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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Rangers' promising season got waylaid over the weekend by the hottest team in baseball. After holding onto the hope of .500 -- and maybe even a Wild Card spot! -- Texas promptly got swept by the Mariners, who've now won 14 in a row.
But not all hope is lost.
And we'll take any nugget of optimism we can get.
ESPN baseball insider Buster Olney appeared on SportsCenter on Monday and dropped a somewhat surprising tidbit: In his opinion, after talking with front-office personnel around the league, the Rangers could be one of the teams best-positioned to land Juan Soto.
Soto, one of the most coveted players in baseball, is apparently destined for a trade after reports surfaced Saturday that he rejected a 15-year, $440 million contract from the Washington Nationals.
ESPN made the initial report, citing sources. Now, the report said, the Nationals are willing to listen to trade offers.
Olney on Monday listed the Rangers as No. 2 on Soto's list of potential suitors, behind the San Diego Padres.
For the Rangers, Olney pointed to one reason why it could be a possibility: Scott Boras, the high-profile player agent.
Boras represents Marcus Semien and Corey Seager, the Rangers' two massive free agent signings last winter. Boras also represents pitcher Kumar Rocker, who the Rangers drafted No. 3 overall in Sunday night's MLB Draft.
Granted, Olney's report wasn't the most rock-solid information. Nothing is imminent or even really rumored at this point.
But Rangers' fans might have another reason or two to wish upon a Soto star.
The club currently has its deepest wealth of prospect talent in years, both among hitters and pitchers. If the Nationals are looking for a haul of prospects, as they should, Texas might have the resources.
Also, the Rangers have been clear they're speeding up their rebuild and they're willing to spend money. They signed Semien and Seager to long-term deals, and also brought on pitcher Jon Gray. And even after their spending spree, the Rangers' 2022 payroll is league average, at 15th, according to Spotrac.
They have room to spend more. And Soto will require plenty more.
At 23, he's already a two-time All-Star. And despite a slow start this season, he's hit 20 homers and is leading the league with 79 walks.
He's not eligible for free agency until 2025, though the Nationals have been trying to lock him into a long-term contract.
And whoever deals for Soto will likely do the same. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/mlb/rangers/juan-soto-trade-rumors-could-the-texas-rangers-actually-have-a-chance-at-juan-soto-an-espn-insider-is-teasing-us/287-b579a92a-bbe5-49b7-8988-02ef30a7289e | 2022-07-18 21:29:22 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/mlb/rangers/juan-soto-trade-rumors-could-the-texas-rangers-actually-have-a-chance-at-juan-soto-an-espn-insider-is-teasing-us/287-b579a92a-bbe5-49b7-8988-02ef30a7289e |
CHENGDU, China, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Adjacent to its old exhibition space, the new Sanxingdui Museum in Deyang, Southwest China's Sichuan Province opened for a trial operation on Thursday, to which an employee surnamed Wen, told the Global Times that a total of 11,000 tickets were sold out in 10 minutes when they were released on Wednesday night.
What makes the new Sanxingdui Museum a blockbuster site is not only housing 600 relics that were exposed to the public first ever, but as a modern building, the museum is empowered with innovative functions that cater to China's contemporary archaeological progress.
During Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the museum Wednesday, he learned about efforts in historical and cultural heritage inheritance and ecological conservation, the progress in the excavation and research of historical and cultural heritage sites, as well as the protection and restoration of cultural relics.
"Ancient Chinese Legos"
Dubbed as the "origin of the Yangtze River civilization," the Sanxingdui Ruin is an ancient city of the richest shu cultural connotation that has prolific jade, gold and bronze discoveries such as iconic gold masks and a bronze figure sculpture standing over 2 meters tall.
Displaying such artifacts, the new museum houses a total of 1,500 relics, some of which were re-directed from the old Sanxingdui Museum, but almost a quarter number of them have never been shown to the public and are "are still subject to research," Zhu Yarong, the Museum's deputy director, told the Global Times.
Comparing to visitors-crowded gold artifacts, the Sanxingdui culture's another brand - bronze pieces - are appearing to be understated. The Bird-Footed Diety Statue and a bronze figure riding a beast, are "mostly unique new items" as they were like "ancient ChineseLegos" that were assembled by bronze components discovered in different Sanxingdui pits, Zeng Yang, a commentator who has six years of experience in the field, told the Global times.
With a big Zun vessel, a type of ancient wine ritual ware, on top, the 'beast-harnesser' bronze figure consisting of three parts that were discovered in respectively three different Sanxingdui pits. The earliest one was excavated in 1986 and the latest Pit No.8, where the mythical beast discovered, was excavated from 2021 to 2022.
It is an incredible and almost entirely experienced-based work for Sanxingdui archaeologists to match fragmented puzzles of 36 years of time lag through identifying the shape of those with their damaged fringes.
"Also, the Zun was found full of seashells and jades, this reveals how the shu (lit: ancient Sichuan) people's unique ritual tradition different from Central Plains' people around the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC)," Zeng remarked and to refers to Zun discovered in also Shang Ruins, or Yinxu in Central China's Henan Province.
Including those bronze figures, more than 11,000 cultural relics have been unearthed from the six newly discovered sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui Ruins, according to data released by the China National Cultural Heritage Administration.
They contribute to plan out Sanxingdui Ruin's exchanges with other ancient cultures during the same time period.
Yang told the Global Times that other than the Sanxingdui-Yinxu similarity, the jade craftsmanship on Zhejiang Province's Liangzhu culture also echo Sanxingdui jade designs.
"The development of Chinese civilization was not a straightforward path, this is why we can find the Shu ingenuity making dialogue to the ancient Jiangnan culture," Jia Zhengyu, a Sanxingdui Culture expert, told the Global Times.
Divided into three sections focusing on themes of'Shu people's spiritual world,' the show is loaded with relics that made visitors like 10-year-old Dong Yichen who waited online to snap up a rare ticket.
Traveling with his mother from Tianjin, Dong told the Global Times that he found the Sanxingdui relics "so mysterious" and it made him "witness amazing Chinese culture aside of textbooks."
"I love the gold bronze masks and also the tall bronze figure," Dong said referring to the 2.62-meter bronze sculpture discovered in 1986 to become China's first standing bronze sculpture artifact.
While Dong's mother said that the "unexpected luck" of getting a ticket of the museum made them reschedule the whole Chengdu trip, Xiao Fengxian, a 73-year-old local who visited the site told the Global Times that she was proud of seeing her local culture to be loved by many people.
"Young people may know this better than me, but I've seen images of those relics on the news…They are part of my own history, and that made me happy," Xiao said.
'A Chinese way to museum'
Jade, gold and bronze, stellar relics indeed overgild the new museum's cultural characters, yet to become a museum for China's fast development in archaeology, the new space reflects China's innovative "archaeological cabinet' for the first time.
In order to avoid damage to relics freshly removed from the earth, the Sanxingdui archaeological teams have worked in huge sheds covering entire sites with several transparent cabinets covering each pit. With facilities such as automatic catcher for taking out relics, the cabinet has been replicated with the ratio of 1:1 at the museum hall to show how relics been excavated under the controlled humidity and temperature.
Yang told the Global Times that they showed the first time in China, the mechanical cabinet that has been used in archaeological field works.
Other than on-site facilities, the excavation of numerous cultural relics owes much to the utilization of advanced archaeological technologies, including 3D scanning and printing. Duan Yong, vice secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai University, told the media that the archaeological excavation of the newly discovered sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui can be considered the most technologically advanced in China and even internationally.
Liu Wei, an archeological technician in Wuhan, Central China' s Hubei Province told the Global Times that such devices were "adjusted measures to local conditions," but can reveal that China has always been looking for "its own way toimprove museum and archaeology."
Introducing the public with the entire archaeological repertoire, a Cultural Relics Protection, Repair and Exhibition Center, was installed only five-minute walk from the new hall. Though it was opened in 2021, it is the first time the center was renovated with transparent windows that allow visitors to see firsthand how archaeologists handle relics.
"In fact, it is to let the public know more about some stories behind our cultural relics through an open display," Zhu said, adding that she hopes visitors can see Chinese archaeologists' sense of responsibility for the country's cultural relics protection.
Aside of the Sanxingdui IP developed cafe called the 'duiduidui,' the hall's cultural creative products section was packed with visitors. One employee telling the Global Times that the Sanxingdui blind box and its bird-shaped doll were the most popular products.
"We want such products to be able to connect to young people, actually all people in a fun and sweet way, this is also how the culture to be continued," she noted.
Covering a total floor area of 54,400 square meters, the museum architecture is unique. Its roof features a sloping earth-covered structure, seamlessly complementing the old museum's design, resulting in three earth-covered mounds arranged along the central axis. This arrangement embodies the symbolic concept of "stacking three stars," connecting the architectural form to the name of its location, Sanxingdui, which literally means "three stars piling."
The Sanxingdui Museum is a heritage museum, so the new exhibition building needs to "hide" in the ruins instead of standing out from the surrounding environment, Liu Yi, the lead architect of the museum noted.
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CLINTON COUNTY, Ind. — Deputies in Clinton County are investigating a crash where a train hit a pickup truck and three people, including two children, were taken to the hospital with injuries.
The Clinton County Sheriff’s Office said that just before 4 p.m. today, there was a report of a crash involving a train and pickup at County Road 750W near Gas Line Road.
A preliminary investigation indicated the blue 2006 Ford pickup was going northbound and driven by 65-year-old Lora Elston of Battleground, Indiana.
For some unknown reason, the truck entered into the path of the train that was traveling west.
Inside the truck were an 11-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl. The girl was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital.
Elston and the boy were carried by ambulance to a hospital in Lafayette, Indiana.
At this time the extent of their injuries are unknown. | https://fox59.com/news/train-hits-truck-in-clinton-co-child-airlifted-to-indy-hospital/ | 2022-07-20 00:45:15 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/train-hits-truck-in-clinton-co-child-airlifted-to-indy-hospital/ |
FARMERVILLE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — The Town of Farmerville announced that due to a culvert being replaced and drainage improvements, traffic will be one lane only on Park Bay Drive. This will be effective from May 17 until May 19, 2023.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience at this time. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/town-of-farmerville-announces-closure-on-park-bay-drive-starting-may-17/ | 2023-05-16 00:07:38 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/town-of-farmerville-announces-closure-on-park-bay-drive-starting-may-17/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.
Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice Sconiers of the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old age.
Though they came to their feminist activism from different vantage points — Hughes from her community-based work and Steinem from journalism — the two forged a powerful speaking partnership in the early 1970s, touring the country at a time when feminism was seen as predominantly white and middle class, a divide dating back to the origins of the American women’s movement. Steinem credited Hughes with helping her become comfortable speaking in public.
In one of the most famous images of the era, taken in October 1971, the two raised their right arms in the Black Power salute. The photo is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Hughes, her work always rooted in community activism, organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city. But she was perhaps best known for her work helping countless families through the community center she established on Manhattan’s West Side, offering day care, job training, advocacy training and more.
“She took families off the street and gave them jobs,” Malmsten, her daughter, told The Associated Press on Sunday, reflecting on what she felt was her mother’s most important work.
Steinem, too, paid tribute to Hughes’ community work. “My friend Dorothy Pitman Hughes ran a pioneering neighborhood childcare center on the west side of Manhattan,” Steinem said in an email. “We met in the seventies when I wrote about that childcare center, and we became speaking partners and lifetime friends. She will be missed, but if we keep telling her story, she will keep inspiring us all.”
Laura L. Lovett, whose biography of Hughes, “With Her Fist Raised,” came out last year, said in Ms. Magazine that Hughes “defined herself as a feminist, but rooted her feminism in her experience and in more fundamental needs for safety, food, shelter and child care.”
Born Dorothy Jean Ridley on Oct. 2, 1938, in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes committed herself to activism at an early age, according to an obituary written by her family. When she was 10, it said, her father was nearly beaten to death and left on the family’s doorstep. The family believed he was attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, and Hughes decided to dedicate herself to helping others through activism.
She moved to New York City in the late 1950s when she was nearly 20 and worked as a salesperson, nightclub singer and house cleaner. By the 1960s she had become involved in the civil rights movement and other causes, working with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and others.
In the late 1960s, she set up her West 80th St. Childcare Center, providing daycare and also support for parents.
“She realized that child-care challenges were deeply entangled with issues of racial discrimination, poverty, drug use, substandard housing, welfare hotels, job training and even the Vietnam War,” Lovett wrote last year.
It was at the center that Hughes met Steinem, then a journalist writing a story for New York Magazine. They became friends and, from 1969 to 1973, spoke across the country at college campuses, community centers and other venues on gender and race issues.
“Dorothy’s style was to call out the racism she saw in the white women’s movement,” Lovett said in Ms. “She frequently took to the stage to articulate the way in which white women’s privilege oppressed Black women but also offered her friendship with Gloria as proof this obstacle could be overcome.”
In the early 1970s Hughes also helped found, with Steinem, the Women’s Action Alliance, a broad network of feminist activists aiming to coordinate resources and push for equality on a national level. Though Hughes was often said to have also co-founded Ms. Magazine with Steinem in the same era and biographer Lovett says she helped inspire the idea, she did not have a formal role with the magazine.
“It was our difference in experience that made us good lecture partners,” Steinem noted. She recalled also collaborating with Hughes on protesting so-called “welfare hotels” in New York for poor families In the 1970s. “Dorothy was key to exposing living conditions there,” Steinem said. “She truly was a great community activist.”
By the 1980s, Hughes had moved to Harlem and opened an office supply business, Harlem Office Supply, the rare stationery store at the time that was run by a Black woman. But she was forced to sell the store when a Staples opened nearby, part of President Bill Clinton’s Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone program.
She would remember some of her experiences in the 2000 book, “Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-City Is This Anyway!: One Woman’s Struggle Against Sexism, Classism, Racism, Gentrification, and the Empowerment Zone.”
Hughes was portrayed in “The Glorias,” the 2020 film about Steinem, by actor Janelle Monaé.
She is survived by three daughters: Malmsten, Patrice Quinn and Angela Hughes.
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This story has been updated to correct that while Hughes was often cited as a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, she did not in fact have a formal role with the publication.
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-pioneering-black-feminist-dorothy-pitman-hughes-dies-at-84/ | 2022-12-11 23:21:07 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-pioneering-black-feminist-dorothy-pitman-hughes-dies-at-84/ |
Baby born during major snowstorm
OWATONNA, Minn. (WCCO) - A family welcomed their baby boy during a major snowstorm.
The drive to the hospital wasn’t an easy one.
Happy birthday, Hudson Dean Trautman, and boy, did you get a Minnesota welcome.
“I remember the first stop sign right outside our house. I skidded through it coming to the hospital, so,” father Adam Trautman said.
“For me, I said, what better thing to do in a storm than have a baby,” mother Micha Trautman said.
Micah and Adam Trautman’s doctors scheduled the induction last week for Wednesday evening.
The baby’s parents said they packed accordingly, not knowing when it might be safe to get home.
“My mother claims it looked like we were moving into the hospital,” Micha Trautman said.
“And the snacks up there, I mean, we had snacks, you had to have snacks for probably a week.” Adam Trautman said.
Owatonna Hospital, of course, had its own pre-storm prep, and it proved critical with Hudson’s healthy delivery via emergency c-section.
Administrators credited more than just doctors and nurses for the entire health system never missing a beat, including maintenance, facilities, housekeeping and nutrition.
“Out of all of those people, they helped to make the hospital run, are all on point and needed desperately through as we go through this storm,” said Helen Strike of
Allina Health.
“It all came together in the exact right way and for him to be born in the middle of a snowstorm will always be one of those memories well look back at,” Adam Trautman said.
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LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Beastie Boys' multi-platinum album Check Your Head, on July 15, UMe will release a limited-edition reissue of the rare 4LP deluxe version of the album, originally released in 2009 as an artist store exclusive. The long out-of-print and much sought-after box set features the 2009 remaster of the original double album, plus two extra LPs of bonus content including remixes, live versions, and B-sides. All four LPs are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a fabric wrapped, stamped, hardcover case. The Check Your Head 4LP box set can be purchased at participating independent retail outlets and will also be available to pre-order exclusively through the Beastie Boys online store, HERE.
Originally released in April 1992, Check Your Head was a milestone for Beastie Boys on multiple levels: It was their first album to be produced, in its entirety, by Beastie Boys with Mario Caldato Jr. and to feature keyboard player Keyboard Money Mark, as well as the first to be recorded at the band's own G-Son studios in Atwater Village, CA. Most significantly, however, Check Your Head marked the return of live instrumentation to the forefront and backbone of the Beastie Boys sound, with the bulk of the album featuring Mike D on drums, Adrock on guitar and MCA on bass for the first time since the band's early 1980s hardcore punk recordings.
Featuring the now-classic tracks "So What'cha Want," "Pass The Mic," "Gratitude" and "Jimmy James," Check Your Head stormed the U.S. Top 10, ultimately returning Beastie Boys to hard-touring, platinum-selling status, and setting the band up for the pop cultural dominance it would achieve in the decade to come.
BEASTIE BOYS CHECK YOUR HEAD 4LP BOX SET:
LP 1
Side A
Jimmy James
Funky Boss
Pass The Mic
Gratitude
Lighten Up
Side B
Finger Lickin' Good
So What' Cha Want
The Biz Vs The Nuge
Time For Livin'
Something's Got To Give
LP 2
Side C
The Blue Nun
Stand Together
Pow
The Maestro
Groove Holmes
Side D
Live At P. J.'s
Mark On The Bus
Professor Booty
In 3's
Namaste
LP 3
Side E
Dub The Mic (Instrumental)
Pass The Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills)
Drunken Praying Mantis Style
Netty's Girl
Side F
The Skills To Pay The Bills (Original Version)
So What' Cha Want (Soul Assassin Remix Version)
So What' Cha Want (Butt Naked Version)
Groove Holmes (Live Vs. The Biz)
LP 4
Side G
Stand Together (Live At French's Tavern, Sydney Australia)
Finger Lickin' Good (Government Cheese Remix)
Gratitude (Live At Budokan)
Honky Rink
Side H
Jimmy James (Original Original Version)
Boomin' Granny
Drinkin' Wine
So What' Cha Want (All The Way Live Freestyle Version)
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GREAT FALLS, Montana — A southwestern Montana man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after being convicted of a hate crime and firearms charges for threatening a woman with violent, homophobic slurs and shooting at her house with an assault rifle as part of a self-described “mission” to rid a small town of its LGBTQ community.
John Russell Howald, 46, was convicted in February and sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls for the March 2020 shooting.
His indictment in June 2021 was part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s increased enforcement of hate crimes under U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“Hate crimes are especially pernicious because they harm targeted individuals and the entire community to which the individual belongs,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark said in a statement to The Associated Press at the time. “No community should live in fear because of who they are, where they are from, or what they believe, and it is our goal to make that a reality.”
After shooting into the house of a woman who is a lesbian, nearly hitting her, prosecutors said Howald started walking into the town of Basin to target others he perceived to be lesbian, queer and gay, prosecutors said. He was armed with two assault rifles, a hunting rifle, two pistols and multiple high-capacity magazines that were taped together to speed reloading, court records said.
Local residents who were leaving church that Sunday and knew Howald were able to stall him long enough for a sheriff’s deputy to respond. One resident inadvertently recorded Howald yelling and firing more rounds with the same rifle while expressing his hatred toward the community’s gay and lesbian residents and his plan to “clean” them from the town of about 270 residents, prosecutors said.
When the deputy arrived, Howald pointed the assault rifle at him, nearly starting a shootout. Howald then fled into the hills, court records said.
Officers arrested Howald the next day. The weapons and ammunition were found in searches of his car and camper, prosecutors said.
“Howald fired multiple shots into someone’s home based solely on her sexual orientation and only the heroic and brave actions of residents and law enforcement, as well as some good fortune, prevented a targeted mass shooting,” U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich for the District of Montana said in a statement.
“It is the kind of conduct that has no place in Montana, which is why our office vigorously prosecuted Howald and why the justice system is holding him accountable for his actions,” Laslovich said. “Our office has an unshakable commitment to uphold the rule of law and protect the civil rights of all Montanans, including our LGBTQI+ friends and family members.”
Howald had hoped his planned shooting would inspire similar attacks around the country, Clark said in a statement Wednesday.
During his trial, Howald testified that he was under stress and feeling anguished due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of close relatives, including his grandfather. He had been drinking and said he hoped his actions that day might prompt a law enforcement officer to shoot and kill him, the Independent Record reported.
Defense attorney Colin Stephens told jurors that Howald had peacefully co-existed with the gay and lesbian community in Basin for decades. Howald testified that he is gay.
“At his core, Howald is not a crusading bigot, who is hell bent for leather on wiping lesbians from the Earth,” Stephens said in his sentencing memo.
Stephens said Wednesday that he plans an appeal.
Howald is serving a 10-year sentence, with some time suspended, in the Montana State Prison after being convicted on a state charge of criminal endangerment stemming from the shooting in Basin, according to Montana Department of Corrections records. He remained at the prison in Deer Lodge on Wednesday.
His eight-year sentence for the hate crime conviction will be served at the same time as his state sentence, followed by 10 years for the weapons charge. He was given credit for the two years he has already spent in custody. Howald also had to forfeit five weapons and ammunition seized from his property.
In 2006, Howald was sentenced to two years in prison for felony aggravated animal cruelty, after pleading guilty to shooting a chocolate Labrador at a southwestern Montana campground and decapitating the dog with a chainsaw. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/15/news/nation/john-russell-howald-lgbtq-hate-crime-shooting/ | 2023-06-15 15:04:55 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/15/news/nation/john-russell-howald-lgbtq-hate-crime-shooting/ |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka vowed to address the “litany of woe” created by the nation’s former government while raising concerns about the Pacific nation’s massive debt.
In his first address to the country since being sworn in to office on Christmas Eve, Rabuka said Thursday there had been a “great and joyful awakening” in a nation where democracy is considered fragile.
The 74-year-old’s election Dec. 24 at a special sitting of Parliament in Suva ended the 16-year reign of Fiji First Party leader Frank Bainimarama as prime minister.
The People’s Alliance Party leader, who formed a tripartite coalition to win office, promised to audit the spending of the former government and said he will institute an austere approach while in power.
“The mood for a new government was evident,” Rabuka said. “There was a whole raft of reasons for that including the problems with infrastructure and essential services, education, increasing poverty, abuse of rights, a climate of fear and a massive national debt.”
Rabuka, who previously served as prime minister between 1992 and 1999, said the incoming government needed to address Fiji’s growing debt, which he said may be over 10 billion Fijian dollars ($4.5 billion).
“That is a huge burden for a small economy like ours. We will examine cash flow issues and structure debt repayment. This will be done in a way that does not impede our development,” Rabuka said.
The former military commander, who will chair the Pacific Islands Forum, was backed for office by the affiliated National Federation Party and the Social Democratic Liberal Party.
Rabuka has appointed three deputy prime ministers and 19 ministers to oversee what he described as the rebuilding of Fiji “in all aspects of our nation’s life.” The new prime minister acknowledged this is a larger cabinet than anticipated but said he will propose cuts in the wages paid to parliamentarians.
In a 20-minute address, Rabuka also criticized the former government for trying to divide the nation along racial lines during the election campaign.
“None of the tall stories worked. They were widely ridiculed and debunked on the street and in the media,” he said. “In a democracy, the people are in charge. Elected representatives like me and my parliamentary colleagues do not lord it over you. We are your servants.”
But Rabuka extended an olive branch to the Fiji First Party, saying features of a working democracy included forgiveness, robust debate and consideration of different ideas.
“My message for Fiji First is that we wish to develop a positive relationship with you as part of a broader initiative to enhance national unity,” he said.
Fiji had seen four coups in the past 25 years, two of them led by Rabuka in 1987, but the transition of power from Bainimarama, who also instigated a coup in 2006, to the new prime minister has been peaceful.
“Leaders like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, they knew how to forgive, how to deal with hatred and succeed through peace,” he said.
“In an ethnically and culturally diverse country, love is accepting that differences are part of Fiji’s national identity and that we all belong here. The fear that has haunted Fiji since 2006 is fading away now. Soon it will be gone. Love will ensure that it never returns,” Rabuka added.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has been in contact with Rabuka, offered congratulations Thursday to the new government.
“There’s been a peaceful transition of power in Fiji. That is a very good thing. Fiji, of course, has not always had peaceful transitions of government. This has been,” Albanese said. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-newly-elected-fiji-pm-vows-to-tackle-growing-national-debt/ | 2022-12-29 14:04:46 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-newly-elected-fiji-pm-vows-to-tackle-growing-national-debt/ |
(The Hill) — The results of Tuesday’s midterm elections are reverberating even as some important races — and control of Capitol Hill — remain in doubt.
Beyond those who simply won or lost their own races, here are some key figures who came out ahead, or behind, after voters cast their verdicts.
WINNERS
President Joe Biden
Biden’s political obituary has been written many times over the years, dating back to his first run for the presidency a generation ago. He bounces back again and again.
Going into Tuesday, there were dire expectations for Democrats.
It was considered very plausible that the president’s party could lose 25 or 30 seats in the House and be relegated to a clear minority in the Senate.
Such an outcome would have been cast as a public repudiation of Biden, increasing pressure on him to step aside rather than seek a second term.
But none of it happened.
Whatever the final results, Biden has fared far better in his first midterms than the two most recent Democratic presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, did in theirs.
That’s vindication, of a kind, for Biden’s much-criticized but steady, low-wattage approach.
It also relieves a lot of the pressure regarding 2024. He’ll be the Democratic nominee if he wants to be.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)
DeSantis was the big Republican winner on an otherwise disappointing night for the GOP.
The Florida governor won a second term by a resounding margin of around 20 points — in a state that was, at least until this Election Day, still considered a battleground, albeit a Republican-leaning one.
DeSantis, who enrages liberals with his stances on migration, voting regulations and education, showed his electoral appeal in other ways too. He carried the heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade County in South Florida, for example.
DeSantis is widely assumed to be eying a 2024 presidential bid. He would be the most serious rival to former President Trump if both men enter the race.
He helped his case immeasurably on Tuesday.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
The Speaker, like the president, was being largely written off until voters actually cast their ballots.
Her near-20-year run leading House Democrats might still come to an end — but, if it does, it will be a decision of Pelosi’s own choosing rather than one that is forced upon her.
Democrats are still expected to fall into the minority in the lower chamber. But Democrats will hold on to more seats than they thought.
Pelosi has also publicly said that the home invasion and attack on her husband at their San Francisco home will be a factor in her decision on whether to stay in the House — despite an agreement with other Democrats meant to end her Speakership. Paul Pelosi was hit in the head with a hammer by the intruder, who had asked if “Nancy” was home.
It wouldn’t be all that surprising if Pelosi decided to stay in the House.
Abortion rights activists
Proponents of abortion rights probably don’t feel much like winners as a year that saw the overturning of Roe v. Wade nears its close.
But Election Day gave them considerable comfort.
Many states will be protected from the most prohibitive effects of the June Supreme Court ruling.
Some vigorous supporters of abortion rights were reelected as governor on Tuesday, notably Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and New York’s Kathy Hochul.
In another major development, five states held ballot measures, different in their specific wording but all centered on the abortion question. The pro-abortion rights side won at least four of them — no surprise in liberal redoubts California and Vermont but much more striking in Kentucky and, to some degree, Michigan. The liberal side is also in the lead in the fifth state, Montana.
Taken together, the results are a clear demonstration of where the public stands on the issue — even if a majority of Supreme Court justices don’t see things the same way.
MIXED
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
To say Tuesday offered a mixed bag for McCarthy would be putting it mildly.
On one hand, it seems more likely than not that the GOP will eventually end up holding the House majority — theoretically putting McCarthy within reach of the Speaker’s gavel that he has long coveted.
But the GOP majority, if it comes into existence at all, will be very thin. That makes even McCarthy’s elevation as Speaker uncertain. And, if he does secure the spot, he will have to contend with members of his own party who know just how much leverage they hold — and intend to use it.
Meanwhile, there is already some carping about McCarthy’s leadership and strategy — including the apparent failure of his “Commitment to America” to fire voters’ imaginations.
Election denialism
The verdict on the vexing issues of election denialism, threats to democracy and flat-out conspiracy theories was, ultimately, ambiguous.
Several people who hew to those kinds of views lost, including Doug Mastriano (R), who was heavily defeated by Democrat Josh Shapiro in the race to be Pennsylvania’s governor, and Don Bolduc, who failed to run Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) anywhere near as close as some Republicans had hoped.
At time of writing, Kari Lake, though very competitive in the Arizona gubernatorial race, is narrowly trailing in a race that polls had predicted she would win.
All of that being said, the sheer spread of election denialism, and the extent to which it has become normalized within the GOP, are worrisome signs for American democracy.
A Washington Post analysis in October found 291 Republican candidates for House, Senate or “key statewide offices” had “denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election.”
LOSERS
Former President Donald Trump
Tuesday was a pretty dismal night for the former president.
It wasn’t only that some of his most high-profile picks lost, such as Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, or are trailing, like Lake and Blake Masters in Arizona.
It’s that the results writ large amount to a bad verdict on his overall effect on the GOP’s direction and brand. Trumpism had a very poor day at the polls.
DeSantis’s impressive victory only deepened the gloom for the former president, who is apparently threatened enough by the Florida governor to have recently bestowed a nickname upon him.
The expectation is still that Trump will launch a 2024 presidential campaign later this month.
But he had hoped to pick up a tailwind with strong results on Tuesday.
The opposite happened.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.)
Maloney lost his bid for reelection to Republican Mike Lawler, a state assemblyman, in New York’s 17th District.
That made him one of the most high-profile Democratic losers of the night. It was a bitter irony for Maloney, given that the nationwide results would otherwise have been a feather in his cap as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30, 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 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS), if they purchased the Company's securities between October 20, 2020 and May 19, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
What You May Do
If you purchased securities of Kohl's 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/nyse-kss/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by November 1, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Kohl's and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 19, 2022, the Company disclosed disappointing 1Q2022 fiscal results including net sales growth and earnings per share below analyst expectations, as well as a cut to its full year earnings forecast, due to "macro headwinds related to lapping last year's stimulus and an inflationary consumer environment." Then, on May 20, 2022, Macellum Advisors GP, LLC, "a long-term holder of nearly 5% of the outstanding common shares of Kohl's," issued a statement addressing "[t]his quarter's extremely disappointing results," which it attributed to a "flawed strategic plan and an inability to execute," and that "the current Board appears to have withheld material information from shareholders about the state of Kohl's in the lead-up to this year's pivotal annual meeting," which "suggests to us a clear breach of fiduciary duty."
On this news, shares of Kohl's declined $5.84 per share, or 12.97%, to close at $39.20 per share on May 20, 2022.
The case is Shanaphy v. Kohl's Corporation, et al., No. 22-cv-01016.
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.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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Ms. Mathew brings her extensive clinical research and project operations expertise
to this role, further enriching Westat's goal to advance positive health outcomes.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective February 2, 2023, Sunitha Mathew, MS, Vice President, has joined Westat's leadership team as its new Clinical Research Practice Director, reporting to Patricia Shifflett, MS, Vice President, Health Sector Lead.
Ms. Mathew joined Westat in 2002 and has extensive experience directing key business and health research initiatives pivotal to organizational growth. This includes 20+ years of experience overseeing complex clinical, epidemiological, and translational research programs. Prior to taking on this new role, Ms. Mathew was a Vice President in Public Health. In this role, she oversaw a research portfolio of high-profile complex projects, including the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI's) Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P) Data Coordinating Center and the Trans Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Administrative Coordinating Center. Ms. Mathew also served as Project Director for the National SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey, which produces monthly seroprevalence estimates in 60+ U.S. metropolitan areas that are displayed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) public-facing COVID-19 dashboard.
Ms. Mathew has authored numerous scientific publications and is known as a thought leader in the use of cutting-edge data science techniques for integrating and harnessing the wealth of available data, such as electronic health records (EHRs), medical claims, and other administrative data for research purposes. Her executive leadership roles have increased in scope and influence. She currently serves as the Westat Co-Chair of the Data Science Task Force and Lead of the Strategic Planning Priority Group on Coordinating Centers.
"Sunitha's track record of achievement in growing and managing a large portfolio of work for NIH and CDC will assure success as we embark on new initiatives and continue to support our current clients in the Clinical Research Practice," notes Shifflett.
About Westat (www.westat.com)
Westat is a leader in research, data collection and analysis, technical assistance, evaluation, and communications. Our evidence-based findings help clients in government and the private sector accelerate advancements in health, education, transportation, and social and economic policy. Since 1963, our dedication to improving lives through research and our approach to projects grounded in investigative curiosity, equity, statistical and data rigor, adaptive methods, and advanced technology are why clients find exceptional value in our work.
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HIGH SCHOOL
Guerin Catholic knocks out victory beat against Scottsburg
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Winning wasn't going to be easy in this matchup, but Guerin Catholic still prevailed 56-40 against Scottsburg in an Indiana boys basketball matchup on March 18.
In recent action on March 6, Guerin Catholic faced off against Bishop Chatard and Scottsburg took on Corydon Central on March 6 at Scottsburg High School.
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Man who left double amputee on train tracks to die in custody, Marshals say
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - U.S. Marshals said Thursday that a previous fugitive of the week who was wanted for leaving a double amputee to die on train tracks in Cleveland has surrendered.
Aaron Parsons was taken into custody Wednesday. He was wanted for aggravated robbery with a gun after he carjacked a man Feb. 22, officials said.
The victim told police that Parsons said, “If the cold doesn’t kill you, a train will.”
Cleveland police said Parsons, along with two other suspects not yet identified, hit the victim in the head with a firearm.
The victim was able to crawl to safety.
Parsons removed the victim’s wheelchair from the stolen car and threw it down a ravine, officials said.
Police say they found the car at around 3 a.m. Feb. 23 after it was burned down. The victim’s prosthetic legs were in the car.
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Bison produce very lean meat, but they are wild animals that can be difficult to raise on a farm. Cattle are very docile, but their meat can be high in fat and not very healthy.
That's why proponents of a crossbreed — called beefalo — say they have what should be the future of U.S. meat production.
"As we like to say, when they created beefalo, they bred out the meanness but kept the leanness of the bison, so kept the good qualities of the bison," said Kelly Dietsch.
She and her husband, Andrew Dietsch, run A&K Ranch in Raymondville, Mo., where they have about 25 beefalo females that they attempt to calve every year.
The bovine is bred to include more cattle traits than bison. The American Beefalo Association says beefalo with 37.5% bison genes are considered full-blood beefalo and the perfect mix for the breed. But bovines with as low as 18% bison genes are labeled purebred beefalo.
While there was some unintentional cross-breeding between cows and bison over the centuries, it wasn't until the 1970s that a reliable, fertile crossbreed was produced. The intent was to get the lean meat of bison into an animal that could be raised as easily as a cow.
The Dietsches have found that to be the case. They used to raise cattle when they lived in New Jersey, but switched to beefalo when they moved to the Midwest.
"I like doing the beefalo because they are a lot easier to work with," Andrew Dietsch said.
But it's the quality of the meat that will bring more ranchers on board, according to John Fowler, an American Beefalo Association board member.
"If I can get a person who has a crossbred herd and put a beefalo bull in his herd and have him eat some of the meat, he's sold. He'll want to produce the beefalo," he said.
Fowler, who also raises beefalo in northern Missouri, calls it a superior animal compared to cattle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has certified beefalo as having higher vitamin levels and more protein, while having nearly one-third less cholesterol, 79% less fat and 66% fewer calories than conventional beef.
But beefalo does have its opponents.
"We just don't think there should be beefalo," said Martha McFarland, farmland viability coordinator for the advocacy group Practical Farmers of Iowa. She also raises cattle and bison, but said she would never mix the two.
"Nature did just fine producing bison. It's an excellent animal that also is good to eat, and mixing it with cows is not necessary and weakens the genetic line of the bison."
Yet McFarland does empathize with beefalo producers, who are trying to raise, promote and sell a niche meat, just as she does with bison.
"A lot of times it's hard to find that middleman to get my meat into the grocery store. I'm not part of this huge, mechanized system," she said. "My challenge is your average consumer wants to just, like, go to the grocery store and pick up some food and be done with it."
Kelly and Andrew Dietsch sell most of their beefalo at three farmers markets, where they've gained loyal customers who have come to prefer the lean meat. But beefalo isn't in many grocery stores, and it also costs more than beef, largely because it comes from small producers.
Even so, the Dietsches are optimistic about the future of the specialty meat. Andrew Dietsch points to new leadership on the American Beefalo Board, as well as Americans' growing interest in where their food comes from.
"It's competitive, but it's a lot better than it used to be," he said. "They have some new people [on the board] that have a lot of good ideas. They are really reaching out there. They have a Facebook page, and you can find beefalo all over the country."
Jonathan Ahl reports from Missouri for St. Louis Public Radio and Harvest Public Media, a collaboration of public media newsrooms in the Midwest. It reports on food systems, agriculture and rural issues.
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MIAMI and PERTH, Australia, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global private investment firm, Bridgewest Group, recognized for developing innovative companies in life sciences, software, and deep tech, announces that it has completed the acquisition of the Perth sterile injectable manufacturing facility from Pfizer (Perth) Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc. Bridgewest Group previously announced the definitive agreement to purchase the facility late last year.
The newly acquired facility is a cGMP manufacturing plant that produces a wide variety of high quality sterile injectable drug products. The site and team have an excellent regulatory history with approvals from FDA, TGA, EU and others, to produce drugs for distribution to over 90 countries. The 34,000 square meters facility has over 400 employees operating nine production lines across Oncology/High Potency, Blow-Fill-Seal and multi format vial streams. Bridgewest Group will upgrade and modernize the plant to enhance capabilities and service offerings. The plant will operate as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) moving forward and will continue to produce drug products for Pfizer under a master services agreement.
Bridgewest Group is also acquiring a suite of drug products from Pfizer. Bridgewest Group will continue to manufacture and supply these sterile injectable drug products. The team is committed to all customers and their patients, previously served by Pfizer, to deliver the same high quality drug products, without interruption. Customer satisfaction has always been and will continue to be a cornerstone of the Perth team.
This acquisition further extends Bridgewest Group's expertise in pharma. Bridgewest Group has several biotech and life sciences companies in its portfolio, including BioCina, a leading microbial drug CDMO based in Adelaide.
In connection with the company's continuing expansion in Western Australia, Bridgewest Group has formed the subsidiary Bridgewest Perth Pharma Pty. Ltd. Marc Rivers has agreed to join Bridgewest Perth Pharma as President and Chief Financial Officer. Rivers is a seasoned pharma executive and has served in several executive leadership roles at Fonterra, Roche and Eli Lilly. Dr. Masood Tayebi, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgewest Group said "We're assembling a world class executive team with seasoned industry operators like Marc to oversee and support the continued growth of this acquisition as well as future investments. We see tremendous opportunity in the region, recognized for industry leading medical science and an Australian Government that is proactively increasing its commitment to be a global leader in pharmaceutical manufacturing."
Rivers echoed Dr. Tayebi's sentiment, adding "I'm honoured to join Bridgewest Perth Pharma. This is an incredible industry to be in right now. The rate of innovation is amazing. I look forward to spearheading the company's growth initiatives as we broaden and vertically integrate world-class services and products within our life sciences investments."
About Bridgewest Group
Bridgewest Group is an innovative and privately held global investment firm with over $3B in private capital. Founded in 1999, the global firm has earned a long-standing reputation for creating and scaling transformational businesses to achieve outsized success. Bridgewest Group leverages its expertise and global eco-community in key sectors where it can have the greatest impact including Life Sciences, Software, Semiconductor and Artificial Intelligence/Deep Tech. Customized financial investment services and diverse real estate holdings augment equity assets and support portfolio companies as they grow. Bridgewest Group is based in the US, with investments primarily in the US, Europe, China, and Australasia.
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FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — A person was taken into custody following what authorities described as a “barricade situation” at a U.S. Army base outside the nation’s capital, the FBI said in a statement Sunday.
A squad from the agency’s Washington field office responded to Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia at about 8 a.m., according to a statement from the FBI. The situation was resolved and the unidentified person was taken into custody at about 3 p.m.
The Army’s criminal investigation division is the lead agency, while the FBI has provided victim assistance services, the agency said. The FBI provided no further details.
WUSA9 reported that the situation was inside a home.
Fort Belvoir is located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Washington along the Potomac River in Virginia’s Fairfax County. The base has more than 2,000 family housing quarters, according to Fort Belvoir’s 2022 strategic plan.
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Florida is in the news a lot these days, but the Florida that journalist Anne Hull writes about in Through the Groves is a place accessed only by the compass of memory.
Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her earliest recollections are pre-Disney, almost prehistoric in atmosphere. Hull's father was a fruit buyer for a juice processing company. Every day, he drove through miles and miles of remote orange and grapefruit groves, armed with a pistol and a rattlesnake bite kit. Think Indiana Jones searching for the perfect citrus, instead of the Lost Ark. Here are some of Hull's descriptions of riding along with her dad when she was 6:
His CB radio antenna whipped in the air like a nine-foot machete. ... Leaves and busted twigs rained down on us inside the car. Pesticide dust exploded off the trees. And oranges — big heavy oranges — dropped through the windows like bombs. ...
Looking out my father's windshield, I was seeing things I would never see again. Places that weren't even on maps, where the sky disappeared and the radio went dead. Whole towns were entombed in Spanish moss . ... Birds spread their skeletal wings but never flew off. When it seemed we may not ever see daylight again, the road deposited us into blinding sunlight.
Hull, a wise child, soon catches on that her father has a drinking problem and that her mother wants her to ride shotgun with him, especially on payday, to keep him from "succumbing to the Friday afternoon fever."
Eventually, her parents divorce, Hull grows up, and she struggles with her queer sexuality in a culture of Strawberry Festival queens and pink-frosted sororities. At the time of that early ride-along with her father, Hull says, Walt Disney had already taken "a plane ride over the vast emptiness [of Central Florida], looked down, and said, 'There.'" Much of that inland ocean of citrus groves and primordial swamplands was already destined to be plowed under to make way for the Kingdom of the Mouse.
With all due respect to Hull's personal story, Through the Groves is an evocative memoir not so much because of the freshness of its plot, but because Hull is such a discerning reporter of her own past. She fills page after page here with the kind of small, charged and often wry details that make a lost world come alive; describing, for instance, a Florida where "Astronauts were constantly flying overhead ... but [where] the citrus men hardly bothered to look up. ... The moon was a fad. Citrus was king and it would last forever."
Of course, other things besides astronauts were in the air, such as everyday racism. Hull observes that when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the newspaper in her hometown of Sebring, Fla., "put the story at the bottom of the front page." The headline that day announced the crowning of: "A NEW MISS SEBRING." And, then, there were literal airborne poisons — the pesticides that fostered the growth of those Garden of Eden citrus groves. Here's Hull's recollection of seeing — without then understanding — the human cost of that harvest:
At each stop, [my father] introduced me to the growers, pesticide men, and fertilizer brokers who populated his territory.
I had never seen such a reptilian assemblage of humanity. The whites of the men's eyes were seared bloody red by the sun. ... Cancer ate away at their noses. They hawked up wet green balls of slime that came from years of breathing in pesticide as they sprayed the groves with five-gallon containers of malathion strapped on their backs. No one used respirators back then. ... When the chemicals made them nauseous and dizzy, they took a break for a while, then got back to it.
Hull left the world of her childhood to become a journalist, one who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her stories about the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Maybe those early trips with her father first awakened her to the horror of how casually expendable some human beings can be.
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Branstad, who served 22-years as Iowa Governor and 3-years as US Ambassador to China, will be at the helm of the think tank's push for a reform in how corporate governance issues, including "ESG", are analyzed
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Citizenship Project, a think-tank dedicated towards a data-driven approach to corporate governance matters, today announced that Ambassador Terry Branstad has been named National Chairman of the organization.
Ambassador Branstad made the following statement surrounding his appointment:
"I am proud to act, on behalf of American businesses and investors, to bring much-needed reform to how corporate governance matters are analyzed. Proxy advisors, ratings agencies, and ESG consultants have created an environment that has added unnecessary costs and burdens to American businesses, consumers, and investors alike. These ESG activists have made themselves the self-appointed authorities on which companies are good and which ones are bad, and in most cases make their determinations are based on standards that are arbitrary, political, or worse the result of significant conflicts of interest. I look forward to bringing a data-driven and transparent approach to this industry."
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Rashida@CorporateCitizenshipProject.com
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Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms.
"He came to my clinic and said, 'My sense of self is changing,'" says Parvizi, a professor of neurology at Stanford University.
The man told Parvizi that he felt "like an observer to conversations that are happening in my mind" and that "I just feel like I'm floating in space."
Parvizi and a team of researchers would eventually trace the man's symptoms to a "sausage-looking piece of brain" called the anterior precuneus.
This area, nestled between the brain's two hemispheres, appears critical to a person's sense of inhabiting their own body, or bodily self, the team recently reported in the journal Neuron.
The finding could help researchers develop forms of anesthesia that use electrical stimulation instead of drugs. It could also help explain the antidepressant effects of mind-altering drugs like ketamine.
Finding the seat of the physical self
It took Parvizi's team years of research to discover the importance of this obscure bit of brain tissue.
In 2019, when the man first came to Stanford's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Parvizi thought his symptoms were caused by seizures in the posteromedial cortex, an area toward the back of the brain.
This area includes a brain network involved in the narrative self, a sort of internal autobiography that helps us define who we are. Parvizi's team figured that the same network must be responsible for the bodily self too.
"Everybody thought, 'Well, maybe all kinds of selves are being decoded by the same system,'" he says.
A series of experiments on the initial patient and eight other volunteers pointed toward a different explanation.
All the patients had severe epilepsy and were in the hospital as part of an effort to locate the source of their seizures. The process requires placing electrodes in the brain and then waiting for a seizure to occur.
These electrodes can also be used to deliver pulses of electricity. So Parvizi's team was able to stimulate different areas of the brain to see whether they affected a person's sense of self.
When the team stimulated the anterior precuneus, "lo and behold, everybody has changes in their sense of what we call the bodily or physical self," Parvizi says.
In other words, the stimulation produced an out-of-body experience. People felt detached from their own thoughts and no longer anchored in their own bodies.
The finding was surprising because the anterior precuneus is separate from the brain's system for maintaining a narrative self. Instead, it appears devoted to the sense that something is "happening to me," not another person, Parvizi says.
"We think this could be a way for the brain to tag every experience in the environment as 'mine,'" he says.
A shift in perspective
That role for the anterior precuneus makes sense, says Christophe Lopez, a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.
Lopez has done research suggesting that our sense of a physical self comes in part from the inner ear, which detects motion and monitors the body's position in space. And the results from Parvizi's team suggest that signals from the inner ear are processed by the anterior precuneus.
"When they stimulate the anterior precuneus, you can evoke that the body is floating or the body is falling," Lopez says.
That means the brain has to make sense of conflicting information: For example, signals from the inner ear may say the body is falling while signals from the eyes say it's stationary.
As a result, Lopez says, the brain may try to cope by taking a different perspective.
"Sometimes the best solution which is found by the brain is to think that you are somewhere else, out of the body," he says.
The brain may face a similar conundrum when people take drugs like ketamine, which affect the anterior precuneus.
"Ketamine seemingly is producing this artificial rhythm [in the brain] that is disrupting function of that area," says Patrick Purdon, an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
That slow rhythm is similar to the one that Parvizi's team saw when it stimulated the brains of epilepsy patients, Purdon says.
That could mean it will someday be possible to use electrical pulses in place of anesthetic drugs like ketamine, he says.
"You could get the specific brain areas that you want without having to cause a brainwide and systemwide effect that might carry with it a lot of side effects," Purdon says.
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DEPTFORD, N.J. — The April Facebook post hardly seemed like national news at the time for Deptford Little League president Don Bozzuffi. He’d lost patience when two umpires resigned in the wake of persistent spectator abuse. So he wrote an updated code of conduct.
It specified: Any spectator deemed in violation would be banned from the complex until three umpiring assignments were completed. If not, the person would be barred from any Deptford youth sports facilities for a year.
In G-rated terms (unlike the ones that will get you tossed), the mandate just wants helicopter parents to calm the heck down. No 9-year-old will remember, as an adult, being safe or out on a bang-bang play at first. But how deep would be the cut of watching dad get tossed out of the game and banished for bad behavior?
The league doesn’t want to find out. “So far, it’s working like I’d hoped and just been a deterrent,” the 68-year-old Bozzuffi said.
The problem, though, isn’t limited to Deptford and its handful of unruly parents. Outbursts of bad behavior at sporting events for young people have had frightening consequences for officials at all youth levels. Pick a town, any town, and there are adults assaulting referees or chasing umpires into parking lots looking for a fight, all available on the social feed of your choice.
The videos pop up almost weekly: inane instances of aggressive behavior toward officials. Like in January, when a Florida basketball referee was punched in the face after one game. Or last month, when an enraged youth baseball coach stormed a baseball field in Alabama and wrestled an umpire to the ground. Other adults and kids tried to break up the melee that took place in a game — at an 11-and-under tournament.
Jim McDevitt has worked as a volunteer Deptford umpire for 20 years. But he turns 66 this month and won’t call games much longer. He wonders where the next generation of officials will come from, especially when the job description includes little pay and lots of crap.
Youth officiating is in crisis. According to a 2017 survey of by the National Association of Sports Officials, nearly 17,500 referees surveyed said parents caused the most problems with sportsmanship at 39%. Coaches came in at 29% and fans at 18%.
Barry Mano founded the association four decades ago to advocate for youth officials. Mano, whose brother Mark was an NBA referee, has watched fan conduct become “far worse” than he could have imagined.
“Sports is simply life with the volume turned up,” Mano says. “We’ve become louder and brasher. We always want a second opinion on things. That’s where the culture has gone. I don’t think we’re as civil as we used to be toward each other, and it plays out in the sporting venues.”
In Deptford, things seem to be working — at least in attracting non-mandatory umps. Bozzuffi says that since his rule grabbed national headlines, three umpires have joined the league and more volunteers want to be trained.
And those who might get sentenced to umping? McDevitt puts it less delicately. “We’ll see how their sphincter feels when they have to make a tight call and the parents are all screaming and hollering at them.”
The Deptford Little League playoffs, a time when tensions rise, are under way, and Bozzuffi has urged his umps to show restraint. Bozzuffi, who has served as league president for 14 years and been connected to the league for 40, doesn’t want any fan to get ejected. He just wants to get them thinking.
For many, every “safe!” when the tag is missed, every called strike on a pitch below the knees is one more reason to blow a fuse in a youth sports culture full of hefty fees for league play and travel teams that have already heightened the financial and emotional attachment and encouraged a sense of parents as constituents who have a right to be heeded.
And it’s getting attention all the way up the youth baseball chain. Little League President Stephen D. Keener had this to say: “We applaud the volunteers at Deptford Township Little League for coming up with a creative, fun solution to shine a light on the importance of treating everyone with respect, on and off the Little League field.”
OK. But here’s the fine print.
Beyond the headlines that suggest Fuming Father No. 1 is going to get the call from the bleachers and suddenly start ringing up strike three, there’s this: It’s too much effort. The risks! The potential safety problems! The insurance!
Bozzuffi and the town’s mayor teach a three-hour safety certification class each offender must complete before receiving an umpire assignment. Rookie umps must pass a background check and complete an online concussion course. After all that, a real, qualified umpire would be stationed next to the replacement ump to ensure accuracy and fairness.
It hasn’t happened — yet.
“The first person that we have to do this to, nobody is else is going to challenge this,” Bozzuffi said. “Nobody wants to go through all this.”
So for now, at least on a recent weeknight in Deptford, parents, grandparents and friends, were on their best behavior. Parent Dawn Nacke found it unfair that the town was labeled as “obnoxious parents when we’re just caring about our kids.”
“We know that they ump for free, but sometimes bad calls are made and they cost us the game,” she said.
Has she ever been guilty of popping off too much?
“Mouthy, yes. But we all have to bite our tongues over here because of the new rule,” she said. “I just have to keep my mouth shut more. Scared me straight. I’m more angry that they call us obnoxious parents. That really upset me when I read it in the news. But this is their rule and I’m going to follow it.”
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Fox News' attorneys have set out the starkest defense yet against the accusation the network defamed an election-technology company when it broadcast false claims that the company had cheated then-President Donald Trump of victory in the 2020 election.
The overwhelming majority of Fox's argument was made in sealed motions filed last week asking the presiding judge to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion suit before it is to go to trial in April. Yet in supplementary public filings, the contours of the Fox team's reasoning emerge more sharply in focus.
Of the approximately 115 statements on Fox by its hosts and guests that Dominion contends are defamatory, Fox News wrote in its filing, "there is not a single statement for which Dominion can prove every element of its claim for defamation."
Fox and Dominion did not comment for this story.
An explanation offered for Fox stars' willingness to air debunked claims
In those documents, Fox's attorneys offer "omitted context" for the seemingly incendiary remarks by such hosts as Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, as well as their featured guests, including Trump and his former campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. That context includes assertions that have long since been debunked and rebutted in dozens of court challenges and by local and state election officials from both parties.
Among them: claims that the use of Sharpie markers in Maricopa County, Arizona, had invalidated the votes cast by Trump supporters because the ink often bled through the ballots. Allegations of voter fraud in Detroit. The sworn deposition of an anonymous witness who said he was a former member of the Venezuelan presidential security team and accused Dominion of committing election fraud in the U.S.
All of these allegations have been disproven. Many were unraveled in real time during the 2020 election season – often by Fox's own reporters.
Fox News' legal team does not defend them as correct. Instead, its filings suggest that the Fox stars relaying them on the air reflected an appropriate journalistic response to stark claims about the functioning of American democracy, as they involve "questions to a newsmaker on newsworthy subjects" or they "accurately report on pending allegations."
"Didn't stand up to the light of day"
Eddie Perez, board member at the OSET Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan outfit advocating for reliable and transparent election technology, calls the claims about Dominion that were amplified by Fox hosts and peddled by its guests "outlandish."
"If anything, because they were so outlandish, they immediately attracted widespread attention and were debunked," Perez says. "They instantly didn't stand up to the light of day."
In countering Dominion, Fox's lawyers offer a chart of offending statements and what it termed the "omitted context" that could explain why the material was newsworthy, why the Fox hosts' treatment of it was responsible, and then why it was not defamatory.
The network's lawyers write, as they have before, that Fox was merely relaying inherently newsworthy claims by Trump and his surrogates. The lawyers contend the supposedly defamatory statements often involved hyperbolic characterizations or mere opinions. (Fox attorneys previously fended off an unrelated defamation lawsuit against star Tucker Carlson filed by a woman who had an affair with Trump by arguing no one believes that what the Fox star says is literally true.)
Further, Fox's attorneys say many of the claims under dispute were true, or largely true. And the network says Dominion cannot prove "actual malice" – a tough legal standard requiring it to show Fox's journalists and executives acted either with knowledge that what it was broadcasting wasn't true or with reckless disregard.
Fox "doubled down" on Dominion fraud conspiracies
Fox's bold assertion that Dominion will fail to prove any incidents of defamation does not find universal embrace in legal circles. Lawyers with no involvement in the case pointed to statements on Fox's airwaves that they say gave the Trump camp far too much credence for far too long to claim a mere journalistic sensibility.
"Fox's journalists and managers were repeatedly told the stories about the voting machine were false, over a period of weeks," Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the University of Maryland Merrill College of Journalism, writes in an email for this story.
"Quoting the president of the United States and relying on a 'fair report' privilege only gets you so far," says Dalglish, a noted First Amendment advocate and media lawyer. "They didn't just quote Trump. They doubled down and repeatedly reported and opined that Dominion's systems were faulty."
Dominion's legal team is counting on a rich reservoir of material from their questioning of Fox journalists and executives under oath and from mining their emails, texts, and other communications. Only a glimpse of that has come into public view. It suggests, behind the scenes, key people at Fox knew the accusations against Dominion were meritless.
In a sworn deposition cited by a Dominion attorney in court, Hannity said he didn't believe the claims of fraud "for one second." Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott told colleagues privately "not to give the crazies an inch." A producer begged her peers in an e-mail not to let Pirro go on the air to spread baseless conspiracy theories pulled from dark recesses of the internet.
Dominion's attorneys have deposed people throughout the Fox hierarchy, from junior producers to stars, to executives, to most recently, controlling owner Rupert Murdoch, who sat for questioning under oath at the Fox Studio lot last Thursday and Friday. Its case relies on the theory that there was an effort - from top to bottom of Fox hierarchy - to appease viewers angered that Fox had been the first television network to call the key state of Arizona for Joe Biden in November 2020. (The Murdochs and Fox refused to reverse the projection despite intense pressure from Trump and his campaign.) That explains the sustained embrace of unsustainable claims, Dominion's legal team argues.
In the new filings, Fox's lawyers are seeking to offer its own context for what played out on the network's shows.
Thomas Wienner, a retired corporate litigator based in Michigan who is following the case at NPR's request, says he appreciates the logic of the Fox team in seeking to undercut each element of Dominion's claims. And he says Fox well may succeed in convincing the court to knock out some of the claimed instances of defamatory statements to be put in front of the jury.
But after reviewing the most recent legal filings, Wienner says he believes Fox is in legal trouble.
"They put themselves in a real pickle when they start to provide the surrounding context," Wienner says. "Sometimes that context is helpful to them. But sometimes... it makes it worse. It doesn't make it better."
"The overall impression you get, when you read the omitted text, is that these people were night after night, day after day, promoting theories that were ridiculous and that had been rejected by the courts," Wienner says. "And there really was no support for them other than a couple of crackpots."
A tale of Sharpie markers in Arizona shared despite thorough debunking
The discredited allegations that helped shape the climate in which the Fox hosts spoke included, among other claims, one echoed by Trump, his campaign and his lawyers: that the use of Sharpie markers in Arizona had invalidated the votes of Trump voters because the ink often bled through the ballots.
Those claims were debunked by Maricopa County officials even before Election Day: "Even if there is bleed through it won't impact counting because our upgraded ballots have off-centered columns and our new tabulators only read the ovals," the county elections department tweeted on Oct. 26, 2020, for example. It said any confusion would be resolved by tallying by hand.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel asserted on Fox that Republican observers were tossed from Michigan voting sites, ominously suggesting that as indirect proof fraud took place. No such fraud was found to have taken place. (A few days after the election, as Fox has noted, anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum pushed McDaniel repeatedly for any proof of her insinuations.)
In mid-December 2020, Perez appeared on Fox as an expert for an awkward segment in which he was interviewed by an off-camera producer to debunk claims made on the network about a second voting technology company called Smartmatic. It ran on the shows hosted by Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro. Dobbs left Fox Business in February 2021, the day after Smartmatic sued Fox in a separate $2.7 billion defamation suit. It is not as far along as the Dominion case.
Fox's supplemental filings last week also reproduce the affidavit of an anonymous man said to be a security guard for a Venezuelan president. He alleged that Smartmatic had ties to the late Venezuelan autocratic leader Hugo Chavez and warned that both election tech companies were attempting to defraud the U.S. voting public. His affidavit was part of a lawsuit filed by the attorney and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Lin Wood, who was subject of an effort by the Georgia state bar to have his mental fitness evaluated as it weighed a complaint seeking to strip him of his license to practice law. No proof has emerged to support the unnamed man's claims against Dominion and Smartmatic.
"My guess is that the lawyers from Fox cringed every time they saw one of these stories," says Dalglish, the First Amendment lawyer and dean. "I certainly did."
Karl Baker contributed to this story.
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DIAMOND BAR, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's world, consumers are becoming more conscious of their energy consumption, and the impact it has on the environment. With the rising cost of electricity bills and the need for sustainable living, there has been an increasing demand for energy-efficient solutions. To cater to this demand, ALLPOWERS has launched the R3500 Smart Energy Kit, a revolutionary solution for energy conservation.
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A suspect is in custody and charged with murder after he allegedly confessed to killing a 31-year-old man Friday afternoon in east Alabama, police said.
Christopher Avantae Summers, 32, of Valley, allegedly told officers he shot Jarez Cytril Ricks, 31, Valley Police Chief Mike Reynolds said in a statement.
Valley officers found Ricks suffering from two gunshot wounds to the chest around 2:44 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Ricks later died at the East Alabama Medical Center Lanier emergency room, police said.
After a formal interview with Valley police, Summers was charged with murder and taken to the Chambers County Detention Center as he awaited a bond hearing.
A motive for the shooting was unknown.
Two guns and several shell casings were found at the scene of the shooting.
Ricks’ body is being sent to Montgomery for an autopsy.
The homicide investigation remains active, and Reynolds urged anyone with information on the case to call Valley police at 334-756-5200 or Central Alabama Crime Stoppers at 1-833-AL1-STOP or 334-215-STOP or 215stop.com. | https://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/2022/04/suspect-charged-with-murder-in-east-alabama-slaying-of-31-year-old-man.html | 2022-04-15 23:24:31 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/2022/04/suspect-charged-with-murder-in-east-alabama-slaying-of-31-year-old-man.html |
(KTLA) – Dramatic body-camera footage shows the moment two teenagers’ lives were saved from an overdose by naloxone.
Los Angeles County deputies received a medical distress call on Wednesday of two 17-year-old boys who had stopped breathing inside a home in the city of Duarte.
The two teens were found unconscious, lying on the ground inside a bedroom when deputies arrived.
Bodycam footage shows one of the deputies rushing inside the home and opening a package containing Narcan, a common brand of naloxone opioid overdose treatment.
Another deputy is seen administering CPR while a voice yells out for any “extra” Narcan.
Authorities administered three doses of naloxone to both teens while administering CPR.
Within minutes, the teens began breathing again. They were transported to a local hospital and later released to their parents.
“If not for the swift, decisive action of these deputies, both young men would have become lives claimed by the opioid pandemic,” said L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
“Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug created to help patients with pain management,” explained deputies. “It is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl is one of the most dangerous and deadly substances ever produced. Illicit drug manufacturers and distributors discovered Fentanyl offers a very effective replacement filler or supplement to street-level drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.”
As teen fentanyl overdoes continue soaring in California, officials are working to address the opioid threat, while remaining prepared for emergencies. In September, the Los Angeles Unified School District announced Narcan would be available at all K-12 schools. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/dramatic-bodycam-footage-shows-two-california-teens-being-saved-by-narcan/ | 2022-11-05 16:57:09 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/dramatic-bodycam-footage-shows-two-california-teens-being-saved-by-narcan/ |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WXYZ) — It was a busy Wednesday night for Ann Arbor, Michigan, police as they responded to more than 100 calls. Most of them were for damage caused by the ice storm, which DTE called "historic."
“For the most part of the night, we were just answering calls for downed branches, downed limbs, power lines coming down,” Ann Arbor Police officer Howard Cooper said.
Cooper had just started his 12-hour shift when he responded to a tree blocking a road. When he arrived, a driver pulled up and got out.
"A van pulled up behind me, and I was kind of turning around, waving at the van saying, 'Hey you got to turn around, sir. You got to turn around,'" Cooper recalled. "He got out and he said, ‘Why don't we try to move this tree together?' And as he kind of started walking toward me, I realized it was coach Harbaugh.”
Cooper gave Harbaugh a pair of work gloves, and the two went at it, moving the heavy branch inch by inch. They eventually were able to clear a lane for traffic.
“He started talking about football during it with the gloves and was like, 'Yeah, we got to take on a zone approach to this side of the limb,'” Cooper said.
Along with trees, the storm took down power lines across Ann Arbor. The fire department says it responded to over 300 incidents.
“It was pretty scary," Ann Arbor resident Carole Darr said after a power line came down and caught fire near her home. "I'm glad the fire department came and blocked this area off.”
The storm continued east, leaving a layer of ice throughout Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties, knocking out power to thousands more.
“It's rough — it’s rough," Karalea Williams in Waterford said. "We’re boiling water to stay warm.”
In Centerline and Warren, crews were out Thursday clearing debris. The thick ice caused damage there too.
“Broke my trampoline, there’s trees all over the road. It’s horrible over there,” said Jamie Wilmoth, who suffered damage in her yard.
With roughly 24 hours of cleanup, contractors and fire responders have been busy. Cooper was glad to have the help, and along with it is a story he’s been happy to tell.
“I just told him he was a good man for that," Cooper said of his conversation with Harbaugh. "It’s not every day you have someone so willing to hop out and help you out, so that was awesome.”
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Biden to sign gay marriage bill at White House ceremony
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is inviting thousands to celebrate at the White House on Tuesday as he signs into law gay marriage legislation before a bipartisan crowd that reflects growing acceptance of same-sex unions.
Lawmakers from both parties will be there, as will first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. The White House promised musical performances but was trying to maintain suspense about the headliners.
The triumphant mood will play out against the backdrop of a right-wing backlash over gender issues, which has alarmed gay and transgender people and their advocates.
Among the attendees will be the owner of Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado where five people were killed in a shooting last month, and two survivors of the attack. The suspect has been charged with hate crimes.
Plaintiffs from lawsuits that originally helped secure the nationwide right to gay marriage are also expected to be there, according to the White House.
The new law is intended to safeguard gay marriages if the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses Obergefell v. Hodges, its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex unions nationwide. The new law also protects interracial marriages. In 1967, the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia struck down laws in 16 states barring interracial marriage.
“Congress has restored a measure of security to millions of marriages and families,” Biden said in a statement when the legislation passed last week. “They have also provided hope and dignity to millions of young people across this country who can grow up knowing that their government will recognize and respect the families they build.”
The signing will mark the culmination of a monthslong bipartisan effort sparked by the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion available across the country.
In a concurring opinion in the case that overturned Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested revisiting other decisions, including the legalization of gay marriage, generating fear that more civil rights could be imperiled by the court’s conservative majority.
Lawmakers crafted a compromise that was intended to assuage conservative concerns about religious liberty, such as ensuring churches could still refuse to perform gay marriages.
In addition, states will not be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But they will be required to recognize marriages conducted elsewhere in the country.
A majority of Republicans in Congress still voted against the legislation. However, enough supported it to sidestep a filibuster in the Senate and ensure its passage.
“Together, we showed that it’s possible for Democrats and Republicans to come together to safeguard our most fundamental rights,” Biden said.
Tuesday’s ceremony will mark another chapter in Biden’s legacy on gay rights.
He memorably — and unexpectedly — endorsed same-sex unions in a television interview in 2012, when he was vice president. Days later, President Barack Obama announced that he also supported gay marriage.
Attendees will be given a card commemorating Biden’s comments from his 2012 interview.
“What this is all about is a simple proposition: Who do you love?” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” a decade ago. “Who do you love and will you be loyal to the person you love? And that is what people are finding out is what all marriages at their root are about.”
Since becoming president, Biden has reversed President Donald Trump’s efforts to strip transgender people of anti-discrimination protections. His administration includes the first openly gay Cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and the first transgender person to receive Senate confirmation, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine.
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Some 1,600 bats found a temporary home this week in the attic of a Houston Humane Society director, but it wasn’t because they made it their roost.
It was a temporary recovery space for the flying mammals after they lost their grip and plunged to the pavement after going into hypothermic shock during the city’s recent cold snap.
On Wednesday, over 1,500 will be released back to their habitats — two Houston-area bridges — after wildlife rescuers scooped them up and saved them by administering fluids and keeping them warm in incubators.
Mary Warwick, the wildlife director at the Houston Humane Society, said she was out doing holiday shopping when the freezing winds reminded her that she hadn’t heard how the bats were doing in the unusually cold temperatures for the region. So she drove to the bridge where over 100 bats looked to be dead as they lay frozen on the ground.
But during her 40-minute drive home, Warwick said they began to come back to life, chirping and moving around in a box where she collected them and placed them on her heated passenger seat for warmth. She put the bats in incubators and returned to the bridge twice a day to collect more.
Two days later, she got a call about more than 900 bats rescued from a bridge in nearby Pearland, Texas. On the third and fourth day, more people showed up to rescue bats from the Waugh Bridge in Houston, and a coordinated transportation effort was set up to get the bats to Warwick.
Warwick said each of the bats were warmed in an incubator until their body temperature rose and then hydrated through fluids administered to them under their skin.
After reaching out to other bat rehabilitators, Warwick said it was too many for any one person to feed and care for and the society’s current facilities did not have the necessary space, so they put them in her attic where they were separated by colony in dog kennels and able to reach a state of hibernation that did not require them to eat.
“As soon as I wake up in the morning I wonder: ‘How are they doing, I need to go see them,’ ” Warwick said.
Now, nearly 700 bats are scheduled to be set back in the wild Wednesday at the Waugh Bridge and about 850 at the bridge in Pearland as temperatures in the region are warming. She said over 100 bats died due to the cold, some because the fall itself — ranging 15-30 feet — from the bridges killed them; 56 are recovering at the Bat World sanctuary; and 20 will stay with Warwick a bit longer.
The humane society is now working to raise money for facility upgrades that would include a bat room, Warwick added. Next month, Warwick — the only person who rehabilitates bats in Houston — said the society’s entire animal rehabilitation team will be vaccinated against rabies and trained in bat rehabilitation as they prepare to move into a larger facility with a dedicated bat room.
“That would really help in these situations where we continue to see these strange weather patterns come through,” she said. “We could really use more space to rehabilitate the bats.”
Houston reached unusually frigid temperatures last week as an Arctic blast pushed across much of the country. Blizzard conditions from that same storm system are blamed for more than 30 deaths in the Buffalo, New York-area.
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Cannes-winning film about young African immigrants to play in our ‘Certified Welcoming’ city
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Tori and Lokita” opens in Philadelphia on Friday, and runs through April 4. It plays at the PFS Bourse Theater.
Philadelphia proudly flaunts its “Certified Welcoming” city badge, a distinction endowed upon us by the nonprofit organization Welcoming America in February.
We have, for years, established programs and policies aimed at supporting immigrant communities. Immigrants make up roughly 14.3% of the city’s population, which is about 225,400 people among a population of more than 1.5 million.
It is only fitting that acclaimed Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Cannes-winning film,Tori and Lokita, opens in Philly on Friday. The film plays through April 4 at PFS Bourse Theater.
The Belgian French drama is a story of immigration, with debutants Pablo Schils and Joely Mbundu playing the titular roles. It follows 17-year-old Lokita (Mbundu) and 12-year-old Tori (Schils), Benin and Cameroonian immigrants, trying to survive in a Belgian city by scraping whatever money they can muster as part-time singers and drug dealers.
“We’re very excited and honored to have our film distributed in the United States,” Jean-Pierre said to The Inquirer. “Some of the themes...in the film are... shared themes that we have of immigration, and we hope that immigrants can be seen as friends and not as threats.”
Filmed in the Belgian regions of Liège and Condroz, Tori and Lokita takes a thrilling turn when the two friends, who pose as siblings throughout, are separated. Lokita ends up in an underground cannabis plantation, sending Tori on a wild goose chase looking for her. His desperate pursuit leads to a series of gut-wrenching moments that make for an enthralling tale that’s in line with other projects helmed by the Dardenne brothers.
The duo started out making documentary and narrative films in the 1970s. And over the decades, they have won numerous awards, including the Palme d’Or — the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival. Tori and Lokita just won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
The brothers first explored the plight of Belgian immigrants in their 1996 drama La Promesse (The Promise), and Tori and Lokita, they said, was another way to chronicle the exploitation of immigrants in the European country.
“Through film, we can actually show [the characters] front and center, whereas in society, they’re often marginalized and unseen,” Luc said. “Putting our light and focus on them was very important to us.”
Luc Dardenne said he and Jean-Pierre researched immigration issues in Belgium and worked with local police to build a realistic “pot-growing plantation” for the second half of the film. In order to replicate the claustrophobia of such plantations, they built small, enclosed hallways and controlled the airflow for a “belly of the whale” sound effect.
“It was the first time we really paid attention and analyzed the pumps, suctions and the [actor’s] breathing noises,” Luc said. “The sounds were a part of the landscape, and when we mixed the film, the breathing was part of the aliveness [sic] of the set.”
With the film’s showing in Philadelphia, Jean-Pierre wants to shed light on the challenges faced by immigrants working in these plantations, and he hopes it will encourage lawmakers to provide more support for migrants.
“These characters are representative of a true phenomenon that is a new form of slavery,” Jean-Pierre said. “It’s the message we use to inspire solidarity.”
The two-time Palme d’Or winners will screen the film at the European parliament in Brussels on May 23, a move the brothers hope will encourage the nearly 500 attendees to establish a new law that allows children from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and other regions to remain in Europe to receive their education.
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A fungal disease that attacks while bats are hibernating has brought the tricolored bat to the brink of extinction. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is recommending that the tricolored bat be added to the list of endangered species in an effort to protect them.
Tricolored bats live in 39 states east of the Rocky Mountains, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua.
But white-nose syndrome — caused by a fungus that develops on cave-dwelling bats during hibernation — is decimating the bat's population in North America at "unprecedented rates," Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams said in a news release.
One of the smallest native species in North America, the tricolored bats spend the majority of the year in forest habitats. However, when winter rolls around, they seek shelter in caves and mines to hibernate, which is when they are susceptible to disease, the FWP says.
The fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, can resemble white fuzz on a bat's wings and snout, attacking bare skin while the animal is hibernating. According to the FWP White-nose Syndrome Response Team, the fungus causes the bats to become more active when they should be hibernating, burning off the little energy they have to survive the winter.
White-nose syndrome has killed off millions of bats across the continent, the FWP said, wiping out 90% to 100% of colonies in some sites. Scientists still don't know where the fungus came from, but it has been found in 12 of the 47 species living in North America, including two currently protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The disease is also ravaging the northern long-eared bat population, which FWP recommended reclassifying from threatened to endangered last March. The FWP says bats are critical to the healthy functioning of an ecosystem, and that they contribute at least $3 billion in pest control and pollination every year.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Kim Leisey has officially joined CAMP Rehoboth as its new Executive Director, the community center announced Monday.
They say Leisey is the first cisgender lesbian woman to serve as Executive Director in the center's history, and has much experience in CAMP's four pillars: health, arts, advocacy, and community engagement.
They welcome the public to come by to welcome Kim to her new role.
Leisey was announced as director in May.
“I am honored to be working with the amazing team at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. My leadership will honor the important and beautiful legacy of Steve Elkins and Murray Archibald. The foundation they have created is strong and powerful. Together with the staff, the Board and community, CAMP Rehoboth will continue to offer advocacy, support, and connections among our LGBTQ+ community and our friends and neighbors throughout Sussex County and Delaware at large. CAMP Rehoboth will continue to add to the vibrant communities at the beaches and beyond. Together we will create a place that includes all and fosters real connections. Together we will thrive, I can’t wait to meet everyone!” said Kim. | https://www.wrde.com/news/kim-leisey-welcomed-as-new-camp-rehoboth-executive-director/article_3df77acc-1f6a-11ee-b075-df1c613e1dd9.html | 2023-07-12 02:45:55 | 1 | https://www.wrde.com/news/kim-leisey-welcomed-as-new-camp-rehoboth-executive-director/article_3df77acc-1f6a-11ee-b075-df1c613e1dd9.html |
DANVILLE, Pa., June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) ranked best among commercial health plans in Pennsylvania for member satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.
The study examines several key factors. GHP ranked No. 1 in cost, coverage and benefits, customer service, and information and communication. It is the only health plan in Pennsylvania ever to receive the award four years in a row. Notably, GHP is also the commonwealth's only health plan to win seven times* since the award's inception in 2008.
"Nearly 617,000 members rely on GHP for their health insurance coverage," said Kurt Wrobel, GHP president and executive vice president of insurance operations for Geisinger. "Health insurance shouldn't be complicated, and our members rely on GHP to give them affordable access to top-tier health care providers. We always have and always will put our patients, members and communities first. Being named one of the best for the fourth year in a row continues to prove this."
The 2023 study was conducted among commercial HMO, PPO and POS health plan members drawn from online panels. Results are based on responses across 147 health plans in 22 market-based U.S. regions as identified in the 2023 study. Of the 147 plans evaluated, 139 are eligible for ranking.
As part of one of the country's most well-established integrated health systems, GHP maintains a provider network of more than 29,000 doctors and 200 hospitals across Pennsylvania. More than half a million members trust GHP for their healthcare coverage.
To learn more about Geisinger Health Plan and the J.D. Power award, visit http://www.geisinger.org/jdpaward. To learn more about J.D. Power's rankings, visit http://www.jdpower.com/awards.
About Geisinger
Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan with more than half a million members, a research institute and the Geisinger College of Health Sciences, which includes schools of medicine, nursing and graduate education. With more than 25,000 employees and 1,700+ employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Atlanta's growing film industry is full of non-union workers as Georgia is not a union friendly state. Now, those workers are scrambling as the writers' and actors' strike continues.
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(KXAN) — A bill filed by a North Texas lawmaker this week would ban social media for Texans under the age of 18.
HB 896, authored by Rep. Jared Patterson, of Frisco, Texas, would prohibit the use of social media by children. The bill was filed on Wednesday.
If passed, any Texan under the age of 18 would not be authorized to hold a social media account.
Further, social media companies would have to verify the age of the account holder, which would require the account holder to prove their age with their driver’s license. The bill doesn’t specify if an account holder can use an alternate form of I.D. if they don’t have a driver’s license.
Social media companies would also be required to remove a child’s account if a parent requests it be taken down within 10 days of the request. Platforms would also need to provide accessible means for parents to make such requests.
Impact of social media
Last year, the Wall Street Journal published a report on the negative impact of social media on teens’ mental health.
According to the report, researchers found that 32% of teen girls who felt bad about their bodies said Instagram made them feel worse. This data was posted to Facebook’s internal message boards.
Lawmakers began to take action by sending letters to Facebook after reports that Facebook’s leaders covered up data on the negative impact of its platforms.
Social media platforms have also been known to house threats against schools. In August, Dale Avant, chief of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, revealed that those types of threats are underreported.
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Russia’s Putin makes surprise trip to occupied Mariupol
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September and a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. He was shown chatting with Mariupol residents and visiting an art school and a children’s center in Sevastopol, Crimea.
Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of resistance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May. Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.
Putin has not commented on the arrest warrant, which deepened his international isolation despite the unlikelihood of him facing trial anytime soon. The Kremlin, which does not recognize the authority of the ICC, has rejected its move as “legally null and void.”
The surprise trip also came ahead of a planned visit to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expected to provide a major diplomatic boost to Putin in his confrontation with the West.
Putin arrived in Mariupol by helicopter and then drove himself around the city’s “memorial sites,” concert hall and coastline, Russian news reports said. The state Rossiya 24 channel on Sunday showed Putin chatting with locals outside what looked like a newly built residential complex, and being shown around one of the apartments.
Following his trip to Mariupol, Putin met with Russian military leaders and troops at a command post in Rostov-on-Don, a southern Russian city some 180 kilometers (about 112 miles) farther east, and conferred with Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who is in charge of the Russian military operations in Ukraine. Peskov said.
Peskov said the trip had been unannounced, and that Putin intended to “inspect the work of the (command) post in its ordinary mode of operation.”
Speaking to the state RIA-Novosti agency, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin made clear that Russia was in Mariupol to stay. He said the government hoped to finish the reconstruction of its blasted downtown by the end of the year.
“People have started to return. When they saw that reconstruction is under way, people started actively returning,” Khusnullin told RIA.
Mykhailo Podolyak, chief of staff for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, heaped scorn on Putin’s trip to Mariupol.
“The criminal is always drawn to the crime scene,” he said. “While the countries of the civilized world are announcing the arrest of the ‘war director’ in the event of crossing the border, the organizer of the murders of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins of the city and mass graves.”
When Moscow fully captured the city in May, an estimated 100,000 people remained, out of a prewar population of 450,000. Many were trapped without food, water, heat or electricity. Relentless bombardment left rows of shattered or hollowed-out buildings.
Mariupol’s plight first came into international focus with a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital on March 9, 2022, less than two weeks after the invasion of Ukraine began. A week later, about 300 people were reported killed in the bombing of a theater being used as the city’s largest bomb shelter. Evidence obtained by The Associated Press suggested the real death toll could be closer to 600.
A small group of Ukrainian fighters held out for 83 days in the sprawling Azovstal steel works in eastern Mariupol before surrendering, their dogged defense tying down Russian forces and coming to symbolize Ukrainian tenacity in the face of Moscow’s aggression.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world denounced as illegal, and moved in September to officially claim four regions in Ukraine’s south and east as Russian territory, following referendums that Kyiv and the West described as a sham.
The ICC on Friday accused Putin of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. U.N. investigators also said there was evidence for the forced transfer of “hundreds” of Ukrainian children to Russia. According to Ukrainian government figures, over 16,000 children have been deported to Russian-controlled territories or Russia itself, many of them from Mariupol.
While the ICC’s move was welcomed by Kyiv, the chances of Putin facing trial are slim because Moscow does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction or extradite its nationals.
Ukrainian officials reported Sunday that at least three civilians had been killed and 19 wounded by Russian shelling in the previous 24 hours. The deaths were in the eastern Donetsk region, amid fierce battles for control of the city of Bakhmut, according to Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko on Ukrainian TV.
Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in a Telegram update that a 51-year-old woman was “fighting for her life” after being hit by shrapnel as Russian troops fired on the border town of Dvorichna.
Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said Ukrainian troops were holding the line near Bakhmut, a key target of a long, grinding Russian offensive, adding that the enemy’s plan to occupy the city “are now foundering.”
The spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern forces said Russian troops are “tactically unable to complete” Bakhmut’s capture.
“Yes, there are very active battles, (the Russians) continue to carry out several dozen attacks by inertia, but they suffer huge losses,” Serhii Cherevaty said on Ukrainian TV, adding that Ukrainian defenses are “bleeding the enemy, breaking his fighting spirit.”
Taking Bakhmut would give the Kremlin a battlefield victory after months of setbacks, and could pave the way for Russia to threaten other Ukrainian strongholds in the region, including Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Russian forces shelled a house in Bilozerka, a suburb west of the southern city of Kherson, and a woman who was pulled from the rubble was hospitalized, according to the Kherson regional military administration, writing on Telegram.
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RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The idea that the Seattle Seahawks would go into Week 18 with a chance at the playoffs seemed ludicrous back during training camp.
At that point, the Seahawks were expected to be among the worst teams in the league this season.
So credit is due to Pete Carroll and his players for being in this position after Sunday’s 23-6 win over the New York Jets improved Seattle to 8-8 and kept its playoff hopes alive for one more week.
It’s been a rocky path to get to this point, filled with unexpected win streaks and untimely losing stretches.
Seattle beating the Los Angeles Rams in Week 18 won’t be enough. Seattle needs a win and a Detroit victory over Green Bay to make the postseason a reality.
And even that came with a level of scrutiny after the league announced the Week 18 schedule on Monday and has Seattle in the afternoon and Detroit and Green Bay as the Sunday night game. If Seattle wins, Detroit would be eliminated from playoff contention.
Carroll did his part in downplaying any concern about the games not being played simultaneously.
“I know that there’s been maybe some question about the order of the games being played on Sunday or whatever and that doesn’t mean anything to me,” Carroll said. “We don’t care about that one bit. It’s not going to change anything that we’re doing. We’re going for it. And then maybe there would be a pretty good party afterward to watch the next game.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Seahawks have rediscovered success in the run game. After weeks of struggling, it showed up in the second half of Seattle’s loss at Kansas City in Week 16 and was fully on display for four quarters in the win over the Jets. It helped when Kenneth Walker III went 60 yards on the first play of the game, but Seattle’s other 37 runs went for 138 yards, an average of 3.7 yards per rush.
That’s the kind of production the Seahawks have been missing to keep the offense balanced and take some of the stress off Geno Smith in the pass game.
Walker finished with 133 yards.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
There will be a level of regret for the Seahawks finding themselves in the position of needing help in Week 18. Especially troubling will be the home losses in Week 3 to Atlanta and Week 12 to Las Vegas. A win in either and the Seahawks would have their postseason chances in their control.
STOCK UP
Tyler Mabry has spent big chunks of the past three seasons on Seattle’s practice squad. He got a brief run on the active roster during the 2021 season, but had a grand total of 22 offensive snaps and never had a pass thrown his direction.
After spending all of this season on the practice squad, Mabry was thrust into an important role on Sunday with Will Dissly out because of a knee injury. Mabry played just three offensive snaps, but his biggest came in the second quarter on a second-and-goal. Mabry slipped between a couple of defenders, turned and hauled in Smith’s pass for his first career catch and a 7-yard TD reception.
It was Mabry’s first TD since his final season of college at Maryland.
STOCK DOWN
LB Jordyn Brooks put up some major numbers this season, but his season came to an end with a torn ACL in his right knee. Brooks is third in the league with 161 combined tackles.
The concern for Seattle is the length of the recovery could eat into a big chunk of next season and overall uncertainty at the position. Brooks will be entering his fourth season and Seattle will need to make an offseason decision on whether to pick up his fifth-year option.
Adding to the complexity of the situation is Cody Barton, who will take over at middle linebacker this week, will be a free agent after the season.
Some defensive changes were expected for Seattle this offseason, but major changes at linebacker likely weren’t on the list.
INJURIES
Along with Brooks it appears guard Phil Haynes will not play in Week 18 because of a high ankle sprain. Carroll said right tackle Abraham Lucas (knee) and Travis Homer (ankle) have a chance to play after being inactive against the Jets. Ryan Neal (knee) won’t be known until later in the week.
Carroll also said Tyler Lockett seemed better Monday after sitting part of the game after getting a contusion on his lower leg. Lockett was hit in the area where he suffered a fracture several years ago.
KEY NUMBER
3 — Seattle safety Quandre Diggs intercepted his third pass of the season in the first quarter on Sunday. He’s the only player in the league with at least three interceptions in each of the past six seasons.
NEXT STEPS
Seattle will face the Rams for the second time in a little more than a month. But it’s a new-look than the team the Seahawks faced in early December with Baker Mayfield expected to be the starting QB. | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/seahawks-unexpectedly-reach-week-18-with-chance-at-playoffs/281-cb0a3862-c5b2-467c-a0ca-c9830129a495 | 2023-01-03 10:18:54 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/seahawks-unexpectedly-reach-week-18-with-chance-at-playoffs/281-cb0a3862-c5b2-467c-a0ca-c9830129a495 |
DOVER, Delaware - With a vote of 25 to 15, Senate Bill 35, which will require employees of companies working with the state to be unionized, was passed by the House of Representatives Thursday.
Earlier this week, a group of Hispanic construction workers gathered outside Legislative Hall to protest the amendment of this bill, saying they didn't want to become part of the unions.
Senate Bill 35 will now move to Governor Carney's desk and will take effect upon being signed into law. | https://www.wrde.com/news/house-of-representatives-approves-senate-bill-35/article_9a5307ce-9e72-11ed-9c26-576669807bf3.html | 2023-01-27 21:40:37 | 1 | https://www.wrde.com/news/house-of-representatives-approves-senate-bill-35/article_9a5307ce-9e72-11ed-9c26-576669807bf3.html |
Infertility affects a 'staggering' 1 in 6 people worldwide, WHO says
An estimated 1 in 6 people globally are affected by infertility, according to a new report from the World Health Organization, which emphasizes that the condition is common.
Rates of infertility — defined as not being able to conceive after a year of having unprotected sex — are similar across all countries and regions, Monday's WHO report says.
"In our analysis, the global prevalence of lifetime infertility was 17.5%, translating into 1 out of every 6 people experiencing it in their lifetime," Dr. Gitau Mburu, a scientist of fertility research at WHO, said Monday.
"Lifetime prevalence of infertility does not differ by income classification of countries," he said. "Lifetime prevalence was 17.8% in high-income countries and 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries, which, again, was not a substantial or significant difference."
Yet there are differences in how much people are spending on fertility treatments and how accessible such treatments are, according to the report.
"People in the poorest countries were found to spend a significantly larger proportion of their income on a single cycle of IVF or on fertility care compared with wealthier countries," Mburu said, "exemplifying that this is an area with high-level risk of inequality in access to health care."
Global public health groups typically call attention to overpopulation as a major public health concern, so the spotlight that the WHO report turns on infertility not only is surprising but is welcome, said Dr. David Keefe, reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at the NYU Langone Fertility Center in New York.
"That report did not surprise me in terms of the content, because it's been known for some time that infertility is much more prevalent than anyone wants to think about: Having a child and having a family is kind of a universal dream or aspiration for people from every country, from every region. What surprised me was the World Health Organization coming out in support of it," said Keefe, who was not involved with the WHO research.
"It was a welcome acknowledgment of the other foot dropping on the population front," he said. "The acknowledgment that this is a worldwide problem and that additional attention must be devoted to it in terms of policy and strategy is welcome."
'This is a worldwide problem'
The WHO report — described as the "first of its kind in a decade" — includes an analysis of infertility data from 1990 through 2021. The data came from 133 previously published studies on infertility prevalence.
"The purpose of this analysis was to generate updated data on the global and regional estimates of infertility prevalence by analyzing all available data from different countries, making sure that we take into account different study approaches," Mburu said.
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Based on that data, the researchers estimate that lifetime prevalence of infertility — representing the proportion of people who have ever experienced infertility in their reproductive life — was 17.5% in 2022.
The period prevalence of infertility, meaning the proportion of people with infertility at any given point currently or in the past, was found to be 12.6% in 2022.
Although the data showed some variation in infertility prevalence across regions — with the highest lifetime prevalence at 23.2% in the Western Pacific, compared with the lowest at 10.7% in the Eastern Mediterranean — those regional differences were not either substantial or conclusive based on the data, according to WHO's report.
The researchers also did not determine whether global infertility rates have been increasing or decreasing over time.
"The data which we analyzed for this report was from 1990 to 2021, and during that period, we did not see evidence of increasing rates of infertility. However, the way the data was arranged, it was not really organized to answer that question," Dr. James Kiarie, head of contraception and fertility care at WHO, said Monday. "We cannot, based on the data we have, say that infertility is increasing or constant — so we must say that probably the jury is still out on that question."
Over time, various factors can affect a person's fertility, and age is one of the most important, said Dr. Emre Seli, chief scientific officer for the maternal and infant health nonprofit March of Dimes. Seli, who is also a professor at Yale School of Medicine and medical director of Yale Fertility Center, was not involved in the new report.
"Fertility decreases as the age of the female partner increases," he said.
"Fertility is really an emotionally taxing issue for those who are affected by it. It is a major source of stress to want to have a child and not be able to," Seli said. "Most of my patients are women, and they do become affected by this at many levels, and they do suffer from lack of adequate research as well as lack of adequate insurance coverage to undergo the treatments that they need."
'An important public health concern'
Infertility, affecting the male or female reproductive system, can be treated with medicine, surgery or assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization or IVF, during which an egg and sperm are joined in a lab dish and put into a womb once the fertilized egg becomes an embryo.
"Infertility is a major and a widespread health issue affecting a staggering 1 in 6 people globally over the duration of their reproductive lives," Dr. Pascale Allotey, director of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research Department at WHO, said Monday.
Despite that, solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility remain "underfunded" and "inaccessible" to many patients due to high costs, Allotey said.
"Infertility is an important public health concern because it can have wide-reaching negative impacts on the lives of the people affected," she said. "WHO is calling for universal access to affordable high-quality fertility care, improved data to enable infertility to be meaningfully addressed in health policy and programs, and greater efforts to ensure this issue is no longer sidelined in health research and policy."
Mburu added that infertility can also have effects on mental health, raising risks of anxiety, depression and intimate partner violence.
"Our message is that infertility needs to be included as a priority in responding to the needs of populations in different countries," Mburu said. "This is because people have a right to expect to obtain the highest possible standard of mental, social and physical health as defined by WHO."
The new data from WHO reinforces that more people need fertility coverage and access to high-quality care than was previously thought, said Dr. Asima Ahmad, an endocrinologist and fertility expert who serves as chief medical officer and co-founder of Carrot Fertility, a company that helps employers set up fertility benefits. She added that inequities emerge in who has such access to care, such as Black women who tend to experience inequities in access.
"These inequities, I'm not surprised that they exist on a global level, because we already see the inequities in the United States domestically, with how infertility impacts different populations and how some populations have limited access. And even with the access that they finally get, they, for example, will have a lower rate of success or even a higher rate of miscarriage," said Ahmad, who was not involved in the new WHO report.
"A lot of people don't have access to clinically vetted evidence-based information around what causes infertility, how to recognize it, and then when you do find out that you have it, how to treat it," she said. "The other, which is one of the biggest barriers that we see, is financial access to fertility. In the United States, a lot of that access comes through the employer providing, for example, fertility benefits, but on a global level, that's not necessarily the case, and finances tends to be the biggest barrier." | https://www.wtae.com/article/infertility-affects-a-staggering-1-in-6-people-worldwide-who-says/43500694 | 2023-04-04 15:04:42 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/infertility-affects-a-staggering-1-in-6-people-worldwide-who-says/43500694 |
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved flipper-like foot covering that could be worn while swimming, snorkeling or enjoying a waterpark. I also thought it should easily transition for safe use when walking on sand or a boardwalk," said an inventor, from Hubbard, Ore., "so I invented INSTANT FIN. My versatile design would eliminate the need to transport and keep track of separate water shoes or athletic shoes and flippers."
The invention provides a new design for aquatic athletic foot coverings. In doing so, it can be used while walking, swimming, snorkeling, etc. As a result, it may add significant propulsion and buoyancy and it ensures that the feet are comfortable and protected. The invention features a two-in-one design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for men, women and children who engage in water sports and activities. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Portland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-PTA-134, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MADRID (AP) — A museum in northwest Spain returned two 15th-century paintings to Polish officials on Wednesday after it was determined that they had been looted by Nazi German forces during World War II.
The paintings “Mater Dolorosa” (Mother of Sorrows) and “Ecce Homo” were handed over to a delegation from Poland’s culture ministry. According to Spain’s Museum of Pontevedra, the works were originally believed to be by Dieric Bouts, a Flemish master born in the Dutch town of Haarlem, but now they are attributed to a member of his school or group.
The museum said that in 2020 Polish officials made it aware that the works had been looted by Nazi forces. The museum quickly decided to send them back to Poland, but the completion of official permits for the transfer had delayed it until now.
Nazi forces stole the works from the Czartoryski collection in Gołuchów when the city was occupied by the German military in WWII, Polish officials said. They appeared in Madrid in 1973 and had been in the Pontevedra museum since 1994 when they were acquired among over 300 works purchased from a Spanish private collector.
Poland saw much of its cultural patrimony destroyed or looted during the country’s wartime occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and about 500,000 items remain missing.
The country has been making efforts to recover as much as possible. The Culture Ministry has a division for looted art that keeps a database of missing objects and scours foreign collections and auctions. When they locate a looted Polish painting, book or other object, they inform the law enforcement officials of that country.
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How to Watch the Celtics vs. Heat: Streaming & TV Channel Info for Eastern Conference Finals Game 5
Published: May. 25, 2023 at 1:31 PM CDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
The Boston Celtics and Miami Heat are facing off in the Eastern Conference Finals, with a decisive Game 5 coming up.
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Celtics vs. Heat Game Info
- When: Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 8:30 PM ET
- Where: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
- TV: TNT
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Celtics vs Heat Additional Info
Celtics Stats Insights
- The Celtics make 47.5% of their shots from the field this season, which is 0.7 percentage points lower than the Heat have allowed to their opponents (48.2%).
- Boston is 33-3 when it shoots better than 48.2% from the field.
- The Celtics are the seventh best rebounding team in the league, the Heat rank 27th.
- The Celtics record 8.1 more points per game (117.9) than the Heat give up (109.8).
- Boston is 49-12 when scoring more than 109.8 points.
Heat Stats Insights
- The Heat have shot at a 46% rate from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points less than the 46.3% shooting opponents of the Celtics have averaged.
- Miami is 25-11 when it shoots better than 46.3% from the field.
- The Celtics are the 20th best rebounding team in the league, the Heat rank 20th.
- The Heat put up an average of 109.5 points per game, just 1.9 fewer points than the 111.4 the Celtics give up.
- Miami is 26-8 when it scores more than 111.4 points.
Celtics Home & Away Comparison
- The Celtics are putting up 120.5 points per game at home. Away from home, they are averaging 115.4 points per contest.
- Defensively Boston has been better at home this season, surrendering 110.5 points per game, compared to 112.4 in away games.
- When playing at home, the Celtics are sinking 0.4 more three-pointers per game (16.2) than in road games (15.8). They also own a better three-point percentage at home (37.9%) compared to on the road (37.4%).
Heat Home & Away Comparison
- At home the Heat score 111.4 points per game, 3.9 more than on the road (107.5). On defense they allow 110.2 points per game at home, 0.9 more than on the road (109.3).
- Miami allows 110.2 points per game at home, and 109.3 on the road.
- This season the Heat are picking up more assists at home (23.9 per game) than on the road (23.8).
Celtics Injuries
Heat Injuries
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Federal warnings on threats, misinformation ahead of Election Day
Candidates denying accurate race results from 2020 proliferate on 2022 ballots
Candidates denying accurate race results from 2020 proliferate on 2022 ballots
Candidates denying accurate race results from 2020 proliferate on 2022 ballots
Federal law enforcement is warning about threats to election systems, poll workers and voters ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, as civic watchdog organizations also raise an alarm about the proliferation of "election deniers" on the ballot – candidates who, against all evidence, do not accept the election results of the 2020 and might baselessly question results this year, as well.
Experts say election systems are intact and should be trusted.
"Voting in this country is absolutely safe and secure," Joanna Lydgate, former chief deputy attorney general for Massachusetts and president and CEO of nonpartisan organization States United Democracy Center and States United Action, said in an interview.
'Like an arsonist'
Every six months for the past four years, the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit has interviewed dozens of secretaries of state and top election leaders across the country – both Republicans and Democrats. Their answers, regardless of party, have been unanimous: They've found no widespread fraud that would have changed the results in races, including for president.
But mistrust in elections – often in the form of lies and baseless accusations – continues to be perpetuated by former president Donald Trump and his allies, including by candidates for high office around the country. According to States United, election deniers are on the ballot in more than half of the governor's races nationwide, one-third of the races for attorney general and almost half of the races for secretary of state. Lydgate says election deniers are "the biggest threat we face to our democracy in this moment."
"Having an election denier in any one of these key positions, really, it's like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department," she says, "as what they want is the ability ultimately to be able to change the result of an election if they don't like it."
FBI election warning
Amid an environment of mistrust, federal agencies are warning about threats to Tuesday's election. On Monday, hours before Election Day, a businessman linked to Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin dropped years of denials and admitted interfering with U.S. elections, declaring "we have interfered, are interfering and will interfere."
Last month, the FBI, along with the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), sent out a joint alert warning of possible misinformation and disinformation coming from foreign actors leading up to and after the midterm elections. The FBI has also issued a bulletin warning about voter suppression and intimidation, advising voters about how to avoid and report election crimes.
Rob Heberle, director of the Justice Department's Election Crimes Branch, told election leaders gathered in July for the semi-annual National Association of Secretaries of State conference that the department had "dozens of open investigations" into threats toward election workers, many fueled by conspiracy theories and falsehoods. CISA posted a video last month to help train election workers on de-escalation techniques.
Patience urged
In the U.S., there is no Election Day deadline for counting all the ballots or certifying races. Results reported on election night are preliminary and change as more ballots are tallied, with totals not finalized and made official for several days or weeks later, as proscribed by laws in each state.
Lydgate, at States United, says voters should be weary of candidates who jump the gun.
"It's important for people to know that elections do take time, especially if they're close," she said. "And so, if you see someone who is declaring victory before the results have been finalized, or if you see someone who's refusing to accept a result once it is final, that's not normal. That's not how our system works."
Elections deemed 'secure'
Federal agencies, including those once led by Trump appointees, have repeatedly said there was no widespread fraud in 2020 that would have changed the results of the election, which they deemed "secure." In February 2021, secretaries of state from both parties told Hearst Television there was no fraud of sufficient scale and scope to have altered Biden's victory in their states. Not one secretary disagreed.
Yet Trump and many of his supporters continue to falsely insist otherwise, compromising the integrity of American elections and, election administrators have said, putting their workers in danger.
Mark Albert is the chief national investigative correspondent for the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit, based in Washington D.C. Emily Wishingrad and Tamika Cody contributed to this report.
If you know of election security concerns you want us to investigate, send confidential information and documents to the National Investigative Unit at investigate@hearst.com.
WATCH THE HEARST TELEVISION NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT’S ONGOING SERIES ON ELECTION SECURITY:
- Part 1: Gaps in Preparedness
- Part 2: White House Response
- Part 3: Voting Vulnerabilities
- San Francisco Chronicle (print) version
- DIGITAL EXTRA: Kid Hackers
- Part 4: Cyber Combat
- Part 5: Election Security Summit (Day 1; Day 2)
- Part 6: Troll Hunters
- SPECIAL: Election Security 30-minute Special
- Part 7: Paper Ballots
- Part 8: Lack of Funds
- Part 9: Operation Blackout
- Part 10: Digital Disinformation
- Part 11: Voting App Hack
- Part 12: Deleting the Deception
- Part 13: Spotting the Spin
- Part 14: 2020 Election Summit
- Part 15: Election Exposure
- Part 16: Election Exposure Checkup
- Part 17: Return to Sender
- Part 18: Inside the Intelligence (Part 1; Part 2)
- Part 19: Grading the Election (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3)
- Part 20: Under Review
- Part 21: Securing the Midterms
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Which On running shoes are best?
Just over 10 years ago, a Swiss company called On decided it wanted to revolutionize the design of running shoes. Its goal? To create a shoe where you didn’t have to pick between cushion and responsiveness. If you enjoy longer runs but don’t find overly cushioned shoes comfortable, a pair of On Cloudflows styles can cushion your steps while still keeping you engaged on your run.
What to know before you buy On running shoes
Price
All On’s technology does come with a fairly heft price tag. While you can buy a good pair of running shoes from other brands for around $150, that’s roughly where On starts. At the high end, for those serious about their racing, you can be spending the better part of $300 on running shoes. If you’re serious about your running and getting the best available technology, the price may be worth it for you.
For all types of runners
No matter how you run, On has you covered. With horizontal and verticle cushioning in the sole, On shoes adjust to your landing no matter if you’re a heel striker, midfoot striker or forefoot striker. On shoes are especially helpful if you tend to strike differently as your run progresses.
Multiple lacing types
Triathletes will appreciate the option for elastic speed laces to be included right out of the box. Runners who don’t want speed laces have the option for traditional laces as well. Just look for shoes designated as “standard lacing” instead of “elastic speed lacing.”
What to look for in quality On running shoes
CloudTec
The primary technology in On running shoes is CloudTec. The goal of CloudTec is to make it feel like you’re running on clouds, lowering your risk of suffering from joint and muscle pain while running. On also claims that their CloudTec will reduce your heart rate while running. The CloudTec drives the horizontal and verticle adaptive cushioning, making On shoes an excellent choice for all runners.
Spring in your step
Running on clouds doesn’t mean you’ll sink into the ground; On shoes are still quite responsive. With Speedboard technology, On shoes propel you forward, keeping your stride comfortable and efficient. Users of On shoes sometimes report an improvement in their stride after enough miles spent in an On trainer.
All terrains and types
On offers shoes for multiple terrain options and training interests. You can opt for waterproof, ultralight, longer-run, shorter-run or anything in between. If you expect to compete soon, On has you covered with racing-specific shoes and from the 5k to the marathon.
How much you can expect to spend on On running shoes
Running shoes are pricey, but On is definitely on the higher end. The cheapest options start at $140 and go up to $270, depending on your needs.
On running shoes FAQ
Are On shoes light?
A. Some of On’s offerings are quite light for a trainer. If you’re looking for light shoes, look for On’s designated as “ultralight.” These come in around 8 ounces. Even more, cushioned options focused on longer runs come in under 12 ounces.
Do On shoes come in multiple widths?
A. Yes. Runners looking for shoes with more room can look for On shoes in wide sizes.
Can I train in lighter, racing-style shoes?
A. If you want to, yes. With On’s cushioning technology, that’s an option. You do want to weigh the type of training that you’re doing and your personal preferences. If you light a more responsive shoe or do mainly shorter, interval-style training, a lighter shoe can be of great benefit. If you like to log miles and train for the marathon, an “ultralight” shoe may not be your best option. It comes down to knowing your body and your preferences above all else.
What are the best On running shoes to buy?
Top On running shoes
What you need to know: If you want to embrace On’s idea of running On clouds fully, these maximally cushioned trainers promise many comfortable miles.
What you’ll love: The maximum cushioning in an On shoe is right here. Not satisfied with regular CloudTec, On put Double Cloudtec in these shoes for the most comfort available on the road over any distance.
What you should consider: If you aren’t sold on maximal cushion shoes, these are a pricey expedition into them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top On running shoes for the money
What you need to know: These running shoes are the perfect combination of responsive, light, and comfortably cushioned.
What you’ll love: While On shoes are expensive overall, this is one of their most popular and most affordable options at $140. With a moderate heel-to-toe drop of six millimeters, and “direct” cushioning, these 8-ounce trainers are great for responsive runs of all lengths.
What you should consider: Runners who train for exclusively longer distances may want a bit more cushioning than these shoes offer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
On Cloudventure Waterproof Trail Runners
What you need to know: If roads can’t contain you, these trail-focused trainers are rugged and waterproof, prepared for whatever you can throw at them.
What you’ll love: The lugs on the Cloudventure soles have four varying levels of grip to keep you grounded without getting in the way when unnecessary. Even though they’re waterproof, you still get a breathable upper. At under 12 ounces, you’ll barely notice they’re there.
What you should consider: Most users will want to size up a half to full size, especially those with wider feet. For some, the waterproof version may be unnecessary.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Missing Alabama woman last seen at Hattiesburg gas station. Here's what you need to know
The Hattiesburg Police Department is currently searching for Tumeka Williams, 47, of Theodore, Alabama, who was reported missing by family members on Monday. She was traveling to Jackson to purchase a car but did not return, according to HPD.
According to HPD officials, Alabama Law Enforcement notified HPD of William's alleged disappearance after her 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe, was reported missing and involved in a crash. HPD officials have yet to identify if Williams was involved in the accident or her whereabouts.
Williams was last reported seen in Hattiesburg at Stuckey's gas station on Hwy 49 at 7 p.m. on Monday wearing an orange shirt, light brown jacket and khaki pants.
Williams briefly alerted family members of getting back on the road but did not return home, HPD reports.
Williams's car tag reads 5246BA2.
If you have any information on her whereabouts, please contact Hattiesburg Police.
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The academic medical center's president and CEO joined Tampa's top business leaders recognized by the Florida Council on Economic Education.
TAMPA, Fla., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- John Couris, Tampa General Hospital (TGH) president and CEO, was inducted into the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame by the Florida Council on Economic Education. Couris and the three other inductees joined more than 200 of Tampa's top business leaders who have been inducted since 1988. The award ceremony was May 19.
"We're excited to see John's visionary leadership recognized by the community he has embraced and served so exceptionally well," said Phil Dingle, chairman of the Tampa General Hospital Board of Directors. "Under his leadership, Tampa Bay has become home to one of the nation's leading health systems and academic medical centers. We're proud of the impact his leadership has had on the growth and development of Tampa General, the health and wellness of the Tampa Bay community, and on the advancement and transformation of health care."
Couris is a nationally recognized leader in health care and since taking the helm at Tampa General in 2017, he has championed health care innovation and fostered excellence in clinical care for the entire Tampa Bay region. He is also committed to the professional and personal development of the academic medical center's 8,000 team members and has initiated numerous programs that support education, wellness and resiliency. Particularly passionate about driving medical innovation in Tampa Bay, Couris has led the conceptualization and development of the Tampa Medical and Research District. The district, inspired by renowned medical districts in the nation's greatest cities, houses a growing hub of world-class clinical care, academics, research, and biotechnology. To further expand the district and amplify its impact, the academic medical center has recently announced a community partnership with the Tampa Bay Economic Development Council.
To improve the overall health of the Tampa Bay area, in May of 2022, Tampa General and the City of Tampa launched a groundbreaking community wellness initiative that is engaging in preventative health efforts. The partnership is focusing on three initiatives – routinely prescribing exercise and healthy food as medicine, enhancing fitness trails and parks in the downtown and adjacent areas, and developing a community garden and food pantry in East Tampa. An Exercise is Medicine initiative in three Tampa General Medical Group clinic locations – Armenia, Healthpark Family Care Center and the Family Care Center on Kennedy – encourages health care providers to refer patients to evidenced-based exercises programs and qualified exercise professionals as part of their treatment plan.
"I am both completely humbled and honored to be selected by the Florida Council on Economic Education to join the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame, and to be recognized as part of an esteemed group of dynamic community leaders who have given of their time and talent to make a difference in our community and our state," Couris said. "Thanks to outstanding teamwork and partnerships, Tampa General is a world class academic health system and together we are changing lives every single day for this city, this region and this community. I stand on the shoulders of an incredibly talented and supportive team – our Board of Directors, physicians, Tampa General's leadership team, caregivers, ancillary support staff, and volunteers. Their unique contributions and unwavering dedication make it possible for us to lead and innovate the advanced, innovative care we are proud to deliver."
The Florida Council on Economic Education's 35th annual Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame awards ceremony celebrated the accomplishments, leadership and service of local business professionals who are "Growing a Better Tomorrow," as role models in the community and supporting the organization's mission of preparing Florida's young people for personal and financial success through educational programs.
This induction follows several recent accolades for Couris. Most recently, Couris was named to the Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2023 "Power 100" list. In 2022, Couris was included, along with Tampa General CFO Mark Runyon, as a "Highly Successful CEO-CFO Duo" by Becker's Hospital Review. Couris was also named to Becker's list of 113 "Great Leaders in Healthcare 2022 and 2023" as well as Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Innovators list. Other honors for Couris include the 2021 Tampa Bay Chamber H.L. Culbreath Jr. Profile in Leadership Award; Florida Trend's "Florida 500" list of most influential business leaders in the state; and Florida Politics' "Influence 100" list of the most influential people in Florida politics.
ABOUT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,040-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 Best Hospitals, and is tied as the third highest-ranked hospital in Florida, with seven specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – first nationally in the 2022 America's Best Employers for Women and sixth out of 100 Florida companies in the 2022 America's Best Employers by State. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit worth more than $224.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging powered by Tower outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org). As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — People who want to buy an electric vehicle could get a bigger-than-expected tax credit come Jan. 1 because of a delay by the Treasury Department in drawing up rules for the tax breaks.
The department said late Monday it won’t finish the rules that govern where battery minerals and parts have to be sourced until sometime in March.
As a result, it appears that buyers of EVs assembled in North America with batteries made in the U.S., Canada or Mexico will be eligible for a full $7,500 tax credit under the Inflation Reduction Act. The act calls for the batteries’ minerals and parts to also come from North America or a country with a free-trade agreement with the U.S. in order to get the full tax break, but that provision has been temporarily put on hold.
The auto industry is watching the situation closely, but it could cause a rush to dealers because most, if not all EVs aren’t expected to qualify for the full credit when the rules are all in place.
Experts say most automakers won’t be able to comply with requirements that the battery components come from North America or a country with a U.S. free-trade agreement. For instance, General Motors already has said that it expects its EVs to get only half the tax credit, or $3,750, until at least 2025.
So people who buy early next year before the rules are announced could pocket an extra $3,750.
“I imagine there will be a rush,” on EV dealers to get the extra savings, said Sam Abuelsamid, principal e-mobility analyst with Guidehouse Research.
In the meantime, Treasury said it will release information by year’s end on the “anticipated direction” of the rules to help automakers identify eligible EVs, the department said in a statement. But the rules won’t be effective until March.
Other requirements, like new caps on a buyer’s income and price of the EV, will still take effect Jan. 1.
“It should allow some consumers to get an EV a little bit cheaper than they might have otherwise,” said Chris Harto, a senior policy analyst on transportation and energy for Consumer Reports magazine.
With a base price of $26,595 including shipping, General Motors’ Chevrolet Bolt hatchback is among the lowest-cost EVs on sale in the U.S. today. A $7,500 tax credit would knock the price down to just over $19,000 — less than the average price of a used vehicle in the U.S. That could bring buyers off the sidelines.
GM says it’s watching developments with the tax credit rules. “We feel well-positioned, but we’re still waiting on guidance for vehicle eligibility,” spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said Tuesday.
Automakers have criticized the battery sourcing and assembly requirements as complex, hard to trace and unrealistic in the short term, with no EV model sold in the U.S. likely able to qualify right away for the full $7,500 tax credit.
The law’s aim was in part to reduce U.S. reliance on batteries now predominantly made in China and move supply chains to the U.S. Fifty percent of the battery parts have to be manufactured or assembled in North America, and 40% of battery minerals must come from North America or a country with a U.S. free trade agreement, or recycled in North America. Those percentages rise annually.
More broadly, U.S. allies including South Korea, the European Union and other countries are also upset, arguing that the new law will disqualify their foreign-made EVs unless or until they can open new American plants, which could take several years.
The new law continues to require that EVs be assembled in North America, which took effect when President Joe Biden signed the measure in August. Also taking effect on Jan. 1 are new caps that EV sedans must cost $55,000 or less, or under $80,000 for pickup trucks, SUVs and vans. A car buyer must have income of $150,000 or less if single, or $300,000 if filing jointly.
Abuelsamid said it’s not clear whether someone could order an EV before the rules take effect and still get the full credit. He suspects that people will have a hard time finding EVs, which like other automobiles, are still scarce because the auto industry is having a hard time getting computer chips and other parts to keep factories running.
Harto said the temporary delay makes sense for the Treasury Department as it sorts out technical issues of minerals extraction and battery component manufacturing for its rule-making. Consumers in the meanwhile can take advantage if they pay heed as well to potential dealer markups, he said.
“The market for EVs has been supply limited and I don’t see that changing in the next two weeks, so that’s the real risk — that this additional tax credit gets eaten up by dealer markups,” Harto said.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein contributed to this report. | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-rule-delay-makes-big-ev-tax-credit-possible-early-next-year/ | 2022-12-21 14:17:14 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-rule-delay-makes-big-ev-tax-credit-possible-early-next-year/ |
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crummack Huseby Property Management, Inc. has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2022 honor by The Orange County Register Top Workplaces. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The confidential survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, to name a few.
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"We are incredibly thankful to everyone who has contributed their commitment and dedication; thanks to them, we have achieved Top Workplace status in Orange County," said Co-Founder Sandy Huseby.
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Published: May. 30, 2023 at 8:00 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
May sales on pace for 23 month high
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUE), the easiest, most efficient and transparent online destination for buying and selling new and used vehicles, expects total new vehicle industry sales to reach 1,388,602 units in May 2023, up nearly 20% from a year ago and up 6.5% from April 2023, when adjusted for the same number of selling days. Excluding fleet sales, TrueCar expects U.S. retail deliveries of new cars and light trucks to be 1,145,561 units, up almost 16% from a year ago and up 7% from April 2023.
"Sales are expected to be strong this month as we head into the summer, with growing incentives and inventory options drawing consumers back into the market," said Zack Krelle, Industry Analyst at TrueCar.
"The average transaction price for trucks is up the most this year as incentives for SUVs and cars climb faster. Incentives for SUVs are growing the most quickly which is greatly contributing to the high sales pace," said Justin Colon, Vice President of OEM Solutions at TrueCar.
Total sales for May 2023 are expected to be up nearly 20% from a year ago and up 6.5% from April 2023 when adjusted for the same number of selling days.
Fleet sales for May 2023 are expected to be up almost 40% from a year ago and up 4% from April 2023 when adjusted for the same number of selling days.
Average transaction price for new vehicles is projected to be up 2.7% from a year ago and about even with April 2023.
Used vehicle sales for May 2023 are expected to reach about 3.1 million, down 4% from a year ago and up 1% from April 2023.
The average interest rate on new vehicles is 7.1%, slightly higher than April 2023 and the average interest rate on used vehicles is 10.75%, about even with April 2023.
The average loan term on a new vehicle for May 2023 is about 69 months and the average loan term on a used vehicle is about 70 months.
(Note: This industry insight is based solely on TrueCar, Inc.'s analysis of domestic industry sales trends and conditions and is not a projection of TrueCar, Inc.'s operations.)
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Death row inmate files federal lawsuit following ‘botched’ execution
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) - The man whose lawyers call “the only living execution survivor in the United States” has recently fired a lawsuit after a “botched” execution took place last month.
Death row inmate Alan Miller was set to be executed Sept. 22 for killing three people in a workplace shooting spree in 1999.
With time running out, Miller’s execution by lethal injection was called off at 11:30 p.m. after Holman Prison officials were unable to find access to his veins, but WALA reports it wasn’t for lack of trying.
In the lawsuit, Miller said he was poked and prodded for 90 minutes in what his attorneys described as a “botched” execution.
Miller’s attorneys claimed in the lawsuit medical professionals have always had issues with finding Miller’s veins, which is why he elected death by nitrogen hypoxia, a method the state of Alabama originally said could be available for use.
However, the lawsuit said Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jon Hamm said they could not carry out an execution by nitrogen hypoxia and was prepared to use lethal injection instead. The Supreme Court ultimately cleared the way for the execution.
In the lawsuit, Miller said he was “tortured” as Holman prison staff repeatedly tried to find access to his veins, first in his arms, then in his hands. The lawsuit said staff eventually tried his right foot, saying that, as they inserted the needle, it felt like “he had been electrocuted, and his entire body shook in the restraints.” It’s believed they hit a nerve.
The lawsuit said they eventually tried Miller’s arms again, before the unidentified men began “slapping the skin on his neck … Mr. Miller physically recoiled out of intense fear of the men trying to insert a needle in his neck.”
Miller’s attorneys are asking the judge to ban the state from executing him by any method other than nitrogen hypoxia after a request was made for another execution date.
Nitrogen hypoxia is a method in which an inmate would be forced to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving him or her of the oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions, resulting in death.
Miller’s attorneys said if Miller’s request isn’t fulfilled, it gives the state complete freedom to stab Miller with needles as many times as they can before the clock strikes midnight.
The state has until Tuesday to respond with an answer for why Miller’s motion shouldn’t be granted.
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President Biden is leading Marianne Williamson by more than 70 points among Democratic primary voters, according to a new poll released on Tuesday.
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in the Morning Consult poll said they would support Biden in a Democratic primary or caucus, while just 4 percent said they would support Williamson following her campaign announcement last weekend.
Williamson, a spiritual advisor and author who previously ran for president in 2020, officially launched her second long shot bid for the Democratic nomination on Saturday.
More than half of Democratic primary voters — 52 percent — said they had never heard of Williamson, and her popularity was limited among those who were familiar with the self-help author, the poll found.
Twenty percent of Democrats said they had favorable views of Williamson, while 13 percent said the opposite. The remaining 15 percent said they had heard of the Democratic candidate but had no opinion on her, according to the poll.
Williamson on Sunday accused the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of “rigging” the primary system in favor of Biden by reorganizing the calendar.
The new primary calendar, which was recommended by Biden, will place South Carolina in the first-in-the-nation position. Biden’s win in South Carolina in 2020 was key to his ultimately securing the Democratic nomination.
“The DNC should not be rigging this system,” Williamson told ABC’s “This Week.” “They don’t even pretend anymore. They’re not even covert about their swaying the primary season. They’re very overt about it.”
However, Biden and other Democrats appear to have largely dismissed Williamson’s presidential bid. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) suggested on Sunday that no “serious” Democrats are considering a challenge to Biden, while White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joked about Williamson’s ‘aura’ on Monday.
“I’m just not tracking that,” Jean-Pierre said of Williamson’s bid. “I mean, if I had a, what is it called? A little globe here… a crystal ball that I can tell you. A magic eight ball, whatever. If I could feel her aura.”
“I just don’t have anything to share on that,” she said to laughter from reporters in the briefing room.
The Morning Consult poll was conducted March 3-5 with 829 potential Democratic primary voters and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/biden-leads-williamson-by-more-than-70-points-among-dem-primary-voters-poll/ | 2023-03-07 17:03:32 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/biden-leads-williamson-by-more-than-70-points-among-dem-primary-voters-poll/ |
Apple River, Wis. stabbing: Teen dead, 4 hurt after man goes on stabbing spree while tubing
SOMERSET, Wis. (FOX 9) - Police say a 52-year-old man from Prior Lake, Minnesota went on a stabbing spree while tubing on the Apple River in Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon, killing a 17-year-old boy, who was also from Minnesota, and critically injuring four other people.
The suspect was not previously known to local law enforcement and is currently in custody at the St. Croix County Jail, pending charges, according to St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson.
The four injured victims, a 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, a 20-year-old and 22-year-old male from Luck Wisconsin, and a 22-year-old male from Elk River, are in stable condition. Their injuries range from serious to critical with stab wounds to their torsos and chest areas, Knudson said in a press release Sunday.
Investigators believe that both the suspect and the victims were tubing on the river when the incident occurred.
How law enforcement and EMS responded
Knudson said that people started calling 911 to report the stabbings at about 3:45 p.m. Emergency responders arrived to find that five people were wounded and that the suspect had fled the scene, which was by milepost nine on Highway 3564, near Sunrise Bridge and the area that used to be Sunrise Park.
With the help of a group of tubers who were on the river, deputies began administering first aid and evacuating the victims. Knudson said that two were airlifted to Regions Hospital, with the others traveling by ambulance. Paramedics took the 17-year-old to Lakeview Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses helped lead deputies to the suspect, who had fled about three-quarters of a mile upstream, and they arrested him roughly an hour and a half after the incident began, Knudson said.
Asked to describe the scene, Knudson replied: "Chaotic. Scary. I'm sure that anybody that witnessed this will never forget it. So it is a tragedy."
Knudson said investigators were still searching for the knife the suspect allegedly used. A news helicopter filmed a group of four deputies, who were accompanied by a police dog, wading into the water late Saturday afternoon. As a police drone flew overhead, another group of officers searched further downstream, picking through tall grass and discarded tires that had been dumped by the river bank.
Resident recalls helping distraught father
Kat Fenton is an artist and musician who has lived in the area for 25 years. Her family owns property at Sunside part, near where the incident occurred. On Saturday afternoon, she was in her driveway when she saw a car speeding down the street. When she waved at the driver to slow down, he stopped. Then, she noticed he had blood on his shirt and was crying.
He told her his son had been stabbed and was one of the survivors who had been airlifted to Regions Hospital. She got in the passenger seat and led him to where law enforcement was gathered near the scene.
"I knew I needed to help him... So at that point, I got in and I touched his arm and I just said.'I'll get you through this. I'll. I'll show you where you need to go," she said.
She was in disbelief that this happened by the river, where people often go cool off and enjoy summer days.
"I've never seen anything like this… This is not okay. People just come here to have fun," she said. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/apple-river-stabbing-one-dead-four-injured-after-mass-stabbing-during-tubbing-on-wisconsin-river | 2022-07-31 21:43:44 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/apple-river-stabbing-one-dead-four-injured-after-mass-stabbing-during-tubbing-on-wisconsin-river |
Critic Bob Mondello remembers the movie fright-fests he conjured in his youth By Bob Mondello Published October 31, 2022 at 1:32 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Halloween has a film critic remembering the movie fright-fests he conjured in his youth. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.knau.org/2022-10-31/critic-bob-mondello-remembers-the-movie-fright-fests-he-conjured-in-his-youth | 2022-10-31 22:06:39 | 1 | https://www.knau.org/2022-10-31/critic-bob-mondello-remembers-the-movie-fright-fests-he-conjured-in-his-youth |
(NerdWallet) – Flight delays and cancellations are uncomfortably frequent right now. In fact, the on-time arrivals rate thus far in 2022 among U.S. airports hasn’t been this low since 2014, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
For the period between January and April 2022, just 76% of nonstop, domestic flights arrived on time, according to the BTS. Meanwhile, about 20% of flights were delayed (also a high not seen since 2014) and 4% were canceled completely. For context, 87% of flights arrived on time during the same period last year, and less than 2% of flights were canceled.
So how do you improve your odds of traveling on one of the three-quarters of flights that arrives in good time? And how have flight delays and cancelations become so prevalent?
Why are so many flights being canceled?
There are several reasons flights are being canceled, and there’s currently a lot of finger-pointing, too.
Contributing factors include:
- Airline issues, like not having enough staff. Mechanical issues and delays may be compounded by staffing shortages.
- The Federal Aviation Administration is also experiencing staffing issues. While a shortage isn’t to blame, the agency is still managing backups in training new air traffic controllers quickly enough. National Aviation System delays, such as heavy traffic volume or air traffic control challenges, account for about 5% of delays.
- Weather. This issue is minor; weather delays have accounted for less than 1% of late arrivals so far this year.
- Increased travel demand. If one aircraft previously flew two flights a day with a six-hour buffer between flights, the second flight wouldn’t be impacted, even if the first flight was delayed three hours. Now, if that same aircraft has increased its flight numbers to three a day with less downtime, even a short delay can severely impact future flights.
How to improve your chances of avoiding airline cancellations
Know which airlines actually arrive on schedule
While past performance doesn’t guarantee future performance, it’s at least a good indicator. NerdWallet analyzed BTS arrival data between January and April 2022 for the 10 largest U.S. airlines by passenger miles to determine each airline’s on-time arrivals rate.
If timeliness is a priority, consider booking Delta or Hawaiian, which arrived on time 82% of the time. Skip JetBlue, which only landed on schedule 60% of the time.
Air carrier problems — meaning the issue was due to circumstances within the airline’s control, such as maintenance, cleaning, baggage loading or fueling delays — were the top cause of late arrivals for the first four months of 2022, accounting for nearly 8% of delays.
Book the earliest flight in the day
The second most common cause of delays: The aircraft arrived late from its previous destination. Nearly 7% of flights in the first four months of 2022 were delayed for this reason.
It’s not uncommon for the aircraft flying an evening flight to have already made a couple of trips earlier in the day. If one of the earlier flights was delayed, there’d likely be a snowball effect.
For example, the aircraft’s first flight of the day may have been fine, but if the second flight had maintenance problems and arrived late, then the third flight would probably run behind schedule, which could in turn affect any subsequent flights. You can try to avoid the snowball effect by booking the day’s first flight.
Avoid layovers
Sadly, it doesn’t do you much good for the first leg of your flight to arrive on schedule if the second leg is delayed. Who wants to sit twiddling their thumbs in a layover city or airport?
It’s potentially even worse if the second leg of your journey departs on time, but you miss it because your incoming flight was delayed.
Mitigate this risk by booking nonstop flights. Even if the airfare is more expensive, it could be worth it to avoid the headache of missing a connecting flight.
If a layover is unavoidable, it’s almost always better to book the entire journey with the same airline on a single itinerary, as opposed to booking with separate airlines for each leg of the trip. That way, if your first flight ends up being delayed, the airline may work with you to adjust your connecting flight, provided that the delay was its fault. If you book the two legs of your trip on different airlines, you likely won’t get that kind of consideration.
Choose an airline with multiple flights per day
If your flight is canceled, most airlines will rebook you on their next flight with available space for no additional charge, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. If your airline runs multiple flights on the same route per day, you may only have to wait a few hours. Sure, having to take a later flight would be annoying, but it likely wouldn’t ruin your trip.
As an example, let’s say you’re flying from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, a route that United usually flies four times per day. But you choose to take JetBlue, which typically only flies that route two times per day. If your ticket is for the single afternoon flight — and it then gets canceled — there’s a good chance you won’t be able to get to Vegas that day, period.
And no, you likely won’t be able to persuade JetBlue to pay for one of United’s remaining flights, as there are no federal regulations requiring airlines to put you on another airline’s flight or reimburse you for another airline’s tickets.
What to do after booking
Even if you follow our advice to decrease the chances of your flight getting canceled (say, by booking the first, nonstop flight of the day on Delta — one of the most on-time airlines), you could still hit a patch of bad luck. These next steps might save you some headaches:
Check your flight status
To stay informed, opt-in to receiving flight status updates by email, text or push notification, a feature of some airline apps. Or, simply plug your flight number into a search engine to get real-time flight data.
If your flight is canceled, you might decide you’re better off staying put and booking a new flight from home rather than scrambling to do so at the airport. If your flight is delayed, you might simply head to the airport at a more leisurely pace. Just be sure to keep an eye on the flight status, because a flight marked delayed can sometimes revert back to being on time.
Don’t pack a checked bag (but do pack your patience)
If your initial flight gets canceled and you have to book a different airline’s last-minute flight, it might be difficult to retrieve a suitcase that’s still in the first airline’s hands. Traveling with a carry-on lets you move more nimbly between flights.
There is one thing you can pack that won’t take up any luggage space: patience. The gate agent likely isn’t responsible for the delay, so be kind — and they might be more likely to help book you on another flight.
Additionally, consider joining an airport lounge membership program like Priority Pass. (Membership is sometimes free with certain credit cards.) Lounge amenities — which sometimes include luxuries like nap suites, Peloton bikes, showers and buffets — can usually make it easier to stomach a long delay.
Understand your rights
If your flight is delayed or canceled, know what compensation you’re entitled to. Sadly, it’s not much when it comes to delays; there are no federal laws requiring airlines to provide passengers with compensation for delayed flights.
Some airlines choose to offer meal vouchers or hotels to stranded passengers, but that’s uncommon among budget airlines. Airlines are not required to reimburse you for non-air expenses, such as a prepaid hotel room or a missed cruise departure.
For canceled flights where you opt not to be rebooked on another flight, you are entitled to a refund of the airfare, even if you bought nonrefundable tickets.
Have a backup plan
Given that airlines aren’t legally required to do much to help you, understand how to help yourself.
- Map out nearby airports or alternative transportation: For example, if your in-state flight from Burbank to Oakland, California, gets canceled, you might be able to hail a cab to the airport in Los Angeles or Long Beach and catch a different flight. Look beyond airports too; you might give up on flying completely and hop on a train up north.
- Book refundable travel: You may be able to book a refundable ticket if you’re willing to pay extra. Otherwise, as long as you book a non-basic economy fare, you’ll probably at least get a voucher to use on the airline toward another flight if you decide to change or cancel the flight due to itinerary changes.
- Consider trip insurance: Travel insurance, which can be purchased separately from your flight (and is sometimes offered as a benefit on certain credit cards), might help you get money back if a trip is canceled or delayed. It might also fund expenses incurred by delays, like an extra hotel room night. This can be helpful, say, if a hurricane prevents you from flying home from your Caribbean vacation, forcing you to book an additional night at your resort. Read the fine print, as many policies exclude delays caused by the airline.
The bottom line
On-time arrival rates haven’t been this bad since 2014. Unless you’ve got a crystal ball, there’s no way to guarantee you won’t book a flight that gets delayed. But even without one, a thoughtful booking strategy can better ensure you get to your destination on schedule. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/how-to-book-a-flight-that-likely-wont-get-canceled/ | 2022-07-23 15:36:52 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/how-to-book-a-flight-that-likely-wont-get-canceled/ |
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark early Tuesday called off a strike that has been causing major disruption for 15 days after reaching a deal with management.
The carrier has said the strike has led to the cancellation of around half of all SAS scheduled flights and had impacted thousands of passengers per day.
SAS CEO Anko van der Werff said the parties had agreed on an agreement for the next five-and-a-half years that guarantees both cost savings and job security for the pilots.
“I am pleased to report that we now have come to an agreement with all four pilot unions for SAS Scandinavia and the strike has ended. Finally, we can resume normal operations and fly our customers on their much longed-for summer holidays. I deeply regret that so many of our passengers have been impacted by this strike,” van der Werff said in a statement,
Some 900 pilots walked out July 4, citing inadequate pay and working conditions and expressing dissatisfaction with the decision by the carrier to hire new pilots to fill vacancies at its subsidiary airlines, SAS Link and SAS Connect, rather than rehire former pilots who were laid off due to the pandemic.
“Pilots have secured an important breakthrough. Four hundred and fifty pilots who were laid off during the corona pandemic have been guaranteed re-employment and the pilot associations’ collective agreements will also apply to the new companies SAS Connect and SAS Link,” the pilot association SAS Pilot Group said in a statement.
SAS said the strike led to the cancellation of more than 3,700 flights, affecting more than 380,000 passengers, adding the walkout cost 100 million-130 million Swedish kronor ($9.5-12.3 million) per day in lost revenue and costs.
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22-year-old charged with murder, DUI after deadly crash in Green County
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A 22-year-old is facing several charges including murder and DUI after a deadly crash in the Summersville community of Green County.
The crash happened Saturday around 1:53 a.m. at the intersection of KY 61 and KY 323.
Kentucky State Police said Daniel Sidebottom was headed west on KY-323 when he ran a stop sign and hit a 2023 Honda Odyssey that was traveling north on KY 61.
One of the passengers in the Honda Odyssey was 63-year-old Sandra Durfee. Durfee was airlifted to the University of Louisville Hospital, where she died from her injuries.
Police said the other four passengers in the car were taken to the hospital for their injuries.
Sidebottom refused medical treatment. He was arrested and charged with one count of DUI, disregarding a stop sign, murder and five counts of assault.
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(KTXL) — A storm that hit California Saturday night and early Sunday morning knocked down trees and power lines, leaving more than 300,000 people without power in Sacramento and surrounding counties.
At one point, close to 350,000 people were without power overnight. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the main electricity provider in the area, reported more than 200,000 customers were still without power Sunday afternoon.
In a Sunday news conference, state officials including the governor said they were in contact with President Joe Biden and were requesting that his administration make an emergency declaration so the state could get full support from the federal government in the recovery from the recent storms.
The director of the state’s office of emergency services said the recent storm is the fifth one to hit the state since Dec. 27, and that a stronger one was expected starting Sunday evening and continuing through Tuesday.
The weekend storm hit California after several days of relatively calm weather following another windy storm mid-week.
The storms are a series of atmospheric rivers — large formations of water vapor over the ocean that turn into rain and snow once they hit land — that have hit the state since Dec. 27.
Although the state has been in severe drought conditions for several years, so much precipitation in so little time presents just as much trouble as it does benefits.
Several communities had to be evacuated after a New Year’s weekend storm, Santa Cruz County and the Bay Area were thrashed in a later storm, and multiple deaths connected to the storms have been reported since the New Year, including a woman in Sacramento that died when a tree fell on her on Saturday night.
State officials declared a state of emergency due to the storms and the flooding risks that they pose.
In anticipation of the next storm, Sacramento County officials issued an evacuation warning for the community of Wilton, one of the harder hit areas in the New Year’s weekend storm.
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BEIJING, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China has adjusted its response to COVID-19 prevention and control in recent weeks. It announced it will downgrade COVID-19 management from Class A to Class B infectious disease while resuming passport, visa issuance and easing border-entry policies starting on January 8, 2023. It also changed the Chinese name of the disease from "novel coronavirus pneumonia" to "novel coronavirus infection."
China's decision has drawn widespread criticisms from a section of the Western media outlets, and also the Western political and intellectual circles, same as the previous "dynamic zero-COVID" policy. Criticism ranges from comparing China's latest COVID-19 surge to a "catastrophe" that could "put the global economy at risk" to scaremongering over the rise of "new coronavirus mutants."
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said that "Currently, we are adapting our COVID-19 response measures to the new developments in the epidemic, so as to better coordinate epidemic response and socioeconomic development. We believe that, with the Chinese people's joint efforts and solidarity, we will usher in a new phase of steady and orderly economic and social development."
China's dynamic zero-COVID policy protected people's lives and bought time for understanding the virus based on science, for research and development of vaccines, anti-viral drugs and therapeutics, and for vaccinating more people nationwide.
According to the latest official data, China has administered over 3.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines nationwide with over 90 percent of its 1.4 billion population fully vaccinated. Over 87 percent of people over the age of 60 fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, China has rolled out the second booster shot with 13 types of COVID-19 vaccines approved for the purpose.
The figures speak for themselves. To this day, China has the lowest COVID-19 death toll among major countries in the world. In contrast, the U.S., with a quarter of China's population, has reported over a million deaths. The past three years laid the foundation for China's policy adjustments.
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DENVER (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been added to the new Broncos ownership group.
Rob Walton announced the inclusion of Rice in a statement issued Monday on behalf of the Walton-Penner family ownership group. The group agreed to buy the franchise from the Pat Bowlen Trust last month for a reported $4.65 billion. It’s pending approval by the NFL.
“A highly respected public servant, accomplished academic and corporate leader, Secretary Rice is well known as a passionate and knowledgeable football fan who has worked to make the sport stronger and better,” Walton said in a statement. “Her unique experience and extraordinary judgment will be a great benefit to our group and the Broncos organization.”
Rice has strong ties to the Denver community. She received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Denver.
The former provost at Stanford University, Rice served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush from 2005-09. She’s also been on the College Football Playoff selection committee and chaired a commission on college basketball.
The new ownership group is led by Walton and includes his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband, Greg Penner.
Walton, 77, was chairman of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, from 1992-2015, when he retired. He is the eldest son of founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton and has an estimated net worth of nearly $60 billion.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has announced the closure of the WIS 172 ramp to southbound I-41 due to pavement reconstruction.
The long-term closure of the WIS 172/I-41 system-to-system interchange ramp closure will begin on Monday, April 17 as part of the WIS 172 Project in Brown County.
Officials say the westbound ramp will close early Monday morning and will remain closed for 35 days.
A signed detour will direct traffic to northbound I-41 and exit at the Lombardi Avenue interchange and use the southbound I-41 on-ramp at the Lombardi interchange to rejoin southbound I-41.
This is a resurfacing-level project with numerous structure and ramp improvements between the airport and I-41. Work is also taking place on WIS 172 between I-41 and I-43.
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FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Fresno City Council will join with health and safety advocates from Alcohol Justice and the Friday Night Live Partnership at a Fresno City Hall press event to oppose California SB 930. The "gut & amend" bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and Assembly Member Mark Haney (D-San Francisco), is the 5th attempt since 2013 to disrupt the protections of California's statewide uniform last call.
SB 930 would allow closing times for on-sale retailers to be extended from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. as part of a dangerous "pilot program." The experiment would take place in 6 cities: San Francisco, Oakland, West Hollywood, Cathedral City, Coachella, and Palm Springs. Fresno was originally the 7th city in the pilot program but requested to be removed from the bill due to opposition among Fresno city leaders who will be voting on an opposition resolution later this week.
What: Press Conference
When: Tuesday August 9, 2022 10:00 a.m.
Where: Fresno City Hall 2600 Fresno Street, Media Room 2120 2nd floor.
Who:
- Councilmember Garry Bredefeld (District 6)
- Councilmember Tyler Maxwell (District 4)
- Councilmember Miguel Arias (District 3)
- Cruz Avila, Executive Director, Alcohol Justice
- Carson Benowitz-Fredericks, MSPH, CHES, Research Director, Alcohol Justice
- Lynne Goodwin, Administrator, Friday Night Live Partnership
Why:
One of the main points of opposition is that there is no "local control" when it comes to alcohol because the danger, harms and costs will not stay in the "Pilot Project Cities" where the drinking and economic benefits occur. If the bill becomes law, all surrounding communities of pilot project cities will be threatened by late night drinkers traveling drunk and fatigued in the early morning commute hours.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), California currently suffers more annual alcohol-related harm than any other state: 11,000 alcohol-related deaths, $35 billion in total costs, $18.5 billion in state costs. The CDC also identifies maintaining existing last call times as one of the 10 key policies for reducing the harms from reckless drinking and from alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths.
Fresno is following actions by the Los Angeles City Council which passed a resolution of opposition last week, and the powerful Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) that came out against SB 930 in a letter made public last week.
SB 930:
- Is a poorly conceived and inadequately funded pilot project
- Strips away uniform protections of statewide 2 a.m. last call
- Costs the state at least $3-4 million per year to administer, mitigate the harm, and clean the blood off the highway; costs cities and towns in "Splash Zones" millions more
- Disregards 40 years of peer-reviewed, public health research on the dangers of extending last call
- Ignores the existing annual catastrophe of alcohol-related harm in California
- Uses the false narrative of COVID economic recovery to subsidize and reward late-night alcohol-sellers at government and tax-payer expense
Alcohol Justice encourages the public to TAKE ACTION to STOP SB 930: Text JUSTICE to 313131 or visit: https://alcoholjustice.org/take-action/stop-sb-930-no-late-last-calls-in-ca-not-now-not-ever
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT) celebrated its second annual day of service, Pure Planet Day, in Florida and Ohio. Florida volunteers helped build a greenhouse for Millennia Gardens Elementary, an award-winning Title I school located in Orlando, while the Ohio crew collected solid and plastic waste scattered on the roads of Ironton in partnership with the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District.
Tamsin Ettefagh, chief sustainability officer, PureCycle said, "Pure Planet Day is more than just about picking up waste on the side of the road or along a riverbed. From working with Millennia Gardens Elementary School in Orlando on environmental and educational projects to helping beautify the City of Ironton where our flagship facility is located, Pure Planet Day is about making change happen for the betterment of our environment and humanity. It's about leaving the communities in which we live and work better than we found them."
Michelle Carralero, principal, Millennia Gardens Elementary School, said, "We are thrilled to work with PureCycle, a neighbor in our community, to continue to advance our environment-focused programs here at Millennia Gardens. We are doing more than building a greenhouse. We are creating a sanctuary that is both beautiful and safe for our children to learn and play. We are building the next generation of eco-conscious adults and we are proud of the work we have done."
As a part of Pure Planet Day, PureCycle has donated to Millennia Gardens Elementary through the Foundation for Orange County Public Schools to help further their eco efforts. In 2021, PureCycle celebrated its first Pure Planet Day in Ironton, Ohio, collecting solid and plastic waste along the Ohio riverbank and County Road 1A. All collected polypropylene plastic was later transformed into PureCycle's ultra-pure recycled (UPR) resin.
PureCycle transforms polypropylene plastic waste into a versatile resource through a patented, unique purification process that removes colors, odors, and other impurities to create an ultra-pure recycled resin that is as good as new plastic. The company's mission is to revolutionize plastic waste into a renewable resource and create an infinitely sustainable planet.
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About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented solvent-driven purification recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform
polypropylene plastic waste (designated as No. 5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from No. 5 plastic waste resulting in an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic can be recycled and reused over and over again, changing our relationship with plastic.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of PCT. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of PCT and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of the Quarterly Report to be filed on Form 10-Q. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section of PCT's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 entitled "Risk Factors," those discussed and identified in public filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by PCT and the following:
- PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT's UPR resin in food grade applications (both in the United States and abroad);
- PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the UPR resin and PCT's facilities (both in the United States and abroad);
- expectations and changes regarding PCT's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT's ability to invest in growth initiatives;
- PCT's ability to scale and build the Ironton facility in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of the Augusta facility, its first U.S. cluster facility located in Augusta, Georgia, in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its plastic waste prep ("Feed PreP") facilities;
- PCT's ability to maintain exclusivity under the Procter & Gamble Company license;
- the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT's business model and growth strategy;
- the success or profitability of PCT's offtake arrangements;
- the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content;
- PCT's future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash;
- PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth;
- developments and projections relating to PCT's competitors and industry;
- the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become a party, including the recently filed securities class action case;
- the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the previously announced business combination consummated on March 17, 2021;
- unexpected costs related to the business combination;
- geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations;
- the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors;
- changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages), transportation and materials, including significant inflation, and PCT's ability to obtain them in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms;
- operational risk; and
- the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic, including any new and emerging variants and the efficacy and distribution of vaccines, and local, state, federal and international responses to addressing the pandemic may have an adverse effect on PCT's business operations, as well as PCT's financial condition and results of operations.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of PCT prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements or other matters attributable to PCT or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, PCT undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman mocked Republican opponent Mehmet Oz and Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano on Friday using a “Jersey Boys” meme following reports that the latter candidate was registered to vote in New Jersey until last year.
Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, responded to an article published by the New Jersey Globe that reported Mastriano was registered to vote in the state for 28 years until election officials changed his status to inactive last year.
The article also mentioned Oz’s past residence and record of voting in New Jersey and reported that the candidate could legally vote in the state if he chose not to vote in Pennsylvania.
Fetterman’s meme used an image from the musical “Jersey Boys” with images of Oz and Mastriano added.
The Democrat followed the meme with a video compilation of Oz discussing his residence in New Jersey, captioning the tweet: “He now refers to himself in ads as ‘Pennsylvania’s doctor.’ But he will always be JERSEY STRONG.”
The video included six instances of Oz saying, “I live in New Jersey” and one of him saying he is from the state.
Fetterman’s campaign has sought for months to portray Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey, employing various methods — including an airplane banner and a petition to add the Republican candidate to the New Jersey Hall of Fame — to troll him over the issue.
A Monmouth University poll released on Wednesday found that Fetterman had a 9-point lead over Oz in the race to replace Republican Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.).
Fetterman’s favorability rating among Pennsylvanians surveyed was 11 points higher than Oz’s, while Oz’s unfavorability rating was 14 points higher than Fetterman’s.
Meanwhile, a Monmouth University poll released on Friday found Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro leading Mastriano by 18 points.
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By MARK ANDERSON
AP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Quarterback Derek Carr turned down a trade offer from the Las Vegas Raiders to the New Orleans Saints, a person with knowledge of the decision said Sunday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to comment publicly.
That person said Carr wouldn’t accept a pay cut to help finalize the deal, and the Saints were the only team interested in making a trade with the Raiders. Carr has a no-trade clause in his contract.
Given those circumstances and Wednesday’s deadline for the Raiders to trade or release Carr, it appears Las Vegas will cut the veteran quarterback. If the Raiders keep him on their roster, they will owe him $40.4 million in guaranteed money over the next two years.
He indicated Feb. 2 that being released and hitting the free-agent market was his preferred route, saying then he wouldn’t waive his no-trade clause.
Carr visited the New Orleans Saints last week, according to three sources with knowledge of the trip.
Carr, 31, played nine seasons for the Raiders and holds club records for yards passing (35,222) and touchdown passes (217), but without a playoff victory. The Raiders benched him with two games remaining this season, partly because Carr was struggling and partly because they would owe him the guaranteed money if he got hurt.
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What happened to Sabrina Aisenberg? Baby’s disappearance still a mystery after 25 years
TAMPA, Fla. - In a house in Maryland, a room sits filled with trinkets and toys bought for a little girl who never got to play with them. In the basement, lies a cedar closet full of baby clothes that were never worn. Throughout the house are photos of a baby who never set foot inside the residence.
Sabrina Aisenberg disappeared from her crib in Valrico, Florida, on November 24, 1997, when she was just five months old.
According to reports, her mother, Marlene Aisenberg, told authorities she last saw the little girl when she checked on her in her crib around midnight.
But, when she got up the morning of November 24, the baby and her blanket were gone, launching Hillsborough County’s most widely-known and controversial missing person cases.
Today, the Aisenbergs tell FOX 13 News they still believe their daughter will be found, clinging to hope as cold cases are cracked with new technology in DNA and genealogy.
If found, Sabrina would be a 25-year-old woman with a story the world would be eager to hear.
The Disappearance
Baby Sabrina vanished three days before Thanksgiving. According to reports, when Marlene Aisenberg woke up on November 24, 1997, her baby was missing from her crib along with a handmade blue and yellow blanket with imprinted animal images and yellow piping.
Marlene Aisenberg said she turned to see the garage door was open and the door leading from the garage into the home was unlocked.
She called 911 at 6:42 a.m. and within minutes police were swarming the home and canvassing the neighborhood in search of the missing baby.
Sabrina Aisenberg vanished from her crib on November 24, 1997, when she was 5 months old.
Neighbors reportedly told investigators that there had been several attempted break-ins in the neighborhood in homes with small children.
On the morning baby Sabrina disappeared, one neighbor reported hearing his dog bark around 1 a.m. When he let the animal out, he heard a baby crying somewhere in the distance.
He thought it was strange because none of his immediate neighbors had small children.
READ: On Missing Children’s Day, Florida investigators continue long quest to solve disappearances
Even though investigators reportedly found seven unidentified fingerprints in the home, as well as an unidentified blonde hair, and a shoe print near the baby’s crib, suspicion quickly fell on the Aisenbergs.
Investigators questioned why nobody inside the residence woke up to the intruder and why the family dog never barked.
While everyone reacts to stress and trauma differently, at the time, members of the public and the media thought the Aisenbergs' behavior during a press conference where they pleaded for Sabrina's safe return was odd.
"The police told me that very first day that they thought I had done it," Marlene Aisenberg told PEOPLE in 2001. "A policeman looked me right in the eye and said, ‘We think you know what happened.’ "
The Aisenberg Tapes
According to FOX 13 News archives, shortly after Sabrina vanished, law enforcement authorities followed thousands of leads, searched lakes, and traveled to 49 states and several countries, but the investigation kept bringing them back to Steve and Marlene Aisenberg.
According to court documents, 16 days after Sabrina disappeared, law enforcement officers got permission to wiretap the couple’s home and secretly monitor and record the couple’s conversations – in their home and over the phone.
The documents stated that detectives believed there was probable cause to show that the Aisenbergs murdered their daughter.
On December 13, 1997, law enforcement officials placed electronic interception devices in the Aisenbergs' Valrico home.
The detectives were approved in January and February to extend the amount of time they could record the couple’s conversations because they said a pediatrician thought that pictures of the missing baby indicated that hair had been pulled out of the left side of the baby's head and the area around the left eye was bruised.
The detectives also claimed that the hairdresser of the Aisenbergs' children said that she noticed hair missing from the child's head.
The indictment alleged that a bald spot could be seen on Sabrina's head in a home video.
In all, law enforcement recorded the couple for 79 days. They gathered 2,600 conversations on 55 audio recordings, including what they claimed was a smoking gun.
On the tape, law enforcement claimed Marlene Aisenberg could be heard saying, "The baby’s dead and buried. It was found dead because you did it! The baby’s dead no matter what you say - you just did it!"
Steven Aisenberg was accused of replying, "Honey, there was nothing I could do about it. We need to discuss the way that we can beat the charge. I would never break away from the family pact and our story even if the police were to hold me down. We will do what we have to do."
On December 24, the tapes allegedly recorded Marlene Aisenberg saying "Oh, Steve! I tried to save her, and she died and as, we can’t confuse them, but we’ll try it, Hon, you know."
On January 21, 1998, investigators say they heard Steven Aisenberg say, "I wish I hadn’t harmed her."
Marlene Aisenberg allegedly replied, "I just can’t take the rap for this."
On February 17, 1998, as the federal grand jury began to investigate, investigators say Steve Aisenberg was recorded saying, "They didn’t know the truth, right?"
Marlene Aisenberg allegedly replied, "Yeah. So, in a way you know, that means nobody knows what we did still."
Steven Aisenberg is accused of then saying, "Exactly."
On January 30, 1998, the United States served the Aisenbergs with subpoenas to appear before the grand jury. Though the couple communicated their intent to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights, the government insisted they appear before a grand jury.
On February 11, 1998, the Aisenbergs appeared before the grand jury, invoked their Fifth Amendment rights, and refused to answer most questions.
On September 9, 1999, a federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against the Aisenbergs, and the couple, who had since moved to Maryland, was arrested.
Law enforcement battered the door of the Steven's childhood home where the couple was staying as they went into arrest Marlene.
Marlene Aisenberg faced up to 30 years in prison. Her husband was looking at 20 years in prison on charges they conspired and lied to authorities about their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple was never charged with harming their daughter.
The case against the Aisenbergs was built on the couple's recorded conversations – eavesdropping, which the Aisenbergs’ attorney at the time, Barry Cohen, who has since passed away, called "a law enforcement vendetta."
Aisenbergs leaving courthouse.
In February 2001, a judge ruled that investigators lied when seeking permission to place the wiretaps inside the Aisenberg’s home and they were cleared of all charges against them.
The judge stated that the wiretaps were largely unintelligible and that the statements from the pediatrician and the hairdresser were misquoted or taken out of context in the extension applications.
The judge also noted that there was nothing on the tapes that matched what was in the transcripts of the Aisenbergs' conversations.
The lead prosecutor in the Aisenberg case was demoted in July 2001.
Turning the Tables
After being acquitted, the Aisenbergs’ attorney filed a lawsuit against the federal government and won nearly $3 million to cover legal fees under the Hyde Amendment, which gives the court permission to award attorney's fees and other litigation expenses if the "court finds that the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith."
The judgment was for the bad faith prosecution of Steven and Marlene Aisenberg in connection with the disappearance of their daughter Sabrina, and the wholesale disclosure of all grand jury transcripts.
The amount was eventually reduced to about $1.5 million.
The couple sued again for additional damages and accused prosecutors of conspiring to deprive them of their civil rights, fabricating evidence and lying about it.
However, in 2004, a judge dismissed the case, saying the law gives prosecutors immunity from such lawsuits against their official actions.
The Aisenbergs also dropped a similar lawsuit against the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in 2006.
Pointing the Finger
Nearly 11 years after baby Sabrina disappeared, an inmate named Dennis Byron claimed that HCSO detectives asked him to wear a wire to record his conversations with his fellow inmate and friend about the Aisenberg case.
Inmate Scott Overbeck was in jail on weapons charges, but according to previous FOX 13 reports, he once lived down the street from Tony Tranquillo, an investigator with the Aisenbergs' lawyer's firm in the Dana Shores neighborhood.
Previous reports from FOX 13, which reference sworn statements cited in the Tampa Bay Times from Byron, stated Overbeck said he was asked to go to the Aisenbergs' home and pick up a boat with the baby’s body inside. Then he said he disposed of the body in the waters near the Courtney Campbell Causeway.
In the sworn statement, Byron said it was his impression that Overbeck was asked to do it by Cohen’s investigator, Tranquillo, who died in 2006.
FOX 13 archive image of Scott Overbeck.
Byron's attorney, John Trevena, said his client sent a letter stating that Cohen, Tranquillo, and the Aisenbergs were the targets of the HCSO investigation.
"I don’t see how there can be any court proceedings after this. The credibility of the informants now by the sheriff’s office has been attacked. They’re going to call these people as their own witnesses after suggesting that they’re not credible? I don’t see that happening," Trevena said in an old interview with FOX 13. "Was the investigation ever worth anything, to begin with, is the point. I mean, it seems so preposterous. If there is no forensic evidence to support these kinds of wild accusations then it should have been written off on day one as preposterous. Anyone who would even look at this from the outside would say this is ridiculous. If you don’t have any physical evidence to support it there never should have been an investigation. That’s the whole point. I think that’s the point Mr. Cohen is making. The sheriff’s office invested thousands and thousands of dollars in this case."
"All Mr. Byron did, in this case, was relay what Mr. Overbeck had told him. He had no independent knowledge of any of this information and never claimed to. The only thing he could claim directly was that he saw this boat that Overbeck claimed was used in the disposal of the baby."
At the time, HCSO sent FOX 13 a statement that said the agency denies ever viewing Barry Cohen as a subject, target, suspect or person of interest. The statement added, "There is no political, personal or other improper agenda. Detectives treat all these leads in a professional and scientific manner."
According to a FOX 13 report, Trevena stated in a press conference that HCSO purchased the boat from Overbeck for $2500 in November of December 2007.
Paloma Unknown
In April 2003, a woman in Michigan saw Sabrina’s missing child poster and noticed a resemblance between the photo and a child who was living in Illinois.
When the Aisenbergs were shown a photo of the girl who was called "Paloma Unknown," they agreed that she looked like their missing baby.
According to the Charley Project, "Paloma Unknown" was taken into Mexico through the Texas border by a teenage girl claiming to be her mother.
The teen gave the girl to a woman who may have been working in the textile industry and was about to be deported.
Image of girl given the nickname 'Paloma Unknown' courtesy of the Charley Project.
That woman allegedly gave the baby to a friend who was a registered nurse at a migrant clinic and signed paperwork allowing the child to be put up for adoption.
Off-the-books adoptions were not unusual near the Mexican border at the time.
The nurse gave the child to her sister who raised her in Illinois.
However, when the couple tried to adopt "Paloma Unknown," they were denied because they did not have the baby’s birth certificate or information on her background.
Instead, the couple was appointed as the girl’s guardians. Though several agencies tried to identify the girl’s parents, they were unsuccessful.
A DNA sample was taken from "Paloma Unknown" but it did not match the Aisenbergs.
DNA, genealogy and finding the missing
FOX 13 spoke with Steve and Marlene Aisenberg shortly after the 25th anniversary of Sabrina’s disappearance. Though the couple did not want to talk about the events of that fateful day, they do have faith their daughter will be found and believe her case will be solved through DNA and genealogy.
Marlene Aisenberg said she regularly gets Facebook messages from women who think they may be Sabrina, but they have not had a match.
When the Aisenbergs hear of people such as Melissa Highsmith, who was reunited with her family 51 years after being kidnapped thanks to a 23 and Me test, it boosts their faith they will find Sabrina.
"It gives us continued hope that Sabrina is still out there and that she’ll do a DNA test and we will find her," Steven Aisenberg said.
Age-progression images of Sabrina Aisenberg courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Aisenbergs have their DNA on several familial genetics sites including Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com.
They also work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which uses GEDMatch.com and FamilyTree.com to help reunite missing people with their families.
"That’s how we’re going to get her home. Anybody that thinks they see somebody that looks like they could be our family, look like Sabrina, look like William and Monica, please have your friends take a DNA test. That’s how it’s going to happen," Marlene Aisenberg stated.
The Aisenbergs often refer to themselves as Sabrina’s birth parents and hold tight to the belief that she is alive and someone else is raising her.
"We believe somebody took her to love her and that’s all we can believe. Twenty-five years later, she’s an adult now. She’s probably out there living on her own and she may not feel like she was ever really part of that family and that’s when it’s time to take a DNA test. There’s something deep inside somebody that they just don’t feel like they were in the right spot. We pray that she was loved and taken care of, but we want her home with us to love and take care of and get to know our family. My mom is 91 years old now. I lost my dad last January and I want her to come home to meet my mom. We’ve lost Steve’s parents and it’s time for her to come meet her family."
Moving Forward
Though the disappearance of their daughter left a huge hole in their family, the Aisenbergs say they don’t let it define them.
"It’s impacted us greatly, but I can’t say that we let it define us," Marlene Aisenberg stated. "I think that we pulled our strength, and we live with grief every day in a different way. You learn how to push that grief down so that you can move forward, and it’s there. It will always be there until she comes home."
Steven Aisenberg said one thing they’ve always tried to do was keep the focus on their other two children, William and Monica, who were 8 and 4 when their baby sister disappeared.
The couple said they tried to give them the best childhood and life they could, despite what happened.
An age-progression photo of Sabrina on Marlene Aisenberg's phone.
"I know it’s affected them in ways we’ll never know because they don’t share it with us, and we don’t push them hard on that," Steven Aisenberg shared. "We just let them know that it’ll be OK. We’re working toward trying to bring her home."
William and Monica are now 33 and 29. William is married with a 2-year-old son named Nathan, who the Aisenbergs say loves to play in what they call Sabrina’s room.
Bringing Sabrina Home
Every few years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children releases an age-progression photo of Sabrina in hopes somebody recognizes the now 25-year-old woman.
Age-progression photo of Sabrina Aisenberg at age 23. Courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
FOX 13 reached out to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office for an update on the case and while an agency spokeswoman said they do not have someone who can speak on it, in order to protect ‘the integrity of the decades-long ongoing investigation,’ she did provide the following statement:
"Twenty-five now, we’ve been married 36 years and our family is still holding it together waiting for her to come home and that’s what we want more than anything," Marlene Aisenberg stated.
The Aisenbergs keep those photos along with Sabrina’s baby photos throughout the house.
"We still have photos of Sabrina throughout the house, and she’s always in our hearts and always with us, and we believe with all our heart that, that’s going to happen, and she’s going to come home to our family," Marlene Aisenberg shared. "You find where you have strength and when I’m having a bad time Steve’s there to pick me up and, you know, our whole life we’ve had to move forward. William and Monica are amazing adults and living very productive lives. We’re a very close family and that’s what it’s all about. It’s keeping our family together and being strong for when she does come home and incorporate back into us."
And when she does come home, Marlene Aisenberg says she plans to donate all of Sabrina’s baby clothes, saved in that cedar chest, with her daughter by her side.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — The state of Illinois has suspended the license of online auto dealer Carvana after the company failed to properly transfer titles on vehicles it sold.
The company is also accused of misusing out-of-state temporary registration permits, according to Automotive News.
The Illinois Secretary of State opened an investigation into over 90 consumer complaints in February and said Carvana will have to “resolve the issues at hand” before the suspension can be lifted.
Carvana says it “strongly” disagrees with the state’s stance.
“Carvana has compliantly operated as a licensed dealer and good corporate citizen in the State of Illinois for several years, and we strongly disagree with the State’s characterization of both the facts and the law leading to this action,” a Carvana spokesperson said in a statement. “We are actively working with the State to resolve this issue, and they have agreed that we will continue delivering already purchased vehicles. We look forward to resolving this issue with minimal disruption to customers.”
Carvana allows customers to purchase a car completely online and have it delivered as soon as the next day or pick it up at one of its 17 car vending machines nationwide. Once delivered, the customer has seven days before committing to the purchase.
Carvana has also opened an eight-story vending machine in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. The vending machine holds 27 vehicles.
The company laid off 2,500 employees last week after experiencing slower-than-expected growth and a loss of $260 million in the first quarter of 2022. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/carvana-loses-license-to-operate-in-illinois/ | 2022-05-17 18:17:56 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/carvana-loses-license-to-operate-in-illinois/ |
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Iowa celebrates educational options and quality schools during annual School Choice Week
DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iowa schools, organizations, and individuals are planning 200 celebrations of educational opportunity this month as traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, online learning options, private schools, and home educators highlight their unique choices.
During the last two years, families and educators in Iowa have faced the academic consequences of the pandemic, which translates into a learning loss. That's why more than ever parents are exploring and considering new options for their child's education. During School Choice Week 2023, parents can learn about school choice and attend local events as they consider their K-12 options for the next school year.
Across the country, parents can choose between traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, online learning, private schools, homeschooling, and newer options like learning pods or microschooling.
But education policies vary from state to state. Iowa offers newly expanded and flexible open enrollment laws enabling parents to choose traditional public schools other than the one to which they have been assigned. The state has some public charter and public magnet schools, and several free, full-time online public schools. Iowa families can take tax deductions for nonpublic school expenses, and families under a certain income level can qualify for state-run scholarship opportunities.
Across the state, events that are positive, supportive of a wide variety of school options, and family-friendly are planned, from in-school activities to large celebrations. Among the notable celebrations in Iowa will be a school fair in Des Moines organized by Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education on January 28.
"There is a learning environment that fits each child and their unique giftings and needs," said Shelby Doyle, vice president of public awareness at the National School Choice Awareness Foundation. "School choice enables families to find that right fit and that's what is being celebrated this month in Iowa and across the country."
To download a guide to Iowa school choice, use the school finder tool to search schools in your area or see celebration photos visit schoolchoiceweek.com/iowa.
Local celebrants are available to discuss their plans with reporters upon request.
National School Choice Week (NSCW) informs, inspires, and empowers parents to discover the K-12 education options available for their children, including traditional public, public charter, public magnet, online, private, and homeschooling. Every January, tens of thousands of schools, organizations, and individuals plan unique events and activities to shine a positive spotlight on effective education options in their communities. The Week is a project of the nonpartisan, nonpolitical National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
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Where to find the best hair growth serum
There are multiple environmental factors that can affect the growth of your hair. Stress itself plays a large role in hair loss, but sometimes it is as simple as the products that we use. A head full of long healthy hair can be achievable when eliminating products that strip the hair of natural oils and replacing those with safe products and serums that improve scalp health. The root of your problems begin at the scalp, and hair serums for hair growth work to target impurities that are preventing your hair from growing properly. Aside from conditions within, a good hair serum will rescue the look of brittle and breaking hair. In pursuit of the best hair growth serum, consider which formula is best for your hair type, the brand and the ingredients used to make the product.
What to know before buying hair growth serum
Hair Type
Buyers should consider checking to make sure the ingredients in hair growth serums meet their hair type needs. Each hair type will react differently to certain ingredients and formulas.
- Oily Hair: Persons with oily hair should look for hair serums that use water-based and nongreasy formulas. A serum that features various oils will weigh down this hair type. Products that work best for people with oily hair will need to be hydrating and not heavy. Oily hair will not require frequent application of hair growth serums.
- Dry Hair: Persons with dry hair should look for formulas that contain various natural oils, such as argon, jojoba and almond oils. These oils naturally occur in nature and will hydrate the hair while providing the shine and moisture that it is lacking. Products that contain biotin and panthenol will work best for this hair type. If your hair is thin, stay away from the excess oil.
- Frizzy hair: Persons with naturally frizzy or brittle hair should consider purchasing growth serums with natural oils, just like those with dry hair. This will promote hair strength, while providing necessary hydration that the hair lacks. Natural oils will work to reduce the effects of humidity in the hair and close off the hair cuticle, creating less friction, frizz and static.
Ingredients
When purchasing a hair growth serum, avoid products that have parabens, sulfates and alcohol. These ingredients will dry out the hair over time and could cause hair loss. Healthy hair is sourced from a healthy scalp. Putting ingredients in your hair that are known to cause scalp irritation could halt hair growth for a period of time.
- Parabens: Parabens can disrupt hormones in the body, harm reproductive organs and increase cancer risk. When used abundantly, products that contain parabens can cause scalp irritation. The scalp is very sensitive and should not encounter ingredients that are not gentle.
- Sulfates: Sulfates can irritate your eyes, skin, mouth and lungs. Sulfates cause the skin to dry out and can cause irritation in the scalp. If the scalp is too dry, it will cease to produce necessary oils that help the hair grow.
- Alcohol: Alcohol can irritate and dry out the hair and scalp and cause split ends over time. This ingredient will leave the hair looking dry and brittle after styling. If you are looking for hair growth serums and find a product that contains drying alcohol, it could end up doing more harm than good.
Brand
When purchasing a hair serum for hair growth, make sure that the brand itself has good reviews. Make sure the brand sustainably sources its ingredients and pledges not to use harmful products on animals when creating their formula. The brands that care about the animals and the environment also work to make sure their formula is gentle, organic and safe for use on sensitive skin. Just because a brand is not widely known, does not mean that it will not do wonders for the hair. Popularity cannot guarantee the best results. Before purchasing a hair growth serum, consider checking the reviews to see what others who have used the product have said about it. This will give you a clue on the integrity of the brand and its formula for success.
How much you can expect to spend on hair growth serum
Hair growth serum will cost anywhere from $30-$90, depending on the size of the bottle, the ingredients and the brand. A serum that is widely known and uses the best ingredients to stimulate hair growth quickly will be priced around $50-$90.
Tips for applying hair growth serum
For best results when applying hair growth serum, first dampen the hair. This will open the hair cuticles and allow the product to absorb more effectively. Then, add one to two drops of hair serum to the palm of your hand and rub it together. Apply this to your hair, working from the ends up to the middle of your hair. If the product is also used for scalp health, apply from tip all the way to the root for the best results.
Hair growth serum FAQ
What ingredients help my hair grow?
A. When purchasing a hair growth serum to strengthen and grow your hair, consider looking for ingredients such as peppermint, Jamaican black castor oil and aloe vera. These are just a few of many ingredients that stimulate hair growth and leave the hair feeling stronger and looking healthier.
Do I need to use hair growth serum every day?
A. You should not use hair growth serums every time you wash and style your hair. Limit the use of these serums to a couple of times a week. If you have unmanageable and frizzy hair, consider also adding an oil-based product to your hair routine on the days that you are not using the serum.
Best hair growth serum under $40
Revitalize Natural Hair Growth Oil 2 Oz
This hair serum helps prevent hair thinning and promotes hair growth. It works to nourish dry, dull hair by increasing scalp health to allow the user to achieve longer, stronger and shiner looking hair.
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Grow Gorgeous Original Hair Density Serum
This hair growth serum is uniquely formulated to improve hair volume and boost thickness and fullness. It works to target scalp health and is good for all hair types. Its vegan and cruelty-free formula provides a gentle clean and is safe for color-treated hair.
Sold by Ulta Beauty, Amazon
Best hair growth serum under $60
Curlsmith Full Lengths Density Elixir
This hair serum helps to support healthy hair growth by supercharging hair follicles and soothing the scalp. It works on all hair types and textures and is weightless, non-greasy and water-based. This vegan formula serves to improve scalp health above all, which leads to hair growth.
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This hair serum uses plant extracts to help visibly increase hair density without harmful toxins. This vegan formula helps hair grow longer and stronger and can be used to energize hair follicles. It promises to increase hair density by up to 50% in as little as 90 days.
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Best hair growth serum under $80
This hair serum is a lightweight, topical serum used to combat dry, brittle, and thinning hair with antioxidants. It works to improve hair strength, minimize breakage and is clinically tested. The formula is vegan and is shown to improve hair density in as little as 90 days.
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Vegamour GRO+ Advanced CBD Hair Serum
This hair serum works to strengthen roots and increase the appearance of hair density, thickness and volume.It is free of any known toxic chemicals, carcinogens or harmful side effects. This cruelty-free hair serum is formulated with bioavailable ingredients to rebalance the hair growth cycle and reduce shedding.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Wyoming County in western New York...
Northern Livingston County in western New York...
Southeastern Genesee County in western New York...
* Until 915 PM EDT.
* At 814 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Pavilion, or
7 miles southeast of Batavia, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage
to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include...
Geneseo, Le Roy, Avon, Mount Morris, Pavilion, Caledonia, Lima,
York, Stafford and Livonia.
This includes Interstate 390 between exits 7 and 10.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
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Wildlife agency seeks ‘professional bear huggers’
(CNN) - If you love the outdoors and don’t mind interacting with the occasional bear then a job may be waiting for you in New Mexico.
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish posted a job on Facebook that says it is looking for professional bear huggers.
The post includes photos showing workers cuddling with baby bears.
The agency is actually looking to hire conservation officers, and interactions with bears is only one part of the job.
The listing says the department is looking for someone who likes to hike in strenuous conditions, has the courage to crawl into a bear den, and will trust coworkers to keep them safe during the process.
The department says the job is guaranteed to bring someone the experience of a lifetime.
Those interested have until March 30th to apply.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's ousted President Pedro Castillo told Peruvians Tuesday that he is being “unjustly and arbitrarily detained” and thanked his supporters for their “effort and fight” since he was taken into custody last week.
Castillo spoke during a hearing to determine whether he will remain jailed for three years while authorities build a rebellion case against him. Castillo was detained Wednesday after he was ousted by lawmakers when he sought to dissolve Congress ahead of an impeachment vote.
“I will never renounce or abandon this popular cause that has brought me here,” Castillo said. Then, in apparent reference to the violent protests that his ouster sparked, he urged the national police and armed forces to “lay down their arms and stop killing this people thirsty for justice.”
The judge interrupted him, telling Castillo to limit his remarks to legal arguments. He said he would rule on Castillo's detention later Tuesday.
The protests have been particularly violent outside Peru's capital, Lima. The Ombudsman’s Office of Peru reported Monday that seven people had died since the demonstrations began Wednesday, including five on Monday. All seven happened in rural, impoverished communities, strongholds for Castillo, a political neophyte and former schoolteacher of peasant roots from a poor Andean mountain district.
Attorney Ronaldo Atencio, speaking for Castillo’s legal team, argued that Castillo didn’t raise weapons or organize people capable of overturning the existing government, as Peruvian law requires for someone to be charged with rebellion. He also said Castillo doesn’t present a flight risk, and never sought asylum from Mexico, as confirmed by the Mexican ambassador.
Dina Boluarte, 60, was swiftly sworn in Wednesday to replace Castillo after Congress dismissed him for “permanent moral incapacity.” She was Castillo’s running mate during last year’s elections.
On Monday, she acceded in part to protesters’ demands, announcing in a nationally televised address that she would send Congress a proposal to move up elections to April 2024. She had previously asserted that she aimed to remain president for the remaining 3 1/2 years of her predecessor’s term. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Peru-s-ousted-President-Castillo-challenges-17651038.php | 2022-12-13 17:50:48 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Peru-s-ousted-President-Castillo-challenges-17651038.php |
Which Ninja CREAMi ice cream makers are best?
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Ninja NC501 CREAMi Deluxe Ice Cream Maker
- Ninja NC301 CREAMi Ice Cream Maker
- Ninja NC299AMZ CREAMi Ice Cream Maker
For foodies, there’s a never-ending quest to find the easiest ways to make the best foods without sacrificing quality. For most foods, it’s a fool’s errand. Ice cream used to be one of those hard-to-make foods. Without an ice cream maker, you had to repeat a looping process of mixing, freezing and waiting until finally ready. With an ice cream maker, the process became automated, but it still took time and resources. But now, there’s the Ninja CREAMi ice cream maker. It needs only your preferred ingredients and a few minutes to make delicious ice cream.
What happened
The Ninja CREAMi ice cream maker has been around since July 2021. The Deluxe model that’s currently consuming TikTok was released in September 2022. It went under the radar until the end of March 2023. Then, a video showcasing the raw simplicity and effectiveness of the CREAMi Deluxe ignited the social media platform, causing the Deluxe model to sell out. It continues to sell out almost immediately with each new shipment.
What it can do
The Ninja CREAMi Deluxe makes both “scoopable” and “drinkable” items as labeled on the device itself.
- The scoopable settings are ice cream (the main attraction), lite ice cream, sorbet, gelato, frozen yogurt and Italian ice.
- The drinkable settings are creamiccino, “frozen drink,” slushi (sic) and milkshake.
How it works
Each scoopable and drinkable requires certain set-ups and ingredients. Those details are included with the recipe inspiration guide that comes with the Deluxe CREAMi. To prove how easy it is to use, though, take a look at the instructions for making ice cream and a frozen margarita.
- Ice cream: Freeze your base, such as chocolate milk, overnight inside one of the included pint containers. The next day, insert the container into the machine, select the “ice cream” function and wait.
- Margarita: Prepare your margarita mix, including tequila, in an included pint container and freeze until a slushy consistency forms, about 24 hours. Then, insert the container into the machine, select the “frozen drink” function and wait.
See the pattern? That’s why it continues to fly off retail and digital shelves.
Deluxe vs. “standard”
Because of the difficulty in getting the deluxe model, it’s worth looking at the differences between it and the readily available “standard” model.
- Functions: The standard model cannot make frozen yogurt, creamiccino, frozen drinks, slushi (sic) or Italian ice. It does have a smoothie bowl function that the deluxe lacks.
- Capacity: The standard mosel is only compatible with 16-ounce Ninja pint cups. The deluxe model is only compatible with Ninja 24-ounce pint cups.
- Special feature: The deluxe has a unique ability to mix only half of your cup at once, leaving the other half untouched. This lets you mix two flavors of ice cream without dirtying a second cup, for example, or lets you make half-portions.
Best Ninja ice cream makers and accessories
Ninja NC501 CREAMi Deluxe Ice Cream Maker
This is the device that sparked the frenzy. Due to said frenzy, it’s all but impossible to find. If you can get one, it lets you make all the ice cream and ice cream variations you can take from its 11 one-touch programs.
Ninja NC301 CREAMi Ice Cream Maker
If you can’t wait till the NC501 model is available again, the previous version is still available and makes most of the same foods and drinks. It also comes in more colors than the silver-only finish the NC501 comes in.
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This two-pack of pint storage cups is compatible with the NC299AMZ, NC300 and NC301 lines of Ninja’s CREAMi maker. It’s not compatible with the NC501 that’s all the rage because that model has a larger capacity.
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Ninja NC301 CREAMi Ice Cream Maker and Pint Two-Pack
If you’re an ice cream fiend that loves mixing flavors together in your bowl but hates doing dishes, grab this combo pack. Now you can have up to four pints without needing extra non-Ninja storage.
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Ninja NC299AMZ CREAMi Ice Cream Maker
The only real difference between this CREAMi and the NC301 is that this one only comes with a single pint container. It’s also no longer manufactured. It’s still available though, and is a great option for those not wanting to wait on the NC501.
Sold by Amazon
Best ice cream cone makers
This makes 7-inch wafer-thin waffles and comes with a roller so you can form the cone. It has an adjustable temperature range so it can make sugar, wafer and waffle cones.
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This makes 4-inch diameter waffle bowls so you can plop your freshly made ice cream and a handful of toppings all together. It comes in four colors.
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How to watch and listen to Wisconsin Badgers Big Ten college football game vs. Northwestern on TV, livestream and radio
Jim Leonhard will make his debut as Wisconsin interim head coach Saturday when the Badgers battle Northwestern.
Here's what you should know about the Big Ten West Division football game between the Badgers (2-3, 0-2 Big Ten), playing their first game since firing head coach Paul Chryst, and the Wildcats (1-4, 1-1) at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois.
What time do the Badgers play?
2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8
What's the TV channel for Wisconsin vs. Northwestern?
Big Ten Network, also known as BTN.
What channel is the Big Ten Network?
On Spectrum, it's channel 63. On DirecTV it's 610 and on Dish network it's 439 if you subscribe to the "America's Top 120+" plan.
What's the radio station for Wisconsin vs. Northwestern?
AM-920 and FM-97.3 in Milwaukee and a state network. Here's more information on the UW football team, including a list of stations in the Badger Sports Network.
Can I livestream the Wisconsin vs. Northwestern game?
Streaming is available on Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV and fuboTV.
2022 Wisconsin football roster
Here is the Badgers roster.
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Lights Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: "NLIT") ("Northern Lights"), a special purpose acquisition corporation, announced that it has rescheduled its special meeting of stockholders (the "Special Meeting") to Monday, June 27, 2022 at 4:00 pm ET.
The Special Meeting is being held to approve the business combination, whereby Northern Lights will acquire all of the outstanding membership interests of SHF, LLC, d/b/a Safe Harbor Financial, and the other related matters as described in the Northern Lights definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC. The proxy card included with the previously distributed proxy materials will not be updated to reflect the adjournment and may continue to be used to vote shares in connection with the Special Meeting. The record date for the Special Meeting, including any adjournment thereof, remains May 19, 2022. Northern Lights stockholders who have already voted and do not wish to change their vote do not need to vote again. Stockholders may use the same instructions contained in the access instruction form or proxy card they previously received from the Company's transfer agent to access the Special Meeting via the URL previously provided: https://www.cstproxy.com/northernlightsacquisitioncorp/2022.
If any Northern Lights stockholder needs assistance in completing the proxy card or have questions regarding the Special Meeting, please contact Northern Lights' proxy solicitor, The Laurel Hill Advisory Group, by phone at (855) 414-2266 or via email at nlit@laurelhill.com.
If the proposals at the Special Meeting are approved, the parties anticipate that the business combination will close shortly thereafter, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the other closing conditions. As part of the business combination, NLIT intends to change its name to SHF Holdings, Inc. and expects its common stock and warrants to remain listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the new ticker symbols "SHFS" and "SHFSW," respectively.
Northern Lights is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. For more information, visit https://northernlightsacquisitioncorp.com/home/default.aspx.
Safe Harbor is one of the first financial services providers to offer reliable access to banking solutions for cannabis, hemp, CBD, and ancillary operators, making communities safer, driving growth in local economies, and fostering long-term partnerships. Safe Harbor, through its partners, serves the regulated cannabis industry and implements the highest standard of accountability, transparency, monitoring, reporting, and risk mitigation measures while meeting BSA obligations in line with FinCEN guidance on CRBs. Over the past seven years, Safe Harbor (including its predecessor) has processed over $12 billion in transactions with operations spanning 20 states with regulated cannabis markets. For more information, visit www.shfinancial.org.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to (i) trends in the cannabis industry, including changes in U.S and state laws, rules, regulations and guidance relating to Safe Harbor's services; (ii) Safe Harbor's growth prospects and Safe Harbor's market size; (iii) Safe Harbor's projected financial and operational performance, including relative to its competitors; (iv) new product and service offerings Safe Harbor may introduce in the future; (v) the proposed business combination, including the implied enterprise value, the expected post-closing ownership structure and the likelihood and ability of the parties to successfully consummate the potential transaction; (vi) the risk that the proposed business combination may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, whether as a result of recent volatility in the capital markets or otherwise, which may adversely affect the price of Northern Lights' securities; (vii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the proposed business combination, including the approval of the proposed business combination by the stockholders of Northern Lights; (viii) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed business combination on Northern Lights' or Safe Harbor's business relationships, performance, and business generally; (ix) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Northern Lights or Safe Harbor related to the definitive unit purchase agreement or the proposed business combination; (x) the ability to maintain the listing of Northern Lights' securities on the Nasdaq Capital Market; (xi) the price of Northern Lights' securities, including volatility resulting from changes in the competitive and highly regulated industry in which Safe Harbor plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Safe Harbor's business and changes in the combined capital structure; (xii) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the proposed business combination, and identify and realize additional opportunities; and (xiii) other statements regarding Safe Harbor's and Northern Lights' expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "outlook," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would," and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject, are subject to risks and uncertainties. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of Northern Lights' Proxy Statement relating to the proposed business combination, which has been filed with the SEC, other documents filed by Northern Lights from time to time with SEC, and any risk factors made available to you in connection with Northern Lights, Safe Harbor, and the transaction. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of Safe Harbor and Northern Lights), and other assumptions, that may cause the actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
The proposed business combination involving Northern Lights and Safe Harbor has been submitted to the stockholders of Northern Lights for their consideration. Northern Lights has filed a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the "Proxy Statement") with the SEC on June 10, 2022, which has been distributed to the stockholders of Northern Lights in connection with Northern Lights' solicitation for proxies for the vote by the stockholders of Northern Lights connection with the proposed business combination and other matters as described in the Proxy Statement. Before making any voting decision, the stockholders of Northern Lights and other interested persons are advised to read the Proxy Statement, along with all other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed business combination and Northern Lights' solicitation of proxies for its special meeting of stockholders to be held to approve, among other things, the proposed business combination, because these documents will contain important information about Northern Lights, Safe Harbor, and the proposed business combination. Stockholders may obtain free copies of the Proxy Statement, as well as other documents filed with the SEC regarding the proposed business combination and other documents filed with the SEC by Northern Lights, without charge, at the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to Northern Lights Acquisition Corporation, 10 East 53rd Street, Suite 3001, New York, NY, 10022, or by telephone at (615) 554-0044.
This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Northern Lights and Safe Harbor, and certain of their respective directors and executive officers, under the rules of the SEC, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Northern Lights' stockholders in favor of the approval of the business combination. Information about the directors and officers of Northern Lights and their ownership of Northern Lights Class B common stock can also be found in Northern Lights' registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on June 2, 2021 in connection with its initial public offering, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on March 25, 2022, the Proxy Statement, and other documents subsequently filed by Northern Lights with the SEC. Information about the directors and executive officers of Safe Harbor, as well as information regarding the interests of other persons who may be deemed participants in the transaction, may be obtained by reading the Proxy Statement regarding the business combination when it becomes available. Additional information regarding the interests of these participants will also be included in the proxy statement pertaining to the business combination if and when it becomes available. Free copies of this document may be obtained as described above.
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‘Help us’ carved into snow after winter storm buries California residents
LOS ANGELES (Gray News/TMX) – A California resident wrote “HELP US!!” in the snow of the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles on Thursday after a winter storm buried the region under feet of snow.
A photo shared by David Honeywell shows the message written in fresh snow over the parking lot at Lake Gregory Regional Park near Crestline.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office said on late Sunday they were still conducting rescues, taking people from the mountains to shelters, and delivering food and emergency supplies.
The California Department of Transportation said crews had to use heavy equipment to clear snow that was too deep for regular snowplows.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week declared a state of emergency across 13 counties, including San Bernardino County, as a result of the winter storms. The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services coordinated with Caltrans and San Bernardino County officials to bring in additional snowplows, crews, and California National Guard members.
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GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 7, 2022, a custom-built oceanfront estate in the Cayman Islands will be offered for sale at luxury auction®. Once asking $11.5 million USD, the luxe Caribbean property will now be sold to the highest bidder without reserve and regardless of the amount of the auction's highest bid. Miami-based Platinum Luxury Auctions, a firm specializing in the non-distressed auction sale of luxury homes, was retained by the property owner to manage the sale. Cayman-based RE/MAX Cayman Islands, represented by brokers Kim Lund and Cindy Raymond, is the brokerage of record for the transaction.
"We've been very successful with our luxury auction offerings in the Caribbean territories to date, and we're excited to present this Cayman Islands property to the marketplace following our record-setting sale on Virgin Gorda, BVI earlier this year," stated Trayor Lesnock, founder and president of Platinum Luxury Auctions. In the first quarter of 2022, Platinum sold a luxe villa on Virgin Gorda for approximately $14 million USD, marking a substantial price for an island where most transactions are in the $1 million to $4 million price point, Lesnock added.
Located on Grand Cayman within the small town of Savannah (an area that enjoys the island's highest elevation), the property was custom built in 2004 by its original and only owner - a very prominent, international businessman from London. His vision was to create a large, private, Caribbean estate suitable for hosting the three generations of his growing family. To that end, he retained notable architects Arek Joseph and Wil Steward of the Caymanian firm of Chalmers Gibbs Martin Joseph, in addition to hiring internationally renowned designer Pam Anderson, who specializes in luxe hotel interiors.
The result is a three-structure, tropical retreat that exudes "relaxed island luxury" and consists of a two-story main residence, separate guesthouse and caretaker's cottage. The structures combine to offer a total of 9 bedrooms, 7.5 baths and more than 12,600 square feet of living space. The larger size of the living quarters and the ample bed-and-bath count make the property ideal for large families, entertaining on a grand scale, or for generating substantial vacation rental income. (The property was placed into a vacation rental program within the past 2-3 years, though was intentionally rented "lightly," per the owner's preference. Rental performance information is available to interested purchasers upon request).
A grand salon with walls of windows and soaring ceilings, a chef's kitchen, dual primary bedroom suites, sprawling oceanfront terraces and screened loggias are leading features of the main residence.
Perhaps most notably, the estate occupies a rare, "double lot" on the ocean, which measures approximately 2.3 acres and offers 235 feet of linear frontage on the Caribbean Sea. The ocean-facing side of the home offers southern exposure, allowing for panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea, Spotts' Beach and richly painted sunsets, while features such as mature landscaping, perimeter fencing, and an electronic entry gate - along with the lack of an immediate neighbor to the west - ensure the utmost in privacy.
Outdoor living areas – always important when in the islands – are equally impressive, and include multiple dining and lounge areas, a built-in summer kitchen/BBQ, and a spectacular pool that features black mosaic tiling, underwater speakers, fiber optic lighting, an infinity edge with waterfall wall, and an adjacent spa. The property owner, an avid swimmer, designed the large pool such that 100 laps precisely equal one mile.
Despite its privacy and serenity, the property is conveniently located within minutes of the capital city of George Town, the Caymans' financial hub and home to a variety of shopping, dining and entertainment amenities. The Owen Roberts International Airport, the Cayman Islands' primary airport, is within a 15-20-minute drive of the doorstep.
Interested buyers and property brokers may preview the property by daily appointment through the close Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022. Also on Wednesday, bidders wishing to participate in the auction sale must formally register with Platinum on or before the deadline of 5pm CT. In order to offer bidders more flexibility, Platinum is offering its standard "remote" bidding capabilities for those bidders who cannot be physically present for the sale, which will be held on the property site or at a nearby venue. Complete details on bidder registration, terms of sale, property features, and more is available online at CaymanLuxuryAuction.com, or by calling the property's project manager, Mr. Walter Cerini, at +1 800.939.1672.
About Platinum Luxury Auctions: Platinum Luxury Auctions created the luxury auction® model for high-priced real estate auctions and owns the federal trademark rights to the term(s) "luxury auction(s)." The real estate auction firm specializes in the non-distressed sale of multimillion-dollar properties located within and beyond the United States. Platinum's team has closed more than $1.1 billion in luxury real estate auction sales to date, while consulting on more than $2.85 billion in additional luxury property assets worldwide. Learn more at PlatinumLuxuryAuctions.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Daytime television psychologist “Dr. Phil” McGraw says he plans to end his talk show after 21 years in the coming months, but viewers haven’t seen the last of him.
“Dr. Phil” was the most prominent spinoff from Oprah Winfrey’s show, which once dominated daytime TV. The Texan’s program debuted in September 2002 after he’d been featured as a regular guest on Winfrey’s.
“With this show, we have helped thousands of guest and millions of viewers through everything from addiction and marriage to mental wellness and raising children,” McGraw said in a statement. “This has been an incredible chapter of my life and career, but while I’m moving on from daytime, there is so much more I wish to do.”
The traditional broadcast TV season ends in spring; there was no date given for Phil’s final show.
McGraw, 72, said he wants to focus on prime-time programming and is planning an unspecified project for early next year.
In the meantime, while new “Dr. Phil” episodes won’t be made, the show won’t disappear from TV. CBS Media Ventures, which syndicates his program, said it will offer stations a package of reruns with occasional new wraparound content for future seasons.
That’s a cost-saving path blazed by “Judge Judy,” which aired its last original show in June 2021 but continues to be popular in reruns.
“We plan to be in the ‘Dr. Phil’ business with the library for years to come and welcome opportunities to work together in the future,” said Steve LoCascio, president of CBS Media Ventures. | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/ap-dr-phil-talk-show-to-end-daytime-tv-run-after-21-years/ | 2023-02-01 17:51:09 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/ap-dr-phil-talk-show-to-end-daytime-tv-run-after-21-years/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Australia will purchase U.S.-manufactured, nuclear-powered attack submarines to modernize its fleet, a European official and a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, amid growing concerns about China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
The purchase agreement for Virginia-class submarines will be announced Monday when President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet in San Diego for talks on the 18-month-old nuclear partnership known by the acronym AUKUS. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of the announcement.
The AUKUS agreement, announced in 2021, paved the way for Australia to get access to nuclear-powered submarines, which are stealthier and more capable than conventionally powered boats.
“We all recognize the imperative of ensuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term,” Biden said in September 2021 when the partnership was announced. “We need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve.”
The secretly brokered deal included the Australian government’s cancellation of a $66 billion contract for a French-built fleet of conventional submarines, which sparked a diplomatic row within the Western alliance that took months to mend.
The European official said France had been briefed on the terms of the purchase agreement. Biden spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, the White House said, adding that they “discussed the cooperation between the United States and France in the Indo-Pacific region.”
The submarines, which cost $3 billion each, are built at shipbuilding plants in Virginia and Connecticut. Under the terms of the agreement, subs would eventually also be built in the U.K. and in Australia with U.S. technology and support, the person familiar with the matter said. The initial plans called for all of the subs to be constructed in Adelaide, Australia.
The U.S. would also step up its port visits in Australia to provide the country with more familiarity with the nuclear-powered technology.
The White House declined to comment on the submarine purchase ahead of the planned meeting on Monday. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/australia-to-buy-nuclear-powered-submarines-made-in-the-us/ | 2023-03-09 16:47:01 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/australia-to-buy-nuclear-powered-submarines-made-in-the-us/ |
BERLIN (AP) — China has blocked efforts to step up protection of emperor penguins that are increasingly threatened by the effects global warming is having on their natural habitat in Antarctica, officials said Friday.
Dozens of countries had backed giving the world’s largest penguins special protection status at a 10-day meeting in Berlin of parties to the Antarctic Treaty. The treaty was forged in 1959 to ensure that the continent remains the preserve of science, and free of arms.
“An overwhelming majority of parties held the opinion that there is sufficient scientific evidence for the species to be put under the special protection,” the German government, which hosted the May 22-June 2 meeting, said in a statement Friday.
While a formal decision was “blocked by one party,” it said that most countries attending the meeting planned nevertheless to put in place national measures to protect emperor penguins.
Chinese officials couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. But delegates attending the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Beijing had made clear it wanted more time to consider the implications of upgrading the protection status of the penguins.
The meeting was partly overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, with many countries speaking out against Russia’s attack on the country.
Russia, which like Ukraine is active in Antarctica, was represented at the meeting by an official from its embassy in Berlin, with other delegates participating remotely by video link.
Despite differences with Beijing over the penguins and the deep diplomatic discord between Moscow and the West over Ukraine, the meeting was able to adopt by consensus a package of conservation measures for Antarctica. These included moves to designate four new protected areas in the future and limit tourism to the frozen continent.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2023. There are 353 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
On this date:
In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
In 1910, at a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette — it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion. (Some of the other women present who had brought their own cigarettes began lighting up in turn.)
In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. Aircraft from U.S. Task Force 38 sank about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.
In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, unanimously ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped. The TV series “Batman,” starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premiered on ABC.
In 1969, the New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
In 1971, the groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.
In 2000, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
In 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake; the Haitian government said 316,000 people were killed, while a report prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development suggested the death toll may have been between 46,000 and 85,000.
In 2016, Iran detained 10 American sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats drifted into Iranian waters; the sailors and their vessels were released the following day.
Ten years ago: The NHL’s four-month lockout finally ended as the league and the players’ association completed signing a required memorandum of understanding. Gary Stevens won the first race at Santa Anita, giving the Hall of Fame jockey his first win in North America since 2005, when he began a seven-year retirement that had recently ended. (Stevens rode 5-1 shot Branding to a 2 1/2-length victory in his third race since beginning his comeback on Jan. 6, 2013.)
Five years ago: President Donald Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, declared him in “excellent health” after the president received his first checkup at Walter Reed military hospital. Sportscaster Keith Jackson, best known as the down-home voice of college football, died; he was 89. John Tunney, whose successful campaign for a California seat in the U.S. Senate was the basis for the Robert Redford film “The Candidate,” died in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
One year ago: The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as it continued to seek first-hand details from members of Congress on former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6; McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate, accusing the panel of an “abuse of power.” The government reported that inflation jumped in December at its fastest year-over-year pace in nearly four decades, surging 7%. Ronnie Spector, who sang 1960s hits including “Be My Baby” as leader of the girl group The Ronettes, died at 78 after a brief battle with cancer.
Today’s birthdays: The Amazing Kreskin is 88. Country singer William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 84. Actor Anthony Andrews is 75. Movie director Wayne Wang is 74. Legal affairs blogger Ann Althouse is 72. Writer Walter Mosley is 71. Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is 71. Radio-TV personality Howard Stern is 69. Writer-producer-director John Lasseter is 66. Broadcast journalist Christiane Amanpour is 65. Actor Oliver Platt is 63. Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins is 63. Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is 59. Rock singer Rob Zombie is 58. Actor Olivier Martinez is 57. Model Vendela is 56. Actor Rachael Harris is 55. Rock singer Zack de la Rocha is 53. Rapper Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan) is 53. Actor Zabryna Guevara is 51. Singer Dan Haseltine (Jars of Clay) is 50. Singer Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) is 49. Contemporary Christian singer Jeremy Camp is 45. Actor Cynthia Addai-Robinson is 43. R&B singer Amerie is 43. Actor Issa Rae is 38. Actor Will Rothhaar is 36. Actor Andrew Lawrence is 35. Rock singer ZAYN is 30. Pop/soul singer Ella Henderson (TV: “The X Factor”) is 27. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Today-in-History-JAN-12-Berry-Gordy-Jr-founded-17691026.php | 2023-01-12 06:18:35 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Today-in-History-JAN-12-Berry-Gordy-Jr-founded-17691026.php |
People appointed by the mayor’s office to Fort Wayne boards and commissions will now be limited.
The new ordinance approved Tuesday is similar to the limits the members set on City Council appointments June 27. Those appointed to one-year terms can serve up to four in a row. People appointed for two- or three-year terms are limited to two, and appointees for four-year terms can only serve one.
City Council and Mayor Tom Henry have appointments on more than 35 boards and commissions. Appointees can be reappointed after taking a break of at least one term. The limits pertain to all city board and commissions with two exceptions – the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Internal Audit Committee.
The mayoral ordinance, which was introduced by Councilmen Jason Arp, R-4th, and Glynn Hines, D-at large, initially had two-term limits for all appointees, which mirrored the initial proposal for City Council appointments by Councilwoman Michelle Chambers, D-at large.
The ordinance for City Council appointments was altered to include different limits based on the lengths of appointees’ terms after Councilman Tom Didier, R-3rd, proposed an amendment that was approved. Arp proposed a similar amendment Tuesday for the mayoral appointments, which was also approved.
The City Council passed the mayoral appointment ordinance by a 5-3 vote with opposition from Councilwoman Sharon Tucker, D-6th, and Councilmen Paul Ensley, R-1st, and Geoff Paddock, D-5th. Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd, was absent.
Ensley said he voted against both ordinances for the same reasons. They limit choices, and experience is valuable on boards and commissions.
“I really don’t think term limits are a good idea,” he said. “It’s difficult to find qualified volunteers to serve.”
Although Paddock and Tucker voted against the bill affecting mayoral appointments, they voted for the ordinance limiting those of City Council.
Paddock said it’s different for the legislative branch to limit itself than it is to restrict the mayor’s office.
“I feel it’s not proper to interfere with the mayor’s appointments to boards and commissions,” Paddock said. “That would be a violation of separation of powers.”
Tucker couldn’t immediately be reached Wednesday for comment.
Hines praised Chambers for bringing the first ordinance before the council so it could create greater diversity.
When Chambers introduced the bill, she said she wanted to create transparency, add accountability and have more diverse representation.
Chambers and Didier said at the June 20 meeting that they knew of people who sat on boards and commission more than 30 years. They declined to give names.
Devan Filchak of The Journal Gazette contributed to this story. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-city-council-approves-limiting-terms-of-mayoral-appointees/article_ca4f5140-2102-11ee-8b73-0bf47677f71e.html | 2023-07-13 02:30:55 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-city-council-approves-limiting-terms-of-mayoral-appointees/article_ca4f5140-2102-11ee-8b73-0bf47677f71e.html |
Q. A few years into our marriage, my wife and I were drifting apart. She was no longer affectionate and pushed me away. This went on for a few years. She would not be intimate. I talked to her about it, but she was also at a low point and couldn’t change.
Our courtship before marriage was not a storybook tale either. She had several difficult relationships with others while we were just friends, some with people I knew well. I loved her but could not get myself to bury the past and build trust. She pushed and I resisted — then I fell for her. But it took an embarrassingly long time.
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When we drifted apart several years into marriage, I didn’t know what I had done wrong. I started spending time with female friends from work. It was platonic, but it gave me a sense of acceptance and self-worth. Months later, my wife had a big moment of quitting her job and growing close to me again, and we rekindled our relationship so quickly that I was shocked. I should have embraced this fully, and I thought I did. But of course I wanted to continue my friendships — and sometimes I stayed out after work instead of coming straight home.
I invited my wife out with my friends at first, but she said they were not good people. I continued to see them. I never had a physical affair, and for a long time I didn’t think I was doing anything all that wrong because it wasn’t physical, and they were people from work, just out and telling stories. But I prioritized these female friends over my wife for a few years, and I now know why it was so agonizing for her.
We have now been married 20 years and have two children. My wife has not been intimate with me for six years. She has had stretches of sadness and many periods of thriving — but she has no passion for me. We are otherwise wonderful friends.
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I tried to do things that would reignite the romance — with some help from a counselor. I re-proposed to her a few years ago, but she didn’t want the ring. Nothing seemed to resonate. We’ve also had to spend a lot of attention (well and lovingly) on our children; one has special needs. I focused on providing and being a good father.
Several months ago, she said she wants a divorce. Since then, we’ve had the most honest discussions we’ve had in years. I’ve spent years trying to be a good husband and father, but apparently she didn’t think I really loved her, and that my behavior from a decade ago, with the friends, is disqualifying. After discussion, she now believes that I love her, but with so much pain for years, she doesn’t want to try to rekindle anything.
We had a few marriage counseling sessions in past years, but should have continued them. I want to seek counseling for us no matter where this leads. We both love our children immensely. We want them to have family life like it is now. We all genuinely get along and the kids are thriving.
But I want to rebuild a real marriage. I’ve asked for and received forgiveness, but she firmly believes it’s too late. I know that one person in love isn’t enough to make it work. She says she is “stuck” in something that is loving but not a marriage. She would rather be free and try to find true love elsewhere, and somehow also keep family life with our kids, even all under the same roof, if possible. It hurts. And I feel so sorry for her, that she felt unloved for so long. Any insights on next steps would be helpful.
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A. You’re right — one person’s love isn’t enough to make anything work. If she wants to end the marriage, that’s what should happen.
You can ask to go back to counseling to talk about how to co-parent. She might want to keep the status quo, but it will be different, no matter what. The two of you might date other people. How would that work if you’re returning to the same house? Would you be in better spirits with the kids if you had more privacy and different homes? Tell her you need to understand — and discuss — how this might work, so you can stay happy and healthy as a family.
If you need to be away from her to get over her, that’s understandable. It might be painful to grieve the marriage while looking at her every day.
You can also seek therapy on your own — and I think that would be a huge help here. You’ve been working on this troubled marriage, while parenting, for the better part of two decades. Why was it so difficult? Could love be easier in the future, maybe with someone else? It would be great to talk to a professional about the kind of relationship you want, because you might realize your wife isn’t the right person to join you in it.
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You can also talk about friendships there. Sure, you admit that you were looking for female attention when your marriage started to feel lonely. But it doesn’t sound like you had romantic feelings for any of your co-workers. You describe a nice bond with colleagues, and fun at restaurants after work. Perhaps you were absentee at home, but friends are nice. You might prefer a relationship where you can hang out with women — with anyone — and grow your community.
So much of your life has been about fixing problems and recovering from the past. It might be nice (eventually) to build something new.
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“She would rather be free and try to find true love elsewhere...” Take her up on this. I don’t see what either of you see in the other, besides kids and bad history.
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I’d love to read your wife’s perspective. Perhaps it would include: He had no reason to think I was unfaithful, but he kept demoralizing me by throwing my past in my face. Then he’d hang out for hours with the girls from the office, leaving me alone to care for our special needs child until I was utterly exhausted, then come home and want sex.
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You are very hurt because you tried hard to do better, and it’s not appreciated, but you have to accept it is over. Don’t bring up her past emotional issues again. Consult an attorney. Start the divorce. Tell her you wish the outcome were different, that you are not going to spend the rest of your life celibate and as roommates, and that you are confident you two can do amicable co-parenting.
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Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of court
DENVER (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.
“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.
Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was “gut wrenching” to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day.
The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court’s new session begins in October but an investigation ordered by Roberts into the leak continues.
Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is “terribly important” to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, “I hope soon.”
Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly.
“Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process,” Gorsuch said. Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg attended the talk.
The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
In June’s ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi’s law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take “a more measured course.”
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court’s tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court’s dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it’s not borne out of “fake affection” but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.
“We have a common calling and we act like it,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to this report from Washington.
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Fox: Dominion defamation suit is assault on First Amendment
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election is an assault on the First Amendment, attorneys for the cable news giant argued in a counterclaim unsealed Thursday.
Denver-based Dominion, which sells electronic voting hardware and software, is suing both Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation. Dominion said that some Fox News employees deliberately amplified false claims by allies of former President Donald Trump that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election, and that Fox provided a platform for guests to make false and defamatory statements.
In an amended counterclaim, attorneys for Fox argue that Dominion has advanced “novel defamation theories” and is seeking a “staggering” damage figure aimed at generating headlines, chilling protected speech and enriching Dominion’s private equity owner, Staple Street Capital Partners, and its investors.
“Dominion brought this lawsuit to punish FNN for reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day—allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud,” the counterclaim states. “The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy.”
Fox attorneys argue that when voting-technology companies denied the allegations being made by Trump and his surrogates, Fox News aired those denials, while some Fox News hosts offered protected opinion commentary about Trump’s allegations.
Fox’s counterclaim is based on New York’s “anti-SLAPP” law. Such laws are aimed at protecting people trying to exercise their First Amendment rights from being intimidated by “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or SLAPPs.
“According to Dominion, FNN had a duty not to truthfully report the President’s allegations but to suppress them or denounce them as false,” Fox attorneys wrote. “Dominion is fundamentally mistaken. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side.”
Fox attorneys say Dominion’s own public relations consultant, Michael Steele of Hamilton Place Strategies, described Trump’s allegation about the election as “the biggest topic in the country at that time.” They also argue that threatening the company with a $1.6 billion judgment will cause other media outlets to think twice about what they report.
“Dominion could not possibly suffer damages in that amount, let alone suffer such damages because of a single press outlet’s coverage of a story that was reported by media throughout the world,” Fox attorneys wrote. Documents produced in the lawsuit show that Dominion has not suffered any economic harm and do not indicate that it lost any customers as the result of Fox’s election coverage.
According to Fox, Dominion’s claim of $1.6 billion in enterprise value is 42 times what Staple Street paid in 2018 to acquire 76% of the company. State Street, meanwhile, has estimated the value of its investment in Dominion to be about $80 million.
The counterclaim also notes that Dominion CEO John Poulos told Staple Street partner and co-founder in December 2020, amid media coverage of Trump’s allegations about the election, that “no customer cares about the media. It’s just more words from their perspective.”
Superior Court Judge Eric Davis is scheduled to preside over a trial beginning in mid-April, but attorneys for both sides have asked him to grant summary judgment in their favor, which would remove the need for a jury trial that could stretch over five weeks. Public versions of the sealed summary judgments were to be filed later Thursday.
Meanwhile, Davis ruled last month that, for the purposes of the defamation claims, he will consider Dominion to be a public figure. That means Dominion must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the Fox defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth.
In a 2021 ruling denying a motion by Fox News to dismiss the lawsuit, Davis wrote that Dominion’s complaint “supports the reasonable inference that Fox either (i) knew its statements about Dominion’s role in election fraud were false or (ii) had a high degree of awareness that the statements were false.”
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Azuolas Tubelis scored 19 points, Oumar Ballo added 18 and No. 9 Arizona turned the physical tables on No. 6 Tennessee for a 75-70 victory Saturday night.
The Wildcats (10-1) did well to withstand the Vols' defensive pressure and applied a bit of their own in a game that saw bodies hitting the floor nearly every trip down the floor.
Arizona took advantage of 7-foot-1 Uroš Plavšić’s foul trouble by working the ball inside to Ballo and Tubelis, building a 10-point lead midway through the second half. Tennessee pushed back, but the Wildcats had the final say, making the key plays down the stretch for their third win over an AP Top 25 opponent this season.
The Vols (9-2) kept the nation’s top scoring team 17 points below its average, but had trouble with Arizona’s defense. Tennessee had two key second-half scoreless droughts missed 10 straight 3s after shooting well from the arc early.
Zakai Zeigler led Tennessee with 21 points and Olivier Nkamhoua added 16.
This Top 10 duel in the desert was strength vs. strength.
Tennessee arrived with the nation's best adjusted defensive efficiency, according to KenPom.com, among the top five in field goal percentage against, points per game, steals and turnovers forced.
Arizona's forte has been offense.
The Wildcats have the nation's best adjusted offensive efficiency, leading the nation in shooting, scoring and assists per game.
The Vols were the better offensive team early, going 5 of 5 from the 3-point arc, most on penetration and kickouts to take a seven-point lead.
Arizona starting cutting off the driving lanes — three charges — and working the ball inside to Ballo and Tubelis, using a 13-4 run to tie it at 35 by halftime.
Arizona kept up the defensive pressure to start the second half, holding Tennessee scoreless for nearly four minutes to take a 61-51 lead.
The Vols fought back with consecutive 3s after missing 10 straight to pull within two at 63-61, but had another scoreless drought, this one three minutes.
Arizona took advantage. Pelle Larsson scored on a three-point play and Ballo bulled his way to the basketball to put the Wildcats up 71-65.
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Tennessee was solid defensively against the high-scoring Wildcats, but labored offensively at the wrong times to have a chance for a huge road win.
Arizona got no scoring from its bench, but the starters were good enough at both ends for an emotional home win against a top-10 opponent.
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Tennessee: Hosts Austin Peay on Friday night.
Arizona: Hosts Montana State on Tuesday night.
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Running back Leonard Fournette has reportedly reached the end of the road in Tampa.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Buccaneers plan to release Fournette once the new league year starts on March 15. Fournette has $2 million of his 2023 salary guaranteed, so the team will wait until then in order to have it hit the 2023 cap rather than the current one.
Assuming Fournette’s departure is not designated as a post-June 1 cut, the Bucs will save over $3.47 million in cap space while incurring $5 million in dead money.
Fournette ran 189 times for 668 yards and three touchdowns in 16 games with the Bucs last season. He’s spent the last three years in Tampa and scored four touchdowns in the postseason during the team’s run to the Super Bowl LV title. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-bucs-to-release-leonard-fournette | 2023-06-30 17:48:59 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-bucs-to-release-leonard-fournette |
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NY New York NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ074-132015-
Richmond (Staten Island)-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. West winds around 5 mph, becoming north
after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ177-132015-
Northern Nassau-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ179-132015-
Southern Nassau-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ078-132015-
Northwest Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s.
North winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ080-132015-
Southwest Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Humid with lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ079-132015-
Northeast Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered thunderstorms with a
chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. West
winds around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ081-132015-
Southeast Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs around 80. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered thunderstorms with a
chance of showers in the evening. Humid with lows in the upper
60s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ071-132015-
Southern Westchester-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ070-132015-
Northern Westchester-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the upper 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ069-132015-
Rockland-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ068-132015-
Putnam-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the mid 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light
and variable. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ067-132015-
Orange-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows around 60. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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Winning Artwork from the College-Level Digital Artists Featured on LG's Times Square Billboard in New York City
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA has announced the winners of its "LG Wonderbox Showcase," a unique creative competition for college-level art students that encourages innovative approaches to communicating their ideas via 3D digital art that illustrates the spirit of LG's "Life's Good" brand promise.
The winning artwork will be displayed on LG's Times Square billboard through mid-January. The prizes awarded were first place, $25,000; second place, $10,000 and third place, $5,000. Winners also received a 27-inch LG Ultrafine Nano 4K monitor, ideal for creating digital animation art.
Taking home first place for their submission, "Rocket Ship," is a married couple from Utah – Evan West from Utah Valley University and Ashley West from Brigham Young University. Evan is a motion designer who wants to pursue his love for animation and design working at a top-tier motion design studio, and Ashley is an illustrator, textile artist and clothing designer.
Awarded second place is Sera Mun, a student at Maryland Institute College of Art and creator of the submission, "Gnomes." Mun is from Seoul, South Korea and moved to Baltimore to study animation. Chloe Ko is the third-place winner for her digital artwork titled, "Giant Present." Born and raised in South Korea, Ko currently attends School of Visual Arts in New York City and specializes in 3D motion graphics and Houdini FX.
The inaugural competition was created to inspire creative designers and artists, and to help kick-start their careers in animation. Students were asked to submit "wonderbox" animations creating their own digital worlds, opening to reveal a moment that invites curiosity, then amazes, engages and delights viewers — taking them to a whole new world of possibilities.
"We wanted to participate in the LG Wonderbox Showcase because it was an exciting way to combine our talents," said West. "Our artwork features a rocket on an exciting journey through space. The theme of space travel represents forward progress in all aspects of life. As we have worked to achieve lofty goals and tackle challenging problems, our vision of who we can become is expanded and we come to better understand what our purpose is on this earth. We want to continually explore uncharted territories, innovate to find solutions to life's problems, and share beautiful creations with the world."
The competition submissions were reviewed by three acclaimed creative artists with backgrounds in design and animation: noted director and 3D/VFX artist Clinton Jones; award-winning and Emmy-nominated digital artist Penelope Nederlander; and Bradley Munkowitz, also known as GMUNK, a visionary whose creativity spans a diverse range of mediums. The judges were an integral part of the Wonderbox Showcase from reviewing every submission to mentoring the finalists.
The winning artwork was revealed on LG's billboard during a celebration at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The students, families, friends and judges flew in from around the country to see the original content displayed for the first time. Following the big reveal, finalists were presented with their winning checks from Chulho Huh, corporate marketing vice president, LG Electronics USA.
"At LG, our mission is simple: to showcase 'Innovation for a Better Life' – not just through our products, but also through initiatives like this one, which creates a platform for students and creators to showcase their innovation and creativity on a bigger scale," Huh said. "This year's winning artwork will truly make viewers feel inspired by what's possible in the future."
For more information on LG's Wonderbox Showcase 2022 and to view the finalists' artwork, visit www.lg.com/us/wonderbox.
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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+1 847 941 8181
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MOLINE, Ill., March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) has been recognized as one of the 2023 World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.
This year marks the 16th time Deere has been recognized on this list, underscoring the company's commitment to ethical corporate citizenship to provide the food, fuel, fiber, and infrastructure to support a growing global population – and to help Deere's customers do their jobs more sustainably.
In fact, sustainability is rooted firmly at the core of Deere's operations – from business strategies and processes, to technology development. In its recently announced 2022 Sustainability Report, Deere showcased progress towards delivering more sustainable solutions for customers, dealers, shareholders, and supported communities. This includes the company's recently announced ExactShot™ on-planter fertilizer system, which allows farmers to reduce the amount of starter fertilizer needed during planting by more than 60 percent.
Deere's long-term commitment to ethical business and sustainability is also underpinned by its Leap Ambitions, which are focused and measurable goals designed to boost economic value and sustainability for farmers and customers. With a mission of helping farmers do more with less, Deere promotes environmental stewardship to protect the planet and sustain the growing needs of future generations.
"We are honored to be recognized as one of the 2023 World's Most Ethical Companies®. This honor reinforces the importance of conducting business ethically and sustainably. As we continue our Smart Industrial journey, we encourage everyone to foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and integrity each day. Thank you to our employees who continue to make John Deere a great place to work," said Josh Jepsen, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.
Deere is one of 135 companies to earn the recognition this year. The honorees span 19 countries and 46 industries. The full list of the 2023 World's Most Ethical Companies® can be found at https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees
To learn more about Deere's corporate responsibility and sustainability practices, view the company's 2022 Sustainability Report here: https://www.deere.com/en/our-company/sustainability
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About John Deere
Deere & Company (www.JohnDeere.com) is a global leader in the delivery of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment. We help our customers push the boundaries of what's possible in ways that are more productive and sustainable to help life leap forward. Our technology-enabled products including John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor and tillage solution, See & Spray™, and E-Power Backhoe are just some of the ways we help meet the world's increasing need for food, shelter, and infrastructure. Deere & Company also provides financial services through John Deere Financial.
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There’s a reason—beyond sheer popularity—why so many full-line carmakers have led with crossovers as they ramp up their lineups for the electric era: Sporty mid-size sedans like the Hyundai Ioniq 6 require more push and pull to look right while delivering the aerodynamic efficiency that’s so important for driving range.
To fit thick battery packs under the passenger floor means pushing up the roofline and compromising proportions to compensate, or settling for a cabin that feels more cramped. On the other hand, traditional three-box sedans are compromised in the wind tunnel; it’s why so many automakers have settled for the tall-tail “kammback” form instead, with a hatchback instead of a trunklid.
Put the two together and it’s daunting. With sedans no longer the core of the auto market, it’s less surprising why so few automakers have tackled an electric sedan.
But Hyundai has threaded the needle and ended up with something jaw-droppingly unique in the Ioniq 6. The Ioniq 6 simultaneously solves the aero issue and treads new design ground, making other sedans look antiquated.
Hyundai’s early tease of range results might be enough to convince skeptics. The Ioniq 6 will bear a WLTP range rating of up to 382 miles, according to the automaker. Based on how the Ioniq 5 crossover has fared in the EPA cycle, versus the more optimistic European WLTP, that will land it very close to the Model 3 Long Range’s 358 miles.
It’s a trendsetter, looks even better up close, and from first impressions, it suggests for the first time that there’s a car that one-ups the Tesla Model 3 in many respects.
One curve, many details
It would have been easy for the Ioniq 6 to mimic the best-selling Tesla Model 3, or to simply aping the Ioniq 5 hatchback that’s in ridiculously short supply. But Hyundai didn’t opt for either of those routes.
Hyundai calls the profile of the Ioniq 6 “one curve.” Side profile pics tend to show individual arcs, but in person it’s easy to figuratively lay a French curve across any portion of the car as a whole. The thing is curvy everywhere. Influences include the Stout Scarab and the Phantom Corsair, both from the 1930s; the 1950 Saab 92; and the 1920s aviation aesthetic in this “streamliner.” Yet to anyone fluent in modern cars, it’s impossible not to see some Porsche influences in front and in back. Is that a whale tail?
Well, it’s a rear spoiler that plays a key role in the 0.21 coefficient of drag, making the Ioniq 6 Hyundai’s most aerodynamic production car ever. Modeled after the super-marine spitfire British World War II airplane, it’s one of those elements of beauty where engineering and design find the sweet spot. Don’t try removing the spoiler if you value your highway range. The aero advantages are also made possible by an active air flap at the lower front air intake, letting airflow through and around the front wheels—and, by the sound of it, a whole lot of modeling and wind-tunnel work.
On the outside, Hyundai’s so-called parametric pixel design details, the emphasis on lighting, and the slim door handles are about the only things in common with the Ioniq 5. That’s how Hyundai likes it, in an Ioniq lineup of models that will each make their own statement, including the boxy Ioniq 7 SUV that’s on the way as well.
No wasted space
The Ioniq 6 is the first sedan built from the company’s E-GMP dedicated electric vehicle platform. It’s also the first Hyundai model to offer over-the-air firmware updates for the full gamut of vehicle functions.
It rides on a 116.1-inch wheelbase and is 191.1 inches long, 74.0 inches wide, and 58.9 inches tall. In overall height, the Ioniq 5 is only about four inches taller than the Ioniq 6, but with them both at opposite sides of a garage you’d guess there’s more of a difference.
Hyundai has conceived each of the Ioniq models separately, with an emphasis on an interior “living space,” parametric pixel cues peppered throughout to unify the different looks, and sustainability in tech and materials.
According to Hyundai global design chief Simon Loasby, controlling the visual height of the car was very important. The broad arc that assures passenger space gets where it needs to be, but it starts very low in front and back.
Just as with the Ioniq 5, the dash is pushed forward more than in other vehicles, and the entire front floor space feels open and airy. Like the Tesla Model 3, there isn’t a lot of wasted space atop the dash, and from an upright driving position the hood pretty much disappears, leaving a great view ahead. Twin 12.3-inch displays stand upright in front of the driver—the one in the middle a touchscreen for infotainment, the one ahead for gauges—but they’re by no means in the way.
The skateboard platform and long wheelbase pay dividends in passenger space. The floor is flat throughout the cabin, bringing excellent leg room to the back seat, even when the front seat is back all or nearly all the way. Just don’t expect a lot of head room; I (and anyone over 6 feet tall) was pressing my noggin against the headliner, requiring a hunched-forward position that would be acceptable for a trip across town but not a road trip. Up front, Hyundai adds a sturdy, two-tiered center console; it doesn’t move around like the one in the Ioniq 5, but there’s space for larger items below plus the top area is level and good for a laptop, they say.
There is a frunk, but it’s essentially a small storage bin, good for charging cables or maybe a laptop bag. The trunk isn’t very deep—just enough for grocery bags, although it’s wide and long.
Not a sport sedan but nicely balanced
Rear-wheel-drive single-motor versions of the Ioniq 6 make 225 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque and all-wheel-drive dual-motor models make 320 hp and 446 lb-ft of torque. Hyundai claims a 0-62-mph acceleration time of 7.4 seconds in single-motor form and 5.1 seconds in dual-motor form, although its factory acceleration times are typically conservative.
Our well-equipped dual-motor model with 20-inch wheels felt plenty quick in this world of “instant torque,” and the motors and traction system never needed the Pirelli P Zeros to scramble for grip. What would this vehicle be like with a firmer suspension and the higher-output 576-hp dual-motor layout of the Kia EV6? While exact horsepower figures are still TBA, that vehicle is in the works as the Ioniq 6 N. It’s one to look forward to, given the Ioniq 6’s lower, more planted feel.
The Ioniq 6 is by no means firmly tuned. We’d call it a bit firmer than the 5, but since you’re lower you don’t feel the roll as much. Steering feel is light and easy, and it returns to center well. It’s at its best in tighter corners, where it weights up nicely, but it could use a little more precision in how it unwinds out of them. Versus the Ioniq 5 and pretty much the whole cohort of electric crossovers, you sit more in the car rather than on it—and that makes a huge difference in perception as you corner quickly and enjoy driving.
The 6 gets hydraulic bushings in back to help soak up road harshness, as well as frequency-sensitive shocks with variable flow paths, to allow them to react differently to varied inputs. The integrated drive axle has a hub-integrated outboard joint to help aid stiffness. The Ioniq 6 also uses low-noise tires, a carpet/floor that’s decoupled from the structure, and various sound-absorbing materials. Acoustic glass is used for the windshield and front and side door glass, and smooth shielding keeps the underbody free of turbulence.
Four levels of regenerative braking, all steering-wheel paddle-selected, plus smoothly blended brakes make it easy to find the best experience for each driver. An Auto Hold mode simply toggles on and off with its own button, allowing drivers to give the brake pedal a rest in traffic as desired. Hyundai also provides Eco, Normal, Sport, and Snow modes, as with the Ioniq 5, but new to the Ioniq 6 is an EV Tune-up feature that allows the owner to tweak more of the settings individually—including steering, acceleration sensitivity, and horsepower.
As I tested the Ioniq 6, it likely has a curb weight of around 4,500 lb, which is several hundred pounds heavier than the Model 3 Long Range.
Tech, some of it inbound
My test car—actually, all the test cars—had a tech item that won’t come to the U.S.: camera-based side rearview mirrors. With screens mounted at the edge of the dash, on wings that extended upward from it. The setup gives drivers a wider angle of view than standard rearview mirrors. I found it a lot easier to get used to than the screen-based center rearview mirrors offered in a few U.S. models. My only caveat is the boxy execution of the camera unit on the outside; it didn’t fit in with the rest of the coordinated, super-aero design. We’ll take our standard mirrors and grin, thank you.
The Ioniq 6’s 800-volt charging capability means that, like the 5, it will be able to take advantage of 350-kw DC fast-charging stations, getting either of its battery packs from 10% to 80% in just 18 minutes. Both a heat pump and battery heating system are included, as is a new preconditioning system that should make peak charge rates easier to access in chillier weather.
With its 11-kw onboard charger, the Ioniq 6 can get a full charge in about six hours for the Standard pack or about eight hours with the Long Range pack—eight and 12 hours, respectively, with more common 7.0-kw garage wallboxes. It comes ready for bidirectional charging and will feature a similar Vehicle to Load (V2L) connector allowing owners to power appliances or camping equipment, or to slow-charge another EV.
Hyundai hasn’t provided much guidance on the base price of the Ioniq 6, which will arrive in early 2023 for North America, after a rollout in Korea this fall. But to combine a few hints from company officials, we expect it to start slightly lower than the Ioniq 5 but top out somewhat higher in its top-performance Ioniq 6 N form. Think $40,000 to $65,000, approximately. This isn’t going to be an expansive luxury car, but it feels like it.
Most importantly, the arrival of the Ioniq 6 will finally provide competition for the Model 3. Provided Hyundai builds enough of these, we’re eager to see how this rivalry plays out.
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Members of the Oregon REALTORS have honored local Realtor and community leader Nan Wimmers with the 2022 Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest granted by the association.
The Oregon REALTORS Distinguished Service Award was established in 1993 to recognize outstanding service and contributions to the association for at least 10 years, said a press release. Criteria for the award includes service in areas such as committee membership, committee leadership, and service as a state director, officer, or NAR director.
Wimmers is a member of the Mid-Columbia Association of REALTORS and the owner and Principal Broker of Columbia Gorge Real Estate. She has been a Realtor for more than 25 years.
Wimmers has served in multiple volunteer positions for Oregon REALTORS since 2010, including District 6 vice president from 2012-2016 and president of Oregon REALTORS in 2019. She was named the Mid-Columbia Association of REALTORS Realtor of the Year in 2014 and was honored as the state Realtor of the Year in 2016.
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- Ground-breaking study sets out credible pathways for the industry to become an enabler of a sustainable global economy, double in size and create 29 million new jobs
- The industry can reinvent itself as a climate solution – becoming carbon negative by early 2040s and acting as a carbon sink by 2050
- Without dramatic and urgent change, the industry aligns with 4 degrees of global warming by 2050 with catastrophic consequences for the planet
- Building a circular, net zero chemical system will require capital expenditure of over $3 trillion by 2050
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global chemical industry accounts for around 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It must end its fossil dependency and become a planet-positive force by embracing a more circular, low emissions operating model, according to a major new report from Systemiq, the system change company, and the Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo. Without urgent action, the industry faces reputational and regulatory risk and may lose its social license to operate, the report warns.
The Planet Positive Chemicals report (Systemiq, UTokyo) provides an unprecedented blueprint for the future of the chemical industry, which is worth $4.7 trillion dollars in annual revenues(1) and provides the chemicals that are essential to all sectors of the economy from packaging and consumer goods to construction and fertilisers. It says the industry currently has multiple harmful impacts on our planet, including high carbon emissions and pollution, and its action on climate is currently lagging behind other sectors.
The report identifies the need for radical interventions on both supply and demand sides for the industry to operate within planetary boundaries. Its findings include:
- Chemical products are used across all downstream industries - other sectors of the economy cannot reach net zero without mitigating the climate impacts of the chemicals value chain
- Chemical production would need to double by 2050 to enable a sustainable global economy, with rapid growth in ammonia (around 440%) mainly for use as a sustainable shipping fuel and methanol (330%) to create plastic without using fossil sources
- Expected growth means net zero will be dependent on the maximum scaling of a few key abatement technologies like carbon capture and storage (CCS) – without which the chemicals industry becomes a major climate risk
- Up to 640 million tonnes of CCS capacity will be needed every year by 2050 if the industry does not move away from fossil feedstocks
- Circular approaches can reduce total demand for chemicals by up to 31% by 2050 – with industry reusing and recycling chemicals, or switching certain chemicals for lower-emissions alternatives
- Supply transition requires a shift away from fossil fuels and feedstocks and scaling of CCS to capture residual emission from production processes and end of life chemicals
- Replacing fossil feedstocks will make the industry the largest global consumer of green hydrogen (up to half of all demand by 2050), driving scale-up of this critical enabler of the energy transition
- This creates economic opportunities as the site of primary chemical production for developing countries that have abundant, affordable renewable energy sources to make low-cost green hydrogen
- The industry could become carbon negative by the early 2040s and a carbon sink by 2050, using CO2 from the air and biomass to make plastic and storing carbon underground at end-of-life
- The transition can create 29 million jobs in upstream production, circular chemicals and waste management - but the chemical industry needs to reposition itself in order to attract highly-skilled workers who often seek environmental and social purpose
- Retrofitting of legacy production and new greenfield chemical production infrastructure will require capex expenditure of over $3 trillion
The Planet-Positive Chemicals report aims to help the industry and policy makers unite around a common view of the path ahead and accelerate the transition to a sustainable model of operation. It suggests ten key actions that could transform the system including establishing a global charter of transition principles and a first-movers coalition to seed markets for net zero chemicals. The report authors have made all their modelling and analysis publicly available. They will host a virtual discussion on 10 October 2022 to explore what's needed from the industry, its customers, policymakers and the investment community to make the transition happen.
Chad Holliday, former CEO of the global chemical company DuPont and former Chairman of Shell, said: "We need realistic and immediate action from industry on the climate goals agreed at an international level. We want to see ambitious companies grabbing the opportunities represented by the global net zero transition, and as the former CEO of a chemicals company, I firmly believe a planet positive chemicals industry IS possible and this is a pivotal moment for the industry to redefine its future."
Naoko Ishii, Executive Vice President, Director for the Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo, said: "To avoid the collapse of the complex and interdependent Earth systems on which humanity, including our economic prosperity depends, we need to transform our social and economic systems and our lifestyles. The chemical industry has an outsized role to play, with its products used across many sectors and ubiquitous in modern life. The opportunity is clear: to bring the system back within the planetary boundaries, including net zero GHG and become a contributor to the Global Commons. We hope this report will open the debate about how the chemical industry can transform itself to grasp that opportunity."
Business leader and campaigner Paul Polman, who served as CEO of Unilever and helped design the SDGs, said: "Transformational leadership is critical to the delivery of our global sustainability goals. We urgently need courageous business leaders who profit by fixing the world's problems rather than creating them – and this report is a clarion call to the chemical industry to do just that. It sets out tangible pathways for the sector to become the enabler of a sustainable economy, a climate solution and a planet-positive system – but in order to access the growth and value associated with this future path, the industry must decouple itself from the fossil fuel dependence of the past. This marks the beginning of an urgent and business-critical conversation for the industry and its value chain."
Guido Schmidt-Traub, Managing Partner of Systemiq, says: "The chemical industry underpins every modern economy, but it must change profoundly across its entire value chain to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Importantly, these changes are eminently feasible using proven technologies outlined in this report. The recommendations for policymakers, the industry, and the investment community are practical and actionable. Systemiq and our partners stand ready to support discussions about how the chemical industry can become a driver of a net-zero and nature-positive economy."
NOTES TO EDITORS
1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/302081/revenue-of-global-chemical-industry/
The full report is available at https://www.systemiq.earth/planet-positive-chemicals/ or at https://cgc.ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/research-en/chemistry-industry-en/
You can sign up for the Planet Positive Chemicals discussion event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/systemiq-center-for-global-commons-planet-positive-chemicals-discussion-tickets-412873484707
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Flu season is here, and it’s knocking people down left and right. Still haven’t been infected? Lucky you! Staying healthy and germ-free when everyone around you is sniffling, sneezing and coughing is a feat.
Continue your flu-free streak by boosting your immune system and disinfecting your environment so you can continue to ward off this wintertime illness. In the unfortunate event that you or someone else in your care does contract the bug, there are ways to cope and kick those flu symptoms to the curb.
How to avoid the flu
Get a flu shot
The flu vaccine won’t eliminate the flu once you’ve contracted it, but it will improve your immunity and let you hang around infected friends and family with a little more ease. It’s a must for anyone working in the health care field (doctors, nurses, other hospital and clinic staff) and for those who frequently interact with kids.
Boost your immune system
Bolster your immunity with the help of supplements and whole foods. Proper nutrition is vital if you want to avoid catching what’s going around. Consider including Now Vegan Supplements Echinacea Capsules in your regular supplementation routine. Echinacea has been shown to increase immunity, and folks rarely experience side effects when taking it.
Don’t forget to consume plenty of fruits and vegetables, too. If you struggle to add whole foods to your plate, try juicing. The Breville Juicer Fountain can give you the benefits of consuming nutrient-dense foods in an easy-to-digest format.
Purify your surroundings
The air in your home is stale, especially during the winter. Think about all those infectious particles floating around your indoor environment. You can do something to improve the air you breathe by outfitting your most-used spaces with an air purifier. The Guardian Technologies Air Purifier can zap intrusive germs from the air along with potentially harmful dust particles and mold spores, which aren’t good for your immunity.
Clean your hands
Aside from making a flu shot appointment, the easiest way to avoid infection (and the spread of germs) is to wash your hands. Touch a germy surface, and you’re instantly at risk of infection. It only takes a moment to transfer the virus from your dirty hands to the inside of your body. You can avoid this with Softsoap Antibacterial Hand Soap, which cleanses and conditions the skin.
When you’re away from home, sanitize your hands while running errands, taking public transit, or while at the gym. EO Hand Sanitizer Spray comes in a pack of six, so there’s enough for everyone in the family to have their own; you can send some with your kids to school, and bring one whenever you travel.
Sanitize surfaces
Germs are likely hiding out on surfaces around your home, even if they appear relatively clean. Use sanitizing wipes daily to clean frequently touched surfaces in the kitchen, bathroom, and living room. Green Works Cleaning Wipes are compostable and made from naturally derived ingredients, so you can feel good about using them liberally.
Hydrate with filtered water
Regular hydration is an essential component of a healthy body, and you should quench your thirst throughout the day. An insulated Brita Filtering Water Bottle has a built-in filter to make sure the water you’re drinking is clean and pure, plus it keeps the filtered water cold for up to 24 hours and has a handy built-in straw.
Humidify your surroundings
Dry air is the flu virus’ best friend. Keeping your environment at a healthy humidity level not only keeps it at bay, but helps should you become infected, since dry air hampers the body’s ability to expel the virus. A humidifier creates inhospitable conditions for the flu but a cozy environment for us, and the Levoit Smart Classic 300S is small and quiet enough to go anywhere, whether on a desk or your bedside table.
Stock your home well
Keep easily accessible tissue packs around the house to help stifle sneezes and sniffles when kids or loved ones are under the weather — they can catch their own germs before they get into the air you’re breathing. Puffs Plus Lotion Facial Tissues are ultra soft and contain a lotion additive that moisturizes irritated skin.
Get a good night’s sleep
A tired, stressed body is a vulnerable one. When we shut our eyes for the night, we enter a period of rest that lets our body repair itself. Skimping on sleep decreases your immunity and increases your chances of contracting the flu. Invite quality sleep and reduce stress with the help of a good sleep mask. The DreamTime Spa Comforts Eye Pillow offers the soothing scent of lavender, blocks out light and is filled with a stress-busting herb blend.
Wear gloves
If you’re determined to avoid the flu, wearing gloves when interacting with others is a reliable way to prevent infection. A pack of MedPride Nitrile Gloves works not just for flu season but for cleaning chores, outdoor tasks and more. Regardless of whether you choose to don gloves, keep close contact with flu-saddled loved ones to a minimum.
What to do if you get the flu
So you’ve been infected. No need to panic. Here’s how to deal with the flu effectively so you can get back on your feet in no time.
Let yourself rest and relax
Snuggle up in a cozy blanket while you marathon the latest streaming TV series. The Ugg Bliss Plush Sherpa Fleece is warm and comes in over a dozen soothing earth tones. Keep the rest of your flu-battle supplies nearby, but don’t pass up any opportunity to doze off and let your body recuperate.
Stay home
Call in sick. We know: you’ve got so much to do, you have deadlines, you have a crazy workload, you only have a few sick days (or maybe none). But asking your body to work hard when it’s fighting off sickness is asking for trouble, and physical stress will only serve to extend the length of your illness. Your co-workers will thank you.
Loosen mucus
Avoid lingering congestion and coughing post-flu by doing your best to loosen up mucus and expel all the gunk your system is producing while in distress. Mentholatum’s Vaporizing Roll On is a mess-free ointment with all-natural ingredients that helps relieve cough. In the shower, there’s Vicks VapoShower, a tablet that produces a powerful vapor to ease congestion.
Relieve aches and pains
Soothe troublesome flu-related muscle aches with the help of pain medication to make sure you’re able to get the sleep and respite you need. It can lower any flu-associated fever, too. Tylenol Extra Strength is a longtime pain-relief bestseller.
Clear your sinuses
Avoid sinus pain and discomfort by taking a nasal decongestant (after you talk to your doctor to make sure it’s safe for you). Sudafed PE Maximum Strength is non-drowsy and helps relieve sinus pressure resulting from the flu. It also helps reduce headache pain associated with congestion.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Sunday after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel.
In an early test for the truce, Palestinian militants fired a rocket that landed in an open area of southern Israel Sunday evening. Palestinian media said the launch was caused by a technical error as militants were trying to deactivate the rocket.
Israel responded with tank fire on what it said were two military posts belonging to Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group. Hamas stayed out of the recent round of fighting, but Israel says it holds the group responsible for fire coming out of the territory.
The latest round of Gaza fighting was sparked Tuesday when Israeli jets killed three top commanders from the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to earlier rocket launches from Gaza. Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war until Egypt mediated a cease-fire that took hold late Saturday.
While the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza’s 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years.
In Gaza, residents surveyed the latest damage caused to their surroundings, with gaping holes left in the apartments serving as what Israel said were hideouts for the six senior Islamic Jihad members killed during this round. Gaza’s main cargo crossing with Israel reopened Sunday after warnings that keeping it closed would force Gaza’s sole power plant to shut down, deepening a power crisis.
Israel was gradually lifting restrictions on residents in southern Israel, which had borne the brunt of the rocket fire.
Israeli officials expressed satisfaction with the latest battle, having killed at least six members of Islamic Jihad’s top brass in what it says were pinpointed strikes based on solid intelligence. But at least 13 of those killed in Gaza were civilians, among them children as young as 4 years old, as well as women.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the targeted attacks on the militants’ hideouts would reverberate around the region.
“Israel’s enemies in Gaza and much farther than Gaza know that even if they try to hide, we are able and prepared to reach them at any time,” he told a meeting of his Cabinet.
Israel has faced criticism in the past from rights groups over the civilian casualties in its bombardments in Gaza. Israel says it does its utmost to avoid harming civilians in its strikes and says militants operate from within the territory’s densely populated areas to fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities.
Even if some of the strikes were precise, others destroyed the homes of uninvolved Palestinians.
“If they want to target a house, let them target it alone. Why destroy the whole neighborhood? Why?” said Mai Sarson, whose house in Deir el-Balah was reduced to ruins in an Israeli strike.
Throughout the fighting, Israel’s repeated airstrikes targeting Islamic Jihad and its command centers and rocket-launching sites showed no signs of stopping the rocket fire, prompting Islamic Jihad to declare victory and sending cheering Palestinians out into the streets late Saturday.
The Israeli military reported over 1,400 launches throughout the fighting, with some rockets reaching as far as the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. Israeli jets struck more than 400 targets, according to a preliminary military tally, which also showed about a fifth of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas.
An 80-year-old woman and a Palestinian laborer who was working inside Israel were killed by rocket fire. A Palestinian human rights group said three people, including two children, were killed in Gaza by errant rockets.
It was the latest in a long series of battles between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the seaside territory in 2007. Israel and Hamas have fought four wars, and there have been numerous smaller flareups as well.
The more powerful Hamas has praised Islamic Jihad’s strikes but remained on the sidelines during the latest round of fighting, limiting the scope of the conflict. As the de facto government held responsible for the abysmal conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Hamas has recently tried to keep a lid on its conflict with Israel. Islamic Jihad, on the other hand, a more ideological and unruly militant group wedded to violence, has taken the lead in the past few rounds of fighting with Israel.
Saturday’s deal did not address many of the causes of the repeated fighting, including Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, the large arsenals of weapons possessed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The Gaza violence came after more than a year of fighting in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military has been staging near-nightly arrest raids and Palestinians have carried out repeated attacks. Tensions could once again soar this week when nationalist Israelis hold an annual march through a sensitive area of Jerusalem’s Old City, which the Palestinians view as provocative.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim all three areas for a future state. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but Hamas subsequently overran the territory and expelled forces loyal to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.
Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade over Gaza in what Israel says is a policy aimed at preventing Hamas from arming. The Palestinians and international rights groups say the policy, which restricts the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, amounts to collective punishment.
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — A small plane with four passengers crashed at a Utah airport on Monday, killing one and injuring the other three, according to city officials in Provo.
The plane crashed immediately after takeoff and one of the three survivors was transported to the hospital in critical condition. The other two sustained “minor bumps and bruises," officials said.
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The National Transportation Safety Board tweeted that it was investigating the crash of the aircraft, which it identified as an Embraer 505, a light business jet.
The airport in Provo, just south of Salt Lake City, will remain closed until noon on Tuesday, and a number of flights have been cancelled, according to the airport's website.
Brian Torgersen, the airport manager, told FOX13 that the scene of the crash was “devastating" and was surprised that two of those on board made it out with relatively minor injuries.
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Snow Squall Warning issued March 10 at 1:11PM MST until March 10 at 1:30PM MST by NWS Pocatello ID
At 107 PM MST, a dangerous snow squall was located near Cold Water
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A Word, Please: AP softens on the Oxford comma, but its rule against the punctuation mark can make sense
“We don’t ban the Oxford comma.”
That was the subject line of an email the Associated Press Stylebook editors recently sent to subscribers. To anyone who’s been on the frontlines of the comma wars, the message seemed like an olive branch — or possibly a white flag.
Not familiar with the Oxford comma controversy? It’s a tempest in a teapot — a trumped-up battle between people who eschew an optional comma, called the Oxford or serial comma, and the devotees of this little punctuation mark.
The Oxford comma, or serial comma, comes before the conjunction in a list of three or more things. If you write, “The flag is red, white, and blue,” you’re using an Oxford comma. If you write, “The flag is red, white and blue,” you’re not. Either way, you’re using correct punctuation because this comma is optional.
The publishing world’s two major style guides take different positions on whether editors should use this comma. The Chicago Manual of Style, followed by many book and magazine publishers, is in favor.
“When a conjunction joins the last two elements in a series of three or more, a comma — known as the serial or series comma or the Oxford comma — should appear before the conjunction,” says the Chicago manual’s 17th edition, adding for emphasis: “Chicago strongly recommends this widely practiced usage.”
AP is mostly opposed. “Use commas to separate elements in a series, but do not put a comma before the conjunction in most simple series,” the stylebook advises. But unlike Chicago, AP editors don’t use the next sentence to strenuously underscore their point. Instead, AP emphasizes that the rule is flexible. “Include a final comma in a simple series if omitting it could make the meaning unclear.” Dig a little deeper into the Chicago manual and you see they make exceptions, too, albeit reluctantly.
People often use “I” instead of “me” when trying to speak grammatically, but it’s not always the correct choice.
So AP and Chicago — the most influential voices on the Oxford comma — are de facto leaders of opposing camps. Oxford comma enthusiasts, then, could see AP as the enemy, which could put AP on the defensive, which in turn could inspire an email like the one I got in my inbox this month. Just a theory.
AP gave an example in which the Oxford comma makes sense of an otherwise confusing sentence: “‘The governor convened his most trusted advisers, economist Olivia Schneider, and polling expert Carlton Torres.’ (If the governor is convening unidentified advisers plus Schneider and Torres, the final comma is needed.)”
If you meant instead that the trusted advisers were none other than Schneider and Torres, no comma goes before the conjunction, AP notes: “The governor convened his most trusted advisers, economist Olivia Schneider and polling expert Carlton Torres.”
AP missed an opportunity here. They should have given an example with “adviser” in the singular instead of the plural: “The governor convened his most trusted adviser, economist Olivia Schneider, and polling expert Carlton Torres.”
With “adviser” in the singular, the Oxford comma doesn’t prevent confusion — it creates it. Maybe Schneider and the trusted adviser are one and the same, so the governor convened only two people. Or maybe the trusted adviser is separate from Schneider and three people showed up. We don’t know. But take out the Oxford comma and it’s clear that three people met with the governor: the trusted adviser, Schneider and Torres.
Obviously, sometimes it’s better to just rewrite the sentence. But when you can’t, knee-jerk comma partisanship is not the remedy. Sometimes the Oxford comma helps, sometimes it hurts.
Consistency counts, too. So pick your default preference — yes or no on the Oxford comma — then be prepared to make exceptions whenever it could help your reader.
June Casagrande is the author of “The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should Know.” She can be reached at JuneTCN@aol.com.
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