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What are the best classic Barbie dolls?
In 1959, the world was introduced to a doll named “Barbie,” which eventually became the most popular fashion doll ever produced. Now a new generation of kids gets to fall in love with the latest version Mattel is calling My First Barbie. With a softer body and larger accessories, the brand designed this updated doll with preschoolers in mind.
For those who were around for previous iterations of the iconic doll, it’s likely you’ll feel a wave of nostalgia. So, if the new My First Barbie has you reminiscing, introduce your kid to these Barbie classics.
History of Barbie
The 11-inch plastic doll named Barbie was first introduced at the American International Toy Fair in New York City on March 9, 1959, which is known as Barbie’s official birthday. Toy company Mattel’s co-founder, Ruth Handler, envisioned the idea after watching her daughter play with make-believe paper dolls and realizing the potential of a new type of doll. Barbie’s appearance is modeled after the German comic-strip character Bild Lilli, and the name is short for Barbara, which is Handler’s daughter’s name.
Barbie has been reimagined countless times since its original debut and even has accessories and dollhouses. Barbie has over 200 occupations, including landing on the moon as an astronaut in 1965 and running for President in 1992. Plus, supermodel Twiggy was the first celebrity Barbie, followed by Audrey Hepburn, Cyndi Lauper and more. Let’s not forget about the Ken doll introduced in 1961, which was named after Handler’s son.
What is My First Barbie?
My First Barbie is not designed to replace the classic Barbie, but rather appeal to a younger age group. In a press statement, Vice President of Global Consumer Insights at Mattel, Tasja Kirkwood, said, “Parents had a desire to introduce their preschool-aged children to Barbie but were planning to wait until they were older with more developed dexterity. This insight led to the exploration of the first Barbie doll designed specifically for preschool-aged children … our research and feedback from parents was essential to creating a Barbie line that could not be better suited for little hands and preschool fans.”
Instead of a petite, hourglass figure, My First Barbie has a larger waist, a softer body and stands 13.5 inches tall, which is 2 inches taller than the original. This initial rollout also has inclusivity in mind and features four skin tones and hair textures. To further cater to younger children, Mattel connected My First Barbie’s fingers and thumb to finally correct the decades-long dilemma of getting clothes caught on the doll’s hands. Plus, it also looks more kid-friendly, with playful flower or heart clothing designs and permanently attached flesh-toned modesty undergarments.
Best classic Barbie dolls
My First Barbie for Preschoolers
Four dolls are available in the first rollout of My First Barbie, each with its own pet, such as a fox, bunny, poodle or kitten. It also comes with shoes, sunglasses and a large brush for little hands to easily manage. Plus, all the clothes are made with Velcro, making them simple to change. Sold by Amazon and Target
Barbie 60th Anniversary Doll Black & White Dress
With a black and white striped outfit, this 60th anniversary Barbie doll is modeled after the first Barbie, wearing a similarly designed swimsuit. This special-edition doll comes in a retro box with sparkly silver shoes. Sold by Amazon
Barbie Rewind ’80s Edition Workin’ Out Doll
Turn back the time with this Rewind ’80s working out Barbie, complete with totally rad and accurate fashion. It also comes with a ton of accessories, including dumbbells, a brush, a gym bag, an aerobics stepper and cassette tape. Sold by Amazon
Barbie Beach Cruiser Barbie Doll and Ken Doll
While Barbie is the star, you can’t forget about the best sidekick, Ken. This set comes with Barbie, Ken and a classic beach cruiser that will bring back unforgettable memories.
Sold by Amazon
Barbie Sally Ride Inspiring Women Doll
Barbie inspires children everywhere to be anything they can imagine. From the Inspiring Women series, Sally Ride was the first American woman and the youngest American to go to space. It’s also modeled after the original astronaut Barbie doll made in 1965. Sold by Amazon
According to Guinness World Records, the original Totally Hair Barbie that debuted in 1992 is the bestselling Barbie of all time. This revamped version will have you reminiscing about your very first doll with long, crimped hair and must-have fashion accessories. Sold by Target
Barbie is dressed perfectly for her special day in a white gown with pink flowers and a veil. Kids can use their imagination to design any fairy tale adventure. Sold by Amazon
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Venture Into Cures, a virtual benefit show, brought together world-renowned actors and musicians to raise awareness and funds for EB Research Partnership
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - On November 20, EB Research Partnership (EBRP) presented the third annual Venture Into Cures, an inspiring virtual event featuring moving stories about individuals and families living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Co-founders Eddie and Jill Vedder, along with their daughters Olivia and Harper Vedder, were joined by a lineup of celebrity friends and guests to raise over $1.3 million for EBRP, bringing the 3 year total raised via Venture Into Cures to more than $6 million, moving the organization closer to finding a cure for EB and leading the way for other rare diseases.
More than 75,000 people tuned in from over 70 countries to watch the special that included appearances and performances by Jonathan Brown, Dana Carvey, Billie Eilish, Will Ferrell, FINNEAS, Jack Harlow, Tom Holland, Joe Jonas, Kermit the Frog, John Legend, Macklemore, Lamorne Morris, Joy Oladokun, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Pratt, Keanu Reeves, Olivia Rodrigo, Broken Social Scene, Molly Shannon, Hannah Simone, David Spade, Lauren Spencer-Smith, The Vedder Family, Emma Watson, Venus Willams, and more.
The one-hour virtual show was produced by EBRP and Door Knocker Media, with artist booking by one twenty eight. Watch the replay stream of Venture Into Cures at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPxsVlofwA
"With our third annual Venture Into Cures event wrapped, we cannot begin to express our gratitude for those involved in this incredible show," said Jill Vedder, EBRP co-founder. "From the exceptional talent who offered their time and voice, through to the generous donors that continue to show up for the EB community, we are immensely grateful as we move closer to finding a cure for EB."
"Through the ongoing support of the Venture Into Cures' audience, donors and the patient and medical communities, we will continue to fund the most innovative and impactful global research. Over the last ten years, EBRP has made incredible strides in research and clinical trials. From the resiliency of the families and the commitment of scientists, together our ambitious goal is to cure EB in this decade," added Eddie Vedder, musician and EBRP co-founder.
Produced by EBRP and Door Knocker Media, with artist booking by one twenty eight, highlights from the show include:
Actor Emma Watson introducing the story of fearless 6-year-old Elodie Kubik, the inspiration behind the annual fundraiser, Plunge for Elodie, in conversation with Kermit the Frog.
Singer/songwriter John Legend, performing an exclusive presentation of his song, "Never Break", in honor of the brave young people and families living with EB.
An inspiring and educational conversation between Dr. Jean Y. Tang, and Dr. Anthony Oro, two brilliant scientists leading the charge to discover innovative EB therapies, introduced by athlete and entrepreneur, Venus Williams.
Actor Chris Pratt introduces seven year old EB warrior Solomon Bonner, and shares his story through a mutual love of dinosaurs.
Singer and songwriter Olivia Rodrigo lends her voice to EBRP, through an inspiring video montage.
Actor Keanu Reeves highlighted the story of Deana Molinaro, a young artist that uses the power of art to heal and inspire others with EB.
EB is a life-threatening genetic disorder that affects approximately 500,000 people worldwide. Called "Butterfly Children" because their skin is as fragile as a butterfly's wings, children with EB face severe pain, open external and internal wounds, and a grueling daily bandaging process. There is currently no treatment or cure for EB; however, EBRP's innovative Venture Philanthropy model is helping to fast-track not only a cure for EB but therapies that could affect thousands of other rare diseases.
Co-Founded by a dedicated group of parents, along with Jill and Eddie Vedder, as the largest global organization supporting EB research, EBRP has funded more than 120 projects through their innovative model, directly impacting the clinical landscape. Through EBRP's work, clinical trials for EB have increased by nearly 20 times, from 2 to nearly 40, including four Phase III clinical trials, the final phase before the FDA considers approval for a new therapy.
Learn more about the life-changing work of EBRP at www.ebresearch.org.
Founded in 2010 by a dedicated group of parents and Jill and Eddie Vedder, EB Research Partnership (EBRP) is the largest global nonprofit dedicated to funding research aimed at treating and ultimately curing Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a group of devastating and life-threatening skin disorders that affect children from birth.
Working around the clock with offices in the US and Australia, EBRP utilizes an innovative venture philanthropy business model. When making a grant to a research project, they retain the added upside of generating a recurring revenue stream if the therapy or product is commercially successful, then use the return on investment to fund additional EB research until a cure is found.
To learn more, visit www.ebresearch.org.
Door Knocker Media, is a leading Toronto-based production house, that creates online, mobile, and live presentation content for brands, agencies, and non-profits. With their finger on the pulse of the latest production and post-production trends and technologies, Door Knocker achieves unparalleled storytelling and results-driven content. doorknockermedia.com
one twenty eight is an impact agency that disrupts how change happens. By partnering differently, the strategic integrated agency offers a fusion to talent booking, cause marketing, and CSR support, with the goal of maximizing social and community impact. Rooted in building authentic relationships, one twenty eight has partnered brands and organizations with talent like Selena Gomez, Natalie Portman, Idris Elba, Jonas Brothers, Lilly Singh, Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Will Ferrell, and more. Learn more about how to make an impact, at onetwentyeight.org.
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Prominent Twitter users Dril, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chrissy Teigen have found somewhere new to share their musings online. They’re joining Bluesky, the latest social media platform touted as a possible alternative to Elon Musk’s struggling site.
Musk took over Twitter in October, and in the months since, it has been riddled with glitches and changes, frustrating users who say the site now has a different feel. Many apps have tried to fill the gap - Mastodon being the most successful so far - but Bluesky seems to be the first to come close to striking Twitter's offbeat tone. As more Twitter users flocked to Bluesky on Thursday, one account likened them to a group of people who "miraculously survived a plane crash together."
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Bluesky, in fact, could be Twitter's doppelganger, its posts sound a lot like tweets, and at least for the time being, many people seem to be using it mostly to poke fun at the social media giant.
Here's what to know about the latest buzzy social network.
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What is Bluesky?
At first, Bluesky - pronounced "blue sky," not "bloo-skee" - seems to function like any other social media site. You sign up with your email, choose a handle and then you can scroll through a timeline and write your own posts. But beneath the familiar presentation, there is something different going on.
Bluesky runs on a "decentralized" system, meaning people will eventually be able to use the technology behind it to create their own applications and communities, with rules and algorithms customized to their liking. The goal is to create a system where no single person or algorithm reigns over what users experience.
In a blog post, chief executive Jay Graber describes Bluesky's operating technology as "a foundation for the next generation of social apps" that aims to bring back the "openness and creativity of the early web." And it's no coincidence the Bluesky app looks like Twitter - Graber says Bluesky wanted to show how the popular legacy site could've been built.
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Is Bluesky owned by Twitter?
Not quite. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced plans for Bluesky in a 2019 tweet, while he was still the microblogging site's chief executive. At the time, Dorsey said that the goal was for Twitter to ultimately become a client of Bluesky, and he committed to funding the new project through its development and beyond. Although Bluesky has received financial support from Twitter, it operates separately and created its own LLC in 2022. After Musk's purchase of Twitter, it is unclear what kind of relationship the two organizations maintain.
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Who is on Bluesky?
The app's users initially were limited to tech world insiders and the developers behind it. But as of Thursday, the absurdist Twitter comedian known as Dril, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, singer Grimes and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning had become some of Bluesky's early well-known users. Others appeared to be joining quickly, with one person remarking being on the site was like being at a nerdy kid's house party when the jocks knock down the door.
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How can I join Bluesky?
Bluesky is still at an invite-only beta stage at the moment. To join, you have to either know someone with an invite code or sign up for the waitlist on its website. Users who are already on Bluesky eventually receive invite codes to share.
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How is it different from Twitter?
While Twitter users see mostly what the algorithm chooses to show them, Bluesky says it intends to create a system where people can select from a variety of algorithms to better control their experience.
Its creators plan to take a similar approach to content moderation, allowing users to create their own moderation systems and subscribe to those created by third parties. Currently, you can opt in, opt out or request a warning for content with such flags as "impersonation," "violent/blood" and "political hate groups."
Another noticeable difference is that there is no blocking feature right now.
Generally speaking, the site is still fairly bare bones, and the customizable features developers are promising are not available to ordinary users yet. For now, the main differences between Bluesky and Twitter seem to be that Bluesky's default timeline is chronological, it lacks the infamous blue checks, and there are a lot of users there who appear be up in arms about Twitter and relieved to be anywhere else.
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The Washington Post’s Heather Kelly contributed to this report.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More aid arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray Wednesday following the signing of a truce earlier this month calling for unhindered humanitarian access to the war-torn northern region.
The U.N.’s World Food Program reported that its trucks had entered northwestern Tigray via the city of Gondar in the neighboring region of Amhara. The Gondar route had previously been closed to aid groups after the Tigray rebels recaptured large areas of that region in June 2021, with subsequent convoys passing through the region of Afar to the east of Tigray.
“More food, nutrition, medical cargo will follow imminently, via all routes possible,” the WFP said, adding that food will be delivered to people in the Tigray town of Mai Tsebri.
A WFP spokesperson told The Associated Press that the convoy consisted of 15 trucks carrying 300 tons of food.
The WFP convoy arrived a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross delivered 40 tons of medical supplies to Tigray’s capital, Mekele. The ICRC’s shipment was the first batch of international aid to reach Tigray since August.
Tigray is in the grip of a dire humanitarian crisis, the result of two years of restrictions on aid. These restrictions prompted a U.N. panel of experts to conclude that Ethiopia’s government probably used “starvation as a method of warfare” against the region.
Also on Wednesday, the ICRC said it had landed a “test-flight” in the northwestern Tigray town of Shire. Airlifts have previously been used to send medical supplies and other support to Tigray.
The resuming of airlifts to Tigray “will help carry urgent humanitarian aid to the region more quickly, to alleviate the suffering of thousands needing immediate support,” the ICRC said on Twitter.
Fighting that erupted in August after months of a lull displaced 500,000 people in northwestern Tigray alone, according to a document by Tigray’s regional Emergency Coordination Center that was seen by AP. “Starvation-related deaths” have been reported at camps for the displaced by U.N. teams that visited the area in September.
The ceasefire deal, struck in South Africa with the backing of the African Union, also calls for the restoration of services to Tigray, although the region still does not have access to internet, phone and banking services.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead!
Star Wars fans "Can't Stop" talking about Flea's red hot cameo in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
In the first two episodes of the Star Wars series, which premiered May 26 on Disney+, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist made a surprise appearance as a bounty hunter, who kidnaps young Leia Skywalker (Vivien Lyra Blair) from her home on Alderaan. He plays the leader of a ragtag group, hired by the Third Sister Reva Severand (Moses Ingram).
Following the abduction, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is asked by Leia's adopted father, Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), to go after the kidnappers—but this is exactly what Reva wanted. She knew that Bail would ask an old friend for help and that Obi-Wan would be unable to say no to saving the little girl.
The thing is, Reva doesn't know that Leia is actually the daughter of Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a. Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen).
Nonetheless, Reva's plan works and Obi-Wan pursues the little girl, who is feisty and strong like her predecessor Carrie Fisher's adult version of Leia. So, Obi-Wan falls into the trap and is beaten by Flea, who sneers, "I didn't know Jedi could bleed."
Obi-Wan and Leia eventually get away, thanks to Kumail Nanjiani's Haja, who lends a helping hand. He gives them access to a ship and distracts Reva, who is following the duo.
Obi-Wan and Leia ultimately make it away unscathed from the encounter.
As for Flea, this isn't his first foray into acting. The 59-year-old rocker has appeared in such films as Queen & Slim and My Own Private Idaho.
Obi-Wan Kenobi streams Thursdays on Disney+.
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(The Hill) – President Biden urged graduates at the University of Delaware to get involved in public life and be part of the future of the nation during commencement remarks on Saturday.
Biden, who graduated from the university in the 1960s, said that the students were graduating at a “defining time.”
“There’s one message I hope you take from me today: This is no time to be on the sidelines. It’s not hyperbole. I mean it from the bottom of my heart,” Biden said to a sea of graduates clad in blue robes.
“We need all of you to get engaged in public life and the life of this nation.”
Biden addressed the unique challenges he said the 2022 graduating class faced, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing distrust of institutions in the U.S.
“In the last five years since many of you were in high school, America’s faced some of its most difficult tests. A global pandemic ended a million lives in America alone,” Biden said. “And the crisis of faith in institutions, however flawed they may be, serve as the infrastructure for the American experiment.”
“What you’ve been through the past four years … you could not have imagined when you graduated from high school. Campus shutdowns, classes on Zoom, the world turned upside down, but you got through it,” he added.
Biden then reminisced on his time after college when he joined politics to fight for civil rights, and attempted to connect the period in the 1960s to the struggles America faces today.
Biden then jabbed at “prominent leaders” who breathe “oxygen under the rock” where hateful ideas are hiding, saying it eventually “comes roaring back out.” He then listed a series of events like those in Charlottesville, Virginia; the Jan. 6 Capitol riot; and the recent shootings this month that left dozens of people, including children, dead.
“Let’s be clear, evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas and that grocery store in New York.”
Biden mentioned his upcoming trip to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, to meet with the parents and families affected by the shooting, saying “as I speak, those parents are literally preparing to bury their children.”
“We cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer.”
Earlier this month, a gunman shot and killed 10 people in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket. The supermarket was located in a predominantly Black neighborhood, and the suspect is believed to espouse racist conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, with military-grade weapons and killed 19 children and two teachers.
In spite of tragedy, Biden told the graduating class they will be defining America’s future and can make a brighter trajectory for the nation.
“I call all Americans this hour to join hands and make your voices heard and work together to make this nation what it can and should be,” Biden said.
“Your generation makes me more optimistic. I’ve said it many times … your generation is the most generous, the most tolerant, the least prejudiced, the best-educated generation this nation has ever known and that’s a simple fact.”
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Water-dropping aircraft from Azerbaijan and Qatar on Friday joined the fight against a wind-stoked wildfire that burned for a fourth day near a popular resort in southwestern Turkey.
Turkey’s forestry minister, meanwhile, said the fire may be close to being contained but the wind still poses a risk.
The fire erupted Tuesday in the Bordubet region, near Marmaris on the Aegean Sea coast, and spread rapidly, blackening swaths of pine forest and driving hundreds of people from their homes.
At least 29 people were affected by the blaze and 12 of them were taken to hospitals for treatment, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. Two people remain hospitalized, he said.
“The distress is, to a great extent, over,” Vahit Kirisci, the agriculture and forestry minister, told reporters, cautioning that the wind remains a threat.
Authorities on Thursday detained a 34-year-old man who allegedly confessed to having started the fire following a row with family members, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
More than 2,500 firefighters and 41 water-dropping planes and helicopters were deployed to fight the blaze. On Friday, a plane from Azerbaijan and three helicopters from Qatar joined their efforts.
More than 400 people have been evacuated from their homes as a precaution, Turkey’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said. Around 3,000 hectares (about 7,400 acres) of forest are affected, Kirisci has said.
Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have heightened concerns across Europe this summer.
Last summer, blazes that were fed by strong winds and scorching temperatures tore through forests in Turkey’s Mediterranean and Aegean regions, including Marmaris. The wildfires, which killed at least eight people and countless animals, were described as the worst in Turkey’s history.
The government came under criticism for its inadequate response and preparedness to fight large-scale wildfires, including a lack of modern firefighting planes.
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(NEXSTAR) – For 15 years, a federal program has existed with the intention of providing public workers like teachers, law enforcement, and those working for non-profit organizations with student loan forgiveness. Yet the overall approval rating for applicants has been low.
Lawmakers are now hoping to change the program’s effectiveness with a new bill.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF, was created in 2007 to help certain employees by forgiving their student loans after 120 payments over 10 years. The number of applicants actually having their loans forgiven has been low: Just 1 in 5 of the 1.3 million borrowers pursuing debt discharge through PSLF are on track to see relief by 2026, according to a September report by the Student Borrower Protection Center.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a change that temporarily waives specific PSLF requirements to grant borrowers credit toward loan cancellation regardless of their federal loan type or if they had been enrolled in a specific payment plan, as long as they consolidated their debt into a Direct Loan before the end of the waiver.
Prior to the waiver, borrowers needed to have a specific federal loan — a Direct Loan — to qualify for PSLF. Borrowers could consolidate their debt into Direct Loans for PSLF, but any payments made on the loans before consolidation didn’t count toward the required tally.
This waiver is currently set to expire after October 31, 2022, meaning eligible borrowers have less than four months to apply. Richard Cordray, the head of Federal Student Aid, said at a conference earlier this year that while he is pushing for the PSLF waiver to be extended, President Biden may lack the executive authority to approve such a move.
Instead, some lawmakers hope to make the temporary changes brought on by the waiver permanent while enacting additional reforms to the program “to permanently address the concerns of PSLF applicants.”
In a recently introduced bill, dubbed the ‘Simplifying and Strengthening PSLF Act,’ Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) proposes cutting the amount of time it takes to get relief in half by reducing the number of payments needed to qualify for PSLF relief from 120 over 10 years to 60 over five years for borrowers working with an eligible employer.
If enacted, the bill would include any previous payments made on the borrower’s loans — regardless of the type of loan, their payment plan, or if payments were made in full or on time — toward the necessary payments for PSLF relief. These guidelines are largely already in place under the temporary waiver set to expire in fall.
Courtney’s bill would also expand PSLF access for active-duty military and Peace Corp volunteers who had their loans placed in deferment while they were serving. Currently, certain loan deferments are not eligible for PSLF relief.
Additionally, under Courtney’s bill, parents with PLUS loans — otherwise known as Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students — or couples who joint-consolidated their loans into a Federal Family Education Loan, or FFEL, would be allowed to re-consolidated their loans into a Direct Loan, which would then be eligible for PSLF.
As of Thursday, the bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the federal student loan system, including a permanent change to PSLF that would allow more payments to qualify for the program, including partial, lump-sum and late payments. It also would allow particular kinds of deferments and forbearances to count toward PSLF, and it would create a formal reconsideration process for applicants who were denied access to the program.
Brad Dress contributed to this report.
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PERCE, Quebec (AP) — On Quebec’s Bonaventure Island, the ghosts of human habitation from years past and the birds that breed there now in extraordinary numbers tell the same story: of lives lived hard in a place of fairy-tale beauty.
You see this from the tender ages on the family gravestones of islanders who scratched out a living from the late 1700s to when Bonaventure went entirely to the birds a half century ago.
You see it from the tenacious colony of 100,000-plus northern gannets as they plunge into the sea for prey, soar back to their nests and fight at the least provocation, sometimes to the death, for their territory on a plateau high above the waters or in crannies of the cliffs.
Nothing is easy for the gannets. Not in this age of warming seas, competition with trawlers for fish, pollution, supercharged storms and the onset of avian flu.
That’s especially so when those perils are combined with their curious compulsion, shared by many seabirds, to return each spring to the exact spot they left the year before. For these spirited divas, the next nesting spot over just won’t do.
Worldwide, it remains difficult or impossible to tie any one massive die-off of seabirds or breeding calamity solely to global warming, for nature has its own jarring rhythms of abundance and deprivation.
But the evidence writ large, over decades, is unassailable: Warming and rising seas and the erratic weather events fueled by a changing climate are taking a heavy toll on seabirds. University of British Columbia researchers say seabird populations have fallen 70% since the mid-20th century.
Climate-related losses have, for example, hit albatrosses in the central Pacific, common murres and Cassin’s auklets along the U.S. West Coast, puffins off the Maine coast, penguins in South Africa, endangered roseate terns off New England, and brown pelicans on vanishing islands off southeastern Louisiana.
The struggles of many seabird species occur in marine wilderness far from humans. Those of the Bonaventure gannets, however, play out in plain sight, in a gift to scientists and the public, on the protected grounds of the Quebec government’s Parc national de l’lle-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Perce.
The Bonaventure gannets display a “clumsy and funny little side on land which has nothing to do with what it is when it is at sea,” said David Pelletier, a leading Quebec researcher of the birds.
At sea the gannets are magnificent in their grace and power.
Using air currents off the water, they fly effortlessly high over the sea and dive nearly straight down in their hunt for fish, piercing the surface at 100 kilometers (60 miles) an hour like so many white missiles. Their black-tipped wings, which span 2 meters (6 feet), are tightly tucked behind them.
They dive in huge numbers near the island when mackerel — the prey that gives them the most energy — or herring or other smaller fish are abundant there.
It’s a sight that amazes even the most seasoned scientists every time. “It’s so wow,” said Magella Guillemette, a pre-eminent gannet researcher at the University of Quebec in Rimouski, as he described watching the feeding frenzy from his small boat in the thick of it.
With the island less than 3 kilometers (under 2 miles) from the Perce harbor, these Bonaventure birds are remarkably accessible to biologists and visitors who hike on trails thick with wildflowers in summer to see the birds up close. The clamor of the birds greets the hikers even before the full colony comes into view.
The gannets, unlike many other seabirds, seem utterly indifferent to humans. They gaze right through you with their porcelain blue eyes.
“It’s rare that we have the possibility to look at wild animals like this,” said Marie-Dominique Nadeau-Girard, the park’s services manager. “And they stay there, they don’t look at you, they live their life, and you’re just looking at them and learning.”
Guillemette’s student researchers are busy each summer studying the birds. Over the years, they have put leg bands and GPS systems on hundreds of them. What’s striking about gannets is that the researchers can simply pick them up, without fear of disturbing their nests.
“You just catch that bird,” Guillemette said. “You weigh them, you put some devices on them and then you put it back to the nest and it’s just staying there.”
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THE ECO-SENTINELS
All of this makes the Bonaventure gannets ideal sentinels for the health of the marine ecosystem in the gulf and clattering storytellers to the planet. They form the world’s second largest gannet colony and are easier to reach than the largest, on Scotland’s remote Bass Island.
Québec’s on-the-ground experts on the colony, Canadian government biologists, and seabird scientists globally say there is little to no question that global warming is reshaping the lives of the northern gannets. Warmer sea temperatures drive their prey to cooler depths, distant waters or both.
But the full impact of climate change is not yet established and overfishing may be an even greater danger.
In tandem, the threats from fishing and warming are forcing the gannets to go farther from their Bonaventure nests in search of food for their island chicks and themselves. The distance the birds fly on a single fishing trip has more than doubled in recent years to an average of 500 kilometers (300 miles), leaving one mate and the chick waiting several days or longer to be fed by the hunter, Guillemette said.
If the mate on the nest gets too weak from hunger, it may fly off for food, too, leaving the young one to starve or to wander from the nest and risk being killed by an adult. Like many seabirds, adult gannets are highly territorial and may kill any intruders to their nesting areas; AP journalists witnessed two such deadly attacks on the young on a day shortly before the winter migration.
Researchers have been able to draw a strong correlation between the supply of mackerel in the gulf and the number of chicks produced. In 2012, when there were almost no mackerel, only 4% of the nests produced a chick, Guillemette said, a record low attributed to unusually warm waters that year.
Since then, productivity has been highly variable year to year while remaining low on average, said seabird biologist Jean-François Rail of the Canadian Wildlife Service, an agency of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
“Everything points in the direction of reduced availability of mackerel and herring, which results in lower breeding success,” he said.
What’s clear is that birds now need to work harder to find food. Beginning in 2012, Guillemette’s researchers began outfitting gannets with a GPS device, in little boxes taped above their tails, which lets them track how far they fly, how deep they dive, and how many times they dive each day.
In March, just as the spring fishing season was opening, Canada shut commercial fishing for Atlantic mackerel and spring herring in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, saying stocks had entered a “critical zone.” Earlier efforts to restore stocks failed, in part because warmer waters had depleted the microscopic crustaceans that are the main food for the fish.
Mackerel is a star of the gulf ecosystem, not only for gannets. They’re prized as a commercial species as well as bait for the lucrative lobster, crab and tuna fisheries. The gulf’s abundant grey seals gobble as many as they can get. With all the competition for food, gannets have found ways to adapt, but at a cost.
This year, the Bonaventure colony also had to contend with the avian flu. The contamination rate was high in the spring, Guillemette said, but faded. Other colonies in Canada had it much worse.
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COLONY LIFE
Over winter, northern gannets are solitary birds that live widely dispersed on the water — along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, some even in the Gulf of Mexico. But mates reunite year after year on their breeding grounds, for 15 years or so, producing one chick each season.
They have a monogamous nature and an elaborate means of communicating mate to mate. In gannet-speak, a beak turned skyward signals it’s time to go forage; mates clacking their bills together as if in a swordfight signal a welcome home after the hunt.
You might think they are lovebirds; alas, these sentinels are not sentimental.
“People are more romantic and think they are faithful to their partner, but it’s not the case,” Nadeau-Girard says with a laugh. “The gannet is faithful to his territory, his nest.
“And if the baby goes out of the nest, the parents won’t recognize him because … they recognize the nest, not the individual. Each time they see each other it’s like they meet for the first time.”
The nests are only 80 centimeters (30 inches) apart, center to center, and these are sizable birds. At certain vantage points, the colony appears as a carpet of white as far as the eye can see, dotted with the dark-feathered young ones, and all of it against the backdrop of sea and sky.
The birds arrive in April, lay their eggs in May and tend them until they hatch more than 40 days later. Then it’s three months of raising the chicks. By the time of the southern migration in late September or early October, the young are plenty plump, weighing 1 kilogram (over 2 pounds) more than their parents. The extra fat will sustain them at sea as they learn to fly and dive for fish.
There are no training wheels for the portly juveniles. Instead, lots of practice beating their wings on the ground, followed by a departure from the cliffs that is part flight, part plop.
If they survive that, the journey south will teach them their grace and power on the wing and into the deep.
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A MYSTICAL LANDSCAPE
From the town of Percé, the mainland cliffs with the red-roofed houses, the commanding Perce Rock and Bonaventure Island make for an iconic panorama, and a mystical one for the people of the Gaspe Peninsula and travelers from around the world.
When boats bring visitors to the island, park employees corral them to explain the trails and what they can and cannot do. Services are primarily in French. On a September day, the multilingual Rudiger Spraul pulled aside the English-speaking visitors to give them the drill.
He came from Germany, fell in love with the place and spent the summer and early fall working for the park until it closed last month after the gannets left for the winter. He looked out on the colony every day from a small food operation where visitors can picnic and hope they aren’t leeward of the day’s winds, for the colony can stink.
“It gave me so much peace that I decided I’m going to stay here,” he said. “I’m actually an engineer. Now I’m selling sandwiches on this lonesome spot.
“The island is such a beautiful small little paradise. It’s like time stands still there. You go there, you see that old houses, no people living for so many years, but still you can get the impression how it was there, how hard it was.”
The island was settled in the late 18th century by cod fishermen, reaching its population peak of 172 in 1831. The last remaining families left in 1971 when it was taken over by the government to become part of the park.
Altogether, some 250,000 birds inhabit the teardrop-shaped island, about 3 kilometers (under 2 miles) at its longest. Seals frequent the rocks and shore and whales are a common sight. Foxes poke from island bushes and snag an occasional gannet on the colony’s periphery.
They’re all out making a living in a changing ecosystem that tests the ability of creatures great and small to adapt.
“The northern gannet is, for me, a resilient species, strong, capable of ‘turning on a dime’ … as we say in Quebec, ‘se tourner sur un 10 cents,’” said Pelletier, a teacher-researcher at Cégep de Rimouski, a public college.
How much and how fast must they pivot as their habitat and our planet continue to warm? What fish will be there for them in the spring, and how far and how deep will they be? Bonaventure’s sentinels will be back next year to tell more of that tale.
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China dismisses complaints over quarantining US diplomats
BEIJING (AP) — China is dismissing complaints from two U.S. lawmakers over the quarantining of American diplomats and their family members under the country’s strict COVID-19 regulations. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says China’s epidemic protocols apply to both Chinese and foreigners and are open and transparent. She called the statements by the U.S. lawmakers “really absurd and completely groundless.” Republican Congressmen James Comer and Michael McCaul wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday asking for clarification of the quarantines. The U.S. Embassy had no immediate comment on the letter.
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The world seems to be watching the daring rescue of the Titan submersible as crews from across the globe join in the days-long search.
At a press conference Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard updated the “search and rescue” mission for the vessel called Titan that went missing Sunday as crews remain determined to find it. The most recent update was the underwater noises in the search area detected by a Canadian P-3 aircraft on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the USCG.
“The noises have been described as banging noises,” said Carl Hartsfield, director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, at the presser.
Launched the morning of June 18 by the Polar Prince, a Canadian research vessel, the Titan was visiting the site of the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean. The surface vessel lost contact with the submersible about an hour and 45 minutes into the dive, approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod and 400 miles southwest of Newfoundland’s capital city in Canada, according to the USCG.
The Coast Guard is leading the mission but several nations and private companies have enlisted their services to help rescue the five people inside the titan vessel.
“This is a complex search effort, which requires the use of subject matter expertise and specialized equipment,” Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick, the response coordinator from the First Coast Guard District, told reporters Tuesday.
U.S. forces take the lead
The U.S. Air Force, Military and Navy have joined the Coast Guard in the rescue mission for the Titan. Three Air Force cargo planes delivered winches, cables and unmanned vehicles capable of going 19,000 feet underwater to St John’s airport in Newfoundland.
The Military has sent aircraft, salvage equipment and ships to the remote part of the Atlantic Ocean. The Air National Guard has assisted as well.
According to Military.com, the Navy sent a Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, or FADOSS, to help with search and rescue efforts, according to a Navy spokesperson.
A FADOSS is described as "a portable motion-compensated lift system connected through the ship's crane boom" that can be used to bring objects up from the ocean floor."
Canadian search vessels
While the P-3 aircraft has been investigating the noises it detected, the Royal Canadian Navy has shipped in the HMCS Glace Bay, which is equipped with a six-person mobile hyperbaric recompression chamber.
But the ship is not expected to arrive until midday Thursday, even as U.S. Coast Guard officials say the passengers in the submersible have a limited supply of oxygen.
The Canadian Coast Guard also sent the CCGS John Cabot, a scientific research vessel with sonar search capabilities. And, according to Radio Canada International, there are two other Canadian coast guard ships nearby in St. John's, to help load equipment.
Deep Energy vessel from the Bahamas
Deep Energy, a Bahamian research vessel, arrived at the scene around 7 a.m. Tuesday and began search operations with a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV).
Donning a Bahamian flag, it’s a large ship capable of delivering pipes and cables at depths of up to 3,000 meters.
The vessels may be able to help locate the lost sub, which could be at 3,800 meters below (12,500 feet), near the wreckage of the Titanic.
France government sends ship
The French are also helping rescue efforts by sending the research vessel L'Atalante — managed by the Ifremer research institute — which is capable of getting to the depths needed, according to France’s government.
"It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robot, capable of descending to a depth of 6,000 metres, beyond the 3,800 metres of the wreck's position," Ifremer said. The ship is expected to arrive Wednesday evening.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is important in joining the mission and for good reason: it was part of the original expedition that found the wreckage of the Titanic nearly 40 years ago.
The nonprofit said it's not able to help physically, but its researchers and engineers are providing expertise to the responders.
At the press conference, Hartsfield said it was difficult to discern the source of noises from the P-3 aircraft but said the best people in the world in this industry are analyzing the data.
“They have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential manmade sources other than the Titan,” he said.
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For anyone to defeat former President Trump in the Republican primary, they are going to have to overcome the significant advantages he has with key pillar GOP voter groups, the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
Despite, or perhaps because of, his legal problems, Republican primary voters continue to say they like Trump — better than anyone in the field. And any argument that he is too weak a candidate to win a general election doesn't appear to hold much water with the party faithful.
Almost two-thirds say they would rather have a candidate who stands on principle than has the best chance to defeat President Biden.
On the Democratic side, Biden is significantly better liked than the token opposition he faces, and he has seen his approval rating stabilize. He still faces challenges with independents and younger voters, however — key groups for his reelection fortunes.
Trump and DeSantis are the most liked in the GOP primary
Potential Republican primary voters like Trump and former Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a much wider margin than any other candidates to this point.
Trump gets a 76%-to-19% favorability rating, topping the field. DeSantis is not far behind with a 67%-to-15% rating.
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But Trump has huge advantages with rural voters, white evangelical Christians, GOP women, those without college degrees and those who make less than $50,000 a year.
DeSantis, on the other hand, has decidedly smaller edges with college-educated Republicans, GOP men and voters who live in cities and suburbs.
The only other candidate in the primary to reach a 50% rating is South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. Scott has spent or booked $4.6 million in ads so far, according to data compiled by the ad-tracking firm AdImpact and shared with NPR, which may be helping with his visibility in early nominating states like Iowa.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's negative ratings have almost doubled since getting in the race.
Former Vice President Pence has not worn well since entering the race. He's gone from a net-positive rating of +21 in February to just +4 now.
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are the least liked in the field, meaning the least-liked candidates are the ones who have been most outspoken in criticizing Trump.
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Republicans want a nominee who stands on principle
By a 63%-to-35% margin, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they want a nominee who will stand on conservative principles, as opposed to someone with the best chance of beating President Biden.
That presents a problem for candidates who want to dislodge Trump as a front-runner and are making the argument that he can't win and has an electability problem.
Biden's approval rating has leveled off
Biden gets a 45% approval rating among all adults and 47% with registered voters.
He has a very solid 86% approval with Democrats, does best with women holding college degrees (60%), people who live in big cities (58%) and nonwhites (56%).
But there are continued warning signs for him with independents and younger Americans, age 18 to 29. Both groups give him just a 38% approval rating.
Biden liked best in Democratic field
Biden has the highest favorability ratings of those running in the Democratic primary. Biden gets an 83% favorable rating among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.
Potential Democratic primary voters are split or undecided on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who gets a 35%-to-34% rating.
Self-help author Marianne Williamson is largely unknown despite running in 2020 — 59% say they're unsure or never heard of her, while 23% have an unfavorable view of her and just 18% have a positive one.
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LANSDALE, Pa., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF offers a new, convenient line of battery-operated grease guns, the Alemite 20V Lithium-ion Series 598/599, designed to support all manual lubrication tasks in industrial settings. The grease gun provides high-end performance and exceptional reliability in a convenient design.
"Lubrication jobs are nearly effortless with the thoughtful design of Alemite Series 598 and 599," says Nikhil Athale, Product Manager Tools and Equipment at SKF. "It works effortlessly in industrial applications and provides the performance and reliability needed to get the job done with a lightweight, ergonomic design."
The Alemite Series 598/599 tool features a balanced, ergonomic design with a lower weight for less physical strain on the user. The 598 tool comes with a 2.5mAh battery, while the 599 tool comes with a 4.0mAh battery, Its two-speed, dual-output capability lets the user adjust for low- or high-volume lubrication points, all with one grease gun. It delivers 6 oz/min on high and 4 oz/min on low. A clear-tube option provides confidence the right grease is in use.
The tool has a convenient, built-in LCD screen providing real-time information for users, including a pre-warning light for early action. The LCD display illuminates during stall conditions with a red backlight. The display shows exactly how much grease is left in the tube and flashes when a low grease condition occurs.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A man acquitted last month on grounds of self-defense in the shooting death of a University of Toledo football player after a fight at a Toledo pizza restaurant nearly two years ago has been sentenced to nine to 12 years for three extra shots he fired.
The Toledo Blade reports that jurors acquitted 26-year-old Michael Mitchell of murder and felonious assault in the death of 22-year-old Jahneil Douglas. But jurors convicted Mitchell of another count of felonious assault for firing what Mitchell said were “warning shots" at the fleeing Douglas and at least two pedestrians.
Judge Joe McNamara said during Friday's sentencing that Mitchell displayed “an immense disregard for human life.” He also decried “a horrible proliferation of guns in our community and every community across America."
Mitchell testified that he fired in self-defense after Douglas punched him at least once in the head and swung at him several times in the July 2020 confrontation. Prosecution and defense agreed that Douglas instigated the dispute, but Douglas’ mother, Brandi Hopkins, defended her son’s actions.
“He’s not a monster,” she said, calling the father of three a “bright spirit” whom she raised to be protective. Douglas was preparing for his junior season with the Rockets. He was a defensive lineman who had played in 12 games over two seasons, totaling two tackles.
Mitchell called himself “100 percent" remorseful and said “Deep down inside of my heart, I really never wanted this to happen.”
Defense attorney Pete Rost argued for leniency, saying his client didn't injure anyone and never intended to do so when he fired the three additional shots. He said Mitchell had a very low risk of recidivism and “always voiced concern about the victim’s family.”
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 23, 2022
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...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Winds have diminished below advisory levels.
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RAYVILLE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Saturday, April 22, 2023, Rayville High School will host the Gridiron Football Elite Camp Series at 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Pre-registration is $50, and the day-of registration is $75.
The camp includes:
- 40 time
- Agility workout
- Skill workout
- 7 on 7
- Trench war
- Event is filmed
- All participants will be featured in the Gridiron Football magazine.
The camp is only eligible for student athletes from 7 to 12 grade. For more information contact the Rayville High School at 318-728-3296.
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Family reunited with dog missing since 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WJXT) - It was a Christmas miracle for a family in North Carolina when they were reunited with their dog who disappeared in 2020.
Thanks to a tracking chip, she was found hundreds of miles away in Jacksonville, Florida.
Nicholas Dawson is being reunited with one of his best friends.
“I never thought I’d see her again. You know, it’s been two years,” Dawson said.
It’s been two years since Dawson’s dog, Isis disappeared from her home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Somehow, the six-year-old American Staffordshire terrier ended up 700 miles away in Florida.
Since Isis had a tracking chip, the Humane Society in Broward County was able to locate Dawson.
On Friday, they were reunited with belly rubs and joy.
Isis is special to Dawson because she helped him through tough times.
“She was my companion, and I was going through some things, you know, and it was just me and her,” he said. “So, it’s good to have her back.”
Now that they are reunited, his children can’t wait to see Isis again too.
As they get in the car and back on the road to North Carolina, his family will be complete just in time for Christmas.
“I think it’s going to mean a lot. I mean it’s given me a newfound kind of hope in the holidays and have hope and things like that,” Dawson said. “That something this small, this means a lot to me.”
It’s still unclear how Isis ended up in Florida, but now, she is safe and will be home for the holidays.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, February 5, 2023
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...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Attoyac Bayou Near Chireno affecting Nacogdoches, San Augustine,
Shelby and Rusk Counties.
For the Attoyac Bayou...including Chireno...Minor flooding is
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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The next statement will be issued Wednesday evening at 800 PM CST.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Attoyac Bayou Near Chireno.
* WHEN...Until Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 16.0 feet, Expect flooded paths and secondary
roadways. Move livestock and equipment to higher ground.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:30 PM CST Tuesday the stage was 14.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
just after midnight tonight to a crest of 15.3 feet early
Friday morning. It will then fall below flood stage late
Saturday evening.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dennis Schroeder completed a three-point play with 7.6 seconds after a steal and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied to beat Memphis 122-121 on Friday night, snapping the Grizzlies' winning streak at 11.
The Lakers trailed 114-107 before outscoring the Grizzlies 15-7 the rest of the way.
Schroeder, who scored 19 points, stole the ball from Desmond Bane near halfcourt and made a layup while being fouled by Bane to tie it at 120. Schoeder then made a free throw for the lead.
After a timeout, Memphis' Brandon Clarke was fouled with 1.9 seconds remaining. He made the first, but missed the second. Bane got the offensive rebound, but lost control of it to give the Lakers possession with 0.4 seconds left.
Russell Westbrook led the Lakers with 29 points and LeBron James added 23.
Ja Morant led Memphis with 22 points. Clarke and Tyus Jones added 20 apiece, and Steven Adams had 16 points and 17 rebounds.
Morant missed his first five shots and was 2 of 10 with six points in the first half before he had a heated courtside conversation with Shannon Sharpe — the Pro Football Hall of Famer and Fox Sports personality — before halftime.
Morant had 14 points in the third quarter and the Grizzlies had a 13-point lead late in the period.
TIP-INS
Grizzlies: Adams had seven rebounds in the first quarter, the fifth time this season he has had seven or more in the first.
Lakers: Blocked five shots in the first quarter.
UP NEXT
Grizzlies: At Phoenix on Sunday night.
Lakers: At Portland on Sunday night.
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Boeing took more than 200 net orders for passenger airplanes in December to complete its best year since 2018, but it failed again to catch up with European manufacturer Airbus in orders and aircraft deliveries.
Airbus reported Tuesday that it took orders for 820 planes in all of 2022, after subtracting cancellations, and it delivered 661 to airlines and other customers. Those numbers topped Boeing’s 774 orders and 480 deliveries.
The battle for supremacy in aircraft manufacturing has been a one-sided affair in recent years, as Boeing was dragged down by two deadly crashes of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, and with production flaws that halted shipments of a larger plane, the 787. The latest numbers showed Boeing closing the gap, however.
Both companies are struggling with shortages of engines and other supply chain issues that limit how fast they can build and deliver planes. The outcome is frustrating to the manufacturers — deliveries were below Airbus expectations — and to airlines that are eager to expand their fleets as travel recovers from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The supply environment was constrained in 2022 and will remain constrained in 2023,” Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said on a call with reporters.
Faury said that despite the supply issues, Airbus is committed to increase production rates.
Airbus has put up better numbers than Boeing each of the last four years. The Toulouse, France-based company continues to dominate the market for single-aisle or narrowbody airplanes, where the Airbus A320 family has outsold Boeing 737s, and Airbus added a promising line for the smaller A220, which was originally developed by Canada’s Bombardier.
Airbus and Boeing, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, and has manufacturing plants in Washington state and South Carolina, are more competitive in building and delivering twin-aisle or widebody planes. And Boeing scored more widebody orders last year — Airbus wound up with more cancellations than new sales for its biggest planes.
Boeing’s 2022 results got a late boost from United Airlines, which placed large orders in December for both the 737 Max and the larger 787, which is used mostly on international routes. Bank of China Aviation also placed a significant order for 40 Max jets, Boeing said.
Boeing’s 2022 total of 774 net orders, after subtracting cancellations, was an increase from 479 in 2021 and a rebound from 2020, when the company lost 471 more orders than it gained.
Boeing said it delivered 69 planes in December, including 53 Maxes. Of those, Southwest took 18, which was a one-month record for any airline customer, Boeing said. Deliveries are an important source of cash because buyers typically pay a large portion of the purchase price upon delivery.
Stan Deal, the head of Boeing’s commercial-airplanes division, said the company worked hard last year to stabilize 737 production and resume 787 deliveries.
“As the airline industry expands its recovery, we are seeing strong demand across our product family,” he said in a statement.
Shares of Airbus fell 2% in Paris, while those of Boeing Co. closed down 1% in New York.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Fall into fall with this delicious salad. Food Health Coach, Erika Schlick joins us with her simple harvest salad. For this recipe and more visit her website.
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DEAR ABBY: My dad, who is nearing 80, has been married to my stepmom, “Ruth,” for nearly 35 years. She has always been temperamental and controlling to a degree, but during the last few years it has become abundantly clear that she’s emotionally abusive to my dad.
Twenty years ago, I moved to another coast, and although Dad wanted to visit, the decision was always up to Ruth, so they never did. However, when it comes to her immediate family, Dad is required to attend every event. During COVID-19 I moved just a few states away, and that’s when I got the full picture. Ruth took away Dad’s cellphone and sold his car, so he is virtually stuck. She will not even let him mention purchasing a vehicle. He’s an artist, and she never “allowed” him to get a studio.
The list is long, sad and frustrating. He forbids me to confront her, but it is giving me daily stress because I love my dad and I fear her control is something he has grown accustomed to. Any advice?
— DISTRESSED DAUGHTER IN THE SOUTH
DEAR DAUGHTER: As repugnant as the situation may be to you, I do not think you should try to reduce your stress by creating more for your father. He has forbidden you from confronting his wife about her hypercontrolling behavior, and you should respect his wishes. I don’t have to like it; you don’t have to like it. But this is what your father has been willing to accept for the last 35 years. He and only he could have put a stop to it or left her if he had really wanted to.
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DEAR ABBY: I’m a college student who broke up with my long-term high school boyfriend a few months ago. He was a cheating dirtbag, so I moved on quickly. I have been enjoying the single life, but now find myself in a bit of a love triangle.
“Derek” is blond and short, and loves to go to the gym. He’s kind and attentive, and he seems to care very much for me. He invited me to his formal dance, but I turned him down because I didn’t know him very well. He didn’t take anyone else even though he had plenty of time to find a date. My friend at the dance said he didn’t even talk to another girl, so I know he’s very loyal already.
The other contender, “Shay,” is taller and has dark hair. He has kind, blue eyes and a shy personality, although with me he really opens up and talks. He always checks in to see how I’m doing when I’ve had a rough day. In the simplest terms, he puts up with my nonsense. He has seen me at some of my worst moments and still showed compassion.
I’m genuinely torn between these two and don’t know how to choose because I don’t want to lose either of them. What do I do?
— BOY CRAZY IN IOWA
DEAR BOY CRAZY: I have good news. Because nowhere in your letter did you mention that either of these young men have asked you for an exclusive relationship, you do not “have” to make a difficult choice. Some people like both chocolate AND vanilla ice cream. I suggest you be honest with them and enjoy seeing them both until the answer to your question becomes obvious. (Feel free to write me again if you meet a handsome redhead.)
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Hall of Fame running back and Burlco native Franco Harris dies at 72
Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored “The Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72.
Harris’ son Dok told The Associated Press his father died overnight. No cause of death was given.
His death comes two days before the 50th anniversary of the play that provided the jolt that helped transform the Steelers from also-rans into the NFL’s elite and three days before Pittsburgh is scheduled to retire his No. 32 during a ceremony at halftime of its game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
“We have lost an incredible football player, an incredible ambassador to the Hall and most importantly, we have lost one of the finest gentlemen anyone will ever meet,” Pro Football Hall of Fame president Jim Porter said in a statement. “Franco not only impacted the game of football, but he also affected the lives of many, many people in profoundly positive ways.”
Harris ran for 12,120 yards and won four Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, a dynasty that began in earnest when Harris decided to keep running during a last-second heave by Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw in a playoff game against Oakland in 1972.
With Pittsburgh trailing 7-6 and facing fourth-and-10 from their own 40 yard line and 22 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, Bradshaw drifted back and threw deep to running back Frenchy Fuqua. Fuqua and Oakland defensive back Jack Tatum collided, sending the ball careening back toward midfield in the direction of Harris.
While nearly everyone else on the field stopped, Harris kept his legs churning, snatching the ball just inches above the Three Rivers Stadium turf near the Oakland 45 then outracing several stunned Raider defenders to give the Steelers their first playoff victory in the franchise’s four-decade history.
“That play really represents our teams of the ’70s,” Harris said after the ”Immaculate Reception” was voted the greatest play in NFL history during the league’s 100th anniversary season in 2020.
While the Steelers fell the next week to Miami in the AFC Championship, Pittsburgh was on its way to becoming the dominant team of the 1970s, twice winning back-to-back Super Bowls, first after the 1974 and 1975 seasons and again after the 1978 and 1979 seasons.
And it all began with a play that shifted the fortunes of a franchise and, in some ways, a region.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years, that’s a long time,” Harris said in September when the team announced it would retire his number. “And to have it so alive, you know, is still thrilling and exciting. It really says a lot. It means a lot.”
Harris, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound workhorse from Penn State, found himself in the center of it all. He churned for a then-record 158 yards rushing and a touchdown in Pittsburgh’s 16-6 victory over Minnesota in Super Bowl IX on his way to winning the game’s Most Valuable Player award. He scored at least once in three of the four Super Bowls he played in, and his 354 career yards rushing on the NFL’s biggest stage remains a record nearly four decades after his retirement.
“One of the kindest, gentlest men I have ever known,” Hall of Famer Tony Dungy, a teammate of Harris’ in Pittsburgh in the late 1970s, posted on Twitter. “He was a great person & great teammate. Hall of Fame player but so much more than that. A tremendous role model for me!”
Woke up this morning to the devastating news that my friend Franco Harris passed away during the night. One of the kindest, gentlest men I have ever known. He was a great person & great teammate. Hall of Fame player but so much more than that. A tremendous role model for me! pic.twitter.com/OswJ82x7I1
— Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) December 21, 2022
Born in Fort Dix, New Jersey, on March 7, 1950, Harris played collegiately at Penn State, where his primary job was to open holes for backfield mate Lydell Mitchell. The Steelers, in the final stages of a rebuild led by Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll, saw enough in Harris to make him the 13th overall pick in the 1972 draft.
“When (Noll) drafted Franco Harris, he gave the offense heart, he gave it discipline, he gave it desire, he gave it the ability to win a championship in Pittsburgh,” Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann said of his frequent roommate on team road trips.
Harris’ impact was immediate. He won the NFL’s Rookie to the Year award in 1972 after rushing for a then-team-rookie record 1,055 yards and 10 touchdowns as the Steelers reached the postseason for just the second time in franchise history.
The city’s large Italian-American population embraced Harris immediately, led by two local businessmen who founded what became known as “Franco’s Italian Army,” a nod to Harris’ roots as the son of an African-American father and an Italian mother.
The “Immaculate Reception” made Harris a star, though he typically preferred to let his play and not his mouth do the talking. On a team that featured big personalities in Bradshaw, defensive tackle Joe Greene, linebacker Jack Lambert among others, the intensely quiet Harris spent 12 seasons as the engine that helped Pittsburgh’s offense go.
Eight times he topped 1,000 yards rushing in a season, including five times while playing a 14-game schedule. He piled up another 1,556 yards rushing and 16 rushing touchdowns in the playoffs, both second all-time behind Smith.
Despite his gaudy numbers, Harris stressed he was just one cog in an extraordinary machine that redefined greatness.
“You see, during that era, each player brought their own little piece with them to make that wonderful decade happen,” Harris said during his Hall of Fame speech in 1990. “Each player had their strengths and weaknesses, each their own thinking, each their own method, just each, each had their own. But then it was amazing, it all came together, and it stayed together to forge the greatest team of all times.”
Harris also made it a habit to stick up for his teammates. When Bradshaw took what Harris felt was an illegal late hit from Dallas linebacker Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson in the second half of their meeting in the 1978 Super Bowl, Harris basically demanded Bradshaw give him the ball on the next play. All Harris did was sprint up the middle 22 yards — right by Henderson — for a touchdown that gave the Steelers an 11-point lead they would not relinquish on their way to their third championship in six years.
Despite all of his success, his time in Pittsburgh ended acrimoniously when the Steelers cut him after he held out during training camp before the 1984 season. Noll, who leaned on Harris so heavily for so long, famously answered “Franco who?” when asked about Harris’ absence from the team’s camp at Saint Vincent College.
Harris signed with Seattle, running for just 170 yards in eight games before being released in midseason. He retired as the NFL’s third all-time leading rusher behind Walter Payton and Jim Brown.
“I don’t even think about that (anymore),” Harris said in 2006. “I’m still black and gold.”
Harris remained in Pittsburgh following his retirement, opening a bakery and becoming heavily involved in several charities, including serving as the chairman of “Pittsburgh Promise,” which provides college scholarship opportunities for Pittsburgh Public School students.
Reflecting on Harris’ legacy on Tuesday, before Harris’ passing, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin called it “an honor to be in proximity to it, to know the man involved.”
Harris is survived by his wife Dana Dokmanovich and his son, Dok.
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LSU lands UCLA pitcher Gage Jump through transfer portal
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - LSU head coach Jay Johnson has added his first player through the NCAA Transfer Portal since winning the Tigers’ seventh National Championship.
According to D1 Baseball’s Kendall Rogers, UCLA left-hander Gage Jump will be joining the Tigers after missing the 2023 season due to Tommy John Surgery.
In 2022 Jump, went 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA for the Bruins in seven appearances with two saves, in 16 innings pitched, allowing 10 hits, and eight runs, while striking out 22 and walking 11.
He struck out a career-high seven batters against Stanford in 2022.
Jump is listed at 6-foot and was selected in the 18th round of the 2021 MLB First-Year Player draft by the San Diego Padres, but opted to honor his commitment to the Bruins.
The former Bruin was teammates with current LSU pitcher Thatcher Hurd who transferred to the Tigers last off-season.
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Mobile home values are rising at a rate nearly as fast as that of single-family homes, according to a study released earlier this month by online loan platform LendingTree.
The median value of a mobile home increased at an average annual rate of 34.6% between 2021 and 2016, compared to 35.4% for single-family homes, based on a LendingTree analysis of U.S. Census data.
But climbing values are where the similarities stop.
Residents of mobile homes say that unlike single-family homes, typically houses that buyers purchase as an investment as much as a residence, mobile homes become more burdensome with time. They can fall into disrepair, making them less attractive to potential buyers. And the private companies who own the land can lowball on price when offering to buy the homes.
Plus, for many mobile homeowners, choosing to sell right now would mean entering an even tighter housing and rental market.
So, even as the values of their homes rise, owners are finding they're stuck.
Getting less for more
As NPR previously reported, large companies have been buying out mobile home parks. They're raising the rent for the land the mobile homes sit on, increasing prices for typically low-income and elderly residents who say they aren't getting anything new.
"There's no repairs, there's no improvement in the warranty of habitability," said Yvonne Maldonado, a community organizer with grassroots group Manufactured Housing Action, referring to a requirement in all leases that owners ensure their properties are livable.
Landlords in most states are held to an implied "warranty of habitability" which requires owners to ensure that their properties are livable. But Maldonado, who is also a resident of a mobile home community in upstate New York, said big private companies often "do a lousy job" of providing services like trash and snow removal.
And inflation has been an added headache.
"It's hurting everyone," said Maldonado.
For Holly Hook, a resident at Swartz Creek Estates in Michigan, considered selling her home when a new company bought out the mobile park in 2018. But Hook soon realized that moving wouldn't be worth it.
She'd purchased her home, used, for $28,000, and the new company offered her less than $10,000.
"It gets harder and harder to sell, and you actually lose value in a lot of cases," said Hook.
Hook said she now lives with two roommates, and they split the monthly rent for the land the home sits on. She said some of her neighbors, many of whom are senior citizens living on fixed social security payments, have had to cut back on food and medicine.
"The community used to be really laid back, and people didn't worry about paying the rent because it was quite steady for years and years," said Hook. "All that relaxation and that feeling of security is just gone."
But fearing retaliation from the company that owns the land they live on, hardly anyone in her community is willing to speak up, she said.
"A lot of people feel powerless," she added.
The average sales price of a new mobile home was $124,900 this May, the most recent month for which there is data, according to the U.S. Census.
"A lot of it is a scarcity issue," said Alyson Snow, a housing rights lawyer who represents several mobile homeowners pro-bono and a professor at the University of San Diego's School of Law.
During the pandemic, factories were slower to roll out the parts needed for new manufactured homes, and there were fewer builders around, she said.
"Those shortages created fewer mobile homes in the market," said Snow.
And there are other risks associated with making any big purchase, said Snow. Buyers who take out bank loans are often hit with high interest rates and hidden fees, she said. People buying used mobile homes need to be sure that they're getting proper inspections, as well.
Plus, because mobile homeowners don't own the land their homes sit on, they constantly face the possibility of eviction.
"You are at the mercy of who's going to rent you the land," she said.
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89.1 WBOI is operating at reduced power while our engineers install a new transmitter. This affects the HD broadcasts as well, on both channel 1 and 2. Streaming services are not affected.
Three songs for the perfect summer road trip playlist
Pop Culture Happy Hour host Stephen Thompson and NPR Music contributor Marissa Lorusso suggest three songs to make your summer road trip playlist perfect.
Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Visa is pausing their decision to start categorizing purchases at gun shops, a significant win for conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates who felt that tracking gun shop purchases would inadvertently discriminate against legal firearms purchases.
The decision is, at the same time, also a defeat for gun control groups. There had been hope that categorizing credit and debit card purchases would allow authorities to potentially see red flags — like significant ammunition purchases — before a mass shooting could happen.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Mastercard is also pausing its plans, but a spokesperson for the company did not immediately respond for a request for comment.
After Visa and Mastercard announced their plans to implement a separate merchant category code for gun shop purchases, the payment networks got significant pushback from the gun lobby as well as conservative politicians. A group of GOP state attorneys general wrote a letter to the payment networks threatening legal action against Visa and Mastercard if they moved forward with their plan.
In a statement, Visa indicated that the legal pushback was partially the reason they have paused their implementation.
“There is now significant confusion and legal uncertainty in the payments ecosystem, and the state actions disrupt the intent of global standards,” the company said.
Visa and Mastercard’s plan would not have tracked individual gun purchases. It would have instead broken out purchases at gun stores at a separate category. But not all large purchases at a gun shop would have been considered a red flag.
For example a purchase of a gun safe, which costs several thousands of dollars, would have been seen as a large purchase at a gun shop even though the safe is considered a responsible tool of gun ownership and unrelated to potential mass shootings.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Opendoor Technologies Incorporated ("Opendoor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OPEN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Opendoor investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Opendoor securities between December 21, 2020 and September 16, 2022, both dates inclusive and/or (b) Opendoor common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. completed on or about December 18, 2020. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
OPEN investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the algorithm used by the Company to make offers for homes could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (ii) as a result, the Company was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (iii) accordingly, defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the algorithm; (iv) as a result, documents issued in connection with the merger between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Opendoor during the relevant time frame, you have until December 6, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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LONDON (AP) — After the gilded spectacle of King Charles III's crowning in an ancient religious ceremony, coronation festivities took a more down-to-earth turn Sunday with thousands of picnics and street parties held across the U.K. in his honor.
The community get-togethers, part of a British tradition known as the Big Lunch, were intended to bring neighbors together to celebrate the newly crowned king even as support for the monarchy wanes. Critics complained about the coronation's cost at a time of exorbitant living expenses amid double-digit inflation.
Thousands of luncheons were organized as part of the celebrations Sunday, along with a nighttime concert at Windsor Castle featuring Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and 1990's boy band Take That. Charles encouraged residents to engage in volunteer activities Monday, which was a holiday.
The king and Queen Camilla were not expected at any of the luncheons but planned to attend the concert that will include a speech by his son, Prince William, heir to the throne.
The king's siblings, Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Anne, the Princess Royal, and their spouses took on lunch duty for the royal family. Edward was in Cranleigh and his sister hit an event in Swindon. The king's nieces, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, the daughters of Prince Andrew, were to join a lunch in Windsor.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted U.S. first lady Jill Biden and her granddaughter Finnegan Biden at the Big Lunch party held in front of his office. Other guests included Ukrainian refugees and community activists.
As in other neighborhoods with street parties, Downing Street was decked out in Union Jack bunting for the occasion.
The lower-key events followed regalia-laden pageantry that saw the king and queen crowned together in Westminster Abbey. They were presented with centuries-old swords, scepters and a jewel-encrusted golden orb symbolizing the monarch's power in a medieval tradition celebrated with liturgy, song and hearty cheers of “God save the king.”
The couple then paraded through the streets in a gilded horse-drawn carriage led by the largest ceremonial military procession since the coronation of Charles' mother, Queen Elizabeth II, 70 years ago. Some 4,000 troops marched in formation through the streets, their scarlet sleeves and white gloves swinging in unison to the sound of drums and bugles from marching bands, including one group of musicians on horseback.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined the route in the rain to see it in person. Nearly 19 million more watched on television in the U.K., according to ratings released by Barb, a research organization. That's about 40% fewer viewers than had watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
Charles and Camilla said Sunday in a statement that they were “deeply touched” by the celebration and "profoundly grateful both to all those who helped to make it such a glorious occasion – and to the very many who turned out to show their support.”
Not everyone was there to celebrate, though, and criticism continued Sunday over arrests of more than 50 protesters, including members of a republican group shouting “Not my king" and environmentalists aiming to end the use of fossil fuels.
Graham Smith, leader of Republic, a group advocating for abolishing the monarchy, said he was arrested as he planned peaceful protest and spent 16 hours in police custody.
“These arrests are a direct attack on our democracy and the fundamental rights of every person in the country," Smith said. “Each and every police officer involved on the ground should hang their heads in shame."
The Metropolitan Police acknowledged concerns over the arrests, but defended the force’s actions.
“The coronation is a once-in-a-generation event and that is a key consideration in our assessment,” Commander Karen Findlay said.
In addition to the lunch celebrations, hundreds of troops marched through the center of Glasgow on Sunday to celebrate the coronation.
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As he defended sending migrants to “sanctuary jurisdictions,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday was hit with a potential class-action lawsuit that alleged Venezuelan migrants were lured with false promises to fly last week from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, named as defendants DeSantis, the state of Florida, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Jared Perdue and unidentified people accused of rounding up migrants in Texas.
Florida paid for two flights out of a $12 million pot of money that Republican lawmakers included in the state budget this year at DeSantis’ request for relocating migrants. The lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the organization Lawyers for Civil Rights, alleges violations of the U.S. Constitution and other laws.
“These immigrants, who are pursuing the proper channels for lawful immigration status in the United States, experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants manipulated them, stripped them of their dignity, deprived them of their liberty, bodily autonomy, due process, and equal protection under law, and impermissibly interfered with the Federal Government’s exclusive control over immigration in furtherance of an unlawful goal and a personal political agenda.”
The lawsuit named as plaintiffs three Venezuelan migrants — identified as Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe and Jesus Doe — who were among about 50 people on the flights last Wednesday to Martha’s Vineyard. The organization Alianza Americas also is a plaintiff.
Attorneys are seeking to certify the lawsuit as a class action that would include “all immigrants who have been, or will in the future be, induced by Defendants to travel across state lines by fraud and misrepresentation.” Along with seeking a ruling that laws were violated last week, the lawsuit calls for blocking the defendants from “inducing immigrants to travel across state lines by fraud and misrepresentation.”
In part, the case alleges that the unidentified defendants in Texas provided items such as $10 McDonald’s gift cards to migrants to gain their trust. It alleges the unidentified defendants subsequently “made false promises and false representations that if Plaintiffs and class members were willing to board airplanes to other states, they would receive employment, housing, educational opportunities, and other like assistance upon their arrival.”
“In fact, Defendants had made no arrangements for employment, housing, educational opportunities, or other assistance for the individual Plaintiffs or other class members at their destination,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants had not even notified any governmental or non-profit entity that could provide such services that the individual Plaintiffs and their similarly situated class members would be arriving.”
DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske issued a statement Tuesday night saying it is "opportunistic that activists would use illegal immigrants for political theater. If these activists spent even a fraction of this time and effort at the border, perhaps some accountability would be brought to the Biden Administration’s reckless border policies that entice illegal immigrants to make dangerous and often lethal journeys through Central America and put their lives in the hands of cartels and coyotes."
"The transportation of the immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard was done on a voluntary basis," Fenske said. "The immigrants were homeless, hungry, and abandoned —- and these activists didn’t care about them then. Florida’s program gave them a fresh start in a sanctuary state and these individuals opted to take advantage of chartered flights to Massachusetts."
The lawsuit emerged hours after DeSantis, during an appearance at Anna Maria Oyster Bar Landside in Bradenton, defended the move to transport migrants and criticized federal immigration policies. DeSantis reiterated that he thinks President Joe Biden should reinstate immigration policies used by former President Donald Trump, such as a requirement for asylum seekers to remain in Mexico.
“Short of that, if you believe in open borders, then it’s the sanctuary jurisdictions that should have to bear the brunt of the open borders,” DeSantis said.
Rumors swirled Tuesday that another flight would bring migrants to Biden’s home state of Delaware. As of 6 p.m., such a flight had not landed in Delaware.
Responding to the rumors, Biden said DeSantis “should come visit. We have a beautiful shoreline.”
The flights last week went from San Antonio, Texas, to Crestview in Northwest Florida and ultimately to Martha’s Vineyard.
DeSantis, who is running for re-election in November and is widely considered a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024, contended Tuesday that the flights moved the national narrative on immigration issues. He accused people now raising concerns of not expressing similar “outrage” over the June deaths in Texas of dozens of migrants who had been in a tractor-trailer or about illegal drugs crossing the border.
Biden said borders have become overwhelmed during the past year as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have become more unstable.
Biden said there is “no rationale” to send such people back to their countries. On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported migrant apprehensions have topped 2 million this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. The number was up from 1.66 million last fiscal year.
In addition to the class-action lawsuit, DeSantis has faced questions from Democrats and other critics who alleged he overstepped his budget authority in using state money for the flights from Texas.
The state budget says the $12 million money is to transport “unauthorized aliens from this state consistent with federal law.” The term “unauthorized alien” is defined in the budget as a person unlawfully present in the U.S. under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
Meanwhile, in Texas, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, said Monday he launched an investigation to determine if any criminal activity occurred in flying migrants “here legally in our country” from San Antonio for “little more than a photo op.”
“We all know that during a political campaign, things can get nasty, things can get out of hand,” Salazar said during a news conference. “But when you're playing with human lives of people that are already in a desperate situation, people that again had every right to be where they were, but were lured under false pretenses, that does tend to bother me quite a bit.”
Salazar was unable to say what laws might have been broken. He said his agency has names of people of interest and needs to interview migrants to determine if any charges apply.
“We want to know what was promised to them? What, if anything, did they sign? Did they even understand the document that was put in front of them if they signed something? Or was this strictly a predatory measure?” Salazar said.
Meanwhile, State House New Service in Boston reported that Massachusetts lawmakers have called for federal investigations into DeSantis and Florida's use of taxpayer money. Also, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, argued for "meaningful immigration reform."
"Sending people all over the country, many of whom have no idea why they're being sent where they're going, isn't a solution to the very screwed-up immigration system that we have in the U.S.," Baker said.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger opened an emergency exit door during a plane flight in South Korea on Friday, causing air to blast inside the cabin and slightly injure 12 people, officials said. The plane landed safely.
Some people aboard the Asiana Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft tried to stop the person, who was able to partially open the door, the Transport Ministry said.
The person was detained by airport police on suspicion of violating the aviation security law, a ministry statement said. The person’s identity and motive weren’t immediately released.
The law bars passengers from handling exit doors and other equipment on board and provides for penalties of up to 10 years in prison, the ministry said.
The plane with 194 people aboard was heading to the southeastern city of Daegu from the southern island of Jeju. The flight is normally about an hour, and the incident occurred when the plane was reaching the Daegu airport at an altitude of 700 feet (213 meters).
A video apparently taken by a person on board that was posted on social media shows some passengers’ hair being whipped by the air blowing into the cabin through the open door.
The passengers included teenage athletes on their way to a track and field competition. Some screamed and cried in panic, Yonhap news agency reported, citing their unidentified coach.
Yonhap quoted other passengers as saying they suffered severe ear pain after the door opened. It said some cabin crew shouted for help from passengers to prevent the door from being opened.
Twelve people were taken to hospitals for treatment, according to the Transportation Ministry. Emergency officials in Daegu said the injured people suffered breathing problems and other minor symptoms.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ja Morant had 23 points and eight assists, Desmond Bane added 19 points and 10 rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Charlotte Hornets 131-107 on Wednesday night for their fourth straight win.
Dillon Brooks scored 18 points and Jaren Jackson Jr. added 17 points and nine rebounds for the Grizzlies. Steven Adams had 15 rebounds for Memphis, which improved to 9-10 on the road.
LaMelo Ball had 23 points and 12 assists and Terry Rozier added 21 points for the Hornets, who’ve lost 14 of 17 games.
The Hornets were outmatched from the start.
The Grizzlies jumped out to a 40-26 in the first quarter behind Morant, who set the tone with 12 points and four assists. The Grizzlies didn't let up as Morant took a seat on the bench to start the second quarter, opening with a 20-9 run and eventually pushing the lead to 29 at the half.
Morant had no problem slicing his way through Charlotte's defense. And when he missed, it seemed Adams or Jackson was there to grab the offensive rebound for a put-back.
The Grizzlies dominated the Hornets on the glass 59-44 and outscored them 64-52 in the paint.
Morant didn't play in the fourth quarter after the Grizzlies stretched the lead to 37.
The frustration was evident for the Hornets with Ball, Dennis Smith Jr. and Jalen McDaniels picking up technical fouls.
TIP-INS
Grizzlies: Attempted 28 free throws in the first half, 20 more than the Hornets. ... Played without Brandon Clarke (hip) and Ziaire Williams (knee).
Hornets: Cody Martin returned after missing 37 games with a left knee injury. Martin was injured in the team's season opener and hadn't played since. ... Jalen McDaniels got the start at small forward with Gordon Hayward (hamstring) and Kelly Oubre (hand) out.
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Grizzlies: At Orlando on Thursday night.
Hornets: Open a four-game trip at Milwaukee on Friday night.
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The esteemed real estate company grows rapidly through large American hotel partnerships, including Hilton
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Hospitality Holdings (PHH), has become the largest hospitality developer in Latin America through their partnerships with iconic American hotel brands, including Hilton. Founded more than 20 years ago in Mexico City, the company is led by CEO, Charles El Mann-Fasja, who has overseen the completion of 32 properties across Mexico and the U.S., which totals nearly 12,000 active guest rooms.
Operated under leading real estate company Parks Holdings, the parent company has acquired over $11 billion in assets and completed 531 projects to date, which include 30 million square feet in mixed-use space, 50 million square feet in high-rise office and residential space, 350 shopping centers, 25,000 residential units and more.
Parks Hospitality Holdings' most recent openings, the Hilton Tulum Riviera Maya All-Inclusive Resort and Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya have led them to become the largest hospitality developers in both Mexico and Latin America. The two Tulum properties boast a total of 1.8 million square footage and are anticipated to bring 685,000 visitors annually, providing a strong boost to the region's economy and the country's tourism rate.
Utilizing leading sustainable technologies, PHH was able to implement clean water and energy control systems at both Tulum properties, inching closer to the company's goal of developing self-sufficient hotels in terms of energy consumption by 2026. The clean water systems use reverse osmosis filtration that provides guests and staff with onsite filtered water. A separate filtration system for public spaces has also been added to properties, where non-drinking water is cleansed and then reused in hotel rooms.
Implementing an automated temperature control system, PHH regulates energy use in rooms, optimizing the output by considering when guests are in-suite and when they aren't with sensors that detect movement. The sensors can also detect temperature so the combined readings can trigger previously customized settings in a/c flow and artificial light to accommodate to guest preferences automatically. Through making sustainability a priority, PHH has attracted the attention of the world's largest hotel brands.
"We are honored to partner with esteemed brands such as Hilton and become a world leader in hospitality development," stated El Mann-Fasja. "While our reach now extends beyond Mexico, Parks Hospitality Holdings is committed to developing hotels of the future while also sourcing locally, building sustainably and honoring the country's craftsmanship, which is what truly set us apart and drives American brands to want to work with us."
Through its projects, Parks Hospitality Holdings focuses on spurring the local economy by supporting and working with Mexican architects, designers, and artisans so that the entirety of its projects are made in Mexico.
The Parks Hospitality Holdings portfolio includes but not limited to, Canopy by Hilton Cancun, all-inclusive Hilton Cancun, Hilton Tulum Riviera Maya, Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya and soon to complete, Waldorf Astoria Cancun.
Parks Hospitality Holdings (PHH), founded in Mexico over 20 years ago, is Latin America's largest full-service hotel developer with 12,000 rooms developed to-date. Led by CEO, Charles El Mann-Fasja, Parks Hospitality not only enhances the destination experience where they build but spreads the resilience of the region by employing and sourcing directly from the region. The PHH portfolio includes but not limited to, Canopy by Hilton Cancun, all-inclusive Hilton Cancun, Hilton Tulum Riviera Maya, Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya and soon to complete, Waldorf Astoria Cancun.
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As electric cars boom, locals fear Chinese battery plant will harm land in drought-stricken Hungary
By JUSTIN SPIKE
Associated Press
DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) — Just beyond the pastoral gardens and traditional homes of an eastern Hungarian village, a gigaproject of Chinese industry is taking shape.
Bulldozers and excavators are already preparing the land for construction of a nearly 550-acre electric vehicle (EV) battery plant. The 7.3 billion euro ($7.9 billion) factory will be one of Hungary’s largest-ever foreign investments, and the government hopes it will make the Central European country a global hub of lithium-ion battery manufacturing in an era where governments are increasingly seeking to limit greenhouse gas emissions by switching to electric cars.
But residents, environmentalists and opposition politicians worry that the sprawling factory — built by China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) — will exacerbate existing environmental problems, hit the country’s precious water supplies and further undermine its economy to China.
“You have this viscerally bad feeling when you walk past the area where they are building. I simply feel this bad feeling in my stomach,” said Eva Kozma, 47, a local mother who has joined with other residents of a village near the building site to oppose the project.
“This is progress, this is the future? Pouring concrete over nature while we know how polluting the factory is going to be?” she said.
Kozma and others on the outskirts of Debrecen, Hungary’s second-largest city, say they were blindsided by the announcement that the factory would be built on valuable agricultural land. They fear that the large quantities of water diverted to the plant for cooling equipment will threaten their water supply, and that chemicals from the plant could leech into the soil and water, damaging the region’s natural resources.
That region, the Great Hungarian Plain, is threatened by desertification, a process where vegetation recedes due to high heat and low rainfall. Climate change-driven droughts and record heat waves in the area have compounded heavy water use by agriculture and depleted groundwater, resulting in devastating crop yields.
Last year, Hungary experienced its hottest summer on record, and nearly 2.5 million acres, or 20% of the country’s croplands, dried out. Experts say that unless a comprehensive water retention plan is enacted, much of the region will soon be unsuitable for agriculture.
Yet despite these environmental struggles, Hungary’s government believes that the European Union’s ambitions to phase out the manufacture of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 present a unique opportunity for the country to take its place as a leader in EV battery production, and has embarked on a major push to attract such investments.
And there will likely be buyers: transport represents nearly a quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and more than 70% of those emissions are caused by road transport. If the EU is to reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050, EVs will play a pivotal role.
CATL’s 100 GWh battery plant in Debrecen, which is expected to create around 9,000 jobs, is the largest of a number of EV battery factories popping up around the country, part of the government’s strategy to serve foreign car manufacturers present in Hungary — like German carmakers Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz — as they transition to battery-powered vehicles.
Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said earlier this month in Beijing that the presence of those German carmakers had “inspired” the recent spate of Chinese investments in EV battery plants, and that “the Chinese suppliers of these German companies continue to regard Hungary as the meeting point of East-West investment.”
Gabor Varkonyi, an auto industry expert, agrees that the effort to attract battery makers makes good sense for Hungary’s economy — especially given that more than 20% of the country’s exports comes from the automotive industry.
“It is very much in Hungary’s interest for these investments to appear here, especially arm in arm with German technology,” Varkonyi said. “This way, both can be tied here in the medium term, so that neither will be able to work successfully without the other. In this sense, it is an absolute national interest.”
But Dalma Dedak, an environmental policy expert with WWF Hungary, says that despite intentions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making cars electric, there’s been a lack of environmental impact studies on the longer term consequences for Hungary’s air, soil and water.
Details have only been released on the first phase of the CATL plant’s multi-stage construction, she said, so its footprint on the environment once it is fully running remains unknown — something that has eroded trust between the affected population and the government.
“It is of concern that the approval procedure for the first phase of the plant does not show what kind of water consumption and emissions can be expected when the entire plant is built,” she said. “That is, will Hungary’s resources be sufficient for these ambitious plans?”
The water consumption of the industrial park where the factory is located is expected to amount to more than 40,000 cubic meters (10.5 million gallons) per day — doubling the drinking water consumption of Debrecen and laying a major burden on a region in the midst of a historic water crisis, Dedak said.
“In the long run, it’s a problem and a question of how to supply water to such a water-scarce city,” she said.
CATL says that 70% of its water consumption will come from gray water — household wastewater that has been purified — though this plan was not present in the environmental impact study for the first phase of the factory. Hungary’s Ministry of Economic Development did not respond to a request for comment.
Other critics of the investment point to the economy’s dependence on foreign-owned automobile companies, and see it as a deepening of the foothold Hungary has provided to China in Central Europe.
Laszlo Lorant Keresztes, president of the Hungarian parliament’s Committee on Sustainable Development, said that Hungary’s economy “is very vulnerable to the automotive industry, and this (plant) increases that vulnerability.”
Speaking at a protest opposing the factory in Debrecen this week, Keresztes said the roughly 800 million euros ($861 million) in infrastructure and tax incentives Hungary’s government will supply to CATL is “an unrealistic amount of money per job,” and that — as in the case of German car makers — the majority of capital generated would be exported.
“These are essentially assembly plants, and they take the profits away from here. It is also typical that they do not give work to Hungarian people, not to the local people, but to foreign guest workers,” he said.
Some of the residents outside Debrecen worry that the massive plant will bring traffic and noise that will spoil the idyllic community where they came to raise their children. But mostly, they’re afraid of the irreversible impact it could have on their natural world.
“They took the lands, they destroyed the soil, they destroyed the air, the water,” said Eniko Pasztor, 65, a local activist who plans to leave the area if the plant is completed as planned.
“There’s no amount of money that can fix what we have ruined. We have to make sure that what we have remains,” she said. “We’ve done a lot of damage already. I don’t understand why we need more, more, more.”
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a major upset, the U.S. Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) agreed on a revised version of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Landmark Advancements Act of 2022 or FDASLA (S. 4348) but, that strips from it all riders, including the key FDA Modernization Act of 2021 (S.2952).
To this end, the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 (S.2952/H.R.2565) amends the outmoded regulatory guidance at the FDA by broadening the options for drug developers seeking regulatory approvals to include modern and human-relevant testing methods, in lieu of less effective animal experimentation. In doing so, the FDA Modernization Act introduces much-needed improvement to the process of drug development. Such a change is expected to speed up the discovery process and lower the cost of life-saving medicine.
Of note, the existing drug development paradigm, established by statute in 1938 under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), requires animal tests to be conducted in all new drug applications submitted for regulatory approvals, even though 90—95% of drugs that pass animal testing fail when tried in humans.
A growing number of stakeholders have voiced their support for the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 (H.R.2565 / S.2952). The se include influencers from the biotech industry, nonprofits, and academia. For instance, open letters were sent from biotech industry leaders and the Jane Goodall Institute and Vivodyne to the HELP committee in charge of negotiating the FDASLA in the Senate. That is in addition to the public support to the FDA Modernization Act from entities such as the BICO group and Emulate, Inc, committed to promoting 21st century alternative methods to animal testing. Like its counterpart in the U.S. House of Representatives, entitled the Food and Drug Amendments Act of 2022 (H.R. 7667) which passed in the House on June 8, 2022, the FDASLA is a major legislation that codifies the FDA user fee agreements in the Senate. Provisions included in the FDASLA organize the relationship between the FDA and healthcare providers. The user fee programs also represent sizable revenue streams for the agency and must be authorized annually by the U.S. Congress.
The passage of both the House (H.R. 7667) and Senate (S. 4348) versions of the legislative package bills that incorporate the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 would have been needed to advance it to the next step in the legislative process. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7667 on June 8,2022 as indicated earlier. With this new development in the Senate concerning the FDASLA, the path is now obstructed for the inclusion of the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 in this year's Congress Conference report, a summary of agreements on legislation negotiated between the House and Senate. Such progress would have paved the way for the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 to be approved by the executive branch, ultimately enabling this legislation to become an enforceable law.
"This is disappointing news on the FDASLA and a hiccup in the efforts to make the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 the law of the land – which would have facilitated the development of safer and more efficacious drugs, at a faster pace and with reduced cost," said Dr. Zaher Nahle, Chief Science Officer at the Center for Contemporary Sciences (CCS). "It is essential that we double our efforts now to ensure that this bill advances as we continue to promote legislation that bolsters disruptive medical technologies."
Reacting to the news, Senators Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., who co-sponsored the original bill, reintroduced today a modified version of the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 to explore passing it in an upcoming Senate vote this week. CCS will continue to build support to help ensure its passage.
The next opportunity for advancing the FDA Modernization Act of 2021 is the year-end omnibus spending bill expected in December, where some negotiated legislation can be Introduced.
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NASA hopes New Zealand launch will pave way for moon landing
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.
So, it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late Tuesday, with the rocket carrying the satellite reaching space.
If the rest of the mission is successful, the Capstone CubeSat satellite — only about the size of a microwave oven — will be the first to take the new path around the moon and will send back vital information for at least six months.
Technically, the new orbit is called a near-rectilinear halo orbit. It’s a stretched-out egg shape with one end passing close to the moon and the other far from it.
Imagine stretching a rubber band back from your thumb. Your thumb would represent the moon and the rubber band the flight path.
“It will have equilibrium. Poise. Balance,” NASA wrote on its website. “This pathfinding CubeSat will practically be able to kick back and rest in a gravitational sweet spot in space – where the pull of gravity from Earth and the Moon interact to allow for a nearly-stable orbit.”
Eventually, NASA plans to put a space station called Gateway into the orbital path, from which astronauts can descend to the moon’s surface as part of its Artemis program.
For the satellite mission, NASA teamed up with two commercial companies. California-based Rocket Lab launched the rocket carrying the satellite, which in turn is owned and operated by Colorado-based Advanced Space.
The mission came together relatively quickly and cheaply for NASA, with the total mission cost put at $32.7 million.
Getting the 25-kilogram (55-pound) satellite into orbit will take more than four months and be done in three stages.
First, Rocket Lab’s small Electron rocket launched from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. Just nine minutes later, the second stage called Photon separated and went into orbit around Earth. Over the next five days, Photon’s engines are scheduled to fire periodically to raise its orbit further and further from Earth.
Six days after the launch, Photon’s engines will fire a final time, allowing it to escape Earth’s orbit and head for the moon.
Photon will then release the satellite, which has its own small propulsion system but which won’t use much energy as it cruises toward the moon over four months, with a few planned trajectory course corrections along the way.
“Perfect Electron launch!” Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck tweeted Tuesday. “Lunar photon is in Low Earth Orbit.”
Rocket Lab spokesperson Morgan Bailey said it was the most ambitious and complex mission it has undertaken so far and comes after more than two years of work with NASA and Advanced Space. She said it will be the first time Rocket Lab has tested its HyperCurie engine that will be used to power Photon.
“Certainly lots of hard problems to solve along the way, but we’ve ticked them off one by one, and made it to launch day,” Bailey said.
Bailey said one of the advantages of the orbit is that, theoretically, a space station should be able to maintain continuous communication with Earth because it will avoid being eclipsed by the moon.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Tennessee resigned Thursday due to an ethics violation involving the Legislature’s workplace discrimination and harassment policy.
Rep. Scotty Campbell, vice chair of the House Republican Caucus, was among the GOP legislators who voted two weeks ago to expel two Black Democratic lawmakers for protesting in support of gun control on the House floor.
The Mountain City lawmaker issued his resignation effective immediately, a letter to fellow legislators states.
WTVF-TV first reported on the finding by the Ethics Subcommittee, which issued its decision on March 29 in a document addressed to Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton. The document says the panel found Campbell violated the Legislature’s workplace discrimination and harassment policy.
When asked about the ethics panel decision by WTVF-TV on Thursday, Campbell said, “I had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off property.”
“I think conversations are consensual once that is verbally agreed to. If I choose to talk to any intern in the future, it will be recorded,” he said.
Campbell resigned about six hours after the TV station questioned him. He had remained a lawmaker after the late-March ethics finding, and voted earlier this month to expel two lawmakers. They have since been reinstated. He also voted to expel Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is white. Johnson was spared expulsion by one vote.
Connie Ridley, the General Assembly's director of legislative administration, produced the Ethics Subcommittee's findings document in response to a records request.
The Ethics Subcommittee finding says, “Discrimination and harassment in any form will not be tolerated.” It says no further information on the ethics complaint will be released.
Campbell's departure comes in the waning moments of a months-long legislative session. GOP legislative leaders are trying to finish their work by the end of the week.
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A three-person team of University of Georgia undergraduates from both the Terry College of Business and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences claimed the top prize in an annual competition that challenged students to design the ideal campus workspace.
ATHENS — The Summer Design Sprint was sponsored by the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Terry College of Business and the UGA Entrepreneurship Program in partnership with Cox Enterprises.
A design sprint encourages students to practice human-centered design methods to create an innovative solution to a complex problem with the help of industry partners, Dee Warmath, a faculty member in FACS, said.
“It was wonderful to see these students engage with the human-centered design process to produce very thoughtful solutions to improving the workspace and classroom experiences,” Warmath said. “Every time we give our students the opportunity, they exceed our expectations.”
Following a six-week program in which the teams worked closely with industry partners on designing the project, the students presented their ideas to a panel of judges on Aug. 15 at UGA’s Delta Innovation Hub.
Four teams of three students competed in the final event.
The team of Sejal Khanna and Shourya Seth from the Terry College of Business and Conner Dunahoo from CAES took first place and a $1,500 prize for their project, MINT (mutualism, integration, nonlinearity and thoughtfulness).
MINT envisioned an industry partner creating a course offering students real-world experience, an internship and potentially an offer of full-time employment.
The judges said they were impressed by the potential impact of the idea and how it would address the needs of students, the university and industry partners.
“While we were all from different majors, different backgrounds and did not have too much in common at first, we realized we were all passionate about heightening university-student-corporation relationships,” Khanna, a management information systems major in the Terry College of Business, said. “Together, we believed that students would greatly benefit from a program that was based on catering to different learning styles, providing work experience and focusing on relevant, up-to-date techniques and technologies.”
Cox Enterprise representatives who also served as judges were Brian Anderson, senior director of Enterprise, Human-Centered Design; Amy Lin, senior manager, Human-Centered Design and User Experience; and Amit Vyas, vice president, Team Member Experience.
Andrew Potter, the director of Experiential Learning at UGA, and Don Chambers, an associate director of UGA Entrepreneurship, also served as judges.
The second-place team of Milan Richard (School of Social Work), Catalina Giang (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences) and Maggie Wang (Terry College of Business) took home a $750 prize for their Study Space Hub app idea that would allow students to quickly find their own personalized study space.
The team of Joyce Anne Shepherd and Shweta Sainathan from the Terry College of Business and Shanne Low from the University of Wisconsin placed third and claimed a $250 prize for their project, LiveLearning, a platform for students to connect with professionals via a university-sponsored entity.
“I was really impressed with the level of rigor of the research conducted considering the short timeline for the project,” Anderson said. “The teams didn’t propose just one solution, and I liked the flexibility of options presented, ranging from a low-tech approach that could be implemented almost right away to more sophisticated options that you can plan budget and resources to make happen.”
The design sprint was funded by a gift from Cox Enterprises and facilitated by Camryn Cobb, a doctoral student in FACS.
“It was wonderful partnering with Cox and giving the students an opportunity to share their ideas in a professional setting,” Cobb said. “This design sprint allowed us all to share ideas and make new connections, which is crucial to the college experience.”
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Go to this peaceful NJ beach for a quiet beach day
It can get crowded as all hell at the beaches here. Not many places to set up, and not much privacy either.
Granted the beach might not be the best place to go for privacy. But if you're looking for the best of both worlds, Island Beach State Park is the perfect solution.
If you're unfamiliar, Island Beach State Park is just past Seaside Heights. You have to drive through the town to get there, and then you'll run into the stretch of road taking you to the private section of the beach.
Island Beach State Park is roughly 10 miles of beach that typically has fewer crowds than usual. Likely because there are only designated swimming areas. You can not swim at every point on the beach. Lifeguards are set up at specific points throughout the 10-mile stretch where you can swim.
And it's likely a good thing that you can't swim everywhere here because the waves can be very harsh and uninviting to visitors.
But it does provide some gorgeous views of the Barnegat Bay over the dunes, as well as the privacy you might be craving. Considering the stretch of beach is so long, you're bound to find a spot where not a lot of people are. Especially if you decide to go to one of the "no swimming" areas.
You'll find the beach all to yourself and can relax and have the beach day you've always wanted with barely anyone around!
There is no boardwalk or shops scattered throughout this stretch either, contributing to why it can be so empty.
It's the perfect beach spot for those looking to break away from the crowds.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
9-9-2
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
9-9-2
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Company beats 2025 goal by achieving 42 percent greenhouse gas emissions reduction; invested $10 million and completed 100 community impact projects through '100 Hometowns' centennial initiative
MOORESVILLE, N.C., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's published its 2021 Corporate Responsibility report today, detailing the company's goals and progress in three key areas: people and communities, product sustainability and operational excellence. This year's report, the company's 19th, reiterates Lowe's commitment to being a responsible corporate citizen.
"As our 100th year in business, 2021 was a milestone year for Lowe's. We hit our 2025 greenhouse gas reduction goal four years early and accelerated our efforts to reduce those emissions – while positively impacting our associates and communities through the Lowe's Employee Relief Fund and initiatives like 100 Hometowns. We're looking forward to the next 100 years of making a difference in the communities where we live and work," said Chris Cassell, Lowe's vice president of corporate sustainability.
Highlights of Lowe's 2021 Corporate Responsibility report include:
- Achieved 2025 goal of reducing Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 40 percent – four years early in 2021 – with a reduction of 42 percent over the past five years.
- Invested $10 million and completed 100 community impact projects through the 100 Hometowns initiative, which helped communities rebuild from natural disasters, repair critical housing, restore community centers, revive green spaces and more.
- Reached more than 1.8 million people through the Lowe's-led, nationwide Generation T movement, promoting the benefits of skilled trades careers through online education, in-person events and virtual learning opportunities.
- Delivered future water and energy bill savings of $17.7 billion to Lowe's customers who purchased the company's ENERGY STAR® and WaterSense® products in 2021. The company is also developing buying guides to embed sustainability criteria into product decisions.
- Provided more than $4.5 million in assistance to 3,140 Lowe's associates as part of the Lowe's Employee Relief Fund, funded by associates and matched dollar-for-dollar by Lowe's.
- Distributed more than $740 million in bonuses to front-line associates.
As Lowe's looks forward to its next 100 years, the company will continue to address key issues facing people and the planet – including by setting a science-based net-zero target by the end of 2022 that will include near and long-term GHG emissions reduction goals for Lowe's full value chain.
To learn more about corporate responsibility at Lowe's, please visit responsibility.lowes.com.
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 19 million customer transactions a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban fighter fired his rifle into the air at a food distribution event in Afghanistan, an example of their harassment of nongovernmental groups operating in the country, a report said Wednesday.
The Taliban last December barred Afghan women from working at NGOs allegedly because they weren’t wearing the hijab, or Islamic headscarf correctly, or observing gender segregation rules. In April, they said this ban extended to the U.N.
It is being actively enforced by the country’s intelligence agency, which reports to the Taliban’s leadership in Kandahar, although their chief spokesman says there are no obstacles for U.N. operations in Afghanistan.
The latest quarterly report from the watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan, SIGAR, cited examples of Taliban interference and harassment of NGOs, including the rifle incident.
Organizations face security risks and harassment at Taliban checkpoints, unannounced Taliban visits to NGO offices, repeated requests for information on work plans, budgets, operations, and personnel, and demands for increased involvement in project decision-making and implementation.
The April ban on women working for the U.N. likely signals that they will “continue to interfere” in NGO operations to the detriment of the Afghan people, according to the report.
The U.N. told SIGAR that, in addition to the challenges posed by specific Taliban policies, weak Taliban governance and tension between central and provincial authorities make an effective humanitarian response difficult to implement.
“This dysfunction is expected to limit the ability to implement policies which sustain critical public and basic services and reduce needs,” the report said, with the U.N. telling the watchdog that a “more restrictive environment lies ahead.”
Aid agencies have been providing food, education and health care support to Afghans in the wake of the Taliban takeover in August 2021 and the economic collapse that followed it. But distribution has been severely affected by the Taliban edict banning women from working at NGOs — and, now, also at the U.N.
The Economy Ministry, which supervises NGO work in Afghanistan, has been contacted for comment.
SIGAR’s report follows a closed-door U.N. summit on Afghanistan that the world body described as an event where nations and organizations were trying to reach unified stances on human rights, governance, counterterrorism and anti-drug efforts related to Afghanistan.
The Taliban were not invited to the meeting, which was held in Doha.
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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The older brother of late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is behind bars after a woman close to him told police she was worried he was planning a school shooting.
Dennis Hernandez, a former football player at UConn, was shocked with a stun gun and arrested by police July 18 after he threatened to kill officers who had gone to his home in Bristol, Connecticut, then emerged from the house yelling “shoot me, shoot me,” according to police.
On the way to the hospital, Hernandez, who went by DJ while playing quarterback and wide receiver for the Huskies in the mid-2000s, said he planned to kill anyone who had profited off his younger brother, police said in an arrest report.
Bristol police officers went to Hernandez’s home after speaking with two women about what they described as his deteriorating mental health.
Hernandez, 37, was originally arrested in March after police say he threw a bag containing a brick and a note over a fence and onto ESPN’s property in Bristol before leaving.
Hernandez did not appear in court as scheduled on July 7. One of the women told police that Hernandez told her he had driven instead on that day to UConn’s campus in Storrs and Brown University’s campus in Providence to “map the schools out.” The woman, whose name is redacted from the police report, told police she surmised Hernandez was planning a school shooting.
UConn police confirmed that a vehicle linked to Hernandez was on campus that day.
The other woman told police that in rambling about that incident to her, Hernandez said he “has a bullet for everyone,” according to the arrest report.
Hernandez also posted threats on social media toward one of those women and other people, police said. One of those read in part, “Will I kill? Absolutely.” In a text message to one of the women on July 7, Hernandez wrote about being angry at UConn coaches and university officials, and warned he was “taking down everything.”
He said he has been dying for years, “and now it’s others peoples turn.”
“Not all shootings are bad I’m realizing,” he wrote.
A phone message seeking comment was left at the public defender’s office, which is representing Hernandez in the case. Hernandez grew up in Bristol and recently had lived in Florida.
UConn said in a statement that it determined at the time that there was “no known imminent threat” to the school and that Hernandez was taken into custody shortly after UConn learned of the indcident. Brown, where Hernandez served as quarterbacks coach during the 2010-11 season, said in a statement that it’s investigation indicated Hernandez had not returned to campus in recent weeks.
Dennis Hernandez is due back in court on Aug. 1 on charges including threatening, breach of peace and failure to appear in court. He is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Aaron Hernandez killed himself in 2017 while serving a murder sentence.
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — About $1 billion of Major League Baseball’s revenue is at risk if a cable television company fails to make payments for local broadcasting rights to 14 teams, and the sport is preparing to take over telecasts.
“I think you should assume that if Diamond doesn’t broadcast, we’ll be in a position to step in,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday after an owners’ meeting. “Our goal would be to make games available not only within the traditional cable bundle but on the digital side, as well.”
Sinclair acquired 21 regional sports networks in 2019 from The Walt Disney Co., which had taken them over as part of its purchase of 21st Century Fox. Sinclair also holds rights to 16 NBA teams and 12 NHL franchises, and teams fear in an era of cord-cutting they may not get payments from Diamond Sports Group, the Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary operating the networks under the name Bally Sports.
“What we do is largely dependent on how Diamond and the creditors play their cards, what they decide to do,” Manfred said. “Our No. 1 goal in terms of preparations is that if for some reason Diamond isn’t broadcasting, that we want to be in a position to make sure our fans are going to get their games.”
Asked whether $1 billion or $2 billion was at stake, Manfred said: “Closer with the first number than the second.”
Billy Chambers, who had been Sinclair’s chief financial offer, started work this month with MLB in a new position as executive vice president for local media.
Diamond owns rights to local broadcasts for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Miami Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers.
Baseball executives met at The Breakers, a 97-year-old Renaissance Revival style hotel. The lobby was filled with a mix of baseball executives and women in pink floral summer dresses, some in hats, attending the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s Palm Beach Hot Pink Luncheon and Symposium.
OAKLAND/LAS VEGAS BALLPARK
On other major topic, Manfred said he views the Athletics’ search for a new ballpark as “Oakland and/or Las Vegas.”
“This year they kind of got a deadline,” he said. “They need to have an agreement in place by next January — really important from the perspective of the club.”
RAYS BALLPARK
Tampa Bay announced plans on Jan. 30 to build a ballpark near Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The team has been searching for a new stadium for 15 years, and owner Stu Sternberg says the Rays can’t afford to stay in their current ballpark when their lease expires after the 2027 season.
“We did not talk about the Rays situation,” Manfred said. “Everything that’s happened recently Stu covered in great detail in the last owners meeting. We had a nice layout of what was coming, so there was no real update there.”
STARTING EXTRA INNINGS WITH RUNNER ON SECOND
The rule was adopted as a pandemic measure for the 2020 season and appears likely to stay.
“The clubs discussed the permanence of that rule. It’s got to go back to the on-field committee,” Manfred said. “Clubs have gotten used to the extra-innings rule. I think it’s generally well-liked by players. I don’t bet on anything, but if you were going to make a bet, it think it’s a pretty good bet it’s going to continue.”
REVENUE DISPARITY
A new committee on economic reform met this week.
“Revenue disparity, really important topic in the industry right now. It’s not unrelated to the local media issues,” Manfred said.
Manfred said MLB had $10.8 billion in revenue last year. Some teams have become alarmed the New York Mets, entering their third season under owner Steve Cohen, have increased payroll to about $370 million — well above the record $291 million of the 2015 Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I think people know what happened in the winter. I think that they understand that it happened within the confines of the system they negotiated and beating your gums about it doesn’t accomplish a lot,” Manfred said. “In aggregate, I think that the group has matured into better.”
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
San Francisco chairman Greg Johnson replaced Colorado chairman Dick Montfort and Cleveland chairman Paul Dolan replaced Boston principal owner John Henry on the executive council.
The council also includes Los Angeles Dodgers chairman Mark Walter and Detroit Tigers chairman Christopher Ilitch (whose terms expire in 2024); Philadelphia managing partner John Middleton and Kansas City chairman John Sherman (2025) and Arizona managing general partner Ken Kendrick and Seattle chairman John Stanton (2026)
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WVU associate head coach Larry Harrison has liked what he’s seen from the Mountaineer guards so far this season. It’s the position group that Harrison works with daily, and he’s excited to see how they perform against Big 12 competition.
“Every day they bring it. They all have different roles in practice and game situations, so I have a good group,” Harrison said recently in an exclusive interview for The Bob Huggins Show. “I think they are going to do really well in the Big 12.”
With the versatility Harrison has at his disposable, he provided a breakdown of the roles of the six guards:
- Fifth-year Kedrian Johnson and senior Joe Toussiant – intensity and energy on defense
Bob Huggins referred to Johnson as one of the premiere on-the-ball defenders in college hoops. While Johnson’s impact comes on the defensive end, the head coach has tasked him with becoming more aggressive on offense this season. He’s reached double figures in scoring in four games, including last time out against Stony Brook when he matched his career-high with 18 points.
Johnson is WVU’s fifth-leading scorer with an average of 9.6 points per game, and he leads the team in steals (23) and assists (40).
Toussiant is West Virginia’s go-to guy off the bench. He’s averaging 10.8 points per game and has proved there is no drop-off on defense when he comes in to replace Johnson. Toussiant is right behind him with 39 assists on the year and No. 3 in steals with 12.
The Iowa transfer joked earlier in the year that he and Johnson aren’t on the floor together often because they foul too much. He also said competing against each other every day in practice has had an immediate impact on his game.
“To have those two go at each other day, it’s kind of like they get a break from each other in a game situation. They rev it up,” Harrison said. “They play even harder in the games but they sometimes tell me practice is harder than the games, which is a good thing to see as a coach because it shows they are very competitive. For those two to go against each other, it makes each one better and our team better.”
Harrison added Johnson and Toussaint have similar playing styles when it comes to applying on-ball pressure and staying in front of their man defensively. The lone difference is Johnson is slightly taller.
As far as their offensive performance, Harrison said, “we get what we get” from them.
“Not saying that they can’t score, but we don’t look at them as our primary scorers. Hopefully, they will continue to be productive on the offensive end as much as they are on the defensive end.”
- Fifth-year Erik Stevenson and sophomore Seth Willson – perimeter shooting
Stevenson is WVU’s leading scorer with 14.5 points per game. There have only been two occasions this season he hasn’t reached double figures. He’s shooting 53.2 percent from the floor, which ranks No. 3 in the Big 12 Conference. While Stevenson is the guy the Mountaineers rely on for scoring, that isn’t the only role he holds on the team. Whether he’s on the court or the bench, Stevenson provides valuable leadership. Harrison said he also brings something that he believes was missing from last year’s team — toughness.
“He doesn’t lack confidence. He’s very competitive. He’s a guy who is always talking, in both a positive and negative way, but he’s bonded well with our team,” Harrison said. “Offensively, we need scoring from him. We need that toughness and attitude he brings to our team. Maybe last year at times, that toughness part we were a little lacking. Erik brings that and he keeps all the guys together.”
Stevenson said last week that if he doesn’t play with that edge and competitiveness, then he’s just not himself. He said that part of his game was hindered two seasons ago at Washington because he “wasn’t allowed” to play with the type of passion that he’s playing with here at WVU. He described it as “feeling like a tiger in bubble wrap with needles all around me waiting to pop.”
Huggins said while Stevenson does chirp a lot on the court, it isn’t “derogatory” but instead shows how much he enjoys playing the game.
Wilson was WVU’s offensive spark off the bench against Stony Brook. He was a perfect 3-for-3 from beyond the arc to give the Mountaineers a boost in the second half. After the UAB contest, Huggins said they needed to start getting Wilson and fellow sophomore Kobe Johnson more minutes.
Wilson is one of WVU’s top outsider shooters as he’s connecting on 45.2 percent of his three-pointers.
“He has to continue to be aggressive on the offensive end. He understands we need him to shoot the ball. We need him to be an instant offense type of guy. He needs to continue on that path,” Harrison said.
- Sophomore Kobe Johnson – can play and guard multiple positions
According to Harrison, Johnson brings stability to the guard position. He’s made two consecutive starts in Emmitt Matthews’ absence and also started the opening two games of the season as Tre Mitchell worked his way back from a preseason foot injury.
“He doesn’t make mistakes, he’s always doing the right things but at times, we need him to be more aggressive on the offensive end,” Harrison said. “On the defensive end, he can guard 1-4.”
Last week, Kedrian Johnson was asked about Kobe’s progress and echoed the same thing Harrison said — he’s a great player when he’s aggressive.
Johnson is averaging 13.3 minutes and 3.4 points per game. He’s tallied a season-high seven points twice. As a freshman, he netted a total of 46 points. His current total is 41 through the first 12 games.
- Freshman Josiah Davis – energy from the bench as he waits for his time to come
Harrison said Davis realizes he won’t have an immediate impact on the team as there are a number of veteran players at the position. Right now, Davis is learning what he can from those older players so when his time does come, he’ll be ready in the moment.
The freshman has appeared in five games this season and scored his first points as a Mountaineer against Penn.
The No. 24 Mountaineers begin Big 12 play at Kansas State on Saturday, Dec. 31. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN+. Harrison said his group is more than ready for the challenge.
“When you have five guards you can rotate in and out, get them in different situations, I think it makes our perimeter game much stronger,” he said.
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Comparable sales and gross margins in line with guidance; expenses, excluding impairments, better than expected
Q3 GAAP EPS loss of $3.56; adjusted EPS loss of $2.99
Inventory reduction efforts on track
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) today reported a net loss of $103.0 million, or $3.56 per share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 ended October 29, 2022. This result includes an after-tax charge of $16.3 million, or $0.56 per share, associated with store asset impairment charges. Excluding this charge, the adjusted net loss was $86.7 million, or $2.99 per share (see non-GAAP table included later in this release). The net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2021 was $4.3 million, or $0.14 per diluted share.
Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 totaled $1.204 billion, a 9.8% decrease compared to $1.336 billion for the same period last year. The decline to last year was driven by a comparable sales decrease of 11.7%. Net new stores and relocations contributed approximately 190 basis points of sales growth compared to the third quarter of 2021.
Commenting on today's results announcement, Bruce Thorn, President and CEO of Big Lots stated, "The third quarter marks another quarter in which we met the challenges of a tough environment head on and did what we said we would do. Our sales and gross margin were in line with guidance and, importantly, year-over-year inventories continued to come down materially. We saw favorability in SG&A, as we tightly managed costs, and have strengthened our balance sheet and liquidity position. I'd like to thank our team for their hard work through this difficult retail environment."
"Going forward, we will build on the significant progress we have achieved in strengthening our business model. These efforts will enable us to better adapt to continuously evolving customer needs, build upon our core competencies, and deliver incredible value."
"Although we are operating in a challenging macroeconomic environment, we remain enthusiastic about our tremendous opportunity to provide even more value for our customers. We will continue to transform our business by offering customers amazing deals and more exciting assortments, which are easier to find and more convenient to shop. We will find more ways to be efficient with a continued focus on growing margin, reducing expenses, and making highly disciplined investment decisions."
A summary of adjustments to loss per diluted share is included in the table below.
Inventory and Cash Management
Inventory ended the third quarter of fiscal 2022 at $1,345 million compared to $1,277 million for the same period last year, with the 5.3% increase driven by higher average unit costs.
The company ended the third quarter of fiscal 2022 with $62.1 million of Cash and Cash Equivalents and $459.9 million of Long-term Debt, compared to $70.6 million of Cash and Cash Equivalents and no Long-term Debt as of the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2021. On September 21, 2022 the company successfully completed the refinancing and replacement of its existing $600 million senior unsecured credit facility with a new $900 million five-year revolving asset-based loan (ABL) facility. The ABL is secured by the company's working capital, with the borrowing base comprised of eligible credit card receivables and the company's eligible inventory, less applicable reserves, that fluctuates each month. The new facility strengthens the company's liquidity position and increases its financial flexibility. The new facility strengthens the company's liquidity position and increases its financial flexibility.
Dividend and Share Repurchases
As announced in a prior release, on December 1, 2022 the Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per common share. This dividend payment of approximately $8.7 million will be payable on December 28, 2022, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 14, 2022. The company did not execute any share repurchases during the quarter. The company has $159 million remaining under its December 2021 $250 million authorization.
Company Outlook
For the fourth quarter, the company expects comps to be down in the low-double-digit range. Net new stores will add about 170 basis points of growth versus 2021. The company expects the fourth quarter gross margin rate to improve sequentially versus Q3 but remain in the mid-30s range. This includes the impact of additional markdowns related to accelerated store closures and continued efforts to clean up slow-moving inventory. Given an atypically wide range of outcomes, the company is not providing EPS guidance at this point. The company expects a share count of approximately 29.0 million for Q4.
Conference Call/Webcast
The company will host a conference call today at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. A webcast of the conference call is available through the Investor Relations section of the company's website http://www.biglots.com. An archive of the call will be available through the Investor Relations section of the company's website http://www.biglots.com/ after 12:00 p.m. ET today and will remain available through midnight ET on Thursday, December 15, 2022. A replay of this call will also be available beginning today at 12:00 p.m. ET through December 15 by dialing 877.660.6853 (Toll Free) or 201.612.7415 (Toll) and entering Replay Conference ID 13734153.
About Big Lots
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is one of America's largest home discount retailers, operating more than 1,450 stores in 48 states, as well as a best-in-class ecommerce platform with expanded fulfillment and delivery capabilities. The Company's mission is to help customers "Live Big and Save Lots" by offering unique treasures and exceptional bargains on everything for their home, including furniture, seasonal decor, kitchenware, pet supplies, food items, laundry and cleaning essentials and more. Big Lots is the recipient of Home Textiles Today's 2021 Retail Titan Award. For more information about the company or to find the store nearest you, visit biglots.com.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and such statements are intended to qualify for the protection of the safe harbor provided by the Act. The words "anticipate," "estimate," "approximate," "expect," "objective," "goal," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," "should," "may," "target," "forecast," "guidance," "outlook" and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. Similarly, descriptions of objectives, strategies, plans, goals or targets are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate to the expectations of management as to future occurrences and trends, including statements expressing optimism or pessimism about future operating results or events and projected sales, earnings, capital expenditures and business strategy. Forward-looking statements are based upon a number of assumptions concerning future conditions that may ultimately prove to be inaccurate. Forward-looking statements are and will be based upon management's then-current views and assumptions regarding future events and operating performance and are applicable only as of the dates of such statements. Although the company believes the expectations expressed in forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions within the bounds of knowledge, forward-looking statements, by their nature, involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, any one or a combination of which could materially affect business, financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.
Forward-looking statements that the company makes herein and in other reports and releases are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, developments related to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, current economic and credit conditions, the cost of goods, the inability to successfully execute strategic initiatives, competitive pressures, economic pressures on customers and the company, the availability of brand name closeout merchandise, trade restrictions, freight costs, the risks discussed in the Risk Factors section of the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other factors discussed from time to time in other filings with the SEC, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. This release should be read in conjunction with such filings, and you should consider all of these risks, uncertainties and other factors carefully in evaluating forward-looking statements.
You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date thereof. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures the company makes on related subjects in public announcements and SEC filings.
BIG LOTS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
The following tables reconcile: selling and administrative expenses, selling and administrative expense rate, operating loss, operating loss rate, income tax benefit, effective income tax rate, net loss, and diluted earnings (loss) per share for the third quarter of 2022 and the year-to-date 2022 (GAAP financial measures) to adjusted selling and administrative expenses, adjusted selling and administrative expense rate, adjusted operating loss, adjusted operating loss rate, adjusted income tax benefit, adjusted effective income tax rate, adjusted net loss, and adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share (non-GAAP financial measures).
The above adjusted selling and administrative expenses, adjusted selling and administrative expense rate, adjusted operating loss, adjusted operating loss rate, adjusted income tax benefit, adjusted effective income tax rate, adjusted net loss, and adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share are "non-GAAP financial measures" as that term is defined by Rule 101 of Regulation G (17 CFR Part 244) and Item 10 of Regulation S-K (17 CFR Part 229). These non-GAAP financial measures exclude from the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") store asset impairment charges of $21,723 ($16,348, net of tax).
The above adjusted selling and administrative expenses, adjusted selling and administrative expense rate, adjusted operating loss, adjusted operating loss rate, adjusted income tax benefit, adjusted effective income tax rate, adjusted net loss, and adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share are "non-GAAP financial measures" as that term is defined by Rule 101 of Regulation G (17 CFR Part 244) and Item 10 of Regulation S-K (17 CFR Part 229). These non-GAAP financial measures exclude from the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP store asset impairment charges of $45,828 ($34,497, net of tax).
Our management believes that the disclosure of these non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors because the non-GAAP financial measures present an alternative and more relevant method for measuring our operating performance, excluding special items included in the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, that management believes is more indicative of our on-going operating results and financial condition. Our management uses these non-GAAP financial measures, along with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, in evaluating our operating performance.
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Lima Memorial partnered with the Area Agency on Aging for their annual Senior Angel Tree. The hospital adopted 76 local seniors to make sure their holiday wishes are granted. Hundreds of gifts consisting of items that meet daily needs were loaded up at the Lima Memorial welcome center to get sorted and delivered. The holidays can be especially challenging for our seniors who lack family support, and organizers say the goal is to remind them they are thought of and appreciated.
"The day that we get to load the bus is always a really exciting time for our health system. Our associates take great pride in providing care to our community both inside and outside of our hospital walls," stated Jessica Eutsler, Lima Memorial volunteer services coordinator.
Lima Memorial has proudly provided the Senior Angel Tree for more than 15 years.
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- Oral presentation on early CGM initiation receives ADA Presidents' Select Abstract of Distinction, one of eight presentations selected out of over a thousand submissions
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- T1D Exchange, a nonprofit organization that drives meaningful research and innovation in the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D), today announced that new real-world data from its Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) and online Registry will be shared in three oral presentations, two panel discussions and 15 poster presentations during the American Diabetes Association 83rd Scientific Sessions being held June 23-26, 2023, in San Diego, California.
The studies detail a wide range of trends and outcomes in the management of T1D, including attitudes towards autoantibody screening, the use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), and current practices in areas like racial equity and LGBTQ+ inclusiveness. Data highlights include a late-breaking abstract on the associations between diabetes distress and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) metrics and an oral presentation, titled "CGM Initiation within Six Months of T1D Diagnosis Associated with Lower HbA1c at 3 Years," which received the ADA Presidents' Select Abstract of Distinction. A full list of the research can be found here.
"The robust data being presented at this year's ADA meeting showcase continued growth across our key programs, the Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) and T1D Exchange Registry, as well as our commitment to drive improvements in diabetes care and outcomes for people of all backgrounds," said David Walton, Chief Executive Officer at T1D Exchange. "In addition, we're proud of our unique capability to work closely with industry partners to execute outcomes and market research projects that provide deep insights on people living with T1D."
Oral Presentations & Symposia
- ADA Scholars Program: Research and Data Standards – Quality Improvement
- 17-OR, ADA Presidents' Select Abstract: CGM Initiation within Six Months of T1D Diagnosis Associated with Lower HbA1c at 3 Years
- Panel: What Can Diabetes Quality Teams Learn from Engineers and Designers?
- Panel: Do Quality Improvement Efforts Reduce Healthcare Disparities?
- Joint ADA/The Lancet Symposium—Global Inequity in Diabetes—An International Perspective
Late-Breaking and General Poster Presentations
A late-breaking abstract exploring the associations between diabetes distress and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) use in adults with T1D, which aimed to shed light on this often-divisive topic, will be presented:
- 58-LB, Associations between Diabetes Distress and CGM Metrics in Adults in the T1D Exchange Registry
Additionally, 14 other posters will be presented during the General Poster Sessions from Saturday, June 24 through Sunday, June 25 at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT in Poster Halls B-C.
"As technology and treatment strategies improve, such as the use of CGMs, connected insulin pens, and autoantibody screening, it's important we continue to evaluate the real-world impact, implementation and attitudes towards these tools to ensure we're providing the best options for people in managing their disease," said Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at T1D Exchange. "Furthermore, we are dedicated to providing innovative research to highlight racial inequities in diabetes care while making real change in the lives of people with diabetes by identifying interventions that can help further reduce disparities and promote equity."
"We're proud of the breadth of data that has been uncovered through our online Registry, a unique combination of self-reported data and device data from select participants, which continues to enable us to generate insights into the patient experience and work towards improving the lives of people living with T1D," said Wendy Wolf, PhD, Vice President of Registry and Outcomes Research at T1D Exchange. "We thank the over 18,000 people who are part of our online registry for their part in enabling us to share these data with the larger diabetes community."
Continued Expansion in Type 2 Diabetes
In addition to their volume of T1D research, T1D Exchange continues to expand their work in type 2 diabetes (T2D). This growth includes five clinics participating in T2D focused quality improvement initiatives, a partnership with the ADA to provide T2D quality improvement coaching in the primary care setting, and the planning of a T2D online registry leveraging the learnings from their T1D registry.
About the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) and the T1D Exchange Registry
The T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) brings together 54 endocrinology centers across the U.S., collectively treating more than 85,000 people living with T1D and 15,000 people living with T2D, to identify and address gaps in care and accelerate evidence-based, practical solutions. Participating clinics contribute anonymized patient data and research from their respective clinics, expanding the collective knowledge base and creating a unified data asset to expedite improvements in care for all people living with T1D.
The T1D Exchange Registry tracks disease progress over time and to date includes over 18,000 people living with T1D in the U.S. It gathers information directly from these individuals, including data on disease management and outcomes, connecting patients to research and researchers to patients. Participants complete annual surveys and the Registry curates other research opportunities to advance meaningful treatment, care and policy. The focus is to ensure representation across the T1D community, including populations often underrepresented in clinical studies.
About T1D Exchange
A nonprofit organization, T1D Exchange was established in 2010 through initial and ongoing support from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. T1D Exchange is a leader in harnessing data to advance T1D care and outcomes by driving collaborative change. Through real-world evidence and clinical data collection and analysis, our novel insights are identifying gaps in data and redefining best practices to improve the lives of those living with T1D. T1D Exchange actively supports quality improvement and innovation through its Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI), online registry, data-oriented outcomes and market research services, and study recruitment for industry and academic partners.
To learn more about T1DX-QI member clinics, click here. For more information on the Registry, visit t1dregistry.org.
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Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation introduces a new safety initiative to better ensure a safe work environment for women.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation has introduced a new workplace safety initiative to encourage women to stay alert and be safe. As one of the kickoff components, new female Fairway employees now receive a safety kit in their onboarding packet that includes pepper spray, a personal alarm siren and a handout with workplace safety tips.
Leading the charge for this program is Fairway Branch Manager, Brittney Hansen. "Protecting women has been a passion I have had most of my life," says Hansen. "Heading this safety initiative for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation has helped to ignite that passion even further, and I am beyond proud to help roll out this one-of-a-kind safety initiative at such a large corporation."
The support and encouragement of Fairway's founder and CEO, Steve Jacobson, has also played an integral role in launching this initiative. "With some of the recent happenings in our country, it makes sense to be aggressive regarding our new safety initiative at Fairway," states Jacobson. "Our teammates and their families need us to continue to create systems of safety, especially as teammates head back to their respective offices."
In addition to providing safety kits during the new employee onboarding process, the program plans to expand and provide more robust offerings, such as monthly self-defense courses, internal employee resources and office facility safety reviews.
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation (NMLS #2289) is a full-service mortgage lender based in Madison, Wisconsin, and Carrollton, Texas, with more than 7,900 team members and 700 branches nationwide. Fairway funded $72.5 billion in 2021. For more information, go to fairwayindependentmc.com.
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UNION COUNTY, Pa. — It's hard to say just how many pumpkins and gourds are at the Buffalo Valley Produce Auction near Mifflinburg. There are thousands of bins filled to the top, and everything goes to the highest bidder.
Like the yearly Christmas tree auction held here, people come from all over the east coast to buy pumpkins and other fall décor.
"We're shipping as far north as Maine and as far south as Alabama," said Ben Courtney, the auction's operations manager.
Carl Herold is shopping for his farm market stand near Wilkes-Barre.
"Mostly gourds, pumpkins, we're looking for a lot of pumpkins, big ones and small ones. We might even be looking for corn."
Buyers like this auction because they can get pumpkins, gourds, and fall décor at wholesale prices.
Auction officials say supply is down this year.
"Due to the drought and due to the extreme heat during pollination, some of the plants didn't produce like they should have. One pumpkin versus two or three per plant, which they should have," Courtney said.
Courtney says while prices are higher this year, the quality of the pumpkins is great.
"Actually, pumpkins like dry weather. If you can irrigate, you can give them the right amount of water versus three, four inches of water from a rainstorm is not good for the crop."
Buyers say their customers are excited to buy these pumpkins.
"Holiday decorations much earlier than in the past years," Eugene Reelick said. "We've been getting phone calls for pumpkins as of two, three weeks ago. 'Do you have your pumpkins yet? Do you have your pumpkins yet?'"
The pumpkin auction is every Tuesday and Thursday through October, and then the big Christmas tree auction is in November.
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Prince Louis' parents are poking fun at him for his antics. Following the conclusion of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Prince William and Kate Middleton took to their shared Twitter account to reflect on the weekend's festivities -- and their 4-year-old son's viral moments.
The couple also shares Prince George, 8, and Princess Charlotte, 7.
"What a fantastic weekend of celebrations. Seeing people across the nation coming together with family, friends and loved ones has been extremely special," the couple wrote, alongside photos from the weekend.
"Thank you to everyone who turned out to show their gratitude to The Queen and her inspiring 70 years of leadership," the thread continued. "From the crowds on the Mall to communities hosting street parties up and down the country, we hope you had a weekend to remember."
William and Kate concluded with a cheeky reference to their youngest child, writing, "We all had an incredible time, especially Louis… 👀"
Louis first made headlines over the weekend, when he made a series of faces on the balcony at Thursday's Trooping the Colour. He covered his ears and screamed as planes flew overhead, and made silly faces throughout the event.
Then, during Sunday's Platinum Jubilee Pageant, Louis once again stole the show, this time alongside his mom. In photos from the event, Louis stuck out his tongue, covered his mom's mouth, and repeatedly made goofy faces at her.
The young royal also showed his sweet side, cuddling up to Kate at several points throughout the afternoon.
During the celebration's big finale, Louis also spent time with his grandfather, Prince Charles, and his dad, alternating between the men's laps when he wasn't next to his mom.
The Platinum Jubilee was put on in honor of Queen Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne. Watch the video below for more on the weekend's celebrations.
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Expert tips to consolidate multiple 401(k) accounts
Vanguard: Median 401(k) balance is $33,472
InvestigateTV - An estimated 24 million 401(k) accounts holding approximately $1.35 trillion in assets are believed to have been forgotten according to Capitalize, an online 401(k) rollover platform.
Each year millions of Americans change jobs, leaving behind an old 401(k) at their old job and picking up a new one at their current employer.
Virginia Credit Union financial coach Cherry Dale said while you can always roll the money from your previous plan into your new account, you could also just leave that money where it is and let it grow.
Dale added that if your new company doesn’t have a 401(k), you could open a Roth IRA and roll your old account into it.
“So [a Roth IRA] is an individual retirement account that you do not need an employer to have that type of retirement account,” Dale said.
If you are considering opening a Roth IRA or keeping multiple retirement accounts, Dale said to consider the fees for the plans.
“You’ve got to just make sure if you’ve got multiple retirement accounts that you are taking care of everything and that you’re keeping things like your beneficiaries up to date, contact information up to date as well,” Dale said.
Dale recommended contacting a financial advisory if you feel you need help deciding which option is best for you.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the 25-year-old Black man in a Georgia neighborhood was sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
Travis McMichael was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood in the port city of Brunswick. His punishment is largely symbolic, as McMichael was sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for Arbery's murder.
Wood said McMichael had received a "fair trial."
"And it's not lost on the court that it was the kind of trial that Ahmaud Arbery did not receive before he was shot and killed," the judge said.
McMichael was one of three defendants convicted in February of federal hate crime charges. His father, Greg McMichael, and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan had sentencing hearings scheduled later Monday.
The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.
The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a burglar. Investigators determined he was unarmed and had committed no crimes.
Arbery's killing on Feb. 23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Those two cases also resulted in the Justice Department bringing federal charges.
Wood scheduled back-to-back hearings Monday to individually sentence each of the defendants, starting with Travis McMichael, who killed Arbery with a shotgun after the street chase initiated by his father and joined by a neighbor, who are also white.
Greg McMichael and Bryan also face possible life sentences after a jury convicted them in February of federal hate crimes, concluding that they violated Arbery's civil rights and targeted him because of his race. All three men were also found guilty of attempted kidnapping, and the McMichaels face additional penalties for using firearms to commit a violent crime.
A state Superior Court judge imposed life sentences for all three men in January for Arbery's murder, with both McMichaels denied any chance of parole.
All three defendants have remained jailed in coastal Glynn County, in the custody of U.S. marshals, while awaiting sentencing after their federal convictions in January.
Because they were first charged and convicted of murder in a state court, protocol would have them turned them over to the Georgia Department of Corrections to serve their life terms in a state prison.
In a court filings last week, both Travis and Greg McMichael asked the judge to instead divert them to a federal prison, saying they won't be safe in a Georgia prison system that's the subject of a U.S. Justice Department investigation focused on violence between inmates.
Arbery's family has insisted the McMichaels and Bryan should serve their sentences in a state prison, arguing a federal penitentiary wouldn't be as tough. His parents objected forcefully before the federal trial when both McMichaels sought a plea deal that would have included a request to transfer them to federal prison. The judge ended up rejecting the plea agreement.
A federal judge doesn't have the authority to order the state to relinquish its lawful custody of inmates to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said Ed Tarver, an Augusta lawyer and former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. He said the judge could request that the state corrections agency turn the defendants over to a federal prison.
The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and jumped in a truck to chase Arbery after spotting him running past their home outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck, helping cut off Arbery's escape. He also recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery at close range as Arbery threw punches and grabbed at the shotgun.
The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery had been stealing from a nearby house under construction. But authorities later concluded he was unarmed and had committed no crimes. Arbery's family has long insisted he was merely out jogging.
Still, more than two months passed before any charges were filed in Arbery's death. The McMichaels and Bryan were arrested only after the graphic video of the shooting leaked online and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case from local police.
During the February hate crimes trial, prosecutors fortified their case that Arbery's killing was motivated by racism by showing the jury roughly two dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made disparaging comments about Black people. A woman testified to hearing an angry rant from Greg McMichael in 2015 in which he said: "All those Blacks are nothing but trouble."
Defense attorneys for the three men argued the McMichaels and Bryan didn't pursue Arbery because of his race but acted on an earnest — though erroneous — suspicion that Arbery had committed crimes in their neighborhood.
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BLACKFOOT — No E. coli bacteria has been found in testing results from samples collected Monday from Blackfoot’s water system and returned Tuesday afternoon, but a boil order remains in effect, according to a city news release.
The city said two out of eight of the samples still show total coliform, but no E. coli. Eight more samples were sent Tuesday to a testing lab, and the city expects those results back Wednesday afternoon, the release said.
Two days of negative results are needed to lift the boil advisory, the release said.
City crews will continue to flush water lines and inject chlorine into the city’s water system.
Blackfoot residents are reminded not to drink the water without boiling it first, bringing all water to a boil, letting it boil for one minute and letting it cool before using, or using bottled water. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and food preparation until further notice, the release said. Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
The release said it is not necessary to boil water for showers, clothes washing, etc., if there is no potential to consume the water.
Residents are being asked to update their phone number with Blackfoot’s city hall, 208-786-8600, in order to receive alerts from the city. The city is also sending out notices via reverse 911, the city’s website at www.cityofblackfoot.org, and the city’s Facebook page. Some of the alerts require citizens to sign up, the release said.
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- Held at KINTEX Exhibition Center 1 from Friday, March 31 to Sunday, April 9th
- Approximately 510,000 visitors during the 10-day event - 104% increase compared with 2021
- Participants included as many as 163 business entities and institutions from 12 countries worldwide including hardware, software, and service companies.
- Scope of participation expanded to the overall mobility industry including robotics and air mobility, with approximately 90 types of vehicles exhibited
- The 2nd Seoul Mobility Awards' Grand Prize presented to SOS Lab's "Solid State 3D Lidar"
GOYANG, South Korea, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Seoul Mobility Show 2023 closed on Sunday, April 9 after highlighting its evolution to a full-scale convergence exhibition with the theme of mobility. This event is the largest mobility industry exhibition in Korea and was held at KINTEX Exhibition Center 1 in Goyang from March 31st to April 9th.
As many as 163 companies and institutions from 12 countries around the world participated in three categories: hardware, software, and service. This was an increase of more than 60 percent compared with 2021.
"The Korean mobility industry still needs support, and so does the Seoul Mobility Show," said Kang, NamHoon, the chairman of the Seoul Mobility Show Organizing Committee and president of the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). He added, "As the convergence of the mobility industry is strengthened, related exhibitions are also expected to grow together. The next showcase will promote qualitative growth to become a convergent exhibition that will present the diversity of future mobility based on expansion in exhibiting technologies, items, and fields as well as in the number of participants."
- Beyond Vehicles to the Entire Mobility Industry
Exhibitors included Kia, Renault Korea Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, BMW, Genesis, Chabot Motors (INEOS), KG Mobility, Tesla, Porsche, and Hyundai Motor, displaying 90 products including eight World Premieres, four Asian Premieres, nine Korea Premieres, and ten concept cars.
Nine companies participated in the New Mobility portion of the show to present their technologies in the areas of robotics, UAM, and PAV. Among the nine business entities were GHOSTROBOTICSTECHNOLOGY, SK Telecom, and Vspace. The Organizing Committee prepared a unique exhibition hall for air mobility for the first time in collaboration with the Institute for Aerospace Industry-Academia Collaboration.
In addition, to promote the convergent exhibition, Hyundai Motor Company prepared a robotics showcase titled, "Mobility House", to display robots working on electric vehicle automatic charging, deliveries, and personal mobility, as well as to spotlight their (new) MobED and SPOT robots. Automakers also revealed their efforts to expand their technologies to the mobility field, including Tesla exhibiting a humanoid robot called "Teslabot."
- Contributing to the development of the mobility industry with a technology-centered mobility exhibition
Following 2021, the Seoul Mobility Show 2023 also had plenty of side events to spotlight technological innovation in the mobility industry.
First, the Seoul Mobility Awards expanded the field of participation to three categories: mobility-related hardware, software, and technology. This year, SOS Lab's "Fixed 3D LiDAR" won the Grand Prize while the First Place Prize in the Hardware category was for "a2z Robo Shuttle" by Autonomous A2G. The First Place Prize in the Mobility Software category was "ROOUTY" from WeMet Mobility. Bestella Lab's "Zero Cruising-Smart City and V2I Navigation System for Self-Driving Vehicles" was selected as the Grand Prize Winner in the Tech category.
During the exhibition, the Organizing Committee prepared various conferences and forums to share trends in the mobility industry centering on technology and to present future blueprints including "Display-Mobility Day" and "Future Aviation Mobility Conference", "Mobility Innovation, CES 2023", "ITS Business and Policy", and "Future Vision Seminar".
The Organizing Committee introduced the Metaverse platform through a dedicated application to view the exhibition in a 3D virtual space, running "e-mobility" and mobility test-drive events with automakers throughout the exhibition so that visitors could experience real mobility and not merely observing them.
The Seoul Mobility Show Organizing Committee hosted the Seoul Mobility Show 2023 and the sponsors included the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the City of Goyang. The Seoul Mobility Show is Korea's only international mobility show accredited by the International Association of Automobile Manufacturers (OICA).
*The Organizing Committee consists of Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA), and Korea Auto Industries Cooperation Association (KAICA).
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – It’s a decades long Masters tradition that when a former champion arrives at a green or tee, they are acknowledged.
“Yeah, we clap when they come up. Yeah, sure,” said Jim Schroeder.
“As a show of honor and respect?”
“Because they’re past champs, because they’re cool, yes,” said Schroeder.
But for this year’s Masters not everything is cool in the world of golf.
Six past Masters champions playing have joined the rival LIV golf tour, creating a deep rift among players.
So as these LIV champions approach, will the patrons provide a round of applause?
“100 percent,100 percent. They won this tournament. This tournament has nothing to do with LIV or the PGA tour. If you won this tournament, you deserve the respect of the patrons here,” said Mike Gass of New Jersey.
“There’s probably a few of them that I would out of respect for them, but there are some that I think have become kind of really jerkish in the whole thing, which would keep me from doing that,” said Bill Lance.
“I think the mere fact they’re playing here at the Masters indicates that they are worthy of the respect and etiquette that Bob Jones said all golfers and the spectators must give, so I think yes,” said Robert Bell from Washington D.C.
“They deserve it as well as anybody else. They are a past champions, they are great,” said Schroeder ,
Of course, we will find out later in the week if this tradition of applause lives up to all former champions.
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Last week's fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in general and chocolate making in particular.
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The powerful explosion at 75-year-old R.M. Palmer Co. — which makes chocolate eggs, bunnies, bars, coins and other treats — killed seven, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings in West Reading, a small town 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia, where it has long had a factory.
Local, state and federal investigations are ongoing. Pennsylvania State Police said “everything’s on the table,” as fire marshals try to pinpoint the origin and cause. Some workers told relatives they smelled natural gas before the blast, although the gas utility UGI said it received no reports of a gas leak.
A look at some of the hazards of food manufacturing and what may have been behind this fatal blast:
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THE RISKS
In general, commercial ovens and furnaces, commercial refrigerant using ammonia and combustible dust produced by ingredients like cocoa powder and corn starch are primary explosive hazards at food plants, according to Holly Burgess, technical lead for industrial and chemical safety at the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit group that produces hundreds of codes and standards.
“Most people, if you’ve not been in any sort of food manufacturing, you don’t understand what your hazards are and what you’re looking at,” Burgess said.
Chocolate companies and other food manufacturers must take steps to mitigate the risk of fire and explosion from dust. Smaller particles that stay aloft pose a greater danger than bigger particles that quickly fall to the floor.
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“It is a common concern at many food production facilities handling fine combustible particulates,” said Bob Zalosh, a retired professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a consultant on industrial fire and explosion hazard mitigation and investigations.
Food manufacturers are supposed to determine the combustibility of the dust, perform a hazard analysis and then take steps to manage it, adhering to the fire protection association’s standard for preventing dust explosions in food processing plants.
Common methods for controlling dust include dust collectors and industrial vacuum cleaners.
THE PALMER BLAST
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One possible explanation for the blast is an explosion of highly flammable powdered starch, which candy companies often use to cast chocolate into shapes such as Easter eggs, said Terry Wakefield, a business consultant and food scientist who used to run a manufacturing facility that supplied chocolate to R.M. Palmer.
The shock wave from an initial explosion could have jarred any dust accumulated on ceilings and other surfaces, he said. "And now you end up with a massive amount of starch, which combusts, and those explosion clouds move faster than sound and they have unbelievable force,” said Wakefield, who made his assessment after watching video of the explosion that was captured by a TV station's weather camera.
“A lot of people don’t realize that starch could do that sort of thing," he said.
Based on the kinds of candy Palmer makes, the company likely used the starch-casting method, according to Wakefield.
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Officials at the family-owned company have not responded to questions from The Associated Press.
Dust explosions have long been a problem in manufacturing. Between 1980 and 2017, nearly 400 combustible dust fires and explosions killed 185 people and injured more than 1,000 across multiple industries, including food, chemical, paper, pharmaceutical and metal processing, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.
In 2008, an accumulation of sugar dust ignited and blew up the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, killing 14.
WORKPLACE SAFETY RECORD
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At least two workplace accidents have happened at Palmer since 2018, according to federal records.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which regulates workplace safety, visited Palmer's West Reading plant in 2018, when an employee lost the tip of a finger while cleaning a pressurized valve. The company agreed to pay a $13,000 fine.
In 2019, OSHA investigated an accident at Palmer's plant in nearby Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, when a conveyor belt was turned on while a worker was cleaning a roller, according to federal records. The employee's arm was broken in multiple places. The company settled with OSHA for $26,000.
And in January, records show, OSHA levied a penalty of more than $12,000 after an inspection at the Wyomissing plant. Details of that case were not available.
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The online records did not say anything about combustible dust, or any other explosive hazard at Palmer.
LITIGATION FILED
A woman who lived next door to the plant filed suit Tuesday, alleging Palmer was negligent in failing to maintain its equipment and prevent the blast. Betty Wright was “lifted from her feet and blown across the room,” suffering injuries to her neck, back, hip and leg, the suit said. She also lost belongings.
A statement from Wright's lawyers at Morgan & Morgan said the firm has put together a “team of experts so we can understand what caused this catastrophic explosion."
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Additional lawsuits are expected.
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The 2024 Subaru Ascent three-row crossover SUV mostly carries over for the new year, except for an updated version of its EyeSight driver-assist system and a price increase of $300 across the six-trim lineup, Subaru disclosed Thursday.
The base Ascent with standard all-wheel drive costs $35,940, including a $1,295 destination fee, which is $70 more than last year, bringing the total year-over-year increase from the 2023 Subaru Ascent to $370.
The Ascent competes with the Hyundai Palisade, Kia Telluride, and other three-row family haulers.
A 260-hp 2.4-liter flat-4 powers every Ascent with a CVT that has stepped gears to mimic the shifts of an automatic transmission. It can tow 5,000 pounds. The Ascent seats eight passengers, though captain’s chairs for the second row are an option on all but the base grade.
Subaru’s calling card remains safety, and it’s improved upon this year with a wider field of view on the camera angles of its EyeSight driver-assist package. Automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, and adaptive LED headlights come standard, while most models get blind-spot monitors.
Standard convenience features include cloth seats, 18-inch alloy wheels, a satellite radio trial, at least two USB ports (USB-A and USB-C) and a vertically oriented 11.6-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility.
The $38,090 Premium model adds blind-spot monitors, a power driver seat, heated front seats and side mirrors, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
A $1,460 convenience package adds a power passenger seat, a power tailgate, keyless start, reverse automatic braking, and the choice of captain’s chairs instead of the mid-row bench to seat seven.
The Onyx returns with blacked-out elements that include 20-inch alloy wheels. Inside features water-repellant upholstery with green accent stitching. The $42,890 trim only comes with captain’s chairs in the second row, and it adds to the Premium grade a heated steering wheel, LED fog lights, and a panoramic sunroof.
The Limited comes in two variants, essentially, with seven- or eight-seat configurations at no extra cost. Limited brings the leather and the comfort, with power lumbar support and a thigh extender added to the driver seat, and heated rear outboard seats. It costs $43,190. A tech package brings the price to $46,740, and brings with it a surround-view camera system, navigation, Harman Kardon sound with 14 speakers, and a cargo cover.
An Onyx Limited model marries the black touches specific to the Onyx grade with the premium features of the Limited in its most loaded form. It seats seven, and costs $47,890.
The $49,790 Touring tops the lineup with all the stuff mentioned above but with chrome instead of black trim accents. Inside, a wood-pattern trim fronts the dash and perforated nappa leather backs the seats. Cooled front seats also come with the Touring.
Built in Lafayette, Indiana, the 2024 Subaru Ascent goes on sale this fall.
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Scaredy Cubits Genesis, a collection of 500 unique PFPs, was created in collaboration with 3D artist, Misoo, and will be a featured collection on Coinbase NFT.
SALT LAKE CITY and VANCOUVER, BC, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daz 3D and 3D artist, Misoo, have collaborated to release a collection of 500 unique PFP NFTs created during a difficult time for Misoo. Scaredy Cubits Genesis tells a story of hope among challenges, especially scary ones. The collection will drop as a featured collection in collaboration with Coinbase NFT on Friday, July 29, 2022, on the Ethereum blockchain.
Scaredy Cubits are a small but mighty (and fun) collective. They might be scared to bits about this new world they've found themselves in, but that won't stop them from facing their fears. These little guys know how to confront the things that intimidate them, and even laugh about them, and that's what they're here to share with all of us! Sometimes things get scary – especially when you're a little cubit – but each new fear is another opportunity for adventurous growth and something to smile about the next day.
From humans to orcs, elves, cyborgs, and more, you'll find the Cubits equally adorable and diverse. With over 180 accessories across 17 traits, Scaredy Cubits Genesis was handcrafted without any algorithmic assistance. That's rare in the PFP market.
Every Scaredy Cubit is unique, yet they all have one thing in common: they're scared to bits and not afraid to show it. They all share the same adorable, ironic, terrified expression!
When artist Misoo developed tinnitus, he found himself isolated and experiencing depression and anxiety. Through a lot of work, Misoo was able to overcome his difficulties and now lives more positively with his tinnitus. In response to overcoming a painful part of his life, Misoo created this collection of scared, yet strong, little characters who find hope in difficult situations. Daz 3D and Misoo want to inspire people through the story of Scaredy Cubits Genesis, showing them that they are not alone in difficult times, and that there is always hope.
Misoo's art has impressed me for a while, his sense of composition, detail, and overall presentation is among the best of our creators," said Ty Duperron, chief product officer of Daz 3D. When we put out a call to our creators for NFT artwork, he presented us with this project and we instantly fell in love. Everyone has been dealing with some mental fatigue or fears during the last few years and capturing that in these playful and fun – and hopeful – little characters felt really fitting. You can't help but smile when you look at them."
"I've been able use healing to inspire my art in this collection, and that really shines through with each of these Cubits," said Misoo. "Community is such a vital part of the NFT space, and the best communities support each other through real-life challenges, though they may only know each other in digital environments. Scaredy Cubits Genesis creates a space for holders to find they are not alone and that we will get through challenges together. The art is just the beginning, and the roadmap and message of this collection is going to give value to holders beyond the PFPs, and hopefully inspire them as this collection inspired me."
Find the Scaredy Cubits Genesis collection on Coinbase NFT dropping Friday, July 29, 2022. Learn more at the Scaredy Cubits Genesis website. And join the community on Twitter and Discord.
About Daz3D
Daz 3D is a leader in NFT strategy, marketing & full-stack development, including generative PFP collections. The company has worked with iconic brands like Warner Brothers, Champion, Coca-Cola, Louis Moinet, and others to create cross-chain NFT collections and wearables for the metaverse. In 2021, it partnered with RTFKT (now Nike) to bring 3D utility to CloneX, and Daz dropped Non-Fungible People, the first of several PFP projects for Daz in 2022.
Daz 3D offers proprietary avatar technology and its free-to-use 3D modeling software, Daz Studio, which has been used by millions of people worldwide. This powerful combination allows artists to create high-resolution stills and animations in 3D scenes and its digital marketplace showcases tens of thousands of products with more than 5 million cross-compatible 3D assets.
Website: Daz3D.com
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Woman devastated after lost dog euthanized without her knowledge
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR/Gray News) - An Illinois woman is sharing the story of how her lost dog was euthanized in hopes of preventing others from experiencing the same pain. She says her death was avoidable.
When Margaret Kolosa’s 10-year-old Boston terrier, Peanut, escaped from her yard April 4, the first place she thought to look was the local animal shelter. She immediately called Winnebago County Animal Services, and an officer said she could pick up Peanut the next day.
But Kolosa says when her mother went to pick Peanut up, the dog was not at the animal shelter, WIFR reports.
“When my mom went to go pick her up the next day at 11, she was told that Peanut was not there. Then, they told her she was at the animal emergency hospital,” Kolosa said. “My mom went to the animal emergency hospital. They said she was not there.”
Animal services administrator Brett Frazier says his office took Peanut to the Animal Emergency Clinic because of a tumor on her abdomen.
“This was a pretty bad situation, based on the information that they had, and they thought euthanasia would be the route to go,” Frazier said.
Kolosa says she was not contacted ahead of the procedure.
“They did not tell me that she was going to be euthanized,” Kolosa said.
Frazier says employees tried to contact Kolosa, but the phone number registered on the microchip was one digit off, a data entry error. He also admits the staff member who took Peanut to the hospital didn’t update the system.
“Where we did screw up is when we didn’t change that location right away at 2 p.m.,” Frazier said. “When that wasn’t changed until after 5:30, that prevented the officer who spoke to the owner from knowing where the dog was.”
Kolosa reminds pet owners to double check all medical documents. While she appreciates the shelter taking accountability, she says it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
“What I’d like to say to the shelter is ‘do better,’” Kolosa said.
Animal services covered the full cost of Peanut’s cremation.
Illinois law requires owners to be notified within 24 hours if their pet is caught. Animal control must give a week’s notice before the pet is euthanized. Frazier says Peanut’s medical condition negated the week requirement.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — was awarded Thursday to community activists and organizations working on three continents, including a Ukrainian civil rights activist.
Oleksandra Matviichuk and the Center for Civil Liberties that she heads were honored “for building sustainable democratic institutions in Ukraine and modeling a path to international accountability for war crimes.”
In a statement released by the award committee, Matviichuk said that “now we are going through a very dramatic time of Ukrainian history ... this award is a gesture of support for our struggle in general, and for my work, in particular.”
Somalia human rights activists Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, who lead community-based peacebuilding initiatives and provide support to marginalized groups, were cited “for promoting peace, demilitarization and human rights in Somalia in the face of terrorism and gender-based violence.”
Two organizations were also honored.
Cecosesola, a Venezuelan association of cooperatives, was cited “for establishing an equitable and cooperative economic model as a robust alternative to profit-driven economies.”
The Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) won “for their courageous work for climate justice and community rights violated by extractivist energy projects in Uganda.”
Dickens Kamugisha, the CEO of AFIEGO, said it was not only the cash prize that made the award valuable to the organization. "When the government knows that there are people around the world who appreciate our work, they think twice about attacking us or our communities.”
Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honors efforts that the prize founder, Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, felt were being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.
Each winner will get 1 million kronor ($88,300) cash. The laureates will receive the awards during a ceremony on Nov. 30 in Stockholm.
In 2022, 175 nominees from 77 countries were considered, the Right Livelihood said.
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Ocean City Named Best Place to Live in New Jersey
If you think it would be great to live in Ocean City, New Jersey, you are not alone!
A website, StudyFinds.org did a story and found that Ocean City is one of the "Best Places to Live" in New Jersey.
What do you like best about Ocean City - is it the boardwalk, the beach, or the ocean?
The website actually came up with the 5 best places to live in New Jersey: Princeton, Jersey City, Ridgewood, Ocean City, and Newark. The site states that "Thanks to its many safe cities and towns, New Jersey is a great place to raise a family."
About Ocean City in particular, StudyFinds says it's a great place to get away from busy cities and enjoy "the slower pace of a cozy beach town."
The website goes on to say that part of Ocean City's lure is that it's a family town with a pleasant climate and many outside activities. Also mentioned was the fact that Ocean City is "dry", meaning you can't buy alcohol in stores or restaurants.
Really, the website tells us what we already know" Locals and vacations alike are drawn to Ocean City because it truly is a "Best Place to LIve" - even if it's just one week at a time!
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Awalé Resources Limited ("Awalé" or the "Company") (TSXV: ARIC) is pleased to provide the following update on ongoing exploration activities at the Odienné gold-copper earn-in Joint Venture ("JV") project in Cote D'Ivoire.
The Odienné project is subject to an earn-in joint venture agreement with Newmont Ventures Limited ("Newmont")(see Company News Release dated May 31, 2022), through which Newmont retains the option to earn-in to a 65% interest, from Awalé, in the project in return for sole funding USD 15M of the JV exploration program at Odienné. Awalé is the project manager for the first 3-year phase.
The JV is now fully operational, and the Company is pleased to report on recent progress and continuing development of a robust target pipeline at the Odienné project.
Recent work at Odienné has focused on advancing the Sceptre and Charger gold-copper prospects toward an expected scout drill program in Q4, 2022 (Figures 1 and 2). Recent pitting and geological mapping have confirmed the high order geochemical anomalism at Sceptre (Figures 3 and 4). Mapping at the Charger target revealed new artisanal pits containing blind gossan outcrops just 100m from previously reported drill intercepts Further prioritization of target areas at both Sceptre and Charger will be undertaken in Q3, 2022, utilizing ground geophysical surveys readying for initial drilling.
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Sceptre East Target – a 2.2 km long Iron Oxide Copper Gold IOCG ("Cu/Au") Target:
- 9 pits spaced across the core of the Cu-Au anomaly (covering c.1km, see figure 3) were completed. All pits reached saprolite exhibiting both high strain fracturing and alteration associated with mineralization.
- The program has confirmed high order Copper/Molybdenum ("Cu/Mo") surface geochemistry (figures 3 and 4)
- Handheld Innov-X portable X-Ray Fluorescence* ("pXRF") analysis of 9 composite pit floor samples from each pit from this program are consistently high order with up to 0.44% Cu in Pit OEPT-13.
- Gold analysis for all pit samples is pending and expected in 3 to 4 weeks, multielement ICP analysis is expected in 6 to 8 weeks. Pit floor composite sample pXRF Cu/Mo values are shown in Table 1 below.
Sceptre Main Target – a 1km long Au/Cu polymetallic vein target
- Mapping at Sceptre Main has revealed several polymetallic veins (figure 5) returning selective rock chip results*;
- Results are pending for Infill soil geochemistry at this prospect and expected in 3 to 4 weeks (491 Samples, figure 3).
Charger Target - a 800m long Au/Cu/Ag IOCG target (Figure 6):
- High order pXRF results from a gossan found in new artisanal mining zone some 100m west by southwest of original high order drill intercepts.
- This new development opens new mineralization orientations for the Charger target.
- These results complement the previously reported results from reverse circulation ("RC") hole OERC-89 (news release dated July 22 2021). The results shown below are from subsequent ICP multielement analysis at Intertek Australia and both confirm and enhance the previously reported pXRF results.
OERC-89:- Inc. 3m @ 9g/t Au from 30m
- Inc. 3m @ 89.6g/t Ag from 30m
- Inc. 2m @ 0.54% Cu from 30m
- Inc. 2m @ 0.29% Pb from 30m
Company CEO Glen Parsons commented today:
"We are excited that the JV at Odienné is now in full swing and our exploration work on the ground continues to deliver exciting results. Pitting at Sceptre East has revealed in situ brecciated mineralisation and high strain confirming the previously reported Geochem anomalies. We eagerly await the gold analysis from this work which we think will complement the copper results reported in this release. Discovery of gossan at Charger reinvigorates the prospectivity and priority of this target and the potential of alternate orientations to the mineralisation drilled in the 2021 field season.
This continued work is integral to developing scout drilling programs and we look forward to working with Newmont on rapidly progressing Sceptre and Charger through IP geophysics and drilling in the remainder of 2022. At the same time, we are advancing a target pipeline for the project area, which continues to build excitement around the greater potential of the Odienné project and the potential of the Odienné West application.
Along with the advancement of these 2 targets the company has also collected some 1934 soil samples and 771 termitaria samples on the new Lando target and BBM trend to the North and Northeast of the permit, which we will be reporting on in the coming weeks. Mapped geology at the Lando target is particularly encouraging with artisanal mining presence associated with iron rich quartz breccias. The BBM trend is >10km long and is targeting an interpreted belt basin margin in the NE of the Odienné Permit"
The Sceptre and Charger Prospects
The >5km long Sceptre IOCG prospect is now defined as 3 distinct geological target areas from a western Au dominated prospect through central polymetallic vein targets at Sceptre Main (Au/Cu/Zn/Pb) to the high deformation fracture zones and shears at Sceptre East (Cu/Au/Ag/Mo, figure 3).
Based on the regional geological setting of Odienné, the soil/termitaria data from the Sceptre prospect. and the initial drill results and newly found gossan from the adjacent Charger prospect the Company interprets the geological setting of the Odienné district to be comparable to that of other significant IOCG provinces globally. IOCG deposits are significant contributors to global copper and gold inventories, and the Company considers the Odienné project to contain significant potential for the discovery of the first major IOCG style known in west Africa.
Planned exploration for the remainder of the 2nd half of 2022 will include ground geophysics – consisting of targeted IP surveys (gradient array and pole dipole sections) at both Charger and Sceptre this will be accompanied by targeted pitting and/or trenching. These surveys will commence as soon as the monsoon season abates in late September 2022. If warranted these surveys will be followed with scout drilling in Q4. All pitting samples have been submitted for Gold and multielement analysis.
Soil samples collected for the Lando have been shipped to InnovX laboratories for 52-element ICP analysis (sampling complete). At the BBM prospect collection of soil and Termitaria samples is ongoing. Results expected in c. 2 months. However, in the interim all samples are being analyzed by pXRF and will be reported in the ensuing weeks.
*Notes:
- A Handheld InnovX Delta pXRF was used for some analysis reported here. pXRF analysis is considered indicative of metal grades. All samples reported here were sieved to -80 mesh before analysis.
- Rock chip or selective grab samples rock chip sampling is not necessarily representative of mineralization at the target it does indicate presence of Au/Cu/Ag mineralization at Sceptre Main.
Precambrian IOCG provinces globally (e.g., Olympic Dam- Gawler Craton, Australia and Carajás - Amazonian Craton, Brazil) are important sources of copper and gold, and are characterized by their association with iron-oxides such as hematite and magnetite. These IOCG deposits formed during brief episodes of extension that postdated accretion of Paleoproterozoic terranes onto an Archean craton nucleus (Hayward and Skirrow 2010, Porter 2010) depict the crustal setting of both the provinces and Figure 6 includes Odienné location and as a comparison.
These periods of extension and mineralization in the Gawler craton were characterized by bimodal volcanism and plutonism characterized by the Gawler range volcanics and the Hiltaba Suite plutons. The Olympic dam province hosts Carapateena (950Mt at 0.57% Cu, 0.25g/t Au, 2.7 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Resources and Reserves statement June 2020) and Prominent Hill (150 Mt at 0.9% Cu, 0.75 g/t Au and 2.5 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Resources and Reserves statement June 2021) along with the giant Olympic Dam deposit (10.1 Gt @ 0.61% Cu, 0.27 g/t Au, 1.0 g/t Ag, 0.21 kg/tonne U3O8– BHP Annual report 2021) – Olympic Dam has a current projected mine life of some 40 years and has been operating since 1988*. All Resources stated above are a 'Total Resource' including Measured, indicated and Inferred Resources.
The Carajás IOCG province is developed on the NE margins of Southern Amazonian Craton, although older than the Gawler has a similar setting is similar with accreted terranes, bimodal volcanism and plutonism and similar age to the Leo-Man Craton in west Africa. The deposits are located within the east-southeast trending 150 km long Itacaiúnas Shear Belt, which cuts obliquely across the bimodal, but mainly mafic to intermediate volcanism which overlies the Mesoarchaean granitoid nucleus of the Amazonian craton (Porter 2010). Combined, all the Carajás deposit have been estimated to contain combined resources of >8 Gt @ 0.9 wt.% Cu and 0.2 g/t Au (Xavier et al., 2010)*.
Awalé has now adopted an IOCG model as the setting of the Odienné Project which consists of a suite of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of basaltic to felsic composition that are synchronous or intruded by a series of late plutons. The Odienné Project sits on the margins of an interpreted deep seated major crustal structure where Paleoproterozoic rocks have accreted on to an Archean nucleus (Man Craton) that extends from Côte d'Ivoire westward into Guinea for over 200km. Recent studies show that a large igneous intrusive province has formed along this paleosuture zone, and this province extends through Odienné.
The similarities in Odienné crustal setting to the Major Olympic Dam and Carajás IOCG provinces in Australia and Brazil are convincing. The Sceptre and Sceptre East and Charger Prospects are associated with a sequence of late bimodal intrusions likely coeval undeformed bimodal volcanic rocks along with hematite breccia within magnetite altered diorite at the Charger prospect. When paired with the Cu Au and Silver (Ag) mineralization and polymetallic zonation containing pathfinder elements typically associated with IOCG systems (including bismuth, silver, molybdenum, and tungsten) all provides compelling evidence for the comparison to the major global IOCG provinces.
*References made to mines and analogous deposits provide context to the prospectivity for the Odienné Project but are not indicative that the Odienné Project host similar tonnages or grades of mineralization.
BHP Annual Report 2021, section 4.6 Resources and reserved pp 245, https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/investors/annual-reports/2021/210914_bhpannualreport2021.pdf?sc_lang=en&hash=15F0B58BC27ADFA860F0BE29B61E199D
OZ Minerals Ltd, Mineral Resource and Reserve Statement and Explanatory notes, Prominent Hill, 30 June 2021. https://www.ozminerals.com/ArticleDocuments/362/20211116-2021ProminentHillMineralsResourceAndOreReserveStatement-ASXRelease.pdf.aspx?Embed=Y
OZ Minerals Ltd, Mineral Resource and Reserve Statement and Explanatory notes, Carapateeena, 30 June 2020. https://www.ozminerals.com/ArticleDocuments/364/201116_ASX_Release_OZL_Carrapateena_MROR_Final.pdf.aspx?Embed=Y
Porter, T.M., 2010 - Current Understanding of Iron Oxide Associated-Alkali Altered Mineralised Systems: Part II, A Review; in Porter, T.M., (ed.), Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, v. 3 - Advances in the Understanding of IOCG Deposits; PGC Publishing, Adelaide, pp 33-106.
Xavier, R.P., Monteiro, L.V.S., Souza Filho, C.R., Torresi, I., Carvalho, E.R., Dreher, A.M., Wiedenbeck, M., Trumbull, R.B., Pestilho, A.L.S. and Moreto, C.P.N., 2010 - The Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits of the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: an Updated and Critical Review; in Porter, T.M., (ed.), Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, v. 3 - Advances in the Understanding of IOCG Deposits; PGC Publishing, Adelaide, pp. 285-306.
Analytical work for auger/soil and termitaria geochemical samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Australia Ltd. an ISO 17025 (2017) Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their laboratory in Tarkwa, Ghana for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Australia where 10-gram split is analysed by ICP/MS with an Aqua Regia digest. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Analytical work for drill samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Ghana Ltd. an ISO 17025 Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their preparation laboratory in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Ghana where a 50g charge is Fire Assayed with an AAS finish. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Any ICP analysis on drill cores are conducted in the same manner as the geochemistry samples reported above.
The technical and scientific information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved for release by Andrew Chubb, the Company's Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr Chubb is the Company's Chief Operating Officer and holds an Economic Geology degree, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and is a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Mr Chubb has more than 18 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project evaluation.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED.
"Glen Parsons"
Glen Parsons, President and CEO
For additional information you are invited to visit the Awalé Resources Limited website at www.awaleresources.com, or contact: Karen Davies, Head of Investor Relations at Tel: 604.314.6270
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by such information. The statements in this news release are made as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information except as required by applicable law.
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled.
Although almost every state recognizes Juneteenth in some fashion, many have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution, even as some continue to commemorate the Confederacy.
Lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and other states failed to advance proposals this year that would have closed state offices and given most of their public employees paid time off for the June 19 holiday.
That trend infuriates Black leaders and community organizers who view making Juneteenth a paid holiday the bare minimum state officials can do to help honor an often overlooked and ignored piece of American history.
“Juneteenth marks the date of major significance in American history. It represents the ways in which freedom for Black people have been delayed,” said Democratic Rep. Anthony Nolan, who is Black, while arguing in favor of making Juneteenth a paid holiday in Connecticut on the House floor. “And if we delay this, it’s a smack in the face to Black folks.”
Juneteenth commemorates when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states.
Last year, Congress and President Joe Biden moved swiftly to make Juneteenth a national holiday. It was the first time the federal government had designated a new national holiday since approving Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Yet the move didn’t result in an automatic adoption from most states.
In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey issued another proclamation marking Juneteenth a state holiday earlier this week after state lawmakers refused to take action on a bill during their legislative session even after she voiced strong support for making it a permanent holiday back in 2021. The state closes down for Confederate Memorial Days in April.
Similarly, Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon issued a statement last June saying he would work with lawmakers to make it a state holiday but no legislation was filed during the 2022 session.
In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Lee quietly tucked enough funding — roughly $700,000 — to make Juneteenth a state paid holiday in his initial spending plan for the upcoming year.
Despite the bill gaining traction in the state Senate, GOP legislative leaders maintained there wasn’t enough support for the idea even as Tennessee law currently designates special observances for Robert E. Lee Day, Confederate Decoration Day and Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.
“I asked many people in my district over the last few days, well over 100 people, if they knew what Juneteenth was and only two of them knew,” said Republican Sen. Joey Hensley, who is white and voted against the proposal. “I just think we’re putting the cart before the horse making a holiday that people don’t know about.”
In South Carolina, instead of working to approve Juneteenth as a holiday, Senate lawmakers unanimously advanced a bill that would allow state employees to choose any day they want to take off instead of the Confederate Memorial Day currently enshrined as a paid holiday in state law. However, the House sent the bill to a committee where it died without a hearing when the Legislature adjourned for the session.
At the same time, many of these Republican-led areas have advanced bills limiting what can be taught about systematic racism in classrooms, while also spiking proposals aimed at expanding voting rights and police reform.
This year, nearly 20 states are expected to close state offices and give most of their public employees time off. At least six states officially adopted the holiday over the past few months, including Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, South Dakota, Utah and Washington. A bill introduced in California passed the Assembly and moved to the Senate this month, and individual cities such as Los Angeles have already signed proclamations making Juneteenth official.
“Becoming a state holiday will not merely give employees a day off, it will also give residents a day to think about the future that we want, while remembering the inequities of the past,” said Democratic Del. Andrea Harrison, who sponsored the Juneteenth legislation in Maryland this year. “It will help us to reflect how far we’ve come as a nation, how much more we need to do as humankind.”
Attempts to give Juneteenth the same deference as Memorial Day or July Fourth didn’t begin to gain traction until 2020, when protests sparked a nationwide push to address race after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the deaths of other Black people by police officers.
“George Floyd protests against police brutality brought awareness to Juneteenth because there were people of all races learning about its significance for the first time following a public push to self-educate and learn more about Black history, culture and injustices,” said Tremaine Jasper, a resident and business owner in Phoenix who has attended Juneteenth celebrations across Arizona with his family.
Some cities in Arizona, including Phoenix, have declared Juneteenth an official holiday, paying city employees and closing municipal buildings. However, lawmakers are not currently considering statewide recognition.
“There are so many other important issues that we need to tackle — education, political issues, reparations — before we prioritize making Juneteenth a statewide holiday,” Jasper said, noting that those looking to celebrate know where to go.
Jasper, who was born and raised in Arizona, said it is going to be an “uphill battle” to get the state to recognize Juneteenth because there is not a large enough Black population outside of its largest cities to make the push.
Arizona was also slow in recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, not doing so until 1992. It was one of the last states to officially recognize the civil rights leader.
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As our economy enters a recession, Democrats in Washington have chosen to use the last remaining months of the congressional term to impose new taxes on the American people. Their $739 billion tax-and-spend bill, dishonestly titled the “Inflation Reduction Act,” has now passed both the House and Senate without a single Republican vote.
As a result, job creators are now bracing for higher taxes and an economic slump with no end in sight.
It is stunning that Democrats approved this tax increase days after poor economic news had come to light. Last week, the Labor Department reported jobless claims had reached their highest level all year.
The department also reported July inflation at 8.5 percent – only a meager drop from June’s dangerously high rate of 9.1 percent. Grocery prices rose by 13.1 percent in July and electricity costs soared by 15.2 percent, the largest increase since 2006.
Meanwhile, workers took home three percent less in real weekly earnings as the dollar continued to lose value. This new round of taxes and spending will likely make inflation even worse and is the opposite of what working Americans need.
Small Businesses Brace for Impact
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, employing nearly half of the American workforce. Many of these small businesses did not survive the pandemic, and those that did are now treading water amid high inflation and a chronic worker shortage.
The Democrats’ bill completely ignores these challenges. Under their legislation, small businesses that file as individuals will now have to shoulder an additional $50 billion in tax burden. They will also be much more likely to face audits from the IRS, which will now be hiring an army of 87,000 new agents.
Because of this bill, Main Street businesses can expect more IRS harassment and higher compliance costs, making it that much harder to keep the doors open.
Another Step Toward Socialized Medicine
In addition to hurting our economy, this bill will likely undermine medical innovation, resulting in fewer life-saving drugs for American patients. The bill puts in place government price controls for prescription drugs, making it more risky and costly for drug developers to come up with new treatments and cures.
Democrats who voted for this change want to make our system more like Europe, where socialized medicine has made many drugs “cheaper” but far less available. Between 2011 and 2018, for example, patients in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands had access to just 66 percent of new cancer drugs while Americans had access to 96 percent.
With this step toward socialized medicine, we can expect fewer drugs to be developed and made available to seniors through Medicare.
Democrats Neglect Urgent Priorities
While Democrats were advancing this legislation, Republicans offered dozens of amendments to address the actual concerns of the American people. These included measures to lower energy prices by promoting U.S. energy production, including through the sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
We also sought to address the crisis on our southern border by hiring more border agents and extending the President’s deportation authority. In addition, we proposed measures to stop abortion providers from receiving special tax breaks and to prohibit the IRS from targeting religious nonprofits.
Unfortunately, Senate Democrats blocked each of these amendments, revealing how out of step they are with the American people. With each passing month, Americans are losing patience with single-party rule in Washington that ignores their priorities.
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BOISE, Idaho — So far more spring chinook salmon have made it to the Bonneville Dam than the ten-year average creating a promising outlook for the season in Idaho.
While the numbers are much lower than past decades, 51,480 fish have made it to first dam on the Columbia River and that is the most since 2016.
"Salmon are a lot of fun to catch," said Chris Sullivan of the Idaho Fish and Game. "They are big fish, they are in a powerful river and it really makes for some exciting times it."
The spring chinook season is also a really important time for fishing communities like Riggins who rely on tourism, we asked Sullivan what changed to make the numbers higher than normal.
"The conditions out in the ocean have really changed over the last five or six years," said Sullivan. "We had a period where there was a lot of warm water creating unfavorable conditions for our smolts and that is what contributed to low returns from 2017 to 2021."
The salmon have experienced a delay on their journey back to Idaho that includes eight dams four on the Columbia and four on the Snake River.
The count at Ice Harbor Dam the first on the Snake River is at 3,538 fish, but only 876 have made it to Lower Monumental Dam because of a mechanical problem at the spill gates that the Army Corps of Engineers is working to resolve.
Idaho Fish and Game and the Nez Perce Tribe will push for reduced spill levels if the problem persists, but once the salmon make it to Lower Granite Dam, the final dam on their journey back to Idaho to spawn that is when anglers need to start gearing up.
"It’s really exciting for anglers in Idaho," said Sullivan. "We are hopefully going to have one of our better chinook seasons that we have seen in the last six or seven years."
After the salmon pass Lower Granite Dam it will take them a few days to reach the Clearwater, another week to reach the Lower Salmon and another week after that to reach the Rapid River just south of Riggins.
Idaho Fish and Game has set the bag limits at one fish on the Clearwater and Snake Rivers near Lewiston and a bag limit of two on the Lower Salmon and Rapid River, those numbers could change depending on how the journey goes for these fish but that is a higher bag limit than years past.
The Idaho Fish and Game Department works to keep anglers up to date and their website is an outstanding resource to plan a trip and catch a fish.
"We have all of our season and rules information that’s updated based on the changes that occur in season," said Sullivan. "We also have our regional managers and our staff producing blogs during the season to give anglers updates on where the fishing is getting good."
The season has technically started but there are no reports of any anglers harvesting a fish as they have to wait for the salmon to return to Idaho.
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NPR News What's next, now that the IRS has a new commissioner and a new budget By Megan Lim, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Sacha Pfeiffer Published May 4, 2023 at 3:07 PM MDT Facebook Email Print Listen • 6:22 Danny Werfel is in place as the new IRS commissioner with a new budget courtesy of the Inflation Reduction Act. How's he going to spend it? Copyright 2023 NPR
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Dr. Dre to receive first Hip-Hop Icon Award from music industry group ASCAP
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre will need to make room in his trophy case for another prestigious award.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said on Tuesday that Dr. Dre will receive the first-ever ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award. He’ll be honored at the organization’s Rhythm & Soul Music Awards on Thursday in Los Angeles.
“Dr. Dre’s groundbreaking early work laid a foundation for hip-hop as we know it today,” Paul Williams, chairman of the board and president at ASCAP. “As a champion for some of today’s biggest artists and a successful entrepreneur, he changed the culture around hip-hop.”
The honor Dre is receiving will be presented to ASCAP members whose musical contributions have made an “indelible impact” on the art and culture of hip-hop.
DJ Kid Capri and DJ Drama will provide music for Thursday’s event, which will celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.
Dre, a seven-time Grammy winner, has produced big hits for Jay-Z, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Nas and 50 Cent. He won his first Emmy for last year’s Super Bowl halftime performance with Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Lamar and 50 Cent.
The prolific producer emerged from the West Coast gangster rap scene alongside Eazy-E and Ice Cube as part of the group N.W.A., which made a major mark in the hip-hop culture and music industry with controversial lyrics in the late 1980s.
Earlier this year, Dr. Dre celebrated the 30th anniversary of “The Chronic” with a re-release of his highly acclaimed debut studio album. In 2010, he was honored with the ASCAP’s Founders Award.
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On Thursday, April 20, women from SaddleBrooke One Unit Four enjoyed a beautiful luncheon (on a beautiful day) at Life Under the Oaks Lavender Farm in Oracle. Farmer John greeted us as we gathered on the porch of the farm’s new gift shop. He led us on an informative tour of the farm, pointing out various native plants and trees that complement the large, tidy field of lavender plants that typically bloom from Memorial Weekend through July.
Following the tour, we meandered over the bridge to several picnic tables in the shade of huge oak trees. Here, we found a delicious buffet of lavender-infused foods and beverages. The weather was ideal for great conversations and lots of laughter! Joyce Savage was the lucky winner of the 50/50 raffle.
Farm staff distributed lavender sachet keepsakes to all participants, and we had plenty of time to browse the gift shop before heading home.
Unit Four organizes three Ladies Luncheons each year, plus a variety of activities to help neighbors meet and build lasting relationships.
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What are some good games to play outside?
A sunny day brings the desire to leave the confines of home and head for the outdoors, whether you head to a park, the beach or your backyard. Before you go, consider broadening your gaming palate further than football and flying discs. There’s nothing wrong with these activities, but here are some other suggestions to keep you busy having fun and enjoying the outdoors for hours.
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Connect 4
In this strategy game, two players take turns inserting alternately colored coins into the frame. To win, a player must get four coins in a row either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The game is ultra-simple yet enjoyable. There’s nothing like a giant game of Connect 4 to bring out your inner child. It’s not farfetched to find this classic game on outdoor patios of sports bars. It’s also easy to set up in your front yard, backyard or to take it with you to your nearest park.
Jenga
This classic tabletop game adapted for the outdoors challenges you and your friends’ ability to concentrate. In it, you pull rectangular wooden pieces stacked in threes on top of each other and place them on top of the column. You don’t want to be the person who tips it over. If you do, you hear a collective “Jenga” as you wallow in your defeat.
Dominoes
Who says you have to sit at a table to play dominoes? Move your next fierce game over to the lawn, and bust out these 7-inchers. It’s still the same strategy as the tabletop version, but it requires more movement.
Horseshoe toss
A quintessential game that makes you reminisce about county fairs. This all-rubber horseshoe set is perfect for any backyard party. The set comes with two stakes, or you can set up the flat-bottom poles in the absence of grass or sand.
Ring toss
The cousin of the horseshoe toss is a proven favorite. This classic game’s giant version comes with a convenient carrying case and easy to set up anywhere. Players divide into two teams and take turns tossing the rubberized rings on the dowels. One set of dowels is worth one point and the other set is worth three. The first team to get to 15 points wins.
Bocce ball
Bocce ball is the go-to game for a family gathering or picnic and is ideal for the park or the lawn. Simply break out into two teams, and roll the four bocce balls towards the jack without displacing it.
Cornhole toss
Set up the sturdy cornhole boards and get to tossing the eight all-weather regulation bean bags. Few games are as popular and versatile for any occasion, from tailgates to cookouts to backyard parties. Choose from plastic, wooden or fabric materials and various designs to show your style.
Best outdoor games for adults
Yard Games Giant 4 Connect in a Row
This two-and-half foot-tall game is easy to set up outdoors. It has a giant wooden board measuring 31 by 23 inches and features premium wood and a natural finish. The 42 solid plastic coins, 21 each in red and blue, are kept in a durable nylon case.
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Giantville Giant Tumbling Timber Toy
Each of the blocks comprises 100% pine wood and measures 6.4 by 2.1 by 1.2 inches. The blocks have numbers to let players customize the game to their own rules and it comes with a carrying case..
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Champion Sports Indoor/Outdoor Horseshoe Set
The rubber and lightweight horseshoes are much easier to throw and aim than the metal horseshoes. The four horseshoes come in bright colors, and the two rubber mats with bright yellow center pegs are sturdy and easy to see for players.
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Yard Games Ring Toss Game Premium Set
Using the six soft-touch tossing rings in blue and red, players attempt to toss each at the targets and rack up more points than the other team. The rings are usable for playing catch after the game. The set comes with a durable carrying case for portability and easy setup and dismantling.
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Trademark Games Bocce Ball Set
These bocce balls use poly-resin material to ensure durability over their lifespan and are ready for play on grass, dirt or sand. The set comes with four green and four red balls with two different scoring patterns.
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Choose between designs such as the American flag, football, and wood for your boards. The set includes eight bean bags, four red and four blue, and a travel case.
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Everrati may have only been founded in 2019, but the electric-vehicle conversion company has already expanded out of its native U.K. to the U.S. and Europe.
Demand has also soared to the point that the wait time for some conversions has stretched to a year.
Everrati offers a diverse array of conversions, ranging from classic Land Rovers to the 964-generation Porsche 911 and even the Ford GT40 (replicas only, thankfully). The most popular is the 911 conversion, with the builds handled in both the U.K. and U.S. In the U.S., the conversion is handled by local partner Aria Group which is based in Irvine, California.
According to Everrati, many of its customers fall in the Millennial and Gen-Z camps. They have a desire for cars from the 1980s and ’90s, but with electric power, the company said.
“Our cars are really capturing the imagination of sustainability-conscious automotive enthusiasts, who are flocking to Everrati to experience the next generation of iconic car ownership,” Justin Lunny, Everrati’s CEO and founder, said in a statement.
The price for one of the conversions isn’t cheap. The 911 conversion starts at 250,000 British pounds (approximately $276,550). However, Everrati is offering much more than a powertrain swap. Everrati custom designs its electric powertrains for each model in its portfolio, with components positioned in such a way to best maintain the car’s original driving experience.
For example, the GT40 conversion features a gear shifter that in Race mode enables the driver to select “virtual” gears, where each shift is synchronized to sound generators and torque delivery to give the effect of actual gears being shifted. There’s even a momentary pause in power deliver to simulate the feel of the driver lifting off the pedal.
On top of this, Race mode also activates sound generators that deliver 110 db of simulated V-8 exhaust sound. The seats even feature transducers so that you also feel the sound.
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Tennessee woman is first Black female puppeteer on ‘Sesame Street’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Although the beloved children’s show “Sesame Street” has been on the air since 1969, it wasn’t until 2020 that the program had its first Black female puppeteer.
Megan Piphus, from Nashville, told WSMV she was 10 years old when she was first introduced to puppetry and ventriloquism by a woman at her church.
“I remember that experience so vividly of making children laugh and smile and also learning something,” she said. “That became my passion. I really found it as a way for me to open up and to express myself in a different way.”
Piphus appeared on national television throughout the years, showcasing her ventriloquism skills.
In March 2020, Piphus got a call from “Sesame Street” offering for her to learn their style of puppeteering.
“I absolutely never made ‘Sesame Street’ a goal because it is the pinnacle of the art of puppetry,” Piphus said.
Piphus’s character on the show is a 6-year-old Black girl named Gabrielle. She said Gabrielle came at a time when racial injustice was in the headlines.
She said “Sesame Street” is able to respond to national events by breaking down complicated and sensitive topics so that children can understand.
“We had the opportunity to respond to the George Floyd civil rights protest. That was my very first project,” Piphus said.
Viewers have reportedly had a positive response to the addition of the Gabrielle character and Piphus’ work on the show.
“A woman posted a picture of her daughter next to Gabrielle. Her daughter was 6 years old and her name was Gabrielle and she had two puffs, just like Gabrielle,” Piphus said. “She just mentioned how joyous it made her daughter and feel special to see someone like her.”
Alongside her puppeteering, Piphus is a wife and mother of two young boys who she hopes she’s inspiring with her unique and historic career.
“I dream of making it work because I don’t want to just tell my boys to dream big, I want to show them how,” she said.
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(Green Car Reports) — Tesla is being sued by customers who claim the automaker has unlawfully monopolized replacement parts and repair services.
Two class action lawsuits (via Transport Topics) were filed Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco on behalf of two California residents who own Model S EVs. The plaintiffs allege that Tesla has violated antitrust laws by limiting competition by forcing owners to use company-approved service centers, and to source spare parts from Tesla.
Modern cars in general are more difficult for independent repair shops to work on due to the need to access vehicle data and proprietary software, but Tesla also exercises more control over the mechanical as well as digital aspects of car repair.
Tesla sells cars directly to customers without franchised dealerships, which means the company also operates its own network of service centers. Tesla has also been known to keep tight control of parts supplies, forcing independent shops to keep older cars on the road without factory support.
Other startup automakers, including Lucid and Rivian, have also eschewed franchised dealerships, but they have a much smaller population of vehicles on the road right now than Tesla.
These policies have caused Tesla owners “to suffer lengthy delays in repairing and maintaining their electric vehicles, only to pay sub-competitive prices for those parts and repairs once they are finally provided,” the filings state.
The lawsuits come as right-to-repair laws gain more traction with lawmakers.
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Massachusetts led the way, passing a right-to-repair law in 2012 and expanding that law in 2020 to include vehicle data. President Biden has indicated support for right-to-repair policies, and a federal bill was introduced in the House of Representatives in 2022.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing that Peloton Interactive Inc., of New York, has agreed to pay a $19,065,000 civil penalty. The settlement resolves CPSC's charges that Peloton knowingly failed to immediately report to CPSC, as required by law, that its Tread+ treadmill contained a defect that could create a substantial product hazard and created an unreasonable risk of serious injury to consumers. The civil penalty also settles charges that Peloton knowingly distributed recalled treadmills in violation of the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).
Beginning in December 2018 and continuing into 2019, Peloton received reports of incidents associated with pull under and entrapment in the rear of the treadmills, including reports of injuries. Despite possessing this information, Peloton did not immediately report to the Commission. By the time Peloton filed a report with the Commission there were more than 150 reports of people, pets, and/or objects being pulled under the rear of the Tread+ treadmill, including the death of a child and 13 injuries, including broken bones, lacerations, abrasions and friction burns. Peloton and the Commission jointly announced the recall of the Tread+ treadmill on May 5, 2021.
Staff also charged that after the public announcement of the recall, Peloton knowingly distributed in commerce 38 Tread+ recalled treadmills using Peloton personnel and through third-party delivery firms.
In addition to the $19,065,000 civil penalty, the settlement agreement requires Peloton to maintain an enhanced compliance program and system of internal controls and procedures designed to ensure compliance with the CPSA. Peloton has also agreed to file, for a period of five years, annual reports regarding its compliance program and system of internal controls.
By a 4-0 vote, the Commission provisionally accepted the settlement agreement, subject to public comment.
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
We are following the latest on a school shooting in Nashville, Tenn. Authorities say three children and three adults were killed this morning and that the alleged 28-year-old shooter was killed by police. NPR's Joe Hernandez has been following the story and joins us now. And Joe, what else are police saying about what happened this morning?
JOE HERNANDEZ, BYLINE: Well, the first call came in at 10:13 a.m. local time for an active shooter at Covenant School. And this is a private religious school actually on the campus of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville. And it serves preschool age kids through sixth grade and usually has about 200 students and 40 staff members. Police say three students and three staff members were killed in the shooting. They've since named the victims. The students were all age 9. The staff members included a janitor, a substitute teacher. And Nashville Police Chief John Drake says all the parents of the children who were killed now have been notified.
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JOHN DRAKE: When we send our kids to school or to any place of safety, we expect them to live, learn, have fun and come back from that day - day's experience. We don't anticipate things like this.
HERNANDEZ: So when police arrived, two officers shot and killed the attacker. That was at 10:27 a.m., less than 15 minutes after the first 911 call came in. A spokesman for the Metro Nashville PD says he wasn't aware of any other gunshot victims, but one police officer had a wound from cut glass, and authorities were working to reunite parents with their children.
SUMMERS: And what else can you tell us at this point about the alleged shooter?
HERNANDEZ: Well, police say it was a 28-year-old from Nashville named Audrey Hale. And police believe Hale was a former student of Covenant School but haven't said anything yet about a motive, why Hale might have done this. The police chief said they're looking through some writings now to learn more about what happened. And police say Hale shot through a side door of Covenant School and entered the school. Here's Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
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DON AARON: She entered the school through a side entrance and traversed her way from the first floor to the second floor, firing multiple shots.
HERNANDEZ: Hale was also quite heavily armed, police said - two AR-style weapons as well as a handgun. And two of those guns were obtained legally - at least two of them. And police also said Hale had no criminal history.
SUMMERS: Unfortunately, this is a familiar scenario in this country - reckoning with another school shooting. What is the local and national response been like to this tragedy?
HERNANDEZ: Yeah. There's been an outpouring of support, not only for the fact of the number of people killed but also that it was children killed in a school. Nashville Mayor John Cooper said the city was joining the, quote, "dreaded long list of communities" that suffered school shootings. And President Biden also made a comment on the shooting. He was at a different event today and said it was heartbreaking, said it's a family's worst nightmare and called on Congress to do more to stop shootings.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation - ripping at the very soul of the nation.
HERNANDEZ: He also again called on Congress to pass the assault weapons ban.
SUMMERS: We'll keep following this story. That's NPR's Joe Hernandez. Thank you.
HERNANDEZ: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Lawsuit seeks white woman’s arrest in Emmett Till kidnapping
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the brutal lynching of the Black teenager.
The torture and killing of Till that summer in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body.
Last June, a team doing research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant, listed on that document as “Mrs. Roy Bryant.”
Till’s cousin Patricia Sterling of Jackson, Mississippi, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks. The suit seeks to compel Banks to serve the warrant on Carolyn Bryant, who has since remarried and is named Carolyn Bryant Donham.
“We are using the available means at our disposal to try to achieve justice on behalf of the Till family,” Sterling’s attorney Trent Walker told The Associated Press on Friday.
The AP left a phone message for Banks on Friday, seeking comment. The sheriff did not immediately respond. Court records showed that the lawsuit had not been served on him by Friday.
Till, who was 14, had traveled south from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized in 1955, but the Leflore County sheriff at the time told reporters that he did not want to “bother” the woman since she was raising two young children.
Weeks after Till’s body was found in a river, her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were tried for murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, the men confessed in a paid interview with Look magazine.
Now in her late 80s, Donham has lived in North Carolina in recent years. She has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution.
The U.S. Justice Department announced in December 2021 that it had ended its latest investigation into the lynching of Till, without bringing charges against anyone.
After researchers found the arrest warrant last June, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said in July there was no new evidence to try to pursue a criminal case against Donham. In August, a district attorney said a Leflore County grand jury had declined to indict Donham.
Walker, the attorney for Till’s cousin, said Friday that the South has a history of cases of violence that were not brought to justice until decades later — including the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, for which white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murder in 1994.
“But for Carolyn Bryant falsely claiming to her husband that Emmett Till assaulted her Emmett would not have been murdered,” Sterling’s lawsuit says. “It was Carolyn Bryant’s lie that sent Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam into a rage, which resulted in the mutilation of Emmett Till’s body into (an) unrecognizable condition.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Promised: New footage. New testimony. New and damning revelations designed to eliminate all doubt. Hired to package it all for the airwaves: A former network news president. The time slot: 8 p.m. on the East Coast, once a plum spot for the most significant television programming in the land.
Presented in prime time and carefully calibrated for a TV-viewing audience (itself increasingly an anachronism), the debut of the Jan. 6 hearings was, in essence, a summer rerun. Designed as a riveting legislative docudrama about an event that most of the country saw live 18 months ago, it tried mightily to break new narrative ground in a nation of short attention spans and endless distractions.
But did it? Can it? Even with gripping, violent video and the integrity of American democracy potentially at stake, can a shiny, weeks-long production that prosecutes with yesterday’s news — news that has been watched, processed and argued over ad nauseam — punch through the static and make a difference today?
“The idea of a televised investigative proceeding maybe feels a little obsolete when so many people already had so much access to what happened," said Rebecca Adelman, professor and chair of media and communication studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “This is a population that by all evidence is fatigued by a lot of things. I’m not sure how much sustained attention anyone has left at this point.”
That's why the hearings needed one key thing most legislative committees lack: a professional TV executive — someone who could arrange and curate violent amateur and surveillance video, 3D motion graphics, eyewitness testimony and depositions into a storyline built to echo.
Enter James Goldston, the former president of ABC News. The language Axios used in reporting his involvement was instructive. Goldston, it said, would approach Thursday night's hearing “as if it were a blockbuster investigative special" with "the makings of a national event."
Those are not often words you hear about a committee hearing. They're the words of showmanship — something politics has always had, actual governance less so.
During the media-savvy (for its era) Kennedy administration, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin famously coined the term “pseudo-event” — an event conducted expressly for the purpose of being noticed. While that isn't the case with the Jan. 6 hearings — actual governance is taking place — the buildup and presentation makes it easy to conclude otherwise.
Could it be that this is the only way to grab the public's attention? After all, since Jan. 6, 2021, much of America has moved on to fresh worries.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, seized on some of those in a series of tweets attacking the committee. “When’s the prime-time hearing,” he asked in six tweets, followed by “on $5 per gallon gas,” “on baby formula shortages,” “on record crime in Democrat-run cities,” “on the left’s 2020 riots,” “on record high grocery prices," “on Democrats attacking parental rights at school board meetings" and “on threats against Supreme Court Justices and their families.”
By many appearances, the country is operating as it was before the insurrection. Joe Biden was inaugurated as scheduled 14 days after the insurrection. No evidence of election fraud surfaced. The pandemic ebbed. People are talking about guns and gas prices and Russia — not its interference in U.S. elections, but its invasion of Ukraine.
All of this, of course, belies the fact that the Capitol riot undermined the sanctity and security of the democratic process. After more than 200 years in which the peaceful transfer of power was taken for granted in America, it suddenly and very violently wasn't.
And yet, in this meme-soaked era when loud events fade from the consciousness and are replaced by other loud events within days, it apparently takes what is essentially a Very Special Episode of Congress, packaged up like a documentary brimming with video clips and text-message screengrabs, to get the public's attention.
And that public is ... who, exactly?
The masses of Donald Trump supporters and opponents who have dug in their heels on both sides — those who think this is ridiculous political posturing and those who insist that day represented an existential threat to democracy — may not be the target audience. More likely, it is Americans who retain an open mind and have kind of moved on; who could use a reminder in the most American way possible: by being presented with an on-screen drama to consume. (Unless you watch Fox, which vociferously refused to air it.)
High-profile public legislative hearings about the workings of government — from the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954 to the Watergate hearings in 1973 to the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987 — have a history of drawing the nation's attention and being their era's version of must-see government TV.
But all those came in the days when a “phone” was something that made calls and was plugged into the wall — well before the era of media fragmentation produced by the internet and, a decade later, the rise of social media and content creation in your pocket.
The raw material presented Thursday night was at times banal and procedural (depositions, speeches). But at times (the violent and profane video montage, the eyewitness testimony of Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards), it felt compelling, terrifying and immediate.
“We’ve lost the line! We’ve lost the line!” viewers heard one Capitol police officer shout as he was being attacked by rioters. Yelled another, terror in his voice: “Officer down!” And this chilling shout, from the background of one scene of chaos: “We're coming!”
Then the production values took center stage — a perfectly timed voiceover of Trump saying, “They were peaceful people" and ”the love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it" before the sequence fades out.
These are surely the moments that will be cannibalized on social in coming hours and days. So much of political discourse happens online these days, and what was once must-see TV is now on your phone, on demand. Content producers on TikTok and Twitter and Instagram are driving the moments to remember. And if this was a produced TV show, those will be its tiny offspring.
“People will be making their own spinoffs, a few seconds at a time,” said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. “Now ... we’re in the age of developing stories as an interactive video game, where you take the coverage of that day and you turn it into a meme and get 30 million viewers. I think that’s how a lot of people are going to experience these hearings.”
So check out your social media feeds, 2022-style, for the next phase of this drama — political and entertaining and unsettling all at once, and aggressively, messily American.
“We watched the preseason. We watched the season. And now this is behind the scenes in `American Politics: The Sport,‘” said John Baick, a historian at Western New England University. “I don’t think anyone’s going to remember where they were when they watched the Capitol investigations."
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at The Associated Press, has written about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — After five consecutive losing seasons, it’s hard to put into perspective the New York Giants’ 21-20 win over the Tennessee Titans in Brian Daboll’s debut as head coach.
It was mind-boggling.
Coming off a 4-13 season, the Giants knocked off the two-time defending AFC South champions on the road by rallying from a 13-0 halftime deficit behind a magnificent performance by a rejuvenated Saquon Barkley.
It was a game few expected them to win, let alone be competitive. And they won by going for a 2-point conversion with 66 seconds to go when the conventional wisdom was to play for a tie and go to overtime.
The result also has caused a 180-degree change in expectations.
Suddenly, many see the Giants as a contender. Well, some do.
It’s also probably why Daboll stood in the middle of the locker room after the game and reminded his team this was only one game, the first of 17 in the NFL regular season.
Things can change quickly, starting this Sunday when the Giants open at home against the Carolina Panthers, who are coming off a heartbreaking late loss to Cleveland.
“Don’t take this the wrong way. I’m happy we won, but it’s one game, so if it was the other way around, it’s one game,” Daboll said Monday. “We’ve got to get ready to go on to the next week. We’ve got a long way to go. You can watch the tape. There’s a lot of corrections that need to be addressed.”
In other words, there’s a chance Carolina can spoil the good feelings that exist about this team. Don’t forget Rudy Bullock of Tennessee missed a 47-yard field-goal attempt at the end to preserve the win.
Giants fans have had their hopes raised and crushed quickly. It’s been a vicious cycle since Tom Coughlin led New York to its fourth Super Bowl title in February 2012.
The only year the Giants made the playoffs since was in 2016, and the fans were crushed again. The excitement of the postseason was smashed by an ill-timed and much-criticized day off boating trip to Florida by Odell Beckham and company. What followed was an embarrassing loss to the Packers in Green Bay.
So if you’re a Giants fan, enjoy the season-opening win, but don’t make too much of it, at least for now.
WHAT’S WORKING
No. 26. The old Saquon Barkley showed up for the 2022 season and he looked very much like the running back who won the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award in 2018. Barkley rushed for 164 yards on 18 carries (a 9.1 yard average) and caught six passes for 30 yards. He ran for a touchdown and caught a game-winning 2-point conversion. That’s 194 all-purpose yards, an excellent start for a player who many felt was in decline after a major knee injury to start the 2020 season and subpar season in ’21.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Both of the Titans touchdowns came on passes from Ryan Tannehill to Dontrell Hilliard coming out of the backfield against a linebacker. He was wide open on both, as well as a 31-yard catch-and-run on the first play of the second quarter to set up a field goal. That’s 17 points. The Giants need to have linebackers who can cover a running back or change the scheme and assign a defensive back to the job.
STOCK UP
Wink Martindale’s defense kept the Giants in the game. Despite playing without starting outside linebackers Azeez Ojulari, their leader in sacks last season, and Kayvon Thibodeaux, the No. 5 overall pick in the draft, New York limited Tennessee to two touchdowns and two field goals. The first touchdown was set up by a long punt return and second field goal followed a strip-sack the Titans recovered at the New York 42. Derrick Henry gained 82 yards on 21 carries and the Titans were held to 93 yards rushing.
STOCK DOWN
It’s difficult to criticize the offensive line after New York ran for 238 yards. However, the revamped unit struggled with pass protection. Daniel Jones was sacked five times and hit eight times. One of the sacks resulted in a fumble that gave Tennessee the ball at the Giants 42, setting up a field goal.
INJURED
Rookie wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson (knee) and cornerback Nick McCloud (hamstring) left the game. Daboll said Robinson is day to day.
KEY NUMBER
2016 — The previous time the Giants opened the season with a win. That was under then-new coach Ben McAdoo and it was the most recent time New York made the playoffs.
NEXT STEPS
The Giants have to avoid a letdown in the home opener against the Carolina Panthers. The schedule suddenly favors the Giants with games against the young Bears and the banged-up Cowboys, who will be without injured QB Dak Prescott, in the upcoming weeks.
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(NEXSTAR) – Tax season is officially open and those filers in line for a refund this year may be wondering when the money will land in their accounts.
As long as the tax return is complete and accurate, the Internal Revenue Service says most people will get their refund in under 21 days, as long as they file electronically. For those taxpayers who file a paper return, however, the refund could take four weeks or more to process.
“If at all possible, file electronically, and request that you receive your refund by direct deposit,” tax attorney Adam Brewer told Nexstar. “I know no one really loves to give their banking information to the IRS or to the state, but if you want your refund quickly, you have to give them the direct deposit information.”
CPA Practice Advisor, a publication for tax experts, says most Americans who are receiving their refunds via direct deposit can expect it in as little as two weeks. During the height of the tax season in late March the wait may be a bit longer.
Where’s my refund tool?
You can also check on the status of your tax refund using the IRS’ Where’s My Refund tool, but, depending on how you file you will have to wait longer to get an answer.
For e-filers there’s good news, 24 hours after filing your 2022 return you’ll be able to check on your refund.
Taxpayers filing a return electronically for years 2021 and 2022 will be able to use the tool about 3 or 4 days later. For paper filers, the wait will be at least four weeks, according to the IRS.
What to avoid while filing
While filing electronically and using direct deposit are the best ways to get a quick refund, the IRS also warns about tax return issues they see that will delay the process.
The refund process will be delayed when a return:
- Is filed on paper
- Includes errors
- Is incomplete
- Needs further review in general
- Is affected by identity theft or fraud
Also worth noting, there may be a longer timeline to get a refund when there are credits being claimed. The IRS says that by law the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit can’t be sent out until mid-February, at the earliest.
Anyone filing a Form 8379, the Injured Spouse Allocation, should expect an additional 14 weeks of processing time.
The deadline for filing a 2022 tax return is April 18.
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Let’s make Mountain Line bus fare-free! Cities across the country are removing fares from public transit -- from Tacoma to Albuquerque to Boston. The move is done to increase ridership, boost local economies, reduce environmental impact, decrease traffic congestion, and provide transportation for low- and middle-income workers and families who often can’t afford to drive a car (or two) as they face rising housing costs and inflation.
And it often makes financial sense!
Fares comprised only 8% of Mountain Line’s operating revenues in fiscal year 2022. Corvallis, Oregon, began its fare-free bus system in 2011 when fares were 11% of its operating revenues. Kansas City started its fare-free bus system in 2019 when fares were 12% of its operating revenues. A fare-free Mountain Line bus system could have been possible with $616,000 additional funding in FY2022.
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The cost of transitioning to a fare-free system is typically much less after accounting for the expense of collecting fares and the improved efficiencies of operating fare-free. Kansas City was spending $2-3 million annually to collect $8 million in fares for example. Cities find creative ways when necessary to offset the costs of fare-free systems.
The price of making Mountain Line fare-free is low compared to the benefits it can provide to our community, economy, environment and congested roadways. Will you join us in making Mountain Line fare-free? Go to freemountainline.org or find us on social media!
JASON KORDOSKY
On behalf of Free Mountain Line
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty Friday to contempt of Congress charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Navarro, 72, appeared in federal court in Washington to be arraigned on the two-count indictment.
He was charged with one contempt count for failing to appear for a deposition before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and a second charge for failing to produce documents the committee requested.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta scheduled a trial for November. Navarro’s lawyers asked for the trial to be held next year, saying the case presented constitutional and legal questions that need to be litigated.
Navarro has argued that the select committee investigating the attack is unlawful and therefore a subpoena it issued to him in February is unenforceable under law.
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Can the epitome of appliance-like cars—the Toyota Corolla—win the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023 award? It’s a question we never thought we’d ask, but here we are.
Toyota, the automaker known for playing it safe with reliable but boring vehicles has shoved a rally-car powertrain into its Corolla economy car. With a trick all-wheel-drive system and all the willpower to back up its attitude, the Toyota GR Corolla is a riot.
Toyota tapped the same G16E-GTS 1.6-liter turbo-3 engine it uses in the smaller GR Yaris for the GR Corolla. But in this application power jumps from the GR Yaris’ 268 hp to 300 hp, though torque stands pat at 273 lb-ft. The single-scroll, ball-bearing turbo huffs a lot of boost, but it takes a beat to scroll up. Peak power doesn’t arrive until 3,000 rpm, and then keeps giving its all until the 7,000-rpm redline. Early shifts make it seem like the GR Corolla doesn’t have much power. Don’t be fooled, it just takes a heavy foot and a longer wait between shifts to get there.
Buyers who don’t #GiveAShift need not apply because the GR Corolla only comes with three pedals and a 6-speed manual transmission. The gearbox features short, positive throws and the clutch is moderately weighted with a somewhat grabby takeup point. We’ll take what we can get and say thank you, Toyota.
A key ingredient in the GR Corolla’s fun factor is the advanced all-wheel-drive system that enables the driver to change the front/rear power split between 60/40, 30/70, and 50/50. While the 60/40 front bias is meant for everyday use, Sport mode flips the system into a 30/70 rear-bias split. Toyota says the 50/50 split is meant for high-performance driving. On the road, the standard 60/40 split is fine, but once the roads start getting twisty, flipping the GR Corolla into the Sport model really makes this hot hatch shine. With its 30/70 split, it’s not hard to get the rear to slide out while the front claws at the pavement to pull the car out of corners. It’s a system unlike anything else on the market today, and it reminds us of the old Mitsubishi Evo in the best way.
Toyota said the GR Corolla will sprint from 0-60 mph in 4.99 seconds, but our butt dyno can’t tell the difference between that and 5.0 seconds. Toyota may be overly eager to parse the time, but the GR Corolla is still sufficiently quick.
The MacPherson-strut front suspension and double-wishbone rear suspension are paired with track-tuned dampers, springs, and stabilizer bars. That creates a firm ride, and we’re not sure we’d want to drive it on pockmarked Midwest roads.
Upper trim Circuit and Morizo models feature front and rear Torsen limited-slip differentials, but they’re are optional on the base Core model. The differentials are part of the secret sauce that helps the GR Corolla put down the power so effectively. They are a must-have.
The GR Corolla doesn’t look like any other Corolla. Its widened body panels give it a puffed-up look and cover 18-inch wheels wrapped in 235/40 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 rubber (245/40 Cup 2s are available). Gaping intakes feed the intercooler and cool the brakes. Like the Honda Civic Type R, the GR Corolla features a triple-tip exhaust.
Starting at $36,995, the GR Corolla seems like a steal, but it’s not perfect. The 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster’s interface might’ve been created in MS Paint, the 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system’s interface is dated, and the screen’s resolution feels a full model cycle behind everything else on the market. The interior is full of hard, cheap plastic straight from the Corolla’s economy-car parts bin, and there’s no center armrest up front. Add the two limited-slip differentials, and the GR Corolla pushes $40,000, putting it within spitting distance of the more mature Honda Civic Type R.
Will the Toyota GR Corolla’s analog experience and willpower be enough to take the win over two other hot hatches, an outrageous SUV, a luxury EV, and a sport sedan? Check back on Jan. 4 when we reveal the winner, along with the champs from our sister sites, The Car Connection and Green Car Reports.
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The following people have given generously to Times Charities Dec. 23-Dec. 30:
A total of $12,555 was raised in the previous week bringing the total amount raised for the season to $22,569.21.
Times Record News would like to that all the Times Charities donors, the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation and the partner nonprofits Faith Mission/Faith Refuge, Interfaith Outreach Services, The Salvation Army and Grace Ministries of Burkburnett.
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New York's top financial regulator has ordered a crypto company to stop minting a major stablecoin, widening a clampdown on the embattled digital assets sector.
Paxos, a blockchain company, announced Monday that it had been instructed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to stop issuing BUSD, a Binance-branded stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.
The firm said in a statement that it would stop issuing the token on February 21. The ones already circulating "have and always will be" backed one-to-one with US dollar reserves, it added.
Paxos has told customers they will be able to redeem their BUSD through February 2024, with options to redeem funds in US dollars or to convert their tokens to Pax Dollar, another stablecoin issued by the company.
Paxos also said it would "end its relationship" with Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. It did not say why the regulator had ordered it to stop issuing BUSD.
The NYDFS didn't immediately respond to a CNN request for comment outside office hours.
BUSD is one of the world's most popular stablecoins, with a circulation of 15.8 billion tokens, according to CoinMarketCap.
Stablecoins are digital currencies that are designed to hold steady. They're usually pegged to real-world assets such as gold or the US dollar.
In a statement to CNN, Binance stressed that, although its name appeared on the coin, "BUSD is a stablecoin wholly owned and managed by Paxos."
"Binance licenses its brand to Paxos for use with BUSD, which is entirely owned by Paxos and regulated" by New York authorities, the exchange said.
Investors rattled
The BUSD news has unsettled investors. Binance suffered one of its worst-ever days in terms of withdrawals on Monday, with $873 million in net outflows, according to data provider Nansen.
"Clearly there's a number of traders and investors moving to take their funds off the exchange," Andrew Thurman, Nansen's content lead, told CNN.
He noted that Binance had seen worse days. In December, a deluge of bad press caused investor jitters, sparking outflows of as much as $3 billion.
This time, "investors are still trying to digest the news," Thurman added.
"We're seeing some indecision from the market trying to decide if this is a case of agencies going after one bad instance of a stablecoin, or trying to shut stablecoins down entirely."
In its statement, Binance warned that the move to stop minting BUSD would hurt users and "only decrease" the token's market capitalization over time.
"Stablecoins are a critical safety net for investors seeking refuge from volatile markets, and limiting their access would directly harm millions of people across the globe," the firm said.
Martin Lee, a data journalist for Nansen, told CNN that Binance had few options to counter the ban.
"Over time, the supply will drop as redemptions happen," he said.
But "in terms of confidence in the exchange as a whole," Binance will likely retain users as long as customer deposits continue to be protected and users can still convert BUSD to other stablecoins, Lee added.
Regulatory squeeze
Starting last year, the digital financial assets sector has been weathering a so-called "crypto winter," sparked by the collapse of TerraUSD, an algorithmic stablecoin, in May.
Then FTX, one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges at the time, went bankrupt in November, deepening the crisis in the industry.
As a result, digital asset companies are facing tighter regulatory scrutiny around the world.
Last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said overseeing crypto assets was a key priority for 2023.
The SEC also reached a $30 million settlement with cryptocurrency platform Kraken last Thursday. The agreement will force the company to unwind a program offering investment returns to US users who committed their digital assets to the company.
That practice, known as "staking," reflected an unregistered offer and sale of securities, the SEC alleged in a complaint.
Hong Kong has also announced plans for new regulations. The city, which hopes to become a virtual assets hub, announced plans last month to adopt new rules for stablecoins, including licensing requirements for businesses.
According to crypto advocates, the growing global clampdown could undermine the ecosystem for digital assets.
— CNN's Brian Fung contributed to this report.
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CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Friday, February 3, 2023
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San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast
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National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
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CAZ505-050200-
Coastal North Bay...Including Point Reyes National Seashore-
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300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
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in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain in the evening. A slight chance of
thunderstorms. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
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upper 40s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds 20 to
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30 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
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50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
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Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 47 56 47 52 / 100 70 80 50
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Sonoma Coastal Range-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
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around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening. A slight chance of
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thunderstorms. Showers likely after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the
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lower 50s. West winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
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60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
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CAZ502-050200-
Marin Coastal Range-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 10 to
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20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Showers likely in the evening. A slight
chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 20 to
30 mph...becoming northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance
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of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
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CAZ506-050200-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the 40s. East winds 5 to
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10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain in the evening. A slight chance of
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thunderstorms. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
40s to lower 50s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph. Gusts up to
45 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
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of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
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cloudy. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to
mid 60s. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
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50s to upper 60s. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 42 58 42 55 / 100 80 70 30
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San Rafael 47 57 47 54 / 100 60 70 50
Napa 45 57 45 54 / 100 60 80 30
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North Bay Interior Mountains-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower to mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of rain after
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midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West winds 10 to
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20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to
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lower 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
50s to mid 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 45 56 46 53 / 100 70 80 30
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San Francisco-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain likely in the evening. A slight
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chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
around 50. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around
45 mph...becoming west 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph
after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 15 to
20 mph...becoming northwest 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance
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of precipitation 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
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the 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 48 59 48 55 / 100 50 70 40
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Ocean Beach 49 59 49 56 / 100 40 70 40
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CAZ509-050200-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
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300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and a
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slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of rain in the
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evening, then a chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph...becoming west 10 to
20 mph after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 50s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
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the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Lows in the upper
40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming south 10 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s. South
winds 20 to 30 mph...becoming west 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
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of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
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clear. Lows near 40. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 40.
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.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Lows
in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
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.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 49 61 50 56 / 100 40 80 40
Oakland 47 61 48 56 / 100 60 80 40
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Fremont 47 63 47 55 / 90 50 80 50
Redwood City 47 63 47 56 / 90 40 80 60
Mountain View 48 62 48 55 / 90 50 80 50
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CAZ510-050200-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST THIS MORNING...
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy dense fog. Lows in the
lower 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy dense fog in the morning. A
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. East
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winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
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with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning, then a
chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
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Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming
northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 44 63 46 56 / 90 50 70 30
Livermore 42 63 45 54 / 80 60 70 50
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Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
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...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of dense fog. Lows in the
mid 40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. A chance
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of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then a slight
chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds
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15 to 20 mph...becoming west 10 to 20 mph after midnight. Gusts
up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
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.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
40. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s.
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TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 47 64 47 56 / 80 50 80 40
Morgan Hill 45 62 45 54 / 70 70 70 40
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Santa Cruz Mountains-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 45 mph in the afternoon.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then a chance of rain
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
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of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the 40s to lower 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
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winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
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Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
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50s to mid 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
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East Bay Hills-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
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.SATURDAY...Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 15 mph
increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Showers likely and a slight chance of
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thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the lower
50s. West winds around 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance
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of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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in the upper 50s.
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CAZ514-050200-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
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300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 40. South winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
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South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain likely in the evening, then a
chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest
winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the lower
40s. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
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Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s
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to lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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Northern Monterey Bay-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Light
winds.
.SATURDAY...A slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 5 to
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10 mph...becoming south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then a chance of
rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph...becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Gusts up to
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40 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
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winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
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Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
mid 60s. Lows around 40.
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.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 44 59 45 54 / 80 70 70 40
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Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
300 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
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Donald Trump’s illegal retention of classified U.S. government records reminded me that I have been reading these kinds of sensitive official files after their declassification―and learning from them―for decades.
The reason is that I am a scholar of international history and, in this connection, have drawn upon such material in my research. Governments keep secrets, and to understand the full story of their behavior, it is often necessary to dig into the documentary evidence.
When I first began plowing through masses of official records in the 1970s, I was attempting to discover the role of the U.S. government in the Greek civil war of the 1940s, which inspired the Truman Doctrine and a broad pattern of overseas U.S. military intervention. After official review, the relevant State Department files, many of them previously classified, had recently been opened to researchers at the U.S. National Archives. But when I started digging through these records, I found that a considerable number of classified documents remained unavailable. When I complained about this to another historian, he responded: “Those are exactly the documents you should see. File for them under FOIA” (the Freedom of Information Act). So that’s what I did. As a result, after another review, some were declassified, sometimes with sections redacted (“sanitized”).
I faced a somewhat different situation when I applied for (and secured) security clearance to examine U.S. Army records, covering the same subject, at the National Archives. In this case, I was forced to leave behind paper, pencils, and everything else I carried to enter a locked, caged space. Here I looked through the records and took notes on special forms provided for researchers. But all notes had to be delivered to an official at the desk before I was allowed to leave. Then those that the authorities cleared would be mailed to me. Although I was not allowed to take notes on anything marked classified, I was told that I could submit a FOIA request for it. But how could I do that without any record of what document it was? I eventually solved that problem by memorizing the author, date, and title of the document, and then jotting down that information after I exited the cage. Ultimately, though, the authorities had the last laugh. They mailed me only a small portion of my notes and never declassified anything I requested using FOIA.
Thanks to these research jaunts and others connected to my Greece study, I did manage to find a lot of useful material. But I was also struck by the limits the U.S. government placed on access to its records. Ironically, these limits proved fewer than the ones imposed by the incoming Reagan administration, which, allegedly to protect national security, held up the planned release of subsequent State Department records while they were “re-reviewed.” Many documents failed to emerge from this process.
Some two decades later, while doing research for the final volume of my scholarly trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement and its impact on government policy, I again encountered difficulties in obtaining access to previously-classified U.S. government records. In a research visit to the Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, California, I discovered that only six percent of his presidential records had been declassified and opened to scholars. Naturally, I filed FOIA requests for some of the missing documents. In response, I received access to only a portion of them, often “sanitized.” Furthermore, copies of these arrived as much as 10 years later, long after the book was published.
Research for this same trilogy brought me to Britain, where I plowed through just-opened classified files at the Public Record Office. The most exciting find was material in the prime minister’s records indicating a secret plot among top British officials to undermine Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and its most prominent spokesman, Bertrand Russell. In these circumstances, I worried that, if I brought the document folder to the front desk for photocopying, some official―appalled by what he considered lax declassification―might spirit it away to a secret vault where it would never be seen again. Consequently, I spent hours copying the crucial documents by hand. Then I turned to the subsequent folders for more, only to discover that they were marked: “Closed for the next 100 years”!
Of course, gaining access to relevant classified records of the former Soviet bloc was also difficult. Thanks to the breakdown of the intensely secretive Soviet system, I had great hopes of travelling to Russia to look at previously unavailable material in the archives. But, unfortunately, the opportunity quickly evaporated because, among other things, the NATO bombing of Serbia (in the former Yugoslavia) sparked intense hostility among Russians to Americans visiting their country. Ultimately, the best I could do was to employ a Russian research assistant to locate and translate a small number of documents for me. Research opportunities proved much better in former East Germany, where, with the collapse of the old Communist regime, the records of the secret police (the Stasi), were made freely available.
And what did I learn from these and other plunges into previously classified government records? Very briefly, American intervention in Greece was based on a genuine, much exaggerated, fear of Soviet expansion, which led to a ruthless campaign to purge Greece of leftist influence. Also, public protest against nuclear weapons restrained the nuclear ambitions of many government officials and played a major role in curbing the nuclear arms race and preventing nuclear war. In addition, I found that governments engage in a variety of shady ventures and, therefore, prefer to maintain a considerable degree of secrecy about them.
Against this backdrop, could Trump’s decision to hold onto classified U.S. government records reflect a desire to withhold evidence of his own administration’s extraordinary record of duplicity and malfeasance? It’s certainly possible.
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Political analyst Greta Van Susteren shares insights on economy issues, Roe v. Wade
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 4:47 PM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Political Analyst Greta Van Susteren joined East Texas Now’s Jeremy Butler on Wednesday.
Topics discussed were the Supreme Court leak of the Roe v. Wade opinion, gas prices, and more.
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Wall Street is slipping Wednesday following some mixed earnings reports from big U.S. companies and another signal that inflation remains hot around the world. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in early trading, threatening to erase the gain it’s built so far this week. The Dow and Nasdaq are also falling. High-growth and tech stocks are being hurt in part by higher yields in the bond market, which rose after a report showed U.K. inflation remains above 10%. Tesla is falling after announcing the fourth U.S. price cut on its vehicles this year. Travelers shares notched their biggest gain in over three years after it reported strong first-quarter results.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story appears below.
Wall Street is following global markets lower early Wednesday ahead of another trove of corporate earnings reports and potentially new maneuvers by central banks.
Futures for the S&P fell 0.6% before the bell and the Dow were slipped 0.3%.
Surprisingly strong earnings reports have buoyed markets in recent days. Expectations were low heading into the season amid elevated inflation, rising interest rates and slowing in some parts of the economy.
Wall Street analysts had been projecting the sharpest drop in earnings per share for S&P 500 companies since the pandemic torpedoed the economy in 2020.
American Express and major railroad companies post quarterly earnings this week and after the bell Wednesday, Tesla posts its first quarter results.
Tesla shares tumbled about 2% before the bell Wednesday after Elon Musk’s electric car company cut prices again. It’s the fourth time this year that Tesla has slashed prices to spur sales and chase shifting U.S. tax credits for electric vehicles. Shares in the Austin, Texas automaker have fallen almost 50% in the past 12 months.
With larger, so-called “too-big-to-fail” banks mostly posting strong earnings in recent days, attention now turns to reporting by smaller, regional banks such as KeyCorp and Zions Bancorp. Their stocks took a hit last month following the second- and third-largest U.S. bank failures in history.
A larger worry for the economy is that the banking industry’s woes could cause a pullback in lending, pressuring an economy already straining under the weight of much higher interest rates.
Inflation is slowing, but it’s still high, and traders widely expect the Fed to raise rates again at its next meeting in May.
A report Wednesday showed that the price of food in the U.K. rose at the fastest pace in 45 years last month, keeping inflation above 10% for a seventh straight month amid a cost-of-living crisis that has fueled a wave of strikes by government workers.
The 10.1% figure was slightly below the previous month’s 10.4%, but still shows the British government and Bank of England are struggling to prevent price increases triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from becoming embedded in the economy.
In Europe at midday, Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.3% and Germany’s DAX dipped 0.2%. France’s CAC 40 was flat.
In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.2% to finish at 28,606.76. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up nearly 0.1% to 7,365.50. South Korea’s Kospi gained nearly 0.2% to 2,575.08. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 1.4% to 20,367.76. The Shanghai Composite shed 0.7% to 3,370.13.
News that China’s economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter, to an annual 4.5%, has not had much of an impact on share prices. While consumption and retail sales have grown, other indicators, such as industrial output and fixed-asset investments, were weaker and indicate an uneven recovery.
“It may still be a worst-is-over story, but recovery has shown to be more gradual than a one-shot wonder,” Yeap Jun Rong, market analyst at IG, said in a report.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.58 to $79.28 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international standard, declined $1.66 to $83.11 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 134.84 Japanese yen from 134.12 yen. The euro fell to $1.0934 from $1.0975.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged up 0.1% and the Dow industrials slipped less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq composite was down less than 0.1%.
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Families facing rare muscle disease are pushing for an experimental gene therapy, but the FDA is skeptical
By Meg Tirrell, CNN
Most parents wouldn’t be thrilled with the idea of their kids getting hooked up to an IV bag filled with trillions of viruses.
But for Melanie Hennick, whose son, Connor, has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it was an opportunity she hoped would change his life.
“We knew this wasn’t a cure,” Hennick said. “But it was a chance.”
Connor is one of just dozens of kids to have received SRP-9001, an experimental gene therapy that aims to slow or stop the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD. Current treatments for the disease — which primarily affects boys because of the way it’s inherited — include steroids and, later, heart drugs. But none stop it.
SRP-9001 uses viruses to ferry a copy of a gene to muscles to help make up for one that’s causing the disease. Hennick and many other parents like her are advocating for the treatment’s accelerated approval today in a meeting of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration.
The advisers will vote on whether to recommend the treatment, and then the FDA will decide whether to follow their advice. The FDA’s decision, expected by the end of the month, will have implications not just for families like Connor’s but for how the agency regulates treatments like this one more broadly: It would be the first of its kind of medicine — one-time treatments delivering a gene to try to fix a disease — to get accelerated approval, a faster track through the regulatory process. Its approval would set a precedent for other drugs like this based on so-called surrogate endpoints, a measure of what the drug does in the body, before further clinical evidence is available.
“Approval of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy will be huge,” said Jeffrey Chamberlain, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine who helped pioneer gene therapy approaches for the disease. “This, I think, will spur further research and further development of gene therapies for other diseases.”
DMD patients don’t have a lot of time to wait. Kids with Duchenne typically lose the ability to walk before they’re teenagers and often don’t live well into their 30s, Chamberlain said. He’s not directly involved with SRP-9001, which is being developed by Sarepta Therapeutics, and is on the scientific advisory board for another company working on DMD gene therapies, Solid Biosciences.
“Gene therapy appears to be a really good approach to try to treat this disease, because it’s a genetic disease,” Chamberlain said. “The cause of the disease is a mutation in a single gene.”
That gene is responsible for the production of dystrophin, a protein key to the structure of muscle cells.
“It’s kind of like the two-by-fours that make up your house,” Chamberlain said. “It’s really important for just holding everything together.”
SRP-9001, invented at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, before being licensed for development by Sarepta, delivers a miniaturized version of the dystrophin gene to cells, aiming to help them make a version of the muscle-preserving protein.
In a key clinical trial, the therapy appeared to do that. But it didn’t meet another main goal: showing a benefit on a measure of muscle function, complicating SRP-9001’s path through the FDA.
Sarepta blamed the outcome on an imbalance in how the trial separated patients into the placebo and treatment groups. But key FDA reviewers appear unconvinced.
“The clinical studies conducted to date do not provide unambiguous evidence that SRP-9001 is likely beneficial for ambulatory patients with DMD,” agency reviewers wrote in briefing documents released ahead of Friday’s meeting, referring to patients who can still walk — the group who will initially be eligible for the treatment if it gets approved.
Family after family who participated in Sarepta’s trials, like the Hennicks, disagree with the reviewers. They say they believe that the treatment has helped keep their kids walking and running in ways they never would have without it.
“It’s really miraculous,” said Nate Plasman, whose son Andrew got SRP-9001 as part of the trial in January 2019, at age 4.
Andrew was away from school for more than two months when he got the experimental therapy, Plasman said, and when he returned, “his teachers at the preschool were blown away,” he recalled. “They’re like, ‘Who is this kid?’ He’s running. He’s jumping. He’s pedaling the tricycle. He’s getting up and down off the ground” — all things he couldn’t do as well before the therapy.
Marit Sivertson, mom to 9-year-old Brecken, agrees.
“We’ve seen the incredible changes with our son,” she said. “He’s not just walking around. He’s running; he’s swimming; he’s diving. He’s truly living the life that every 9-year-old boy ought to be living.”
Sivertson and Plasman are also speaking at today’s meeting. Their goal isn’t to secure the therapy for their own kids; because it’s designed as a one-time treatment, they wouldn’t take it again. They say they’re speaking on behalf of children who are still waiting.
That wait is especially painful for Daniel and Lindsey Flessner, who have two sons with DMD. Their 5-year-old son, Mason, is in the SRP-9001 clinical trial. Their 2-year-old, Dawson, is still too young.
“With every trip, every fall, every time he stands up by walking up his legs using his hands to help stabilize him, it just keeps chipping away at us,” Flessner said. “It’s very painful as the parents watching your children struggling knowing all you can do is wait, when waiting is what you don’t have time for.”
In addition to questions about how well the treatment works, the FDA reviewers raised concerns about safety, particularly “related to the possibility of administering an ineffective gene therapy.”
The reviewers focused on opportunity cost: Because of the viruses used to deliver the gene, patients can develop an immune response that could render future doses ineffective.
Chamberlain said work is underway to find ways to be able to administer more doses, if needed, but it’s currently a one-and-done treatment.
For now, he thinks this approach is the best hope for DMD patients.
“It’s not perfect,” he acknowledged. “It’s not a complete cure, but from what I can gauge from the clinical results that have been released by Sarepta and some of the other companies, I think the micro-dystrophin gene therapy is working better than any other drug that’s been tried for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.”
It’s unclear how long the effects will last; Sarepta is continuing trials, and a confirmatory study would be required as part of accelerated approval. Sarepta has proposed a trial that it’s already running to satisfy that requirement, with results expected later this year.
For families facing DMD, there’s an opportunity cost to waiting, too. In its briefing documents for the FDA meeting, Sarepta estimated that accelerated approval would speed up broad access to SRP-9001 by at least a year, a time in which about 400 boys could lose the ability to walk, and another 400, whose disease is more advanced, would die.
Melanie Hennick said Connor was admitted to the trial just weeks before he’d have aged out, at 8 years old. She said she believes the therapy is the reason Connor’s doing so well.
“We had the opportunity to see Connor grow as an 8-, 9-, 10-, 11- and 12-year-old with more capacity than we ever dreamed,” she said. “He climbs stairs unaided; he runs around; he plays football; he plays hockey; he plays on a baseball team. … Those are things that we never thought we would be able to see him do, especially at 12.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November’s midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda.
As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder. The assessments, delivered in speeches, fundraisers and conversations with friends and allies, seem at odds with a country that he acknowledged this week was “really, really down,” burdened by a pandemic, surging gas prices and spiking inflation.
Biden’s hopeful outlook tracks with a sense of optimism that has coursed through his nearly five-decade career and was at the center of his 2020 presidential campaign, which he said was built around restoring the “soul of America.” In a lengthy Oval Office interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Biden said part of his job as president is to “be confident.”
“Because I am confident,” he said. “We are better positioned than any country in the world to own the second quarter of the 21st century. That’s not hyperbole. That’s a fact.”
While presidents often try to emphasize the positive, there is a risk in this moment that Biden contributes to a dissonance between Washington and people across the country who are confronting genuine and growing economic pain.
Few of Biden’s closest political advisers are as bullish about the party’s prospects as the president. In interviews with a half-dozen people in and close to the White House, there is a broad sense that Democrats will lose control of Congress and that many of the party’s leading candidates in down-ballot races and contests for governor will be defeated, with Biden unable to offer much help.
The seeming disconnect between Biden’s view and the political reality has some in the party worried the White House has not fully grasped just how bad this election year may be for Democrats.
“I don’t expect any president to go out and say, ‘You know what, ‘We’re going to lose the next election,’” said Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, which is in regular contact with the White House’s policy team. What might serve Biden well instead, Marshall said, would be “a sober sense of, ’Look, we’re probably in for a rough night in November and our strategy should be to remind the country what’s at stake.’”
The White House is hardly ignoring the problem.
After years in which Democrats have operated in political silos, there is a greater focus on marshaling resources. Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s 2020 campaign manager who now serves as one of his deputy chiefs of staff, runs the political team from the West Wing along with Emmy Ruiz, a longtime Texas-based Democratic political consultant.
O’Malley Dillon coordinates strategy among the White House, the Democratic National Committee and an array of outside party groups. Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman who co-chaired Biden’s 2020 campaign and was one of his closest White House advisers, left for a job with the DNC in April. He characterized the move as underscoring the administration’s full grasp of the importance of the midterms.
“We understand that you cannot govern if you can’t win,” Richmond said in an interview. “We are treating it with that sense of urgency.”
The president’s political message is being honed by Mike Donilon, a longtime Biden aide who is a protector of Biden’s public image, and veteran party strategist Anita Dunn, who is returning to the White House for a second stint.
Richmond praised Dunn’s political instincts and said he believes she will team with O’Malley Dillion, White House chief of staff Ron Klain and others to promote messaging that many in their own party may underestimate.
“If I had a penny for every time Democrats counted Joe Biden or Kamala Harris out, I’d be independently wealthy,” Richmond said.
Biden turned to Dunn during an especially low political moment in February 2020, giving her broad control of his then-cash strapped presidential campaign as it appeared on the brink of collapse after a disastrous fourth-place showing in the Iowa caucus.
Barely a week later, Biden left New Hampshire before its primary polls had even closed, ultimately finishing fifth. But he took second in Nevada, won South Carolina handily and saw the Democratic establishment rally around him at breakneck speed in mere days after that. O’Malley Dillon then joined the campaign and oversaw Biden’s general election victory.
A similar reversal of political fortune may be necessary now.
But where White House officials last year harbored hopes that voters could be convinced of Biden’s accomplishments and reverse their dismal outlook on the national direction, aides now acknowledge that such an uphill battle is no longer worth fighting. Instead, they have pushed the president to be more open about his own frustrations — particularly on inflation — to show voters that he shares their concerns and to cast Republicans and their policies as obstacles to addressing these issues.
Though he has increasingly expressed anger about inflation, Biden has publicly betrayed few concerns about his party’s fortunes this fall. opting instead for relentlessly positivity.
“I think there are at least four seats that are up for grabs that we could pick up in the Senate,” the president told a recent gathering of donors in Maryland. “And we’re going to keep the House.”
Biden meant Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with potential longer shots in North Carolina or Florida possibly representing No. 4. Some aides admit that assessment is too optimistic. They say the president is simply seeking to fire up his base with such predictions. One openly laughed when asked if it was possible that Democrats could pick up four Senate seats.
The party’s chances of maintaining House control may be bleaker. Still, Tim Persico, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is charged with defending the party’s narrow majority, said Biden remains an asset.
“We love when the president is speaking to the country,” Persico said. “There’ll always be frustrations. I totally get that. But I think he’s his own best messenger.”
Biden has traveled more since last fall, promoting a $1 trillion public works package that became law in November, including visiting competitive territory in Minnesota, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan and New Hampshire. During a trip to Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne’s Iowa swing district, the president declared, “My name is Joe Biden. I work for Congresswoman Axne.”
But Bernie Sanders, the last challenger eliminated as Biden clinched the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is making his own Iowa trip this weekend to rally striking workers at construction and agriculture equipment plants.
The 80-year-old Vermont senator has not ruled out a third presidential bid in 2024 should Biden not seek reelection. That has revived questions about whether Biden, 79, might opt not to run — speculation that has persisted despite the White House political operation gearing up for the midterms and beyond.
“I do think a lot of folks in the Democratic Party, rightfully, are concerned about what’s going to happen in 2024. That doesn’t have to be mal intent,” said Linn County Supervisor Stacey Walker, whose district includes Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and who was a high-profile Sanders supporter during the last campaign. “I think folks are putting the question to the Democratic Party, ‘Is Joe Biden going to run again? Is he not going to run again?’”
Walker noted that other Democrats who could seek the White House in 2024 if Biden does not, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joined Sanders in signing a letter supporting 1,000-plus plant workers who have been striking for better pay and benefits for more than a month.
“It is responsible, I think, for those folks within the Democratic Party, who have the profile, who have the infrastructure, to make sure it’s all still in good working condition should they have to dust off the playbook,” Walker said.
Asked if Biden was running again in 2024, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president has responded to such queries repeatedly and “his answer has been pretty simple, which is, yes, he’s running for reelection.”
The more immediate question of Biden’s midterm appeal could be even trickier. He campaigned for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia last November, after winning the state easily in 2020. McAuliffe lost by 2 percentage points, a potentially bad omen for the 16 governorships Democrats are defending this fall.
“We know there are going to be national headwinds, there always are,” Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, said recently. But she insisted she would be happy to campaign with Biden or top members of his administration: “I welcome anyone willing to lift Georgia up, to come to Georgia and help me get it done.”
That was a departure from Democrat Beto O’Rourke, running for governor in Texas, who told reporters, “I’m not interested in any national politician — anyone outside of Texas — coming into this state to help decide the outcome of this race.”
Biden political advisers say a possible Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, as well as recent mass shootings spurring renewed debate over gun violence, could give Democrats two issues that could energize voters. But they also acknowledge that one or both might help party candidates clinch already close races — not remake the political landscape nationwide.
In the meantime, Biden’s overall approval rating hit a new low of 39% last month. Even among his own party, just 33% of respondents said the country is headed in the right direction, down from 49% in April. The president’s approval rating among Democrats stood at 73%, falling sharply from last year, when Biden’s Democratic approval rating never slipped below 82%.
White House political advisers are already playing down the possibility that some of the party’s most vulnerable candidates may carve out identities distinct from the president’s. As a former senator, Biden understands such maneuvers, they say.
The White House also notes that the president and his party are in far better shape now than before the 2010 midterms, when a tea party wave saw Republicans win back Congress. Since taking office, Biden’s political team has invested significantly in the DNC and state parties, and all sides are cooperating.
The DNC says it has never been larger, with 450 staff members on state party payrolls, or sported a more robust ground operation. It also raised $213 million so far, a midterm record. But DNC Chair Jaime Harrison nonetheless appeared to be trying to head off concerns donors’ contributions might be going to waste, saying, “We’re not promoting it all over the place.”
“When you’re in the Super Bowl, do you think the coach puts all their plays up on Twitter, and says, ‘Here’s what we’re going to run?,” Harrison said at a Los Angeles fundraiser with Biden last weekend. “No. We don’t put all of our stuff out there.”
He said the group is building out an operation “to make sure that, when those close elections happen November, we win them.”
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AI-driven healthtech B-corp delivers history's first affordable and rapid clinical evidence generation platform to prove the effectiveness of natural health products and dietary supplements beyond placebo
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radicle Science, an AI-driven healthtech B-corp, today announced the launch of its Radicle Proof Engine™, history's first Proof-as-a-Service solution that enables non-pharmaceutical health and wellness products to clinically prove their true effects beyond placebo. Until now, non-pharmaceuticals have been unable to generate scientifically validated proof of their effectiveness due to a lack of easy or affordable access to clinical trials. Traditional trials, primarily serving patented pharmaceutical drugs, have simply been too expensive and slow for these unpatentable natural health products and dietary supplements products. The Radicle Proof Engine™ allows non-pharmaceuticals to generate first-of-its kind clinical evidence across diverse conditions and populations at unprecedented affordability, speed and scale, a transformative approach that can finally close the proof gap between non-prescription wellness products and pharmaceutical drugs. For the first time in history, any supplement company can now develop innovative and effective products, market strong defensible claims and gain the confidence of all stakeholders—from consumers to healthcare providers to retailers—based on clinical proof.
Most natural health products and dietary supplements do not have clinical proof of their effectiveness—a proof gap that leads to significant opportunity loss for the industry and consumers, alike. Unlike patented pharmaceutical drugs, unpatentable supplements cannot afford the multi-million-dollar, multi-year process of traditional clinical trials. This has led to the paradoxical situation where Americans spend 10x more on pharmaceuticals (~$500B/year) than supplements (~$50B/year), even though more Americans take supplements than pharmaceuticals. Fully 80% of Americans use dietary supplements, while 66% of Americans take prescriptions.
Additionally, traditional clinical trials are fundamentally flawed because their trial populations often do not represent the diversity of the broader population. Traditional trials have historically studied mostly Caucasian males living in urban cities, which means the findings do not apply to much of the population at large.
"Without easy access to proof, most natural health products are forced to rely on testimonials and fancy advertising to sway consumers, drive sales and differentiate in a crowded market," said Jaclyn Bowen, the Executive Director of the Clean Label Project. "Thus, the best-selling products often are the ones that spend the most on marketing, regardless of evidence of their effectiveness. All of this has created a glaring 'proof gap' between the benefits supplement companies promise and the scientific evidence to back it up."
The proof gap has persisted ever since the creation of patented pharmaceutical drugs and the subsequent rise of traditional clinical trials a century ago. Alas, this proof gap has needlessly limited the adoption of natural health treatments that are affordable and accessible for all humans—until now. The Radicle Proof Engine™ delivers on the vision of the Proof-as-a-Service category and establishes a new paradigm at the perfect time and intersection of science, technology and the wisdom of the "crowd."
Today, the Radicle Proof Engine™ generates first-of-its-kind clinical evidence that is helping transform the role of non-pharmaceutical products in society.
"We've pioneered an AI-driven, crowdsourced, virtual, direct-to-consumer clinical trial approach that delivers rigorous health outcome data," said Dr. Jeff Chen, Radicle Science CEO and Co-Founder. "For the first time ever, we've made trials fast and affordable. Essentially, we've transformed clinical trials with automation and standardization the same way Ford Motors transformed auto manufacturing a century ago. We believe every non-pharmaceutical product has the right to compete on real merit and win in the marketplace and, to that end, should have easy access to a clinical trial."
For the first time in history, the Radicle Proof Engine™ makes it affordable for non-prescription health and wellness products to generate proof that drives their entire business lifecycle, from developing truly effective products and marketing strong defensible claims to increasing customer retention. Given the fierce competition for limited shelf-space, capital and consumers, the Radicle Proof Engine™ generates data for retailers to rethink seasonal resets, investors to re-assess how they evaluate a company and consumers to reprioritize the main reason they decide to purchase a specific product. Stakeholders will finally have the proof needed to make evidence-based business and health decisions.
"Proof creates trust with all stakeholders; Proof also drives transformation, and we're transforming natural health products and dietary supplements into proven personalized medicines that are accessible to all," notes Pelin Thorogood, Radicle Science Co-Founder and Executive Chair. "Our study results have benefitted our clients in so many ways: Everything from tens of millions of dollars of increased public company valuation to triple digit increases in sales. And, just as importantly, the large scale and diversity of the populations we study make our findings more equitable, relevant and personalized for society at large."
After launching last year, Radicle Science completed some of history's first and largest clinical trials on a variety of natural ingredients, studying more than 20,000 diverse Americans across numerous health conditions. The company's Radicle Proof Engine enables clients ranging from startups to billion-dollar public companies to 1) conduct evidence-based product development to release the most effective products and 2) market strong defensible structure/function claims when selling products. In Q3 2022, the company officially opened access to its transformative clinical trial approach to the entire dietary supplement industry.
"Radicle Science offers a game changing solution for generating gold-standard proof of effectiveness at an affordable price," said Matt Gallant, CEO and Co-Founder of BiOptimizers. "We couldn't be happier to finally have access to such a disruptive clinical trial approach that will build our body of evidence to further validate the effectiveness of our products."
In recognition of Radicle Science's pioneering Proof-as-a-Service approach, KPMG named Radicle Science as one of the Top 10 U.S. "Tech Innovators" of 2022, and UC San Francisco named Radicle Science a 2022 Digital Health Awards "Rising Star" finalist. These recent awards add to the numerous other honors the company and its founders have received.
Radicle Science currently offers standardized clinical trials on an array of health areas, including sleep, stress, anxiety, pain, energy, appetite, cognition, quality of life, and overall health and wellness. Standardized clinical trials for digestive health, immunity and women's health are forthcoming in 2023.
Radicle Science is history's first and only proof-as-a-service company, offering an easy path for non-pharmaceutical products to clinically prove their true effects beyond placebo. Radicle Science leverages an AI-driven, crowdsourced, virtual and direct-to-consumer approach to power clinical research at unprecedented affordability, speed and scale across diverse populations and conditions. The Radicle vision for the B-corp is an abundant future where democratized access to clinical trials closes the proof gap and transforms non-pharmaceutical products into proven personalized medicines accessible by all. To learn more about Radicle Science, visit www.RadicleScience.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the New York City department of buildings resigned on Thursday amid reports that he was being questioned by prosecutors as part of an investigation into illegal gambling.
Fabien Levy, press secretary to Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement that Eric Ulrich had “tendered his resignation as DOB commissioner in an effort to, in his words, avoid ‘unnecessary distraction for the Adams administration.’”
Ulrich, a Republican former City Council member, had served as city buildings commissioner since Adams, a Democrat, appointed him to the post in May.
“We have accepted his resignation, appreciate him taking this step, and wish him well,” Levy said.
The New York Times reported that investigators from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg questioned Ulrich as part of an illegal gambling investigation and seized his phone on Tuesday.
The Times said the scope of the investigation was not clear. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
As buildings commissioner, Ulrich, 37, led the department that enforces building codes, issues permits and responds to structural emergencies in a city with more than a million buildings.
Ulrich earlier represented a Queens district on the City Council, first winning his seat in a special election in 2009.
While on the council, he reported to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board that he had won between $5,000 and $47,999 gambling in 2015, the Daily News reported.
Efforts to reach Ulrich for comment on Thursday were not successful. Two phone numbers listed for him were not in service.
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Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, August 4
SAN DIEGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX) announced today that it will report second quarter 2022 financial results after the Nasdaq market closes on Thursday, August 4, 2022. Neurocrine will then host a conference call and webcast to discuss its financial results and provide a company update that day at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time).
Participants can access the live conference call by dialing 800-895-3361 (US) or 785-424-1062 (International) using the conference ID: NBIX. The webcast can also be accessed on Neurocrine's website under Investors at www.neurocrine.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website approximately one hour after the conclusion of the event and will be archived for approximately one month.
About Neurocrine Biosciences
Neurocrine Biosciences is a neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company with a simple purpose: to relieve suffering for people with great needs, but few options. We are dedicated to discovering and developing life-changing treatments for patients with under-addressed neurological, neuroendocrine, and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company's diverse portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson's disease, endometriosis* and uterine fibroids*, as well as over a dozen mid-to-late-stage clinical programs in multiple therapeutic areas. For three decades, we have applied our unique insight into neuroscience and the interconnections between brain and body systems to treat complex conditions. We relentlessly pursue medicines to ease the burden of debilitating diseases and disorders, because you deserve brave science. For more information, visit neurocrine.com, and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. (*in collaboration with AbbVie)
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Lloyd Newman, one of the reporters of the documentary Ghetto Life 101, died this week at age 43. The documentary aired on this program almost 30 years ago.
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Lloyd Newman, one of the reporters of the documentary Ghetto Life 101, died this week at age 43. The documentary aired on this program almost 30 years ago.
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One year after Uvalde shooting, investigation of police response continues
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A criminal investigation in Texas over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting is still ongoing as Wednesday marks one year since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde.
The continuing probe underlines the lasting fallout over Texas’ deadliest school shooting and how the days after the attack were marred by authorities giving inaccurate and conflicting accounts about efforts made to stop a teenage gunman armed with an AR-style rifle.
The investigation has run parallel to a new wave of public anger in the U.S. over gun violence, renewed calls for stricter firearm regulations and legal challenges over authorities in Uvalde continuing to withhold public records related to the shooting and the police response.
Here’s a look at what has happened in the year since one of America’s deadliest mass shootings:
POLICE SCRUTINY
A damning report by Texas lawmakers put nearly 400 officers on the scene from an array of federal, state and local agencies. The findings laid out how heavily armed officers waited more than hour to confront and kill the 18-year-old gunman. It also accused police of failing “to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety.”
All of the students killed were between the ages of 9 and 11 years old.
At least five officers who were put under investigation after the shooting were either fired or resigned, although a full accounting is unclear. The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Col. Steve McCraw, put much of the blame after the attack on Uvalde’s school police chief, who was later fired by trustees.
McCraw had more than 90 of his own officers at the school — more than any other agency — and has rebuffed calls by some Uvalde families and lawmakers to also resign.
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell said last week that Texas Rangers are still investigating the police response and that her office will ultimately present the findings to a grand jury. She said she did not have a timeline for when the investigation would be finished.
CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL INTENSIFY
President Joe Biden signed the nation’s most sweeping gun violence bill in decades a month after the shooting. It included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and added more funding for mental health programs and aid to schools.
It did not go as far as restrictions sought by some Uvalde families who have called on lawmakers to raise the purchase age for AR-style rifles. In the GOP-controlled Texas Capitol, Republicans this year rejected virtually all proposals to tighten gun laws over the protests of the families and Democrats.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has also waved off calls for tougher gun laws, just as he did after mass shootings at a Sutherland Springs church in 2017 and an El Paso Walmart in 2018. The issue has not turned Texas voters away from Abbott, who easily won a third term months after the Uvalde shooting.
UVALDE GRIEVES
The Uvalde school district permanently closed the Robb Elementary campus and plans for a new school are in the works. Schools in Uvalde will be closed on Wednesday.
About a dozen students in the classroom where the shooting unfolded survived the attack. Some returned to class in person last fall. Others attended school virtually, including a girl who spent more than two months in the hospital after being shot multiple times.
Veronica Mata, a kindergarten teacher in Uvalde, also returned to class this year after her 10-daughter Tess was among those killed in the attack.
Some Uvalde families have filed lawsuits against the gun maker and law enforcement.
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GREAT NECK, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Singularity Future Technology Ltd. ("Singularity" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SGLY) announced today that on November 16, 2022, it received an additional staff determination notice (the "Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") advising that it had not received the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022, which served as an additional basis for delisting the Company's securities and that Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the "Panel") will consider the additional deficiency in rendering a determination regarding the Company's continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market. The Company has submitted to the Panel a plan to regain compliance with the continued listing requirements, including the filing of the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022.
About Singularity Future Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: SGLY)
On January 3, 2022, the Company changed its name from Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. to Singularity Future Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: SGLY). Singularity is a logistics integrated solution provider, primarily focused on providing logistics, resources, equipment and other logistical support to blockchain and crypto mining businesses. Since 2020, the Company has worked to capitalize on its experience in global logistics management to develop a presence in the blockchain supply management area. At present, Singularity distributes, sells and markets crypto mining machines through its Thor Miner joint venture and maintains a warehouse providing inventory control and management services in Houston, TX.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made herein that are not based on historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (which Sections were adopted as part of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). While the Company's management has based any forward-looking statements contained herein on its current expectations, the information on which such expectations were based may change. These forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are outside of the Company's control, that could cause actual results to materially differ from such statements. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. The Company disclaims any intention to, and undertake no obligation to, update or revise any forward-looking statement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — El demócrata Tony Evers gana la reelección para gobernador de Wisconsin.
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NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama and head toward the United States over land, despite a U.S. announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air.
“The news hit us like a bucket of cold water,” Fernández said Thursday, a day after the announcement, which also stated that Venezuelans arriving by land at the Mexico-U.S. border would be returned to Mexico.
Fernández spoke to The Associated Press on a beach in Necoclí, a coastal town in Colombia where about 9,000 people, mostly Venezuelans, waited to board a boat to take them to the entrance of the Darién Gap connecting the South American country to Panama. From there, migrants head by land up Central America through Mexico toward the U.S.
Some on the Colombian beach said they would seek other routes into the United States or give up the voyage after hearing the news. Critics noted that the number of humanitarian visas was just a fraction of the number of Venezuelans seeking to enter the United States.
But for Fernández it was too late to turn back. He said he sold his car and his land in Venezuela to finance the trip with his 18-year-old son and his friends, and he no longer has money for a plane ticket to the U.S.
“Those of us who have already started, how are we going to do that?” he wondered. “We are already involved in this.”
The U.S. and Mexico said Wednesday that the Biden administration agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U.S. airports while Mexico agreed to take back Venezuelans who come to the U.S. over land.
Venezuelans who walk or swim across the border will be immediately returned to Mexico under a pandemic rule known as Title 42 authority, which suspends rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The U.S. offer to the Venezuelans is modeled on a similar program for Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion.
The moves are a response to a dramatic increase in migration from Venezuela, which surpassed Guatemala and Honduras in August to become the second largest nationality arriving at the U.S. border after Mexico.
So far in 2022, more than 151,000 people have crossed into Panama through the jungle, the majority — 107,600 — Venezuelans. That already exceeds the 133,000 Venezuelan who crossed in the previous year, according to official Panamanian figures. The trip through the inhospitable jungle is fraught with dangers, including thieves, human traffickers and the possibility of sexual assault. Armed groups operate in the region.
Arrests of Venezuelans at the U.S. border also have increased. Authorities detained Venezuelans 25,349 times in August, making them the second most detained nationality at the border, after Mexicans.
For some, the offer of 24,000 humanitarian visas is not enough given the dimensions of Venezuela’s migration situation and the conditions on those visas are too difficult.
María Clara Robayo, an investigator for the Venezuelan Observatory at Colombia’s Del Rosario University, said the flow of migrants through the Darién Gap might be reduced a bit but won’t stop.
“People will continue exposing themselves to precarious situations” crossing the jungle, she said.
Jeremy Villegas arrived in Necoclí in a group of 30 people, most of whom are turning back or looking for other routes. He said he is still undecided and is waiting to hear from people who are farther along the route to know if it is worth the risk.
Cristian Casamayor said he has decided to stop his journey through the Darién after hearing of the new U.S. policy.
“I stopped out of awareness and being smart … they mark your passport and you can no longer enter the United States,” he said, adding that he has not decided where he will go now. All he knows is that he will not return to Venezuela.
Mario Ricardo Camejo, a member of the non-profit Colombian-Venezuelan foundation Fundacolven, said that while they appreciate any help and humanitarian visas from countries, like the U.S., they worry the help comes with conditions that make it difficult on the poorest migrants. For example, having to arrive by plane and have a financial sponsor.
“Automatically, a filter is created that ensures the help does not reach the people who need it most,” Camejo said.
Of the more than 7.1 million Venezuelans who have left their country due to the social and economic crisis, at least 4.3 million have difficulties accessing food, housing and formal employment, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Organization for Migration and the UNHCR.
Venezuelans back in that country’s capital agreed the new rules will hurt.
“The people who leave by land have no money, no visa, no family there” in the United States, José Santana said in Caracas’ central plaza. “It is useless for them to say that they are going to let many enter by plane.”
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