
“We did a lot of things in this game that are going to be beneficial in the long run, whether it was on the coaching staff, playing time, players that played and so forth. That’s all part of the process,” he said. “We'll work it out.”
Working against New England’s second-team defense, the Giants moved the ball well on the opening drive of the game, moving all the way to the 6 before settling for Gano's 25-yard field goal.
EARLY ACTION
With Hoyer at quarterback, New England punted on their first touch of the night. But following a Giants punt, the Patriots went to work.
First, Hoyer connected with Wilkerson on a 33-yard pass to get the Patriots into the red zone. Six plays later, Hoyer found Thornton for a touchdown from 2 yards out.
The Giants answered just before halftime via a 7-yard TD pass from backup Tyrod Taylor to receiver Richie James.
INJURIES
Giants: Backup center Jamil Douglas left in the second quarter with an ankle injury and did not return. … Rookie CB Cor’Dale Flott exited in the third quarter with a groin injury.
Patriots: Offensive lineman Yodny Cajuste was helped off the field in the third quarter.
UP NEXT
The Giants host Carolina on Sunday, Aug. 21. The Patriots have a week of joint practices with Carolina before their matchup next Friday.
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Taylor Swift announces new international tour in 2023
(Gray News) – Taylor Swift is hitting the road. The award-winning artist announced a new tour on social media Tuesday morning.
“I’m enchanted to announce my next tour: Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, a journey through the musical eras of my career (past and present!),” Swift said in a post on Twitter.
The first part of the tour will be in stadiums across the United States with international dates to be announced soon.
The first leg of the tour kicks off in Glendale, Arizona, on March 18 and wraps up on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles.
The tour announcement comes on the heels of Swift being the first artist to claim all top 10 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 with tracks from her new album “Midnights.”
Swift surpassed Drake, who held the previous record with nine of the top 10 songs for a week in September 2021.
Earlier this month, Swift became Spotify’s most-streamed artist over a 24-hour period following “Midnights’” release.
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Mega Millions jackpot surges to $910 million after months without big winner
Lottery players will have another shot at a huge Mega Millions jackpot Friday night and a chance to break a stretch of more than three months without a big winner of the game.
The estimated $910 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The jackpot is now the eighth-largest ever in the U.S. It comes a little over a week after someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. It's still a mystery who won that prize.
RELATED: Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $820 million
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
The $910 million prize would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Friday night's drawing would be an estimated $464.2 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, while many states also tax lottery winnings.
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LUXEMBOURG, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Insured Brazil Power Finance S.à r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée), incorporated and existing under Luxembourg law, having its registered office at 16, rue Eugène Ruppert, L – 2453 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, registered with the Luxembourg Register of Commerce and Companies under number B 217648 (the "Company"), previously launched a consent solicitation (the "Consent Solicitation") in relation to its 9.850% Senior Secured Notes due 2032 with ISIN USL8915MAA38/US870880AA90 (the "Notes") pursuant to the consent solicitation statement, dated July 20, 2022 (as supplemented and amended prior to the date hereof, the "Statement"). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this announcement (the "Announcement") have the meanings assigned to them in the Statement.
The Company today announces that the Expiration Time occurred as scheduled at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on August 4, 2022. As previously announced, the Company received the Requisite Consents under the Indenture and the Uninsured Loan Agreement.
The aggregate Consent Payment payable to Holders who validly deliver their Consent at or prior to the Expiration Time, is 1.00% of the Original Face Value, or R$32,015,000, to be shared by all such consenting Holders. Specifically, the Consent Payment will be an amount, per R$1,000 of Original Face Value of Notes for which Holders have validly delivered Consents prior to the Expiration Time, equal to approximately R$10.63. The Consent Payment shall be payable in U.S. Dollars as converted based on the prevailing Reais / U.S. Dollar spot rate as of the Expiration Time of 0.1917 as shown on the Bloomberg "BRLUSD Curncy" screen. The Consent Payment is calculated using the Original Face Value of the Notes.
Payment of the Consent Payment to consenting Holders is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the other conditions to the Consent Solicitation set forth in the Statement. Subject to the consummation of any one of the Proposed Transactions and the other conditions described in the Statement, the Company expects to pay the previously announced Consent Payment upon the earlier of (i) the third business day following the consummation or termination, as applicable, of the Proposed Transactions and (ii) October 17, 2022 (the "Outside Date"); provided that, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, unless the Consent Payment has been made on or prior to the Outside Date, each Consent provided pursuant to the Consent Solicitation shall be ineffective and deemed revoked and the Proposed Consent and Amendments and the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization and any amendments or consents resulting therefrom shall be void ab initio.
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DOHA, Qatar — Weston McKennie got into the patriotic spirit, dying his hair red, white and blue ahead of the United States' World Cup opener against Wales.
The 24-year-old midfielder from Fort Lewis, Washington, showed up with the new colors for Sunday night's training session. McKennie, who plays for Juventus in Italy, previously had a streak of blond in his hair.
The Americans open the World Cup on Monday after failing to reach the 2018 tournament in Russia. The team faces Gareth Bale-led Wales; Bale has been playing for Los Angeles FC and helped them win the MLS Cup earlier this month.
The United States has one of the youngest squads in the 32-team tournament. Three of the Americans — Gio Reyna, Joe Scally and Yusuf Musah — were only 11 years old the last time the national team played a World Cup match.
DeAndre Yedlin, a 29-year-old defender, is the only holdover from the American team eliminated by Belgium in the second round eight years ago. Yedlin, Christian Pulisic, Kellyn Acosta and Tim Ream are the only four players who were on the squad when it failed to qualify for Russia. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/soccer/world-cup/mckennie-readies-for-world-cup-with-red-white-blue-hair/507-16e152cc-8208-43a6-a8e2-c9bdb0a97172 | 2022-11-21 20:09:43 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/soccer/world-cup/mckennie-readies-for-world-cup-with-red-white-blue-hair/507-16e152cc-8208-43a6-a8e2-c9bdb0a97172 |
ROME (AP) — The condition of former Italian premier Silvio Berlucsconi, hospitalized in intensive care for a lung infection, is progressively improving, allowing for “cautious optimism,” his doctors said Monday.
Berlusconi, 86, was taken Wednesday to the intensive care unit at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital. Doctors revealed that the media tycoon and three-time premier has had a chronic form of leukemia for some time.
Monday’s new health bulletin, signed by Berlusconi’s doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri, said they observed a “progressive and constant improvement” in his condition.
They added that antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory treatments are “producing the expected results, allowing us to express a cautious optimism.”
Over the past few days, Berlusconi has been constantly visited by relatives and friends, who expressed optimism over his recovery.
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FTX said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings after a rescue deal by a larger rival failed. The collapse is the latest to rock the cryptocurrency world, with little chance of depositors being bailed out.
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Crisis-struck cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for US bankruptcy protection on Friday after experiencing the digital currency equivalent of a bank run.
A week of rumors over the platform's financial woes sent Bitcoin plunging to a two-year low this week and by Friday evening, the currency was trading at $16,861 (€16,256).
What do we know so far?
FTX, its affiliated crypto trading firm Alameda Research, and about 130 of its other companies have commenced voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, the company said in a statement on Twitter.
Chapter 11 is a US mechanism allowing a company to restructure its debts under court supervision while continuing to operate.
In its bankruptcy petition, FTX Trading said it has $10 billion to $50 billion in assets, $10 billion to $50 billion in liabilities, and more than 100,000 creditors.
The platform's founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried also resigned after he failed to raise billions to stave off collapse as traders rushed to withdraw $6 billion in just 72 hours.
John J. Ray III, a restructuring expert who oversaw the liquidation of US energy giant Enron in 2001, has been appointed to take over as CEO.
Reuters news agency cited sources saying that the platform was scrambling to raise about $9.4 billion from investors and rivals to save itself after customer withdrawals.
Rescue deal by rival Binance failed
FTX had agreed earlier this week to sell itself to bigger rival Binance after customers fled fearing a lack of capital.
The crypto world had hoped that Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, might be able to rescue FTX and its depositors.
However, after Binance took a look at FTX's books, it concluded that the smaller exchange's problems were too big to solve and backed out of the deal.
It was an abrupt fall from grace for a company that was once a darling of the crypto industry.
FTX raised $400 million from investors in January, valuing the company at $32 billion.
It attracted money from investors such as Singapore state investment firm Temasek and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan as well as celebrities and sports stars.
From crypto hero to zero
Bankman-Fried, known for his trademark shorts and t-shirt attire, has morphed from being the poster child of crypto's successes to the protagonist of the industry's highest-profile crash.
The 30-year-old, whose net worth was estimated as high as $26.5 billion by Forbes a year ago, has repeatedly apologized.
"I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here," he said in a series of tweets Friday.
Bankman-Fried's net worth has all but evaporated, according to Forbes and Bloomberg, which closely track the net worth of the world's richest people.
Already companies that backed FTX are writing down their investments.
Politicians and regulators are ramping up calls for stricter oversight of the crypto industry.
On Thursday, AP news agency reported that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were looking into FTX to determine whether any criminal activity or securities offenses were committed.
The investigation is centered on the possibility that FTX may have used customers' deposits to fund bets at Alameda Research.
Specialist media site CoinDesk reported that 40% of Alameda's balance sheet comprised FTX's own digital currency, FTT tokens, raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest.
Cryptocurrencies have no protections under US law and both Republican and Democratic politicians have so far ruled out any Lehman Brothers-like bailout for crypto depositors.
US Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted that the implosion of FTX was a wake-up call for Congress and regulators to hold the industry and its executives accountable.
"Too much of the crypto industry is smoke and mirrors. It's time for stronger rules and stronger enforcement to protect ordinary people," she said. | https://www.dw.com/en/crypto-exchange-giant-ftx-collapses-ceo-resigns/a-63733678 | 2022-11-12 00:53:53 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/crypto-exchange-giant-ftx-collapses-ceo-resigns/a-63733678 |
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to make sure a livestock producer gets the grain it needs in California to prevent millions of chickens and hundreds of thousands of cattle from starving.
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board told the railroad it must improve service to Foster Farms to keep it from running out of feed for livestock it raises. It's is the second time in the past year regulators issued an emergency order related to delivery problems at Foster Farms, which is based in Livingston, California, as the railroad struggled with a shortage of crews.
This time, however, Union Pacific blamed the weather for its problems. Spokesman Mike Jaixen said last month's extreme cold and blizzard conditions slowed deliveries in 20 of the 23 western states the railroad operated in, and additional problems are possible because of the forecast for more severe winter weather.
“Union Pacific remains committed to serving all of our customers as efficiently as possible, including Foster Farms, weather permitting,” Jaixen said.
Foster Farms called on the STB to get Union Pacific to give priority to grain trains heading from the Midwest to the livestock producer's facilities in Traver, Turlock, and Delhi, California.
Union Pacific said the problems at Foster Farms should improve once five trains hauling corn that are already en route arrive, but Jaixen declined to provide an update on those trains Tuesday. The railroad is submitting updates to the STB, but it wants to keep that customer-specific information confidential.
Foster Farms attorney Thomas Wilcox said in a letter to regulators that the company has little faith that UP will deliver on its promises because the railroad has failed to deliver any of its grain trains on time in the past two weeks.
So in the meantime, Foster Farms has been buying dozens of truckloads of expensive corn to keep its chickens alive while it waits for the grain trains to be delivered, but those truck deliveries can't continue to meet its needs.
Union Pacific said its performance has improved since the spring when Foster Farms and many other shippers went before the STB to complain about chronic delivery problems at most of the major freight railroads that were disrupting their businesses.
UP and the other major freight railroads have hired hundreds of new workers since the start of the year to help them better handle all the shipments. But railroad executives acknowledge that their service still isn't meeting customer expectations and must continue to improve.
Regulators also recently criticized Union Pacific's practice of imposing limits on customer shipments as part of its effort to clear up congestion along the Omaha, Nebraska, based railroad's network of 32,400 miles (about 52,000 kilometers) of track across the Western half of the United States. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Feds-say-railroad-must-deliver-grain-to-17692531.php | 2023-01-03 23:25:35 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Feds-say-railroad-must-deliver-grain-to-17692531.php |
Agreement will support the "Blue Economy" through digital solutions designed to give aquaculture and other ocean-based industries insights to help reduce their carbon output while improving business outcomes. 3.3bn people rely on the ocean for food and economic security.
TEANECK, N.J., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced that it is collaborating with Tidal, a project inside X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, to make Tidal's ocean information platform widely available to the aquaculture market. Until now, Tidal's platform has been available to select pilot partners only, offering data-driven insights designed to improve the sustainability and efficiency of their operations. Cognizant will use its software and systems integration expertise to bring the Tidal platform to the broader aquaculture market.
Longer term, Cognizant and Tidal will explore additional ways to apply the platform to make an impact on industries that depend on ocean insights, including blue transportation; blue energy, and blue carbon. Together with aquaculture, part of blue food, these sectors of the blue economy represent a significant opportunity to decarbonize large ocean-based industries.
The Technology
Tidal has developed a digital technology solution that utilizes innovations in underwater perception, machine learning, AI, and automation to gather and analyze data. Cognizant will collaborate with Tidal to make these technologies more widely available to the aquaculture industry to help them make more intelligent decisions, build more resiliency into their operations, and run more efficiently in a strict regulatory environment.
For the past five years, Tidal has worked with aquaculture industry leaders to develop its solution, which includes a system of underwater cameras, sensors, machine perception tools and software designed to interpret complex ocean environments. The current platform has been built and validated using Tidal's AI, which has been trained on 8 billion underwater observations of fish behavior across 900 terabytes of operational video.
Through its longstanding relationships with global enterprises that make up the Blue Economy, Cognizant will be able to help companies integrate Tidal's technology into their enterprise systems, linking data from across their business to gather insights and make decisions that improve efficiency throughout the entire value chain.
"With digital technology ocean industries can not only become more resilient and future-proof in the face of a more unpredictable and rapidly changing environment, but they can help make oceans healthier and address humanity's biggest problems – from food production to renewable energy to climate change," said Stig Martin Fiskå, Global Head of Cognizant® Ocean. "We welcome this important collaboration with Tidal to work together with clients to support their holistic, systems-level change."
The Opportunity
Ocean based-companies can drive better business outcomes and contribute to decarbonization through lowering the carbon footprint of their operations. For example, in aquaculture fish farmers can use machine perception tools and AI to automate feeding time in accordance with the hunger levels of the fish to reduce wasted feed, a significant carbon emissions source while improving growth metrics. In shipping, sea transport companies can use machine learning models to analyze micro-weather systems, current speeds and port data traffic to optimize shipping route and port arrival times for lower fuel usage.
"To preserve ocean health, we need to take an innovation-driven and collaborative approach with aquaculture companies and other businesses that make their living on and in the ocean," said Tidal Founder and CEO, Neil Davé. "Through our collaboration with Cognizant, we hope to build on our initial success in the Norwegian aquaculture industry, and eventually expand to other sectors of the Blue Economy to make a meaningful impact in ocean health and global decarbonization."
About Tidal
Tidal, a project inside Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, is developing a new platform to advance our understanding of ocean health and climate change. Tidal is combining machine learning with new types of underwater perception hardware to gain unprecedented visibility into aquatic relationships and ecosystems. For more information
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New release delivers seven JDK Enhancement Proposals to increase developer productivity, improve the Java language, and enhance the platform's performance, stability, and security
Java 19's key capabilities to be showcased at JavaOne 2022 in Las Vegas on October 17-20
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the availability of Java 19, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. Java 19 (Oracle JDK 19) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including enhancements to the platform that will help developers improve productivity and drive business-wide innovation. Oracle will showcase the latest capabilities in Java 19 at JavaOne 2022, taking place October 17-20 in Las Vegas, and via a keynote broadcast airing on dev.java/ at 9:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, September 20.
"Our ongoing collaboration with the developer community is the lifeblood of Java. As the steward of Java, Oracle is steadfastly committed to providing developers and enterprises with the latest tools to help them create innovative apps and services," said Georges Saab, senior vice president of development, Java Platform and Chair, OpenJDK Governing Board, Oracle. "The powerful new enhancements in Java 19 are a testament to the monumental work across the global Java community."
The latest Java Development Kit (JDK) provides updates and improvements with seven JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs). Most of these updates are to be delivered as follow-up preview features improving on functionality introduced in earlier releases.
JDK 19 delivers language Improvements from OpenJDK project Amber (Record Patterns and Pattern Matching for Switch); library enhancements to interoperate with non-Java Code (Foreign Function and Memory API) and to leverage vector instructions (Vector API) from OpenJDK project Panama; and the first previews for Project Loom (Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency), which will drastically reduce the effort required to write and maintain high-throughput, concurrent applications in Java.
"Java developers are increasingly seeking tools to help them efficiently build highly functional applications for deployment in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments," said Arnal Dayaratna, research vice president, software development, IDC. "The enhancements in Java 19 deliver on these requirements and illustrate how the Java ecosystem is well-positioned to meet the current and future needs of developers and enterprises."
Oracle delivers new Java Feature releases every six months via a predictable release schedule. This cadence provides a steady stream of innovations while delivering continuous improvements to the platform's performance, stability, and security, helping increase Java's pervasiveness across organizations and industries of all sizes.
The most significant updates delivered in Java 19 are:
- JEP 405: Record Patterns (Preview): Enables users to nest record patterns and type patterns to create a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This extends pattern matching to allow for more sophisticated and composable data queries.
- JEP 427: Pattern Matching for Switch (Third Preview): Enables pattern matching for switch expressions and statements by permitting an expression to be tested against a number of patterns. This allows users to express complex data-oriented queries concisely and safely.
- JEP 424: Foreign Function and Memory API (Preview): Enables Java programs to more easily interoperate with code and data outside of the Java runtime. By efficiently invoking foreign functions (i.e., code outside the Java Virtual Machine [JVM]), and by safely accessing foreign memory (i.e., memory not managed by the JVM), this API enables Java programs to call native libraries and process native data via a pure Java development model. This results in increased ease-of-use, performance, flexibility, and safety.
- JEP 426: Vector API (Fourth Incubator): Enables superior performance compared to equivalent scalar computations by expressing vector computations that reliably compile at runtime to vector instructions on supported CPU architectures.
- JEP 422: Linux/RISC-V Port: Sets the stage for easier Linux/RISC-V implementations by integrating this port into the JDK main-line repository.
- JEP 425: Virtual Threads (Preview): Dramatically reduces the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications by introducing lightweight virtual threads to the Java Platform. Using virtual threads allows developers to easily troubleshoot, debug, and profile concurrent applications with existing JDK tools and techniques.
- JEP 428: Structured Concurrency (Incubator): Streamlines error handling and cancellation, improves reliability, and enhances observability by simplifying multithreaded programming and treating multiple tasks running in different threads as a single unit of work.
The Java 19 release is the result of extensive collaboration between Oracle engineers and other members of the worldwide Java developer community via the OpenJDK Project and the Java Community Process (JCP). In addition to new enhancements, Java 19 is supported by Java Management Service – an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) native service – that provides a single pane of glass to help organizations manage Java runtimes and applications on-premises or on any cloud.
The Oracle Java SE Subscription is a pay-as-you-go offering that provides customers with best-in-class support, entitlement to GraalVM Enterprise, access to the Java Management Service, and the flexibility to upgrade at the pace of their businesses. This helps IT organizations manage complexity, contain costs, and mitigate security risks. In addition, Java SE and GraalVM Enterprise are offered free of charge on OCI, enabling developers to build and deploy applications that run faster, better, and with unbeatable cost-performance on Oracle Cloud.
Underscoring Java's popularity with the global developer community, Oracle is proud to recognize the one millionth completed Java certification. Java certifications help developers stand out as Java experts and raise their profiles with enterprises seeking to attract highly skilled Java professionals.
- Download Oracle JDK 19
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Microsoft announced it has agreed to partnerships with Nvidia and Nintendo as it tries to convince European Union officials to approve its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard — the company behind the popular game franchise Call of Duty.
Microsoft President Brad Smith had a closed-door meeting Tuesday with EU regulators and competitors in Brussels to address concerns that its acquisition of Activision Blizzard could hurt competition in the video game industry. The deal has also come under scrutiny from regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Microsoft said that it has entered into a 10-year partnership with Nvidia to bring Xbox PC games to Nvidia's cloud gaming service. In a statement, the software giant said the partnership "resolves Nvidia's concerns with Activision Blizzard. Nvidia therefore is offering its full support for regulatory approval of the acquisition."
Microsoft also revealed it has finalized a 10-year agreement to bring the latest version of "Call of Duty" to the Nintendo platform once the merger with Activision is completed.
Smith told CNN's Richard Quest on Tuesday that "a lot changed today because Microsoft has announced two agreements that together will bring Call of Duty, the game that everyone has been talking about, to 150 million more people on Nintendo devices and Nvidia's cloud streaming services." He went on to say these two deals address the concern that Call of Duty will be less available than it is today and will be more available instead due to these two binding agreements.
"We're really down to one principal company that is objecting to this deal, and that's Sony, and we've made clear that we're happy to enter a 10-year agreement with Sony and we're prepared to enter regulatory obligations as well, whether it's London or Brussels or Washington," Smith said. "So, in addition to a contract, we'd have a duty under the law." | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/microsoft-enters-10-year-agreement-with-nvidia-and-nintendo-in-fight-to-save-activision-deal/article_a3bb3e79-66ee-5d77-963c-1866246977ca.html | 2023-02-22 01:13:43 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/microsoft-enters-10-year-agreement-with-nvidia-and-nintendo-in-fight-to-save-activision-deal/article_a3bb3e79-66ee-5d77-963c-1866246977ca.html |
MIAMI (AP) — Ian se convierte en huracán en el Caribe, se espera que se convierta en una fuerte tormenta y vaya hacia Cuba y Florida.
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville at Sea cruise line announced Thursday that it will lift the vaccination requirement for passengers.
The new cruise company, launched in May, said that starting Sept. 5 all guests will be welcomed onboard regardless of vaccination status.
"We continue to operate highly vaccinated cruises departing from the Port of Palm Beach. Not only are we following the latest CDC guidelines but have taken additional safety and protective measures to provide you with a safe, healthy, and fun microvacation," said the cruise line. "As the state of COVID-19 evolves, we continue to adapt our protocols based on public health advisories."
In July, Margaritaville at Sea dropped its pre-boarding testing requirement for vaccinated passengers. It was the latest major cruise line to do so.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife advocates sued federal officials Tuesday after the government missed a deadline to decide if protections for gray wolves should be restored across the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains, where Republican-led states have made it easier to kill the predators.
The Biden administration said in a preliminary finding last September that protections for wolves may need to be restored because increased hunting in Idaho and Montana posed a potential threat to wolves across the region.
A final determination was due June 1.
The Humane Society of the United States and Center for Biological Diversity asked U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Montana to order federal officials to make a final decision.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson Vanessa Kauffman declined comment on the lawsuit and said the agency’s review was ongoing.
Wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S. by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns. They were reintroduced from Canada into the northern U.S. Rockies in the 1990s.
Wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming have since become strongholds for wolf populations. That’s helped fuel the species’ expansion in recent years into portions of Oregon, Washington state and California.
Republicans governors in Idaho and Montana last year signed laws that expanded when, where and how wolves can be killed.
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Gaining the right to host next year’s Under-20 World Cup was a major milestone in Indonesia’s soccer development, raising hopes that a successful tournament would turn around long-standing problems that have blighted the sport in this country of 277 million people.
The death of at least 125 people at a league game between host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city and Persebaya Surabaya on Saturday is a tragic reminder, however, that Indonesia is one of the most dangerous countries in which to attend a game.
“Do remember that the FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the worldwide spotlight since the event will be joined by 24 countries from five continents,” Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said last month as he pushed for thorough preparations for the tournament.
Since Saturday, the domestic league has been suspended. Widodo has ordered the sports minister, the national police chief and the soccer federation to conduct a thorough investigation into the deadly stadium crush.
Indonesia was the first Asian team ever to play at a World Cup — participating in 1938 as Dutch East Indies — but despite an undoubted national passion for the sport, it has never returned to the global stage because of years of corruption, violence and mismanagement.
Data from Indonesia’s soccer watchdog, Save Our Soccer, showed 78 people have died in game-related incidents over the past 28 years.
Those accused are often associated with supporter groups that attach themselves to clubs, with the biggest boasting hundreds of thousands of members.
Arema intense rivalry with Surabaya meant that no visiting fans were allowed in the stadium on the weekend. Yet violence broke out when the home team lost 3-2 and some of the 42,000 Arema fans, known as “Aremania,” threw bottles and other objects at players and soccer officials.
Restrictions on visiting fans also have failed in the past. In 2016, despite Persib Bandung supporters being banned from a game with bitter rival Persija Jakarta, they were blamed for the death of a Jakarta supporter.
A month earlier, a Persib fan had been beaten to death by Jakarta followers.
In 2018, local media reported a seventh death in six years related to Indonesia’s biggest soccer rivalry.
Soccer fans have accused security officials of being heavy-handed in the past and on the weekend, with witnesses describing officers beating them with sticks and shields before shooting tear gas canisters directly into the crowds. In 2016, police were accused of killing 16-year-old supporter Muhammad Fahreza at a game between Persija and Persela Lamongan, resulting in mass demonstrations demanding an end to police brutality.
“The police who were in charge of security violated FIFA stadium safety and security regulations,” soccer analyst Akmal Marhali told Indonesian media on Sunday, referring to the use of tear gas on Malang fans who entered the pitch after their team's defeat. That sparked a rush for exits in an overcrowded stadium.
“The Indonesia Football Association may have been negligent for not informing the police that security procedures at a football match are not the same as those at a demonstration."
FIFA, soccer's world governing body, advises against the use of tear gas at stadiums.
The soccer association, known locally as PSSI, has long struggled to manage the game domestically.
In 2007, Nurdin Halid was imprisoned on corruption charges but was able to continue as the organization’s president until 2011. After Halid was banned from running for another term, a rival league, federation and national team emerged.
But chaotic administration continued until FIFA suspended Indonesia in 2015, a sanction that was lifted the following year.
In 2019, when FIFA awarded Indonesia hosting rights for the Under-20 World Cup, it was seen as a vote of confidence.
In June, a FIFA panel inspected the country's soccer facilities and planning for the May 20-June 11 tournament and proclaimed its satisfaction.
“We are very pleased to see the preparations in Indonesia,” Roberto Grassi, Head of Youth Tournaments for FIFA said. “A lot of refurbishment work has been done already. We have had an encouraging visit and are confident of support from all stakeholders involved.”
Kanjuruhan Stadium, the site of the disaster on Saturday, is not among the six venues listed for the Under-20 World Cup, although nearby Surabaya Stadium is scheduled to host games.
FIFA has not yet commented on any potential impact on the Under-20 World Cup but the weekend tragedy is likely to damage Indonesia's bid to host the 2023 Asian Cup. It is vying with South Korea and Qatar to become host of the continental championship after China relinquished its staging rights in May.
Indonesia has already co-hosted the tournament, sharing the event in 2007 with Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam and hosting the final in Jakarta, where Iraq beat Saudi Arabia for the title.
That was the last time Indonesia staged a major international soccer tournament. The Asian Football Confederation is expected to announce its decision on the 2023 tournament on Oct. 17.
There is unlikely to be any soccer played before then as people in Indonesia, and football followers around the globe, come to terms with one of the deadliest disasters ever at a sporting event.
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John Strickland
John Strickland
1941 – 2022
John Riley Strickland, age 80, resident of Eads, Tennessee and husband of
the late Janet L. Strickland, departed this life Saturday morning, July 9,
2022 at St. Francis Hospital in Bartlett, Tennessee.
John was born September 25, 1941 in Blackshear, Georgia. He was
preceded in death by his parents, John Riley Strickland and Lucile Peacock
Strickland. He graduated from McArthur High School in Hollywood, Florida
where he played center for the football team. He later graduated from the
University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree. John retired from the United
States Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant.
Mr. Strickland was married March 13, 1965 to Janet L. Strickland who
preceded him in death on March 8, 2021. He was employed as a 727
Simulator flight instructor for FedEx from 1985 until 2001 and was of the
Christian faith. He enjoyed working in his yard and gardening.
Mr. Strickland is survived by his daughter, Kim M. Alexander of Eads, TN;
his son, Norris Strickland (Lori) of Cordova, TN; three grandchildren,
Jeremy Brown, Jenna Strickland and Kate Strickland; and three great-
granddaughters and three great-great-grandsons.
A private interment for Mr. Strickland will be in the West Tennessee State
Veterans Cemetery in Memphis.
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The next mayor has to have experience and courage in order fix Philadelphia’s challenges of gun violence, improving the schools and city services and Rebecca Rhynhart says she is the one for the job.
“I think we are going to need a mayor right now, who not only has the right experience, but that has courage to break through some of these challenges on crime on quality of life issues, on the long standing challenges of education and poverty,” said Rhynhart, former city controller. “To me, what we need is a combination of the right experience and courage and I have both of those.”
Rhynhart, 48, made her comments at a recent meeting at The Philadelphia Tribune. Rhynhart touted her resume as city treasurer and later budget director when Michael Nutter was mayor. She has also worked on Wall Street and held the position of chief administration officer in the Jim Kenney administration.
“I think I’m the most qualified candidate,” Rhynhart said. “I think I am the right candidate for this particular time because I know how this city works inside and out and how it doesn’t, in order to hit the ground running and fix the issues of this city.”
When Rhynhart was sworn in as city controller in 2018, she became the first woman to ever hold that position in the city. The controller is the city’s chief auditor and an independent financial watchdog, who advocates for better management of city’s finances, exposes fraud and mismanagement.
On a lighter note in one of her commercials featuring former mayors Nutter and John Street, who are known rivals, Rhynhart said her candidacy was one of the few things they agreed upon. They both endorsed her.
“You get a sense of the requirements of the job,” Street said. “It has not gotten easier it has gotten more complex. There is only one person I know who is a candidate for mayor, who worked in two distinct administrations who was a city controller for five years (Rhynhart was elected twice.) She has looked at the operations of every single department for half of a decade.”
Rhynhart lives in the city’s 8th Ward in Center City, along with several of her opponents for mayor, such as former City Councilmember and real estate mogul Allan Domb; former Councilmember Helen Gym; and Jeff Brown, whose family owns several supermarkets. Other opponents are state Rep. Amen Brown, former Councilmember Cherelle Parker and retired judge James DeLeon. All are Democrats. David Oh, who is running unopposed as a Republican, is also a former Council member.
The primary election is May 16, when city voters will choose nominees for their party. On Nov. 7, voters will choose a mayor to replace Kenney, who is in his second term and prohibited by law from seeking a third consecutive term.
When it comes to the No. 1 issue in Philadelphia, gun violence, Rhynhart, like several other candidates for mayor, said she would declare a state of emergency immediately.
“On Day 1, I would open the Emergency Operations Center,” Rhynhart said. “It is used by the mayor to coordinate crises. I think gun violence is a crisis. It allows the mayor to coordinate all of the operating departments.”
For example, she said, the Streets Department would be directed to fix lights in high-crime areas, the Health Department would provide trauma therapy and the libraries and recreation centers would be opened in the neighborhoods where there is more violence.
“I would pull together the DA (district attorney) and police commissioner to get on the same page when it comes to illegal guns,” Rhynhart said. In the last five years, arrests are up, but convictions are down.
In addition, Rhynhart said she has researched violence prevention programs that have been successful in other cities, such as group violence intervention, Cure Violence and cognitive behavior therapy.
“These are specific programs that focus in on the mostly young men that are among the highest risk for shooting or being shot. It is giving them an opportunity and a way out,” Rhynhart said. “It is saying we have a way out of this life of violence for you with employment and services that you need. But if you don’t want a way out then there will be consequences. The vast majority of these young men want a way out.”
She said she would expand these programs citywide. One similar program in Philadelphia that was very successful was Crisis Intervention Network in the 1970s, whose personnel would flock to neighborhoods where trouble was brewing and de-escalate the situation.
As for the long-term strategy, Rhynhart said, it must be improving the school system, which she said she would do, by appointing school board members with “her vision” and developing metrics for success and accountability. She has a daughter who attends public school.
“I can start on day one to break down the silos of city government to take on the issues. I have maneuvered in city politics. As city controller, I have gotten things done in the system. I know how to do it,” Rhyhart said. “There is no learning curve, for me. I have a whole plan to make our government work better, improve city services and to fix our schools.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
In fallout from the debt ceiling deal, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is suddenly confronting a new threat to his power as angry hard-right conservatives bring the House chamber to a halt, reviving their displeasure over the compromise struck with President Joe Biden and demanding deeper spending cuts ahead.
Barely a dozen Republicans, mainly members of the House Freedom Caucus, shuttered House business for a second day Thursday in protest of McCarthy’s leadership. Routine votes could not be taken, and a pair of pro-gas stove bills important to GOP activists stalled out. Some lawmakers asked if they could simply go home.
McCarthy brushed off the disruption as healthy political debate, part of his “risk taker” way of being a leader — not too different, he said, from the 15-vote spectacle it took in January for him to finally convince his colleagues to elect him as speaker. With a paper-thin GOP majority, any few Republicans have outsized sway.
But the aftermath of the debt ceiling deal is coming into focus: The hard-right flank that helped put the speaker in power five months ago is not done with McCarthy yet.
“I enjoy this conflict,” the speaker bantered Wednesday at the Capitol, saying he feels like Goldilocks being pushed from all sides. “Conflict makes you stronger if you deal with it.”
At its core, the standoff between the House conservatives and the speaker revolves around the budget levels McCarthy agreed to in the debt-ceiling bill with Biden that the right flank of his conference strenuously opposed. The agreement restricted spending, but not as much as the Freedom Caucus and others demanded. Unable to stop the debt bill's passage last week, the conservatives are now digging in for a longer fight to prevent it from taking hold.
It's all setting the stage for a potentially disastrous showdown ahead, when Congress will need to pass spending bills to fund the government at the levels set by the McCarthy-Biden debt package, or risk a shutdown in federal government operations when the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1.
The test will likely come even sooner, this summer, when the Biden administration is expected to ask Congress to approve supplemental funding for Ukraine to fight the war against Russia. It's an issue that splits the Republicans between those who want to cut budgets and those insisting on a strong military.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell raised his own concerns Wednesday about the cap on military spending: “I’m not sure at this point how to fix it, but it’s a problem, a serious problem.”
While the conservatives have aired a long list of grievances, the debt deal looms largest.
The McCarthy-Biden compromise set overall federal budget caps — holding spending flat for 2024, and with a 1% growth for 2025 — and Congress still needs to pass appropriations bills to fund the various federal agencies at the agreed-to amounts. That's typically done by Oct. 1. After Biden signed the debt deal into law last weekend, lawmakers have been fast at work on the agency-spending bills ahead of votes this summer to meet the deadline.
Not only did the conservatives object to the deal with Biden as insufficient, they claim it violated the terms of an agreement they had reached with McCarthy to roll back spending even further, to 2022 levels, to make him speaker.
“There was an agreement in January,” Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., told reporters after he left the speaker’s office Wednesday morning. “And it was violated in the debt-ceiling bill.”
McCarthy insists the agreement he made during the speakers race to roll back spending to 2022 was not a guaranteed outcome, only a goal. Besides, the debt deal has a provision that would automatically return spending to the 2022 level if Congress fails to put in place all the funding bills by January.
“We never promised we’re going to be all at ‘22 levels —I said we would strive to get to the ’22 level or the equivalent amount," McCarthy said Wednesday. "We’ve met all that criteria.”
McCarthy also said he's not opposed to more funding for Ukraine, but he wants to see exactly what's needed rather than simply agree to undoing the spending caps that he negotiated with Biden and that were just signed into law.
Democrats watching the fallout from the debt-ceiling deal are mindful of the challenges ahead.
“I think it’s going to be tough,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
“You’ve got a whole bunch of people who want to cut back,” she said of the Republicans. “Potentially they could hold up appropriations.”
If Congress fails to pass the spending bills by fall it risks a federal government shutdown — an outcome conservatives have forced multiple times before, starting in the Clinton era when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich led the House into a budget standoff, and again in 2013 when conservatives shut down the government as they tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The longest federal shutdown in history was during the Trump era when Congress refused his demands for money to build the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
For now, McCarthy and his leadership team need to just figure out how to bring the House chamber back into session.
The bills on tap this week were not the most pressing on the agenda, but are popular among Republicans and carry important political messages even if they have no chance of becoming law.
Among them is a pair of bills related to gas stoves, including one that would prohibit the use of federal funds to regulate gas stoves as a hazardous product.
House action came to a sudden halt midday Tuesday when the band of conservatives refused to support a routine procedural vote to set the rules schedule for the day's debate. It was the first time in some 20 years a routine rules vote was defeated.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves, Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri contributed. | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/gop-conservatives-shutter-house-to-protest-18140830.php | 2023-06-07 21:44:06 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/gop-conservatives-shutter-house-to-protest-18140830.php |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A last-minute deal prevented a railroad strike for now, but many rail workers remain unhappy with working conditions, including some who protested outside their workplaces Wednesday ahead of votes to approve the new contracts.
Handfuls of workers gathered outside railyards across the country in pickets organized by a newly formed workers group separate from the 12 unions that negotiated the deals last week with the major U.S. freight railroads. The protesters expressed dissatisfaction with the deals, just as the unions are trying to explain the potential benefits they negotiated to their roughly 115,000 members ahead of contract votes.
Fears about the dire economic consequences of a rail strike that could cripple all kinds of businesses that rely on railroads to deliver raw materials and finished goods prompted the Biden administration to jump into the middle of the contract talks last week and urge both sides to reach an agreement. The contract talks included Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and a number of other railroads, so the entire country would have been affected by a strike.
Nearly a dozen BNSF workers gathered near Minot, North Dakota, Wednesday with homemade signs declaring “We demand more!!” and “We will not back down.” Another group of a half dozen workers stood outside their worksite in Olathe, Kansas, with signs saying “Railroad greed driving inflation” and “Greedy railroads harming nations supply chain.”
Workers’ concerns about time off and demanding attendance policies at the railroads took center stage in the negotiations. In the end, the unions that represent engineers and conductors secured a promise of three extra unpaid days off for workers to attend doctors’ appointments without being penalized and improved scheduling of days off to go with the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses that a special board appointed by President Joe Biden recommended this summer for the five-year deals.
It remains to be seen whether those concessions are enough to get workers to vote for these deals. A branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union rejected a deal last week that didn’t include those extra days off, so they are back at the table now working on a new pact. Two smaller unions did approve their deals, but the nine other unions will be counting their votes at various times over the next two months.
The two biggest unions that held out the longest — the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that represents engineers, and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union that represents conductors — aren’t expected to report the results of their votes until mid November. Members of those unions are still waiting to see all the details of the deals that Biden announced last Thursday because lawyers are still finalizing everything before the full agreements get released.
That puts any potential for a strike out beyond the midterm elections, which mitigates the potential political impact of the talks for Biden and the Democrats. If any of the unions do reject their contracts, Congress could still be forced to step in.
Recently retired engineer Marilee Taylor, who left the railroad in Chicago after more than 30 years earlier this year when BNSF imposed the strictest attendance policy in the industry, said she doesn’t think the tentative agreements do enough to address the schedule and workload concerns after the major railroads eliminated nearly one-third of their workforces over the past six years. Unions say the railroads’ strict policies make it hard to take any time off without a penalty.
“The issue remains we’re working fatigued,” said Taylor, who is active with the Railroad Workers United coalition that urged workers to go on strike. “The safety of ourselves, our coworkers and the people that we serve — whose communities we run through — are at risk …. These conditions are losing many, many workers who cannot maintain 90% of their every breathing moment in service or at the behest of the railroad.”
Norfolk Southern engineer Hugh Sawyer said it’s hard to tell how many workers will ultimately vote for these deals because they might decide these agreements are the best they can get, although he said he’s not hearing many people happy with them. Even if they remain frustrated, workers may not be willing to go on strike and risk having Congress intervene and impose a contract on them that could be worse than what the unions agreed to.
“We’re sick and tired of the way we’re treated out there,” said Sawyer, a 34-year veteran of the railroad who serves as treasurer of the Railroad Workers United group that includes workers from all the unions. “There’s a lot of anger out there.”
One example of the schedule challenges rail workers face is that Sawyer just had outpatient surgery done earlier this week on one of his days off, but he has no idea when he’ll be able to schedule an appointment to have the stitches removed from his head next week because he’ll be on call then and doesn’t know when he’ll be working.
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Jose Miranda Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Red Sox - April 19
Published: Apr. 19, 2023 at 12:31 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Wednesday, Jose Miranda (.195 batting average in his past 10 games, with two doubles, a walk and four RBI) and the Minnesota Twins play the Boston Red Sox, whose starting pitcher will be Corey Kluber. First pitch is at 7:10 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless performance (0-for-5 with an RBI) against the Red Sox.
Jose Miranda Game Info & Props vs. the Red Sox
- Game Day: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Fenway Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Red Sox Starter: Corey Kluber
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Jose Miranda At The Plate
- Miranda is batting .209 with two doubles and five walks.
- In 10 of 17 games this year (58.8%) Miranda has picked up a hit, and in three of those games he had more than one (17.6%).
- He has not hit a long ball in his 17 games this year.
- Miranda has driven in a run in six games this season (35.3%), including one multiple-RBI game.
- He has scored in three games this season (17.6%), but has had no multi-run games.
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Jose Miranda Home/Away Batting Splits
Red Sox Pitching Rankings
- The 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Red Sox pitching staff ranks fifth in MLB.
- The Red Sox's 4.92 team ERA ranks 22nd across all league pitching staffs.
- Red Sox pitchers combine to give up 25 total home runs at a rate of 1.4 per game (to rank 24th in the league).
- Kluber makes the start for the Red Sox, his fourth of the season. He is 0-3 with a 6.92 ERA and 13 strikeouts through 13 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out came in relief on Tuesday when the righty tossed 2/3 innings against the Minnesota Twins while giving up hits.
- The 37-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.92, with 9 strikeouts per nine innings, in three games this season. Opposing hitters have a .255 batting average against him.
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Here's what's happening with Bloomington area teams, Aug. 13-20
Saturday, Aug. 13
Boys' Cross country
VALLEY KICKOFF CLASSIC: Bloomington North finished third (168) and South was fifth (205) behind two of the state's best in Center Grove (132) and Brebeuf Jesuit (151). Eastern Greene was 35th (1,032) in the season opener at the LaVern Gibson Course in Terre Haute. Top area finishers: 8. Ryan Rheam, S, 16:13.9; 11. Kyle Clark, N, 16:19.9; 17. Jacob Mitchell, N, 16:31.2 (top freshman); 19. Jack Gildea, S, 16:38.2; 40. Caleb Winders, N, 17:17.8; 47. Dom D'Onofrio, N, 17:25.1; 53. Joe Zinkan, S, 17:30; 56. Hunter Tabor, S, 17:31; Roman Valentine, EG, 19:59.2.
KIETH PUCKETT XC INVITE: Crawfordsville nipped host Edgewood, 29-30 for the title at the five-team meet that includes Indy Genesis, Bedford North Lawrence and Monrovia. Edgewood's Caleb Webb (17:08.7) won the race by 20 seconds. Other Mustang finishers: 4. Zane Meyer 17:50.4; 9. Josh Kohne 18:18.7; 11. Anthony Gough 18:41; 12. Jackson Klinger 18:41.8; 13. Carson Sigman 18:45.4.
Girls' cross country
KIETH PUCKETT INVITE: Edgewood won the title at its own five-team season opening meet, scoring 22 points to easily top Indy Genesis (55). The Mustangs also swept the top individual honors as well with Clara Crain winning in 19:30.8 while sister Hannah Crain was second (20:43.1). Other Mustangs in the top 10: 5. Riley Haskett 22:24; 6. Ellie Vagedes 22:54; 8. Allison Bland 23:27.
VALLEY KICKOFF CLASSIC: Bloomington South was third in its opener at Terre Haute, scoring 158 points to trail North Central (59) and Northview (110). Eastern Greene was 22nd (631). Lily Myers was not available for South, which was led by Aurelia Martoglio, 17th in 20:04.06 and the No. 3 freshman. Other Panthers: 23. Tamara Kun, S, 20:59.8; 28. Millie Williams, S, 21:08; 37. Clara Graham, S, 21:20.4; 63. Kate Barada, S, 21:53.9. Eastern Greene's top finishers: 38. Ester Crane, 21:22; 79. Lilyanna Blais, 22:08.8
GIBSON SOUTHERN HOKUM KARAM: Bloomington North was second to Castle, which had the top three pairs in the standings. Top Cougar duos were: 5. Rachel Allison/Ellie Patrick, 31:28; 6. Nola Somers Glenn/Kiera Feagans, 32:12; 13. Ruth Bartlett/Lilah Reed, 33:13.
Girls' soccer
BLOOMINGTON SOUTH 3, JASPER 0: Nora Doyle, Kiera Robinson and Helena Cutshall with the goals. Carlie Pedersen with first varsity start and shutout in goal.
Volleyball
MOORESVILLE INVITATIONAL: Edgewood starts season 3-0 to win tourney title. Mustangs beat Lawrence Central 25-13, 25-11; Indianapolis Herron 25-17, 25-15 and Mooresville 25-11, 25-16.
Girls' golf
COLUMBUS EAST INVITATIONAL: Bloomington South shot a 407 to place sixth at Otter Creek. Melanie Southern takes third with an 81. Avery Beck 97, Daphne Southern 107, Paige Hull 121. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/16/heres-whats-happening-with-bloomington-area-teams-aug-13-20/65405008007/ | 2022-08-16 15:10:00 | 1 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/16/heres-whats-happening-with-bloomington-area-teams-aug-13-20/65405008007/ |
McQueen Racing, the motorsports and engineering outfit started by Chad McQueen, Steve McQueen’s son, is gearing up to launch a series of limited-edition vehicles with performance supplied by Steeda.
The concept was borne out of the success of McQueen Racing and Steeda’s 2019’s Steve McQueen Edition Ford Mustang Bullitt, and the two companies will now look to repeat that magic with a full lineup of vehicles, starting with the redesigned 2024 Ford Mustang.
The 2024 McQueen Racing Ford Mustang is still being developed but has been confirmed by Steeda to offer the choice of naturally aspirated or supercharged engines. Steeda is known for its high-performance upgrades for various Ford products, and in particular the Mustang. Steeda has been building fast Mustangs for over three decades, and the company’s Q850 StreetFighter Edition based on the previous-generation Mustang GT is rated at over 800 hp.
The 2024 McQueen Racing Ford Mustang will also feature suspension and brake upgrades, plus McQueen Racing’s Mulholland-style wheels wrapped in Nitto Performance tires. There will also be a long list of exterior and interior styling options, which will enable customers to design unique builds.
To mark the start of the new partnership, McQueen Racing and Steeda unveiled the 2019 McQueen Racing Mustang Bullitt. Owners of the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt can convert their cars into a 2019 McQueen Racing Mustang Bullitt, including those owners with Shadow Black cars. For the previous Steve McQueen Edition Ford Mustang Bullitt program, only Mustang Bullitts with the signature Dark Highland Green were eligible.
The first 2024 McQueen Racing Ford Mustangs will be delivered later this summer. Full details, including pricing information, will be announced closer to that date. All vehicles in the series will come with a 3-year/36,000-mile limited warranty.
“This new project has been long in the making and will be monumental,” Bob Adams, Steeda’s president, said in a statement. “Moreover, this is just the beginning, as our product plans encompass other highly desirable, high-performance vehicle models.”
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Turkey’s foreign minister says Sweden and Finland must now take “concrete steps” to alleviate his country’s security concerns to overcome Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bid.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that delegations from the two Nordic countries have returned home with Turkey’s demands after a visit this week and Ankara is awaiting their answers.
The countries’ membership bids require support from all NATO countries, but Turkey is objecting to them. It has cited alleged support for Kurdish militants that Turkey considers terrorists and restrictions on weapons sales to Turkey.
Cavusoglu said that “an approach of ‘we’ll convince Turkey in time anyway, we are friends and allies’ would not be correct.” He insisted that “these countries need to take concrete steps.”
He added that “we understand Finland and Sweden’s security concerns but ... everyone also needs to understand Turkey’s legitimate security concerns.”
Adding Sweden and Finland could further upset the Kremlin, which has sought to weaken the NATO alliance.
The moves by Sweden and Finland come after Russia invaded Ukraine, which is not a member of NATO. Had Ukraine been a member of NATO, other nations in the alliance would have been obligated to provide defense for the nation.
The Biden administration has expressed support for welcoming the two Scandinavian nations to the 30-member military alliance. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/turkey-keeps-up-pressure-on-sweden-finland-on-nato-membership | 2022-05-27 12:39:19 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/turkey-keeps-up-pressure-on-sweden-finland-on-nato-membership |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $2.82 billion.
The San Jose, California-based company said it had net income of 68 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 83 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 82 cents per share.
The seller of routers, switches, software and services posted revenue of $13.1 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $12.75 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $11.81 billion, or $2.82 per share. Revenue was reported as $51.56 billion.
For the current quarter ending in November, Cisco expects its per-share earnings to range from 82 cents to 84 cents.
The company expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.49 to $3.56 per share.
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BUSHKILL TWP., Pa. - A longstanding destination for handbags, jewelry, home decor and more is closing in Northampton County.
Missing Piece, a 17-year-old, family-owned and -operated boutique selling clothing and accessories, home decor and gifts, is set to close in about a month at 462 Bushkill Center Road in Bushkill Township. Online sales are also ending.
Husband and wife owners Rick and Karen Sampson made the "bittersweet" announcement on the business' Facebook page.
"We had a wonderful, a wonderful 17 years here!" Karen said in a video that shifted back and forth between playful banter and emotional messages. "Words cannot describe."
Missing Piece, located just north of Nazareth, is a dream fulfilled for Karen, who wished to operate her own gift shop as a teenager growing up in Emmaus.
Prior to Missing Piece, she worked in other local gift shops, including those at Crayola Factory (now Crayola Experience) and Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Following the Bushkill Township store's closure, Karen plans to retire from the retail industry and spend more time with her husband and friends.
"If you had an experience like I had, you would bless God and say, 'Thank you,' and I did," Karen noted. "But it is time for me to leave."
The Sampsons also thanked the business' longtime customers, who Karen labeled "the best bar none," for their patronage over the years.
An exterior sign reading "enter as strangers, leave as friends" has always held true, Karen added.
"I've cried with you," she said. "I've hugged you. I laughed with you."
In 2006, the Sampsons opened Missing Piece on the first two floors of a building that previously housed Country Interiors - a business offering dog food and home decor - for about 30 years.
The structure, with wood floors and exposed wooden ceiling beams, was exactly how Karen imagined her shop would look when she was 12.
Over the years, the Sampsons built a loyal following by offering friendly service, unique and high-quality merchandise and in-store events such as fashion shows, Halloween parties and wreath-making and wine glass-painting classes.
They also supported local nonprofit organizations through various fundraisers.
"It's very bittersweet," Karen said.
The Sampsons recently sold the Bushkill Township building, and they're happy about its next chapter, the future home of Prolific Landscape, Inc., a Plainfield Township design and build firm catering to all of your outdoor needs.
Prolific was established in 2003 by Jason and Julie Kaniper, who insist on "excellence in landscape and hardscape design, materials and craftsmanship," according to the business' website.
"I have a lot of blood, sweat and tears in here, but you know when the right person comes in," Karen said of the new owners. "... When I look at these two, I think, 'Oh my God, I am just so, so happy for them."
The building's sale follows a business deal that fell through in 2021 and led the Sampsons to continue operating Missing Piece on the building's first floor for the next year and a half.
The property's most recent sale is "totally official," Karen said, noting that closing was on Friday.
"They're letting us stay for a month to help me get rid of my inventory, again," she joked.
"This time it's for good," Rick quipped.
Starting Monday, Feb. 6, Missing Piece is holding a store closing sale, with nearly all items discounted 50%.
The only items that won't be discounted 50% are Brighton handbags, jewelry and other pieces, which will be discounted 30%. All sales are final.
Also, the Sampsons are selling store fixtures (cash only), including two portable dressing rooms. They plan to donate any inventory that may remain after the business closes.
Hours for the next month are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
To stay up-to-date on Missing Piece happenings, including an official closing date, follow the business' Facebook page. | https://www.wfmz.com/features/eat-sip-shop/beloved-nazareth-area-gift-shop-bidding-farewell-after-17-years/article_f4be1b5a-a632-11ed-a355-5f749ad13b93.html | 2023-02-06 18:15:50 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/features/eat-sip-shop/beloved-nazareth-area-gift-shop-bidding-farewell-after-17-years/article_f4be1b5a-a632-11ed-a355-5f749ad13b93.html |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s family is ready to take applications from businesses for grants funded by money from their wrongful death legal settlement with the city of Minneapolis.
Floyd, who was Black, died in May 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. His family won a $27 million settlement from the city in March 2021 and set aside $500,000 for grants to businesses in the neighborhood where Floyd died.
Floyd family attorney Ben Crump says businesses can begin applying Monday and continue to apply until all dollars are distributed. Grants will be awarded in the amounts of $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000, although larger grants may be considered.
Businesses can apply at www.theward8fund.org. | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-george-floyd-family-taking-applications-for-business-grants/ | 2023-01-10 21:11:39 | 0 | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-george-floyd-family-taking-applications-for-business-grants/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans aiming to retake control of Congress have already sharpened a message centering around blaming Democrats for high inflation, expensive gas, migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and violent crime in some cities.
But GOP leaders landed on an issue this week that it hopes could prove even more potent: tying President Joe Biden to a shortage in baby formula.
Parents are suddenly running into bare supermarket and pharmacy shelves in part because of ongoing supply disruptions and a recent safety recall. But in an election year that was already shaping up to be rocky for Democrats, Republicans sense that the shortage could prove to be an especially tangible way to argue that Biden is incapable of quickly solving problems confronting the U.S.
“This is not a Third World country,” said GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of the House Republican conference. “This should never happen in the United States of America.”
The administration has sometimes been slow in responding to sudden political threats, perhaps most notably when signs of inflation began to surface last year. The White House appears determined not to repeat that mistake, announcing on Friday that formula maker Abbott Laboratories committed to give rebates through August for a food stamp-like program that helps women, infants and children called WIC.
Biden insisted there’s “nothing more urgent we’re working on” than addressing the shortage.
Asked if his administration had responded as quickly as it should have, Biden said, ”If we’d been better mind readers, I guess we could’ve. But we moved as quickly as the problem became apparent.”
But the defense by the White House illustrates how finger-pointing at the Biden administration has already spread far and wide among Republicans in Washington, on television and on social media. It’s a new issue for the GOP to hammer at and a way to address families at a time when Democrats believe outrage over the U.S. Supreme Court possibly ending the right to an abortion could galvanize women and other key voters, and thwart or at least lessen a Republican wave in November.
The full-court press by Republicans included linking the formula shortage with the rising number of migrants coming into the U.S. — one of the biggest issues they have soughtto lay at the feet of an unpopular president. On Thursday, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Florida, shared an image of a shelving unit at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas that showed a single shelf with four boxes full of baby formula containers, and a half-dozen more baby formula containers on that shelf.
Cammack said Thursday that a border patrol agent sent her the image. The AP has not independently verified the photo’s authenticity or when exactly it was captured. Some conservative pundits and news outlets have since spun even greater tall tales from the photo, with some claiming that they show Biden is shipping “thousands” of pallets of baby formula to the border while parents in the U.S. struggle to find formula. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the images “shameful.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that Border Patrol is “following the law” that requires the government to provide adequate food, specifically formula for children under the age of one, who are detained at the border.
GOP political consultants nonetheless call it a ready-made issue that resonates with voters.
“It’s just another one of those consumer issues that pop up from time to time that are very easy for people understand,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist based in Texas. “They’ve got to figure out a solution and they’ve got to do it soon.”
In Washington, lawmakers are responding to the shortage by scheduling hearings and demanding information from the FDA and formula makers as part of sweeping investigations. Democratic leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote formula makers seeking information that includes what steps they are taking to increase supplies and prevent price gouging.
“The national formula shortage poses a threat to the health and economic security of infants and families in communities across the country—particularly those with less income who have historically experienced health inequities, including food insecurity,” said a letter to Chris Calamari, the president of Abbott Nutrition.
The letter seeks all documents related to the closure of Abbott Nutrition’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan. Abbott Nutrition recalled several major brands of powdered formula and shut down the factory when federal officials began investigating four babies who suffered bacterial infections after consuming formula from the facility.
Abbott is one of only a handful of companies that produce the vast majority of the U.S. formula supply, so their recall wiped out a large segment of the market.
Democrats are framing the shortage as an example of how Americans are harmed when a few big companies control the market. But like inflation or high gas prices, their challenge is explaining the contributing factors to the public.
Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection this year, said the supply chain problems with formula, microchips, gasoline and other products have complex roots, many that stretch back to the pandemic.
“It’s up for us in Congress to address these, to try to figure out where to go, how do we overcome these bottlenecks in the supply chains,” Kelly said. “But not because of an election. Because this affects people’s lives.”
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In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a heartwarming rescue came about when fireplace rescue crews controlled to rescue two dogs from a house fireplace. The blaze broke out at round 7:30 p.m. on Friday alongside the 1300 block of Northwest nineteenth Avenue. Responding officers from Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue have been ready to place out the flames effectively.
With the assistance of thermal imaging, the firefighters have been ready to find two dogs that have been trapped within the house. The house used to be located close to a hearth station, permitting the fast reaction of the rescue groups. A heartwarming second used to be captured by means of a frame digicam of one of the crucial firefighters once they discovered a small black canine inside of a cage. Meanwhile, photos shared by means of FLFR confirmed the second one dog being performed of the house.
Investigations carried out by means of the government published that the hearth used to be brought about by means of a cooking state of affairs. Fortunately, nobody used to be harm all over the incident.
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Taylor Fritz 2023 cinch Championships Odds
Taylor Fritz meets Bernabe Zapata Miralles to open play in the cinch Championships in London, United Kingdom (in the round of 32). In the MercedesCup (his last tournament), he reached the quarterfinals before losing to Marton Fucsovics. Fritz currently has the second-best odds at +550 to win this tournament at The Queen's Club.
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Fritz at the 2023 cinch Championships
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: June 16-25
- Venue: The Queen's Club
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Fritz's Next Match
Fritz will face Zapata Miralles in the round of 32 of the cinch Championships on Tuesday, June 20 at 11:00 AM ET.
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Taylor Fritz Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +2800
- US Open odds to win: +3300
- cinch Championships odds to win: +550
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Fritz Stats
- In his most recent match, Fritz came up short 4-6, 5-7 against Fucsovics in the quarterfinals of the MercedesCup.
- Fritz has won three of his 23 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 51-21.
- On grass over the past year, Fritz has gone 9-2 and has won one title.
- In his 72 matches over the past 12 months, across all court types, Fritz has averaged 26.2 games.
- Fritz, over the past year, has played 11 matches on grass, and 28.7 games per match.
- Fritz, over the past 12 months, has won 84.4% of his service games and 25.7% of his return games.
- Fritz has been victorious in 89.4% of his service games on grass over the past 12 months and 27.1% of his return games.
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The Pay As You Save® program allows customers to upgrade homes with little or no upfront costs
ST. LOUIS, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spire and Ameren Missouri are teaming up to offer Pay As You Save (PAYS®), a program helping Missouri customers reduce their utility bills through energy-efficiency upgrades with little to no upfront costs. Through the PAYS program, customers can lower their annual energy costs while Spire and Ameren Missouri cover all or most of the upfront costs required to install energy-efficiency equipment in the home.
While Ameren Missouri launched a PAYS program in 2021, this is the first time Spire and Ameren Missouri are jointly offering PAYS to assist customers of both utilities.
To participate, customers sign up for a free, no-obligation home energy assessment. Energy analysts create a customized plan outlining recommended cost-effective energy-efficient upgrades such as a new furnace, water heater, duct sealing, or insulation upgrades.
Spire and Ameren Missouri then pay most or all the upfront costs to install the upgrades. Customers repay the cost through a fixed monthly charge on their utility bills. For customers of both Ameren Missouri and Spire, the charge will be split and reflected on both energy statements. The energy-efficiency upgrades help customers use less energy and lead to lower annual costs, even while paying off the upgrade each month.
"We're excited to offer another opportunity to help our customers save energy – and money," said Shaylyn Dean, Spire director of external affairs. "Energy-efficiency programs like PAYS can help customers afford energy-saving strategies and equipment upgrades for their homes while lowering their utility bills. And because there's no credit check, more customers can take advantage of important upgrades. A more energy-efficient home can mean not only savings, but a heathier and more comfortable place to live."
"The PAYS program is helping St. Louis-area families make their homes safer, more comfortable and more energy-efficient by removing financial barriers," said Tony Lozano, director of energy solutions at Ameren Missouri. "We know many customers want to make these changes in their homes, but the upfront costs often keep them from acting. PAYS offers an avenue through this while also lowering monthly energy costs."
For eligibility information and more details about the PAYS program, visit SpireEnergy.com/PAYS or at AmerenMissouriSavings.com/PAYS.
At Spire Inc. (NYSE: SR), we believe energy exists to help make people's lives better. It's a simple idea, but one that's at the heart of our company. Every day we serve 1.7 million homes and businesses making us the fifth largest publicly traded natural gas company in the country. We help families and business owners fuel their daily lives through our gas utilities serving Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. Our natural gas-related businesses include Spire Marketing, Spire STL Pipeline and Spire Storage. We are committed to transforming our business through growing organically, investing in infrastructure, and advancing through innovation. Learn more at SpireEnergy.com.
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2 million electric and 135,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern Missouri. The company's service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities, including the greater St. Louis area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri.
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LUND, Sweden, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfa Laval has signed an agreement with SSAB, the global Swedish steel company, to collaborate on the development and commercialization of the world's first heat exchanger to be made using fossil-free steel. The goal is to have the first unit made with hydrogen-reduced steel ready for 2023. The collaboration is also an important step in Alfa Laval's journey to become carbon neutral by 2030.
Global steel production accounts for 7 percent of the world's carbon emissions. With a leading position in high-strength steel, SSAB's upcoming fossil-free steel made with HYBRIT technology will be a breakthrough for the industry as it transitions to more sustainable operations. Alfa Laval's energy-efficient heat exchangers, used in industrial processes worldwide, are made of 40 percent steel and are up to 50 percent more efficient than traditional technology. This means that they can save energy and reduce CO2 emissions. Energy efficiency could, in fact, deliver more than a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions until 2040, according to International Energy Agency (IEA), with 50 percent of that energy efficiency saving coming from the industry sector.
"I'm pleased to announce this collaboration with SSAB which builds on our shared expertise and a determination to drive innovation," says Tom Erixon, President and CEO of Alfa Laval. "By bringing together their fossil-free steel and our energy-efficient heat exchangers we can contribute to the industry's transformation towards carbon neutrality."
Martin Lindqvist, President and CEO of SSAB says: "We´re proud to welcome Alfa Laval as a partner and look forward to jointly exploring ways forward to mitigate climate change. With this collaboration we´re reaching new segments, and hopefully inspiring a whole new range of customers."
Did you know… Alfa Laval has set the target to become carbon neutral by 2030 across the value chain.
This is Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, and is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.
Alfa Laval's innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day.
Alfa Laval has 17,900 employees. Annual sales in 2021 were SEK 40.9 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
This is SSAB
SSAB is a Nordic and US-based steel company. SSAB offers value-added products and services developed in close cooperation with its customers to create a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world. SSAB has employees in over 50 countries, and has production facilities in Sweden, Finland and the US. SSAB is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and has a secondary listing on Nasdaq Helsinki.
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BREA, Calif., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beckman Coulter, global leader in advanced diagnostics, today announced that it will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital to validate the use of the novel Monocyte Distribution Width (MDW) hematology biomarker in rapid identification of children presenting with early signs of severe illness from infection.
This pivotal, multi-center trial will receive funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MDW is currently the only FDA-cleared blood biomarker to aid in detecting adult sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED). This current partnership aims to expand the utility of MDW as a screening tool to measure the severity of infection in children 15 years old and younger presenting with high fevers.
Approximately 25 million children under 15 visit the emergency room every year, and about one in five presents with a fever.1 The most common cause of fever in these children is infections that can be safely treated at home; however, one out of every four pediatric hospital admissions are due to complications from infection.2 No objective biomarker yet exists that accurately identifies children at risk of hospitalization from an excessive immune response early in the infectious course when intervention is critical, making clinical decisions in the ED on how to treat pediatric infections difficult.
"A sick, febrile child can be challenging to examine, and current blood tests have limited ability to predict who will progress to acute illness," states Lael Yonker, M.D., a pediatric pulmonologist at Mass General for Children, and co-investigator on this clinical trial. "Objective tests that are readily available are needed to make sure children get the medical attention they need in a timely manner."
The utility of MDW as a biomarker in pediatric infection was first recognized by Mass General during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when more than 400 children a month were developing a life-threatening complication from COVID-19, now termed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
As published in June 2022 in BMC Infectious Diseases3, the team found that MDW can improve the identification of children at high risk of MIS-C complication, a task that has proven challenging to clinicians.4 Now, this team will join Beckman Coulter and BARDA to potentially expand the use of MDW in the early recognition of severe infections in children presenting to EDs.
Notably, this tool is based on routinely ordered blood tests and can be reported as an additional parameter on Complete Blood Count (CBC) results. This approach may allow ED physicians to make rapid, accurate and safe decisions about which children with infections can go home and which children with infections need to be admitted to the hospital for further treatment without subjecting patients to additional and costly testing.
"We are thrilled to be partnering with pediatricians at Mass General to investigate the utility of MDW in identifying children at risk of adverse outcomes due to infection," said Julie Sawyer Montgomery, president, Beckman Coulter. "Along with the award from BARDA, Beckman Coulter is committing additional funds to this partnership. We are invested in establishing the performance of MDW in the pediatric population and in continuing our commitment to clinical evidence for use of MDW, and other novel hematological biomarkers."
MDW is a regulatory-cleared parameter for adult patients presenting to the ED and is available as a standard component of a CBC performed on Beckman Coulter's DxH 900 and 690T hematology analyzers. The MDW parameter measures the dispersion of monocyte volume in the blood, which is altered during infection due to monocyte activation and subsequent changes in monocyte morphology. Increases in MDW indicate increases in the variability of monocyte morphology, which can indicate a progression from localized to systemic infection.
MDW provides physicians with an early indication of sepsis risk, which is especially important when a patient's symptoms are mild and alternative diagnoses are being considered. MDW is only available on Beckman Coulter platforms.
This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, under contract number 75A50122C00036.
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A global leader in advanced diagnostics, Beckman Coulter has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory's role in improving patient health for more than 80 years. Our mission is to Relentlessly Reimagine Healthcare, One Diagnosis at a Time – and we do this by applying the power of science, technology and the passion and creativity of our teams. Our diagnostic solutions are used in complex clinical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. We exist to deliver smarter, faster diagnostic solutions that move the needle forward from what's now to what's next. We do this by accelerating care with an extensive clinical menu, scalable lab automation technologies, insightful clinical informatics, and optimize lab performance services. Beckman Coulter is part of the Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) family of global science and technology companies. Headquartered in Brea, Calif., it has more than 11,000 global team members.
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- Goto T, Tsugawa Y, Mansbach JM, Camargo CA Jr, Hasegawa K. Trends in Infectious Disease Hospitalizations in US Children, 2000 to 2012. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016;35(6):e158-e163. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000001134
- Yonker LM, Badaki-Makun O, Arya P, Boribong BP, Moraru G, Fenner B, Rincon J, Hopke A, Rogers B, Hinson J, Fasano A, Lee L, Kehoe SM, Larson SD, Chavez H, Levin S, Moldawer LL, Irimia D. Monocyte anisocytosis increases during multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children with cardiovascular complications. BMC Infect Dis. 2022;22(1):563. doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07526-9.
- Rosu CA, Martens AM, Sumner J, Farkas EJ, Arya P, Arauz AB, Madhavan VL, Chavez H, Larson SD, Badaki-Makun O, Irimia D, Yonker LM. Heterogeneity in the evaluation of suspected MIS-C: a cross-sectional vignette-based survey. BMC Pediatr. 2022;22(1):392. doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03446-4.
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BEIJING, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the epidemic starts to slow down in China, Beijing and Shanghai, the major cities for luxury goods, begin to open up. Li Rixue, the founder and the CEO of Secoo, points out that during this year's 618 sales campaign, the ATV increases by 70% than that of last year. According to the statistics, individual users buy more intensively in this year's 618 sales campaign. Rare bags and watches are popular with consumers, some starting to invest in luxury goods.
In recent year, a rare handbag or a watch is not only a display of social status, but also serves as an investment method for those who purchase high-end luxuries. The money invested in luxuries is also believed not to be lost. Users can kill two birds with one stone. Bain&Company predicts that China is expected to be the largest luxury goods market by 2025.
Comparing to past years' 618 sales campaign, the conversation rate of high-end users purchasing rare goods increases significantly this year, considering the purchasing period drops from one week in the past to one day now and the consumers spread from tier 1 and tier 2 cities to tier 3, tier 4 and tier 5 cities.
Ms. Wang, being the user of Secoo for 11 years and a super vip of Secoo, tells that she originally buys luxury goods for her own use, but later finds out that people around her start to treat luxury goods purchase as an investment method. As the price of luxury goods goes up and down, Ms. Wang starts to get the hang of price fluctuation rules of luxury goods. Once the price achieves her expectation, she sells them on Secoo online platform. The whole process is quick and easy.
Secoo finds out that users like Ms. Wang are not uncommon since the beginning of the year. They are more like a group. The number of users inquiring about the the maintenance of value and the increase of value of luxury goods grows bigger. In order to meet the demands of these high-end users, Secoo has set up a high-end steward department to search rare goods for Secoo's high-end users, provide the latest information of fashion trend and the price fluctuation, as well as to provide home delivery service for high-end users, ensuring the quality of goods and at the same time making them feel they are served with Secoo's full attention.
As a world-famous cross-border luxury goods purchasing platform, Secoo has dedicated itself to serving high-end users around the world who pursue extreme life experience. As of now, Secoo has more than 50 million registered high-end users, covering over 4000 high-end brands of clothing, shoes and boot, bags, watches, jewelry and accessories. In the future, Secoo will keep improving and perfecting itself to meet the demands of high-end users through expanding its presence in luxury goods industry and integrating more famous luxury bands.
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Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn and Malden City Councilor Stephen Winslow joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Lyft for celebratory event
MEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cities of Medford and Malden today announced they will be joining Bluebikes, Metro Boston's public bike share system. By adding a total of six new stations across the two cities, Medford and Malden will build on the expansion of the Bluebikes system. These cities join Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Salem, Somerville, and Watertown, offering 447 total stations and approximately 4,000 total bikes across the region. The new stations offer more opportunity for residents, students, workers, and visitors to experience the healthy, fun, and sustainable way of traveling via Bluebikes.
The Bluebikes system is jointly owned by the municipalities and is operated by Lyft. Blue Cross, which is providing financial support for the launch in Medford and Malden, is in the fifth year of a six-year Bluebikes title sponsorship, which launched in May 2018.
This morning, Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Malden City Councilor Stephen Winslow, executives from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ("Blue Cross"), including Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Public Affairs Jeff Bellows, Senior Director of Social Impact and Citizenship Yvonne Tang, Account Executive Helga DaRosa, and Director of Municipal Sales Bob Knowles, along with leadership from Lyft, gathered for a ribbon-cutting event in Medford's Tufts Park to commemorate the expansions.
"Introducing access to Bluebikes in Medford helps further connect our city and makes biking a feasible way to reach neighborhoods and destinations in Medford and across the region," said Mayor Lungo-Koehn. "With four stations now located throughout Medford, we've expanded green public transportation options for our residents, students, workers, and visitors while also promoting sustainable forms of transit and reducing our reliance on passenger vehicles. Thanks to Blue Cross, our local partners, and the City of Malden for helping make this an easy and seamless process to incorporate the bike share system into our city a reality."
"We are proud to partner with the Bluebikes program, which increases our Malden community's access to biking as a healthy and environmentally friendly way to travel," said Malden's Mayor Gary Christenson. "I am particularly grateful for Blue Cross and Lyft's role in making Malden a more bike-friendly city, enabling other safe and sustainable modes of transportation for our many commuters who cannot always rely on travel by car or other forms of public transit."
With the Bluebikes system expanding to two new cities, approximately 36 new bikes have been added throughout Medford and Malden. Both cities received a joint grant from the Boston MPO's Community Connections Grant Program (through MAPC) to help fund the bikes. The new stations can be found at the following locations:
Medford:
- Tufts Square
- Brooks Park (at Main St)
- Medford Square
Malden:
- Malden Center T Station
- Northern Strand at Main St
- Malden High School
To see a full Bluebikes station map – including all stations in Medford and Malden – please visit member.bluebikes.com/map.
"Through our ongoing title sponsorship of Bluebikes, we're committed to making it easier for more individuals in the Greater Metro Boston Area to experience the benefits of public bike share," said Bellows. "With the success of adding Medford and Malden and their six new stations to our Bluebikes network, we're excited to help broaden access to the bikeshare system across these cities and to support residents, students and visitors looking to lead healthy and sustainable lifestyles."
As a publicly owned bike share system, Bluebikes preserves and promotes equity of access for members and ensures that memberships remain affordable. The station-based system promotes riding and commuting across city lines, preserves predictability and management for the public right of way, and allows for the continuous monitoring of bike availability and maintenance needs. Through its partnership with the municipal owners of Bluebikes, Blue Cross continues to promote the health and wellness of Massachusetts communities by supporting system growth and accessibility, including station expansions, upgrades, and additional bikes.
Riders can purchase annual Bluebikes memberships – which include unlimited 45-minute rides – for $119 a year or $26.75 for 30 days. A discount program, where annual passes are $50 and 30-day passes are available for $5, is available for residents with eligible incomes. Visit www.bluebikes.com for more information on the Bluebikes income-eligible program.
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Bluebikes is public transportation by bike. The system is jointly owned and managed by the Cities of Boston, Cambridge, Everett, Salem and Somerville and the Town of Brookline. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is the system's title sponsor. Riders can find 447 stations and 4,000 bikes across 13 municipalities in Metro Boston. Since 2011, more than 14 million trips have been taken by bike share. For more information about Bluebikes, visit bluebikes.com.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (bluecrossma.org) is a community-focused, tax-paying, not-for-profit health plan headquartered in Boston. We are committed to the relentless pursuit of quality, affordable and equitable health care with an unparalleled consumer experience. Consistent with our promise to always put our members first, we are rated among the nation's best health plans for member satisfaction and quality. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
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South Carolina State Fair’s Spring Fair Food Drive-Through returns in April
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina State Fair announced the return of its annual Spring Fair Food Drive-Through.
The annual food event will happen from April 16 through April 22. The event is said to feature traditional fair food and drinks, including Fiske fries, funnel cakes, lemonade and more.
“We are excited to bring the magic of fair food to our community with the annual Spring Fair Food Drive-Through,” says Nancy Smith, general manager of the South Carolina State Fair. “We know how much people look forward to enjoying their favorite fair foods each fall, and we’re thrilled to be able to satisfy those cravings during the spring season. This year, we’re looking forward to presenting more options for our visitors — from our Walk-In Kickoff Day, to dine-in picnic table seating, to our free movie nights.”
During the week, other events will take place such as:
- Walk-In Kickoff Day: Saturday, April 15
- Spring Fair Food Drive-Through: Sunday, April 16 – Saturday, April 22
- Movie Nights: Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22
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Appointment Unifies KPMG's Talent and Culture Groups, Bolstering Efforts to Evolve the Firm's People Strategy and Experience, Attract and Retain Top Talent and Drive Client Success
NEW YORK, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, today announced the appointment of Sandy Torchia to the role of Vice Chair – Talent and Culture. In this newly created role, Torchia will bring together the firm's Talent and Culture groups under one unified organization to grow talent and foster a culture of inclusion and innovation while extending its leadership position in supporting employees' mental, physical, social and financial well-being.
In this role, Torchia will join the firm's management committee after serving as national managing partner for KPMG's Advisory practice and work closely with KPMG's leadership teams to position talent and culture as strategic enablers of the firm's business strategy. She will oversee all Human Resources and Culture activities, including compensation, benefits, campus and experienced hire recruiting, training and talent management.
"It is critical that we rethink how we are organized to foster a foundation for rich and impactful career growth and cultural experiences for our talented people while staying nimble and responsive to support them when they need it most," said Paul Knopp, Chair and CEO, KPMG LLP. "I am thrilled to have Sandy spearhead this new structure and am confident that we are well-positioned to lead in today's red-hot labor market."
Talent and culture as strategic enablers to deliver value for clients
During her 25-year career at KPMG, Torchia has held several leadership positions. She led a multibillion-dollar business as national managing partner for KPMG's Advisory practice, where she was responsible for advancing strategy, driving growth and innovation and developing the practice's diverse and inclusive culture. She also led several multimillion-dollar U.S. and global businesses, including leading the firm's practice focused on managing information technology risk as well as its U.S. Risk Advisory Solutions practice.
"Leading KPMG's always-evolving Advisory practice has taught me that listening with humility, thinking differently and acting boldly is immensely important to creating the type of differentiated employee experience that will attract talent and serve clients with excellence," said Torchia. "It is imperative that we continue to care for our people by providing flexibility while fostering connection, focusing on their well-being, providing robust rewards and recognition, and supporting them in critical life moments. The actions and habits that we cultivate by upholding a shared set of values are the foundation of our firm's culture."
Continuing to pioneer innovative people-focused benefits, policies and culture
In addition to driving forward a differentiated strategy to attract, develop and retain top talent, KPMG has taken bold actions in recent years to unlock the power of its people. This includes investing $160M in across-the-board salary adjustments for all KPMG professionals and instituting enhancements to its benefits and compensation package focused on mental, physical, emotional and social well-being. Additionally, the firm continues to cultivate ample learning and development opportunities through its previous $450 million investment in KPMG Lakehouse.
Drawing on her Advisory experience, Torchia will advance KPMG's hybrid work model, "Flex with Purpose," which reimagines the future of work with employee experience first — combining the benefits of flexibility with meaningful in-person connections that build lasting relationships, drive innovative thinking and create new opportunities to deliver value to clients. She will also work closely with Elena Richards, KPMG's Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, to drive the firm's diversity, equity and inclusion priorities — including attracting, retaining and advancing underrepresented talent as outlined in KPMG's Accelerate 2025 strategy.
The recipient of numerous accolades, Torchia was named to the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council's Top 100 list of the most influential and notable Hispanic professionals in the industry and recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Latinas by the Association of Latino Professionals For America in 2021. She was also selected as one of Consulting Magazine's 2018 Women Leaders in Consulting in the Excellence in Leadership category and one of Crain's 2019 New York Notable Women in Accounting & Consulting. Torchia currently serves on the audit committee for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and is a board member of the KPMG U.S. Foundation.
About KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the U.S. firm of the KPMG global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 145 countries and territories and has close to 236,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients. KPMG is widely recognized for being a great place to work and build a career. Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we do, and a strong commitment to community service, inclusion and diversity, and eradicating childhood illiteracy. Learn more at www.kpmg.com/us.
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Jeremy Pena Player Prop Bets: Astros vs. Rangers - July 24
Published: Jul. 24, 2023 at 9:25 AM CDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
On Monday, Jeremy Pena (.132 slugging percentage in past 10 games, with zero homers) and the Houston Astros face the Texas Rangers, whose starting pitcher will be Jon Gray. First pitch is at 8:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-2) against the Athletics.
Jeremy Pena Game Info & Props vs. the Rangers
- Game Day: Monday, July 24, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rangers Starter: Jon Gray
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +625)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Jeremy Pena At The Plate
- Pena has 16 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 20 walks while hitting .241.
- In 64.8% of his games this year (57 of 88), Pena has picked up at least one hit, and in 21 of those games (23.9%) he recorded more than one.
- In 10 games this year, he has hit a home run (11.4%, and 2.7% of his trips to the plate).
- Pena has driven in a run in 23 games this season (26.1%), including nine games with more than one RBI (10.2%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 40.9% of his games this season (36 of 88), with two or more runs nine times (10.2%).
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Jeremy Pena Home/Away Batting Splits
Rangers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Rangers pitching staff ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Rangers have a 4.12 team ERA that ranks 13th across all league pitching staffs.
- Rangers pitchers combine to rank 13th in baseball in home runs surrendered (113 total, 1.1 per game).
- Gray (6-5 with a 3.31 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 103 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Rangers, his 19th of the season.
- His last appearance was on Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when the right-hander tossed 4 1/3 scoreless innings while allowing eight hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 31-year-old ranks 18th in ERA (3.31), 27th in WHIP (1.181), and 53rd in K/9 (7.2).
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Recognized as First Company Globally to Receive WELL Equity Rating Across its Portfolio
Surpassed Commitments to Reduce Both Scope 1 and 2 Emissions by 50% and Energy Consumption by 20% by 2030
Achieved Gender Equality at Management Level Three Years Ahead of 2025 Goal
Increased Diversity of Board of Directors to 33% Female and 44% Racially/Ethnically Diverse and Added Two New Independent Members
JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veris Residential, Inc. (NYSE: VRE) ("the Company"), a forward-thinking, environmentally- and socially-conscious REIT that primarily owns, operates, acquires and develops Class A multifamily properties, today released its 2022 ESG Report. The report, which is available on the Company's website here, details the initiatives Veris Residential executed over the last year to fulfill its commitment of creating 'Communities with Purpose.' Throughout 2022, Veris Residential continued to implement sustainable best practices valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion, becoming an even more responsible company for the benefit of all stakeholders.
With the release of its report, Veris Residential is today announcing that it has been recognized as the first company globally to receive the WELL Equity Rating across its managed portfolio, as well as for its corporate headquarters. The WELL Equity Rating provides a framework for improving access to health and well-being, celebrating diversity, and prioritizing inclusivity, while creating an environment where all people can thrive. It addresses disparities in populations that have been traditionally marginalized and underrepresented. This noteworthy achievement follows Veris Residential's 5-Star rating by the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) and its GRESB Public Disclosure rating of "A" in its first year of participating in the benchmark.
Mahbod Nia, Chief Executive Officer of Veris Residential, said, "At Veris Residential, we recognize that the built sector has an outsized impact on global carbon emissions and as such, have taken meaningful steps to further mitigate our carbon footprint and combat climate change for the well-being of our residents, employees, suppliers and communities. I am incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished on behalf of our stakeholders over the last year. These accomplishments underscore Veris Residential's dedication to responsibly owning and operating its properties, while remaining an industry leader in ESG. Looking ahead, we will continue to evaluate opportunities to enhance our properties to meet residents' sustainability-conscious lifestyle preferences, empower our employees with the tools they require to succeed, and reduce our energy consumption in support of our communities and the planet—all while creating value for our shareholders."
Highlights of the report include Mr. Nia's letter to stakeholders and Veris Residential's ESG accomplishments in the following areas:
- The Environment — including how the Company assesses its climate-related risks and opportunities to develop a comprehensive approach to sustainable development and certification, as well as to reduce energy consumption.
- People, Culture and Community — including how the Company approaches its social impact by prioritizing the people it serves—specifically its employees, residents and surrounding communities—to ensure diversity, equity, inclusivity, health and safety.
- Ethics, Compliance and Governance — including how the Company advances its engagement with all stakeholders, maintaining its commitment to its Ethics and Compliance program, ensuring a responsible supply chain, and defending itself against cyber threats.
The 2022 ESG Report is available on Veris Residential's website here.
About Veris Residential, Inc.
Veris Residential, Inc. is a forward-thinking, environmentally- and socially-conscious real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily owns, operates, acquires, and develops holistically inspired, Class A multifamily properties that meet the sustainability-conscious lifestyle needs of today's residents while seeking to positively impact the communities it serves and the planet at large. The company is guided by an experienced management team and Board of Directors and is underpinned by leading corporate governance principles, a best-in-class and sustainable approach to operations, and an inclusive culture based on equality and meritocratic empowerment. For additional information on Veris Residential, Inc. and our properties available for lease, please visit https://verisresidential.com.
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The Company Adds Executive Firepower to Grow its Position as the Leading Wellness Technology Company
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Therabody, the global pioneer in wellness technology, announced today that it has appointed wellness industry leader Monty Sharma as President and Chief Executive Officer. Co-Founder and CEO Benjamin Nazarian will become Therabody's Executive Chairman, effective immediately.
As CEO of high-profile health and wellness companies including EAS, Naked Juice, Atkins (now Simply Good Foods), Curves, Jenny Craig and most recently the Better Being Company, Monty Sharma brings over 25 years of leadership experience in Global Sales, Marketing, Product Innovation and Operations. Sharma has a proven track record of sales growth, building industry leading brands, creating best-in-class operations, and increasing shareholder value. At both Atkins and Naked Juice, Sharma doubled sales and tripled earnings in less than three years. At the Better Being Company, Sharma led a significant re-brand and portfolio optimization strategy that led to a greater focus on specific consumer segments in the natural and specialty premium Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS) space. During his career, he has worked with leading investment firms to produce attractive returns, including the sale of Naked Juice to PepsiCo.
"I am thrilled to join Therabody and partner with Ben and the excellent team. Therabody's category leading and innovative products solve for various consumer pain points to help them lead healthier and stronger lives. A significant opportunity exists to bring these incredible products to various consumer segments across the world and for our brand to build a strong and clear leadership position in technology-based wellness," said Sharma.
"We are working to change the way people think about their health and wellness so that they proactively take care of themselves and stop accepting pain as part of life," says Nazarian. "I am very excited to have Monty join us to help us achieve this goal. Having someone with Monty's expertise and track record join our company is a testament to our market leadership and speaks to the opportunity ahead of us. I look forward to partnering with Monty to continue to grow and build Therabody into an iconic company that is having a profound impact on people's lives."
Serving as the company's CEO since its founding in 2016, Nazarian revolutionized the business, expanding it from a single product—the category-creating Theragun®—to Therabody, with an ecosystem of premium wellness products for the entire mind and body. During his six-year tenure, the company has grown from a direct-to-consumer business to a global omni-channel wellness technology leader that has created 64 products, generated more than $1 billion in revenue and now sells in 60 countries across more than 10,000 doors. Partnering with Co-Founder and the inventor of Theragun, Dr. Jason Wersland, Nazarian co-created three new disruptive categories beyond Theragun, including award-winning TheraFace®, wireless RecoveryAir® JetBoots™, and SmartGoggles™, the brand's first smart wearable device with real-time biometric data to improve sleep, stress and focus. In addition, Nazarian has overseen the opening of 16 Therabody-owned brick-and-mortar retail locations and five Reset wellness destinations, secured $165M in funding and led product development that has been granted over 400 patents and earned dozens of awards including Fast Company's Brands that Matter, TIME Best Inventions 2022 and Popular Science Greatest Inventions 2022. As Executive Chairman, he will lead Therabody's global business strategy, business development, product development and partnerships.
To learn more about Therabody and its upcoming news, please visit therabody.com and follow @therabody on social media.
Therabody® is the wellness technology leader with a mission to inspire and enable every body and mind to keep moving. Founded by Dr. Jason Wersland who invented the category-defining percussive therapy device, Theragun®, to alleviate his own debilitating pain after a traumatic accident, the company's product and content ecosystem has expanded beyond muscle recovery into hardware, proprietary software, digital content, and biometrics, that have proven benefits for body and mind.
Science is in Therabody's DNA; products and services are validated using modern science combined with internal and external research. Therabody's products and content are embraced by the medical community, sports and beauty industry leaders, and millions of consumers worldwide. Currently available in more than 60 countries, including at company-owned retail stores and at Reset®, a whole-body wellness and recovery center, the product line includes proprietary technologies and leverages biometrics for personalized real-time therapies. For more information, please download the Therabody App for iOS or Android, visit www.therabody.com, or follow @therabody on social media.
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Official: 4th child dead after July 29 York County tractor crash
LOWER CHANCEFORD, Pa. - Authorities say a fourth child has died of injuries in a tractor and utility trailer crash in southern Pennsylvania last week that also killed a woman.
Dauphin County spokesman Brett Hambright told reporters that a 4-year-old Lancaster County boy involved in the July 29 crash in York County died Tuesday. His name was not released. LancasterOnline posted an obituary identifying the boy as the younger brother of one of the other victims.
State police in York County said a farm tractor was pulling a utility trailer with more than a dozen other people, mostly children, when it went over an embankment and both vehicles overturned shortly after 11 a.m. on July 29 in Lower Chanceford Township.
The York County coroner’s office earlier said 36-year-old Katie Ann Stoltzfus, her 14-year-old daughter Mary Etta Stoltzfus and her 7-year-old daughter Naomi Rose Stoltzfus were pronounced dead at the scene, as was 9-year-old Caleb Emmanuel Fisher.
Authorities said all five victims had multiple traumatic injuries and their deaths were ruled accidental.
Police said many of the others in the trailer, as the group headed to a recreational area, were taken to hospitals by ambulance or helicopter. The York Daily Record reported that five children were taken to Hershey Medical Center, three in critical condition and one listed as serious. Authorities have not provided updates on their conditions. | https://www.fox29.com/news/official-4th-child-dead-after-july-29-york-county-tractor-crash | 2022-08-06 20:22:06 | 0 | https://www.fox29.com/news/official-4th-child-dead-after-july-29-york-county-tractor-crash |
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While federal officials weigh a nationwide public health emergency declaration around the monkeypox outbreak, San Francisco and New York state began sounding the alarm Thursday.
San Francisco became the first major US city to declare a local health emergency on monkeypox in an effort to strengthen the city's preparedness and response amid high demand for the vaccine.
The declaration, which goes into effect Monday, is a legal action that allows city departments to mobilize and coordinate more effectively, Mayor London Breed's office said in a statement. It also allows for future reimbursement by state and federal governments.
"We need to be prepared and this declaration will allow us to serve the city better," Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax said. "Our COVID-19 response has taught us that it is imperative that we mobilize city resources. The declaration helps us ensure we have all the tools available to augment our outreach, testing and treatment, especially to the LGBTQ+ who remain at highest risk for Monkeypox."
Added Dr. Susan Philip, the San Francisco public health officer, "We have always been on the forefront of advocacy and action for LGBTQ+ health and I'm issuing this declaration to reaffirm our commitment to the wellbeing of these communities and to allow us to move more quickly to obtain and distribute the resources needed to help those disproportionately impacted."
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has confirmed 261 cases of monkeypox in the city, while California has a total of 799 cases.
In New York, state Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett declared an imminent threat to public health, citing the virus' rapid spread.
"This declaration means that local health departments engaged in response and prevention activities will be able to access additional State reimbursement, after other Federal and State funding sources are maximized, to protect all New Yorkers and ultimately limit the spread of monkeypox in our communities," she said in a statement.
New York has 1,247 probable or confirmed monkeypox cases, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state has gotten more than 60,000 doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, the US Department of Health and Human Services says.
San Francisco's health department requested 35,000 doses to meet the overwhelming demand there but said it has received only 12,000 doses as of Thursday. About 4,220 more are expected this week, the mayor's office said.
In Seattle, King County health officials say they have received only 4,720 doses of Jynneos. That's only 6% of the 80,000 doses they would like to have to cover the 40,000 people at elevated or high risk of monkeypox.
Jynneos works best when given as two doses at least four weeks apart, but with soaring demand and limited supply, some jurisdictions have focused on getting first doses in place now and figuring out second doses later.
HHS says that 338,000 vaccine doses have been delivered across the country. The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized 786,000 additional doses of the Jynneos vaccine, and jurisdictions can place orders starting Friday.
In Washington, the federal government is continuing to monitor the response to monkeypox and will use that to consider whether to declare the outbreak a public health emergency, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday.
"What I can tell you is, we continue to monitor the response throughout the country on monkeypox," he said. "We've made vaccines, tests and treatments well beyond the numbers that are currently needed, available to all jurisdictions who manage their public health systems.
"We will weigh any decision on declaring a public health emergency based on the responses we're seeing throughout the country. Bottom line is, we need to stay ahead of it and be able to end this outbreak."
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Release aids developers in confidently deploying software, increasing stability and improving time-to-market
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company today announced the availability of its CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release. The 2.28 release supports Armory's commitment to empowering development teams to easily, reliably, safely and continuously deploy software at any scale.
Armory's CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release encompasses new features, optimizations, and contributions from the Spinnaker community to ensure development teams can deploy code with even greater confidence than ever before.
This release embodies Armory's commitment to providing enterprise-grade Spinnaker and addressing the increasingly complex use cases elite development teams encounter. This includes exhaustive functional testing of all community code commitments, enhanced plug-ins and CVE remediation. This resulted in a Long Term Support (LTS) release assuring platform teams can provide developers with a stable platform that delivers reliable deployments at high velocity. CD Self-Hosted addresses the two most common pain points companies encounter: growth and scale.
"Armory has invested heavily in our test automation infrastructure so the reliability and performance of the platform provides the stability that elite development teams demand," said Jim Douglas, Armory president and CEO. "This latest 2.28 release empowers dev teams to accomplish continuous deployment at scale while providing them the best user experience."
Release 2.28 includes new features created to address common customer pain points within Terraform outputs and parallel pipelines. Specific features include:
- Terraformer Show Stage - Allows the pipeline to automatically enforce infrastructure policies and test for quality with every infrastructure change, reducing operational risk and increasing stability.
- Remote backend support for Terraform Enterprise and Terraform Cloud - Helping users have unique access to assistance within the platform.
- Max Concurrent Pipeline Executions - Customers can control the amount of maximum parallel pipeline executions, accelerating deployment frequency and velocity while speeding up time-to-market with exciting new features and products.
"Elite developer teams know and love the power of Spinnaker when it comes to deploying their software continuously," said Adam Frank, VP Product at Armory. "The Spinnaker community is a part of Armory's DNA, and it's evident in how we've built CD Self-Hosted and Managed. We've taken the best of Spinnaker and combined it with our world-class approach to continuous deployment to give developers a complete and reliable end-to-end solution from the moment they commit code."
This announcement comes on the heels of yet another milestone for Armory in its mission to make software deployment reliable, scalable, and safe; and ultimately help developers Commit, Deploy, Repeat: the launch of Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service, which delivers declarative deployments across multiple environments that support advanced progressive strategies, allowing developers to focus on building great code rather than deploying it.
To accommodate the release of Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service into Armory's growing continuous deployment solutions, the self-hosted and managed offerings of Armory Enterprise have been renamed:
- Armory Enterprise becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted
- Armory Enterprise Managed becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Managed
- Armory Agent for Kubernetes becomes Armory Scale Agent for Spinnaker & Kubernetes
To learn more about Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28, visit: https://www.armory.io/blog/self-hosted-and-managed-v228.
Armory enables developers to continuously improve and assure their customers' experience through scalable, safe, reliable, secure, and continuous software deployment. Armory makes continuous deployment achievable and effortless, at any scale, for all developers by providing easy-to-use continuous deployment solutions that eliminate the need to migrate away from existing tools, minimizing disruption to an existing software delivery lifecycle. Developers can easily and declaratively deploy new versions alongside live versions, incrementally scale up new versions, enable manual reviews prior to scaling up, effortlessly rollback to an old version, and manage the deployment across multiple targets and environments; continuously improving and protecting their customer experience.
Founded in 2016, Armory is funded by B Capital, Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, and Javelin Venture Partners. Learn more at www.armory.io.
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TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Saturday, July 9, 2022
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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
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10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
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314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. West winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
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314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ054-102100-
Nolan-
Including the city of Sweetwater
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ169-102100-
Kimble-
Including the cities of Cleo, Junction, London, Roosevelt,
Segovia, and Telegraph
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southwest after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ154-102100-
McCulloch-
Including the cities of Brady, Fife, Lohn, Rochelle, and Voca
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ098-102100-
Haskell-
Including the cities of Irby and Haskell
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ099-102100-
Throckmorton-
Including the cities of Throckmorton and Woodson
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ049-102100-
Fisher-
Including the cities of Rotan and Roby
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph
after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ113-102100-
Jones-
Including the cities of Stamford, Stith, Anson, Funston, Truby,
Tuxedo, and Hamlin
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph
after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ114-102100-
Shackelford-
Including the city of Albany
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ128-102100-
Callahan-
Including the cities of Clyde, Eula, Dudley, Baird,
and Cross Plains
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ064-102100-
Sterling-
Including the cities of Broome and Sterling City
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ065-102100-
Coke-
Including the cities of Robert Lee, Sanco, Silver, Bronte,
and Tennyson
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. East winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ066-102100-
Runnels-
Including the cities of Ballinger, Benoit, Hatchel, Rowena,
Crews, Winters, and Pumphrey
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 107. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ139-102100-
Coleman-
Including the cities of Coleman, Echo, Fisk, Valera, Voss,
and Trickham
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds around
5 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ071-102100-
Irion-
Including the cities of Barnhart, Arden, Mertzon, and Sherwood
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. West winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ073-102100-
Concho-
Including the cities of Eden, Live Oak, and Lowake
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southeast 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ155-102100-
San Saba-
Including the cities of Chappel, Cherokee, Harkeyville,
and San Saba
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the upper 70s. Highs around 100.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ076-102100-
Crockett-
Including the city of Ozona
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ077-102100-
Schleicher-
Including the city of Eldorado
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows in
the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ168-102100-
Menard-
Including the cities of Erna, Fort Mckavett, Hext, and Menard
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southeast after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ170-102100-
Mason-
Including the cities of Fredonia, Katemcy, Koockville,
Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, and Streeter
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ078-102100-
Sutton-
Including the city of Sonora
314 AM CDT Sun Jul 10 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. South winds around
5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran on Tuesday for his country’s military campaign in Ukraine, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei saying the West opposes an “independent and strong” Russia.
Khamenei said that if Russia hadn’t sent troops into Ukraine, it would have faced an attack from NATO later, a statement that echoed Putin’s own rhetoric and reflected increasingly close ties between Moscow and Tehran as they both face crippling Western sanctions. NATO allies have bolstered their military presence in Eastern Europe and provided Ukraine with weapons to help counter the Russian attack.
“If the road would have been open to NATO, it will not recognize any limit and boundary,” Khamenei told Putin. Had Moscow not acted first, he added, the Western alliance “would have waged a war” to return the Crimean Peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014 back to Kyiv’s control.
In only his second trip abroad since Russia launched the military action in February, Putin conferred with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the conflict in Syria, and he used the trip to discuss a U.N.-backed proposal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain to ease the global food crisis.
Turkey, a NATO member, has found itself opposite Russia in bloody conflicts in Syria and Libya. It has even sold lethal drones that Ukrainian forces have used to attack Russian troops. But Ankara hasn’t imposed sanctions on the Kremlin, making it a sorely needed partner for Moscow. Grappling with runaway inflation and a rapidly depreciating currency, Turkey also relies on the Russian market.
Erdogan made Putin wait for nearly a minute before entering the room for talks and then praised what he described as Russia’s “very, very positive approach” during last week’s grain talks in Istanbul. He voiced hope a deal will be made, and “the result that will emerge will have a positive impact on the whole world.”
Speaking to Erdogan as their meeting began, Putin thanked him for his mediation to help “move forward” a deal on Ukrainian grain exports. “Not all the issues have been resolved yet, but it’s good that there has been some progress,” Putin added.
He later told reporters that Moscow would accept a deal to facilitate Ukrainian grain shipments if the West lifts restrictions on Russian grain exports.
“We have reached a preliminary agreement on that with international organizations, which have taken the labor to turn it all into a package,” Putin said. “Let’s see how it all evolves in the nearest time.”
He noted that “the Americans have effectively lifted the restrictions on Russian fertilizer supplies to global markets,” adding that “if they sincerely want to improve the situation in the global food market, I hope they will do the same with Russian grain exports.”
U.N., Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish officials had reached a tentative agreement on some aspects of a deal to ensure the export of 22 million tons of desperately needed grain and other agricultural products trapped in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports by the fighting. Reaching the agreement would mark a major step toward alleviating a food crisis that has sent prices of vital commodities like wheat and barley soaring.
Asked whether the talks with Ukraine on a political settlement could resume, Putin said that Russia was grateful to Erdogan and other international mediators but noted hat “we are seeing that Kyiv’s authorities have no such desire.”
The trip to Tehran has symbolic meaning for Putin’s domestic audience as well, showing off Russia’s international clout even as it grows increasingly isolated and plunges deeper into confrontation with the West. It comes just days after U.S. President Joe Biden’s visited Israel and Saudi Arabia — Tehran’s primary rivals.
From Jerusalem and Jeddah, Biden urged Israel and Arab countries to push back on Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence that has expanded with the perception of America’s retreat from the region.
It was a tough sell. Israel maintains good relations with Putin, a necessity given Russian presence in Syria, Israel’s northeastern neighbor and frequent target of its airstrikes. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have declined to pump more oil beyond a plan approved by their energy alliance with Moscow.
But all the countries — despite their long-standing rivalries — could agree on drawing closer to counter Iran, which has rapidly advanced its nuclear program since former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned Tehran’s atomic accord with world powers and reimposed crushing sanctions. Talks to restore the deal have hit a deadlock.
Backed into a corner by the West and its regional rivals, the Iranian government is ramping up uranium enrichment, cracking down on dissent and grabbing headlines with optimistic, hard-line stances intended to keep the Iranian currency, the rial, from crashing. Without sanctions relief in sight, Iran’s tactical partnership with Russia has become one of survival, even as Moscow appears to be undercutting Tehran in the black market oil trade.
“Iran is (the) center of dynamic diplomacy,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian wrote on Twitter, adding the meetings will “develop economic cooperation, focus on security of the region … and ensure food security.”
Fadahossein Maleki, a member of the Iranian parliament’s influential committee on national security and foreign policy, described Russia as Iran’s “most strategic partner” on Monday. His comments belied decades of animosity stemming from Russia’s occupation of Iran during World War II — and its refusal to leave afterward.
In a sign of increasingly close military cooperation, Russian officials in recent weeks visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice to review Tehran’s weapons-capable drones for possible use in Ukraine, the White House has alleged.
Putin hailed the importance of close ties between Moscow and Tehran at his meetings with the Iranian leaders.
“Our relations are developing at a good pace,” Putin said at the start of the meeting with Raisi, adding that they two countries have worked to “strengthen their cooperation on international security and contribute significantly to the Syrian settlement.”
In a closing statement, he offered strong support to Tehran over the deadlocked nuclear deal, calling for its full revival and a complete lifting of sanctions against Iran to allow a “free development of cooperation in any areas without any discrimination.”
During their trilateral talks, the presidents discussed the decade-old conflict in Syria, where Iran and Russia have backed President Bashar Assad’s government, while Turkey has supported armed opposition factions. Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015, pooling efforts with Iranian forces and using its air power to shore up Assad’s fledgling military.
Erdogan focused on Turkey’s action to push from its borders U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters, following up on previous threats of a new military offensive in northern Syria. The planned operation is part of Turkey’s efforts to create a safe zone along its border with Syria that would encourage the voluntary return of Syrian refugees.
Erdogan said Turkey was determined to “drive out the centers of evil” that target Turkey’s security.
He said Ankara expects Russia and Iran “to support Turkey in this fight,” adding that the regions of Tel Rifaat and Manbij — where Turkey has said it planned to send its troops — had turned into a “terror bed.”
“The greatest favor that would be made to the Syrian people would be the complete removal of the separatist terrorist organization from territories that it occupies,” Erdogan said.
In an apparent reference to Turkey’s concerns, the three presidents said in a joint statement that they “rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combating terrorism, including illegitimate self-rule initiatives, and expressed their determination to stand against separatist agendas.”
At the same time, in an earlier, separate meeting with Erdogan, Khamenei sternly warned against the planned Turkish incursion.
“Any sort of military attack in northern Syria will definitely harm Turkey, Syria and the entire region, and will benefit terrorists,” Iran’s top leader said, stressing the need to “bring the issue to an end through talks.”
Humanitarian issues in Syria have also come into focus since Russia used its veto power at the U.N. Security Council last week to restrict aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest after six months, instead of a year. Erdogan stressed that six months weren’t enough.
Raisi said all parties urged expelling American forces from Syria. In a reference to the U.S. military, Putin denounced what he described as “attempts to cement unlawful foreign military presence and foment separatist sentiments,” and emphasized that all areas east of the Euphrates River should return to Syrian government control.
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Isachenkov reported from Moscow. Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A senior Human Rights Watch official slammed the Egyptian government’s human and environmental rights record, saying that the space for environmental activism in Egypt “is severely curtailed.”
Richard Pearshouse, director of environment and human rights at HRW, said environmental activists in Egypt have faced “constant harassment” by security forces including restrictions on travel, foreign funding, and research permits.
He said that such restrictions bar public debate and research on damages caused by business, agro-industry, cement factories and other businesses linked to the military.
“Those are … the types of issues that can’t be talked about domestically and have almost no presence” at the United Nations climate conference in Egypt, he said.
Pearshouse described Egypt as a “human rights black hole,” and challenged statements from Egyptian officials that raising human rights issues at the COP27 was “a distraction” from climate change.
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Germany’s foreign minister says further climate-related aid should particularly help those who suffer the most from global warming and can’t pay for the impacts themselves.
But Annalena Baerbock told reporters Wednesday on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Egypt she wasn’t confident a new fund for ‘loss and damage’ can be agreed at this year’s meeting, adding: “I don’t know if this is the right moment now.”
She also urged concrete plans for international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, including for specific sectors.
Some developing countries and emerging economies, such as China, have resisted these efforts, arguing their inclusion in the so-called mitigation work program being discussed at the Egypt meeting would go beyond the requirements of the 2015 Paris climate accord.
But Baerbock said failure to do so could mean the overarching goals of the Paris pact would be impossible to achieve.
“If we don’t do anything in the next ten years then we’ll reach 2030 and have missed the 1.5-degree goal by such a margin that we probably can’t return to it.”
“We know that there are countries which view this differently, maybe out of their own self interest,” she said, without elaborating.
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The former Irish President has urged negotiators at the United Nations climate conference to take a “real decision” on climate financing to vulnerable countries.
Mary Robinson, who is also chair of the Elders group of global leaders who advocate for peace and justice, said the progress at the beginning of the summit by putting the issue on the official agenda needs to be met with “a landing that brings money to the most vulnerable.”
Robinson called for global financial institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to free more funds to help vulnerable nations recover and be prepared for climate change impacts.
“They actually have ways of opening up their lending much more without losing their triple-A rating,” she said.
She also called world leaders to keep alive the target of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.
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Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate criticized the continued discussion and resistance from some countries to establish a loss and damage financing structure to pay compensation for poorer countries suffering the worst effects of climate change.
Nakate also called for governments around the world to phase out fossil fuels to keep to the 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) warming limit set out in the Paris agreement.
“It’s important that we not only address the issue of loss and damage, but also address the root cause of loss and damage,” she said.
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Climate protestors Wednesday pushed for the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) limit on global warming to remain part of climate talks.
“Our demands to the negotiators for the next 48 hours as people from the Pacific and as frontliners in climate change is simple. We cannot have 1.5 degrees Celsius watered down,” Fijian climate activist Vivania Tatawaqa told The Associated Press. Scientists agree that limiting warming to just 1.5 degrees will save the planet from the worst effects of climate change.
Several groups protested Wednesday within the venue’s ‘Blue Zone’ where access is limited to conference participants. Earlier in the day dozens of health professionals demonstrated to highlight the impact weather events exacerbated by climate change have on health.
“We are here to advocate for the climate crisis and make sure everyone understands that it’s also a health crisis,” medical professional Poorvaprabha Patil said. “Every time you have a flood and check out the communities, you will see a rise of infectious diseases.”
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The European Union climate chief said there is still “a long way to go” in the ongoing negotiations at the United Nations conference on climate change taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt this year.
Frans Timmermans said he remains “hopeful” that they can achieve “good conclusions” at the conference, which ends Friday.
Asked about the issue of compensation for vulnerable nations suffering the impacts of climate change, known as loss and damage, which is one of the main topics of this year’s summit, Timmermans said: “We’re all willing to find some substantial steps forward, but we’re not there yet.”
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A senior European Union official said they were still establishing the facts about a missile that fell in NATO-member Poland, killing two people. It remains unclear who fired it, though U.S. President Joe Biden said it was “unlikely” it was fired from Russia.
EU climate chief Frans Timmermans said Wednesday that the bloc stands beside Poland which is also an EU member.
“We are in full solidarity with Poland and the Polish people. They are an important part of NATO and of the European Union,” Timmermans told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the United Nations climate conference in Egypt’s seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
“We stand as one in this, and I hope we can get clarity of what actually happened very soon,” he said.
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Climate envoy John Kerry said the U.S. is “fully engaged” in talks with China at the U.N. climate summit underway in Egypt.
Kerry met with China’s top climate official Xie Zhenhua Tuesday, a hint of improving relations seen as vital for substantial progress against global warming. Beijing put talks on hold three months ago in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.
Asked what the outcome of the summit may be, Kerry replied: “We’ll have to see, it’s a late start.”
Speaking at an event to mark the conference’s themed day on biodiversity, Kerry confirmed he had also met with Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Tuesday.
Kerry said he “was really encouraged by the ways in which he talked about once and for all getting it right, pulling people together in order to preserve the Amazon.”
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A lawmaker with the German Green party has called for establishing a legal structure to force polluters to pay for the destruction caused by climate change in vulnerable nations.
Speaking at an event at the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, Michael Bloss pointed to the devastating flooding in Pakistan this summer, which put one third of the country’s population underwater and caused an estimated $40 billion in damage.
The floods “are directly caused by the climate crisis,” he said, adding that the the world’s biggest emitters “are responsible for losses and damages.”
Bloss criticized European governments for weakening efforts to establish a loss and damage fund which he said has “great support” in the European parliament.
The issue of compensation was once considered a taboo, because rich countries were concerned that they might find themselves paying vast sums. Intense pressure from developing countries forced the issue of “loss and damage” onto the formal agenda at the talks for the first time this year.
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Video shows brazen attempted kidnapping of 6-year-old girl from front yard
HAMILTON, Ohio - An Ohio man is facing sexual assault and attempted kidnapping charges after reportedly grabbing a 6-year-old girl and trying to kidnap her from her front yard.
Video shows the child taking out the trash when a man, later identified as 33-year-old Deric McPherson, approaches her and grabs her. He then walks away briefly but turns around and grabs her by the hand, then tries to pull her away.
The child’s mother told the WLWT that she heard a "blood-curling" scream before her daughter ran inside and told her someone touched her private parts and tried to kidnap her.
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Her parents first tried chasing McPherson on foot, but then her father got in his car and pursued McPherson until police could arrest him. He was charged with gross sexual imposition and abduction.
Deric McPherson (Butler County Sheriff's Office)
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Mattoon weebled and wobbled, but wouldn't fall down in earning a 4-2 victory against Mahomet-Seymour in an Illinois high school softball matchup on May 6.
In recent action on April 29, Mattoon faced off against Taylorville and Mahomet-Seymour took on Decatur MacArthur on May 1 at Decatur MacArthur High School.
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(NerdWallet) – The Super Bowl is coming, and fans from Philadelphia, Kansas City and elsewhere are pouring into Phoenix to catch the game and its related spectacles. This soaring travel demand has run into the real-world limitations of finite hotel rooms and airline routes, creating a scramble for availability and sending prices through the (stadium) roof.
Round-trip airfare to Phoenix is averaging $375, according to Hopper, a travel booking platform, while hotels are running an average of $575 per night. That means a traveler looking to make a three-day weekend trip could spend $2,100 on the bare travel necessities.
And those expenses will pile on top of the ticket price for the Feb. 12 game. The median cost of a ticket was $8,100 as of Jan. 31, according to Vivid Seats, a ticket sales service. That might sound like a lot, but put in another perspective, $8,100 would only buy 35 milliseconds of televised ad time at the reported rate of $7 million per 30 seconds.
Flights
Given how the cost of tickets have bounced back from pandemic lows, paying $375 for round-trip airfare isn’t especially outrageous. But those prices could get much higher as the game approaches.
Hopper estimates that tickets will max out at $500, but prices won’t be evenly distributed throughout the week around the game. Those trying to arrive in Phoenix on Thursday, Feb. 9, and leave on Monday, Feb. 13, will pay the most, while those willing to risk it and fly in at the last minute on Saturday and leave on Tuesday could pay half as much.
Availability for peak dates could actually disappear as planes fill up, so anyone still holding off on purchasing tickets should snap to it — and consider flying on off-peak days.
What can airfare trends tell us about the relative rabidness of the Chiefs and Eagles fandoms? According to Hopper, flight searches from Philadelphia to Phoenix surged by 169% after the Eagles secured their berth, while searches from Kansas City to Phoenix increased by only 61%.
Vacation rentals and hotels
Prices on vacation rentals such as Airbnb and Vrbo are — predictably — meteoric, with average daily rates that are peaking at about 83% higher year over year, according to AirDNA, a vacation rental data platform. That works out to a $340 average daily markup on the cost of renting a home.
Renting a home from Friday, Feb. 10, through Sunday, Feb. 13, costs $2,302 on average in 2023 compared with $1,400 last year, though prices quickly adjust themselves back to baseline in the days before and after the event.
Vacation rental hosts seem to be taking advantage of these high rates, as they have added over 400 listings in nearby Glendale, Arizona, since December 2022, according to AirDNA.
What does this mean for travelers? Vacation rental prices might not rise as high, relatively, as other travel expenses, since the supply of available units is somewhat elastic. In contrast, new hotel rooms can’t be added at the last moment, so supply will be more constrained and prices could go higher.
Hopper estimates that Phoenix hotel rooms are averaging $575 per night over the Super Bowl weekend. That might be lower than the $700 or so nightly rates for vacation rentals, but note that some vacation rentals are able to house more people than a hotel room.
When will prices touch back down?
Much like Thanksgiving weekend, when travel prices spike due to huge demand meeting a limited supply of flights and lodging, prices should return to Earth by the following weekend. “Normal” visitors to Phoenix this month shouldn’t be alarmed unless they had the incredible misfortune of booking their trip during the biggest sporting event of the year.
Last-minute football fans still looking to secure a flight or room might consider one last Hail Mary: using points and miles. Some travel programs, especially those few that still offer award charts rather than dynamic pricing, could offer great value when using points and miles in this way, assuming you can find availability.
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Acromag's new VPX carriers route power and bus signals to two plug-in XMC mezzanine modules with a 16-lane Gen 3 PCIe interface to enable a broad range of FPGA, GPU, I/O, and CPU combinations.
WIXOM, Mich, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acromag expands their OpenVPX™ carrier card selection with the addition of two new models that provide a simple and cost-effective solution for interfacing XMC modules to a VPX computer system. The VPX4840 and VPX4850 feature two XMC slots with support for front or rear panel I/O. They are available with VITA 42, VITA 61, or VITA 88 connectors to route power and interface bus signals to the plug-in mezzanine modules. Both models support a choice of direct PCIe connection to the VPX backplane via the data or expansion plane. The XMC sites have a 16-lane PCIe bus Gen 3 interface enabling rapid data throughput. By inserting XMC mezzanine modules on the carrier, including XMC processor (prXMC) modules, developers can now leverage hundreds of available function modules currently unavailable in a VPX platform. Pricing starts at $3995 for an air-cooled version with a 0 to 55°C range. Models with extended temperature ranges or conduction cooling support are also available.
"With two XMC sites, system integrators can combine FPGA, GPU, I/O, avionics, communication, and even prXMC modules to create custom computing boards in a single slot" states Robert Greenfield, Acromag's Business Development Manager.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence has officially announced he's running for president in 2024.
In a campaign video posted to Twitter, Pence touted his previous roles as a congressman, governor and vice president, saying he's proud of the work he's done for this country. But he took a stab at the president and state of the nation today.
"Today our country's in a lot of trouble. President Joe Biden and the radical left have weakened America at home and abroad. The American dream is being crushed under runaway inflation, wages are dropping, recession is looming, our Southern border is under siege, and the enemies of freedom are on a march around the world," Pence said.
I believe in the American people, and I have faith God is not done with America yet. Together, we can bring this Country back, and the best days for the Greatest Nation on Earth are yet to come! 🇺🇸 #Pence2024 pic.twitter.com/A8EkqgCDAm
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) June 7, 2023
The former vice president promised to secure borders, revive the economy and get back on a path to a balanced budget.
"We can bring this country back," Pence said.
He leaned on his roots, saying he's the grandson of an Irish immigrant, and that his "family has lived the American dream."
Pence's announcement doesn't come as much of a surprise. After teasing a run, the former vice president filed paperwork on Monday to enter the race for the nation's top job.
Pence joined Scripps News for an interview last month, saying that while the American people may know him, he's not known well.
"If I become a candidate for president, one of my aspirations would be that people would not only know my story of public service, the totality of it, and the battles I fought as a conservative in the House and statehouse in Indiana and as vice president. But they also know that at the end of the day, I'm a small town guy from southern Indiana, raised by a combat veteran, the grandson of an immigrant, somebody that grew up in a family that lived the American dream," Pence told Scripps News.
Pence is joining and already-crowded Republican field for president in 2024. His run will also prompt a rare showdown between two former running mates as he goes up against former President Donald Trump.
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Six people are dead after a plane crashes into field and bursts into flames in California, officials say
MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Six people died after a plane crashed over a Southern California field on Saturday morning before bursting into flames.
The plane was engulfed in fire along with about one acre of vegetation when deputies arrived. The plane crashed near an airport in the city of Murrieta, California, in southwest Riverside County, located between Los Angeles and San Diego.
The flight had originally departed from the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas before crashing into the field, KTLA reported. The station described the plane as a Cessna C550 business jet.
The six plane occupants were pronounced dead at the scene shortly after authorities found the burning plane after 4:15 a.m., according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The identities of those killed in the crash have not been released.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Aviation Administration are both investigating the crash.
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Florida sued over law blocking Chinese citizens, other foreigners from buying property
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of Chinese citizens living and working in Florida sued the state Monday over a new law that bans Chinese nationals from purchasing property in large swaths of the state.
The law applies to properties within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of military installations and other “critical infrastructure” and also affects citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. But Chinese citizens and those selling property to them face the harshest penalties. The prohibition also applies to agricultural land.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the law will have a substantial chilling effect on sales to Chinese and Asian people who can legally buy property. The suit says the law unfairly equates Chinese people with the actions of their government and there is no evidence of national security risk from Chinese citizens buying Florida property.
The law “will codify and expand housing discrimination against people of Asian descent in violation of the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act,” the ACLU said in a news release announcing the suit. “It will also cast an undue burden of suspicion on anyone seeking to buy property whose name sounds remotely Asian, Russian, Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan, or Syrian.”
U.S.-China ties are strained amid growing tensions over security and trade. In nearly a dozen statehouses and Congress, a decades-old worry about foreign land ownership has spiked since a Chinese spy balloon traversed the skies from Alaska to South Carolina last month.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to launch a presidential campaign this week, signed the bill May 8. His office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The law is set to take affect July 1. It will be a felony for Chinese people to buy property in restricted areas or for any person or real estate company to knowingly sell to restricted people. For the other targeted nations, the penalty is a misdemeanor for buyers and sellers.
It applies to military instillations as well as infrastructure like airports and seaports, water and wastewater treatment plants, natural gas and oil processing facilities, power plants, spaceports, and telecommunications central switching offices.
The ACLU says the law “will have the net effect of creating ‘Chinese exclusion zones’ that will cover immense portions of Florida, including many of the state’s most densely populated and developed areas.”
“This impact is exactly what laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the California Alien Land Law of 1913 did more than a hundred years ago,” the lawsuit says.
Those on the restricted list that already own property near critical infrastructure must register with the state or face fines of up to $1,000 a day. They’re also prohibited from acquiring additional property. The law has provisions to allow the state to seize property from violators.
The number of states restricting foreign ownership of agricultural land has risen by 50% this year.
Heading into 2023, 14 states had laws restricting foreign ownership or investments in private agricultural land. So far this year, restrictive laws also have been enacted in Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.
Foreign land ownership has become “a political flashpoint,” said Micah Brown, a staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas.
Brown said the recent surge in state laws targeting land ownership by foreign entities stems from some highly publicized cases of Chinese-connected companies purchasing land near military bases. Earlier this year, the U.S. Air Force said that the Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million wet corn milling plant near a base in Grand Forks, North Dakota, poses a “significant threat to national security.”
After a Chinese army veteran and real estate tycoon bought a wind farm near an Air Force base in Texas, that state responded in 2021 by banning infrastructure deals with individuals tied to hostile governments, including China.
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Associated Press writer David Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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Royals vs. Rangers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - April 11
Published: Apr. 11, 2023 at 1:41 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Tuesday's game at Globe Life Field has the Texas Rangers (6-4) taking on the Kansas City Royals (3-8) at 8:05 PM ET on April 11. Our computer prediction projects a 6-3 win for the Rangers, who are favored by our model.
The Texas Rangers will give the ball to Jacob deGrom (1-0, 5.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 2 on the season, and the Royals will counter with Jordan Lyles (0-2, 4.91 ERA).
Royals vs. Rangers Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 8:05 PM ET
- Where: Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: BSSW
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Royals vs. Rangers Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Rangers 6, Royals 3.
Total Prediction for Royals vs. Rangers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Royals Performance Insights
- The Royals have been underdogs in 11 games this season and have come away with the win three times (27.3%) in those contests.
- Kansas City has yet to play a game this season with longer moneyline odds than +230.
- The Royals have an implied victory probability of 30.3% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
- Kansas City scores the third-fewest runs in baseball (29 total, 2.6 per game).
- The Royals have pitched to a 4.36 ERA this season, which ranks 14th in baseball.
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Is there anything at your local grocery store (besides avocados) that's getting less — not more — expensive as families plan their upcoming Thanksgiving Day meals? Well, yes, but you have to look carefully.
While 90% of grocery items right now cost more than they did last year because of high inflation, there are some deals to be had, though you may have to hunt them down. Market research firm Nielsen IQ recently looked at more than 2,500 fresh and packaged foods to find bargains.
For most consumers, price breaks on their groceries come as welcome relief given that store food prices overall have surged 12.4% through October versus a year ago. For shoppers on fixed budgets, the extra cost of food is especially hard to absorb.
So, what's getting cheaper?
In fresh produce, the average unit price for prepared mixed vegetables from July to September (the latest data available) dropped 68% versus the same period last year. In fruits, the average unit price is down 1.8% for tangerines and has declined 7% for dates in the same three-month period.
Some packaged baked goods such as assorted bagels fell 48%. Bakery sweet goods, such as fruit cobbler and honey buns, are also seeing declining prices.
Elsewhere, bulk dried beans prices are 5.1% cheaper. Prices for cranberry and apple sauce have also eased. In beverages, kombucha drinks have dropped 22.7%.
A lot of fresh seafood options are cheaper as well: the average unit price for striped bass fell 41.8% (July through September) over the prior year. The cost of lobster is down 7.2%, mackerel dropped 6% while crab prices fell 9.5% and conch is down 13.2%.
Stew Leonard Jr., CEO of the Stew Leonard's supermarket chain, told CNN's Alison Kosik on Wednesday that he's noticed prices are easing on some meats, including chicken and beef.
"You're are seeing a little bit of an increase in turkey [prices] but you are also seeing a little bit of reduction in chicken. Our filet mignon is going to be $2 a pound less than it was last year," he said.
"Meat prices seem to be easing, chicken prices easing. Lobster, which was off the charts last year, has come down to half the price. You're starting to see a little bit of a heartbeat out there in pricing," he said.
Overall, spending on groceries will increase as more families cut back on eating out and cook more at home to curb their discretionary spending, said Carman Allison, vice president of consumer insights for NielsenIQ, which tracks point-of-sale data from retailers
Even so, there's a bigger reset going on: budget shoppers are fundamentally changing how and where they buy food, Allison said. "They are shifting from brand names to private label alternatives that cost less. They are also shifting to value and discount food shopping to score better deals."
And most consumers are not buying in bulk. "If a family is a heavy user of an item, they will buy larger sizes," he said. "But if it's a smaller household or they want to experiment with some foods, they are opting for smaller sizes."
As shoppers try to control their spending on groceries, they will likely gravitate to what Allison called "higher yield," options like dried beans, rice and pasta. "These items can produce many servings. A can of soup is another example. You can add more water and have more servings," he said.
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Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces features 12 hands-on investigations that use award-winning app from Vernier Science Education
BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To support high school and college physics instruction, Vernier Science Education has released Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces. This new e-book, which features 12 hands-on investigations that use the award-winning Vernier Video Analysis® app, helps students explore mechanics topics beyond basic motion, such as conservation of energy and conservation of translational and angular momentum.
"Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces builds on students' understanding of physics as they delve into more complex concepts," said John Wheeler, CEO of Vernier Science Education. "It features a number of real-world examples to help increase engagement and knowledge retention as students critically analyze data."
The investigations in the e-book go beyond simple kinematics, connecting physics concepts to various sports and athletic activities. In addition, students can examine interactions between different objects, such as a physical pendulum and a cart, or two similarly charged objects. Sample investigations include "Energy of a Bouncing Ball," "Introduction to Weight Lifting," "Angular Momentum and Energy," and "Water Flow from a Tank: Parabolic Trajectory."
In addition to providing an instructor guide with troubleshooting tips and answers to questions, Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces outlines the student materials needed for the investigations with two levels of scaffolding: guided and abridged. The guided materials provide step-by-step instructions for navigating Vernier Video Analysis and work well for students who have not used the app. The abridged materials are appropriate for students who are familiar with Vernier Video Analysis.
Available as a 30-day free trial and as a site-license subscription, Vernier Video Analysis enables students to use their Chromebook™ or another mobile device to insert a video with recorded motion and mark points to track the object in motion. The app generates accurate and visually rich graphs that reflect the recorded motion for students to analyze.
Vernier Video Analysis is compatible with multiple devices and platforms, including macOS®, iPadOS®, iOS, Windows®, Chrome OS™, and Android™. Utilizing one of these devices with the app, students can use prepared videos, found videos, or videos they've collected for analysis and conduct experiments that cannot be done with sensors, such as following a basketball in flight, analyzing the vertical drop of a roller coaster, and tracking the motion of a ball as it is being juggled.
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MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) has been recognized with the prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for 2022 in the National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality category.
Presented annually since 2002 by The Joint Commission (TJC), the nation's largest healthcare accreditor, and the National Quality Forum (NQF), the nation's resource for healthcare quality measurement and improvement, the Eisenberg Awards honor the late John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Eisenberg chaired the federal government's Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force and personally led AHRQ's grant program to support patient safety research. He was a founding member of NQF's board of directors and an impassioned advocate for healthcare quality improvement.
NAPA earned the National Level Innovation Award in Patient Safety and Quality for its Anesthesia Risk Alerts (ARA) Program, which provides anesthesia clinicians with novel mitigation strategies to better manage five high-risk clinical scenarios: known or suspected difficult airway, a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 45, pulmonary hypertension, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status 4 or 5, and operating room (OR) fire risk. Each patient is assessed by the anesthesia clinician, and if a risk is identified, the specific mitigation strategy for that scenario is advised to prevent harm.
The ARA program is built on a proactive "Safety II" approach more commonly associated with aviation, cybersecurity, nuclear energy, military and other industries. In adapting this approach for the OR, clinicians utilize innovative techniques based on the dual process decision-making model, cognitive debiasing, red team/blue team methodology, and collaboration with colleagues. Within two years of implementing the ARA program in March 2019 across NAPA's partner healthcare facilities nationwide, the Anesthesia Risk Alerts program exceeded a 95% compliance rate and significantly reduced the incidence of clinical adverse events. Additionally, by encouraging clinicians to work together in implementing mitigation strategies, ARA was found to promote a perioperative culture of safety and collaborative workplace environments in and beyond the OR.
NAPA's ARA program was developed through its NAPA Anesthesia Patient Safety Institute (NAPSI), one of only 99 national Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) listed by AHRQ. NAPSI collects clinical outcomes data on every patient cared for by NAPA's approximately 6,000 anesthesia clinicians at hundreds of hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), and offices, representing millions of patients each year, and analyzes this data to develop patient safety and quality initiatives such as the Anesthesia Risk Alerts program.
John F. Di Capua, MD, CEO of North American Partners in Anesthesia, said: "NAPA is honored to receive the Eisenberg Award for our evidence-based Anesthesia Risk Alerts program. The Eisenberg Award is the nation's highest honor for healthcare quality, and we are gratified that our deep dedication to improving the patient experience, which drives our investments in NAPSI, quality improvement, technology, research, and clinical education, has produced a patient safety initiative that we hope all anesthesia and other healthcare providers can learn from to improve patient care. We also congratulate Dr. Jason S. Adelman, recipient of the Individual Achievement Award, and Parkland Health, recipient of the Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality Award. NAPA is proud to be recognized with these esteemed co-Awardees for 2022."
The Eisenberg Awards honor major individual, local, and national achievements that improve patient safety and healthcare quality by bringing together the quality community to recognize groundbreaking initiatives in healthcare that are consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending. The three awardees will be recognized at NQF23, NQF's annual conference hosted in Washington, D.C., on February 21, 2023.
About North American Partners in Anesthesia
As a clinician-led organization, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) is redefining healthcare, delivering unsurpassed excellence to its partners and patients every day. NAPA has grown to become the nation's leading single-specialty anesthesia and pain management company. Our 6,000+ clinicians serve nearly 3 million patients annually at nearly 500 healthcare facilities in 21 states. NAPAanesthesia.com.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The Latest on the British Open (all times local):
12 p.m.
Barclay Brown is a member of the same English golf club as Matt Fitzpatrick and appears to be taking some inspiration from the recently crowned U.S. Open champion.
The 21-year-old amateur is the clubhouse leader in the opening round at his first British Open after shooting 4-under 68 at St. Andrews.
Brown is a member at Hallamshire Golf Club in Sheffield, from where Fitzpatrick also hails. Fitzpatrick won his first major last month at Brookline.
Distinctive at the home of golf in his colorful hat, Brown curled in a long, right-to-left birdie putt at No. 17 for the last of his five birdies in his round.
An amateur, Paul Dunne, shared the lead through 54 holes at the last Open at St. Andrews in 2015.
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11 a.m.
Erik van Rooyen is another withdrawal at St. Andrews.
The South African pulled out because of a back injury and has been replaced by Aaron Rai of England.
Rai drove to Scotland on Wednesday from his home in central England in the unlikely hope of playing at the home of golf. He was promoted to first alternate after Rikuya Hoshino replaced Justin Rose, who withdrew because of a back injury just before he was due to start his round.
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10:40 a.m.
Joohyung Kim is enjoying his first appearance at the British Open. Rory McIlroy enjoyed his first hole at St. Andrews, too.
Kim, a 20-year-old South Korean, reached the turn at 4 under and was in a three-way tie for the lead with Min Woo Lee of Australia and Cameron Young of the United States.
With a third-place finish at the Scottish Open last week, Kim underlined his liking of links. He briefly shared the lead in the final round.
McIlroy, seeking his first major title since 2014, was standing out in his brown-and-yellow attire and began his round by holing a putt from more than 50 feet for birdie.
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9:30 a.m.
Ian Poulter is delivering his usual dose of drama, and it’s all good at the British Open.
The flamboyant Englishman began his round by coming within a few yards of going out-of-bounds. And then he closed out the front nine by holing a 50-yard putt from the opposite side of the ninth green for an eagle 2.
That puts Poulter at 3 under, tied among early starters with Brandon Wu.
Meanwhile, Justin Rose and Alex Noren are both out of the British Open, but only one of them will be playing this week. Rose says he felt pain in his lower back after a swing with his driver in practice Wednesday. He was on the range Thursday morning but decided he couldn’t go.
Noren was at St. Andrews earlier in the week as first alternate. He wound up leaving for California to play the PGA Tour event, losing his spot at St. Andrews.
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8:40 a.m.
Justin Rose has withdrawn from the British Open because of a back injury.
He has been replaced in the field by Rikuya Hoshino of Japan.
The No. 50-ranked Rose appeared to be struggling with a back problem as he walked off the course Wednesday in his practice round.
Rose finished tied for fourth as an amateur at Royal Birkdale in 1998. The Englishman has two other top-10 finishes at the Open, in 2015 and ’18.
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6:45 a.m.
The silver claret jug was first awarded 150 years ago to the British Open champion. There it was Thursday morning on the first tee at St. Andrews as golf’s oldest championship began.
Paul Lawrie of Scotland, the Open champion from 1999, was selected to hit the first shot of this historic week that is all about the 150th edition at the home of golf. He used a yellow golf ball and found the wide fairway. The gutta-percha was the golf ball of choice in 1860 when the British Open began at Prestwick.
The 150th Open accounts for the championship being canceled by two world wars, one pandemic and one other occasion. The Open was not played in 1871 because Young Tom Morris had won the previous year for the third straight time. That meant he took possession of the champion’s belt. That’s the original trophy of the British Open.
It was a critical juncture for The Open. It was decided that the championship would rotate among Prestwick, St. Andrews and Musselburgh. By the time they got it sorted out, it was too late to play in 1871. They also decided on a new trophy — the claret jug.
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Katie Couric reveals she was diagnosed with breast cancer. On Wednesday, ahead of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the 65-year-old journalist took to Instagram and her website to break the news to her fans.
“Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. On June 21st, I became one of them,” Couric wrote next to a photo of her wearing a mask and a gown while sitting in a medical office. “As we approach #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, I wanted to share my personal story with you all and encourage you to get screened and understand that you may fall into a category of women who needs more than a mammogram.”
Couric detailed her diagnosis further on her website, and noted that after missing her annual mammogram in 2020, she was encouraged by her doctor to schedule an appointment. Couric decided she would record her medical procedure, which she had in June, “in a PG way” to encourage fans to stay on top of their yearly exams.
Following the initial procedure, Couric was taken back for an ultrasound. When her radiologist returned, she shared that she would need a biopsy. The following day, Couric said she got the results, and it was cancer.
“I felt sick and the room started to spin. I was in the middle of an open office, so I walked to a corner and spoke quietly, my mouth unable to keep up with the questions swirling in my head,” she wrote.
In that moment, Couric said she began to think about her first husband, Jay Monahan, who died in 1998 following a colon cancer diagnosis, as well as her mother-in-law, her sister, her mother, and her father’s cancer diagnoses.
After realizing her family history, Couric said she started to change her focus. “My mood quickly shifted from disbelief to resignation,” she said. “Given my family’s history of cancer, why would I be spared? My reaction went from, 'Why me?' to 'Why not me?'"
Couric’s type of breast cancer was highly treatable with early detection, and she was able to undergo “breast conservation” surgery, also known as a “lumpectomy.”
Her treatment would be followed by radiation -- which she began earlier this month -- and a medicine that she would be required to take for five years. When the tumor (which was the size of an olive) was removed, Couric’s doctor said that the staging was 1A and there was a very low chance of the cancer returning, so there was no need for chemotherapy.
Couric shared that she took a lesson from her experience and will continue to advocate and educate on cancer and the proper screenings.
“I can’t tell you how many times during this experience I thanked God that it was 2022. And how many times I silently thanked all the dedicated scientists who have been working their a**es off to develop better ways to analyze and treat breast cancer,” she wrote. “But to reap the benefits of modern medicine, we need to stay on top of our screenings, advocate for ourselves, and make sure everyone has access to the diagnostic tools that could very well save their life.”
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