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Nearly 500 barrels of liquid asphalt spilled at Marathon Petroleum’s St. Paul Park refinery at the end of March and left two contractors injured.
The incident happened on the afternoon of March 20 during maintenance repairs when approximately 20,000 gallons of hot asphalt leaked from a tank, according to a report received by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Two men at the refinery were taken to the hospital for asphalt burns, according to officials at the Washington County sheriff’s office. At the time alarms at the refinery went off, said Sandi Dingle, mayor of St. Paul Park, in an email, but there was no evacuation of the public.
The asphalt was contained and did not leak into the surrounding environment, according to a statement by the MPCA. Once it hardened, the material was disposed of and no further action was required, the agency said.
A statement from Marathon said the two injured — who were contractors — were taken to the hospital and released the same day.
Marathon also said air monitoring was deployed as a precaution and revealed no environmental impacts.
Contractor training bill
One state senator is pushing for legislation that she said could prevent such incidents.
Minnesota Sen. Judy Seeberger is trying to pass a bill during this legislative session that she said establishes training requirements for contracted employees who work in refineries.
Seeberger, a Democrat who’s district includes Cottage Grove and Hastings, said her bill also requires that a percentage of contracted employees be trained through registered apprenticeship programs, which she said is the gold standard for worker training.
“This bill came about because workers at the Marathon plant raised alarms because unskilled workers are coming in,” Seeberger said. “I’m alarmed that something like this could happen and it speaks directly to why I’m bringing this bill.”
Introduced in January, the bill currently has bipartisan support but Seeberger said pushback has stemmed from those who doubt the seriousness of the safety issues.
Sen. Jason Rarick, R-Pine City, said one of his main concerns is that being a part of a registered apprenticeship program cannot guarantee safety.
He said the apprenticeship programs do not focus on safety. Instead, he said, training should come from the refineries.
“There’s always going to be accidents whether they’ve been through the registered apprenticeship programs or not,” Rarick said. “People are going to make mistakes.”
Rarick said recent concessions were made on the bill including the percentage of contractors who are to be trained, coming down from 85% of trained staff by 2025 to 60%.
“I believe it will pass,” Rarick said about the bill. “Is this going to help? I suppose. But it can’t guarantee the safety.”
Seeberger said the most recent incident in St. Paul Park shows there is legitimate concern. “The incident at Marathon is exactly what my bill is supposed to address and prevent,” Seeberger said. | 2023-04-12T22:15:44+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/04/12/marathon-refinery-st-paul-park-hot-asphalt-spill-workers-injured/ |
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams have claimed quarterback Baker Mayfield off waivers.
The Rams made the move Tuesday to add Mayfield, the No. 1 pick in the 2018 draft by Cleveland. Mayfield was released by the Panthers on Monday at his request after seven disappointing games with Carolina.
After league-wide speculation about Mayfield joining the contending San Francisco 49ers or Baltimore Ravens, Mayfield instead will join the injury-plagued Rams (3-9). Los Angeles has lost six straight games during what’s shaping up as the worst season in NFL history for a defending Super Bowl champion.
The Rams also need help at quarterback: Matthew Stafford is almost certainly out for the season with a bruised spinal cord, and backups John Wolford and Bryce Perkins have been fairly ineffective while playing three of the past four games. Wolford passed for 178 yards with no touchdowns in last Sunday’s loss to Seattle.
The Rams host the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday night, and it’s unclear whether Mayfield could be ready to participate.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist Lou Perrotti.
These eastern musk turtles, known for spending much of their lives in swamps and ponds and emitting a foul smell when threatened, were confiscated recently in a wildlife bust. And, though the reptiles are common, their illegal sale on the internet greatly concerns Perrotti, who directs conservation programs at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence.
“We are seeing an uptick in turtle poaching,” he said. “It’s getting ruthless where we are seeing thousands of turtles leaving the United States on an annual basis. … Turtle populations cannot take that kind of a hit with that much removal coming out of the wild.”
Wildlife trade experts believe that poaching — driven by growing demand for pets in the U.S., Asia and Europe — is contributing to the global decline of rare freshwater turtle and tortoise species. One study found over half of the 360 living turtle and tortoise species are at risk of extinction.
Such concerns have prompted a dozen proposals to increase protection for freshwater turtles at the 184-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting in Panama Nov. 14 through Nov. 25.
Precise figures on the turtle trade, especially illegal trade, can be hard to find. Based on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data, Tara Easter, a University of Michigan doctoral candidate who studies the trade, estimated the commercial export trade for mud turtles in the United States increased from 1,844 in 1999 to nearly 40,000 in 2017 and musk turtles from 8,254 in 1999 to more than 281,000 in 2016.
In their CITES proposal to ban or limit the commercial trade in more than 20 mud turtles species, the United States and several Latin American countries cited data from Mexico that found nearly 20,000 were confiscated, mostly at the Mexico City airport, from 2010 to 2022.
Among the world’s most trafficked animals, freshwater turtles are targeted by criminal networks that connect with buyers on the internet then transport the reptiles to black markets in Hong Kong and other Asian cities. From there, they are sold as pets, to collectors and for commercial breeding, food and traditional medicine. In many countries, trade is poorly regulated or not regulated at all.
The lucrative business — some turtle species coveted for their colorful shells or strange appearance can fetch thousand of dollars in Asia — adds to threats turtles already face. Those include climate change, habitat destruction, road mortality and predators eating their eggs.
Poachers are particularly problematic, experts say, because they target rare species and adult breeding females. Many turtle species, which can live for several decades, don’t reach reproductive maturity for a decade or more.
“The loss of large numbers of adults, especially females, can send turtles into a spiraling decline from which they cannot recover,” said Dave Collins, director of North American turtle conservation for the Turtle Survival Alliance. “Turtles have extremely low reproduction levels, producing a few eggs every year.”
Since 2018, the Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles — an organization of mostly state, federal and tribal biologists who combat poaching of North American turtles — has documented at least 30 major smuggling cases in 15 states. Some involved a few dozen turtles, others several thousand.
Easter at the University of Michigan identified 59 U.S. cases over the past 20 years involving about 30,000 illegally traded turtles.
Earlier this year, a federal judge in North Carolina sentenced a man to 18 months in prison and fined him $25,000 for trafficking turtles in violation of the Lacey Act. The law bans trafficking in fish, wildlife or plants that are illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
The man trafficked 722 eastern box turtles — the North Carolina state reptile — as well as 122 spotted turtles and three wood turtles through a middleman for markets in Asia. The man received more than $120,000 for the turtles, which have a value of $1.5 million in Asia.
In 2021, a Chinese national was sentenced to 38 months in prison and fined $10,000 for money laundering after previously pleading guilty to financing a nationwide smuggling ring that sent 1,500 turtles worth more than $2.2 million from the U.S. to China.
The man used PayPal to purchase the turtles from American buyers advertising them on social media and reptile websites and sold them to Hong Kong reptile markets.
In 2020, a New Jersey man was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution and fines for smuggling 1,000 three-toed and western box turtles from Oklahoma to New Jersey in candy wrappers and socks.
The illegal trade has prompted governments to propose listing for the first time 42 turtles species under CITES — including North American musk turtles. Though some species like the eastern musk turtle are common, a listing means traders will need a permit to sell them internationally. Commercial sale of other species such as alligator snapping turtles, found in U.S. Gulf states and reaching up to 200 pounds, would be limited.
Proposals would also tighten regulations on 13 others already listed for protection.
“We think that’s really, really important just because of the trends that we’ve seen over the past couple of decades in international reptile and particularly turtle trade,” said U.S. Department of the Interior’s Matthew Strickler, who will head the American delegation at CITES.
“There’s significant demand from Southeast Asia for food and the pet trade, but also from Europe, for pets as well,” he said. “We’ve seen this pattern of turtles being depleted in one place, and then poachers and traffickers and traders moving to another place. Southeast Asia was depleted. They moved to Africa. Now, we see them moving to the Americas.”
The tiny musk turtles were spotted for sale online by a Rhode Island Environmental Police intern. They were only $20 each. The turtles, which grow to five inches (13 centimeters) and live for decades, are brown or black with a white or yellow line along their heads.
Police busted the seller in September after arranging an undercover buy at his house. The seller paid a $1,600 fine for possessing a reptile without a permit. The hope is that the turtles, now quarantined at the Providence zoo, are injury- and disease-free and can be released back to the wild.
“Obviously when we are talking about native species being removed even for pets, it has a big impact,” said Harold Guise, an environmental police detective who handled the case. “The commercialization of wildlife has an impact on wildlife that we can’t even measure until it has already happened. We need to get ahead of these things.”
For Perrotti the conservation director, it was a reminder that illegal trade once focused in Asia is increasingly happening in his backyard.
“I couldn’t believe there was a market for it and that someone was either mass producing these or mass collecting these to make a few bucks,” he said. “A $20 turtle. That’s ridiculous. … Wildlife is not a commodity for somebody to profit on.”
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Dr. William Vantine Will Retire and Remain on the Board Rich Sawchak Appointed New CEO
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA), a leading provider of innovative solutions in support of critical national security objectives and complex defense priorities for over 50 years, today announced that Dr. William (Bill) Vantine will retire as President and CEO while remaining on the Board of Directors. Rich Sawchak, a current member of the Company's Board of Directors, will succeed Dr. Vantine as CEO.
"The timing of Bill's retirement was planned during the transition to Arlington Capital's ownership last year, and we are grateful for his outstanding leadership as SPA's President and CEO over the past seven years," said David Wodlinger, Board Chairperson and a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital Partners. "With Bill at the helm, SPA achieved impressive performance through consecutive years of high growth while achieving excellence across each of our key performance indicators, culminating in the recently announced 2022 GovCon Contractor of the Year award, while also being named for seven consecutive years as a Washington Post Top Workplace. Over the past year, he skillfully led SPA through the integration of four companies while maintaining SPA's culture of excellence, setting the stage for the next phase of the Company's growth."
Among other significant accomplishments, Dr. Vantine was named the GovCon CEO of the year in 2019 and the WashingtonExec DoD Private Sector Executive of the Year in 2021.
"SPA is thriving as it heads into its next chapter thanks to our incredible team that delivers high quality, high-impact decision support that our clients have relied on for over 50 years. I have had the privilege to lead and learn from this great team as they have continuously supported our clients' complex missions. I will always be SPA's biggest supporter and I am filled with gratitude for my time here. I look forward to continuing to contribute to SPA's amazing success through my participation on the Board of Directors, and I am confident the Company will be in great hands under Rich's leadership," said Dr. Vantine.
Mr. Sawchak commented, "I am truly honored and excited at the opportunity to lead SPA, a great Company I have long admired. Having served on SPA's Board of Directors for the last year, I have gained an even greater appreciation of SPA's focus on mission, values, and culture. I look forward to continuing to execute on the successful strategy initiated by Bill over the last seven years. SPA has an extremely bright future ahead, and the first 50 years are only the beginning."
Rich Sawchak will succeed Dr. Vantine as CEO on 21 November and brings over 25 years of leadership experience within the government services and technology industries to SPA, where he will continue driving its success as a pure-play technical advisory services firm focused on a people-first culture and commitment to its customers' missions. Mr. Sawchak served most recently as the CFO of Hypori, Inc. Mr. Sawchak has been a senior executive for four private equity or venture-backed companies, where he successfully completed many acquisition, integration and financing transactions to drive stakeholder value.
Prior to joining Hypori, Mr. Sawchak was the CFO of Novetta for nine years until the successful sale of the company to Accenture Federal Services. He was previously employed by Schafer Corporation, where he served as Executive Vice President and CFO. Before that, Mr. Sawchak served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Paradigm Solutions until the successful sale of the company to CACI International. He serves as a board member of SPA, Gunnison Consulting, and Cydecor as well as a trustee of the University of Valley Forge.
SPA is a premier global provider of innovative solutions in support of complex national security programs and defense priorities. SPA's capabilities include Advanced Analytics, Cost Estimating, Software Tool Development, System Engineering, DevSecOps, Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and Integrated Program Management. With nearly 1,500 professionals, SPA's employees are subject matter experts in numerous domains, including Land, Undersea, Surface and Air Warfare Operations; Intelligence Community, Radar and Sensor Systems; Unmanned Systems and Counter Systems; Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Safety and Security; Defense Industrial Base and Economic Security; Space Systems; Ballistic Missile Systems; Cybersecurity Analysis and Policy; and Hypersonics. SPA is a 2022 GovCon Contractor of the Year awardee, a Washington Post Top Workplace consecutively since 2016, and a recipient of the Department of Labor HIRE Vets Gold Medal for the past five consecutive years. SPA is a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners. Additional information on SPA can be found at www.spa.com.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Lindsey Vonn has been keeping track while Mikaela Shiffrin first matched her women’s World Cup skiing record of 82 wins earlier this month and then surpassed it with win No. 83 on Tuesday at a giant slalom in Italy.
Vonn offered her thoughts earlier this month about the record just before Shiffrin won her 82nd race.
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I’m really happy for Mikaela.
Records are meant to be broken and it’s a sign of progress. And if anyone is to break my record, I’m really happy that it’s an American.
She’s going to continue pushing the limits and continue to inspire other Americans. There were a lot of women who paved the way for me. And now it’s her turn to pave the way for the next generation.
It’s pretty impressive that the top two female skiers of all time are Americans in a sport historically dominated by Europeans. We’re 20 wins ahead (21 for Shiffrin with Tuesday's victory) of the next woman (Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria with 62 wins), which is a substantial margin. So it’s not even really close. It just speaks for our country as a whole and what we’re capable of doing.
Ski racing might not be as popular as it used to be. Snowboarding and other freestyle sports have gained popularity. So Mikaela breaking the record now is really great for the sport. I hope that it generates a lot of kids getting into the sport. Hopefully, she’ll inspire the next American and hopefully Americans will stand 1-2-3 on the all-time list.
We’ve definitely had a very different journey to 82. She’s the absolute perfect technical skier and has also won in the speed disciplines. I was the downhiller who also had wins in the technical races. I unfortunately had many, many injuries, and my road was quite a bit longer. But she’s at an incredible pace to not just reach 82 but go well, well beyond that.
Catching Ingemar Stenmark’s men’s mark of 86 wins was always the ultimate goal for me, but with the injuries I sustained it just wasn’t possible. For her, the sky’s the limit. I don’t think that Stenmark is necessarily the benchmark. She’s going to set the new standard and we’ll just have to wait and see how high she’s able to go.
I knew from the very beginning that she would be the one to break all the records. But to be able to do it at such a young age is really impressive.
And I don’t think Mikaela should vary too much from her current approach. Not racing more speed events has done her well because she’s been able to stay injury free. Her plans are working pretty well. So I would probably just stick to what she’s been doing.
I remember when I first met Mikaela when we were training in Hinterreit (Austria) and she was starting out. I came up to her and I said, “Welcome to the team.” And I know that it can be a little intimidating at first because she was so young. But I said, “I’m always here if you ever need anything.” She was with her mom and she seemed really happy and excited to be with the team. I remember it perfectly.
We don’t get in touch that often, but I reached out to her when her dad passed away and she reached out to me when my mom recently passed away, which I really appreciated. I wrote her for New Year’s and congratulated her on Semmering (Shiffrin won three straight races in the Austrian resort last month) and I told her, “I’m looking forward to watching you break all the records.”
I’ll be watching from afar, though. This is her moment to savor, and I'll be cheering from the sidelines, like all ski racing fans.
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More AP skiing: https://apnews.com/hub/skiing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-24T17:04:07+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lindsey-Vonn-Shiffrin-s-record-breaking-is-sign-17738303.php |
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic break, she went into her bathroom and downed a whole bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform CPR to save her life.
Around that same time more than a decade ago, the man who would become her husband, Dante Murry, also lost touch with reality and considered suicide.
Different illnesses led them down similar paths – bipolar disorder in her case and schizoaffective disorder in his – conditions long considered by many to be distinct and unrelated.
But a growing body of research shows that bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and the in-between diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder share common genetic underpinnings as well as overlapping symptoms and signs.
“They can be considered as part of a spectrum,” said Dr. Morgan Sheng, who co-directs a psychiatric research center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Bipolar disorder is known for causing extreme mood swings. Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, hallucinations and disordered thinking. Schizoaffective disorder includes symptoms of both.
The theory that they exist on a continuum has gained ground as more and more studies have found that variations in some of the same genes influence how susceptible people are to these conditions. One of the latest examples is the AKAP11 gene, which scientists at Broad and elsewhere pinpointed as a strong risk factor for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in research published in the journal Nature Genetics this year.
Experts say these insights will help doctors better understand what drives the illnesses, how they affect the body’s most notoriously bewildering organ and what more can be done to help people. Down the road, experts envision the research could help guide treatment and lead to better drugs. For now, they hope it reinforces the idea that such disorders are biologically rooted and not moral failings or mysterious, unknowable conditions.
“That’s what the science is giving us – a clear indication that there are genetic markers and risk factors,” said Dr. Ken Duckworth, chief medical officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
The Murrys — who met through the alliance and married in 2020 — hope the research provides answers for them and so many others with mental illness who they’ve gotten to know. With they help of doctors and one another, they are keeping their disorders in check and have found purpose helping others in similar straits.
Chastity Murry, 48, called them perfect partners; “He’s the peanut butter; I’m the jelly.”
“Yes,” Dante Murry, 50, added with a smile. “She’s sweeter than I am.”
PASSING DOWN PUZZLING CONDITIONS
Mental illness runs in both of their families – haunting hers for at least five generations, she says.
Knowing this “helped me to understand why this is happening to me,” Chastity Murry said. “That possibility was always there.”
Sheng said genetics plays a big part in bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia. But experience and environment also play a big part, and these things interact in subtle ways. So it’s not like everyone with risk genes is destined to become ill.
Morgan said a severe risk gene for schizophrenia, for example, may increase the chance of getting the disease 10-fold. But that only brings it up to 10%, since the population-wide risk of developing the illness is 1%. Given those odds, parents with the gene might not have any children with the illness.
But “if you take a whole extended family that has that risk gene, there will be a number of cases popping up,” Morgan said. “It’s a roll of the dice.”
Experts say other illnesses along what some call the “psychosis continuum” are also more likely. “When you look at a family, if you have one person with schizophrenia, you’re more likely to have schizophrenia yourself, but you’re also more likely to have bipolar,” said Dr. Fernando Goes, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University.
The same is true for schizoaffective disorder, studies show.
There are no tests for these conditions — which together affect around 9 million U.S. adults — so diagnosis is based on history and the sometimes overlapping symptoms. For instance, psychosis can happen in all three illnesses.
This can make diagnosis difficult. Sally Littlefield of Oakland, California, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, then schizoaffective disorder, after spiraling into psychosis during a work meeting in 2018. For 10 months, she was convinced a team of psychologists had assumed control of her life and were experimenting on her against her will.
At one point during a manic episode, Littlefield wandered the streets of San Francisco, breaking into houses and cars, shoplifting and jumping from one car rooftop to another. She was eventually tackled by police and hospitalized. She came to realize she was ill when her delusions got so grandiose she believed she was president of the United States.
She said she’s now doing well and willing to tell her story to help dispel stigma, discrimination and shame, which “prevents a lot of us from recovering.”
A ‘VERY LONG JOURNEY’
People with mental illness hope stigma fades as doctors learn more about how these disorders arise and affect the brain.
A 2019 study said a growing number of experts now recognize that schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar not only share common genetic risk factors and symptoms but also look similar in neuroimaging and may have common treatment regimens. The mood stabilizer lithium, for example, is often used to treat bipolar and schizoaffective disorder. The recent Broad Institute research may provide clues to how the drug works, since AKAP11 interacts with what’s thought to be lithium’s target.
Other drugs also treat more than one of the illnesses. The Murrys take several of the same medications.
Someday, experts said genetic insights might allow doctors to intervene earlier in the disease process. While few people get genetic testing now – except perhaps to see how they might react to a particular drug – scientists said that could change in the future. If people knew their genetic risk and family history, Sheng said, they could seek help if something didn’t seem quite right, before an illness caused major problems.
Some scientists, while acknowledging common genetic underpinnings of bipolar, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia, are skeptical about framing them as on a psychosis continuum, particularly if that leads to changing categories doctors use to diagnose people with each disorder. They say the current criteria are useful in deciding treatment and care.
Scientists agree that more research is needed. Finding new illness risk genes, for instance, is only the first step toward developing new medicines. A Broad “road map” says researchers must also figure out how the genes function, understand disease mechanisms and identify targets for the drugs.
NAMI’s Duckworth said it might be “5 to 50 years” before genetic findings translate into changes in clinical practice. “It’s a very long journey.”
Meanwhile, many people living with mental illness rely on peer support in addition to medication and psychotherapy. The Murrys check on each other daily.
“I can always tell when he’s having a bad day. He can always tell when I’m having a bad day,” said Chastity Murry, who has also been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and an anxiety disorder. “If I’m acting a little off or something, he’ll ask me: Have you taken your meds today? But I don’t get offended because I know he’s got my best interest in mind.”
Both have also learned and grown from working as volunteers. Together, they facilitate support groups twice a week, check in with peers regularly by phone, and have been trained to help people who are suicidal.
“This is my path in life, and his path as well,” Chastity Murry said. “We’re helping them, but they’re also helping us.”
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Anime films have been a big hit at the domestic box office — a sign there is room in the movie market for more than just sequels and superheroes.
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Anime films have been a big hit at the domestic box office — a sign there is room in the movie market for more than just sequels and superheroes.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Hampden County District Attorney Anthony Gulluni was at the Chicopee boys and girls club Wednesday to announce $64,000 in funding.
Eight local organizations have been selected as recipients of grants made through the Hampden County District Attorney 2023 Drug Forfeiture Program.
These include:
- The Chicopee Boys and Girls Club ($4,833)
- New North Citizens Council Springfield ($8,000)
- Pioneer Valley Riverfront Club ($3,216)
- Springfield Together Inc. ($13,000)
- Western Mass Youth Flag Football Organization ($10,981)
- Academic Leadership Association of Greater Springfield ($9,000)
- Springfield Ballers ($8,600)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampden County ($5,000)
D.A. Anthony Gulluni explained to 22News how the forfeiture program turns something negative into a positive, “We give relatively small grants through forfeiture in our court system, which is allowed by state law that really supports these programs to do particular things, like rebuild a basketball court or start a special program to provide food to families in need.”
Beyond grants, drug seizure money is often used to expand law enforcement anti-drug programs.
Gulluni hopes to continue assisting local organizations through this program for years to come. | 2023-06-07T22:02:49+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/local-non-profits-receive-62000-from-district-attorney/ |
The Florida Senate on Tuesday approved sweeping legislation that would overhaul the state’s property insurance system, which has struggled due to insolvencies, high costs and major storms.
The bill would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, reduce litigation costs and compel some customers to leave a state-created insurer. It also would force insurers to respond more promptly to claims and increase state oversight of insurers’ conduct following hurricanes.
The Republican proposal was put forth during the GOP-led Legislature’s second special session this year to stabilize the state’s property insurance market. The state House is expected to give the measure final passage this week.
Florida has struggled to control rising property insurance costs and hold onto insurers in a market where natural disasters weigh heavily on the cost of business. The session comes after Hurricane Ian smashed into the southwest coast in late September and caused an estimated $40 billion to $70 billion in insured losses.
The bill, which builds on insurance legislation passed in May, is not expected to immediately lower rates for policyholders, which has drawn criticism from Democrats. Backers of the bill argue that it is meant to stabilize the market, which could lower rates in the future.
“As we look forward, and as these reforms take place and work their way through the rate-making process, I absolutely believe it will drive their costs down,” said Republican state Sen. Jim Boyd, who sponsored the bill. “While it might not happen today, I absolutely believe we will have rate relief as we move forward in the future.”
Average annual premiums have risen to more than $4,200 in Florida, which is triple the national average. About 12% of homeowners in the state don’t have property insurance, compared to the national average of 5%, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a research organization funded by the insurance industry.
“Homeowners in Florida are being crushed right now by the cost of housing and insurance costs are a major part of that,” said Democratic state Sen. Darryl Rouson. “Any action that does not address the instability and costs to the consumer and does not provide meaningful near-term relief for policyholders, I believe falls short of our goals.”
Senate Democrats filed a round of amendments to the bill. They peppered Boyd with detailed questions about the state of the insurance market, insurance litigation and various elements of the complex proposal.
Republicans rejected the Democratic amendments following several hours of debate and eventually approved the legislation.
The insurance industry has seen two straight years of net underwriting losses exceeding $1 billion each year in Florida. Six insurers have gone insolvent this year, while others are leaving the state.
The insurance industry says litigation is partly to blame. Loopholes in Florida law, including fee multipliers that allow attorneys to collect higher fees for property insurance cases, have made Florida an excessively litigious state, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute has said.
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has said the state accounts for 76% of the nation’s homeowners’ insurance lawsuits but just 9% of all homeowners insurance claims.
The legislation would remove “one-way” attorney fees for property insurance, which require property insurers to pay the attorney fees of policyholders who successfully sue over claims, while shielding policyholders from paying insurers’ attorney fees when they lose.
Attorneys groups have argued that the insurance industry is at fault for refusing to pay out claims and that policyholders sue as a last resort. The alternative, arbitration, tilts in favor of insurance companies, they say.
“Is the answer punishing the people of Florida? They’re not going to have any chance to oppose a decision an insurance company makes unless they’re independently wealthy,” Ron Haynes, a Tampa attorney speaking for the Florida Justice Association, told the House Appropriations Committee. “Insurance should be a blanket of coverage and not a blanket that smothers you.”
The bill would provide $1 billion in taxpayer funds for a program to provide carriers with hurricane reinsurance, coverage bought to help ensure they can pay out claims. It would offer “reasonable” rates in a market where companies have complained about rising costs.
The proposal will also speed up the claims process and eliminate the state’s assignment of benefits laws, in which property owners sign over their claims to contractors who then handle proceedings with insurance companies.
“This is groundbreaking legislation. In fact, it is the strongest insurance reform package we have ever seen proposed in Florida,” said Mark Friedlander, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute. He called litigation abuse and assignment of benefits abuse the “root causes of Florida’s property insurance crisis.”
The unstable insurance environment in Florida has pushed homeowners unable to get private coverage to the state’s public insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance, which this summer topped 1 million policies for the first time in almost a decade.
The bill would force people with Citizens policies to pay for flood insurance and require moves to private insurers if they offer a policy up to 20% more expensive than Citizens.
“We have an overall bill here that in my opinion is absolutely historic,” said Barry Gilway, Citizens president, CEO, and executive director. “It is the start of a major change in the property insurance market in Florida. It will draw capital back into the Florida marketplace. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen a lot sooner than people think.”
Lawmakers this week are also expected to pass separate bills that would provide property tax relief to people whose homes and businesses were made uninhabitable by Ian and give 50% refunds to commuters who pay more than 35 highway tolls in a month with a transponder.
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Associated Press writer Curt Anderson contributed from St. Petersburg, Florida. | 2022-12-14T14:01:46+00:00 | winknews.com | https://www.winknews.com/2022/12/14/florida-senate-passes-property-insurance-overhaul/ |
By The Associated Press
New tensions between Moscow and the West are rising after Lithuania decided to halt the transport of some goods through its territory to the Russian region of Kaliningrad as part of European Union sanctions on the Kremlin.
The Kremlin warns it will retaliate against the sanctions, stemming from its invasion of Ukraine, in a way that will have a “significant negative impact” on the Lithuanian people, raising fears of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
A look at why tensions are rising over Kaliningrad, a part of Russia on the Baltic Sea that is separated from the rest of the country:
RUSSIA’S WESTERNMOST TERRITORY
The Kaliningrad region once was part of the German province of East Prussia, which was taken over by the Soviet Union after World War II in line with the 1945 Potsdam agreement among the Allied powers. East Prussia’s capital of Konigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad, for Mikhail Kalinin, a Bolshevik leader.
An estimated 2 million of Germans fled the territory in the final months of World War II, and those who stayed were forcibly expelled after hostilities ended.
The Soviet authorities developed Kaliningrad as a major ice-free port and a key center of fishing, encouraging people from other regions to move into the territory. Since the Cold War era, Kaliningrad also has served as a major base of Russia’s Baltic fleet.
But since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Baltic countries, Kaliningrad finds itself separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, now all NATO members. To the south is Poland, another NATO member.
MILITARY BASTION
As Russia’s relations with the West have soured, Kaliningrad’s military role has grown. Its location has put it in the forefront of Moscow’s efforts to counter what it described as NATO’s hostile policies.
The Kremlin has methodically bolstered its military forces there, arming them with state-of-the-art weapons, including precision-guided Iskander missiles and an array of air defense systems.
As the region’s military significance has grown, its dependence on goods coming through Poland and Lithuania has made it particularly vulnerable.
TRANSIT HALTED
Lithuania emphasized that the ban on the movement of sanctioned goods was part of the fourth package of EU sanctions against Russia, noting it only applies to steel and ferrous metals starting on June 17.
The government in Vilnius rejected Russia’s description of the move as a blockade, stressing that unsanctioned goods and rail passengers can still move through Lithuania.
In line with the EU decision, coal will be banned in August and shipments of oil and oil products will be halted in December.
MOSCOW MULLS A RESPONSE
Moscow formally protested the halt of shipments to Kaliningrad as a violation of Russia-EU agreements on free transit of goods to the region.
Kaliningrad Gov. Anton Alikhanov said the ban will affect up to half of all items brought into the region, including cement and other construction materials.
Nikolai Patrushev, the powerful secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin, visited Kaliningrad on Tuesday to meet with local officials. He described the restrictions as “hostile actions” and warned that Moscow will respond with unspecified measures that “will have a significant negative impact on the population of Lithuania.”
Patrushev didn’t elaborate, but Alikhanov suggested that the Russian response could include shutting the flow of cargo via the ports of Lithuania and other Baltic nations.
However, Lithuania has significantly reduced its economic and energy dependence on Russia, recently becoming the first EU country to stop using Russian gas. It no longer imports Russian oil and has suspended imports of Russian electricity. The transport of most Russian transit via Lithuanian ports already has been halted under EU sanctions, but Moscow could move to restrict transit for cargo from third countries through Lithuania.
Putin will decide Russia’s respond after receiving Patrushev’s report.
Russia’s standoff with Lithuania is part of their rocky relationship that dates back to Moscow’s annexation of the country, along with Estonia and Latvia, in 1940. The three pressed their move toward independence under former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and regained it when the USSR collapsed in 1991.
FEARS OF ESCALATION
Some in the West long have feared that Russia could be eyeing military action to secure a land corridor between its ally Belarus and the Kaliningrad region via the so-called Suwalki Gap, a 65-kilometer (40-mile) strip of land in Poland along the border with Lithuania.
The rhetoric on Russian state TV has risen to a high pitch, with commentator Vladimir Solovyov accusing the West of brinkmanship that has set the clock ticking toward World War III.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas warned Wednesday of the danger of Russian provocations amid the Kaliningrad tensions. “When you have a military force and they are ruled by the half-witted — I apologize for the expression — of course you can expect everything,” he said, adding that Lithuania feels confident and relies on its NATO allies.
With the bulk of Russia’s military bogged down in Ukraine, any use of force in the Baltics could be beyond Moscow’s conventional weapons capability.
A Russian attempt to use force against Poland or Lithuania would trigger a direct conflict with NATO, which is obliged to protect any of its members under its charter’s mutual defense clause known as Article 5.
On Tuesday, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price emphasized Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to that clause, which he described as NATO’s “bedrock” principle.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov responded by warning the EU and NATO against “dangerous rhetorical games” over Kaliningrad. “Certain influential and powerful forces in the West are doing all they can to further exacerbate tensions in relations with Russia,” he said, adding that “some simply have no limits in inventing scenarios when a military confrontation with us would look inevitable.”
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Liudas Dapkus in Vilnius, Lithuania, contributed.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Bryce Harper homered and drove in three runs, the Philadelphia Phillies pushed two runs across in the ninth inning after squandering a six-run lead and beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-7 on Thursday night.
The Phillies saw their 7-1 lead evaporate after the Dodgers used a four-run eighth to tie the game 7-all.
In the ninth, the Phillies scored a run on a wild pitch by reliever Daniel Hudson with the bases loaded. Harper then hit a sacrifice fly to give the Phillies a two-run lead. Hudson (1-3) took the loss.
In the bottom of the ninth, Los Angeles loaded the bases against former Dodgers pitcher Corey Knebel. Austin Barnes flew out to right, Cody Bellinger fouled out to left, and Chris Taylor flew out to center as Knebel earned his seventh save in the wild win.
”I thought we did a great job of battling,” Harper said. ”As good teams go through, you’re going to sometimes make mistakes and that happened in this game but we can’t let that happen again. That’s not what good teams do. It’s not what teams who are fighting to win a championship do. I think everybody in here knows that.”
Harper was 2 for 4 with 3 RBIs. He hit a solo home run in the first inning, his seventh of the season. Earlier in the day, Harper got confirmation he had a small tear in his right elbow and will need a platelet-rich plasma injection Sunday.
”It was good to know what was going on and put it behind me and focus on the game,” Harper said. ”There’s nothing really I can do to help my arm or anything like that. Take that time I need and keep my bat in the lineup.”
The reigning NL MVP can’t throw for four weeks, but he can certainly still hit from the designated hitter spot as he did once again on Thursday.
”I think he’s getting more comfortable there,” Phillies manager Joe Girardi said of Harper in the DH role. ”Part of me thinks it might have given him peace to understand exactly what’s going on and what the next step is. I think he’s starting to embrace what he needs to do to help this team win.”
Johan Comargo also homered for the Phillies, a two-run shot in the second inning. Andrew Bellatti (1-0) worked 2/3 of a inning and picked up the win.
Zach Wheeler, just reinstated off the COVID-related injured list, didn’t factor in the decision after allowing three earned runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
”I felt good about the outing. I didn’t really have my legs underneath me,” Wheeler said. ”Kind of felt like Jell-O. The results were there for the most part. The last inning kind of got me for two runs. Other than that, felt good with what I had.”
Down 7-3, the Dodgers rallied and tied the game with four runs in the eighth. They loaded the bases against reliever Jose Alvarado. Will Smith drove in a run and Justin Turner hit a pinch-hit double to score two runs, pulling the Dodgers within 7-6. Chris Taylor singled in a run to tie the game at 7. Hanser Alberto bunted into a fielder’s choice as the Phillies threw out Austin Barnes – running for Turner – at the plate, and Freddie Freeman popped out to third to end the inning.
Cody Bellinger hit a solo home run in the third inning to start the comeback after Wheeler had retired the first six batters of the game.
Dodgers starter Tyler Anderson allowed 10 hits and seven earned runs in six innings. He gave up two home runs.
”There were a lot of good things, but most of them didn’t come when I was pitching,” Anderson said. ”It was not a good day out there.”
STRIKE `EM OUT
Yency Almonte made his Dodgers’ debut after his contract was selected from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Almonte pitched two scoreless innings and retired all six batters he faced, the final four by strikeout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Phillies: DH Bryce Harper (small tear right elbow) will miss Sunday’s game against the Dodgers with a PRP injection. He might miss Tuesday’s game in San Diego, but will continue to be in the lineup as the designated hitter. He can’t throw for four weeks.
UP NEXT
Phillies: RHP Kyle Gibson (3-1, 2.94 ERA) earned the win against the Mets after a quality start, allowing two runs in six innings. Philadelphia has won four of the six games he’ has started.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (4-0, 1.80 ERA) pitched seven scoreless innings and allowed five hits in a road win against the Chicago Cubs. He has won four of his six starts this year and had no decision in the other two.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zach Wilson is moving up on the New York Jets’ quarterback depth chart this week.
Coach Robert Saleh announced Wednesday the benched former starter is being promoted from No. 3 to the backup behind Mike White, who is dealing with a rib injury but is expected to make his fourth straight start on Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
“Zach’s been doing a great job,” Saleh said. “He has been deliberate in his approach over the last three weeks. He’s been holding himself accountable with regards to how he wants to attack practice, how he’s been performing in practice going against our defense — which I think is a pretty good defense to go against — and working on all the different things we’ve been asking him to accomplish.”
Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s draft, said he was excited by the promotion and acknowledged the biggest challenge for him the past several weeks was “finding the fun in football” again.
“I love this game and it definitely wasn’t lost,” he said. “But I think you guys felt the frustrations over some of those rough games.”
Wilson said he’s ready to take the field again, and hopes to this season — “but that’s not up to me.”
Entering this year, the focus for the Jets was Wilson’s continued progress and development as their quarterback of the present — and future. And he still thinks he can be.
“Yeah, I definitely believe in myself,” Wilson said. “Of course, I have all the confidence in the world, and I think that’s how it should be. But you’ve got to be able to prove that. That goes back to just attacking every single day.”
Wilson missed the first three games while recovering from a knee injury. He started the next seven and the Jets went 5-2 in those games, but his play was mostly shaky. Wilson had four touchdown passes and five interceptions and had a 55.6 completion percentage as New York’s offense struggled to produce points.
After Wilson went just 9 of 22 for 77 yards in a 10-3 loss at New England in Week 11, the Jets elevated White to starter.
Meanwhile, Wilson was inactive the last three games, not even dressed in uniform on the sideline.
“I mean, it’s frustrating and you would like to be out there,” Wilson said. “But you’ve got to control what you can control. Right now, it’s how can I just do everything I can to put myself in the best position to help this organization and this team?”
Under White, the Jets (7-6) are 1-2 but have been better offensively as they try to make a playoff push and end an 11-year playoff drought — the longest active skid in the NFL.
White was limited at practice Wednesday after twice being forced out of New York’s 20-12 loss at Buffalo last Sunday after taking big hits to his midsection. He returned both times but was sent to the hospital after the game to be examined further.
White told The Associated Press at a charity event Tuesday night his “ribs are good” and was waiting to get clearance from doctors.
“We’re still working as if he’s playing this week,” Saleh said, adding that Wilson’s promotion was just “a coincidence” in timing.
Joe Flacco, who started the first three games this season, will be the No. 3 quarterback.
The Jets wanted Wilson to sit as part of a mental and physical “reset” to focus on fundamentals such as extending the pocket, moving the football and getting his footwork corrected.
“He’s been good,” Saleh said. “Obviously, it’s not over. Continue working and understanding you’re the next man up.”
Saleh reiterated his stance that the plan is to have Wilson back on the field and playing again at some point.
“I’m still in that same mindset, guys, with regards to Zach,” the coach said. “He’s a very talented young man — very talented young man. We’re in the business of developing guys and I’ve said it before: This is Mike White’s opportunity and he’s attacking the heck out of the opportunity and is doing a great job with it.
“But at the same time, we’ve still got to make sure we’re doing everything we can to develop Zach to the spot we know he’s capable of getting to.”
NOTES: DL Quinnen Williams (calf), DL John Franklin-Myers (flu), CB Brandin Echols (quadriceps), WR Corey Davis (concussion protocol) and S Will Parks (not injury related) didn’t practice Wednesday. Saleh said Williams, who has a career-high 11 sacks, remains “50-50” to play. … OTs George Fant (knee) and Duane Brown (shoulder) were limited, as was DE Micheal Clemons (knee). … The Jets signed OL Eric Smith to the practice squad. It’s the third stint with New York for Smith, who was most recently with Tennessee.
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Porsche is working on its biggest vehicle yet. It will be a fully electric three-row SUV, and according to dealer sources that have seen it, it won’t simply resemble a scaled-up version of the Cayenne or Macan.
The seventh model line was confirmed in July by Porsche CEO Oliver Blume, who said the introduction is part of Porsche’s strategy to boost margins by focusing more on high-end segments. As a result, the vehicle will be positioned higher than the Cayenne.
Automotive News (subscription required) reported this week the vehicle is code-named K1, and could start sales in the U.S. as early as 2026. A dealer that was shown an image last year described it in an inteview with Automotive News as “part sedan, part crossover.” Another said it is “very un-Porsche-like” and “not anything like the Macan and Cayenne.”
When confirming the vehicle, Blume described it as “a very sporty interpretation of an SUV.”
Production will be handled at Porsche’s plant in Leipzig, Germany, where the Panamera and Macan are built. The plant will also build the upcoming electric Macan.
The electric Macan, whose launch has been delayed about a year to 2024 due to software issues, uses Volkswagen Group’s PPE dedicated EV platform, which was spearheaded by Porsche and fellow VW Group brand Audi. It’s possible the new SUV will use this platform, though there’s also the possibility the vehicle uses a high-performance version of VW Group’s more advanced SSP platform, which Porsche is developing. The SSP platform will spawn its first model in 2026, though this will be a Volkswagen.
All Porsche has said about the technical side is that technology will be borrowed from Porsche’s Mission R concept shown in 2021. The concept featured a high-performance battery, a 920-volt electrical system, and oil-cooled electric motors.
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Travis d'Arnaud Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. White Sox - July 16
Published: Jul. 16, 2023 at 4:23 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Travis d'Arnaud and his .629 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starter Dylan Cease and the Chicago White Sox at Truist Park, Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-1) against the White Sox.
Travis d'Arnaud Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Sunday, July 16, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Dylan Cease
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Travis d'Arnaud At The Plate
- d'Arnaud has five doubles, eight home runs and 14 walks while batting .273.
- d'Arnaud has recorded a hit in 22 of 36 games this season (61.1%), including eight multi-hit games (22.2%).
- He has homered in 19.4% of his games this year, and 5.4% of his trips to the dish.
- In 38.9% of his games this season, d'Arnaud has tallied at least one RBI. In six of those games (16.7%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 14 games this season (38.9%), including multiple runs in three games.
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White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the White Sox pitching staff leads the league.
- The White Sox's 4.60 team ERA ranks 25th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to surrender 129 total home runs at a rate of 1.4 per game (fourth-most in baseball).
- Cease makes the start for the White Sox, his 20th of the season. He is 3-3 with a 4.30 ERA and 123 strikeouts in 102 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared on Saturday, July 8 against the St. Louis Cardinals, when he threw six innings, allowing five earned runs while giving up 11 hits.
- The 27-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.30), 50th in WHIP (1.344), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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BRISTOL, Va. – The storyline for Saturday’s Ed Cressel Wrestling Classic centered on Adam and the Bears.
Three-time defending Class 1 state champion Adam Gibson from Castlewood delivered another technical masterpiece, while the Union Bears compiled 236.5 points to take the team title among 30 squads at the Bearcat Den.
Saturday’s marquee match came in the 113 pound weight class where Gibson posted a 7-0 decision over Tazewell sophomore Talan Hall, who won the Class 2 crown last season at 106 pounds.
“I’ve known Talan for a while and we’re buddies,” Gibson said. “We’re battling each other and chasing the same goals, but we’re friends after the match.”
According to Gibson, his pathway to success has been all about the basics.
“This sport takes so much work and skill, so you have to be dedicated,” Gibson said. “You get out of wrestling what you put in. We’re dying after every workout in the wrestling room, but it’s a process.”
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Gibson (26-5) is closing in on 130 career wins, with his only losses this season coming against out-of-state foes.
“I don’t think I have as much pressure on myself this year as I did as a sophomore because I’ve been told that it’s harder to repeat as a state champion,” Gibson said. “I competed in youth wrestling and it was always my dream to be Castlewood’s first four-time state champion.”
One reason for Gibson’s domination is his background in cross county. Gibson finished fourth in the Class 1 meet this past fall.
Union was powered by victories from freshman Canaan Spears (120 pounds), junior Thomas Potter (165) and senior Johnny Satterfield at 175. Potter and Satterfield are both first in the state rankings.
A master technician, Potter has already won two state titles. He needed just 39 seconds Saturday to pin his opponent with a “banana split.”
“It’s a fun move,” Potter said. “You slip your leg in and pull apart the legs of your opponent. I’ve been wrestling good this year and I’m feeling pretty confident. “We’re working more on team championships instead of individual titles this year.”
The only two losses for Potter this season came at the Beast of the East tournament in Delaware. Potter hones his skills at tournaments across the East Coast with the Kingsport-based Tennessee Wrestling Academy squad where he trains four days a week.
Satterfield (31-2) has a clear goal. He finished third in the Class 2 tournament for the past three years.
“I lost to the eventual state champ twice by one point and to the state runner-up in my freshman year,” Satterfield said. “It’s definitely hard to come back from that bad taste, but it gives me motivation for this season. It’s now or never.”
After winning by a 10-1 decision Saturday, Satterfield feels everything is in place for a strong run with a deep squad.
“We’ve got good coaches and a strong wrestling room,” Satterfield said. “We go to work together in the weight room and on the mat.”
Union was helped by the runner-up finish from junior Izaak Keith in the 190 pound class.
David Crockett finished second in the team standings with 203.5 points, with Rural Retreat next at 196.
Richlands freshman Andrew Boyd (29-8) scored an emotional 4-0 victory against David Crockett junior Gabe Clark in the 144 pound final.
“All the work is paying off. I just have to keep it up for the rest of the season,” said Boyd, who was the backup quarterback for the Richlands football team this past season. “I started wrestling in 2016 and I’ve improved each year.”
Saturday’s conquest at the Bearcat Den was the first high school tournament title for Boyd.
“To be honest, this feels amazing,” Boyd said. “I rely on technique and speed. All these other guys have upper body strength, and I don’t have that right now.”
The list of local winners also included Rural Retreat freshman Caleb Gibson at 106 pounds, Rural Retreat senior Eli Blevins (132), Castlewood junior Slade Castle (138) and football player Tristan Hass from Graham at 150.
Wise County Central senior Brady Sturgill (26-5) advanced to the 285 pound finals before falling via pin to massive Saba Mushkudiana from Fishburne Military.
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ATLANTA — The Professional Fighters League, a fast-growing mixed martial arts league, will hold the second half of its 2022 Regular Season in Atlanta.
The PFL will make Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta it's home, with fights airing live on ESPN and ESPN+. Tickets will go on sale the week of May 9. Overtime Elite Arena is located in Atlantic Station.
The final three events of the regular season take place on June 17, June 24, and July 1 as fighters across the league’s six-weight divisions look to punch their tickets to the 2022 PFL Playoffs.
The PFL features stars like Kayla Harrison and Clay Collard and is the first and only MMA league with a true sports season format where fighters worldwide compete in a Regular Season, Playoffs and Championship.
The four competitors in each division who earn the most points advance to the win-or-go-home Playoffs, followed by the biggest night in MMA – the PFL World Championship – with each winner going home with a $1 million prize.
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Persistent allergy sufferers may be surprised to learn that even the tidiest indoor spaces can be full of pollutants. From dust and fungi to chemical fumes and dander, inside air carries so many allergens that determining the cause of your discomfort can be a challenge. To take a scientific look at what irritants may be floating around inside your home or office, and to decide the most effective manner by which to reduce them, you need an air quality monitor.
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What can air quality monitors detect?
Air quality monitors can detect the following issues, any of which can adversely affect allergy sufferers:
- Excessive carbon dioxide. This results from poor ventilation. Too much carbon dioxide can cause headaches, dizziness and nausea.
- Volatile organic compounds. VOCs are gases emitted by everything from carpets and shower curtains to cosmetics and cleaning products. They can build up quickly and lead to illness.
- Radon. Long-term exposure to this naturally occurring radioactive gas can cause lung cancer.
- Particulate matter. Particulate matter, or PM, is the mixture of tiny solid and liquid matter that collects on surfaces and floats in the air. The most common offenders, with regard to allergic reactions, are pet dander, dust and pollen.
- Improper humidity. Too much indoor moisture allows mold, dust mites, insects and other sources of allergens to thrive. Too little, however, can cause otherwise harmless particles to dry out and become airborne irritants.
- Virus and mold-friendly conditions. Some monitors can use the data they collect to let you know directly how conducive the conditions in your home are to the survival and spread of germs and fungus.
Air quality features to consider
- Pollutants detected. Make sure that the monitor you select is designed to detect a wide range of pollutants so you can make an educated assessment of your air quality.
- Smart home integration. Many monitors work with Amazon, Apple or Google smart homes and assistants. If you want to integrate your monitor, make sure you select one that is compatible with your preferred platform.
- Battery life and power options. Most air quality monitors have a short battery life. To keep your monitor on at all times, purchase one that can be powered via USB.
- Easy to read. While most monitors feature a simple display and color-coded air quality indicators, some show more data than you may be interested in parsing through. Make sure that the monitor you purchase lets you make quick, easy observations.
- Alarms. Some monitors let you set up alarms that will sound when certain pollutants reach dangerous levels.
- Air quality tracking. If you want to keep a record of your air quality over time so you can see progress or work on improving it with a purifier or other means, buy a monitor that stores its readings in the form of charts and graphs.
Best air quality monitors
This monitor detects radon, carbon dioxide, VOCs, humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure, giving you a broad understanding of the quality of the air in your home. You can read its findings via an app on your smart device and it also provides live, local pollen data.
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Temtop Air Quality Monitor Indoor
With its large display, single-button operation and three-color LED air quality indicator, this monitor offers a simple way to take a look at what irritants may be floating around you. It’s small enough to place discreetly on a shelf or desk and charges via USB.
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Temtop LKC-1000S Air Quality Monitor
This monitor has a bright, detailed screen that indicates air quality through six different colors. It can run for up to eight hours on a charge and even displays graphs that show you changes in your air quality over time.
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Assess the particulate and dust levels in your home with this monitor which features a built-in fan for accurate analysis. You can monitor your air in real-time and set alarms that will sound if a dangerous pollutant level is reached.
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This minimalistic monitor integrates seamlessly with Apple Home and its readings can be checked via an elegant app. It works wirelessly and can last up to six weeks after fully charging its battery via a USB cable.
Sold by Amazon
Take a look at indoor pollutants, humidity, dust particles and more with this tabletop air monitor that even informs you of how hospitable the air in your home is to viruses. You can track the quality of your air over time to see how you’re making progress with cleaning things up.
Sold by Amazon
IQAir Air Quality Monitor Indoor
This monitor uses advanced laser technology to provide the most scientifically accurate readings available in a consumer appliance. It provides forecasts for the outdoors as well, so you can plan to enjoy time outside when pollen and pollution are at their lowest.
Sold by Amazon
Langkou Indoor Air Quality Monitor
Affordable and easy to understand, this monitor can detect particulates, carbon dioxide, humidity and temperature. Its battery can last as long as 10 hours and its alarm feature can be set to warn you of dangerous conditions.
Sold by Amazon
This tiny monitor can analyze your home’s humidity and temperature to assess how at risk your property may be for potentially dangerous mold growth. You can observe VOC levels as they rise and fall throughout the day to determine what may be affecting your air purity.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Airthings View Plus Complete Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitor
This monitor can be used by itself or as a hub connected to other Airthings products, letting you check the air quality all around your home. It can be powered by six AAA batteries or via USB and is fully compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant.
Sold by Home Depot
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Tenn. inmate’s mutilation highlights prison mental care woes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges’ fellow prisoner Jon Hall warned long ago that he was at risk due to severe neglect by prison authorities, having spent three decades in solitary confinement with very little human contact or interaction.
GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of self-harm.
In a federal lawsuit Hall filed in 2019 complaining that he too had been in solitary for nearly six years with no viable way to leave, he said of Hodges: “He’s suffered the most adverse unecessary (sic) & wanton neglect, deprivals, & mistreatment I’ve seen on death row. It’s a miracle he’s not committed suicide.”
The warning went unheeded, and last month Hodges cut off his own penis during what his lawyer called a “psychiatric disturbance.”
Hodges’ self-mutilation was an extreme incident but not without precedent in U.S. penitentiaries: Texas inmate Andre Thomas plucked out one of his eyes five days after his 2004 arrest for murdering his wife and children, and while on death row in 2009, he removed his remaining eye and told prison officials he ate it.
Although most cases fall short of those grisly examples, they underscore the significant, growing and unaddressed mental health care needs of prisoners.
A study released last year from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics that compiled data from 2016 found 41% of federal and state prisoners reported a history of mental illness, and 13% had experienced serious psychological distress over the previous 30 days. Among the latter group, only 41% of state prisoners said they were currently receiving any kind of mental health treatment. The treatment rate for federal prisoners was even lower, at just 26%.
“Our prisons are not set up to provide mental health care, and they don’t do it very well,” said Craig Haney, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied the effects of solitary confinement for decades.
Without enough resources to care for mentally ill prisoners, the sickest are sometimes treated with punitive measures, like solitary confinement, that only exacerbate the problem.
In Tennessee, Hall’s lawsuit pointed to the vicious cycle he faced.
“To get out of solitary confinement he must be psychologically healthy, but the conditions of his confinement cause him psychological damage, and the lack of psychological treatment means he cannot recover sufficiently to get out of solitary confinement,” Hall’s attorneys wrote.
The annual report from the Tennessee Department of Correction shows the number of inmates categorized as having a “serious and persistent mental illness” rose from around 5% of the population in 2002 to nearly 23% in 2022. Nearly 19% more are listed as having other mental illnesses.
Questions abound as to whether the state is doing enough to confront the crisis.
Centurion of Tennessee, which won a five-year, $123 million contract in 2020 to administer state-run prisons’ mental health services, has been accused by rival Corizon of colluding with penitentiary officials to rig the bid. A lawsuit was settled out of court, and the Department of Correction said in May 2021 that it would rebid the contract. As of last week, one had not been awarded.
Meanwhile, a state comptroller’s audit in January 2020 found both Centurion — which has administered medical services since 2013 — and Corizon were unable to consistently meet contractually required staffing levels. The audit also found problems with medical documentation.
“We could not locate mental health evaluations for all inmates with documented mental health conditions in our sample; medical staff did not always include physician’s orders in patient files; we could not locate mental health treatment plans for all inmates with documented mental health conditions in our sample,” the audit reads.
The Correction Department blamed the record-keeping problems on a cumbersome paper-based records system. The department called transitioning to electronic health records a “top priority” in 2020, but last week said it’s still developing a request for proposals and hasn’t determined when it will go out.
The department said the staffing vacancies did not affect inmate care because the shifts were generally filled by other staffers.
Haney, the psychology professor, said it likely wouldn’t matter for Hodges if Tennessee prisons had the best mental health care in the world as long as he remained in lockdown. It is well established that even short periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to a person’s mental health, he said.
“What’s a therapist going to be able to do if, at the end of an hour, you are put back in an empty cell where you are going to stay 23 hours a day?” he said.
When inmates are isolated for weeks, they can become “out of touch with reality and do things that are inexplicable in any other context,” Haney continued. “We’re dependent as human beings on connections to and contact with other people. When you take that away, it becomes very destabilizing.”
Hodges was sentenced to die in 1992 for the murder of a telephone repairman and immediately put in solitary confinement. Before he mutilated himself on Oct. 7, his behavior escalated over several days. Hodges went from smearing feces on his cell wall to slitting one of his wrists with a razor, according to court filings. When he was taken to the infirmary, he asked to go on suicide watch. But within a couple of hours he was back in a cell where he again used a razor, this time to cut off his penis.
After being released from the hospital, Hodges was returned to the infirmary. There he was kept naked and restrained by his arms and legs on a thin mattress over a concrete slab in a room that was lit 24 hours a day, with no mental stimulation such as a radio or television, his attorney said in a lawsuit filed Oct. 28. She compared his treatment to torture and said it violated constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Lawyers for the state defended Hodges’ treatment at a hearing the same day, with Deputy Attorney General Scott Sutherland arguing that he was receiving “around-the-clock care.”
Nashville Chancellor I’Ashea Myles ordered the Correction Department to provide better care, including providing Hodges with clothing and mental stimuli.
Hodges’ attorney is trying to get him transferred to the Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute. A preliminary injunction hearing in his case is scheduled for Nov. 28.
Meanwhile his fellow inmates continue to be concerned. Hall filed a grievance on his behalf Oct. 13 requesting that Hodges receive special relief from prolonged solitary confinement. “After thirty years of sensory deprivation seclusions you have deprived that man of his sanity,” Hall wrote.
The grievance was rejected as inappropriate, with the unit manager writing that Hall was not an official inmate advocate.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Western Athletic Conference has deemed New Mexico State’s remaining men’s basketball games as forfeits after the program canceled its season amid hazing allegations.
The conference said in a statement Monday night the forfeits will be used for conference standings and seedings because the NCAA doesn’t recognize forfeited games in a team’s overall record.
“While there is no perfect solution to this unfortunate situation, I believe we landed in the right place,” WAC Commissioner Brian Thornton said in the statement. “I applaud our Athletic Directors for working collaboratively with our staff to reach this decision.”
New Mexico State canceled the rest of its season on Sunday after the release of a police report that detailed three players ganging up on a teammate and attacking him in a case that includes allegations of false imprisonment, harassment and criminal sexual contact.
On Tuesday, university regents will hold a closed meeting to discuss “limited personnel matters concerning individual employees.” It did not name the employees who were to be discussed. The scheduling of the meeting came Saturday, the day after chancellor Dan Arvizu placed coach Greg Heiar and his staff on administrative leave at the same time he suspended the season.
The allegations come less than three months after the suspension of forward Mike Peake, who is being investigated in the case of the fatal shooting of a student from rival school, University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque on Nov. 19.
Peake has not been charged in that case, which included state police stopping the team bus on Interstate-25 as it headed back to Las Cruces shortly after the shooting. Missing from the bus were Peake and three of his teammates, who had taken him to the hospital with an injured leg.
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An investigation by our editorial partners at the Washington Post has found evidence of a massacre perpetrated by Eritrean troops in the neighboring Tigray region of Ethiopia. Soldiers killed more than three people across several villages. The attack took place just days before a peace deal put an end to a bloody two-year conflict in Tigray.
Katharine Houreld is the Washington Post’s correspondent based in neighboring Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. She led this investigation and joins Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson to discuss her findings.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Judge denies request by Zooey Zephyr, Montana lawmaker silenced after ‘blood on hands’ remark, to return to House floor.
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CAIRO (AP) — Fighting on Wednesday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula left a general and four troops dead, the military said, just days after an attack there killed 11 forces.
In a statement, the military's spokesman said the forces had been killed during a clash with militants, and that it came after airstrikes in recent days. The military claimed that at least seven extremists had been killed in the same bout of fighting.
Two security officials said the clashes took place after militants attacked a checkpoint belonging to the country's border guards near the city of Rafah, on the country's Mediterranean coast that borders the Gaza Strip. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to media.
Saturday's attack, one of the deadliest on Egyptian security forces in recent years, was claimed by the Islamic State group.
Egypt is battling an insurgency in Sinai that intensified after the military overthrew an elected but divisive Islamist president in 2013. The extremists have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting security forces and Christians, but the pace has slowed in recent years.
On April 30, suspected militants blew up a natural gas pipeline in Northern Sinai’s town of Bir al-Abd, causing a fire but no casualties.
The military has claimed that insurgents have suffered heavy losses in recent months as security forces, aided by armed tribesmen, intensified their efforts to eliminate them.
The pace of militant attacks in Sinai’s main theater of operations and elsewhere has slowed to a trickle since February 2018, when the military launched a massive operation in Sinai and parts of the Nile Delta and deserts along the country’s western border with Libya.
The fighting in Sinai has largely taken place hidden from the public eye, with journalists, non-residents and outside observers barred from the area. The conflict has also been kept at a distance from tourist resorts at the southern end of the peninsula. | 2022-05-11T18:52:53+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Egypt-says-general-4-troops-killed-in-fighting-17165492.php |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 25, 2022
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311 PM CDT Sun Sep 25 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Collin
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At 311 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Allen, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Plano, McKinney, Frisco, Richardson, Allen, Wylie, Sachse, Murphy,
Fairview, Lucas, Parker and St. Paul.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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Joni Mitchell has kept a low profile since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015. She joined Brandi Carlile for classics like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Both Sides Now."
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LGA Forges Strategic Partnership with iPipeline to Transform its Business Through Access to Real-Time, Data-Driven Insights and Benchmarks
EXTON, Pa. and FREDERICK, Md., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iPipeline® and Legal & General America (LGA) have embarked on a data integration initiative which will help the life insurance provider strengthen distribution wallet share, product underwriting, decisioning, and pricing capabilities across its organization.
This strategic relationship will enable LGA–a top five U.S. term life insurance provider--to tap into iPipeline's extensive real-time industry data, as well as its distribution network, to improve speed at all points of the insurance process -- from quote to delivery. By using InsureSight, iPipeline's data and case analytics, LGA will be able to competitively benchmark its sales and market performance, providing them with real-time insight at a more granular level.
"Legal & General America is a forward-thinking life insurance provider, and we are proud that our innovative solutions can offer insights which can bring the firm even closer to its distribution partners," said David Libesman, Vice President of Data Analytics at iPipeline. "The depth and breadth of our anonymized industry data enables us to quickly identify any bottlenecks in the process while focusing on continuous improvement. This ability, coupled with iPipeline's case analytics tools, will empower LGA with actionable intelligence for effectively meeting the evolving needs of distributors, agents and advisors, extending their market reach, and helping more families protect their financial futures."
This innovative solution supports Legal & General America as it strives to create a brighter tomorrow for more individuals, families and businesses with access to critical life insurance protection through an easy digital application and some of the most affordable coverage options in the marketplace.
"With iPipeline's high-quality data, we can leverage real-time information to gain valuable insights, which we use to extend our evolution as a strategic, data-driven organization," said Shawn Homan, Vice President of Sales Operations and Strategy at Legal & General America. "With InsureSight, we can dive into the metrics to see the how we are performing against the market, or slice and dice the data to compare our actions to custom benchmarks. These insights allow us to make the most meaningful decisions so we can maximize the impact for those we serve, from distributors to hardworking individuals and families that need the protection life insurance affords."
For more information about iPipeline, visit ipipeline.com. To learn more about LGA, visit lgamerica.com.
About iPipeline
iPipeline is building a comprehensive digitized ecosystem for the life insurance and wealth management industries, which will enable millions of uninsured or under-insured Americans to secure their financial futures as part of a holistic financial planning experience. The firm is working to optimize all application and processing workflows—from quote to commission—and consolidating them within one of the most expansive straight-through processing platforms, significantly reducing paper, saving time, and increasing premiums and placements for insurance agents. iPipeline is also committed to offering premier subscription-based tools to help financial institutions and advisors automate and digitize financial transactions, comply with regulations, and seamlessly incorporate life insurance and annuities into client accounts.
The iPipeline digital ecosystem incorporates one of the industry's largest data sets to enable advisors and agents to optimize their businesses. Since its establishment in 1995, iPipeline has facilitated 1.5 billion quote responses, $32 billion in savings on printing and mailing costs, the collection of 55 billion premiums, and the protection of 25 million lives. iPipeline operates as a unit of Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP), a constituent of the S&P 500® and Fortune 500® indices. For more information, please visit https://www.ipipeline.com/.
About Legal & General America
Legal & General America is part of the worldwide Legal & General Group. For over 70 years, the Legal & General America companies have been in the business of providing financial protection through life insurance for American families. The Legal & General America companies are Banner Life Insurance Company and William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York. With more than $57 billion in new coverage issued in 2020, LGA is a top five US term life insurance provider and ended 2021 with $780 billion of coverage in force with 1.4 million U.S. customers. LGA shares Legal & General's independent financial strength ratings: A+ Superior from A.M. Best and AA- Very Strong from Standard and Poor's and Fitch. For more information, please visit https://www.lgamerica.com.
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BOSTON (AP) — As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students.
Her father graduated from the school, founded in 1769 to educate Native Americans, and she had come to rely on its network of students, professors and administrators. But news in March that the Ivy League school in New Hampshire found partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in one of its collections has Johnson-Jennings and others reassessing that relationship.
“It’s hard to reconcile. It’s hard to see the college in this old way where they were taking Native remains and using them for their own benefit,” said Johnson-Jennings, a senior and co-president of Native Americans at Dartmouth. The remains were used to teach a class as recently as last year, just before an audit concluded they had been wrongly catalogued as not Native.
“It was very upsetting to hear, especially when you’ve just felt so supported by a school and they’ve had that secret that maybe no one knew about, but still, to some sense, was a secret,” Johnson-Jennings said, describing a March meeting where Native American students were briefed on the discovery.
Dartmouth is among a growing list of universities, museums and other institutions wrestling with how best to handle Native American remains and artifacts in their collections and grappling with what these discoveries say about their past policies regarding Native communities.
Until the 20th century, archeologists, anthropologists, collectors and curiosity seekers took Native remains and sacred objects during expeditions on tribal lands. Some remains, including Native skulls, were sought after in the name of science, while bodies were collected by government agencies after battles with tribes. Museums wanted them to enhance their collections while academic institutions came to rely on Native bones as teaching tools.
“One-hundred years ago, it was OK for a professor, for an alumni to go into the lands of a Native community and dig up their ancestors,” said professor Jeremy DeSilva, a paleoanthropologist and chairman of Dartmouth’s anthropology department.
He continued: “It’s amazing that folks didn’t recognize how harmful that was.”
For Native tribes, the loss of the remains and cultural items caused significant pain. The remains, most believe, are imbued with the spirit of the ancestor to whom they belong and are connected to living citizens of those tribes. They could go to court or negotiate with an institution for them to be repatriated. But it wasn’t until the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act or NAGPRA in 1990 that a process was created for their return.
It requires federally funded institutions, including universities, to return remains and funerary items to rightful communities. In February, Cornell University returned ancestral remains to the Oneida Indian Nation that were inadvertently dug up in 1964 and stored for decades in a school archive. Colgate University in November returned to the Oneidas more than 1,500 items once buried with ancestral remains, some dating back 400 years. And since 1995, Dartmouth itself has repatriated skeletal remains of 10 Native Americans along with 36 burial objects.
Critics complain that many institutions move too slowly in repatriating remains and funerary items once they’re discovered in their collections, often hiding behind a loophole in NAGPRA that allows them to label remains as culturally unidentifiable. That puts the burden on tribes to prove the remains are their ancestors, an expense many can’t afford.
Some 884,000 Native American artifacts — including nearly 102,000 human remains — that should be returned to tribes under federal law are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country, according to data maintained by the National Park Service.
The University of California, Berkeley tops the list, according to the Park Service, followed closely by the Ohio History Connection, a nonprofit organization working to preserve the state’s history, and Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Shannon O’Loughlin, chief executive of the Association on American Indian Affairs, a national group that assists tribes with repatriations, called the practice racist.
“It just says that they value the idea of Native Americans as specimens more than they do as human beings,” said O’Loughlin, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
The most recent discovery at Dartmouth has set off the complex and complicated process of returning the remains to the affiliated tribes.
The remains, in its teaching collection in Silsby Hall, were discovered in November, following an audit spearheaded by Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum.
Until they were found to be Native, the bones had been stored in a locked cabinet in the basement. They have since been moved to a secure off-campus location and Dartmouth has hired a team of independent experts to study them and do archival research to determine their origin. The college said the review will take months.
It also is studying an additional 100 bones that may be Native American and working with tribes to repatriate additional bone fragments related to three individuals that were repatriated in the 1990s.
“For me as an Indigenous person, it’s always important in my work that I treat these ancestors with the utmost care and respect and that an essential part of my function is helping them return home,” Powell said.
In March, Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon issued a statement that he was “deeply saddened by what we’ve found on our campus” and apologized for the college’s wrongful possession of the remains. He pledged “to take careful and meaningful action to address our situation and consult with the communities most directly impacted.”
The Department of Anthropology’s teaching collection is believed to come from several sources — bones purchased from biological supply companies; donated cadavers used by medical students; and archeological remains, some of which came from Native American burial mounds and were given by alumni. Until November, Dartmouth officials say they believed Native American bones had been removed from the school in the 1990s.
“Nobody had really taken the time or the effort to fully document what we had. This was around a time where our whole discipline was beginning to reflect a little more deeply on what it meant to be in the care of, or caring for human remains,” said DeSilva, the anthropology department’s chairman.
DeSilva acknowledged mistakes in documenting Native American remains, but said they weren’t malicious and that although no one was to blame, he hopes the most recent discovery will force a reckoning over past practices.
Along with working to return the Native American remains, the college is reevaluating its whole collection of human remains and plans to “build an ethically sourced collection that complies with legal standards” to be used in osteology — the study of bones and skeletal systems.
The college is also working to repair the relationship with Native students and alumni, starting with a March meeting in which Hanlon apologized. The school also worked to accommodate Native students who were uncomfortable going into Silsby. Many Native Americans believe it is taboo to speak about the dead or be near them.
Last month, a Navajo medicine man held a cleansing ceremony at several locations on campus, including Silsby.
The discovery has spotlighted Dartmouth’s relationship with its Native students, who represent about 1% of the 4,458 students. Though the school was formed to teach Native students, it wasn’t until 1972 that the college created one of the first Native programs in the country. Still, the college has had to confront symbols of insensitivity that lingered on campus, including in 2018 when it announced it would move into storage a set of murals that offended Native Americans.
Shawn Attakai, co-president of the Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth, said he was disappointed about the discovery and sad about the possibility that they could be from his own Navajo Nation, where he is a tribal lawyer. But Attakai also said he was not surprised.
“Native Americans have a history of injustices in this country starting from it’s founding all the way to the present,” said Attakai.
Johnson-Jennings appreciates the efforts, but said justice requires a person or entity to be held accountable for the remains having been mislabeled for so long.
“It was disappointing that it went on for so long and does feel a little bit sad that the college was not able to find that mistake and find out that they were mislabeled before,” she said. “That’s a mistake that us Natives are paying for, the tribes that those ancestors belong to are paying for.” | 2023-05-15T05:31:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/native-american-remains-discovered-at-dartmouth-college-spark-calls-for-accountability/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Judge in Florida school shooter case refuses to step down
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz refused to step down Monday, rejecting a motion by his attorneys who accused her of being biased against their client and prejudicing the jurors who will decide if he should die for murdering 17 people four years ago.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer denied the motion, saying only it was legally insufficient. Scherer last week chewed out lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill and her team outside the jury’s presence, accusing them of being “unprofessional” when they unexpectedly rested their case after only about 25 of the 80 witnesses they had told her and prosecutors they intended to testify had been called.
The defense said in court documents filed last week that those comments and ones the judge later made to the jury were “the zenith of the cumulative disdain” they allege Scherer has shown throughout the case toward Cruz and themselves. The defense had no obligation to call all its proposed witnesses or notify the judge or prosecution when they planned to rest, legal observers have said.
Prosecutors argued in court documents that Scherer’s comments didn’t rise to the level of demonstrating bias against Cruz. They cited a 1994 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says a judge’s “expressions of impatience, dissatisfaction, annoyance and even anger” against the defense are not grounds for stepping down.
If Scherer had stepped down, a mistrial would have been declared. The new judge would have required months of preparation before a new trial could be held.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, which began with jury selection in April and testimony in July, is only to determine if he is sentenced to death or life without parole. For him to receive a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
Two attorneys who have monitored the trial said the defense team had no expectation that Scherer would step down — they just want her performance to be part of their appeal if Cruz receives a death sentence. To do that, they had to object now.
There was “absolutely no chance” Scherer would quit the case, said Bob Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s law school.
“If she did, she would be admitting that she’s done a terrible job,” Jarvis said. Scherer, a former prosecutor, had never overseen a first-degree murder trial before being assigned the Cruz case.
David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor, said the defense is also hoping the motion “tempers the way (Scherer) speaks to both sides in open court.”
Starting with pretrial hearings that began more than three years ago, Scherer and McNeill have frequently sniped at each other over the judge’s denials of defense motions and objections.
That sniping turned to shouting on Wednesday when, at the beginning of the court day, McNeill suddenly announced the defense was resting. The prosecution, having expected the defense case to last much longer, wasn’t prepared to begin its rebuttal case.
That necessitated a two-week hiatus in the trial, causing Scherer to berate McNeill and her team.
“This is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case,” Scherer said. “I have never experienced a level of unprofessionalism in my career. It is unbelievable.”
When McNeill accused Scherer of insulting her in front of her client, Scherer shot back, “You have been insulting me the entire trial,” followed by a list of grievances.
The jury was then brought into the courtroom and told of the defense decision.
“If I would have known earlier this was going to be happening, I would not have dragged you in here,” Scherer told the jurors. She then backtracked, telling jurors they should blame her for any delays.
Too late, the defense said in its motion — Scherer had already told the panel any frustrations they felt should be directed at them.
Scherer’s courtroom statements revealed her “animosity toward (McNeill) is long held and has infected this entire trial,” the defense argued unsuccessfully.
Before resting, McNeill and her team called teachers, counselors, doctors, family friends and experts in an attempt to demonstrate how his late birth mother’s alcohol abuse during pregnancy put Cruz onto a lifelong path of erratic, bizarre and often violent behavior that culminated in the shootings. They also tried to show that his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, became overwhelmed after her husband died when Cruz was 5.
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which focused on Cruz’s massacre as he stalked a three-story classroom building for seven minutes with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. Lead prosecutor Mike Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed the rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die.
Satz showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
The trial is now scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10.
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Canterbury Village hosts 5th annual Michigan Rib Fest with national rib vendors
Smoked meats and smells of BBQ return to Canterbury Village, during the Fourth of July weekend after being canceled due to the pandemic. Hundreds wait in lines to try their favorite spare rib or southern collard greens.
This is the 5th Annual Michigan Rib Fest and lasts July 1 through the 4, it's a festival that features over 10 BBQ restaurants or catering groups plus additional small businesses. Six are national vendors bringing flavor from all the U.S.
Cowboys Barbecue and Rib Company from Fort Worth, Texas brought their best rib rub and spirit. This catering business has been around for over 30 years. Chef Duanne "Big Baby" Luckett says they're dedicating their shows this year in honor of their founder.
"We're dedicating these shows this year to our founder Dallas Grand who passed away a couple of months ago," Luckett said. "We love you Dallas, and we appreciate the help and the work that he gave us. We're keeping the legacy going."
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Luckett and his team were serving up a list of Southern soul food.
"I got pork, you don't need no fork, I got brisket is a ticket, I got mac goin bring you back, the beans and greens gonna make a scene, hallelujah, hallelujah," Luckett said.
His favorite meal is the Texas brisket. The menu will also include coleslaw, potato salad, and jalapeno cornbread.
Food is not the only thing being served, guest can shop at clothing, desserts, jewelry vendors as well. Along with live performances each day including local musicians.
Some rib enthusiasts like Sabrina Vinson and Megan Vinson from Detroit traveled over 30 minutes to get a taste of finger-licking good ribs. The two sisters came with their dad after hearing about the event on Facebook.
Sabrina tried the Texas brisket from Cowboys, and it lived up to her expectations.
"It's really good. It's not too spicy, got a hint of spice, it's tender," Sabrina said. "It has like a really bold flavor."
Her sister Megan came out for the rib tips.
"My favorite is rib tips with a really good honey barbecue sauce," Megan said.
Along with their St. Louis cut ribs, they added on sides of mac and cheese and collard greens.
"The greens are decent," Megan said. "I mean, they're not my mom greens but you know."
Out-of-state grillers weren't the only ones smoking up the place, Detroit BBQ caterer Ken's Smokehouse were giving a taste of Midwest BBQ.
George Shortridge now owns Ken's Smokehouse after his father started the business but passed away last year. Before his father passed, he created a rub that was specifically made for ribs.
"I can't tell you what it consists" Shortridge said. "But it's just genetically designed just for these ribs and to give us an authentic taste that nobody got."
Shortridge specializes in St. Louis cut-style ribs as well. This is actually his first time at the rib fest and he does not feel intimidated by the nationally awarded rib crews.
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"They're not ain't intimidating at all," Shortridge said. "They just got big, pretty signs but I got the meat."
Shortridge does not have a restaurant but does offer catering and is avid street vendor with a few gigs lined up for the future.
Carolina Rib Kings were also in the house serving up ribs, briskets and other southern dishes. Timothy Fergestrom and girlfriend Danielle Wood from Davison, Michigan stopped in and tried their meat, mac and cornbread which a choice of pulled pork, brisket, chicken, sausage or two ribs on top. The two put brisket on their mac and cheese. Fergestrom describes the taste of the mac and cheese.
"Savory, and you can taste the wood in the grill," Fergestrom said.
Fergestrom also ate St. Louis ribs from Off The Bone BBQ , a group from Mobile, Ala. He describes them as tender and juicy. Woods agree as well.
"They literally just fell off the bone and they were really really good," Wood said. "Very, very juicy, like Tim said, and very smokey. Just really good."
The couple planned on trying fried pickles and more ribs from other vendors.
With only two days left, tickets are $7 per person online. Children under two, military and veteran receive free admission.
All the festivities are happening at Canterbury Village at 2359 Joslyn Ct, Lake Orion. | 2022-07-02T21:33:07+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/02/canterbury-festival-kicks-national-rib-vendors/7796414001/ |
IRVINE, Calif., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic Avionics) today announced several new executive appointments following the successful launch of its new in-flight entertainment (IFE) seat-end solution, Astrova. The company's announcement comes amid a broad recovery for the airline industry and sustained increases in passenger traffic.
Ken Sain, Chief Executive Officer of Panasonic Avionics, said, "Panasonic is entering this period of renewed industry demand from a position of innovation and strength. Our new Astrova product has been enthusiastically received by our customers and is but one example of how we have transformed our business to better develop our products and serve our customers. I am confident that the leadership changes that we are announcing today will build on this momentum."
The Company announced that Satyen Yadav will join Panasonic Avionics as Chief Technology Officer on August 8, 2022. Yadav will be responsible for leading all aspects of the company's software and systems engineering teams, cloud, hardware, and IT/security. He will serve as a key member of Panasonic Avionics' executive team and be directly responsible for an organization of over 800 employees spread across Panasonic's Irvine, California headquarters, as well as the Bay Area office and other global locations. Yadav joins Panasonic Avionics from Compute North, a leader in sustainable data centers. Prior to that role, he served as Global Chief Technology Officer for Boeing Digital Solutions and Analytics business. He succeeds Joe Bentley, who has held the position since July, 2020 and is leaving the company at the end of the month.
John Wade will join the company as Vice President, Connectivity Solutions on August 1, 2022. Wade will be responsible for the overall strategy, performance, and day-to-day operations of the Connectivity business unit. He will oversee a team of network capacity engineers and satellite experts, while working very closely with sales, engineering, and product management to drive revenue and support airlines worldwide. Wade is an industry-recognized expert who most recently served as the President of Commercial Aviation at Intelsat, which acquired GoGo's Business Aviation business in 2020.
Panasonic Avionics also announced that Tom Eskola will take on a new role as Vice President, Panasonic Technical Services. Eskola brings to this position a deep knowledge of Panasonic and commitment to its customers. He joined the company more than ten years ago and most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region (EMEA). Eskola will continue his EMEA responsibilities until the company names his replacement.
Eskola succeeds Sean Gavin. Gavin had a successful 14-year career with Panasonic and will be leaving the company in mid-August.
Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the world's leading supplier of in-flight entertainment and communication systems. The company pioneered the industry beginning in 1979 and has consistently introduced innovations that enable unique customer experiences and enhance airline loyalty (NPS), ancillary revenue, and operational efficiency.
Leading airlines across the world have chosen to install Panasonic Avionics IFE systems on more than 15,000 commercial aircraft and satellite Wi-Fi connectivity on over 3,400 aircraft. Panasonic Avionics' proven systems power approximately 70% of the global IFE-equipped fleet and is supported by the largest, global support and services team utilizing OEM insights to ensure peak system performance.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — CIBT Education Group Inc. (MBAIF) on Friday reported a loss of $1 million in its fiscal second quarter.
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 2 cents per share.
The operator of business, technical and language colleges posted revenue of $12.7 million in the period.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as Nigeria's president, inheriting a country facing serious challenges.
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EUTAWVILLE -- Linda Pope Livingston Simmons, 76, of Eutawville, passed away in the home on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.
Due to the inclement weather the memorial service has been changed to Sunday, Oct. 2, at Bethel Church, 5261 Columbia Road, Orangeburg. Pastor Joey Bozard will be officiating.
Linda was born in Brunswick, Georgia, to the late Arthur Gerald Pope and the late Norine Lowry Pope. She loved her Lord Jesus Christ and served him at Bethel Church. She was a former licensed practical nurse that enjoyed working with the elderly and with hospice care. Linda loved to laugh and had a wonderful sense of humor. She loved her family and her friends, and she also had a love for animals, especially her dogs. She was a wonderful wife and mother and was a blessing to all. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Charles W. Pope.
Survivors include her husband of 49 years, John C. Simmons Sr.; daughter, Robin Denise Livingston; two nieces, Stacey Besser and Lauren (Ronnie) Weeks.
Memorials may be made to Bethel Church or Wesfield Christian Academy, 5261 Columbia Road, Orangeburg, SC 29118. | 2022-09-30T08:00:58+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/obituaries/linda-pope-livingston-simmons----eutawville/article_1e825364-e8bf-5a50-9634-dd07e1d2729f.html |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Three girls ages 12 to 13 were arrested Thursday after they allegedly caused $350,000 in damage to a Florida business, authorities said.
According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, the three girls “created their own disaster” when they vandalized Imperial Foam & Insulation in Ormond Beach.
The sheriff’s office said the three slashed bags of raw polystyrene material, spray-painted graffiti and crashed forklifts into products, smashing them.
Pictures provided by authorities show the aftermath of the vandalism. Police also provided a picture of a phallus spray-painted on a wall, which WFLA has chosen to withhold.
Authorities noted that two of the girls even spray-painted their names onto foam blocks.
The girls were caught a short time later when an employee entered the warehouse, overheard the spraying, and saw the girls running from the building.
Each girl was charged with burglary of a business and criminal mischief, both enhanced felonies due to the state of emergency. | 2022-11-11T19:33:59+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/florida-news/tween-teen-girls-cause-350k-in-damage-to-florida-business-deputies-say/ |
Fox Corp.’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower.
On Tuesday, Fox settled with Dominion over charges that Fox News baselessly accused the company of rigging its voting machines against former President Donald Trump in 2020. It was the most-watched media libel case in decades.
Fox had about $4 billion of cash on hand as of December 2022, and MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman expects the company to pay the settlement during the current quarter.
How much the lawsuit will actually end up costing Fox is unclear because there are ways it can defray some of the expense, primarily through insurance and the use of tax deductions.
Fox can deduct the Dominion settlement from its income taxes as an expense necessary for the cost of doing business. Fox Chief Communications Officer Brian Nick has confirmed the deductibility of the settlement.
Big companies often deduct large settlements to help offset some of the cost, but since settlement amounts are usually confidential, it’s difficult to pin down exactly how much they benefit. Payments that are seen as restitution or compensation can be deducted, while payments made to the government or at the direction of a government are usually not deductible.
Robert Willens, a tax professor at the Columbia University School of Business, estimates that after the tax write-off, Fox will incur about three-fourths of the settlement amount, about $590 million.
“The key is that if the payments are being made to private parties and not at the behest of the government then you can pretty much conclude without any fear of contradiction that the payment will be deductible,” he said.
A study by the Government Accountability Office in 2005 found that of 34 settlements totaling over $1 billion, 20 companies reported deducting some portion or all of their settlement payments. Big banks such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase reportedly also deducted portions of their settlements of charges tied the financial crisis of 2008.
Also, if Fox is insured, insurance is likely to cover some of the settlement. Chad Milton, a partner at Media Risk Consultants, said a large media company such as Fox could have anywhere between $100 million to $500 million in coverage, including media liability insurance and other types of insurance.
“It’s not hard to stack up $100 million but as you go higher than that, it gets harder and harder,” Milton said.
Usually, there’s a certain amount a media company has to pay, which could be in the millions, before insurance kicks in. However, the deductible incudes attorney fees, which in a high-profile case like Fox-Dominion could be tens of millions of dollars or higher, so the deductible could be swallowed up just by attorney fees.
One wrinkle: even if an insurance company pays a substantial part of the settlement, there could be an annual aggregate limit of liability, which could mean that insurers wouldn’t cover another big-money settlement.
And media companies and insurers don’t always agree on who should cover what, since there are caveats written into contracts that allow insurers to avoid paying under certain circumstances. In 2017, Disney settled a defamation suit that was filed in 2012 after ABC aired a segment that questioned the safety of a meat producer’s products that critics dubbed “pink slime.” But one of its insurers, AIG, ended up suing Disney so it wouldn’t have to pay part of the settlement, although AIG eventually lost.
Fox has also said it doesn’t expect the settlement to affect its operations.
“We don’t expect significant operational effects or changes to our business given our cash flow, strong balance sheet and the health of our business,” the company said in a statement after the settlement was announced.
MoffettNathanson’s Fishman said everything indicates the company will be able to run its business as usual.
“It isn’t clear there has been much, if any, impact of these lawsuits on Fox News’ viewership and business,” he said.
Fishman said he doesn’t expect the settlement to hamper Fox’s ability to return money to shareholders, including a $1 billion accelerated share repurchase program announced in February.
Fox has a similar lawsuit looming with another voting machine company, Smartmatic, but no date has been set and the case might not go to court for a couple of years.
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An earlier version of this story said Disney settled a defamation suit in 2012 after ABC aired a segment that questioned the safety of a meat producer’s products. The settlement of the suit was announced in 2017. | 2023-04-24T03:36:46+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/foxs-settlement-with-dominion-unlikely-to-cost-it-787-5m/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
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8:30 p.m.
Serena Williams is halfway to starting her U.S. Open with a victory after taking the first set 6-3 against Danka Kovinic.
Williams won the first two games, dropped the next three, and then regained her grip before closing it out in 55 minutes.
Williams has said she is preparing to end her tennis career, but a victory would send her into a second-round match against No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia.
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7:35 p.m.
Serena Williams is back on the court she has dominated like none other — perhaps for the last time.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion has started her first-round match against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro. Williams has said she is preparing to end her tennis career, which could come after this tournament she has won six times.
With Spike Lee on the court for the coin toss and Queen Latifah narrating a tribute video, there was far more hype than the usual first-day match. Williams emerged from the locker room wearing a glittery jacket and long skirt after being introduced as the greatest of all time.
Williams then held serve to open the match, hitting consecutive aces after she faced two break points.
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6:50 p.m.
Serena Williams has wrapped up her final practice before the U.S. Open after a half-hour.
As she walked along the courts, back toward Arthur Ashe Stadium, fans shouted her name, “Serenaaaaa!” She lifted her arm to wave her racket in acknowledgement.
She then took a drink from a water bottle and kept walking, lips pursed, toward the stadium for what could be the last singles match of her prolific career.
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6:30 p.m.
Serena Williams has started a warmup session on a practice court just outside Arthur Ashe Stadium before her first-round match at the U.S. Open.
Williams was greeted by screams from fans who filled the stands at the practice area as she took the short walk from Ashe about 45 minutes before she is due to face Danka Kovinic.
Before grabbing her racket, Williams walked over to greet her good friend, former tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, and Wozniacki’s husband, former NBA player David Lee, with hugs.
Williams began trading shots from the baseline with her hitting partner as coach Eric Hechtman and advisor Rennae Stubbs looked on.
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4:10 p.m.
Ukrainian Daria Snigur’s first career win on the WTA Tour was a big one.
The 20-year-old stunned No. 7 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 in the first round of the U.S. Open, then struggled through tears to explain what the victory meant to her family and her country during its war with Russia.
Snigur wore a pin in the colors of Ukraine’s flag on her chest and put her hands around it after the final point.
Snigur took part last week in the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition” in Louis Armstrong Stadium to raise money to aid Ukraine, and she said that might have helped her nerves when she returned to the same court Monday.
Halep had won 19 of her last 22 matches and recently returned to the top 10, but the two-time Grand Slam champion has struggled at the U.S. Open throughout her career.
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3:15 p.m.
Wu Yibing has become the first Chinese man to win a U.S. Open match in the professional era.
Wu upset No. 31 seed Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. He had played his way into the field through the qualifying tournament, joining countryman and fellow qualifier Zhang Zhizhen as the first Chinese men in the U.S. Open main draw since the open era began in 1968.
Wu won the 2017 U.S. Open boys singles and doubles titles.
Zhang lost to Tim van Rijthoven in five sets.
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2 p.m.
Andy Murray has reached the second round of the U.S. Open with one of the first upsets of the tournament.
Murray beat No. 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Murray won the first of his three Grand Slam titles 10 years ago in Flushing Meadows.
No. 16 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain was another seeded loser, beat in straight sets by American J.J. Wolf.
Third-seeded Maria Sakkari and No. 17 Caroline Garcia were among the early winners on the women’s side.
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12:20 p.m.
A small group of demonstrators chanting “Novak! Novak!” outside the entrance of the U.S. Open urged an end of the vaccine travel mandate that kept Novak Djokovic from competing in this year’s tournament.
Djokovic, who is from Serbia, was not able to travel to the U.S. because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. He was able to compete during the previous two U.S. Opens held during the pandemic, but the current vaccine requirement began last Nov. 8.
Members of Families are Essential and Children’s Health Defense & Teachers for Choice were among the demonstrators, standing behind signs that read “End The Travel Mandate Now!”
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11:15 a.m.
With Serena Williams on the schedule at night, the U.S. Open has begun with far more buzz than usual for Day 1.
Play has started at the final Grand Slam of the year, with defending champion Daniil Medvedev among the players who will be in early action Monday.
Medvedev, who won his first Grand Slam title last year in Flushing Meadows, plays the lead match in Arthur Ashe Stadium against American Stefan Kozlov at noon.
Past U.S. Open champion Andy Murray is facing No. 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina in one of the matches that has begun.
Williams will begin the night session in Ashe for the start of what could be the final tournament of her career. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion faces Danka Kovinic.
Dominic Thiem, the 2020 champion who missed the tournament last year, also is on the schedule, along with past U.S. Open champions Stan Wawrinka and Bianca Andreescu.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party says it will vote against any attempts to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament on Tuesday.
Ramaphosa has taken legal action on Monday to challenge the parliamentary report that suggested he may have broken anti-corruption laws by having a large sum of dollars at his Phala Phala farm and not reporting its theft. The report recommended that Ramaphosa be impeached.
The report was drafted by an independent panel appointed to probe allegations leveled by the country’s former intelligence head, Arthur Fraser, that Ramaphosa tried to cover up the theft of an estimated $4 million from his Phala Phala ranch.
Fraser accused Ramaphosa of money laundering and violating the country’s tax and foreign exchange control laws.
Briefing the media Monday following a meeting of its National Executive Committee that discussed Ramaphosa’s situation, the ANC said it would not support the report which calls for impeachment proceedings.
“We will vote against it because, as you are aware, that report will set other processes in motion, like impeachment, and we are not supporting the process that will lead to the impeachment of the president,” said ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile.
In papers filed with the Constitutional Court, Ramaphosa has asked the court to set aside the report, saying “the panel and its conclusions are seriously flawed, thus making the recommendations irrational.”
In court papers, Ramaphosa said “the panel misconceived its mandate, misjudged the information placed before it and misinterpreted the four charges advanced against me.”
Ramaphosa is facing calls from his detractors within the party and from opposition parties to step down as a result of the report.
He has denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the money was from the sale of animals on his farm and that he had reported the matter to the head of his presidential protection unit.
The ANC’s national executive committee, with 86 members, is the party’s highest decision-making body and has the power to force the president to resign and to instruct its lawmakers on how to vote on various matters.
The ANC still maintains a majority of seats in Parliament, enough to block a vote by all opposition parties to begin impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa.
Earlier, Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula announced that a request by one of the opposition parties to have a secret ballot had been declined by Parliament. | 2022-12-05T18:46:31+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-south-african-presidents-future-considered-by-ruling-party/ |
Yankees first. DJ LeMahieu homers to center field. Aaron Judge singles to left field. Andrew Benintendi walks. Aaron Judge to second. Gleyber Torres doubles to deep right center field. Andrew Benintendi to third. Aaron Judge scores. Josh Donaldson strikes out swinging. Matt Carpenter walks. Aaron Hicks grounds out to second base. Matt Carpenter out at second.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Yankees 2, Royals 0.
Yankees second. Isiah Kiner-Falefa grounds out to shallow left field, Nicky Lopez to Vinnie Pasquantino. Jose Trevino singles to right center field. DJ LeMahieu flies out to right field to MJ Melendez. Aaron Judge homers to right field. Jose Trevino scores. Andrew Benintendi grounds out to second base, Whit Merrifield to Vinnie Pasquantino.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Yankees 4, Royals 0.
Royals third. Nicky Lopez singles to left field. Whit Merrifield doubles to deep left field. Nicky Lopez to third. Bobby Witt Jr. strikes out swinging. Salvador Perez out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Aaron Hicks. Nicky Lopez scores. Hunter Dozier strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Yankees 4, Royals 1.
Royals fourth. Vinnie Pasquantino pops out to DJ LeMahieu. Michael A. Taylor singles to shallow center field. MJ Melendez walks. Michael A. Taylor to second. Maikel Garcia singles to center field. MJ Melendez to second. Michael A. Taylor scores. Nicky Lopez grounds out to shallow infield. Maikel Garcia out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Yankees 4, Royals 2.
Yankees fourth. Aaron Hicks pops out to shallow infield to Nicky Lopez. Isiah Kiner-Falefa reaches on error. Fielding error by Maikel Garcia. Jose Trevino reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Isiah Kiner-Falefa to third. Fielding error by Whit Merrifield. DJ LeMahieu singles to center field. Jose Trevino to third. Isiah Kiner-Falefa scores. Aaron Judge walks. DJ LeMahieu to second. Andrew Benintendi out on a sacrifice fly to left field to Hunter Dozier. Jose Trevino scores. Gleyber Torres strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 1 hit, 2 errors, 2 left on. Yankees 6, Royals 2.
Yankees sixth. Isiah Kiner-Falefa walks. Jose Trevino called out on strikes. DJ LeMahieu grounds out to shortstop, Maikel Garcia to Vinnie Pasquantino. Aaron Judge walks. Andrew Benintendi walks. Aaron Judge to second. Gleyber Torres strikes out on a foul tip.
1 run, 0 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Yankees 7, Royals 2.
Yankees seventh. Josh Donaldson strikes out swinging. Matt Carpenter homers to right field. Aaron Hicks strikes out swinging. Isiah Kiner-Falefa grounds out to third base, Nicky Lopez to Vinnie Pasquantino.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Yankees 8, Royals 2. | 2022-07-30T23:05:02+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Kansas-City-N-Y-Yankees-Runs-17340536.php |
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Three Maryland State Police officers have filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against the department, alleging widespread racial discrimination in the agency.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, alleges that the state police disciplines officers of color more harshly than white officers. The 36-page complaint alleges that the state police agency, or MSP, also denied promotions and retaliated against officers of color who spoke out against how they are treated.
It also alleges that the agency maintained a hostile work environment by subjecting officers of color to “racist comments and symbols such as using a paper training dummy at a MSP shooting range with a black face and ‘Afro wig’ for officers to shoot at.”
The force is currently under investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice announced in July that it was conducting a probe of whether the agency’s hiring and promotion practices are racially discriminatory.
The lawsuit proposes a class made up of officers of color who were disciplined, denied promotions or otherwise discriminated against from October 2019 to the present day. A judge would have to approve the group before the lawsuit could move forward as class action litigation.
The plaintiffs are Byron Tribue and Matin Dunlap, Black men who are currently officers with the agency, and Analisse Diaz, a Black Puerto Rican woman who was terminated by the department in 2019.
In a statement, the police agency said the complaint is under legal review and the department cannot share information about the allegations in the lawsuit.
“The Maryland Department of State Police remains committed to providing the highest quality of law enforcement services to the people of Maryland, while ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of all employees,” the department said. “Significant actions have been taken and are continuing to address even the perception of racism or unfair treatment of any kind.”
The complaint alleges that Tribue, who is Black, has been subjected to discrimination and retaliation by the department, including being suspended for 301 days for an alleged one-hour error in recording his time card, and being denied promotions during the course of his employment with the agency.
The court filing also alleges that the department retaliated against Dunlap, who is Black, after he complained that a white corporal placed a banana on his work vehicle. The corporal was not disciplined and has been repeatedly promoted, according to the complaint.
The complaint alleges that Diaz, who is a Black Puerto Rican woman, has been subjected to discrimination, including her termination after eight years as a state trooper.
“Throughout her time at MSP, Officer Diaz faced a work environment permeated with racism,” the complaint said. “For example, Officer Diaz’s First Sergeant told her that he did not think it was a ‘big deal’ to say the ‘n-word’ or words to that effect.”
The complaint cited another occasion when Diaz was cleaning something in a barrack, when she was told that the state police “should hire her as the cleaning staff.” | 2022-10-27T03:38:28+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-3-maryland-state-police-officers-file-discrimination-lawsuit/ |
NEW YORK, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominari Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: DOMH) (the "Company") today announced that Kyle Wool, CEO of Dominari Financial Inc. ("Dominari Financial"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, is scheduled to appear as a guest on Fox Business Network's show "Mornings with Maria" early in the 6-7 a.m. hour on April 27th to discuss global economic trends and what it means for investors.
Mr. Wool is a successful Wall Street veteran, having held numerous positions across leading firms in private wealth management and asset management. At Dominari Financial, he is focused on building a dynamic and modern financial services organization that is at the forefront of wealth creation and preservation.
Prior to his appointment as CEO of Dominari Financial, Mr. Wool served as an Executive Director of Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley, where he distinguished himself as the top producer globally for one of finance's leading institutions. Earlier in his career, he was based in Hong Kong where he served as Managing Director of the Professional Investors Group for Oppenheimer Asia Ltd., one of the youngest executives to have led the region.
Dominari Financial Inc.'s Mission Statement:
Dominari Financial is a dynamic, forward-thinking financial services company that seeks to create wealth for all stakeholders by capitalizing on emerging trends in the financial services sector and identifying early-stage future opportunities that are expected to generate a high rate of return for investors.
Dominari Financial offers Securities Brokerage and Registered Investment Adviser Services through Dominari Securities LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary, and a Member of FINRA, MSRB, and SIPC. Securities brokerage, investment adviser and other non-bank deposit investments are not FDIC-insured and may lose some or all of the principal invested. You can check the background of Dominari Securities and its registered investment professionals and review its SEC Form CRS on FINRA's BrokerCheck site at https://brokercheck.finra.org.
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GREEN BAY, WI (PACKERS) — The Green Bay Packers released wide receiver Amari Rodgers and running back Kylin Hill. General Manager Brian Gutekunst announced the transactions Tuesday.
Rodgers was originally selected by the Packers in the third round (No. 85 overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft and played in 26 regular-season games with one start and one postseason contest.
Hill was originally drafted by the Packers in 2021 in the seventh round (No. 256 overall) and played in 10 games in two seasons. | 2022-11-15T20:19:23+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/packers-release-wide-receiver-amari-rodgers/ |
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday poured cold water on current premier Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the European Union, saying he would “find it hard” to vote for it in Parliament.
Johnson said he hoped Sunak’s deal would work, but argued that that it did not amount to “the U.K. taking back control” — a key Brexit slogan.
The government has been bracing for a response from Johnson, a strong backer of Brexit who was ousted from office by ethics scandals in July 2022. Johnson is widely believed to hope for a political comeback, and blames Conservative colleagues including Sunak for bringing him down.
Johnson left office with an unresolved dispute between the U.K. and the bloc over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU member nation.
Under Sunak, the two sides struck a deal, which was announced on Monday. The “Windsor Framework” agreement will ease customs checks and other hurdles for goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. that were imposed after Brexit to maintain an open border between the north and its EU neighbor the Republic of Ireland. The open border is a key pillar of Northern Ireland’s peace process.
But Northern Ireland’s British unionist politicians have yet to give it their blessing. They worry that accepting any aspect of EU trade rules will undermine Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom.
Sunak has also said U.K. lawmakers will get to vote on the deal, but he has not said when.
“This is not about the U.K. taking back control,” Johnson said during a speech in London, referring to the fact that some EU rules will still apply in Northern Ireland. “This is the EU graciously unbending to allow us to do what we want to do in our own country, not by our laws, but by theirs.
“I’m going to find it very difficult to vote for something like this myself, because I believed we should’ve done something very different,” Johnson said.
The U.K. government’s Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, asserted that the deal meant that the U.K. was “decisively taking back control in a host of areas from Brussels.”
“It ensures unfettered access for Northern Ireland-made goods to the whole U.K. market,” he said, and also gives Northern Ireland’s elected politicians “the opportunity to reject the application of any harmful new EU rules in the few areas in which they remain.”
“We have never said this is the perfect solution,” he added — but insisted it was better than options proposed during Johnson’s time in office. | 2023-03-02T18:18:38+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-boris-johnson-skeptical-about-rishi-sunaks-new-brexit-deal/ |
Cruel World Festival halted due to bad weather
PASADENA, Calif. (CBS, KYMA/KECY) - The Cruel World Festival at the Rose Bowl was halted Saturday due to weather and fans were told to evacuate the festival site immediately after lightning strikes were reported in the area, organizers said.
In a statement posed to its website, organizers told fans that performers Siouxsie and Iggy Pop would play their sets Sunday.
The statement went on to read that Siouxsie would play an extended set for fans as this would be her only performance in North America this year.
Organizers also posted that fans holding Saturday passes would be permitted into the venue Sunday at 5:00pm. | 2023-05-21T20:39:03+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/california-news/2023/05/21/cruel-world-festival-halted-due-to-bad-weather/ |
Strongest earthquake in 40 years startles western New York
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m. Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it was the region’s strongest quake in at least 40 years.
The shaking lasted a few seconds and sent residents first to their windows and then to social media in search of an explanation.
“It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo. I jumped out of bed,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted. County emergency services officials confirmed the earthquake was felt in at least a 30-mile radius, including in Niagara Falls, about 20 miles north of Buffalo, he said.
Earthquake Canada, which measured a 4.2 magnitude event, reported it was felt slightly in southern Ontario.
Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly. The earthquake comes on the heels of two record-breaking weather events in the region: A snowstorm that dropped as much as 7 feet of snow in November and a blizzard in December that is blamed for 47 deaths.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-06T14:36:00+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2023/02/06/strongest-earthquake-40-years-startles-western-new-york/ |
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Associated Press/Report for America
CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people braced for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.
Across Moore County southwest of Raleigh on Monday, businesses handed out free food or coffee and businesses without internet conducted transactions in cash. One local economic official described the area known for its golf courses and local pottery as “eerily quiet” at a time of year when businesses are normally full of tourists and holiday shoppers. County schools were closed.
Traffic lights were out throughout the county. Drivers treated intersections as four-way stops, which caused some traffic in places such as downtown Carthage. A consistent hum of honks could be heard as people signaled to each other when they should go at each nonfunctional traffic light. Many local businesses and restaurants displayed “Closed” signs in the windows and had empty parking lots.
Kalai and Christine Balutski of Pinebluff sat under a heater Monday morning drinking warm beverages at the Red’s Corner food truck lot in Southern Pines. The couple has been without power since 7 p.m. Saturday and said they have been driving to restaurants in the next county over to eat warm meals and watch football while they wait for updates.
“We got two dogs at home, so we can’t just up and leave,” Kalai Balutski said. “We’re working off of a power brick to keep our phones charged and candles in one room to keep it warm enough to sleep.”
Bundled in a beanie, boots and a Pittsburgh Steelers jacket, Christine Balutski said she has been struggling to get work done for her remote IT job for the hospital system without WiFi access at home.
The Pinehurst Resort & Country Club has also been affected by the outage. With limited power generation capability at The Carolina Hotel, the resort has consolidated all guests into rooms with available power. Golf courses remained open but the main clubhouse was closed.
Golf is played year-round in the Sandhills region and the Pinehurst resort is the No. 3 employer in Moore County — the largest only behind the local hospital and school systems, according to government employment data. Moore County generated a record in visitor spending in 2021, leading to an economic impact of $673 million from the tourism industry, the county’s economic development office said.
Moore County has dozens of golf courses, anchored by eight at the Pinehurst Resort. Pinehurst’s famed No. 2 course has hosted three men’s U.S. Opens, with the next to come in 2024. The World Golf Hall of Fame is also moving soon from Florida to Pinehurst.
Meanwhile, federal, state and local authorities were undertaking a massive investigation of what’s being described as a serious attack on critical infrastructure. Utility officials said it could take until Thursday to restore all power.
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said Sunday that authorities have not determined a motivation. He said someone pulled up, breached the substation gates and opened fire at the substations.
He also said the substations were targeted: “It wasn’t random.”
Roughly 35,000 electric customers in the county were without power Monday, down by several thousand from the peak of the outages, according to poweroutage.us. Temperatures dropped below freezing early Monday, and lows in the 40s were expected again later in the week.
About 20 people spent the night at an emergency shelter at the Moore County Sports Complex in Carthage, said Phil Harris, executive director of the local American Red Cross chapter. Harris, who’s managing a team of nine volunteers, said plenty more have stopped by for food, warmth or to charge their devices.
“If you’ve got no power, you probably don’t have any heat, so with winter weather coming in, it’s a nice place to stay,” Harris said.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said Sunday that multiple pieces of equipment were damaged and will have to be replaced. He said while the company is trying to restore power as quickly as possible, he braced customers for the potential of outages lasting days.
“We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multiday restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday,” Brooks said at the news conference.
The county of approximately 100,000 people lies about an hour’s drive southwest of Raleigh.
The holiday season is one of the busiest times of year for the region’s tourism-dependent economy, said Linda Parsons, president of the Moore County Chamber of Commerce.
As they did during the pandemic, businesses that can’t open or lack foot traffic were getting creative with online sales. Some hardware and other stores are doing cash-only transactions, she said. Other businesses are offering free food to residents without power, such as the Southern Pines Growler, which gave out free coffee and pancakes Sunday.
“Our community has done an excellent job coming together … honestly, it’s quite heartwarming,” she said. “We’re making the best out of a bad situation.”
Andrew Wilkins, a conservation advocate who grew up in Moore County, was driving Saturday night from Washington to his parents’ small farm in Whispering Pines when he noticed the street lights were out in Carthage. He arrived to a “pitch black street” and little information about the cause or scope of the blackout.
“When the power was cut, the flow of information was cut too,” Wilkins told The Associated Press.
He spent the weekend helping his parents link a generator to their well for fresh drinking water and preparing them for cold nights without heat. Local grocery stores, such as Food Lion and Harris Teeter, have been distributing drinks, ice and pantry items to those who lost power, he said.
“Their home, like many rural homes, relies on a well for water for fresh, clean water, and it’s powered by electricity,” Wilkins said. “So when the power went out, the well stopped working, and when the well stops working, we slowly lose pressure until we lose water altogether. People are going to really feel the pinch from this as it goes on.”
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Hannah Schoenbaum is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Associated Press writer Gary D. Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
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PARIS — (AP) — Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite a huge police deployment and 1,311 arrests, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted, as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest.
France's Interior Ministry announced the new figure for arrests around the country, where 45,000 police officers fanned out in a so-far unsuccessful bid to quell violence.
Despite an appeal to parents by President Emmanuel Macron to keep their children at home, street clashes between young protesters and police raged on. About 2,500 fires were set and stores were ransacked, according to authorities.
The funeral ceremony for the teen, identified only as Nahel, who was killed by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday, began on Saturday. Family and friends were viewing the open coffin before it will be taken to a mosque for a ceremony and later burial in a town cemetery.
As the number of arrests continued to mount, the government suggested the violence was beginning to lessen thanks to tougher security measures.
Still, the damage was widespread, from Paris to Marseille and Lyon and even far away, in the French territories overseas, where a 54-year-old died after being hit by a stray bullet in French Guiana.
France's national soccer team — including international star Kylian Mbappe, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighborhoods where the anger is rooted — pleaded for an end to the violence.
“Many of us are from working-class neighborhoods, we too share this feeling of pain and sadness” over the killing of 17-year-old Nahel, the players said in a statement. “Violence resolves nothing. … There are other peaceful and constructive ways to express yourself.”
They said it's time for “mourning, dialogue and reconstruction” instead.
The slaying of Nahel stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in housing projects who struggle with poverty, unemployment and racial discrimination. The subsequent rioting is the worst France has seen in years and puts new pressure on Macron, who blamed social media for fueling violence.
Anger erupted in the Paris suburb after Nahel's death there Tuesday and quickly spread nationwide.
Early Saturday, firefighters in Nanterre extinguished blazes set by protesters that left scorched remains of cars strewn across the streets. In the neighboring suburb Colombes, protesters overturned garbage bins and used them for makeshift barricades.
Looters during the evening broke into a gun shop and made off with weapons in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, police said. Officers in Marseille arrested nearly 90 people as groups of protesters lit cars on fire and broke store windows to take what was inside.
Buildings and businesses were also vandalized in the eastern city of Lyon, where a third of the roughly 30 arrests made were for theft, police said. Authorities reported fires in the streets after an unauthorized protest drew more than 1,000 people earlier Friday evening.
In Friday's night violence, 917 people were arrested nationwide, 500 buildings targeted, 2,000 vehicles burned and dozens of stores ransacked.
While the number of overnight arrests was the highest yet, there were fewer fires, cars burned and police stations attacked around France than the previous night, according to the Interior Ministry. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin claimed the violence was of “much less intensity.”
Hundreds of police and firefighters have been injured, including 79 overnight, but authorities haven't released injury tallies for protesters.
Nanterre Mayor Patrick Jarry said that France needs to “push for changes” in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Despite repeated government appeals for calm and stiffer policing, Friday saw brazen daylight violence, too. An Apple store was looted in the eastern city of Strasbourg, where police fired tear gas, and the windows of a fast-food outlet were smashed in a Paris-area shopping mall, where officers repelled people trying to break into a shuttered store, authorities said.
In the face of the escalating crisis that hundreds of arrests and massive police deployments have failed to quell, Macron held off on declaring a state of emergency, an option that was used in similar circumstances in 2005.
Instead, his government ratcheted up its law enforcement response, with the mass deployment of police officers, including some who were called back from vacation.
Darmanin ordered a nationwide nighttime shutdown Friday of all public buses and trams, which have been among rioters' targets. He also said he warned social networks not to allow themselves to be used as channels for calls to violence.
“They were very cooperative,” Darmanin said, adding that French authorities were providing the platforms with information in hopes of cooperation identifying people inciting violence.
“We will pursue every person who uses these social networks to commit violent acts,” he said.
Macron, too, zeroed in on social media platforms that have relayed dramatic images of vandalism and cars and buildings being torched. Singling out Snapchat and TikTok, he said they were being used to organize unrest and served as conduits for copycat violence.
The violence comes just over a year before Paris and other French cities are due to host 10,500 Olympians and millions of visitors for the summer Olympic Games. Organizers said they are closely monitoring the situation as preparations for Paris 2024 continue.
The police officer accused of killing Nahel was handed a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide. Preliminary charges mean investigating magistrates strongly suspect wrongdoing, but need to investigate more before sending a case to trial. Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache said that his initial investigation led him to conclude that the officer's use of his weapon wasn't legally justified.
Nahel’s mother, identified as Mounia M., told France 5 television that she was angry at the officer, but not at the police in general. “He saw a little Arab-looking kid, he wanted to take his life,” she said.
“A police officer cannot take his gun and fire at our children, take our children’s lives,” she said. The family has roots in Algeria.
Race was a taboo topic for decades in France, which is officially committed to a doctrine of colorblind universalism. In the wake of Nahel's killing, French anti-racism activists renewed complaints about police behavior.
Thirteen people who didn't comply with traffic stops were fatally shot by French police last year. This year, another three people, including Nahel, died under similar circumstances. The deaths have prompted demands for more accountability in France, which also saw racial justice protests after George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota.
This week’s protests echoed the three weeks of rioting in 2005 that followed the deaths of 15-year-old Bouna Traoré and 17-year-old Zyed Benna, who were electrocuted while hiding from police in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois.
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Lewis Joly reported from Nanterre. Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, and Angela Charlton in Paris, contributed to this report.
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(AP) — Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, longer hours on school nights and in expanded roles including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14.
The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers to address worker shortages and in some cases run afoul of federal regulations.
Child welfare advocates worry the measures represent a coordinated push to scale back hard-won protections for minors.
“The consequences are potentially disastrous,” said Reid Maki, director of the Child Labor Coalition, which advocates against exploitative labor policies. “You can’t balance a perceived labor shortage on the backs of teen workers.”
Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past two years, according to a report published last month by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Some bills became law, while others were withdrawn or vetoed.
Legislators in Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa are actively considering relaxing child labor laws to address worker shortages. Employers have struggled to fill open positions after a spike in retirements, deaths and illnesses from COVID-19, decreases in legal immigration and other factors.
Wisconsin lawmakers back a proposal to allow 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants. If passed, Wisconsin would have the lowest such limit nationwide, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
The Ohio Legislature is on track to pass a bill allowing students ages 14 and 15 to work until 9 p.m. during the school year with their parents’ permission. That’s later than federal law allows, so a companion measure asks the U.S. Congress to amend its own laws.
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, students that age can only work until 7 p.m. during the school year. Congress passed the law in 1938 to stop children from being exposed to dangerous conditions and abusive practices in mines, factories, farms and street trades.
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in March eliminating permits that required employers to verify a child’s age and their parent’s consent. Without work permit requirements, companies caught violating child labor laws can more easily claim ignorance. Other measures to loosen child labor laws have been passed into law in New Jersey, New Hampshire and Iowa.
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law last year allowing teens aged 16 and 17 to work unsupervised in child care centers. The state Legislature approved a bill this month to allow teens of that age to serve alcohol in restaurants. It would also expand the hours minors can work. Reynolds, who said in April she supports more youth employment, has until June 3 to sign or veto the measure.
Republicans dropped provisions from a version of the bill allowing children aged 14 and 15 to work in dangerous fields including mining, logging and meatpacking. But it kept some provisions that the Labor Department say violate federal law, including allowing children as young as 14 to briefly work in freezers and meat coolers, and extending work hours in industrial laundries and assembly lines.
Teen workers are more likely to accept low pay and less likely to unionize or push for better working conditions, said Maki, of the Child Labor Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy network.
“There are employers that benefit from having kind of docile teen workers,” Maki said, adding that teens are easy targets for industries that rely on vulnerable populations such as immigrants and the formerly incarcerated to fill dangerous jobs.
The Department of Labor reported in February that child labor violations had increased by nearly 70% since 2018. The agency is increasing enforcement and asking Congress to allow larger fines against violators.
It fined one of the nation’s largest meatpacking sanitation contractors $1.5 million in February after investigators found the company illegally employed more than 100 children at locations in eight states. The child workers cleaned bone saws and other dangerous equipment in meatpacking plants, often using hazardous chemicals.
National business lobbyists, chambers of commerce and well-funded conservative groups are backing the state bills to increase teen participation in the workforce, including Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political network and the National Federation of Independent Business, which typically aligns with Republicans.
The conservative Opportunity Solutions Project and its parent organization, Florida-based think tank Foundation for Government Accountability, helped lawmakers in Arkansas and Missouri draft bills to roll back child labor protections, The Washington Post reported. The groups, and allied lawmakers, often say their efforts are about expanding parental rights and giving teenagers more work experience.
“There’s no reason why anyone should have to get the government’s permission to get a job,” Republican Arkansas Rep. Rebecca Burkes, who sponsored the bill to eliminate child work permits, said on the House floor. “This is simply about eliminating the bureaucracy that is required and taking away the parent’s decision about whether their child can work.”
Margaret Wurth, a children’s rights researcher with Human Rights Watch, a member of the Child Labor Coalition, described bills like the one passed in Arkansas as “attempts to undermine safe and important workplace protections and to reduce workers’ power.”
Current laws fail to protect many child workers, Wurth said.
She wants lawmakers to end exceptions for child labor in agriculture. Federal law allows children 12 and older to work on farms for any amount of time outside of school hours, with parental permission. Farm workers over 16 can work at dangerous heights or operate heavy machinery, hazardous tasks reserved for adult workers in other industries.
Twenty-four children died from work injuries in in 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Around half of deadly work incidents happened on farms, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office covering child deaths between 2003 and 2016.
“More children die working in agriculture than in any other sector,” Wurth said. “Enforcement isn’t going to help much for child farm workers unless the standards improve.” | 2023-05-25T16:56:02+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/kids-could-fill-labor-shortages-even-in-bars-if-these-lawmakers-succeed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kids-could-fill-labor-shortages-even-in-bars-if-these-lawmakers-succeed |
TX Austin/San Antonio TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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543 FPUS54 KEWX 180813
ZFPEWX
Zone Forecast Product for South Central Texas
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
TXZ192-182115-
Travis-
Including the city of Austin
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with
showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Temperature falling into the upper 80s this afternoon.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast with gusts up to
20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southeast
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Highest heat index
readings up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ205-182115-
Bexar-
Including the city of San Antonio
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ183-182115-
Val Verde-
Including the city of Del Rio
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid
70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ220-182115-
Atascosa-
Including the city of Pleasanton
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Highest heat index
readings up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ187-182115-
Bandera-
Including the city of Bandera
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ193-182115-
Bastrop-
Including the city of Bastrop
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Temperature falling into the lower 90s this afternoon.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
90s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ190-182115-
Blanco-
Including the city of Blanco
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with
showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid
90s. Temperature falling into the mid 80s this afternoon. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast with gusts up to 20 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 90s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ172-182115-
Burnet-
Including the city of Burnet
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Temperature falling into the mid 80s this afternoon. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ208-182115-
Caldwell-
Including the city of Lockhart
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south this
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ206-182115-
Comal-
Including the city of New Braunfels
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Temperature falling into the lower 90s this afternoon.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to
20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ224-182115-
De Witt-
Including the city of Cuero
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest heat index readings up to 108.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ228-182115-
Dimmit-
Including the city of Carrizo Springs
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the mid
90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ184-182115-
Edwards-
Including the city of Rocksprings
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Temperature
falling into the mid 80s in the afternoon. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ209-182115-
Fayette-
Including the city of La Grange
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
south after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ219-182115-
Frio-
Including the city of Pearsall
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Highs
in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ188-182115-
Gillespie-
Including the city of Fredericksburg
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with
showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 90s. Temperature falling into the mid 80s this afternoon.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming southeast
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ223-182115-
Gonzales-
Including the city of Gonzales
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest heat index readings up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ207-182115-
Guadalupe-
Including the city of Seguin
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ191-182115-
Hays-
Including the city of San Marcos
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
upper 90s. Temperature falling into the upper 80s this afternoon.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to
20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
90s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up
to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ222-182115-
Karnes-
Including the city of Karnes City
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. A
chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid
70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ189-182115-
Kendall-
Including the city of Boerne
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 90s. Temperature falling into the upper 80s this afternoon.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ186-182115-
Kerr-
Including the city of Kerrville
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with
showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid
90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast this
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Temperature falling into the lower 80s in the afternoon.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ202-182115-
Kinney-
Including the city of Brackettville
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ225-182115-
Lavaca-
Including the city of Hallettsville
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest heat index readings up
to 108.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in
the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest
heat index readings up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Highest heat index
readings up to 106.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 50 percent. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ194-182115-
Lee-
Including the city of Giddings
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
Temperature falling to around 90 this afternoon. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with thunderstorms likely with a chance of
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ171-182115-
Llano-
Including the city of Llano
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Temperature falling into the mid 80s this afternoon. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after
midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ217-182115-
Maverick-
Including the city of Eagle Pass
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ204-182115-
Medina-
Including the city of Hondo
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Highest heat index
readings up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance
of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ185-182115-
Real-
Including the city of Leakey
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ203-182115-
Uvalde-
Including the city of Uvalde
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ173-182115-
Williamson-
Including the city of Georgetown
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Temperature falling into the upper 80s this afternoon. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ221-182115-
Wilson-
Including the city of Floresville
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid
70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ218-182115-
Zavala-
Including the city of Crystal City
313 AM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-18T09:27:52+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-Austin-San-Antonio-TX-Zone-Forecast-17381300.php |
DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings are too far behind the final playoff spot (nine points) with too many teams to pass (five) and too few games (14) to make a realistic postseason push.
But Dylan Larkin isn’t minimizing the importance of the remaining games.
“In the position we’re in right now, we can’t just go out there and not give it our all,” Larkin said. “We’ve got fans coming to the rink, good crowds, good energy in the building. We got to show up, we got to build on that, and we got to play hard. We got to finish this thing out the right way.”
Larkin said they want fun, entertaining games for the home crowd.
“We don’t want to go out there and lose like that at home,” he said following Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche.
“We were right there, and we still are right there. We got to keep fighting and we got to keep playing to make it meaningful. The fans, whatever they have to say for the future, winning’s more fun. The people that come to the building, they want to see us win.”
The Red Wings (30-29-9) face the Florida Panthers Monday at Little Caesars Arena (7 p.m., Bally Sports Detroit). They play their final 14 games in a span of 25 days.
“That’s extreme, but it’s fine,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “You’re going to have to learn on the fly with games, take advantage of the practice we have. We had two practices and I thought it led to us being extremely sharp in that first period (Saturday). There’s going to be a balance of that down the stretch.”
The Red Wings are 2-8-1 since beating the New York Rangers on Feb. 23 to climb into the second wild card position. But Lalonde doesn’t see the season unraveling.
“We played Boston great (last weekend). Our performance in Nashville (on Tuesday), we gave up literally five chances. We’ll take that performance any night of the year,” he said. “And you saw it (Saturday), but it could be a worry going forward. When you’re doing some quality things and not getting result it can be deflating. It might be the reality of where we are down the stretch against a lineup like that. It doesn’t feel great, the results, but our group is competing fine.”
The Red Wings currently have the 10th-worst record in the league and a 3.5 percent chance of winning the draft lottery, according to Tankathon.com, and the right to select generational talent Connor Bedard of Regina (WHL).
Under the draft lottery format revised in 2021, a team can move up only 10 spots in the lottery, so clubs that finish between 12th and 16th (worst records) can’t wind up with the first selection.
More: Simon Edvinsson’s debut has Red Wings ‘excited, optimistic’ about future | 2023-03-20T15:33:14+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2023/03/red-wings-aim-to-finish-season-the-right-way.html?src=rss |
The U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters came to Monterey for a choral concert on Sunday, March 19. The energetic group engaged with the crowd and sang an array of tunes from Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys to Aretha Franklin.
Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. | 2023-03-25T04:46:20+00:00 | montereycountyweekly.com | https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/entertainment/local_inspiration/u-s-navy-band-sea-chanters/article_eb8dab32-caa3-11ed-aea4-9fe76faf9ae5.html |
BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oakleaf Group, one of the nation's leading providers of mortgage loan due diligence, data analytics, financial modeling, and advisory services for the mortgage and financial services industries, has launched a new service that streamlines and dramatically cuts the time it takes to collect and analyze investor notices on public RMBS transactions.
Surveilling notices is a cumbersome process that demands time and resources – especially for holders of large RMBS portfolios. With Oakleaf's new service, investors receive ongoing reports plus Oakleaf's own expert analysis on the importance and level of urgency of each notice.
"Buy-side investors have neglected and missed impactful opportunities in investor notices for years, due to the strains on staff and the inefficient, cumbersome, and time-consuming rigors of navigating multiple trustee sites," said John St. Martin, Director of Modeling and Analytics at Oakleaf. "Our service solves this problem for our customers once and for all in a quick easy-to-read management level report."
After signing up for the service, Oakleaf begins to search and sort through every deal and then directs portfolio and asset managers to the notices that have potential economic impact on their position or require action. The service delivers reports twice per month and all notices include a click-to-view option.
To sign up, or to learn more about this service, contact John St. Martin at john.st.martin@oakleaf.com and (202) 684-2800 (ext. 127), or visit https://oakleaf.com/investor-notice-monitoring-service/.
About Oakleaf
Oakleaf is a mortgage industry consulting firm specializing in regulatory compliance, loan review, data analytics, financial modeling, and litigation support services solely for the mortgage and financial services industries. Our seasoned practitioners utilize their vast experience and domain knowledge to provide the insights, perspectives, and tailored solutions necessary to meet our clients' business needs and solve their most complex problems. Our combination of subject matter expertise, client-focused approach, and commitment to excellence has made Oakleaf a trusted leader in the industry for 15 years. For more information, visit www.oakleaf.com and follow Oakleaf on LinkedIn.
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SOURCE The Oakleaf Group | 2023-01-26T15:36:39+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/26/oakleaf-launches-new-investor-notice-tracking-service/ |
Supporters of taxes on the very rich contend that people are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bigger appetite for what they’re calling “tax justice.”
Bills announced Thursday in California, New York, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington and Connecticut vary in their approaches to hiking taxes, but all revolve around the idea that the richest Americans need to pay more.
All of the proposals face questionable prospects. Similar legislation has died in state legislatures and Congress. But the new push shows that the political left isn’t ready to give up on the populist argument that government can and should be used as a tool for redistributing wealth.
“Under the pandemic, while people struggled to put food on the table, we saw billionaires double their wealth,” said California Assembly Member Alex Lee, a Democrat.
The Tax Foundation, a conservative-leaning policy organization, called wealth taxes — which levy taxes not just on new income, but on a person’s total assets — “economically destructive.”
It also said in a statement that such taxes create “perverse incentives” for the rich to avoid taxes, including simply moving to states with a lower tax burden.
“Very few taxpayers would remit wealth taxes -- but many more would pay the price,” the group said in a statement. Progressive Democrats, however, argue they are not seeing wealthy taxpayers leaving their states due to higher taxes.
California already taxes the wealthy more than most states. The top 1% of earners account for about half of the state’s income tax collections. But this week, Lee proposed a “wealth tax,” similar to one promoted for years by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat.
It would impose an annual tax of 1.5% on assets of more than $1 billion and 1% on assets of $50 million or more. The new tax on wealth, not annual income, would affect an estimated 23,000 “ultra-millionaire” and 160 billionaire households, or the top 0.1% of California households, Lee said.
In Connecticut, progressive lawmakers are proposing more traditional hikes: a higher tax rate on capital gains earnings for wealthy taxpayers and higher personal income tax rates for millionaires,
“We need to ensure that the wealthiest in our state truly pay what they owe and not expect working families across our state to continue to subsidize their share,” said state Rep. Kate Farrar, a deputy majority leader in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.
One obstacle to such proposals is that some states where the idea might be popular are currently running budget surpluses, meaning there is little pressure to raise revenue.
Connecticut is expected to end its fiscal year with a $3 billion surplus. Hawaii is projecting a budget surplus of $1.9 billion going into the new legislative session.
But Hawaii state Rep. Jeanne Kapela, a Democrat, said a proposal there to increase the state’s capital gains tax is more about economic equity than raising money.
“If you look at our tax code now, it’s really the definition of economic inequality,” Kapela said.
The lowest-paid workers in many states often see a far bigger percentage of their income go to pay taxes every year than the very rich, particularly in states that don’t have a graduated income tax.
Voters in Massachusetts, which had a flat income tax, approved an amendment to the state constitution in November that sets a higher rate for those earning more than $1 million a year.
Despite optimism expressed by liberal lawmakers that 2023 could be the year, many of these proposals face an uphill battle, even in blue states with Democratic governors.
“This ‘tax the rich’ has been around before and it’s present again. And quite frankly, it never got traction before and I seriously doubt there’s an appetite for it now," said Gary Rose, professor of political science at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
A lot of people, he said, don't resent the rich as much as some progressive Democrats.
“I think if you polled the American people, a lot of people want to get rich themselves and it’s part of, if you will, the American Dream,” Rose said. "We’ve never really had in this country a tremendous appetite for taxing the rich because getting rich ... is really part of who we are and what separates this country from many Democratic socialist countries.”
A wealth tax bill in California never even got a public hearing last year. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who was just elected to a second term in a landslide, has actively campaigned against efforts to increase taxes on the rich.
His opposition helped sink a 2022 ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on the rich to pay for electric vehicle charging stations and wildfire prevention.
In Connecticut, Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, a multimillionaire, says he wants to focus his second term on reducing taxes rather than raising them.
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Associated Press Writer Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Hawaii and Adam Beam in Sacramento, Calif. contributed to this report.
Credit: Mark Lennihan
Credit: Mark Lennihan | 2023-01-21T00:21:13+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/tax-the-rich-liberals-renew-push-for-state-wealth-taxes/E2GZEZGVRFER5CT6YEV5YK6FMY/ |
News organizations readying for the midterms are facing a tougher atmosphere than ever when projecting winners on election night.
Former President Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, his fury at Fox News for calling Arizona for Joe Biden and the dozens of GOP candidates who have followed his lead in questioning the validity of election results is making the projection of races an even more fraught process than before.
“You can go back to the 2000 election, you can go back to certainly the last election, the way that Fox News made the call in Arizona and the way the Trump campaign responded, it’s a difficult position news organizations find themselves in the sense that they don’t want to find themselves in the center of the story,” said Benjamin Toff, senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
“For the people involved it’s a really uncomfortable position to be in and so they’re all very careful about not wanting to prematurely call a race based on insufficient data and evidence,” he said.
David Scott, who as vice president of news strategy and operations at The Associated Press oversees one of the largest election coverage operations in the country, told The Hill this week the AP is prepared for the biggest election night spotlight the outlet has been in since 2020.
“Even in this moment for our democracy where there is a lot of misinformation and intense focus on the vote count, we take comfort in the standard that we’ve used and the care and the effort that goes into calling races. That has always served us well and is also the right one for this moment,” Scott said.
Across the country, dozens of news leaders are prepping plans to deliver race calls in real-time, a complicated and painstaking science that uses reporting from various localities, data from recent elections and exit polling to quantify leaders and eventual winners in races for the House, Senate and other contests.
Projections have been controversial or wrong in the past. The night of the presidential election of 2000, networks inaccurately called the race for either Democrat Al Gore or Republican George W. Bush.
More recently, Trump was infuriated and complained about the Arizona projection to the highest levels of Fox’s management before falsely telling his supporters he had won.
Fox stood by the call and has brought Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin, who took intense flak from Trump supporters in 2020, back for the network’s coverage of the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Trump has continued to push unsubstantiated claims about the election, and a number of Republicans running for office in this year’s midterms have backed those allegations.
Those denials are having an effect on public opinion. An ABC News poll earlier this year found only 20 percent of Americans have a high level of confidence in election systems.
Because of this, industry experts say it is more imperative than ever that news organizations peel back the curtain for their audiences and explain the nuances of how votes are counted and projections are made.
“We put the Decision Desk right in the studio and I can talk directly to our viewers, so that you get it straight from us. When we’re seeing something, we show it to viewers,” said Anthony Salvanto, CBS News’s director of elections and surveys. “My goal is to always be able to deliver an explanation for what’s happening in very specific terms.”
Salvanto said his network will this cycle have a renewed emphasis on outlining for viewers which ballot types are being counted on election night, citing partisan trends in same-day versus early or mail-in voting.
“That will be a challenge because it’s something we’ve seen emerge over the last couple of cycles in greater numbers,” he said.
Especially for the national television networks, pressure to fill airtime with election result analysis can be immense as results are reported, in some cases slowly, from local governments and others counting votes across the country.
“The things the networks need to be careful about, and for the most part they are, is making sure the audience understands what a Steve Kornacki or a John King are doing on Election Day,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, a former network executive and now dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. He referenced the MSNBC and CNN personalities connected to analysis and election night projections at those two networks.
“They are not predicting the outcome, they are not sitting there with the results telling you, ‘Here’s how we think people are going to vote.’ What they are saying is, ‘Based on the historical models, we believe that once all the votes have been counted this is where it’s gonna land.’ That’s a subtle but important distinction.”
Complicating matters further for the media organizations tracking election results minute by minute is the declining nationwide trust in public opinion polling and exit polls on election night.
In recent years, media companies have found content relating to how voting works has resonated with audiences and are looking to capitalize on that trend as they work to create more transparency and faith in the process.
“Readers, viewers, news consumers, voters … they are super interested in that. They want that information,” Scott said. “Some of the content that we would call explanatory journalism where we are pulling back the curtain and explaining what we’re doing is some of the most popular stories and videos and story telling that we do on election night. It really signals an interest in democracy. People want to know what’s taking place.” | 2022-10-25T16:33:26+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/getting-the-call-right-projection-pressure-rises-for-news-organizations/ |
DENVER (AP) — A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.
Yet despite that scare, there’s no public record that prosecutors moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had with him.
Gun control advocates say Aldrich’s June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, with potentially deadly consequences. While it’s not clear the law could have prevented Saturday night’s attack — such gun seizures can be in effect for as little as 14 days and be extended by a judge in six-month increments — they say it could have at least slowed Aldrich and raised his profile with law enforcement.
“We need heroes beforehand — parents, co-workers, friends who are seeing someone go down this path,” said Colorado state Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was killed in the Aurora theater shooting and sponsored the state’s red flag law passed in 2019. “This should have alerted them, put him on their radar.”
But the law that allows guns to be removed from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others has seldom been used in the state, particularly in El Paso County, home to Colorado Springs, where the 22-year-old Aldrich allegedly went into Club Q with a long gun at just before midnight and opened fire before he was subdued by patrons.
An Associated Press analysis found Colorado has one of the lowest rates of red flag usage despite widespread gun ownership and several high-profile mass shootings.
Courts issued 151 gun surrender orders from when the law took effect in April 2019 through 2021, three surrender orders for every 100,000 adults in the state. That’s a third of the ratio of orders issued for the 19 states and District of Columbia with surrender laws on their books.
El Paso County appears especially hostile to the law. It joined nearly 2,000 counties nationwide in declaring themselves “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” that protect the constitutional right to bear arms, passing a 2019 resolution that says the red flag law “infringes upon the inalienable rights of law-abiding citizens” by ordering police to “forcibly enter premises and seize a citizen’s property with no evidence of a crime.”
County Sheriff Bill Elder has said his office would wait for family members to ask a court for surrender orders and not petition for them on its own accord, unless there were “exigent circumstances” and “probable cause” of a crime.
El Paso County, with a population of 730,000, had 13 temporary firearm removals through the end of last year, four of which turned into longer ones of at least six months.
The county sheriff’s office declined to answer what happened after Aldrich’s arrest last year, including whether anyone asked to have his weapons removed. The press release issued by the sheriff’s office at the time said no explosives were found but did not mention anything about whether any weapons were recovered.
Spokesperson Lt. Deborah Mynatt referred further questions about the case to the district attorney’s office.
An online court records search did not turn up any formal charges filed against Aldrich in last year’s case. And in an update on a story on the bomb threat, The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs reported that prosecutors did not pursue any charges in the case and that records were sealed.
The Gazette also reported Sunday that it got a call from Aldrich in August asking that it remove a story about the incident.
“There is absolutely nothing there, the case was dropped, and I’m asking you either remove or update the story,” Aldrich said in a voice message to an editor. “The entire case was dismissed.”
A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, Howard Black, declined to comment on whether any charges were pursued. He said the shooting investigation will also include a study of the bomb threat.
“There will be no additional information released at this time,” Black said. “These are still investigative questions.”
AP’s study of 19 states and the District of Columbia with red flag laws on their books found they have been used about 15,000 times since 2020, less than 10 times for every 100,000 adults in each state. Experts called that woefully low and hardly enough to make a dent in gun killings.
Just this year, authorities in Highland Park, Illinois, were criticized for not trying to take guns away from the 21-year-old accused of a Fourth of July parade shooting that left seven dead. Police had been alerted about him in 2019 after he threatened to “kill everyone” in his home.
Duke University sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, an expert in red flag laws, said the Colorado Springs case could be yet another missed warning sign.
“This seems like a no brainer, if the mom knew he had guns,” he said. “If you removed firearms from the situation, you could have had a different ending to the story.”
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LONDON — The Broncos flew nearly nine hours for their fourth road game, an international match vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars.
With Denver ranking as the NFL's most disappointing team — they acquired nine-time Pro Bowler Russell Wilson and hired an offensive-minded coach in Nathaniel Hackett and somehow got worse — it's fair to wonder if multiple Broncos will be packing when the team arrives back home because of potential trades.
The disappointment of the 2-5 start, including four straight losses, gives way to a sobering reality. Broncos general manager George Paton, whose phone never stops buzzing, must weigh future roster construction against winning in the present.
The Broncos would need to finish 8-2 or 7-3 to be in the playoff mix, mythical math for a team that averages 14.3 points per game, last in the NFL. That's five points fewer than last season, which resulted in the termination of the coach and offensive coordinator. For perspective, the two teams ahead of the Broncos in points — the Colts and Steelers — both benched their quarterbacks for the season.
As it stands, the Broncos boast five picks in 2023 — two thirds (one from the Colts), a fourth, fifth and seventh (from Vikings) — their stock thinned because of the Wilson trade.
So two goals have emerged, in my opinion, for the remainder of the season, which might end with Hackett gone without dramatic improvement. First, the Broncos need Wilson to rebound, and at some point resemble the player he was in his previous 10 years. The Broncos gave Wilson a five-year, $245 million extension in August with $124 million guaranteed in the first three years. Paton said it was the "best he's ever felt" after getting a deal done.
The enormity of the money makes a rebound crucial or the franchise could descend deeper into this rabbit hole of misery. Wilson's dead cap money reads thusly, per Spotrac:
2023: $107 million
2024: $85 million
2025: $49.6 million
Simply put, the Broncos require Wilson to find his footing — I still believe he will — either with Hackett or a new coach.
The second priority becomes building around him. Which brings us back to trades. Several players are drawing interest, most notably outside linebacker Bradley Chubb, and receivers Jerry Jeudy and K.J. Hamler. Tight end Albert Okwuegbunam and Melvin Gordon could also be moved.
Chubb plays a premier position and has 5.5 sacks, leaving him on pace for a career-high 13. There is an argument to keep Chubb and franchise tag him next season, though that roughly $19 million number is uncomfortable when needing to address some many other roster issues. With the Panthers asking for two first-round picks for Brian Burns, according to ESPN, the Broncos will likely ask for a first or a combination of a second and a third for Chubb.
Jeudy is a former first-rounder on a friendly contract next season, so there is less motivation to move him without the right return. Could the Broncos get a second or third for him? Perhaps. The Packers wanted Jeudy in the Aaron Rodgers' talk, per sources, and the Giants could make sense. As for Hamler, he is a rocket on the field, an admirable story after overcoming hip and knee surgeries. However, he as a long injury history, likely minimizing the return. Could he fetch a fourth-rounder? Albert O, who has no role moving forward, and Gordon have less value — the Rams could be a fit for the veteran running back — but deals must be explored.
The Broncos have multiple needs looking at 2023, among them, rebuilding the offensive line. Acquiring picks is not sexy. This season was supposed to be about winning, not serving as a supplier of players to contenders. But a pivot is required.
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MEXICO CITY, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Rotoplas, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AGUA*) ("Rotoplas" or "The Company"), the leading provider of water-solutions in the Americas, announces the release of its 2021 Annual Integrated Report.
"Our purpose and mission inspire every decision we make, just like water, we are constantly in movement, progressing towards our maximum potential.
We know that Rotoplas' future is being shaped today.
We invite you to learn more about our results through this Annual Report, which is part of our commitment to transparency and to all our stakeholders. The report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI standards and also follows SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) guidelines as well as the TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) recommendations. For the first time, we have also incorporated the Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism table, proposed by the World Economic Forum.
We encourage you to continue to join us on this path towards sustainable development in which we can change the lives of thousands of people while respecting the environment."
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The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state's near-total bans on abortion will remain in place while a lawsuit over the matter continues. The bans include a six-week ban and a trigger law, which have been in place since August of last year.
The decision has been closely watched as it comes just months after voters weighed in on the issue of abortion rights and signaled support for abortion rights at the ballot box.
"Lives will be saved while these laws remain in effect, and we hope and pray the lower courts will respect Kentuckians' will and base their decisions in this case on the Constitution and rule of law," Sue Liebel, midwest regional director of the Susan B. Anthony List, a national anti-abortion-rights group, said after Thursday's decision.
Abortion-rights groups decried the ruling.
"This unconscionable decision is a slap in the face to Kentucky voters, who only three months ago rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed a permanent ban on abortion in their state," said NARAL President Mini Timmaraju.
The two state laws – a ban on nearly all abortions in Kentucky and a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy – were allowed to take effect last year following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.
Both laws were passed in 2019, as part of a years-long effort by mostly Republican lawmakers in multiple states to restrict the procedure as much as possible. They put in place layers of restrictions that could take effect in the event that Roe v. Wade was either partially or, as in Dobbs, fully overturned.
Kentucky's two remaining clinics, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center, were forced to stop providing abortions in early August. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged both bans, prompting a chain of litigation that culminated with arguments before the Kentucky Supreme Court in November.
The oral arguments took place just days after voters rejected Amendment 2, which would have amended the state constitution to state explicitly that there is no right to an abortion.
Kentucky was among several states where residents voted to support abortion rights last year following the Dobbs decision.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, defended the two bans during oral arguments, saying the state legislature — not the courts — has the right to regulate abortion. The ACLU argued that the laws violate multiple rights guaranteed by Kentucky's state constitution, among them the "right of seeking and pursuing their safety and happiness" and freedom from "absolute and arbitrary power."
As Kentucky Public Radio has reported, the state's seven-person high court now has a new chief justice and two new members, adding to the uncertainty around how the newly constituted court might rule.
After the Dobbs decision, abortion rights groups in several states with pre-existing abortion bans known as "trigger laws" filed lawsuits challenging them in state court. In Louisiana, for example, reproductive rights lawyers persuaded a judge to block abortion restrictions, winning clinics in the state a temporary reprieve before a state judge ultimately allowed them take effect, prohibiting nearly all abortions.
About a dozen states have banned most or all abortions, according to data kept by the Center for Reproductive Rights; laws in several other states including Ohio and Indiana are tied up in ongoing litigation.
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DALLAS (AP) — A man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi parked near a Dallas-area hotel was going on trial this week.
Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the capital murder trial of Yaser Said, 65. Said, who is accused of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008, faces an automatic life sentence if convicted. Testimony was scheduled to start Tuesday.
The sisters were shot multiple times in the Dallas suburb of Irving. Sarah Said managed to call 911 using a cellphone, telling the operator that her father shot her and that she was dying.
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Yaser Said, sought on a capital murder warrant since the slayings, was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list. Said, who had worked as a taxi driver, was finally arrested in August 2020 in Justin, about 35 miles (58 kilometers) northwest of Dallas.
His son, Islam Said, and his brother, Yassim Said, have since been convicted of helping him evade arrest.
In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Yaser Said denied killing his daughters.
According to a police report, a family member told investigators that Said had threatened “bodily harm” against one of his daughters for dating a non-Muslim. Police documents also show that before the teens were killed, their mother had fled with them to Oklahoma because they feared Said. | 2022-08-01T20:11:33+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/man-going-on-trial-in-texas-in-2008-slaying-of-2-daughters/article_7bd9b652-4a5f-5638-b998-e90473ff7ba4.html |
Private placement offering executes opportunistic and special situations credit strategy
PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FS Investments, a leading alternative asset manager with $35 billion in assets under management, today announced the final closing of FS Tactical Opportunities Fund (the "Fund").
FS Tactical Opportunities Fund is a private fund intended for institutional investors. The Fund employs an opportunistic credit strategy that seeks to generate off-market yield and returns compared to traditional credit asset classes. The Fund originates direct investments and acquires secondary investments focused on complex, niche or unconventional situations.
The Fund is managed by the same seasoned FS Investments Liquid Credit & Special Situations team that manages $2.1 billion and has historically delivered strong performance for publicly traded FS Credit Opportunities Corp., which invests in capital structure solutions and secondary credit opportunities. The team has experience in syndicated credit, private credit, private equity and structured products and is led by Andrew Beckman, Head of Liquid Credit & Special Situations, and Nicholas Heilbut, Portfolio Manager and Director of Research.
The investment team has unique and robust sourcing capabilities and extensive experience executing this strategy, benefiting from the experience and resources of the broader FS Investments platform and its position as one of the largest U.S. middle market lenders.
To date, the Fund has called approximately 50% of capital commitments and invested in 21 companies across a diverse mix of sectors.
"We are grateful for the support of our investors and look forward to continuing to deliver strong performance for them," said Beckman. "In an uncertain and volatile market, we believe FS Tactical Opportunities Fund is well positioned to outperform given the highly structured and idiosyncratic nature of its private investments and its ability to opportunistically purchase secondary investments during dislocations, which translates into less dependence on the economic cycle."
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP acted as counsel to FS Investments.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a good month, Celina Chanthanouvong has about $200 left after rent, groceries and car insurance. That doesn’t factor in her student loans, which have been on hold since the start of the pandemic and are estimated to cost $300 a month. The pause in repayment has been a lifeline keeping the 25-year-old afloat.
“I don’t even know where I would begin to budget that money,” said Chanthanouvong, who works in marketing in San Francisco.
Now, after more than three years, the lifeline is being pulled away.
More than 40 million Americans will be on the hook for federal student loan payments starting in late August under the terms of a debt ceiling deal approved by Congress last week. The Biden administration has been targeting that timeline for months, but the deal ends any hope of a further extension of the pause, which has been prolonged while the Supreme Court decides the president’s debt cancellation.
Without cancellation, the Education Department predicts borrowers will fall behind on their loans at historic rates. Among the most vulnerable are those who finished college during the pandemic. Millions have never had to make a loan payment, and their bills will soon come amid soaring inflation and forecasts of economic recession.
Advocates fear it will add a financial burden that younger borrowers can’t afford.
“I worry that we’re going to see levels of default of new graduates that we’ve never seen before,” said Natalia Abrams, president of the nonprofit Student Debt Crisis Center.
Chanthanouvong earned a bachelor’s in sociology from the University of California-Merced in 2019. She couldn’t find a job for a year, leaving her to rely on odd jobs for income. She found a full-time job last year, but at $70,000, her salary barely covers the cost of living in the Bay Area.
“I’m not going out. I don’t buy Starbucks every day. I’m cooking at home,” she said. “And sometimes, I don’t even have $100 after everything.”
Under President Joe Biden’s cancellation plan, Chanthanouvong would be eligible to get $20,000 of her debt erased, leaving her owing $5,000. But she isn’t banking on the relief. Instead, she invited her partner to move in and split rent. The financial pinch has them postponing or rethinking major life milestones.
“My partner and I agreed, maybe we don’t want kids,” she said. “Not because we don’t want them, but because it would be financially irresponsible for us to bring a human being into this world.”
Out of the more than 44 million federal student loan borrowers, about 7 million are below the age of 25, according to data from the Education Department. Their average loan balance is less than $14,000, lower than any other age group.
Yet borrowers with lower balances are the most likely to default. It’s fueled by millions who drop out before graduating, along with others who graduate but struggle to find good jobs. Among those who defaulted in 2021, the median loan balance was $15,300, and the vast majority had balances under $40,000, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Resuming student loan payments will cost U.S. consumers $18 billion a month, the investment firm Jefferies has estimated. The hit to household budgets is ill-timed for the overall economy, Jefferies says, because the United States is widely believed to be on the brink of a recession.
Despite the student loan moratorium, Americans mostly didn’t bank their savings, according to Jefferies economist Thomas Simons. So they’ll likely have to cut back on other things — travel, restaurants — to fit resumed loan payments into their budgets. Belt-tightening could hurt an economy that relies heavily on consumer spending.
Noshin Hoque graduated from Stony Brook University early in the pandemic with about $20,000 in federal student loans. Instead of testing the 2020 job market, she enrolled at a master’s program in social work at Columbia University, borrowing $34,000 more.
With the payments paused, she felt a new level of financial security. She cut costs by living with her parents in New York City and her job at a nonprofit paid enough to save money and help her parents.
She recalls splurging on a $110 polo shirt as a Father’s Day gift for her dad.
“Being able to do stuff for my parents and having them experience that luxury with me has just been such a plus,” said Hoque, who works for Young Invincibles, a nonprofit that supports student debt cancellation.
It gave her the comfort to enter a new stage of life. She got married to a recent medical school graduate, and they’re expecting their first child in November. At the same time, they’re bracing for the crush of loan payments, which will cost at least $400 a month combined. They hope to pay more to avoid interest, which is prohibited for them as practicing Muslims.
To prepare, they stopped eating at restaurants. They canceled a vacation to Italy. Money they wanted to put toward their child’s education fund will go to their loans instead.
“We’re back to square one of planning our finances,” she said. “I feel that so deeply.”
Even the logistics of making payments will be a hurdle for newer borrowers, said Rachel Rotunda, director of government relations at National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. They’ll need to find out who their loan servicers are, choose a repayment plan and learn to navigate the payment system.
“The volume of borrowers going back on the system at the same time — this has never happened before,” Rotunda said. “It’s fair to say it’s going to be bumpy.”
The Education Department has promised to make the restart of payments as smooth as possible. In a statement, the agency said it will continue to push for Biden’s debt cancellation as a way to reduce borrowers’ debt load and ease the transition.
For Beka Favela, 30, the payment pause provided independence. She earned a master’s in counseling last year, and her job as a therapist allowed her to move out of her parents’ house.
Without making payments on her $80,000 in student loans, she started saving. She bought furniture. She chipped away at credit card debt. But once the pause ends, she expects to pay about $500 a month. It will consume most of her disposable income, leaving little for surprise costs. If finances get tighter, she wonders if she’ll have to move back home.
“I don’t want to feel like I’m regressing in order to make ends meet,” said Favela, of Westmont, Illinois. “I just want to keep moving forward. I’m worried, is that going to be possible?”
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Healthcare shortages are shining a light on disparities within hospice care.
Nationwide, data shows Black families utilize hospice care at a lower rate than white families even though they are more likely to have many of the conditions common to it, such as cancer and heart disease. A study from Duke Health suggests it’s due, in part, to a lack of knowledge about hospice, a general mistrust of the health care system, and the small number of African Americans working in hospices across the country.
Dave Turner, a lifelong entrepreneur, started St. Croix Hospice in Detroit in 2008. It's the city’s first Black-owned hospice center. Outside of initiatives with historically Black colleges and medical schools, St. Croix has focused on hiring Black hospice nurses.
Nationwide, 11% of hospice registered nurses are Black, but at St. Croix that figure stands at 65%, including all three people in administrative positions.
“There are major trust issues, and I might say understandable trust issues. You know, unfortunately, we don’t have the greatest history in this country of valuing life,” Turner said. “And so, when you don’t trust the system, and if the person who comes in to explain it to you doesn’t understand what your life experience has been like, you’re going to be apprehensive.”
Kelly Dean lost her father in August 2021. Six months later, her mother died. In both cases, her parents were cared for by St. Croix nurses.
Dean said she had a sense of comfort with St. Croix because her parents were receiving care from qualified people who looked like them. | 2022-05-10T22:13:58+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/two-americas/closing-the-racial-disparity-gap-in-hospice-care |
Original 2007 iPhone sells for more than $63,000
Published: Feb. 23, 2023 at 4:15 PM CST|Updated: 21 minutes ago
(CNN) - A first-generation iPhone sold for more than $63,000 in an online auction over the weekend.
The selling price was more than a hundred times its original cost of $599 in 2007.
Officials said the box had never been opened.
The original iPhone offered early Apple adopters a 3.5-inch screen with a 2-megapixel camera, plus 4.8 gigabytes of storage.
It also offered internet capabilities and iTunes.
However, the phone did not have an Apple store and ran on a 2G network exclusive to AT&T.
The bidding started earlier this month at $2,500.
Another unopened first-generation iPhone sold for nearly $40,000 in October 2022.
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Art Central returns from May 26 to 29 this year with an extensive roster of participating galleries showcasing everything from paintings and sculptures to mixed media work, large-scale installations, as well as art talks, video presentations, art performances and more. Bringing the focus on Hong Kong artists and galleries this year, the four-day event will allow visitors to discover various creative talents that our local art scene has to offer.
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DENVER — This month, two car manufacturers announced a series of solutions to prevent thefts of its older models cars. For some, the solutions are too late.
"I just, I hope it works, and I hope it's to help solve some of these problems and these issues, because people need to be held accountable for what they do," said Sherese Ryan.
In early August, Ryan captured her Hyundai Sonata being stolen from in front of her Broomfield home.
"I suspected that it was part of the TikTok trend," said Ryan, referring to a viral social media challenge.
Videos posted under the hashtag "Kia challenge" or "Kia Boyz" on social media show people removing steering columns from certain Kia models and using USB cables to start ignitions. Older model Hyundai vehicles have been shown to have similar vulnerabilities.
This month, both Kia and Hyundai announced fixes to the rash of thefts targeting vehicles manufactured in 2021 and years prior.
A spokesperson for Hyundai said the manufacturer is releasing security kits this month that can be purchased and installed at Hyundai dealerships. The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the Compustar kits is $170. A car owner would also likely incur installation fees.
"Hyundai is also developing a software update to further secure these targeted vehicles. We anticipate that this software update will become available for certain vehicles in the first half of 2023, with updates for other vehicles following thereafter," the spokesperson added.
Kia said it's providing steering locks for free to law enforcement.
On Aug. 16, Ryan's car was recovered by Lakewood police. Photos taken from inside the vehicle show trash, equipment and dirt strewn inside the vehicle. Ryan's husband later found a pipe used for smoking methamphetamine in the car.
The car's exterior also had extensive damage.
"I bought it brand new... I paid it off last year, and then somebody took advantage of my car and destroyed it," said Ryan.
The steering column had been modified, similar to the cars associated with the "Kia challenge" on social media.
"The easiest way they were able to start my car at this point was with a flat head screwdriver,” said Ryan, demonstrating how the tool fit into the car's ignition.
"Now my car is destroyed and I don't have something to drive," Ryan continued. "The solutions are a little late for me, you know. I mean, great for everybody else. I just, I hope it works, and I hope it's to help solve some of these problems."
Tim Jackson of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association said drivers should take advantage of the security measures.
"I would recommend that they do it, because these cars without the fix will always be suspect for vehicle theft. So if owners want to keep the car — want to keep their insurance premiums down, want to help cut down on crime in the community — then I would recommend that this is the most practical solution for consumers," Jackson said.
This article was written by CB Cotton for KMGH. | 2022-10-05T17:27:19+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/manufacturer-solutions-to-prevent-car-theft-come-too-late-for-some |
But employees report that their current offices aren't enabling them to do their best work
NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Employees' career advancement prospects are in question if they don't return to the office, say the vast majority of U.S. employers (88%) in a new study, Returning for Good, a Workplace Insights Report by global workplace creation experts Unispace. Nearly 4 in 5 (79%) of business leaders say they have communicated to employees that the opportunity for promotions, pay raises and bonuses will be limited for those who are not in the office. Employers are also being more candid about how working remotely may hinder current performance – 83% of leaders plainly state that those who attend meetings virtually will have a lower share of voice in the conversation than those in the office. These are several of the ways that US employers are putting a renewed emphasis on the importance of the physical workplace (and employees' presence in that workplace) in driving business performance.
Office Mandates Drive Attendance, Erode Recruitment
According to the survey, 82% of US employees revealed that their current days in the workplace were mandated by their employer. This has resulted in more than half (57%) of office workers across the country reporting that they are going to the office four or more days per week (with an average 3.6 days in the office per week). However, the study also indicates that this, alone, may not be a sustainable strategy for employers when it comes to talent retention and recruitment – half (50%) of employers with office mandates report a higher-than-expected level of turnover, and a quarter (27%) are finding it difficult to hire as a result of workplace attendance policies. Might a four-day work week be a bridge to address this gap? The majority of both employers (80%) and employees (86%) say they are interested in trialing a 4-day work week.
"We can see that employers are clearly emphasizing the value of the workplace, but this, by itself, may not be enough to drive successful employee engagement and performance," said Ryan Caffyn-Parsons, CEO, Unispace, Americas. "What our data also highlights is that employers may be missing an opportunity to better define the purpose of their office and how this can best enable their employees' full work ecosystems."
Employers and employees disagree whether current offices enable best work
According to the survey, 81% of U.S. employees feel loyalty to their employer, so it begs the question, how can organizations tap this goodwill to find a workplace solution that is a win for both parties? One place to start is to acknowledge the misconceptions on both sides about the utility of the office. The vast majority of U.S. employers (89%) are confident that their current office is set up to allow people to be productive, which is at odds with what employees believe. Due to regular interruptions and a high number of meetings, more than half (52%) of employees say they struggle to carry out their core role in their current office environment.
According to the study, employees are looking for the following amenities in an office:
- Dedicated workspace: Employees indicated a general concern for lack of privacy in the workplace, with 28% stating that they dislike this element of the office, while a further 22% felt more effective in a quiet home environment. To that end, 86% of employees revealed that having an assigned desk space would make them more inclined to increase their days in the workplace.
- A place for "productive socialization." A third of employees (33%) say that they enjoy the socialization aspect of the office and like the opportunity to collaborate.
- Reimbursement for office-related costs: A high proportion of the workforce indicated that free lunch options (83%) and paid travel (81%) would encourage them into the office.
"The workplace has the power to be a magnet for innovation and community. Employees and employers alike recognize 'creativity' and 'innovation' can't be scheduled into the calendar – these critical business functions often happen spontaneously, so offering distinct spaces that facilitate learning, collaboration, and socialization can help create a clear purpose for the office that fuels employee engagement," said Caffyn-Parsons. "By understanding what their employees value and need to do their best work in the office, businesses have the opportunity to make their workplaces a critical tool in driving their brand and culture, retaining workers' loyalty, and building a more effective workforce."
Methodology for Returning for Good, a Unispace Global Workplace Insights Report
Research was conducted in partnership with Opinium Research between 3 April 2023 and 14 April 2023. The survey included 9,500 employees and 6,650 business leaders from across 17 countries worldwide – including 1,500 US employees in companies 50+ employees and 1,500 senior decision makers in companies 50+ employees in the US. Care was taken to ensure that the geographic and demographic characteristics of the populations surveyed are properly represented.
About Unispace
A strategy, design, and construction leader creating experiences for work for a rapidly changing world. Unispace is a global firm that offers a unified team solution for creating people-centric spaces with purpose - including offices, laboratories and life sciences facilities, campuses, HQ's, hospitality and sports venues and retail spaces that spark brilliance, deepen connections, foster a sense of belonging and propel success. With 5,500 projects completed, a presence across 26 countries, and 700+ employees worldwide, our goal is to create spaces that spark brilliance for the people who use them - powered by collaborative client partnerships, delivered seamlessly across borders, and enabled by real-world insights.
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Lawmakers using spending bill to delay lobster restrictions
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation is using a federal spending bill to delay new lobster fishing restrictions aimed at helping endangered whales. An amendment to the $1.7 trillion spending package unveiled early Tuesday would leave existing lobster fishing rules in place for six years, thwarting stricter regulations aimed at protecting North Atlantic right whales, which are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear. The Conservation Law Foundation and several other environmental organizations decried the amendment, which was led by Maine’s delegation. A federal judge previously delayed new lobster fishing restrictions until 2024 to give the government time to craft them. | 2022-12-20T15:55:21+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/20/lawmakers-using-spending-bill-to-delay-lobster-restrictions-2/ |
Eric Lloyd Named Executive Chairman of the Board
Jonathan Bock Promoted to CEO
Jonathan Landsberg Promoted to CFO
Elizabeth Murray Promoted to COO
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) ("Barings BDC" or the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has named Eric Lloyd as Executive Chairman of the Board and promoted three of its longstanding senior executive officers. Mr. Lloyd has served as Chairman since 2021 and Chief Executive Officer and Director since 2018.
Jonathan ("Jon") Bock has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Barings BDC, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer since 2018.
Jonathan Landsberg has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Barings BDC, where he has served as Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations.
Elizabeth Murray has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Barings BDC, where she also serves as Chief Accounting Officer.
Mr. Lloyd commented, "Since our formation transaction four years ago, Barings BDC has emerged as a leader in the BDC space. Today's promotions are a testament to the significant contributions Jon, Jonathan, and Elizabeth have made to the success of BBDC since Barings became the Investment Advisor to Triangle Capital in 2018. These individuals are respected leaders in the industry and we appreciate their commitment to Barings BDC stakeholders."
Mark Mulhern, Chairman of the Barings BDC Audit Committee, stated, "On behalf of the Board, we congratulate Eric, Jon, Jonathan, and Elizabeth on their accomplishments in leading and growing our business on the four-year anniversary as an externally-managed BDC. These new positions demonstrate the confidence we as a Board have in the management team of BBDC."
"I would like to thank the Barings BDC Board for its strong support over the past four years. The management team is enthusiastic and confident in taking on these new responsibilities," said Mr. Bock. "I also want to congratulate Eric, Jonathan, and Elizabeth on their new roles and look forward to continuing our successful working relationship."
The promotions will be effective September 1, 2022.
Eric Lloyd Bio
Mr. Lloyd is President of Barings LLC, where he leads and manages cross-asset investment teams, corporate strategy, business development, product management, investment business management, research analytics and quant, permanent capital, special situations, and marketing and communication. Mr. Lloyd also works closely with all the investment teams at Barings LLC. Prior to his current role, he served as Head of Private Assets. Mr. Lloyd has worked in the industry since 1990 and his experience has encompassed leadership positions in investment management, investment banking, leveraged finance, and risk management. Prior to joining Barings in 2013, Mr. Lloyd served as Head of Market and Institutional Risk for Wells Fargo, was on Wells Fargo's Management Committee, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo Securities. Before the acquisition of Wachovia, he worked in Wachovia's Global Markets Investment Banking division and served on the division's Operating Committee, where he had various leadership positions, including Head of Wachovia's Global Leveraged Finance Group. Mr. Lloyd is an Executive Sponsor of both the Veteran's and the Out & Allies Employee Resource Groups. He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce.
Jonathan Bock Bio
In addition to his role at Barings BDC, Mr. Bock serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer and President of Barings Private Credit Corporation, and Chief Financial Officer of Barings Capital Investment Corporation, Barings Corporate Investors, and Barings Participation Investors. Prior to joining Barings LLC in 2018, Mr. Bock was a Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities specializing in BDCs. He has actively followed the BDC space since 2006 and was the chief author of a leading BDC quarterly research publication: the BDC Scorecard. His research is often cited by The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and other prominent financial publications. Prior to Wells Fargo, Mr. Bock followed the specialty finance space at Stifel Nicolaus & Company and A.G. Edwards Inc. Prior to entering sell-side research in 2006, Mr. Bock was an equity portfolio manager/analyst at Busey Wealth Management in Champaign, Illinois. Mr. Bock holds a B.S. in Finance from the University Of Illinois College Of Business and is a CFA charterholder.
Jonathan Landsberg Bio
In addition to his role at Barings BDC, Mr. Landsberg is the Chief Financial Officer of Barings Private Credit Corporation and Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations for Barings Capital Investment Corporation. He is also a Vice President of Barings Corporate Investors and Barings Participation Investors. He has roles with several BDC-affiliated joint ventures, including as Principal of Jocassee Partners LLC, and a Board member of Sierra Senior Loan Strategy JV I LLC, Banff Partners LP, Thompson Rivers LLC, and Waccamaw River LLC. Mr. Landsberg has worked in the industry since 2006. Prior to joining Barings in 2018, Mr. Landsberg was a Fixed Income Research Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, covering the bank and specialty finance sectors. Before Wells Fargo, he spent eight years at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America in roles across debt origination and syndicated lending. Mr. Landsberg holds B.A. degrees in Engineering Sciences and Economics from Dartmouth College and is a member of the CFA Institute.
Elizabeth Murray Bio
In addition to her role at Barings BDC, Ms. Murray serves as the Principal Accounting Officer of Barings Private Credit Corporation, Barings Capital Investment Corporation, Barings Corporate Investors, and Barings Participation Investors. She also serves as the Chief Financial Officer for Barings Global Short Duration High Yield Fund. Ms. Murray previously was the Director of External Reporting for the Company and previously served as the Vice President of Financial Reporting at Triangle Capital Corporation prior to the externalization of the investment management of the Company to Barings LLC. Prior to joining Triangle Capital Corporation in 2012, she worked in Financial Planning and Analysis for RBC Bank, the U.S. retail banking division for Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to RBC Bank, Ms. Murray spent seven years at Progress Energy, Inc. and held various positions in finance, accounting and tax, most recently in Strategy and Financial Planning. She began her career as a Tax Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Murray is a graduate of North Carolina State University where she obtained a B.S. degree in Accounting and a Master of Accounting degree. She is also a North Carolina Certified Public Accountant.
About Barings BDC, Inc.
Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) is a publicly traded, externally managed investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Barings BDC seeks to invest primarily in senior secured loans in middle-market companies that operate across a wide range of industries. Barings BDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Barings LLC, a leading global asset manager based in Charlotte, NC with $349+ billion* of AUM firm-wide. For more information, visit www.barings.com.
About Barings LLC
Barings is a $349+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment. Learn more at www.barings.com.
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Ja Morant spoke out Tuesday night about his latest troubles, three days after the Memphis guard apparently held a firearm again while being broadcast on social media and was suspended by the Grizzlies from all team activities.
He’s also being investigated by the NBA for his actions, two months after the league suspended him for essentially the same thing — displaying a gun on social media.
“I know I’ve disappointed a lot of people who have supported me,” Morant said in a statement released Tuesday night by his representatives. “This is a journey and I recognize there is more work to do. My words may not mean much right now, but I take full accountability for my actions. I’m committed to continuing to work on myself.”
His comments came a few hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed disappointment over the situation. Silver handed down an eight-game suspension in March; there is no way of knowing yet what penalties Morant may face this time.
“Honestly, I was shocked when I saw, this weekend, that video,” Silver said in a televised interview with ESPN before the draft lottery in Chicago. “We’re in the process of investigating it and we’ll figure out exactly what happened as best as we can. The video’s a bit grainy and all that, but I’m assuming the worst. We’ll figure out exactly what happened there.”
The first video, which cost Morant about $669,000 in forfeited salary, came out in March. The second was captured Saturday night and widely shared online. It was streamed on the Instagram account of Morant associate Davonte Pack, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Grizzlies have not commented on the specifics of the latest video.
The video streamed by Pack shows Morant briefly appearing to display a handgun. At the very brief moment — maybe less than a second — when Morant is shown holding what appears to be a weapon as he sits in the passenger seat of a vehicle, the livestream had 111 viewers.
“He could have injured, maimed, killed himself, someone else, with an act like that,” Silver said. “And also the acknowledgement that he’s a star. He has an incredibly huge following. And my concern — and I thought he shared with me — that millions if not tens of millions of kids globally would see him as having done something that was celebrating in a way that act of using a firearm in that fashion.”
Morant said in March that he needed to work on himself, and when the season ended a couple weeks ago, he offered similar thoughts.
“Being disciplined on both sides, off the court making better decisions and on the court being locked in even more,” Morant said. “Being a leader of this team, it pretty much starts with me. … I’ve got to be better in that area.”
Morant’s five-year, $194 million max contract is set to begin this coming season. He has deals with Nike and Powerade, though the sports drink company pulled an ad featuring Morant almost immediately after the March video emerged.
This is the third known NBA investigation surrounding Morant and the possible involvement of firearms so far in 2023.
Morant’s actions were investigated after a Jan. 29 incident in Memphis that he said led to Pack banned from Grizzlies’ home games for a year. That incident followed a game against the Indiana Pacers; citing unnamed sources, The Indianapolis Star and USA Today reported that multiple members of the Pacers saw a red dot pointed at them while they were near the loading dock where their bus was located, and The Athletic reported that a Pacers security guard believed the laser was attached to a gun.
The NBA confirmed that unnamed individuals were banned from the arena but said its investigation found no evidence that anyone was threatened with a weapon.
Then came the Denver-area incident in the early hours of March 4, after the Grizzlies played a road game against the Nuggets when Morant started a livestream from inside a strip club while holding a gun. No charges were filed.
Morant and Pack also are involved in a civil lawsuit brought after an incident at Morant’s home last summer, in which a then-17-year-old alleged that they assaulted him. Morant filed a countersuit on April 12, accusing the teen of slander, battery and assault.
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TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Monday, January 16, 2023
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National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
TXZ343-171015-
Coastal Nueces-
Including the cities of Corpus Christi and Flour Bluff
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs around
70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
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Nueces Islands-
Including the city of Port Aransas
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Less humid with lows in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Breezy
with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Inland Nueces-
Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs around 80. South winds around 5 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 10 mph,
increasing to northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...A chance of showers in the morning. Mostly cloudy.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, increasing to southeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
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Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 80. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper
40s. North winds around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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TXZ242-171015-
Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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TXZ342-171015-
Coastal Kleberg-
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature around 60. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of showers in the morning. Mostly cloudy.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ442-171015-
Kleberg Islands-
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid 50s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ344-171015-
Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature around 60. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
around 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ244-171015-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ245-171015-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds around 10 mph, becoming northwest in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds around 5 mph, increasing to 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ345-171015-
Aransas Islands-
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Breezy. Near steady temperature in
the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy with lows around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ346-171015-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph, increasing to southeast in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds around 5 mph, increasing to 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of showers in the morning. Mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ246-171015-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s.
South winds around 5 mph, increasing to southeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ247-171015-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. South
winds around 5 mph, increasing to southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with
lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ347-171015-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature around 60. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in
the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ447-171015-
Calhoun Islands-
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs
around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms.
Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in
the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Breezy. Near steady temperature in
the upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy with lows around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ233-171015-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph,
increasing to southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ232-171015-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph, increasing to southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ241-171015-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to
northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ231-171015-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
in the lower 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to
northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ240-171015-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
104 AM CST Tue Jan 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
in the lower 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to north
15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
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5 mph, increasing to southeast in the afternoon.
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
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humid with highs around 80. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper
40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
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50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
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around 5 mph, increasing to southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
in the lower 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
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Chick-fil-A's newest sandwich has no chicken in it
Chick-fil-A's newest sandwich ditches chicken for ... cauliflower.
The aptly named "Chick-fil-A Cauliflower Sandwich" is being tested in three cities beginning next week, marking the chicken chain's first-ever plant-based sandwich. Imitating the chain's signature fried chicken sandwiches, the new offering uses a "tender filet cut" of cauliflower that's marinated and breaded in the chain's seasoning, then pressure cooked and served on a buttery bun with pickles.
"Guests told us they wanted to add more vegetables into their diets, and they wanted a plant-forward entrée that tasted uniquely Chick-fil-A," said Leslie Neslage, the chain's director of menu and packaging, in a statement.
Chick-fil-A's new sandwich goes on sale Monday for a limited time in three cities: Denver; Charleston, South Carolina; and the Greensboro-Triad region in North Carolina. The starting price is $6.59, but it varies by market, a company spokesperson told CNN.
The sandwich has been in development for nearly four years and was created in house by the chain's chefs. Stuart Tracy, culinary developer of the cauliflower sandwich, explained in a blog post that the chain considered using "everything from mushrooms to chickpeas to chopped vegetables formed into patties," but it chose cauliflower because it has a "mild flavor."
However, the company notes that it's not vegan, because milk and eggs are used. And it may not satisfy vegetarians, either: Its restaurants don't have "vegetarian-only preparation surfaces," the company said.
Fast food companies have been adding plant-based alternatives to their meat-centric menus in recent years as more people seek to limit their meat intake. But these efforts have been met with varying success.
Kentucky Fried Chicken tested plant-based fried chicken nuggets last year, but it hasn't returned to menus. Taco Bell has tested several plant-based meat-flavored alternatives, but nothing has officially joined its menu. And McDonald's tried a McPlant sandwich last year and has yet to add it to U.S. menus.
Burger King, however, still sells its Impossible Whopper and has expanded into testing plant-based chicken sandwiches with the same company. | 2023-02-09T20:37:27+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/chick-fil-a-cauliflower-sandwich/42814826 |
Police: 3 dead, 1 wounded in NJ; shooter believed among dead
LINDEN, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say three people were killed in a shooting in New Jersey, and the shooter is believed to be among the deceased.
Police in Linden in Union County said officers responded at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday found two adults and a juvenile deceased.
Another juvenile was taken to Newark University Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Police said the shooter “is believed to be among the deceased, and there is no further threat to the public.”
The names and ages of the people killed and wounded and other details weren’t immediately released.
Mayor Derek Armstead said “There simply are no words to describe the trauma, heartbreak and sorrow that we are all experiencing.” Armstead asked for prayers, especially for “the child in the hospital.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-20T02:55:26+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/02/20/police-3-dead-1-wounded-nj-shooter-believed-among-dead/ |
NPR's Michel Martin talks with Rhodium Group's Noah Barkin, who focuses on China policy, about French President Emmanuel Macron's remark that Europe should not blindly follow the U.S.'s lead on China.
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LONDON (AP) — British health officials reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country on Friday, for a total of 574 cases. That makes the U.K.’s outbreak the biggest to date beyond Africa.
In a statement, Britain’s Health Security Agency said most of the cases have been identified in gay or bisexual men, but warned that anyone who is in close, physical contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk of catching the usually rare disease.
“If you have a rash with blisters, or any other monkeypox symptoms, don’t go to events, meet with friends or have sexual contact,” cautioned Dr. William Welfare of Britain’s Health Security Agency. He said people who might have been exposed to the disease should stay at home and call health services for advice.
The World Health Organization has said people with monkeypox could be infectious for up to four weeks and advised them to isolate until they have completely recovered.
Globally, more than 30 countries have reported 1,880 infections in countries that don’t typically report monkeypox, with 85% of cases in Europe. No deaths have been reported.
Until last month, monkeypox had only caused sizeable outbreaks in central and west Africa; the continent has so far reported more than 1,500 cases and 72 suspected deaths in a separate epidemic.
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the continued spread of monkeypox in countries that haven’t previously seen the disease as “unusual and concerning.”
He said he would be convening an expert meeting next Thursday to decide if the expanding monkeypox outbreak warrants being declared a global emergency. That would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing effort to eradicate polio.
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MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy's Democratic Party warned Saturday of the threats that Italy's right-wing nationalistic parties pose to European democracy in a video released in multiple languages, and promised that his party would keep Italy at the center of the European Union if it wins the country's early parliamentary election next month.
The video by Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta comes days after the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, did a multilingual video of her own to dispute suggestions that her election as premier would endanger democracy in Italy and threaten the management of EU pandemic funds. Meloni, whose party controversially uses the symbol of a flame borrowed from a neo-fascist party, said in an Aug. 10 video that the Italian political right has “unambiguously” condemned the legacy of fascism.
At the moment, the center-left Democratic Party and the Brothers of Italy are the leading parties in opinion polls going into Italy's Sept. 25 parliamentary election. Neither looks assured of having enough votes to govern alone.
While the right-wing has created a solid coalition, bringing together Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s right-wing League party and Silvio Berlusoni’s center-right Forza Italia party, the left has been foundering in this election campaign.
Letta’s deal with a would-be kingmaker fell apart within a day and his relationship with former Premier Matteo Renzi, who heads a tiny but potentially influential party, soured when Renzi maneuvered him out of the job of premier in 2014.
Letta underlined the danger to European solidity posed by vetoes and demands of unanimity posed by right-wing leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who he noted is “a friend and ally of the Italian right.” Orban has used these tools to “defeat sanctions against Russia and on migration issues,” Letta said.
Letta also said the right-wing had not supported the EU pandemic funds in the European Parliament, and that Italy’s right-wing had voted against a new treaty between France and Italy aimed to put the ties at the same level as the historic Franco-German relationship that has been the engine of post-war European peace and prosperity.
“Europe has always been part of our DNA, because we believe that cooperation between countries and finding common solutions is better than finding solutions that are only national or nationalistic,’’ Letta said.
Letta launched the video in French, Spanish and English on Italy’s Ferragosto weekend holiday, when most Italians are enjoying beach or mountain vacations to mark the Aug. 15 Feast of the Assumption. | 2022-08-13T13:14:46+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Italy-s-Letta-Italian-right-wing-threatens-17371416.php |
Four cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been discovered in Hamilton Township, including one death, state health officials announced.
Two cases of the disease were detected in the township in August. The cases were found in the section of Hamilton served by Trenton Water Works, according to a statement by the New Jersey Department of Health. Two additional cases were found in December 2021 and in April, officials said. | 2022-08-30T15:36:02+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2022/08/state-probing-legionnaires-cases-after-death-in-this-nj-town.html |
Oral and Poster Presentations to Highlight Clinical Data for I/ONTAK (E7777) Study in Relapsed or Refractory Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma on December 11, 2022
CRANFORD, N.J., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Citius" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CTXR), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of first-in-class critical care products today announced that abstracts for I/ONTAK (E7777) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) have been accepted for presentations at the prestigious 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, December 10-13, 2022.
Dr. Francine Foss, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Medical Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, and world-renowned expert in T-cell lymphomas, will deliver an oral presentation reviewing the efficacy and safety results of the completed I/ONTAK (E7777) Phase 3 study.
Dr. Christiane Querfeld, Professor of Dermatology and Dermatopathology at City of Hope Cancer Center, and Director of City of Hope's multidisciplinary Cutaneous Lymphoma Program will present a poster highlighting the safety and tolerability data of I/ONTAK (E7777) in patients with relapsed or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma from Study 302. Dr. Querfeld is one of the world's foremost experts in the diagnosis and management of cutaneous lymphomas.
"We look forward to sharing additional efficacy and safety data for I/ONTAK with the medical community at this year's ASH meeting. With I/ONTAK's differentiated mechanism-of-action, we believe CTCL patients could benefit from this promising therapeutic option, if approved. Based on the clinical data from our recently completed Phase 3 trial, we submitted a biologics license application (BLA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in late September 2022, and look forward to engaging with the FDA during their review process," stated Dr. Czuczman, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
The oral presentation and poster will be available on Citius' website once the event commences.
I/ONTAK is a recombinant fusion protein that combines the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor binding domain with diphtheria toxin fragments. The agent specifically binds to IL-2 receptors on the cell surface, causing diphtheria toxin fragments that have entered cells to inhibit protein synthesis. I/ONTAK, a purified version of denileukin diftitox, is a reformulation of previously FDA-approved oncology treatment ONTAK. ONTAK was marketed in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014, when it was voluntarily withdrawn from the market. Manufacturing improvements resulted in a new formulation, which maintains the same amino acid sequence but features improved purity and bioactivity. The new formulation received regulatory approval in Japan in 2021 for the treatment of CTCL and peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). In 2011 and 2013, the FDA granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to I/ONTAK for the treatment of PTCL and CTCL, respectively.
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is a type of cutaneous non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that comes in a variety of forms and is the most common type of cutaneous lymphoma. In CTCL, T-cells, a type of lymphocyte that plays a role in the immune system, become cancerous and develop into skin lesions, leading to a decrease in the quality of life of patients with this disease due to severe pain and pruritus. Mycosis Fungoides (MF) and Sézary Syndrome (SS) comprise the majority of CTCL cases. Depending on the type of CTCL, the disease may progress slowly and can take anywhere from several years to upwards of ten to potentially reach tumor stage. However, once the disease reaches this stage, the cancer is highly malignant and can spread to the lymph nodes and internal organs, resulting in a poor prognosis. Given the duration of the disease, patients typically cycle through multiple systemic agents to control disease progression. CTCL affects men twice as often as women and is typically first diagnosed in patients between the ages of 50 and 60 years of age. Other than allogeneic stem cell transplantation, for which only a small fraction of patients qualify, there is currently no curative therapy for advanced CTCL.
Citius is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of first-in-class critical care products, with a focus on oncology, anti-infectives in adjunct cancer care, unique prescription products, and stem cell therapies. The Company's diversified pipeline includes two late-stage product candidates, Mino-Lok®, an antibiotic lock solution for the treatment of patients with catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs), which is currently enrolling patients in a Phase 3 Pivotal superiority trial, and I/ONTAK (E7777), a novel IL-2R immunotherapy for an initial indication in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), for which a BLA has been submitted. Mino-Lok® was granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I/ONTAK has received orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of CTCL and peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). In the first half of 2022, Citius initiated a Phase 2b trial for Halo-Lido, a topical formulation for the relief of hemorrhoids. The Company anticipates completing enrollment in the Halo-Lido trial by the end of 2022. For more information, please visit www.citiuspharma.com.
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting Citius. You can identify these statements by the fact that they use words such as "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "plan," "should," and "may" and other words and terms of similar meaning or use of future dates. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition and stock price. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated are: the FDA may find inadequacies and deficiencies in our BLA for I/ONTAK, including in the data we submit, and may decide not to accept the BLA for filing; our need for substantial additional funds; our ability to successfully undertake and complete clinical and non-clinical trials and the results from those trials for our product candidates; the estimated markets for our product candidates and the acceptance thereof by any market; our ability to commercialize our products if approved by the FDA; our dependence on third-party suppliers; the ability of our product candidates to impact the quality of life of our target patient populations; risks relating to the results of research and development activities, including those from existing and new pipeline assets; uncertainties relating to preclinical and clinical testing; the early stage of products under development; market and other conditions; our ability to attract, integrate, and retain key personnel; risks related to our growth strategy; patent and intellectual property matters; our ability to obtain, perform under and maintain financing and strategic agreements and relationships; our ability to identify, acquire, close and integrate product candidates and companies successfully and on a timely basis; our ability to procure cGMP commercial-scale supply; government regulation; competition; as well as other risks described in our SEC filings. These risks have been and may be further impacted by Covid-19. Accordingly, these forward-looking statements do not constitute guarantees of future performance, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Risks regarding our business are described in detail in our Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2021, filed with the SEC on December 15, 2021 and updated by our subsequent filings with the SEC. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and we expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in our expectations or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.
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The energy metaverse is just emerging, but the building blocks are securely in place for exponential growth over the next decade
BOULDER, Colo., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights provides an overview of the energy metaverse.
Broadly speaking, the metaverse is the confluence of several emerging digital technologies, most already familiar to energy industry executives, which promises to radically change the way energy companies plan, build, operate, and market their services over the long term. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, global investment in the core energy metaverse technologies is expected to grow exponentially over the next decade and beyond, from a base of just over $6 billion in 2022 to nearly $80 billion in 2031, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.0%.
The energy metaverse is just emerging, but the building blocks are securely in place. Core energy metaverse technologies include digital twins, AI and machine learning (ML), unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and drones, extended reality (XR), and blockchain-based applications.
"When the energy metaverse is fully realized—admittedly more than a decade away—utilities and O&G concerns can envision a day when employee onboarding and training take place via XR in a metaverse-based training center," says Richelle Elberg, principal research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "Much like it was difficult in the early 1990s to imagine all the ways a smartphone or the internet would change how business is conducted, in 2023 it can be hard to see just how radically metaverse technology stands to change the operating dynamics of energy industry verticals. But the benefits are sure to be compelling, and investments can be made incrementally as the industry learns and evaluates where best to begin."
Utility storefronts in metaverse malls could provide virtual customers with real-world benefits such as product comparisons and purchasing, energy use analysis, and evaluation of a premises' suitability for solar. In-demand specialized experts in a field could work on a virtual offshore rig, advising onsite workers how to address a problem—without ever leaving their home office. And drones could conduct ongoing inspections of critical assets, feeding real-time data into digital twins equipped with advanced AI to predict and prevent wildfires or methane emissions, according to the report.
The report, The Energy Metaverse, provides an overview of the energy metaverse. It defines the core technologies and provides case studies where these technologies are in use today. It outlines energy metaverse market drivers and barriers and describes the industry value chain and competitive landscape. Finally, it provides market analyses for core energy metaverse technology investments by the utility and O&G energy verticals through 2031. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
About Guidehouse Insights
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has over 16,500 professionals in over 55 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, The Energy Metaverse, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report's conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.
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MILAN (AP) — Migrants picked up at sea by a mercantile ship and brought to Italy by the coast guard have reported that six people died of thirst during the voyage, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday.
The Italian Coast Guard said it transported 26 migrants to the Sicilian port of Pozzallo who were among 28 people, mostly Syrians and Afghans, rescued in recent days from a small boat in distress off the coast of Libya by a mercantile ship flying the Liberian flag. A child with dehydration and his mother were transported to the Maltese capital of Valletta by helicopter from ship.
The migrants arriving in Italy told officials from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees that six people, including a small child and a 12-year-old, had died of dehydration while on board the ship and that their bodies had been left at sea. The victims appeared to have all been Syrians.
So far this year, more than 1,200 people have died or are missing at sea in the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Europe. The U.N. refugee agency said the route the small boat had taken and how many days it had been at sea was not clear.
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In Next Act comedy 'God's Spies,' Shakespeare gets schooled by ordinary people during lockdown
Harold Bloom loftily credited William Shakespeare the writer with "the invention of the human."
But Shakespeare the character in Bill Cain's world premiere comedy "God's Spies," sequestered by plague and trying to write "King Lear," learns a lot about being human from the two people he's stuck in lockdown with: a lawyer and a prostitute.
Sounds like a set-up for a joke, right? But the rich performances of the actors who embiggen those potential stereotypes have much to do with the success of Next Act Theatre's new production, which opened Friday evening.
As Ruth, the play's sanest character, Eva Nimmer is brusque in business dealings and kind in human relations, with hidden depths she keeps revealing, even until the end of the play. As Shakespeare learns when she takes apart "Hamlet," she knows something about storytelling, too.
Zach Thomas Woods infuses zany comic energy into Edgar, a young Scottish lawyer and scrivener (a copier of documents), sternly religious but desperately horny and infatuated with Ruth. But he's not afraid to upbraid Shakespeare for his illegible penmanship or, more seriously, for his thoughtlessness in treating Ruth as a serving wench. After all, she's the hostess keeping them alive during this crisis.
As written by Cain, Mark Ulrich's Shakespeare is a well-off man of the world in a hurry. He's also a typical writer in a stage production, flinging crumpled paper around as he moans and kvetches about the play he's trying to write. He's arrogant, the world revolves around him, but he shows himself willing to learn what these two can teach him.
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic infuses Cain's humane comedy, as evidenced by Ruth's relentless tidying and Shakespeare's blithe, ignorant dismissal that it will only last a few days.
This is the fifth Cain play that Next Act has produced, the third with a Shakespearean theme. It would not hurt to reacquaint yourself with "King Lear" before seeing it, as "Lear" plot points are discussed and the Shakespeare play is frequently quoted. Like some of Cain's other plays, there's a lot of comedy and argument about how theater is made here. I found this one superior to last season's Cain offering, "The Last White Man," and easier for someone who is not a Shakespeare obsessive to follow.
David Cecsarini directed and co-sound designed "God's Spies," capping off an incredible three decades as Next Act's producing artistic director.
"God's Spies" is Next Act's entry in World Premiere Wisconsin, a statewide festival of new plays and musicals.
If you go
Next Act Theatre performs "God's Spies" through May 21 at 255 S. Water St. For tickets, visit nextact.org or call (414) 278-0765.
More:Next Act Theatre's new leader's first season includes 'Scarecrow,' set on a Wisconsin farm
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With Paul George back in the lineup Tuesday night after missing nearly two weeks due to hamstring issues, the Los Angeles Clippers fielded a starting lineup that had never played together this season.
Injuries have turned Clippers coach Tyronn Lue into a lineup juggler. He will shake up the starting crew again on Wednesday night when Los Angeles visits Salt Lake City to take on the Utah Jazz in a back-to-back scenario.
George started alongside Kawhi Leonard, Terance Mann, Marcus Morris Sr. and Ivica Zubac on Tuesday against the visiting Philadelphia 76ers, but following the Clippers’ 120-110 loss, he said he would not play against the Jazz.
The seven-time All-Star and team officials want to be “smart about it” in terms of his comeback, he said.
George scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds in 29 minutes against the 76ers. He has missed 14 games overall this season, including the past five prior to the Tuesday contest, so a gradual return makes sense.
“I thought he was a little rusty as far as handling the basketball, making the plays, that’s to be expected,” Lue said. “Just getting him back on the floor was a positive thing for us.”
While the Clippers got George back, they were without John Wall. The five-time All-Star sustained an abdominal injury on Friday against the Denver Nuggets and is expected to be out for a minimum of two weeks.
Los Angeles’ Luke Kennard has missed five consecutive games because of a calf ailment and is day-to-day.
“I know we have a good team,” Lue said, “but as far as staying healthy, we need to establish some continuity.”
The Jazz also are playing short-handed. Utah did, however, manage to pick up a nice win in Minnesota on Monday without leading scorer Lauri Markkanen. The Finnisher, as the 7-foot forward from Finland is being called, has missed two games in a row due to a hip injury. He is listed as questionable for Wednesday.
The Jazz eked out a 126-125 win over the Timberwolves as seven Utah players scored in double figures, including Jordan Clarkson, who had 21 points and the game-winning free throw in the final seconds.
That triumph came after Utah lost 118-117 against the visiting 76ers on Saturday, falling after Joel Embiid scored a game-winning bucket in the waning moments. Embiid scored 30 against Utah before dropping 41 on the Clippers on Tuesday.
“Another game, another chaotic finish for the Jazz,” Utah coach Will Hardy said after the frenetic ending in Minnesota. “This is who we are at this point. I’ve said it a bunch of times this year: We are perfectly imperfect, we’re scrappy, we’re tough, we got heart, we go through great moments, we go through tough moments, but the guys never stop fighting.”
To wit, the Jazz lead the NBA in games played in the clutch, a statistic that accounts for games within five points with five minutes or less remaining. Utah is 14-18 in those contests. The Clippers are 12-11 in “clutch” games.
The Wednesday game will be the finale of the season series between the Jazz and Clippers. Utah has a 2-1 edge, having won once on the road and at home.
Los Angeles will begin a road-heavy stretch with the visit to Salt Lake City. The Clippers will play their next four away from home and will be on the road for 10 of their next 11, though one of those away contests is vs. the Los Angeles Lakers.
The schedule is in Utah’s favor, on the other hand. The Jazz will play the next three at home, travel for a one-off in Portland, and then return for five consecutive games on their own court.
–Field Level Media | 2023-01-19T13:25:06+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nba-basketball/clippers-will-shuffle-starting-lineup-again-vs-jazz/ |
BRASILIA, Brazil — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief Saturday just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.
The official website of the Brazilian armed forces said Gen. Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the army. He was replaced by Gen. Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who was head of the Southeast Military Command.
Lula, who did not comment publicly on the firing, met with Defense Minister Jose Mucio, chief of staff Rui Costa and the new army commander in Brasilia at the end of the day. Speaking to journalists afterward, Mucio said the Jan. 8 riots had caused "a fracture in the level of trust" in the army's top levels and the government decided a change was needed.
In recent weeks, Lula targeted the military with criticism after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed through government buildings and destroyed public property in an attempt to keep Bolsonaro in office.
The uprising underlined the polarization in Brazil between the left and the right.
Lula said several times in public that there were definitely people in the army who allowed the rioting to occur, though he never cited Arruda.
During a breakfast with the press, Lula said earlier this week that "a lot of people from the military police and the armed forces were complicit" and had allowed protesters to enter the buildings with open doors. In another interview, the president said that "all the military involved in the coup attempt will be punished, no matter the rank."
The comments were followed by Lula scheduling several meetings with the defense minister and the armed forces' commanders. Mucio denied they had mentioned the Jan. 8 rioting, but he said relations between the military and the government needed adjustment.
On the eve of Arruda's firing, a video of a Paiva speech earlier in the week was released in which he said the election results should be respected in order to guarantee democracy.
Rioters who stormed through the Brazilian Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia sought to have the military intervene and overturn Bolsonaro's loss to Lula in the presidential election.
In a video posted on social media from inside the presidential palace on the day of the attack, a colonel is seen trying to stop police from arresting Bolsonaro's supporters who had invaded the building. He asks for patience from the military police, which report to the federal district's government.
More than a thousand people were arrested on the day of the riot and the morning after the disturbance, which bore strong similarities to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Congress by mobs who wanted to overturn former President Donald Trump's election loss.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice earlier this month authorized adding Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the rioting in Brasilia as part of a broader crackdown to hold responsible parties to account.
According to the text of his ruling, Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted the request from the prosecutor-general's office, which cited a video that Bolsonaro posted on Facebook two days after the riot. The video claimed Lula wasn't voted into office, but rather was chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil's electoral authority.
Lula has been trying to reduce the high number of military officers in the government administration left by Bolsonaro. At least 140 military officers have been dismissed since Lula took office Jan. 1.
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READING, Pa., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaForce International (PFI) recently published competitive intelligence reports that benchmark the commercial operations and marketing expenditures of leading Oncology Sales and Marketing organizations in five major countries in Europe. These reports capture the key findings of the France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom Oncology markets in 2022. One finding, in particular, is the trend in digitalization of promotional efforts, which has occurred across all five of the countries.
According to the 2022 EU5 Oncology reports, many of the profiled companies have resorted to digital methods for contacting physicians. In Germany, some Oncology companies already had plans in development to move toward digitalizing their communication efforts, but the pandemic had tremendously accelerated the process. Now, it's become a race for both companies and physicians to move toward digitalized communications.
In both France and Italy, the reports indicate that a few of the Oncology companies are cutting back sales lines and reps in an effort to better suit the digital approaches. The percentage of digital promotional efforts versus in-person currently leans toward digital. In some instances, Oncology companies have even reported to have moved to 100% digital efforts.
In Spain, some sales representatives claim that face-to-face calls with physicians are rare. However, the meetings that are made in person have many limitations. In person meetings are typically by appointment only, held in public spaces (outside of a hospital, clinic, or office setting), and only last an average of 10 to 15 minutes.
Joyce Wedemeyer, Director of Sales and Marketing at PFI, says "This move to digitalization in promotional efforts is something that we can expect to see across pharmaceutical companies worldwide."
"COVID-19 restrictions have caused companies to reassess their promotional strategies, and the move to digital methods has proven to be a fitting solution," says Wedemeyer.
In addition to the five major European countries, the Oncology benchmarking study was also conducted in the United States this year. The US Oncology report was completed in May 2022.
For more information on the reports mentioned above, please contact Joyce Wedemeyer at Joyce.Wedemeyer@pharmaforceintl.com or by phone at 610-370-2906.
PharmaForce International (PFI) is a competitive intelligence firm with over two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. PFI has become the market leader in commercial operations benchmarking and competitive intelligence.
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Republican billionaire Harlan Crow says his friend Clarence Thomas is the victim of a “political hit job” amid outrage over reports that the Supreme Court justice failed to disclose various luxury vacations Crow paid for, as well as a real estate deal.
“I think it’s a political hit job,” Crow said in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, adding that he doesn’t think the media cares as much about him as they do about Thomas.
“But I think that the media, and this ProPublica group in particular, funded by leftists, has an agenda to destabilize the court. What they’ve done is not truthful. It lacks integrity. They’ve done a pretty good job in the last week or two of unfairly slamming me and more importantly than that, unfairly slamming Justice Thomas,” Crow said.
The initial report from ProPublica — an independent, nonprofit news organization — earlier this month found that Crow paid for Thomas to take part in multiple expensive vacations over two decades — trips the justice never reported. A follow-up article from last week reported that Thomas also didn’t disclose a 2014 real estate deal he’d made with the Texas billionaire.
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica’s editor in chief, told the Dallas Morning News that both Crow and Thomas were “given detailed, written questions in advance” of the stories, and that while Thomas declined to respond, Crow’s answers “were included in full.”
Thomas said after the first article that he was “advised” that he did not need to disclose the luxury trips.
Crow in the Dallas Morning News interview repeated his assertion given to ProPublica that he’d bought the Georgia home that Thomas’s mother was living in to eventually turn it into a museum on Thomas.
The findings from ProPublica have ignited outrage from Democrats about ethical standards on the country’s highest court.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for Thomas to be impeached over the findings, and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have urged Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate.
“A lot of people that have opinions about this seem to think that there’s something wrong with this friendship. You know, it’s possible that people are just really friends,” Crow told the Morning News, adding that he wouldn’t try to influence the justice on matters such as abortion.
Asked whether he would be friends with Thomas if he didn’t have the Supreme Court justice title, Crow told the outlet, “It’s an interesting, good question. I don’t know how to answer that. Maybe not. Maybe yes. I don’t know.”
Crow also said he doesn’t “know what mega donor means.” | 2023-04-17T17:00:30+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/gop-mega-donor-says-clarence-thomas-is-victim-of-political-hit-job/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow has postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for this week because of stark differences in approach and tensions over Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the decision to put off the talks that were scheduled to start Tuesday in Cairo was made at the political level.
“We faced a situation when our U.S. colleagues not just demonstrated their reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way,” Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow.
Ryabkov claimed the U.S. wanted to focus solely on resuming inspections under the New START treaty and stonewalled Moscow’s request to also discuss specifics related to the weapons count under the strategic arms reduction pact.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that Moscow had decided to unilaterally postpone the Cairo talks and would propose new dates.
“The United States is ready to reschedule at the earliest possible date as resuming inspections is a priority for sustaining the treaty as an instrument of stability,” the State Department said.
This week’s meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission established under New START would have been the first in more than a year. The timing of the talks was intended to show that Russia and the U.S. remain committed to arms control and keeping lines of communication open despite soaring tensions over Ukraine.
Russia has protested the deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine. Ryabkov said the situation in Ukraine contributed to Moscow’s decision to delay the talks.
“Naturally, the events unfolding inside and around Ukraine in this case impact that,” he said. “Arms control and the dialogue in this sphere can’t be immune to what is happening around, and the bigger picture, which is quite complicated and largely disquieting, has played a role.”
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the treaty was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
In August, Russia declared a temporary halt on U.S. inspections, charging that visa restrictions, sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the U.S. and its allies, and other obstacles made it difficult for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites, giving the U.S. “unilateral advantages.”
At the same time, Moscow said that it “highly values” New START and held the door open for resuming inspections in the future.
While Russia and the U.S. have suspended mutual inspections under New START since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moscow’s move raised new uncertainty about the pact’s future. | 2022-11-29T20:06:43+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-russia-says-nuclear-talks-with-us-delayed-amid-differences/ |
As busy as the summer travel season is expected to be this year, delays and cancellations will be inevitable, especially when uncontrollables like summer thunderstorms roll in.
But a few simple steps could get you to your destination faster if you arrive at the airport prepared.
Riley Laipple is a frequent traveler who’s had her share of flight delays recently.
"It can be frustrating, especially when you have a connection," she told us while preparing to depart for a business trip.
Lula Elzy says delays ruined some of her trips.
"It's very frustrating, especially when you are trying to be somewhere on time," she said.
What you can do to prepare
Summer Hull with The Points Guy says you shouldn't waste any time being worried, but definitely be prepared.
So she shared a few ways to lower your risk of a delay or cancellation while booking.
She says:
- Fly nonstop, without a connection, when possible
- Take the first flight of the day, as you then avoid late afternoon weather-related delays
- If you can, fly to and from hubs, where you may have more backup options, such as a backup plane if your incoming plane is delayed in another city
- Avoid checking a bag
"That way, if things do go wrong, you can be more flexible, and your bag doesn't have to be retrieved," she said.
If you're already at the airport, Hull suggests you be proactive and monitor your inbound plane on your phone.
"A lot of airline apps will make this an option in the app or you can use a service like FlightAware," she said. "Sometimes, if you're keeping an eye on your inbound plane, you're gonna know about an issue before it's ever formally announced by the airline."
That way you can grab an alternate flight before an announcement is made to the 150 other people waiting on the delayed flight.
Hull also says:
- Opt in to all text notifications about your flight’s status
- If you're stuck in a long line, also reach out to the airline by phone while you are waiting; you may get phone help quicker
- Check your options using the airline’s app
"Just be ready to ask for what you want," she said, or you may be stuck with the airline’s recommendation, such as a two-city stop.
Frequent traveler Riley Laipple's advice to others: allow extra time.
"I try to make sure I get to the airport early and make sure I have enough time to deal with the stress that comes with delayed flights," she said.
Good advice, so you don't waste your money.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Penny Ronning wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Montana's 2nd Congressional District.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Two children were rescued only minutes after they were kidnapped in a carjacking Monday, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida.
Deputy Jonathan Pazmino Alvarez was flagged down at around 6:40 p.m. on Monday while driving through Tampa by a man who said his truck had just been stolen with his two young children still inside.
Deputy Pazmino Alvarez immediately chased after the man’s 2011 white Chevrolet Silverado, and without losing sight of the truck, managed to perform a traffic stop within a few minutes.
“Stop the truck now!” Deputy Pazmino Alvarez ordered through his police cruisers speaker system. Alvarez’s body camera shows one of the children saying ‘That’s not my dad!’ as he tells the driver to get out of the truck.
Deputies said the man behind the wheel was 37-year-old Kevin Smith, whose criminal history dates back to 2003 in Hillsborough County. Also in the truck were two children, aged 4 and 8.
Pazmino Alvarez approached the vehicle, which had stopped in a parking lot. One of the children told the deputy, “This guy robbed my dad’s car,” according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Smith was arrested without further incident. He faces two counts of felony kidnapping and one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle.
The two children were not injured and returned safely to their father.
Deputies added that Smith is currently incarcerated at the Falkenburg Road Jail without bond.
“This situation could’ve been a lot worse had it not been for the swift action taken by Deputy Pazmino Alvarez,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said. “He halted what could have been an otherwise terrifying situation for any parent. Thanks to him, two children are safe and in the arms of their loved ones today.” | 2022-10-13T18:15:39+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/thats-not-my-dad-florida-deputy-rescues-2-children-kidnapped-in-carjacking/ |
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Judge: Gun-waving lawyer shouldn’t get guns or money back
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge has ruled that a pardon from the governor doesn’t mean the St. Louis lawyer and his wife who gained national attention for waving guns at racial injustice protesters in 2020 should get back the weapons they surrendered and fines they paid after guilty pleas last year.
Mark McCloskey sued last year to have returned a Colt AR-15 rifle and a Bryco .380-caliber pistol that he and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, surrendered when they pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the confrontation with protesters. McCloskey said he was entitled to the guns and remitted fines because Republican Gov. Mike Parson pardoned him and his wife weeks after their guilty pleas.
On Wednesday, Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty ruled that the pardon had no bearing on the plea agreement, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
“Plaintiff and his wife are required to follow through with their end of the bargain,” she wrote.
Mark McCloskey said he plans to appeal.
The McCloskeys have said they felt threatened by protesters who walked on their private street past their home during global protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. They emerged from their home waving guns.
They were each indicted on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering. Mark McCloskey later agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was ordered to pay a $750 fine. Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
Earlier this year, the court suspended Mark and Patricia McCloskeys’ law licenses but delayed the suspension and put the two on probation for a year. The order means the couple can still practice, but the suspension will take effect if they violate their probation by breaking any more laws.
During the 2021 sentencing hearing, Judge David Mason asked Mark McCloskey if he acknowledged that his actions put people at risk of personal injury. He replied, “I sure did your honor.” Afterward on the courthouse steps, McCloskey, at the time a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, said he’d do it again if faced with similar circumstances.
Richard Callahan, the special prosecutor who investigated the case said his investigation determined that the protesters were peaceful.
“There was no evidence that any of them had a weapon and no one I interviewed realized they had ventured onto a private enclave,” he said in a news release after the McCloskeys pleaded guilty.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-30T19:39:51+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/12/30/judge-gun-waving-lawyer-shouldnt-get-guns-or-money-back/ |
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been discharged from the hospital following his return home to Buffalo, N.Y., after suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2.
In a news release Wednesday, the Bills franchise said doctors at the Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute conducted a "comprehensive medical evaluation" in addition to a series of cardiac, neurological and vascular testing.
"We have completed a series of tests and evaluations, and in consultation with the team physicians, we are confident that Damar can be safely discharged to continue his rehabilitation at home and with the Bills," Dr. Jamie Nadler, the care team lead, critical care physician and chief quality officer at Kaleida Health, said in a statement through the team.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Video was released Monday from shootings in December, when a man killed five people and injured two in Lakewood and Denver.
The release came as the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office announced that two Lakewood Police officers who fired shots at the suspect won't face charges.
District Attorney Alexis King praised the actions of Lakewood Police Agents Ashley Ferris and Brianna Hagan for their use of force against Lyndon James McLeod on Dec. 27, 2021.
McLeod killed five people and wounded two others:
- Alicia Cardenas, owner of Sol Tribe tattoo shop, was killed.
- Danny Scofield, "Dano Blair," who worked at Lucky 13 Tattoo & Piercing, was killed.
- Sarah Steck, who worked at Hyatt House, was killed.
- Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado, who worked at Sol Tribe, was killed.
- Michael Swinyard, 67, was killed inside his home near Cheesman Park.
- Jimmy Maldonado, who worked at Sol Tribe, was shot but survived.
- Ferris was shot before she shot the gunman and survived.
The District Attorney's Office reviewed more than 2,100 photographs and about 900 pages of reports from several law-enforcement agencies as part of its investigation, King said in her decision letter.
One of the videos, shown below, from a surveillance camera shows Ferris shoot the suspect.
CONTENT WARNING: The video below shows the moment both Farris and McLeod are shot and may be disturbing for some viewers.
“Agents Hagan and Ferris and their fellow officers from multiple agencies responded swiftly and bravely to end this spree of senseless violence in our community," King said in a statement. "Agent Ferris demonstrated particular heroism in returning fire while gravely wounded herself, and our community owes her and all of our law enforcement partners a debt of gratitude for their service during this tragic event.”
Agent Brianna Hagan
McLeod had already killed three people in Denver and one in Lakewood when Hagan and another Lakewood officer – who were on patrol – spotted McLeod's van on West Alameda Avenue, the decision letter says.
They attempted a traffic stop, and the van pulled into the parking lot of a Wells Fargo. Hagan got out of her vehicle as McLeod got out of the van, dressed all in black. He immediately fired eight to 10 rounds from a rifle or long gun at Hagan. She fired two rounds and did not hit him, the letter says.
McLeod ran from the officers and dropped his gun. Hagan aired a description of the gunman, and other Lakewood officers began to arrive and set up a perimeter around the Belmar Shopping District.
Within the perimeter, McLeod walked into Ted's Montana Grill, pointed a handgun at an employee and yelled at her before leaving. He then went into Hyatt House Hotel and shot and killed Steck, who was the desk clerk.
> Video below: Lakewood restaurant workers detail encounter with gunman:
Agent Ashely Ferris
Ferris was among the Lakewood officers who helped set up a perimeter around Belmar Shopping District. She saw McLeod walking toward her, wearing a vest with the word "POLICE" on it and loading handgun magazines.
Ferris realized he wasn't a police officer and recognized him from the description of the gunman. She told him, "Don't hurt other people, please" and "Don't do this" while she backed away and drew her gun.
"I'll show you what I'll do," McLeod said, according to the letter.
McLeod fired multiple shots, one of which struck Ferris in her lower torso. As Ferris fell to the ground, she returned fire. From the ground, she fired at least seven more shots, causing McLeod to fall. She reloaded her firearm and fired at least five more rounds.
A total of 23 shell casings were recovered from where Ferris fired her weapon, and six were recovered from where McLeod fired his gun, the letter says.
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Updated May 29, 2022 at 9:10 AM ET
JERUSALEM — Over 2,500 Jews visited Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site on Sunday ahead of a nationalist parade through the Old City, prompting Palestinians barricaded inside the Al Aqsa Mosque to throw rocks and fireworks at the visitors and nearby Israeli police.
Thousands of police were deployed throughout the city for Sunday's march, in which flag-waving Israeli nationalists planned to walk through the heart of the Old City's main Palestinian thoroughfare.
Israel says the march is meant to celebrate its capture of east Jerusalem, including the Old City, in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel has annexed east Jerusalem in a move that isn't internationally recognized and claims all of the city as its capital.
But Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, see the march as a provocation. Last year, the parade helped trigger an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza militants.
Ahead of the march, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that "flying the flag of Israel in the capital of Israel is an obvious thing" and that Israel had made this clear "from the outset." At the same time, he asked participants to celebrate in a "responsible and respectful manner."
Thousands of people normally take part in the march through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, including some who shout out nationalistic or racist slogans toward the Palestinians, before making their way to the Western Wall in the Jewish Quarter.
Last year, after weeks of Israeli-Palestinian unrest in Jerusalem, authorities changed the route of the march at the last minute to avoid the Muslim Quarter. But it was too late by then, and Hamas militants in Gaza fired a barrage of rockets toward Jerusalem as the procession was getting underway. That set off 11 days of heavy fighting.
Gaza's Hamas rulers praised what they called "the great heroism" shown by Palestinians at Al Aqsa earlier Sunday. "The Islamic Palestinian Arab identity of the Al Aqsa Mosque will be protected by our people and their valiant resistance with all their might," said Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the group.
The group, however, may be wary of getting involved in another round of fighting. Gaza was hard hit in last year's war, and the territory is still struggling to repair the damage. In addition, some 12,000 Gazan laborers are now permitted to work inside Israel as part of efforts to maintain calm between the enemies. Renewed fighting could risk losing those jobs, which have given a small boost to Gaza's devastated economy.
Early on Sunday, some 1,800 Jews visited the contested hilltop compound where the Al Aqsa Mosque is situated, according to Israeli police.
Al Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam and serves as a powerful symbol for the Palestinians. The compound also is the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount and revere it as the home of the biblical Temples. The competing claims to the site lie at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and have triggered numerous rounds of violence.
Dozens of Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the mosque and began throwing objects and fireworks when the Jewish visitors began to arrive.
Among the visitors was Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of a small ultranationalist opposition party and a follower of the late racist rabbi, Meir Kahane, who entered with dozens of supporters under heavy police guard.
Palestinians shouted "God is great" as Ben-Gvir, accompanied by Israeli police, shouted "the Jewish people live." Police said they locked the gates of the mosque and said they made 18 arrests. There were no reports of injuries.
Without explanation, Israeli police took the rare step of barring Palestinian journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, from entering the compound.
Police also said dozens of visitors in one of the Jewish groups "violated visitation rules." It said the group was removed and some people were detained.
The police statement gave no further details. But under longstanding arrangements known as the "status quo," Jewish visitors to the compound are not allowed to pray. In recent years, however, the number of Jewish visitors has grown significantly, including some who have been spotted quietly praying.
Such scenes have sparked Palestinian fears that Israel is plotting to take over or divide the area. Israel denies such claims, saying it remains committed to the status quo.
Later, police said that Palestinians hurled rocks and bottles at security forces near Damascus Gate, at the entrance of the Muslim Quarter. Police were seen beating some Palestinians. Police said three people were arrested, and one Israeli bodyguard was lightly injured.
An additional 800 Jews visited the compound on Sunday afternoon without incident, police said.
Israel's national police chief, Kobi Shabtai, said his forces were prepared for "every scenario" and had taken "immediate and professional" action when needed.
"We will not allow any inciter or rioter to sabotage today's events and to disrupt law and order," he said. By midday, the visits had temporarily halted, and the situation had quieted.
Jordan condemned Ben-Gvir's visit to the site and warned that the "provocative and escalating march" could make things deteriorate further. Jordan controlled east Jerusalem until Israel captured it in 1967 and it remains the custodian over Muslim holy sites.
Sunday's march comes at a time of heightened tensions. Israeli police have repeatedly confronted stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators in the disputed compound in recent months, often firing rubber bullets and stun grenades.
At the same time, some 19 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian attackers in Israel and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, while over 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. Many of those killed were Palestinian militants, but several civilians were also among the dead, including Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known correspondent for the Al Jazeera satellite channel.
Jerusalem police were criticized internationally for beating mourners at Abu Akleh's funeral two weeks ago.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank and Gaza, in the 1967 Mideast war. The internationally backed Palestinian Authority, which administers areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, seeks all three areas for an independent state.
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How to Watch the Heat vs. Knicks: Streaming & TV Channel Info for Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 3
Published: May. 6, 2023 at 9:31 AM EDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
In Game 3 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks square off.
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Heat vs. Knicks Game Info
- When: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- Where: FTX Arena in Miami, Florida
- TV: ABC
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Heat vs Knicks Additional Info
Heat Stats Insights
- The Heat are shooting 46% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 46.2% the Knicks allow to opponents.
- In games Miami shoots better than 46.2% from the field, it is 25-12 overall.
- The Heat are the 27th best rebounding team in the league, the Knicks rank second.
- The 109.5 points per game the Heat record are just 3.6 fewer points than the Knicks give up (113.1).
- Miami has a 19-6 record when scoring more than 113.1 points.
Knicks Stats Insights
- The Knicks' 47% shooting percentage from the field this season is the same as the Heat have given up to their opponents.
- This season, New York has a 21-12 record in games the team collectively shoots over 48.2% from the field.
- The Knicks are the second-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Heat sit at 20th.
- The Knicks put up 6.2 more points per game (116) than the Heat allow their opponents to score (109.8).
- When it scores more than 109.8 points, New York is 35-19.
Heat Home & Away Comparison
- The Heat are averaging 111.4 points per game in home games. When playing on the road, they are averaging 107.5 points per contest.
- Miami is surrendering 110.2 points per game at home. On the road, it is allowing 109.3.
- When it comes to three-pointers, the Heat have been equally balanced when playing at home and in away games this year, averaging 12 per game no matter the location. Meanwhile, they've put up a 36% three-point percentage in home games and a 32.9% clip in road games.
Knicks Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 the Knicks are putting up more points at home (117.3 per game) than on the road (114.8). And they are allowing less at home (113) than on the road (113.2).
- New York is giving up fewer points at home (113 per game) than on the road (113.2).
- At home the Knicks are averaging 23.5 assists per game, 1.1 more than on the road (22.4).
Heat Injuries
Knicks Injuries
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GENEVA — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere except the Middle East and Southeast Asia last week, according to a World Health Organization weekly report released Wednesday.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the continuing decline of COVID-19, which peaked in January, as “a very encouraging trend.”
Still, he warned that the pandemic was not yet over and urged caution, even as many countries have dropped their coronavirus protocols and segued into trying to live with the virus.
Tedros noted that 18 months after the first mass coronavirus immunization programs began in rich countries, 68 countries have yet to protect 40% of their populations. While enough vaccines are now available, demand has fallen, he said.
“The perception that the pandemic is over is understandable, but misguided,” the WHO chief said. “A new and even more dangerous variant could emerge at any time, and vast numbers of people remain unprotected.”
WHO’s pandemic report noted that the number of new weekly cases rose by 19% in the Middle East and inched up by 1% in Southeast Asia, while falling everywhere else. The number of deaths increased by 7% in the Western Pacific and dropped elsewhere in the world last week.
WHO previously noted that the numbers are likely to be an underestimate and dependent on countries’ testing and reporting strategies. Last week, WHO’s emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan said the COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea, for example, was getting worse, not better.
Despite multiple offers of help, including vaccines, North Korea has not accepted any offers of aid from WHO and has yet to share more detailed information about how the outbreak is evolving there.
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Tiny Nevada fish bred in captivity released into wild for the first time
A small fish found only in the Southern Nevada desert got a big boost this week.
And it’s one that scientists hope signals a turning point for the longtime endangered Moapa dace, a finger-length fish that inhabits a single watershed some 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
One by one, 18 captively bred and raised Moapa dace were plucked from a Coleman cooler by a team of biologists and placed into their new natural warm springs home at the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The minnows are the first of the species bred in captivity to be successfully released into the wild, said Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Amos Rehm.
It may not seem like many, but for a species whose total population has hovered around 2,000 in recent years, it represents a monumental step toward bolstering and safeguarding the fish that has been under federal protections for more than half a century.
“Being able to augment our wild populations with captive-raised fish is huge for the species,” said David Syzdek, an environmental biologist with the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Tuesday’s release follows years of work and research to boost the fish’s population and included staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Nevada Department of Wildlife and Southern Nevada Water Authority.
The Moapa dace populations have come a long way since the mid-2000s, when their numbers plunged to fewer than 500. The species’ natural habitat is entirely contained within the 116-acre Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, some adjacent private land and the Warm Springs Natural Area, a 1,218-acre stretch of land that the water authority purchased for $69 million in 2007 and now maintains.
Biologists have struggled to get the dace to move back into areas that had been devastated by floods and wildfires, Rehm said. The upper portion of the Pederson Spring, where Tuesday’s fish release took place, is one such stubborn stretch.
Rehm said the hope is to one day be able to raise enough fish in captivity at the Lake Mead fish hatchery to be able to recolonize those stretches of the Muddy River watershed that the dace have avoided, and in doing so, get the fish that has been under federal protection since 1967 off of the endangered species list.
Under the current recovery plan, the Moapa dace will remain federally protected until at least 75 percent of its historical habitat is restored and its wild population reaches andremains above 6,000 for five consecutive years.
If they can find a way to scale up the captive breeding, Rehm said, the agencies will be better equipped to rebuild the species’ wild population following future fires, floods or other disasters like a non-native predatory fish invasion. Naturally waiting for those populations to restock could take as long as 10 to 20 years, he said.
“If we can fine-tune this to where this is a tool available, it basically means we’ve quadrupled our efficiency at being able to deal with things,” Rehm said.
But getting to that point could take some time.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife has been raising captive Moapa dace since 2015, when the department took possession of roughly 250 fish leftover from an initial study by researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Rehm said they had hoped to be able to release anywhere from 200 to 500 dace at a time into the springs, but getting the teeny fish to do the tiny tango has been a monumental challenge for scientists.
The biologists still aren’t exactly sure what triggers the dace spawning behavior. But they hope they can iron out that magical combination of factors in the near future.
Contact Colton Lochhead at clochhead@reviewjournal.com. Follow @ColtonLochhead on Twitter. | 2023-06-28T14:52:03+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/tiny-nevada-fish-bred-in-captivity-released-into-wild-for-the-first-time-2800752/ |
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