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The federal government has cut payments to 769 hospitals with high rates of patient injuries, for the first time counting the spread of antibiotic-resistant germs in assessing penalties.
The punishments come in the third year of Medicare penalties for hospitals with patients most frequently suffering from potentially avoidable complications, including various types of infections, blood clots, bed sores and falls. This year the government also examined the prevalence of two types of bacteria resistant to drugs.
Based on rates of all these complications, the hospitals identified by federal officials this week will lose 1 percent of all Medicare payments for a year — with that time frame beginning this past October. While the government did not release the dollar amount of the penalties, it will exceed a million dollars for many larger hospitals. In total, hospitals will lose about $430 million, 18 percent more than they lost last year, according to an estimate from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The reductions apply not only to patient stays but also will reduce the amount of money hospitals get to teach medical residents and care for low-income people.
Forty percent of the hospitals penalized this year escaped punishment in the first two years of the program, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows. Those 306 hospitals include the University of Miami Hospital in Florida, Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts, the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Nationally, hospital-acquired conditions declined by 21 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ. The biggest reductions were for bad reactions to medicines, catheter infections and post-surgical blood clots.
Still, hospital harm remains a threat. AHRQ estimates there were 3.8 million hospital injuries last year, which translates to 115 injuries during every 1,000 patient hospital stays during that period.
Each year, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, including nearly a quarter-million cases in hospitals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 23,000 people die from them.
Between 20 and 50 percent of all antibiotics prescribed in hospitals are either not needed or inappropriate, studies have found. The proliferation of antibiotic use — inside hospitals, among outpatients and in farm animals sold for food — has hastened the spread of stubborn bacterial strains that can be risky for patients.
One resistant bacterium that Medicare included into its formula for determining financial penalties for hospitals is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which can cause pneumonia and bloodstream and skin infections. MRSA is prevalent outside of hospitals and sometimes people with it show no signs of disease. But these people can bring the germ into a hospital, where it can be spread by health care providers and be especially dangerous for older or sick patients whose immune system cannot fight the infection.
Hospitals have had some success in reducing MRSA infections, which dropped by 13 percent between 2011 and 2014, according to the CDC. AHRQ estimates there were 6,300 cases in hospitals last year.
The second bacterium measured for the penalties is Clostridium difficile, known as C. diff, a germ that can multiply in the gut and colon when patients take some antibiotics to kill off other germs. It can also spread through contaminated surfaces or hands.
While it can be treated by antibiotics, C. diff can also become so serious that some patients need to have part of their intestines surgically removed. C. diff can cause diarrhea and can be deadly for the elderly and other vulnerable patients.
C. diff has challenged infection control efforts. While hospital infections dropped 8 percent from 2008 to 2014, there was a "significant increase" in C. diff that final year, the CDC says. AHRQ estimated there were 100,000 hospital cases last year.
"The reality is we don't know how to prevent all these infections," said Dr. Louise Dembry, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
The Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program also factors in rates of infections from hysterectomies, colon surgeries, urinary tract catheters and central line tubes. Those infections carry the most weight in determining penalties, but the formula also takes into account the frequency of bed sores, hip fractures, blood clots and four other complications.
Specialized hospitals, such as those that treat psychiatric patients, veterans and children, are exempted from the penalties, as are hospitals with the "critical access" designation for being the only provider in an area. Of the remaining hospitals, the Affordable Care Act requires that Medicare penalize the 25 percent that perform the worst on these measures, even if they have reduced infection rates from previous years.
That inflexible quota is one objection the hospital industry has with the penalties. In addition, many hospitals complain that they are penalized because of their vigilance in detecting infections, even ones that do not cause any symptoms in patients. Academic medical centers in particular have been frequently punished.
"The HAC penalty payment program is regarded as rather arbitrary, so other than people getting upset when they incur a penalty, it is not in and of itself changing behavior," said Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety at the American Hospital Association.
Federal records show that 347 hospitals penalized last year will not have payments reduced because their performance was better than others. Those include Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
Over the lifetime of the penalty program, 241 hospitals have been punished in all three years, including the Cleveland Clinic; Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah; Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles; Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta; Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
The penalties come as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also launches new requirements for hospitals to ensure that the use of antibiotics is limited to cases where they are necessary and be circumspect in determining which of the drugs are most likely to work for a given infection. Hospitals will have to establish these antibiotic stewardship programs as a condition of receiving Medicare funding under a regulation the government drafted last summer.
Lisa McGiffert, who directs Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project, said that as a result of Medicare's penalties and other efforts, "more hospitals are thinking more about appropriate use of antibiotics." However, she said, "I think most hospitals do not have effective antibiotic stewardship programs yet."
Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service supported by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. You can follow Jordan Rau on Twitter: @jordanrau.
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2023-06-02T23:32:27+00:00
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lakeshorepublicmedia.org
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https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/npr-news/2016-12-22/medicare-penalizes-hospitals-in-crackdown-on-antibiotic-resistant-infections
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FORNEBU, Norway, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akastor ASA's (OSE: AKAST) 50% owned affiliate AKOFS Offshore AS (AKOFS Offshore) has now signed a firm contract for its vessel "Aker Wayfarer" that will continue to perform services as a subsea equipment support vessel (SESV) for Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) as client in Brazil. The duration of the contract is 1,415 days, or almost 4 years, and the services will commence in first half of 2023. AKOFS Offshore will be performing the "Aker Wayfarer" operations jointly with its partners Bravante for marine services and Oceaneering for ROV services.
Total contract value is about USD 282 million, of which about USD 198 million will be revenue allocated to AKOFS Offshore and included in the company's backlog.
AKOFS Offshore, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a global provider of vessel based subsea well intervention and installation services to the oil and gas industry. In addition to the vessel "Aker Wayfarer", it also operates the vessels "AKOFS Santos" and "AKOFS Seafarer". The Company is owned by Akastor AS (50%), Mitsui & Co., Ltd (25%) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (25%).
For further information, please contact:
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This press release may include forward-looking information or statements and is subject to our disclaimer; see https://akastor.com.
Akastor is a Norway-based oil-services investment company with a portfolio of industrial holdings and other investments. The company has a flexible mandate for active ownership and long-term value creation.
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2022-07-25T07:55:00+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/07/25/akastor-asa-akofs-offshore-signs-contract-aker-wayfarer/
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Which LEGO Creator set is the best?
LEGO Creator sets are excellent for people who love to follow instructions to make wild and wonderful creations out of LEGO bricks. While there are plenty of sets designed for kids, others are much more detailed sets with older teens and adults in mind so that you can find some of the most challenging LEGO sets in the Creator range.
But what should you look for in a LEGO Creator set and which one is right for you? The LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Twin Rotor Helicopter is one of the best options for kids ready to move onto moderately challenging LEGO sets.
What to know before you buy a LEGO Creator set
Set types
You can buy two main types of LEGO Creator sets: LEGO Creator 3-in-1 sets and LEGO Creator expert sets.
LEGO Creator 3-in-1 sets are generally aimed at younger LEGO fans, aged roughly 7-13, though the recommended age range varies by set. These sets feature one main creation you can build, though you can also configure the bricks in different ways to make two other items. For example, the fire dragon set also lets builders make a scorpion or a saber-toothed tiger.
LEGO Creator expert sets are much more complicated, keeping adults and older adolescents in mind in the design. The kit only comes with instructions to make one finished item, and many builders will choose to make the item and leave it set up or put it on display.
Creation types
LEGO Creator sets are varied and offer a wide range of creation types, so you should be able to find an option that you or the person you’re buying for will enjoy. These are some of the common types of creations you can find.
Vehicles: These can range from simple taxis, race cars and transporters in the 3-in-1 range to realistic recreations of London buses and Porsche 911s in the expert range.
Buildings and architecture: One of the biggest LEGO sets is a recreation of the Colosseum in the expert range, but you can also find more straightforward LEGO Creator building sets, including bookshops, toy stores and treehouses.
Animals: Animals are common in the 3-in-1 sets but not in the expert sets. You can buy sets that contain both real and fantasy animals, including dragons, dinosaurs, sea creatures and lions.
What to look for in a quality LEGO Creator set
Age range
Most LEGO Creator sets in the 3-in-1 range are suitable either for ages 7 or 9 and up. While there’s usually no upper recommended age range, even the most complex options are unlikely to be challenging enough for anyone over 12 or 13. The majority of LEGO Creator expert sets are made with adults in mind and have a listed age range of 18 and up.
Pieces
Pieces in LEGO creator sets range from under 100 in simple sets to almost 10,000 in the largest sets. Consider your skill level or the skill level of the person you’re buying for and how much time you or they might want to put in.
Realism
Some LEGO Creator sets are highly stylized, while others are quite realistic. In general, the more realistic the set, the more complex it is to make.
How much you can expect to spend on LEGO Creator set
Small, straightforward LEGO Creator sets cost $10-$20, while large offerings can cost as much as $200-$500.
LEGO Creator set FAQ
Who is LEGO Creator for?
A. LEGO Creator 3-in-1 sets are aimed at kids who want to follow instructions and build specific models from their sets, but with some leeway to get creative and try different builds since you can make three models from one set. LEGO Creator expert sets are for older teens and adults who want to build challenging LEGO sets with lots of detail.
How difficult is LEGO Creator expert?
A. LEGO Creator expert sets are some of the most difficult on the market. Though you can find one or two sets for ages 12 or 16 and up, the majority are for ages 18 and up. That’s not to say that LEGO-loving teenagers wouldn’t be able to complete these sets, but anyone under 18 without much LEGO experience would struggle. Sets vary in size and difficulty, but the largest can have close to 10,000 pieces and take weeks to build.
What’s the best LEGO Creator set to buy?
Top LEGO Creator set
LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Twin Rotor Helicopter
What you need to know: This kit lets you build a twin-rotor helicopter or two other vehicles and is suitable for ages 9 and up.
What you’ll love: The cockpit fits two mini-figures, it has spinnable rotors and the model measures 14 inches long.
What you should consider: Some complaints that the pieces aren’t numbered, making it too challenging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top LEGO Creator set for the money
LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Deep Sea Creatures
What you need to know: You can make a squid, shark, angler fish and crab with this set for ages 7 and up.
What you’ll love: It is affordably priced, has simple instructions and is great for kids who love animals or the ocean.
What you should consider: A handful of reports of missing pieces — LEGO will send replacements but it can lead to disappointment at the time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is a nice set for ages 7 to 12 with the option to build a classic robot, a robot dog or a robot bird.
What you’ll love: Includes a battery-powered light brick, it is great for kids just starting to build full LEGO kits and you can push the robot around on its tank tread wheels.
What you should consider: It is not actually robotic or motorized.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-07-30T01:05:16+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/hobby-collectibles-br/best-lego-creator-sets/
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The U.S. government is suing Rite Aid, alleging that the pharmacy chain missed "obvious red flags" and illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances, including opioids.
The Justice Department complaint states that from 2014 to 2019, Rite Aid pharmacists knowingly filled prescriptions that were "medically unnecessary," prescribed off-label, or "were not issued in the usual course of professional practice."
The complaint says pharmacists ignored red flags like "trinities" of opioids, benzodiazepines and muscle relaxants, plus "early fills" of prescriptions that should not yet have run out. They allegedly filled prescriptions for very high doses or quantities of opioids, or from prescribers already flagged as "writing illegitimate prescriptions."
Rite Aid was also accused of intentionally deleting internal software notes left by pharmacists like "cash only pill mill???" and "writing excessive dose(s) for oxycodone." The complaint alleges that a Government Affairs analyst at Rite Aid told one such pharmacist "to always be very cautious of what is put in writing."
Rite Aid representatives declined to comment on the allegations due to them being part of "a litigation matter." According to its website, it owns more than 2,300 pharmacy locations across 17 states.
Along with the Controlled Substances Act, the government alleges that Rite Aid violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting "false or fraudulent claims" for reimbursement to federal healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
“The Justice Department is using every tool at our disposal to confront the opioid epidemic that is killing Americans and shattering communities across the country,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a press release. “That includes holding corporations, like Rite Aid, accountable for knowingly filling unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances.”
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta added that the company's actions "opened the floodgates for millions of opioid pills and other controlled substances to flow illegally out of Rite Aid's stores."
The U.S. joined a whistleblower lawsuit in the Northern District of Ohio, originally filed in 2019 by three former Rite Aid employees.
Opioids have been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. in the past two decades, with the most casualties occurring in recent years. The drugs responsible for the bulk of the deaths have shifted from prescription painkillers to illicitly produced fentanyl, which is often being mixed into other street drugs.
In the 2010s, state and local governments filed thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold the drug industry accountable for the crisis. Some key drugmakers, distribution companies and other pharmacies have already agreed to settlements.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2023-03-14T19:16:00+00:00
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ktvb.com
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https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/us-rite-aid-opioid-prescription-lawsuit-2023/507-3becb99a-a2d8-40f2-8978-bda333f7ec58
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels have hired Phil Nevin as manager for the 2023 season, removing his interim title and giving him a one-year contract Wednesday before the final game of the regular season.
The Angels will miss the playoffs for an eighth straight year. Nevin was promoted from third-base coach when Joe Maddon was fired in June with the Angels mired in what became a club-record 14-game losing streak.
Los Angeles has gone 46-59 under the 51-year-old Nevin entering Wednesday's series finale at Oakand.
Nevin became emotional and teary before the final game against the Athletics, pausing in the dugout before expressing his appreciation for the opportunity.
“There's a lot of special people involved in this,” Nevin said.
Keeping Nevin provides some needed stability for Los Angeles heading into an offseason of uncertainty with owner Arte Moreno planning to sell the team.
Superstar two-way player Shohei Ohtani can become a free agent after the 2023 season, potentially leaving the franchise litte time left to capitalize on having him and three-time AL MVP Mike Trout on the roster.
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2022-10-05T19:52:25+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/angels-keep-phil-nevin-as-manager-for-2023-on-1-year-deal/7HTYRKD7ZNDHBEM7XGZNCBAYQI/
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City and Erling Haaland got a wake up call they didn’t know they needed before their Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid.
The Norwegian goal machine has hardly put a foot wrong this season. But against Leeds on Saturday he allowed himself a moment of indulgence which almost backfired on the defending English Premier League champions.
Cruising with a 2-0 lead at Etihad Stadium, Haaland passed up the chance to score a late penalty by handing over the duty to Ilkay Gundogan, who was on for a hat trick.
Gundogan hit the post and Leeds scored a minute later to set up an uncomfortable finish in a match that City totally dominated.
City won 2-1, but against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday, such a lapse in judgement could prove much more costly.
A miffed Pep Guardiola made sure City took the lesson on board.
“Erling is the best penalty taker right now so he has to take it,” the manager said. “If Gundo scores everyone is ‘OK, hat trick, well done.’ But a taker is a taker. At 2-0, this is a business, not a situation where we cannot forget it.”
Memories are still fresh of the semifinals against Madrid last season, when City led by two goals on aggregate going into the 90th minute of the second leg. In a dramatic finish, Madrid scored twice to force extra time, and a 95th-minute penalty knocked City out.
City is looking unstoppable in its pursuit of a treble of trophies, including the Premier League and the FA Cup, but perhaps it was all getting a little too easy for Guardiola’s players. Haaland has 51 goals already, and Saturday’s win extended their unbeaten run to 20 games in all competitions, not to mention moving the league leaders four points clear of second-placed Arsenal.
“Everyone was incredibly focused knowing what we are playing for,” Guardiola said. “But at 2-0 you have to close it and not give them anything. If you have control, you have control.”
Rodrigo’s goal changed the mood inside the stadium as relegation-threatened Leeds, under new manager Sam Allardyce, went in search of an unlikely equalizer.
It didn’t come, but after this late scare, Haaland surely won’t pass up a penalty shot if one comes his way in Madrid on Tuesday.
LIVERPOOL MARCHES ON
Liverpool has probably left its run just a little too late.
A sixth straight win has moved Jurgen Klopp’s team to within a point of fourth-placed Manchester United.
But United has two games in hand, meaning it would take a big slump to miss out on Champions League qualification.
Liverpool, though, is definitely applying pressure in the final weeks of the season, which encourages Klopp after such a frustrating and inconsistent campaign.
Mohamed Salah’s goal secured a 1-0 win against Brentford and the striker’s 100th at Anfield.
“Six games ago nobody would have thought we would be here,” Klopp said. “We cannot do more than win football games.
“We have to make sure we finish the situation in the best possible way.”
The win also earned goalkeeper Alisson his 100th clean sheet for Liverpool.
CHELSEA FINALLY WINS
At the 10th time of asking, Chelsea secured a long-awaited win after beating Bournemouth 3-1 to end a miserable run.
It was interim manager Frank Lampard’s first victory since returning to Stamford Bridge last month and his first with Chelsea since his final game in charge before he was fired in 2021.
Conor Gallagher, Benoit Badiashile and Joao Felix all scored, and Matias Vina got Bournemouth’s goal as Chelsea ended a run of six straight losses under Lampard.
“We came in off the back of a tough run, it’s been a tough year and there is a lot work to do,” Lampard said.
RELEGATION FIGHT
Julen Lopetegui has coached Spain and Real Madrid. He’s also won the Europa League, but says the job he has done at Wolverhampton is his finest work.
“I have won the Europa League and played with Sevilla in the Champions League but, for me, this is the most important achievement,” Lopetegui said after securing Premier League survival by beating Aston Villa 1-0.
“We arrived here five months ago with 10 points after 16 matches at the bottom, four points from the team above. We were in a very bad situation with bad belief and low morale.”
Wolves have reached 40 points, considered the benchmark for survival and 10 clear of the drop zone.
KANE GOALS FEAT
Harry Kane is out on his own as the second highest scorer in league history after his goal in Tottenham’s 1-0 win against Crystal Palace.
The England striker moved past Wayne Rooney with his 209th goal in England’s top division. Only Alan Shearer, on 260, is ahead of him.
Kane has already become the record scorer for England and Tottenham this season.
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2023-05-07T15:12:45+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/man-city-and-haaland-avoid-scare-ahead-of-real-madrid-clash/
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CA Phoenix AZ Zone Forecast for Saturday, November 12, 2022
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.TODAY...Sunny and breezy. Highs 66 to 71. Northwest wind 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 48. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 70. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 37 to 47. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 66 to 71. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Patchy blowing dust after midnight. Lows
41 to 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust through the day. Highs 59 to
71.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 47.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 72.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 46.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 73.
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300 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny and breezy. Highs 68 to 73. Northwest wind 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 72. West wind 5 to 10 mph in the morning
becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 54. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 67 to 72. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust. Highs near 70.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 74.
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Including the cities of Coolidge Springs, Salton City, Winona,
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300 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 74. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 42 to 52. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 73. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 50. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 75.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 46 to 51.
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.TODAY...Sunny and breezy. Highs 67 to 72. West wind 15 to 25 mph in
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.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
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morning becoming east in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 55. Southwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 70. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 46 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the afternoon. Highs 59 to
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 54.
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300 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny and windy. Highs 53 to 63. Northwest wind 20 to
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear and windy. Lows 34 to 44. Northwest wind 20 to
30 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 63. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph in the
morning becoming north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 42. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs 53 to 63. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 29 to 45.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the morning. Highs 49 to
63.
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 65.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 45.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 66.
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2022-11-13T18:20:08+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/CA-Phoenix-AZ-Zone-Forecast-17581060.php
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The risk to public safety from a carbon dioxide pipeline is no greater than that associated with other types of hazardous gases and pipelines, Burleigh County's top health official has concluded amid debate over a planned CO2 project that would bisect the county.
Bismarck-Burleigh Health Officer Dr. David Pengilly told county commissioners on Thursday that his opinion is based on only a few weeks' study and that it is not an endorsement of Summit Carbon Solutions' planned Midwest Carbon Express pipeline.
"We don't like any toxic materials going through our county ... we're not endorsing it," he said. "We're just saying it doesn't appear to represent an unacceptable risk."
Commissioner Wayne Munson said Pengilly's opinion "contradicts everything else we've been told up to now" and "just throws a wrench in everything that we've been working for, and I'm just more confused."
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Commissioners are considering two ordinances linked to concerns expressed by some northern county residents about the Midwest Carbon Express pipeline, including worries about their safety. The pipeline is to transport climate-warming CO2 emissions from Midwestern ethanol plants to North Dakota's Oliver County for permanent storage underground.
The commission, convening as the County Board of Health on Feb. 6, considered a public health statement that "expresses concern for the risk of hazardous liquid gas exposure to humans, the environment and livestock." It set the stage for a proposed ordinance that would require companies building hazardous liquid pipelines to submit emergency plans to local officials, to ensure publish health and safety.
County Planning Director Mitch Flanagan acknowledged during the early February meeting that no health officials had provided input on the statement, and commissioners voted to seek an opinion from Pengilly.
Pengilly in the written opinion provided to commissioners on Thursday said he consulted with the state Department of Environmental Quality. That agency provided him with information including:
- The permitting process for a CO2 pipeline includes government oversight and requires safety precautions including an emergency response plan.
- Transportation of carbon dioxide is similar to the transport of fuels such as natural gas and oil, which requires monitoring and safeguards.
- There is no greater risk in transporting CO2 than there is with other hazardous gases such as natural gas and anhydrous ammonia, which are present in the county.
- Several other types of pipelines are established in North Dakota with proper standards in place.
Pengilly concluded in his written opinion that "There is no unacceptable risk to health, welfare and life safety for a CO2 pipeline." He recommended "reviewing Summit Carbon Solutions submitted emergency response plan upon completion."
Commissioner Brian Bitner during Thursday's meeting asked Pengilly to elaborate on "What is an acceptable risk?" Pengilly responded that "I can't quantitate 'acceptable risk' as far as injuries and deaths."
Bitner also pressed Pengilly on whether he disagreed with anything in the public health statement. Pengilly said he did not.
A hearing was held earlier this month on the proposed health and safety ordinance, and a commission vote could come next month. The commission later will also consider a separate proposed zoning ordinance pertaining to special use permits required for hazardous liquid pipelines. That ordinance is still being developed, according to Flanagan.
Neither ordinance would apply to existing pipelines.
Both Munson and Commissioner Jerry Woodcox pressed for getting a safety ordinance in place as soon as possible. Chair Becky Matthews said it's important for the county to consider "Where do we fit in the oversight, and where do we overstep and find ourselves in a legal battle?"
The North Dakota Public Service Commission will permit the route of the pipeline, and the state Industrial Commission will permit the CO2 disposal site. Summit must also comply with federal regulations. No Summit official spoke at Thursday's meeting.
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George Kruse says density bonuses being approved by Manatee County are not fulfilling intended use.
After voting to approve a developer's request for an increased density bonus just to the north of Lakewood Ranch on State Road 64, Manatee County Commissioner George Kruse said at an Oct. 6 land use meeting that changes are needed.
Kruse said current county requirements force commissioners to approve development bonuses that are meeting requirements that basically favor attempts to build walkable communities, but he said, in reality, that goal is seldom realized.
“We hear these things like 'Oh, this is mixed-use, it's livable, it's walkable," Kruse said. "People can work there and shop there, and they're going to walk around a corner and get their eggs and their milk. That virtually never happens.”
Currently, county policy allows developments up to 20 dwelling units per acre, in cases where at least 75% of the project’s frontage borders an area considered a node of activity, which might include commercial areas featuring shopping and services.
A developer can also designate 25% of dwelling units as affordable housing to achieve the same density increases.
During the meeting, Kruse and Glen Gibellina, a spokesperson for the affordable housing advisory board, took aim at the former requirement.
The development being considered — it was unanimously approved by the commission — is a new apartment complex by Eastern Meridian Property Group, located just east of the Hide-Away Storage facility at the southeastern corner of Lorraine Road and State Road 64.
Philip DiMaria, a certified planner with the engineering firm Kimley-Horn, called the project a different type of addition to the area that would contribute to the diversity of housing options. He said the planned amenities, which include a spa, fitness center, and yoga studio, would be “very high-quality,” while the environment would be “walkable,” featuring street trees for scenery.
The development is planned to include 350 multi-family units, as well as five commercial outbuildings.
The site, which is currently zoned in separate sections for general commercial and general agricultural uses, is set to be rezoned to the category Planned Development–Mixed Use. The rezone will raise the number of allowed units from 84 to 208, and to 462 including the density bonuses.
Approved concurrently was a request to change the Future Land Use Category of the property from Urban Fringe-3 to RES-9 to allow residential development. DiMaria said this change would add additional density, while limiting commercial uses to neighborhood-serving ones.
DiMaria said the change of category would generate less traffic than what could originally have been drawn there.
He called the development an excellent fit for the surrounding area, noting features in the surrounding area including a 7-Eleven to the northwest, and a similar project at Uihlein Road to the southwest.
However, Gibellina criticized the density increase, noting the unit prices, which ranged from $1,295 to $8,432 a month.
Gibellina asked commissioners not to grant a density increase for a project he said would not fulfill the purpose of doing so. He said he did not see its benefit to a region that needed housing for young professionals, teachers, first responders, and healthcare workers, and called instead for studio apartments and one-bedroom apartments.
“I don't see it, and you shouldn't see it either,” he told commissioners.
According to the applicant’s presentation, the property would have contained some one-bedroom apartments, in addition to two and three-bedroom apartments.
Gibellina proposed a rule that would allow developers who did not want to build affordable housing, to obtain a density increase at a cost of $25,000 per unit, with the county then able to use those proceeds to purchase affordable housing in another area.
“We've been given bonuses out like candy,” Gibellina said. “It’s time to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough, they're not entitled to it unless the county and the citizens get something back.”
Despite voting in favor of the project, Kruse agreed with Gibellina’s comments, including his calls for a fee for developers, while calling for the county’s requirements to be changed.
“People use the mixed-use to get around having to build workforce housing,” he said, stating that he had been pushing for this to be changed since he was elected in 2020.
Kruse said the construction of 116 workforce housing units would have provided enough density bonuses to allow 346 additional units on the property, only slightly less than the planned 350.
He said therefore, large numbers of affordable housing units were being sacrificed.
Kruse said prior locations in the county that had been purported to provide mixed uses were not fulfilling their intended purpose.
He said one example was Summerhouse Apartments along State Road 64 in Lakewood Ranch.
“Sure, if you need lotto tickets or anything of that nature, you’ve got the Circle K," he said. "But I don't think that was the intent when it was presented. Nor is that the intent here.”
Commissioner Carol Whitmore said she does not believe any changes need to be made for how density bonuses are granted. She said the market had shown a demand for multi-family dwellings.
“With all due respect, we have many young people moving into this town, and they do not want a house,” she said.
Whitmore said it was too early to claim that certain areas will not serve the mix of uses they were promoted as providing.
“Infrastructure follows rooftops,” she said. “Whether we love it or hate it, development is creeping into East County, because (the western part of) the county is saturated and full.”
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MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week opened and closed under a beating early summer sun.
Zegna wrapped up four days of shows Monday with an outdoor event set among bales of raw linen behind Milan’s City Hall, allowing city workers a view out of their windows. For the sweltering fashion crowd, Zegna fashion offered iced coffee and linen baseball caps to keep things cool.
With temperatures rising, Milan designers focused on fluidity in dressing, allowing the body to move without constrictions. With one notable dissenter, runways offered thigh-revealing Bermuda shorts as an alternative to trousers even for city dressing. Gone are the long shorts of streetwear brands.
Some highlights from the final day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly menswear previews for next spring and summer:
Giorgio Armani’s signature collection was meant to show the fashion public how the urban man ought to dress, even in the heat of summer.
“I didn’t do any Bermudas,’’ Armani noted after the runway show in his central Milan villa. “Bermudas imply being at the beach, and going around on vacation.”
Still, he conceded that a front-row influencer wearing Bermuda shorts at his morning show had done so elegantly.
The 88-year-old designer said his designs start with a pencil and a blank piece of paper — a work process that was underlined by a large sharpened pencil that served as a backdrop for the runway show. His Giorgio signature was cast on the back wall.
Jackets finished most looks, soft and hanging loosely, which Armani said was a nod to Asian elegance. Prints on silken shirts, jackets and trousers recalled weaving, echoed in the espadrilles and fishermen sandals. Straw brimmed Panama hats, meant for holidays, were more often carried than worn. The color palate progressed from washed out cream, tan and sage to black and navy — at times offset by flashes of red.
Armani defused the formality of the tailoring with linen, and by keeping jackets and blazers mostly unbuttoned, so a double-breasted jacket “is no longer a double-breasted jacket,’’ Armani said.
“It is a way of dressing that is at once both elegant and comfortable,” he said. “That is why the jackets.”
The collection closed with four boardroom looks: formal dark suits, white shirts and ties. “This is to remind everyone that this is how a man dresses,’’ Armani said.
Indian designer Dhruv Kapoor’s collections are not just about style, they are about elevating the wearer’s emotions, helping them to dream bigger. It’s a lofty ambition, fitting with Kapoor’s notion that apparel, with a tweak here and there, can tap the universe’s energy.
To point, Kapoor showed spring-summer 2024 runway collection in a blue room, meant to have a calming effect.
A red jacket fires up emotions. Prints are inspired by crop circles, “which I read recently just by looking at that pattern will imprint certain things in your head, which you are going to use when the time is right for you,’’ Kapoor said backstage.
The co-ed collection was modular with a loose, easy-to-wear silhouette. For him, a pleated kilt is worn over trousers, worn with a beaded star-burst studded jacket. The same star-burst appeared on a straight skirt for her, worn with a sci-fi print sweatshirt. Three bowling-style shirts are inspired by the covers of 1970s science fiction book
“We want you to feel good when you put it on,’’ he said. “They won’t even know what has happened. But we have done a little tweak from the back.”
Alessandro Sartori’s collection for Zegna was a meditative study of minimalist separates, in natural shades that easily mix and match.
The new Zegna “basics” included sleeveless tops and tunics, zipped collared jackets with three-quarter sleeves, notch lapel jackets with sleeves worn rolled up to show silken lining, boxy jerseys as well as jackets with neither lapel or collar. Occasionally styled with a wrapped foulard, these tops were worn with crisply creased loose trousers, or Bermuda short. Looks were finished with dark socks and rubber-soled footwear.
“There are new shapes for a wardrobe of simple garments, but inside they are very technical,’’ Sartori said.
For the color palette, ivory faded into a fleeting mint; a faded rose contrasted with bright flamingo, followed by Zegna mainstays ebony and khaki.
Linen is at the heart of the collection, as testified by the nearly 200 bales of raw linen transported from fields in Normandy, and which are destined to be transformed into Zegna’s Oasi Linen at the brand’s Italian factories. Zegna said in press notes that it is committed to having the origin and production path of all of its linen traceable by next year.
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2023-06-19T18:20:36+00:00
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Breanna Stewart couldn’t turn down a chance to play in New York and potentially help the Liberty win their first WNBA championship.
The most coveted free agent this offseason, who won the WNBA MVP award in 2018, announced on social media that she was going to New York with a photo of her in a Liberty shirt on Wednesday. Stewart had spent her entire career in Seattle since the Storm drafted her No. 1 overall in 2016. She won championships with the team in 2018 and 2020.
“I decided to go to New York as I wanted to continue to be great. And I wanted to go to the place where I think I can help this league become better, to raise the standard,” Stewart said in an interview on ESPN. “I feel like why not go to the biggest market in all of sports. I’m excited to go after their first championship.”
The 28-year-old wing has averaged 20.3 points and 8.6 rebounds in her WNBA career. She missed the 2019 season with an Achilles tendon injury.
“New York is a basketball city and I can’t wait to be a part of it,” Stewart said.
Coming to New York brings Stewart closer to home. She grew up in Syracuse, which is an hourlong flight away. She’ll also have a shorter flight to Spain to visit relatives of her wife, Marta.
New York representatives, including coach Sandy Brondello and co-owner Clara Wu Tsai met with Stewart in Turkey last week. Stewart had narrowed her choices to Seattle and New York before choosing the Liberty.
The move turns the Liberty into an instant championship contender. New York, one of the WNBA’s original franchises, has never won a championship. The Liberty already added 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones and Kayla Thornton through a three-way deal to complement 2020 No. 1 draft pick Sabrina Ionescu.
“I think this group has a ton of potential, a lot of amazing players,” Stewart said. “The selflessness helps us set ourselves apart from everyone else.”
The news was met with elation on social media by Jones, Ionescu and Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant, who said on a podcast that he had reached out to Stewart to get her to come to New York.
Stewart was the second big-name free agent to announce her intentions to play for another team. Candace Parker said last weekend she was going to sign with the Las Vegas Aces and did so on Wednesday.
“As I’ve gone through free agency this time around, of course I’m thinking of where I can compete for my third championship, but the words home and family are what I kept coming back to,” said Parker, a longtime Southern California resident. “After evaluating the landscape together with my family, we’ve decided the Las Vegas Aces are the right organization for us at this point in our lives. To play for a championship close to home is the perfect situation for us. I’m looking forward to continuing the journey this summer in Las Vegas.”
Wednesday was the first day that free agents could sign contracts. Other moves announced included:
— Brittney Sykes and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough with Washington.
— Lexie Brown and Stephanie Talbot with Los Angeles.
— Teaira McCowan with Dallas.
— Alysha Clark and Cayla George with Las Vegas.
— AD Durr and Nia Coffey with Atlanta.
Many free agents were waiting for Stewart to make her decision, including Courtney Vandersloot.
Vandersloot announced on social media late Tuesday night that she wasn’t returning to Chicago, where she had spent her entire career. She has led the league in assists six times during her 12-year career and helped the Sky win the 2021 WNBA championship.
“To the Sky organization who drafted the little guard from a mid-major and believed in me from the jump, I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” Vandersloot wrote on Instagram. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have realized my dreams because of you. Although I never planned for this day to come, I have decided it is time for me to pursue a new beginning.”
Stewart and Vandersloot are currently playing together in Turkey.
“My message to Sloot is she knows I love to play with her, but I’m going to support her in any decision she makes,” Stewart said. “Free agency is hard. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster for everybody. It’s not only basketball these decisions are made behind. It’s life.”
While Stewart and Vandersloot will be playing for different WNBA teams, Brittney Griner, who is also a free agent, announced in December when she returned home from her 10-month ordeal in Russia that she planned to remain with the Phoenix Mercury. Her long-time Mercury teammate Diana Taurasi is also a free agent, but she too is expected to go back to Phoenix.
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Albert Varelas, 34, is accused of making threats against Santa Maria police and their families
A Santa Maria man pleaded not guilty Tuesday for the second time to felony charges that he made criminal threats against the lives of Santa Maria police officers and their families and stalked them.
Albert Varelas, 34, already pleaded not guilty after his initial arraignment following his arrest on Feb. 18. Since then, a preliminary hearing judge found that prosecutors presented enough evidence against him that the case should proceed to trial.
Defendants are given a second chance to enter a plea after their preliminary hearing.
“Mr. Varelas was arraigned on the Information (called a complaint before a preliminary hearing) … and in California a defendant has a right to a trial within 60 days of the arraignment on an Information unless the defendant waives time,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott E. Donahue said.
“Mr. Varelas did not waive time, and consequently a trial will need to commence no longer than 60 days from today, and the judge wants to ensure we have enough time to set a trial date if needed.”
Mr. Varelas is due back in court on April 6 to set a trial date.
That might not be necessary — at least not yet — because the defendant is challenging the preliminary hearing judge’s ruling that he should stand trial.
He filed a motion for a different judge than the one who presided at his preliminary hearing to review the hearing transcripts “and make a determination whether there was sufficient evidence presented …” Prosecutor Donahue said.
A hearing on that motion was set for April 19.
“Once the judge hears that motion and if that judge also feels enough evidence (was) presented at the preliminary examination, then the case would proceed to trial if the parties do not reach an agreement,” the prosecutor said.
On the other hand, the reviewing judge could grant the defense motion as to some or all of the charges.
“We would then proceed with prosecution on the remaining charges, if any, or we could dismiss the entire case and refile it,” according to Supervising Deputy District Attorney Lara Clinton.
“Either side could request the Court of Appeal review the decision on the … motion by filing a writ of mandate,” she said.
The complaint filed against Mr. Varelas alleges that between Jan. 24 and Feb. 17, he threatened to commit a crime against police officers “which would result in death and great bodily injury,” and that the alleged crime was made “with the specific intent that the statement be taken as a threat.”
His alleged threat against the officers and their families “was so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate and specific as to convey to the victim a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution,” the complaint said.
“It is further alleged that the said victim was reasonably in sustained fear of his/her safety and the safety of his/her immediate family,” the complaint said.
The complaint alleges that Mr. Varelas backed up his threats in that he “willfully, maliciously and repeatedly” followed and harassed Santa Maria police officers.
The complaint notes that Mr. Varelas already has a prior serious felony conviction on his record, considered his first strike under the three strikes law.
He was arrested on Feb. 18 after the alleged threat came to light the night before, when Santa Maria police received information regarding police officers and their families being threatened on social media posts, Sgt. Daniel Rios said in a police department news brief posted online.
Officers initiated an investigation, and Mr. Varelas was identified as a suspect, Sgt. Rios said. Mr. Varelas’ social media account was also located.
During the initial police investigation, several more social media posts allegedly were made by Mr. Varelas and observed by officers in real time involving further threats against Santa Maria police officers and family members, Sgt. Rios said.
Mr. Varelas’ alleged threats referenced previous police contact and current threats to “kill” officers and family members, Sgt. Rios said.
Further investigation confirmed that Mr. Varelas was allegedly targeting and stalking officers’ homes in the Santa Maria area, Sgt. Rios said.
Detectives tracked him down and arrested him without incident.
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An investigation of Pennsylvania county jails found that corrections officers often use physical force on people in psychological crisis or who are unable to comply due to a mental health condition.
WITF’s Brett Sholtis reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Volunteers in Colorado Springs have spent the last 9 days helping to clean up waterways in El Paso, Teller, and Pueblo Counties. It's a part of the annual creek week clean-up by the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District partners along with local organizations like the Pikes Peak Litter Letter Project.
It started with 625 volunteers in 2014 and has grown to over a thousand now helping out.
According to their website, it's common for trash and debris to end up in waterways, clogging drainage systems, affecting water quality, and impacting wildlife. Creek Week is an opportunity for the community to come together to continue to keep our natural landscapes clear of litter.
KOAA News5 spoke with one Organizer and Activity Leader for Fountain and UpaDowna Clean Ups who told us we can all do our part to help any time of the year.
"Anybody can clean up, just like when you go for a walk bring a trash bag along with you,' said Brittany Fechko, 'When you take out your trash if it's a windy day make sure it's locked up because a lot of the trash we see in our neighborhoods is just from trash cans that get blown over, things like that. Anybody can make a difference we don't have to have litter around town."
If you're interested in learning more about Creek Week, you can visit their website at fountain-crk.org and for information on the Pikes Peak Litter Letter Project.
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FTX lawyer: ‘Substantial amount’ of assets has been stolen
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for FTX disclosed Tuesday that a “substantial amount” of assets has been stolen from the accounts of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, diminishing the odds that its millions of investors will get their money back.
The admission came during FTX’s first court appearance since the company filed for bankruptcy protection on November 11. Such hearings typically happen days after a filing, but this one was delayed because FTX’s collapse came suddenly and management kept few if any records.
“This company was run by inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially personally compromised individuals,” said James Bromley, a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm hired by FTX’s debt holders to navigate the company through bankruptcy. “It is one of the most abrupt and difficult company collapses in the history of corporate America.”
FTX, short billions of dollars, sought bankruptcy protection after the exchange experienced the crypto equivalent of a bank run. The company estimates that there are more than 100,000 claims against it so far, and that number is likely to rise to above 1 million once the bankruptcy case is settled.
However getting all those funds back has become increasingly difficult. In the days after FTX’s collapse, hundreds of millions of dollars of cryptocurrencies were moved out of FTX’s accounts and into other cryptocurrency wallets. While there had been some reports that a portion of those funds may have been seized by the government of the Bahamas— where FTX is headquartered — as part of its own investigation, the bulk of those cryptocurrencies have been moving through various different wallets, in what appears to be the crypto equivalent of money laundering.
In court, FTX’s lawyers admitted that a “substantial amount” of assets had been stolen from FTX accounts.
“We understand the concern and outrage, and we are working day and night to bring order to disorder,” Bromley said.
FTX’s bankruptcy has generated substantial interest beyond just cryptocurrency investors. The company had major sports sponsorships as well, including deals with Formula One racing and Major League Baseball. FTX had the naming rights to a sports arena in Miami, and several celebrities were either invested in FTX or did sponsorship deals with the company.
Nearly 700 individuals were in the Zoom meeting room for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey on Tuesday, and the hearing was also streamed on YouTube.
Judge Dorsey did temporarily grant FTX one order that had generated some controversy: redacting the names and addresses of FTX’s client list. Typically in bankruptcy law, all claims against a bankrupt company are public. But FTX’s lawyers argued that protecting the identities of FTX’s clients — at least on an interim basis — was necessary to avoid potential future thefts of FTX’s accounts.
Dorsey granted temporary redaction of FTX customers’ names and information, with the expectation of releasing those names once the case finalizes.
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County Attorney Rachel Mitchell reduces case backlog, but challenges remain
The Maricopa County attorney says she has more than halved the case backlog she inherited when taking office last year, but challenges remain, mostly caused by staffing levels and workloads.
When County Attorney Rachel Mitchell took office in spring 2022, more than 10,400 felony and misdemeanor cases submitted by law enforcement were waiting to be reviewed. As of May 2023, the County Attorney's Office reported 3,976 felony submittals and 528 misdemeanor submittals pending review, for a total of 4,504 backlogged cases.
The backlog, which grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, has left victims and the potentially accused in limbo.
Law enforcement agencies conduct investigations and refer recommended charges to the County Attorney's Office. There, prosecutors decide what charges to file in court, if any.
When someone arrested and held in jail, the County Attorney's Office must file charges within 48 hours of an initial court appearance. In cases involving a person who is not arrested, state law does not establish a deadline for prosecutors to issue a charging decision. State law caps the statute of limitations on most felonies at seven years, and at one year for most misdemeanors.
That is where the County Attorney's Office ran into trouble during the lockdown.
Under former County Attorney Allister Adel, the office was forced to drop 180 criminal cases in 2022 after it neglected to file charges for more than a year. The misdemeanor cases included drunken driving, domestic violence, assaults and criminal damage. Most were referred by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in 2020.
Her successor, Mitchell, promised during the 2022 election campaign to fix that problem. In an interview with The Arizona Republic, she said her goal by the end of this year is to review the majority of cases within 90 days.
Mitchell said low staffing was the main reason for the backlog. On taking office, she said there was a nearly 20% staff vacancy rate, which her administration has cut to 6%.
She said the unresolved backlogged cases run the gamut of crimes, including drug possession, car theft and sexual assault. Jennifer Liewer, Mitchell's chief of staff, said there was no pattern to the problem.
"It was all types of cases from across the office. The whole process had a backlog. To pinpoint certain crimes would be confusing," Liewer told The Republic.
Mitchell said, for example, 800 aggravated DUI cases had been reviewed and charging decisions were made but not filed in court. Mitchell said during the pandemic, the County Attorney's Office was not able to enter all the cases into the court system because the courts were backlogged, too.
“These are people who are potentially getting behind the wheel while impaired, so we worked with the clerk's office and we started feeding them in week by week last summer," Liewer said.
Liewer said after a case from the backlog is charged, court officials send certified mail to the last known address of defendant with a summons.
Jennifer Rock, an attorney manager at the Maricopa County Public Defender's Office, said one recurring issue has been faulty address information. People move frequently. The County Attorney's Office is not being diligent enough in the search for current address information when issuing a summons, Rock said, which results in more warrants being issued because people don't respond to the summons.
"The summons has really stale information about the defendant's location, and so then they're getting arrested," Rock said.
"It's not our default to seek a warrant," Mitchell said. "In these cases, even if they do go to a warrant, the defendant can still petition the court to revisit the bond, and the courts could look at those circumstances, like if a person had moved to a new address."
"Issuance of a summons is the preferred method initially, but if people are unlocatable, a warrant may be issued," Liewer said.
A lapse in time can also make it more difficult for defendants and prosecutors to conduct interviews and verify information. For victims, delayed charges lead to delayed judgments, which could involve delayed restitution, and the backlog delays victims' sense of justice and closure.
Liewer said MCAO is continuing to make headway at reducing the case backlog, but it is challenging, as staff continue to receive new referrals from police agencies every year. In the past 12 months, Liewer said more than 55,000 total submittals, including felonies, misdemeanors, and juvenile cases, came into the County Attorney's Office for review.
"We're never not going to have a backlog, but we want to reduce it so things can be done in a reasonable amount of time," Liewer said.
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2023-06-23T15:49:56+00:00
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azcentral.com
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/06/23/maricopa-county-attorney-cuts-pandemic-era-case-backlog-in-half/70304404007/
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest began in Key West Thursday, marking the 123rd anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s July 21 birth.
This year’s competition attracted 135 portly, bearded men, who are endeavoring to prove their likeness to the famed American author. The contest is a highlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days festivities, staged to celebrate the creative talent and colorful lifestyle of the man who lived and wrote on the island for most of the 1930s.
Thursday night’s entrants paraded across the stage at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, where Hemingway and his cohorts often met for drinks, before a judging panel of former contest winners.
Most had full beards and wore sportsman’s attire, seemingly emulating the “Papa” persona adopted by Hemingway in his later years.
On Thursday morning, a group of look-alikes helped release a 185-pound (83-kilogram) rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle, coincidentally dubbed “Papa” when it was rescued after being entangled in fishing line, off the Florida Keys’ Sombrero Beach in Marathon.
The look-alike contest’s second preliminary round is set for Friday, and the 2022 winner is set to be chosen Saturday night.
Late Wednesday, Nick Henke of St. Louis, Missouri, was named the winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. His entry, “A Lot of Carrefours,” triumphed over 775 other American and international submissions, judged by Ernest Hemingway’s author granddaughter.
Hemingway Days continues through Sunday with events including an offbeat “Running of the Bulls” spoof and the Key West Marlin Tournament.
While living in Key West during most of the 1930s, Hemingway wrote classics including “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”
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2022-07-22T22:44:22+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/annual-hemingway-look-alike-contest-begins-in-florida-keys/
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Jalique Rosemond told Atlanta News First that he was approached by two white men outside of his off-campus apartment on Saturday (January 21) night.
The men accused him of driving recklessly and proceeded to call him racial slurs, Rosemond said.
“They still continued to say racial slurs, they referred to me as black boy multiple times,” he said.
Rosemond alleged that the two men then physically attacked him in what he said was a hate crime.
“They did hit me, which lead me to bump into their Jeep, which later caused me to fall to the ground,” Rosemond said. “They kicked me in my nose and fractured, broke my nose.”
The Kennesaw student said he was eventually able to escape and knocked on his roommate’s window for help.
According to Atlanta News First, surveillance video caught what appears to be part of the encounter. Kennesaw officers who responded to the scene spoke to witnesses, with one claiming that a white male was looking for help following the incident.
Rosemond and his roommate said he was the sole victim.
“I want justice for my friend. I want justice for other people because too many situations happen in Kennesaw and people don’t know about it,” Rosemond’s roommate, Chief, said.
Anyone who was there that night should call investigators at 770-429-4533, per Kennesaw Police.
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2023-01-27T16:46:22+00:00
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atlantadailyworld.com
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https://atlantadailyworld.com/2023/01/27/kennesaw-state-university-student-says-he-was-beaten-called-racial-slurs/
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Police are looking for an endangered teenager who is missing from Thornton.
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Keep an eye out for Ivan, to help us return him home safely. If you've seen Ivan, know his whereabouts, or have any information, call 911 or Thornton PD at (720) 977-5150. https://t.co/uWz1aOrBVo— Thornton Police Dept (@ThorntonPolice) March 3, 2023
Ivan Benjamin Redhorn, 17, was last seen on Feb. 22 in the 9100 block of Grant Street, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
“He is originally from Montana and is not familiar with Colorado and may be in crisis,” a CBI endangered missing alert said.
Redhorn is described as a Native American of the Blackfoot Tribe. He has black hair and brown eyes, is 6’1″ tall and 160 pounds. The missing teenager was last seen wearing a gray sweater, blue jeans and a green hospital gown.
“Authorities are concerned for his safety,” the CBI said.
Anyone who has seen Redhorn, or who knows of his whereabouts, is asked to 911 or the Thornton Police Department at 720-977-5150.
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2023-03-04T00:11:25+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/03/missing-indigenous-person-ivan-benjamin-redhorn-thornton/
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez: A love story 20+ years in the making
Should we really be surprised by Bennifer 2.0 given that Jennifer Lopez's 2002 album, "This Is Me...Then," contained a heartfelt single titled, "Dear Ben"?
As Lopez and Ben Affleck are now newlyweds, let's take a look back the duo's history.
December 2001
Lopez and Affleck met on the set of the rom-com "Gigli," where they played criminals stuck on a job together and the pair strike up real-life friendship.
April 2002
Speculation that Ben and Jen may be more than just friends began after he took out a full page ad in trade publications to both promote their film and praise her performance.
"It has been nothing but an honor and a pleasure to work with you," the ad read. "I only wish I were lucky enough to be in all your movies." Signed: "With love, respect, and gratitude, Ben Affleck."
July 2002
Lopez and Cris Judd file for divorce during the summer of 2002, but have reportedly been split for a bit by then.
"Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd have announced they have resolved all issues arising out of their marriage," the couple's lawyers say a statement at the time. "The resolution was extremely amicable . . . The two will remain friends."
August 2002
Paparazzi photos began circulating of Lopez and Affleck smooching.
November 2002
The couple get engaged after Affleck pops the question with a magnificent, custom 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Harry Winston.
He also appears as Lopez's love interest in the music video for her single "Jenny From the Block," the storyline of which takes on the paparazzi treatment of their relationship.
In the video, Affleck -- literally -- kisses her famous booty in a scene of the couple on a yacht.
March 2003
Lopez and Affleck make a stunning pair on the red carpet at the 75th Annual Academy Awards.
July 2003
The couple attend the premiere of their "Gigli" film, which eventually bombs at the box office.
September 2003
Days before the pair are set to wed, they postpone their nuptials and release the following statement:
"Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date. When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate 'decoy brides' at three different locations, we realized that something was awry. We began to feel that the spirit of what should have been the happiest day of our lives could be compromised. We felt what should have been a joyful and sacred day could be spoiled for us, our families and our friends."
Sources told CNN at the time that the couple was "taking a break."
January 2004
The duo officially called off their engagement and split.
March 2004
Another film in which the two co-starred together, "Jersey Girl," is released and underwhelms at the box office.
June 2004
Lopez married friend, singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins -- a son and a daughter.
In her 2014 book, "True Love," Lopez reportedly wrote that the end of her relationship with Affleck was her first "real heartbreak" and "Marc came back into my life three days after I should have been at the altar saying 'I do' to another man."
June 2005
A year later, Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner in a private ceremony. They go on to have three children together.
July 2011
Fans are stunned when Lopez and Anthony announce they are separating. He filed for divorce in April 2012.
July 2015
There's even more shock when Garner and Affleck announce their split. Their official divorce filing came two years later.
"They remain friends and continue to co-parent their three kids amicably," a source close to the couple told CNN at the time. "They had always planned to divorce but just needed time. As always, their children are their first priority."
March 2019
Lopez and former baseball player Alex Rodriguez become engaged, two years after they started dating and 20 years after she autographed a poster for the self-avowed Lopez fan.
February 2020
Affleck raved about Lopez to CNN while promoting his film, "The Way Back."
He said he has no regrets about making "Gigli" because "I made a great friendship with Jennifer Lopez, who I think is a fabulous person and I'm so excited for her continued success."
"I don't think she always got the respect that she deserved, in part, because she was a powerful woman," he said. "And also because she was a Latina and she was really groundbreaking and nobody wanted to acknowledge that. They just wanted to kind of hate, so it's nice to see her having that success."
March 2021
Some confusion as Lopez and Rodriguez reportedly split, only to say days later in a statement that they were still a couple after all.
April 2021
Rodriguez and Lopez formally announced their engagement was called off.
They released the following statement.
"We have realized we are better as friends and look forward to remaining so. We will continue to work together and support each other on our shared businesses and projects. We wish the best for each other and one another's children. Out of respect for them, the only other comment we have to say is thank you to everyone who has sent kind words and support."
Soon after, Affleck was photographed visiting Lopez's Los Angeles home.
July 2021
The summer heated up after Lopez and Affleck made their reunion and relationship Instagram official.
September 2021
Paparazzi (and fans) went wild when the pair returned to the red carpet for the premiere of his film "The Last Duel" at the Venice Film Festival in Italy.
December 2021
Affleck expressed his gratitude for second chances in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, calling his and Lopez's rekindled romance "beautiful."
"And, you know, one of the things I really value across all facets of my life now is that it was handled in a way that reflected that," he said. "My life now reflects not just the person that I want to be, but the person that I really feel like I am -- which is not perfect, but somebody who tries very hard and cares very much about being honest and authentic and accountable. It's hard to say who benefits more, without going into gossipy detail."
February 2022
Lopez too was seemingly thrilled about their reconciliation.
"I feel so lucky and happy and proud to be with him," Lopez told People magazine about reuniting with Affleck. "It's a beautiful love story that we got a second chance."
April 2022
The pair get engaged again after Affleck surprises Lopez with a proposal while she was in the bathtub.
July 2022
Lopez and Affleck eloped by traveling to Las Vegas with their children where they stood in line with other couples to be wed at a chapel in the desert city.
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2022-07-18T17:53:39+00:00
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kcra.com
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https://www.kcra.com/article/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-love-story/40641841
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As the United States was preparing for its game Friday against England at Wembley Stadium, players were trying to process an investigation that found emotional abuse and sexual misconduct are systemic in women’s soccer.
“We are horrified and heartbroken and frustrated and exhausted and really, really angry,” said defender Becky Sauerbrunn.
Former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and the law firm of King & Spaulding released a report Monday after being retained by U.S. Soccer to investigate allegations of abuse in the National Women’s Soccer League following a series of scandals last year.
The NWSL and its players association are conducting another investigation.
Five of 10 NWSL coaches either were fired or stepped down last season amid allegations of misconduct. Among them was North Carolina Courage coach Paul Riley, who was dismissed after two former players, Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly, accused him of sexual coercion and harassment dating back a decade. Riley denied the allegations.
Yates’ report focused on three former coaches, including Riley. Not only did the investigation find misconduct by all three, it also said their teams did not fully cooperate.
“I think for so long this has fallen on the players to demand change. That is because the people in authority and decision-making positions have repeatedly failed to protect us and they have failed to hold themselves and each other accountable. Who are you actually protecting and what values are you upholding? You have failed in your stewardship,” Sauerbrunn said. “And it’s my opinion that every owner and executive and U.S. Soccer official who has repeatedly failed the players and failed to protect the players, who have hidden behind legalities and have not participated fully in these investigations, should be gone.”
As Sauerbrunn was speaking in London, her NWSL team, the Portland Thorns, announced owner Merritt Paulson, general manager Gavin Wilkinson and executive Mike Golub would immediately withdraw from any Thorns-related decision-making until the league investigation is complete.
Farrelly and Shim played for the Thorns when Riley was coach from 2014-15. At the time, the Thorns conducted an internal investigation of the allegations and decided not to renew Riley’s contract. But no reason for the decision was made public and Riley went on to coach elsewhere in the league.
Sauerbrunn was asked about increasing pressure on Paulson to sell the team. She said it was her belief the NWSL’s joint investigation would make its own recommendation as far as discipline.
“I don’t know if anything is going to come out in this other report that’s going to make any sort of difference. And so at the end of the day, if people continue to fail the players and they don’t comply to anything that gets asked of them or gets implemented because of these reports, then they need to be gone,” Sauerbrunn said.
Some of the details in Yates’ report were disturbing.
“I think we’re all reckoning with the things that were said in the report. Still kind of working through that, in all the ways that we individually do,” said defender Alana Cook, who plays for OL Reign. “I think we have such a momentous occasion on Friday playing at a sold out Wembley Stadium, and it’s marred by this report, and it’s marred by the atrocities that have been condoned and tolerated and allowed to go on.”
The report made numerous recommendations to prioritize player health and safety. Among them is the requirement that teams accurately disclose coach misconduct to the league and the soccer federation to ensure coaches aren’t allowed to move between teams. It also calls for meaningful vetting of coaches and timely investigations into allegations of abuse.
U.S. Soccer also said it would immediately implement programs to protect players.
“It was a difficult day, yesterday, lots of emotions, different emotions. Personally, I’m saddened by the report in everything that we saw in it,” U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said. “At the same time, I feel a lot of empathy for the players, and I have tremendous respect for the bravery of the players who spoke out and the players who participated in this report. Soccer is is a game we all love and it should be a safe space.”
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2022-10-05T15:00:30+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/ap-us-players-horrified-by-report-of-abuse-in-womens-soccer/
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Jim Von Stein, 70, who made his living installing air conditioning systems, talks to his son Jason about the songs he's written that few people have heard. He's written more than 8,000 to date.
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Jim Von Stein, 70, who made his living installing air conditioning systems, talks to his son Jason about the songs he's written that few people have heard. He's written more than 8,000 to date.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-03-10T14:04:59+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/2023-03-10/a-father-and-son-in-rural-tennessee-look-back-on-a-life-filled-with-music
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Tomorrow, Turkish voters go to the polls in a runoff election between the two-top vote getters for president, the incumbent President Erdogan and veteran politician Kemal Kilicdaroglu. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that two issues have dominated the campaign - migrants from Syria and elsewhere and extreme inflation.
PETER KENYON, BYLINE: Standing on an Istanbul street corner, it's not hard to find people with strong opinions about this election. Like most of those interviewed for this story, 52-year-old Dilek didn't want her family name used. She's worried about possible official retaliation for speaking to foreign media about the upcoming vote. Talking to Dilek, it's not hard to see how migrants, especially Syrians, became a hot election topic. Millions of Syrians fled conflict at home more than a decade ago, only to discover that Europe had closed the borders and was paying Turkey to keep them. Dilek says she's had enough. She sees a country that's losing its national identity.
DILEK: (Through interpreter) Coming from home to here, I didn't see many Turks on the road. Syrians, Afghans, Arabs, that's all. Right and left, they speak in foreign languages. No one speaks Turkish. And this won't get better. It will get worse. The more they vote, the more Tayyip will give them.
KENYON: Under Turkish law, migrants wouldn't be able to vote unless they became Turkish citizens. And judging by their campaign statements, both Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu are committed to sending migrants home. Both have been endorsed by a Turkish ultranationalist party that's calling for tough anti-migrant measures. Kilicdaroglu has cut his self-imposed deadline for repatriating Syrian migrants from two years to one.
The other big issue on a lot of minds is the economy, which has been staggering under the weight of soaring inflation. Standing outside a currency exchange office, I meet Osman, who's keeping an anxious eye on the exchange rate between the slumping lira and Western currencies, something a lot of people are doing these days. Osman starts off talking about Kilicdaroglu but quickly shifts to Erdogan, though he doesn't use the president's name. He just calls him the man.
OSMAN: (Through interpreter) I hope Kilicdaroglu will win, but I doubt he will. After 20 long years in power, somehow the man will still not let go. His past is dark, if you know what I mean.
KENYON: When asked what he thinks, another five years in power for Erdogan would mean for the country, Osman doesn't hesitate, saying he doesn't think Erdogan's government would last for another five years.
OSMAN: (Through interpreter) I don't think it will be for another five years. I think it will collapse in a year or two because the economy won't hold, and the markets are bad. According to classic economic theory, it is not sustainable. But we will see.
KENYON: Many economists blame Erdogan's unorthodox economic views for the sagging economy's woes. Analyst Selim Koru at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey says if Erdogan does win, people inside Turkey and in capitals around the world will have a pretty good idea of what to expect - a deepening of the vision for Turkey's future that Erdogan has spent two decades shaping.
SELIM KORU: He has a very clear, I think, political vision for Turkey, which is a very sort of pious, homogenous, hierarchical place that's fiercely competitive. That's the spirit he's looking for, a very competitive nation on the global scale.
KENYON: On Sunday, Erdogan will find out if voters still support that vision and whether they still think he's the one to deliver it.
Peter Kenyon, NPR News, Istanbul. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2023-05-31T19:33:29+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-05-27/whats-at-stake-in-turkeys-runoff-election
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blacksmith Medicines, Inc. (Blacksmith), a leading biopharma dedicated to discovering and developing medicines targeting metalloenzymes, today announced additions to its science advisory team to help advance its emerging precision oncology programs focused on novel synthetic lethality targets involved in the DNA Damage Response.
Additions to Blacksmith's oncology scientific advisors include:
- Neil Gibson, Ph.D. Experienced cancer drug developer. Former head of Pfizer Oncology and developer of four FDA-approved cancer drugs
- Jeff Hager, Ph.D. Synthetic lethal & DNA Damage Response expert. Executive-in-Residence at Boxer Capital, co-founder of IDEAYA Biosciences, and advisor to numerous oncology-focused companies
- Chris Lord, D.Phil Prominent cancer genetics researcher and expert in synthetic lethality. Professor of Cancer Genomics, Institute of Cancer Research, UK, Head, CRUK Gene Function Laboratory and part of the team that identified the BRCA/PARP synthetic lethal relationship
- Mark Whittaker, D.Phil Metalloenzyme drug discovery expert. Former Evotec Head of Oncology and Director of Chemistry at British Biotech
"We are honored to work with such an outstanding group of biotechnology leaders on our oncology scientific advisors board, who share our passion to develop novel medicines against undrugged metalloenzyme targets with next-generation chemistries," said Zachary Zimmerman, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Blacksmith. "These well-recognized advisors have expertise in key scientific areas that will be invaluable as we advance our platform and programs, including oncology drug development, synthetic lethality, DNA damage repair, cancer genetics and metalloenzyme discovery. We look forward to their contributions as we grow Blacksmith and expand on our capabilities in precision oncology."
At Blacksmith Medicines, we are developing medicines targeting metal-dependent enzymes. Over 30% of known enzymes are metalloenzymes, covering all major enzyme classes: oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases, lyases, isomerases, and ligases. Metal ions, including magnesium, zinc, iron, manganese and copper, are the essential ingredient in these metalloenzymes. We recognized a large unmet need for new chemical matter and innovative approaches to drug this important class of enzymes. Our purpose-built platform for metalloenzyme-targeted medicines combines, for the first time in industry, a focused library of metal-binding pharmacophores with proprietary computational modeling approaches to rapidly and rationally design small molecule inhibitors that interact with key metal ions in the enzyme's active site. Our comprehensive knowledge of the metal environment and key active site interactions enables Blacksmith to rapidly build potent and selective inhibitors in a stepwise and predictable manner.
For further information, please visit the company's website at www.BlacksmithMedicines.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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2023-01-05T15:19:31+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/05/blacksmith-medicines-announces-oncology-scientific-advisors/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week.
A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday.
The seized records include some that were marked classified as top secret and also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation's most important secrets and those that if revealed publicly would harm U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about the documents or what information they might contain.
The warrant details that federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The property receipt also showed federal agents collected other potential presidential records, including the order pardoning Trump ally Roger Stone, a “leatherbound box of documents,” and information about the “President of France.” A binder of photos, a handwritten note, “miscellaneous secret documents” and “miscellaneous confidential documents” were also seized in the search.
Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, who was present at Mar-a-Lago when the agents conducted the search, signed both property receipts — one that was two pages long and another that is a single page.
In a statement earlier Friday, Trump claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned over the documents to the Justice Department if asked.
While incumbent presidents have the power to declassify information, that authority lapses as soon as they leave office and it was not clear if the documents in question have ever been declassified. Trump also kept possession of the documents despite multiple requests from agencies, including the National Archives, to turn over presidential records in accordance with federal law.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the same judge who signed off on the search warrant, unsealed the warrant and property receipt Friday at the request of the Justice Department after Attorney General Merrick Garland declared there was “substantial public interest in this matter,” and Trump backed the warrant’s “immediate” release. The Justice Department told the judge Friday afternoon that Trump’s lawyers did not object to the proposal to make it public.
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”
Trump himself had been given at least some of the records the government was seeking to unseal, but he and his lawyers have declined, so far, to make them public.
The Justice Department's request is striking because such documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
The information was released as( Trump prepares for another run for the White House. During his 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one's home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Trump nor the FBI has said anything about what documents the FBI might have recovered, or what precisely agents were looking for.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of the inquiries and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right." The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court's functions.
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. The National Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Meg Kinnard contributed to this report.
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2022-08-12T20:29:39+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/fbi-seized-top-secret-documents-from-trump-home/U3UV6UCURVHZDAFGK6NRLYCLUY/
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INDIANAPOLIS – After a foggy and warm start, it will be a hot and humid day with temperatures climbing close to 90°. We keep the summer heat before temperatures drop behind a cold front!
Hot & humid Tuesday
For the rest of your Tuesday, temperatures will climb into the upper 80s and lower 90s for some under a mix of sun and clouds. It will be very summer-like too with humid conditions during the day. An evening shower cannot be completely ruled out. Overnight lows will drop into the upper 60s and lower 70s.
Next rain chances, temperatures tumble
A cold front will come through Wednesday afternoon into the evening, bringing scattered showers and storm chances. A few could bring some gusty winds to central Indiana. Behind that front will be fall-like temperatures just in time for the first day of fall. Temperatures will drop 20° from Wednesday to Thursday. Wednesday’s highs will be in the lower 90s.
First day of fall forecast
Thursday is the first official day of fall! Fall starts at 9:04 p.m. Thursday evening. Temperatures will stay in the upper 60s and lower 70s, below average for this time of year! Overnight lows have the potential for dropping into the upper 40s by Friday morning!
Seasonal into the weekend
Looking ahead to the weekend, temperatures will remain in the middle and upper 70s with a mix of sun and clouds. A few models are hinting at some shower chances, we will keep you posted in the days to come.
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2022-09-20T17:21:22+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/weather/big-temperature-swings-coming-some-rain-chances/
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's leading silk brand LILYSILK is thrilled to announce that the company is celebrating its 12-year growth during which it has strengthened the brand's identity as a silk garment expert and innovator committed to creating ultra-comfortable and chic womenswear using luxurious silk fabrics.
The new milestone is marked by a reimagined logo featuring a lily crown with two floating letters "S" wrapping around the "I" that symbolizes a women figure. The new curvy icon celebrates feminine beauty illuminating with a silky elegance and heralds a new chapter for LILYSILK as it continues to make the best silk products for customers worldwide.
"It's been an amazing 12 years, thanks to the support from our customers and partners who helped us leap from one achievement to the next. We want to thank you all for being with us every step along the way," says David Wang, CEO of LILYSILK.
This year, LILYSILK built on its classic legacy design while combining upgrades to inspire a new change. The brand launched a new print, Vintage Lily, and a new "Lily White" color. For greater flexibility, LILYSILK has introduced the Silk Oversize Style (SOS) Shirt, with its design emphasizing functionality and sustainability to craft an ultimate "everyday shirt". LILYSILK also paired up with Mika Ninagawa, a filmmaker and photography icon in Japan, to launch a special summer lineup.
The new designs made an instant splash and were on the go-to fashion list of A-list celebrities, seen worn by Viola Davis. Another stunning piece Rectangular Silk Lily Scarf was also sported by Anne Hathaway at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Beyond its glamour under the spotlight, LILYSILK is also a purveyor of sustainable fashion, spearheading a host of initiatives to cut its carbon footprint and address the environmental challenges in the fashion sector. LILYSILK uses natural premium materials for all its products, including its patent-owned LILYÁUREA™, an extremely skin-friendly and undyed silk fabric that shines with a stunningly bright golden color.
LILYSILK's latest sustainable effort is the partnership with TerraCycle®, a world-leading recycling solution provider, to complete its first Eco-Loop for its business operation in the US. The tie-up is an extension to its Zero Waste Movement designed to recycle and reuse non-donatable fabrics, strengthening its ability to achieve on-demand manufacturing and strong biodegradability for product packaging.
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2022-08-25T14:25:49+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/lilysilk-celebrates-12-year-milestones-growth/
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- YuanTech Solar, a new PV manufacturer in China, recently announced that the firm has been awarded the Brazilian INMETRO Certification for its PV modules. The trustworthy certification paves the way for the firm to enter the renewable energy market in Brazil and, by extension, throughout the whole of South America.
The INMETRO (National Institute of Metrology, Standardization, and Industrial Quality) is a certification that ensures the energy efficiency of solar PV modules. Since July 1, 2011, the certification has become a requirement for all PV products seeking to enter the Brazilian market. The results of the certification demonstrate that YuanTech Solar's PV modules are fully compliant with the highest PV module standards in Brazil in terms of energy efficiency and other criteria, not only significantly boosting the producer's competitiveness in the local market but also reaffirming the company's superior performance across the whole production process ranging from material selection to manufacturing and quality control.
In response to the global trend toward low-carbon development, the Brazilian government is accelerating the transformation of its power structure, ushering in new growth opportunities for the local PV renewable energy industry. By 2024, the installed PV capacity in Brazil will exceed 20GW, according to the Brazilian Solar Energy Association (ABSOLAR). To meet the expected increase in market demand, the Chinese firm is actively planning a strategic expansion with the acquisition of the INMETRO certification as an essential prerequisite to the company entering the Brazilian market. The company has successfully developed a wide range of modules based on n-type TOPCon technologies, and will continue its strict management of the whole process of product production for improved performance and quality, in a move to meet the worldwide demand for top quality PV modules and contribute to meeting the global carbon neutrality target.
About YuanTech Solar
YuanTech Solar is a technology company focusing on the R&D, manufacturing, sales and services of new-generation N-type TOPCon photovoltaic products. The company was established in January 2022, and plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan (approx. US$224 million) to build a 5GW PV module production facility in Chuzhou, Anhui Province. The company is committed to becoming a world-class clean energy provider, by adhering to a market-oriented approach and taking technological innovation as its driving force, in an effort to boost the transformation towards clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy.
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2023-01-11T09:45:10+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/11/yuantech-solar-obtains-brazilian-inmetro-certification-its-pv-modules/
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SWITZERLAND COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — The Indiana Department of Transportation confirmed a road closure Saturday evening on State Road 250 due to flood damage.
According to a Twitter post from INDOT Southeast, the closure is at the bridge over Indian Creek near Pleasant and Bennington Townships.
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2022-09-04T02:19:04+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-news/flood-damage-causes-state-road-250-road-closure-near-pleasant-bennington-townships/
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Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report, tracking all things related to the 2022 midterm elections. You can expect this newsletter in your inbox each week leading up to November’s election.
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Georgia race remains tight
New polling from Emerson College and The Hill continues to show a tight race for Georgia’s Senate seat amid recent bombshell accusations that have shaken up the contest between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Forty-eight percent of Georgia voters say they support Warnock, while 46 percent say they back Walker, falling within the plus-or-minus three-point margin of error. However, since the last Emerson College poll in August, Warnock’s support has increased by four points and Walker’s support has decreased by two points.
The poll was conducted Oct. 4-7, falling within the time period that the Daily Beast published a bombshell report alleging that Walker encouraged a former partner to get an abortion and paid for the procedure. That report was published on Oct. 4.
Warnock remains favorable: In terms of favorability, 51 percent of Georgia voters said they had a favorable view of Warnock while 48 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him. Forty-seven percent of voters said they had a favorable view of Walker while 49 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him.
Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, points out that the gender gap in the race has increasingly favored Warnock.
Women break for Warnock: “The gender gap in the Senate race has shifted in the Democrats’ favor since August,” Kimball said. “Republican Walker’s 8-point advantage with men has closed to 6, and Warnock’s lead with women has grown from 5 points to 9.”
The poll of the gubernatorial race paints a different scenario for incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. Fifty-one percent of voter say they support Kemp, while 46 percent said they supported Abrams. Another two percent say they are undecided.
House Dem optimism grows
With exactly a month to go until the midterms, Democrats are feeling increasingly confident about the battle for the lower chamber.
The Hill’s Mike Lillis reports that Democrats believe they can minimize their losses, and in the case that they do lose the majority, they believe they can at least make life more difficult for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) if he becomes Speaker McCarthy.
A red ripple?: Republicans need to net only four seats to gain back control of the lower chamber, but margins could matter to the House GOP when it comes to moves like impeaching President Biden and cutting federal spending.
While Democrats acknowledge behind closed doors that they are still facing an uphill climb, election experts are increasingly pointing out that the odds of a massive red wave appear to be slimming. Last week, the Cook Political Report shifted seven House races in favor of Democrats and analysts at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia shifted four House seats in favor of Democrats.
SENATE RACES TURN UGLY
Meanwhile in the race for the upper chamber, things are getting nastier.
The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports that this dynamic is most noticeable in the three battleground states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
In Nevada, the vitriol spiked last week at a rally for GOP candidate Adam Laxalt when Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) dubbed Democrats as “pro-crime” before going on to suggest that Democrats who back reparations want them because they think people who committed crimes are owed it. In Wisconsin, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R) and Republicans are lambasting Democratic Senate nominee Mandela Barnes with attacks accusing him of being soft on crime.
In both states, Barnes and incumbent Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto have hit back accusing Johnson and Laxalt of being close with the pro-Trump rioters that stormed the Capitol in 2021.
It gets uglier: Keystone Pennsylvania has proven to be a beast of its own when it comes to the negativity and vitriol seen in the Senate race. The Republican nominee Mehmet Oz has continuously hit Democratic nominee John Fetterman over his record on crime and the state of his health after Fetterman suffered a stroke in May. Fetterman, on the other hand, has painted Oz as being out of touch, portraying him as a quack doctor that has stronger ties to New Jersey than he has to Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, Fetterman made headlines when his campaign put up billboards calling Oz a Dallas Cowboys fan ahead of this Sunday’s NFL matchup between the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Will Nevada turn red?
And speaking of Nevada, The Hill’s Caroline Vakil reports that signs are emerging of a growing red wave in the state.
Some recent polling shows Laxalt narrowly leading Masto within the margin of error. The stakes for Democrats are higher this year because the state’s Senate race could play a deciding factor in who ultimately controls the upper chamber next year.
“They’ve been masterful for several cycles in registering and turning out voters. Now, the registration numbers are not what they used to be. The Democratic lead is much smaller than it usually is this time of year,” Jon Ralston, CEO of The Nevada Independent, told Vakil.
GOP optimism grows: And it’s not just the state’s Senate race that has Democrats nervous. Incumbent Democratic Reps. Dina Titus and Susie Lee are facing tough races in both of their respective districts.
Republicans, on the other hand, are feeling optimistic.
“The question has always been how good of a year, and you don’t really need to ask Republicans to find that out. You need just look at the way Democrats are campaigning, and it will tell you what they think,” Zachary Moyle, former executive director for the Nevada GOP, told Vakil.
Takeaways from the first Ohio debate
Ohio Senate candidates Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance faced off in a Nexstar television debate Monday in Cleveland.
The forum saw the two hit each other over a number of topics including China, President Biden, former President Trump and ties to Washington and Silicon Valley.
One of the most memorable lines of the evening was perhaps when Ryan branded Vance an “ass-kisser” to former President Trump.
The Hill’s Julia Manchester breaks down five takeaways from last night’s showdown in Ohio.
POLL WATCH
An poll from the Arizona-based OH Predictive Insights shows incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly leading his GOP challenger Blake Masters 46 percent to 33 percent, while Libertarian candidate Marc Victor came in with 15 percent support. Another six percent said they were undecided.
A new Marist poll shows incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet leading his Republican challenger Joe O’Dea by seven points in Colorado.
A WDIV/Detroit News survey in Michigan’s 10th House district shows Republican John James leading Democrat Carl Marlinga 44 percent to 36.1 percent.
A Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll of Rhode Island’s second House district shows Republican candidate Allan Fung leading Democrat Seth Magaziner 45 to 37 percent. Another 13 percent said they were undecided.
AD WATCH
A political action committee supporting Herschel Walker, 34N22, rolled out a new ad titled “Good Actor,” showing body camera footage of Raphael Warnock’s ex-wife after an alleged domestic violence incident in 2020.
Democratic Florida Senate candidate Val Demings rolled out a new ad titled “Independence” in which she touts her independence from her own party.
Republican Missouri Senate candidate Eric Schmitt put out a new ad titled “Heiress” contrasting himself with his Democratic opponent Trudy Busch Valentine.
The Senate Majority PAC released a new spot titled “In Charge” hitting North Carolina Senate candidate Ted Budd over his anti abortion stance.
In the House, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee released ads in Iowa’s 3rd district, Michigan’s 8th district, Maine’s 2nd district, New Hampshire’s 1st district, Arizona’s 6th district, California’s 22nd district, New Mexico’s 2nd district, Pennsylvania’s 17th district, and New York’s 17th district.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee rolled out ads in Michigan’s 8th district, two ads in Maine’s 2nd district, North Carolina’s 13th district, and Texas’ 34th district.
Incumbent Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar’s campaign rolled out a new ad hitting back against attacks from his Republican opponent Cassy Garcia in Texas’ 28th congressional district.
That’s it for today. Thanks for reading and check out The Hill’s Campaign page for the latest news and coverage. See you tomorrow.
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2022-10-11T23:16:03+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/campaign-report-warnock-pulls-ahead-in-new-ga-poll/
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Jesse Washington, senior writer for ESPN, about the NBA Finals which begin Thursday. The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics to join the Denver Nuggets in the finals.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's A Martinez talks to Jesse Washington, senior writer for ESPN, about the NBA Finals which begin Thursday. The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics to join the Denver Nuggets in the finals.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-05-30T10:13:06+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-05-30/nba-finals-the-miami-heat-will-take-on-the-denver-nuggets
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Grandpa drives cross-country to deliver beloved stray dog to grandchildren on Christmas
FARGO, N.D. (WDAY) – A North Dakota family got an unexpected visit for Christmas and a special gift from hundreds of miles away.
The Parrett family in Fargo is still talking about the best Christmas ever after Country showed up at their house.
Nicole Parrett said the family had gone to Texas to visit relatives in early December when a stray dog showed up at the home.
“We were like, don’t touch him. We don’t know if he’s mean, but he kept his distance and hung around,” she said.
The dog refused to leave, but the kids loved on it.
“He was so pleasant to the kids, and that is what won us over,” Parrett said. “Because we were just ... we were still, like, no matter what happens, we are not taking this dog home.”
Parrett cleaned the fleas and cockleburs off the dog’s fur. Her husband, Nathan Parrett, said they also fed him and asked their kids what to name him.
“And I was like, oh man, you are going to name the dog,” he said. “We are getting closer to ownership with every day we’re there.”
When it finally came time for the family to leave Texas and fly back to North Dakota, they immediately missed the dog.
“As soon as we drove away, they were weeping, crocodile tears, it was horrible to watch,” Nicole Parrett said.
However, their grandpa, Mike Parrot, in southeast Texas later surprised his grandkids by driving about 1,250 miles to bring them the dog.
“When I saw how the dog was around her, I knew,” he said. “I knew he was special.”
The kids were surprised on Christmas day with the reunion of the dog they loved and left behind.
“I wanted to make them happy, I knew it, it is something you just know,” Mike Parrett said. “And I was going to make it happen.”
Country, the dog from Texas, now fits right in with the family from North Dakota. He was checked out by a veterinarian and now has the best life a dog could ever ask for: a forever home with kids who gave him a new life.
“It was just magic, our kids are at an awesome age for Christmas,” Nathan Parrett said.
Copyright 2022 WDAY via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-29T01:38:12+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/12/28/grandpa-drives-cross-country-deliver-beloved-stray-dog-grandchildren-christmas/
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ZURICH (AP) _ UBS AG (UBS) on Tuesday reported net income of $1.73 billion in its third quarter.
The bank, based in Zurich, said it had earnings of 52 cents per share.
The bank posted revenue of $9.99 billion in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $8.24 billion, exceeding Street forecasts.
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2022-10-25T09:26:23+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/UBS-Q3-Earnings-Snapshot-17532285.php
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NAIROBI – Eritrea’s president in rare public comments has dismissed as “a fantasy” allegations that his country’s forces carried out rape, looting and other abuses in the war in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
President Isaias Afwerki, the only leader Eritrea has known in its 30 years since independence, spoke to journalists Thursday during a visit to Kenya during which the two countries announced the expected return of the long-reclusive Eritrea to a regional organization addressing security and drought.
Since the start of the two-year Tigray conflict that killed an estimated half-million civilians and ended with a peace agreement in November, the presence of Eritrean forces allied with Ethiopian ones was a major issue.
For months Ethiopia's government denied that Eritrean forces were even in Tigray. But human rights groups and United Nations experts alleged they were responsible for many abuses against ethnic Tigrayans, such as gang rapes.
Eritrea is not a party to the peace deal, and some of its forces have remained inside Tigray, though the United States recently said they have withdrawn to the border area.
The Eritrean president, who rarely speaks to independent media, said his country has “no intention of interfering” in the peace process in Ethiopia and has “no agenda" there.
“You talk about withdrawal, non-withdrawal, we say this is nonsense,” the 77-year-old leader said. “Don’t provoke us” to cause misunderstandings, he added: “Let’s assume that the peace process in Ethiopia is going without obstacles.”
Growing visibly irritated with questions, Isaias also accused those alleging human rights abuses of “fabricating lies and misinformation” with an aim of disrupting the peace process. “You’re wasting your time,” he said.
“Everybody talking about human rights, violations here and there, rape, looting, this is a fantasy,” the Eritrean leader said.
Kenyan President William Ruto, for his part, asserted there has been “huge progress, tremendous progress” in Ethiopia’s peace process. Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was a facilitator of the peace talks.
The conflict erupted in Tigray a year after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with longtime rival Eritrea. The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments saw the Tigray regional leaders, who had long dominated Ethiopia’s government before Abiy took office, as a common threat.
The conflict killed an estimated half-million civilians in Tigray alone, according to researchers with Ghent University in Belgium. Eritrea’s leader on Thursday didn’t respond to questions about the number of Eritreans killed.
While the Kenyan and Eritrean leaders’ statement spoke of Eritrea considering a return to the Horn of Africa regional body the Intergovernmental Authority on Development as a member, Eritrea’s leader in his remarks said, “I readily say there is no question about that,” to applause.
Eritrea and Kenya also are abolishing visa requirements for each other’s citizens effective immediately, and Kenya will open a diplomatic mission in Eritrea’s capital.
Kenya’s president said he is looking forward to working with Eritrea’s government on issues related to Ethiopia and other regional neighbors Sudan and South Sudan.
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2023-02-09T14:59:35+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/02/09/eritrean-leader-dismisses-as-fantasy-alleged-tigray-abuses/
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Top Player Prop Bets for Cubs vs. Cardinals on July 21, 2023
Nolan Arenado and Nico Hoerner are two of the top players with prop bets available when the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs meet at Wrigley Field on Friday (first pitch at 2:20 PM ET).
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Cubs vs. Cardinals Game Info
- When: Friday, July 21, 2023 at 2:20 PM ET
- Where: Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois
- How to Watch on TV: Apple TV+
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Chicago Cubs
Justin Steele Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 4.5 (Over Odds: -159)
Steele Stats
- Justin Steele (9-3) will take to the mound for the Cubs and make his 18th start of the season.
- In 17 starts this season, he's earned 11 quality starts.
- Steele has pitched five or more innings in five straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished five appearances without allowing an earned run in 17 chances this season.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 28-year-old ranks eighth in ERA (2.96), 19th in WHIP (1.110), and 42nd in K/9 (8).
Steele Recent Games
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Nico Hoerner Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +1000)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +230)
Hoerner Stats
- Hoerner has 102 hits with 15 doubles, four triples, six home runs, 24 walks and 54 RBI. He's also stolen 19 bases.
- He's slashing .273/.325/.382 so far this year.
Hoerner Recent Games
Cody Bellinger Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +165)
Bellinger Stats
- Cody Bellinger has 76 hits with 14 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs, 22 walks and 35 RBI. He's also stolen 12 bases.
- He has a slash line of .310/.365/.522 so far this season.
- Bellinger heads into this game looking to extend his four-game hit streak. During his last five outings he is batting .368 with a double and a walk.
Bellinger Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: St. Louis Cardinals
Nolan Arenado Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -286)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +300)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Arenado Stats
- Arenado has 103 hits with 19 doubles, two triples, 21 home runs, 28 walks and 74 RBI. He's also stolen two bases.
- He has a slash line of .287/.336/.526 on the year.
- Arenado hopes to build on a four-game hitting streak in this matchup. In his last five games he is hitting .350 with two doubles, a home run, a walk and 10 RBI.
Arenado Recent Games
Paul Goldschmidt Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Goldschmidt Stats
- Paul Goldschmidt has 21 doubles, 16 home runs, 50 walks and 49 RBI (106 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He's slashed .286/.373/.473 on the year.
- Goldschmidt has picked up at least one hit in two straight games. During his last five outings he is hitting .350 with a home run, four walks and two RBI.
Goldschmidt Recent Games
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2023-07-21T11:58:49+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/sports/betting/2023/07/21/cubs-vs-cardinals-mlb-player-prop-bets/
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MIAMI (AP) — Pat Riley sometimes finds himself waking up in the middle of the night these days, turning on the television because he’s unable to sleep.
This is when the president of the Miami Heat watches Garfield cartoons.
Turns out, his young grandson Connor is a big fan of the lasagna-loving cynical orange cartoon cat, so Riley — like many doting grandfathers probably would — has become a bit of a Garfield fan as well.
“Connor’s going to love hearing this,” Riley said.
Here’s the part that Heat fans might love hearing: It’s in these moments where Riley’s mind is racing with thoughts about how close Miami came to a championship this season — and what needs to happen to get it done next season.
Riley held his annual end-of-season review Tuesday, reflecting on a year like few others and insisting that if there is a way to get better this summer, the Heat will do it. Miami nearly missed the playoffs and had to rally in the play-in tournament just to make the postseason, then made its way to the finals as the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.
“Another championship team, that’s my goal,” Riley said. “I have no other plans other than to do that.”
Retirement was not discussed during Riley’s 35-minute session with reporters; he’s shown no signs of slowing down and there’s been no talk of any exit strategies for the 78-year-old who has been part of nine NBA championships — three in Miami.
The Heat were involved in the trade talks over the weekend that ultimately resulted in Bradley Beal waiving his no-trade clause to go from Washington to Phoenix, a deal that’s still awaiting final approvals from all sides and the NBA. And if Portland’s Damian Lillard decides he wants a trade, it’s a poorly kept secret that Miami would be more than willing to talk to the perennial All-Star and gauge his interest in joining the Heat.
Riley, by league rule, cannot talk about players under contract elsewhere. But his approach every summer is to find the player or players who can bring Miami closer to a title. That won’t change this summer, and he doesn’t think the current roster has to be decimated to make change happen either.
“We’re not going to take a wrecking ball to this thing,” Riley said, channeling the lyrics of his friend Bruce Springsteen, whom he quotes often. “Good times come, good times come. Hard times come, hard times come. We’re not going to take a wrecking ball to a good team that had some real adversity this year. We had a good team, probably a great team. We wouldn’t have as gotten as far as we have, and there’s no caveat in any of that, if you weren’t a great team.”
Riley raved about Jimmy Butler, who just finished his fourth season in Miami — “he’s a whole different bag of tricks, let me tell you, and love him to death,” Riley said — and spoke at length about the continued evolution of Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro from late-lottery picks to integral parts of the Heat plan.
There’s a No. 18 pick in Thursday’s draft to add, then free agency awaits a week later. If a move presents itself, Riley is ready to pounce. If not, he won’t panic.
“Persistence and perseverance has been something that’s been part of my life forever. Just has been,” Riley said. “And patience is the last thing that came with it. And so, we’re going to show some patience here instead of react without knowing what the consequences could be in doing something. So right now, this is what we have.”
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2023-06-21T18:56:27+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/as-draft-and-free-agency-loom-pat-rileys-eyes-remain-on-the-main-thing/
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HOUSTON, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trueworks Roofing™ is having their "Charity Showroom Grand Opening Event" on Friday, August 12th, 2022. They are partnering with the Sky High for Kids Charity and all ticket proceeds benefit ending childhood cancer.
Trueworks Roofing™ founder, Joel Patzke shared his vision, "I want to innovate and revolutionize the entire roofing industry and provide prospective clients with the opportunity to visit our showroom and see a close-up of roof display homes so they can really get a feel for what their roof would look and feel like. Clients can also sign their paperwork digitally on our monitor screens."
Trueworks Roofing™ Has Partnered with Sky High for Kids to Help Support Ending Childhood Cancer
Trueworks Roofing™ founders Joel Patzke and Laura Cole believe in giving back to the local community and have partnered with Sky High for Kids to raise money for ending childhood cancer. All ticket proceeds will benefit Sky High for Kids.
More About Sky High for Kids
Sky High's mission is to bring communities together to provide comfort, fund research and save lives of those fighting pediatric cancer and other life-threatening conditions.
Local Houston Artist Laura Thompson Will Provide Live Art Performance
Laura will be painting live art that attendees can enjoy watching and she will be donating a Houston themed fun and funky portrait that will benefit Sky High for Kids Charity.
The Charity Showroom Event Will Feature:
- Live Roof Displays
- Local Vendors and Artists
- Food and Beverages
- Raffle with Amazing Prizes
- Live DJ and More
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2022-08-03T15:27:06+00:00
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2022-08-06T01:52:32+00:00
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willistonherald.com
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(NewsNation) — With prices at the pump hitting record highs nationwide, more people are looking to public transit to get them where they want to go.
As of Monday, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was just north of $5, while bus and subway fares have by and large stayed the same. Nationwide, ridership is at 65% of pre-pandemic levels, a 40% increase from March 2020.
Some agencies, such as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are even dropping the price to ride, reducing the price for an unlimited day pass from $12.75 to $11. If you work out the math, that makes the day pass a good deal if your commute burns more than 2 1/2 gallons of gas per day.
Cities like New York and Chicago, which rely on public transit heavily, are seeing some of the biggest increases in ridership. Los Angeles, where gas prices are some of the highest in the nation, has seen the ridership on its Metro transit system rise 13% so far this year.
There are still open seats to be had on most lines, though. The boom in remote working and recent highly publicized incidents of violence on transit have put downward pressure on ridership.
Along with the price of gas, the price to fill up a grocery cart is on the rise. Inflation hasn’t been this high since the 1980s, resulting in the average family now laying out $411/month on groceries.
Prices overall are up more than 10%. While that’s paltry compared to the gas price jump, it hits a broader range of Americans no matter what their income level.
Thanks to the bird flu, we no longer need to debate which came first, because both chickens and eggs have jumped. Chicken’s up by roughly $1 per pound, and you’ll shell out about an extra $1.20 for a dozen eggs.
The Department of Agriculture forecasts there’s not much relief in sight. Grocery prices are expected to rise another 7% to 8% this year, and if you want to go out to eat, you can expect a slightly smaller increase.
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2022-06-14T20:21:30+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/skyrocketing-gas-prices-drive-public-transit-demand/
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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced that R&D Systems®, a Bio-Techne brand, has released its new Quantist Luminex® data analysis software. Compatible with all available Luminex xMAP® instruments, Quantist software provides fast, reliable analysis of Luminex multiplex assay data, helping researchers extract valuable insights from complex data.
The new Quantist software provides researchers with an important tool for quickly analyzing dozens of analytes with improved accuracy and efficiency, including the ability to evaluate the long-term consistency of their Luminex assay data. The intuitive software interface allows users to easily make inter-assay comparisons, adjust standard curve parameters, and export optimized data for creating ready-to-graph Excel files.
"The ability to accurately analyze complex scientific data and turn it into actionable insights is critical across all areas of research," said Will Geist, Bio-Techne's Protein Sciences Segment President. "Quantist helps meet this fundamental need, allowing researchers to uncover valuable insights that can accelerate discovery. It also provides an important component in our ongoing strategy of supporting customers with end-to-end solutions across their multiplex assay workflow."
Luminex xMAP technology is a leading bead-based assay platform that allows for the simultaneous detection of multiple targets in a single sample. The quantification of multiple cytokines and other biomarkers in a sample provides critical information about biological processes and diseases. With Quantist software, R&D Systems Luminex users now have a comprehensive, end-to-end workflow solution for intelligent, high-performance multiplexing.
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2022-08-18T12:46:37+00:00
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/bio-techne-announces-release-quantist-luminex-data-analysis-software/
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NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is facing a backlash over its town hall featuring former President Donald Trump, an event that swiftly turned chaotic in a stark display of the tightrope facing journalists covering a leading 2024 Republican candidate who refuses to play by the rules.
The town hall Wednesday was the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign, and CNN defended its decision to hold it as a chance to put Trump in front of a wider audience, outside of the conservative media bubble he has largely kept to since early in his presidency.
Critics said the event, which was staged in front of Republicans and unaffiliated voters who were expected to vote in the GOP primary, instead turned into a Trump campaign rally that produced little actual news and allowed Trump to repeat longstanding falsehoods while dodging difficult questions
Tom Jones, a senior writer at the media research institute Poynter, said he had favored the idea of CNN holding the town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. But he said he was surprised by the conduct of the audience, which he had expected to be more neutral.
Instead, the crowd gave Trump a standing ovation when he walked onstage, applauded some of his most provocative comments and laughed at many of his quips, including when he criticized E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who accused him of raping her in 1996 and this week won a $5 million judgment against him.
Jones said the atmosphere put CNN's moderator, Kaitlan Collins, in an almost impossible position as she tried to elicit straightforward answers from Trump and fact-check his comments about the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by his supporters and the 2020 election, which he still falsely insists he won.
“Whenever she might have had him cornered, he was built up by the audience,” Jones said. “It just emboldened him. He realized, ‘I can do or say anything I want,’ and she got steamrolled at that point through no fault of her own. It was her against the entire room."
The event was indicative of the new era of leadership at CNN and management’s efforts to lure back viewers who turned to Fox News and other conservative outlets over the past decade.
At a Thursday morning meeting at CNN, Chairman and CEO Chris Licht praised Collins’ “masterful performance,” saying she asked tough questions in difficult circumstances.
“If someone was going to ask tough questions and have that messy conversation, that damn well should be on CNN,” he said in a recording of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.
He also defended the decision to hold the town hall before a Trump-friendly crowd.
“While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story, because the people in that audience represent a large swath of America,” Licht said. “And the mistake the media made in the past is ignoring that those people exist. Just like you cannot ignore that President Trump exists.”
The event did widen CNN's audience, at least for a night. Nielson said the town hall averaged 3.1 million viewers, compared to the 707,000 who tuned in to CNN during the same time slot a night earlier.
But Jones said he was skeptical that the town hall would help CNN's reputation in the long term, given the backlash. He noted that most of the network's post-event commentary was highly critical of Trump, likely alienating conservative viewers who had tuned in just to watch the former president.
Nick Arama, a writer for the conservative website RedState.com, criticized CNN's Gary Tuchman, who spoke with some of the audience members after Trump's appearance, saying “he didn't act as much like a moderator trying to get their opinion as a Democratic propagandist trying to impose his own opinion on them.”
Meanwhile, critics from the left were unsparing, saying CNN should have predicted how chaotic the event would be.
“CNN should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost total control of this ‘town hall’ to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan. 6th and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host,” Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, wrote in a tweet.
Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief now at George Washington University, said the event was a harbinger of the difficult coverage decisions “every news organization needs to wrestle with because Donald Trump is not a normal candidate.”
“You can’t ignore him, but you can’t give him carte blanche either,” he said.
A one-on-one interview would have been preferrable, though whether Trump would have agreed to that is a different question, said Sesno, who added that he saw value in allowing Trump to speak to a broader audience, including many people who might have mostly tuned him out in recent years.
Sesno noted that although Trump supporters delighted in his performance, Republican critics, including New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, seized on it to to press their concerns about the former president's ability to win a national election.
“As chaotic and weird as the event was, I as a journalist think it’s important for people to see this,” he said.
Associated Press writer Wyatte Grantham-Philips contributed to this report.
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2023-05-11T21:37:49+00:00
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timesdaily.com
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https://www.timesdaily.com/news/nation/cnn-faces-backlash-over-chaotic-trump-town-hall-event/article_5177a8ab-f2ce-57b4-b4dd-dd00e8985fa6.html
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NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce its top rankings in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA, the world's leading legal data and analytics provider, highlighting the top lawyers and law firms across the USA for over two decades, by Chambers and Partners. Attorneys and law firms are selected for inclusion based on submissions by legal practices, interviews, research, and client references.
Jones Walker ranked nationally in seven practices: Construction, Gaming & Licensing, Occupational Safety and Health, Offshore Energy, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York), and Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory.
The firm also ranked regionally in 15 practices: Banking & Finance (Alabama, Louisiana), Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Louisiana, Mississippi), Construction (Georgia, Louisiana), Corporate/Commercial (Alabama, Mississippi), Corporate/M&A (Louisiana), Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Louisiana), Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (Louisiana), Environment (Louisiana), Gaming & Licensing (Louisiana), Healthcare (Alabama, Louisiana), Labor & Employment (Louisiana), Litigation: General Commercial (Louisiana, Mississippi), Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Louisiana), Real Estate (Louisiana, Mississippi), and Tax (Louisiana).
This year, 80 Jones Walker attorneys across the firm's geographic footprint in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New York were recognized for their prominence in specific areas of law.
USA - NATIONWIDE
- William C. Baldwin, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance
- J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing
- George J. Fowler, III, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
- Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Occupational Safety and Health
- Grady S. Hurley, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
- R. Scott Jenkins, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory
- Cindy Matherne Muller, Offshore Energy
- Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
ALABAMA
- C. Ellis Brazeal, III, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Robert L. Carothers Jr., Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
- John Beaulieu (Beau) Grenier, Corporate/Commercial
- Daniel J. Martin, Healthcare
- Michael D. Waters, Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
FLORIDA
- Edward R. Shohat, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
GEORGIA
- Neal J. Sweeney, Construction
- Chad V. Theriot, Construction
LOUISIANA
- H. Mark Adams, Labor & Employment
- Jesse R. Adams, III, Tax
- William M. Backstrom, Jr., Tax
- William C. Baldwin, Marine Finance
- Robert B. Bieck, Jr., Litigation: Securities
- Timothy P. Brechtel, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Boyd A. Bryan, Environment
- Andre B. Burvant, Tax
- Christopher D. Cazenave, Construction
- R. Keith Colvin, Real Estate
- Richard F. Cortizas, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
- Mark A. Cunningham, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Nadia de la Houssaye, Healthcare
- Sarah Y. Dicharry, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing, Marine Finance
- Luke Falgoust, Banking & Finance
- Elizabeth J. Futrell, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Covert J. Geary, Litigation: General Commercial
- Alex H. Glaser, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Jeffrey P. Good, Real Estate
- Jeffry W. Gray, Real Estate
- Pauline F. Hardin, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Curtis R. Hearn, Corporate/M&A
- Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Labor & Employment
- Robert (Bob) E. Holden, Environment
- David M. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Jonathan A. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Matthew W. Kern, Public Finance
- Jennifer Faroldi Kogos, Labor & Employment
- Joseph F. Lavigne, Labor & Employment
- Seth A. Levine, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Sidney F. Lewis, V, Labor & Employment
- Michael W. Magner, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Marjorie A. McKeithen, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Stanley A. Millan, Environment: Litigation
- Mark A. Mintz, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Kenneth J. Najder, Corporate/M&A
- J. Marshall Page, III, Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A
- Alex P. Prochaska, Environment
- Rudolph R. Ramelli, Tax
- Carl D. Rosenblum, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Dionne M. Rousseau, Corporate/M&A
- Amy Garrity Scafidel, Banking & Finance
- Robert W. Scheffy, Jr., Real Estate
- Kelly C. Simoneaux, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Meghan E. Smith, Environment: Litigation
- Richard J. Tyler, Construction
- Susan M. Tyler, Real Estate
- R. Patrick Vance, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Litigation: General Commercial
- B. Trevor Wilson, Tax
- Amy M. Winters, Healthcare
- Benjamin Paul Woodruff, Banking & Finance
- Scott T. Zander, Public Finance
MISSISSIPPI
- Jeffrey R. Barber, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Neville H. Boschert, Litigation: General Commercial
- Mark T. Davis, Real Estate
- John F. Fletcher, Tax
- Gina M. Jacobs, Corporate/Commercial
- Kristina M. Johnson, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Craig N. Landrum, Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
- Christopher S. Pace, Corporate/Commercial: Municipal Finance
- Kaytie M. Pickett, Litigation: General Commercial
- Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
- Adam Stone, Litigation: General Commercial
- Ann Corso Taylor, Real Estate
- Aileen S. Thomas, Corporate/Commercial: Municipal Finance
NEW YORK
- Alysse McLoughlin, Tax: State & Local
- Kathleen M. Quinn, Tax: State & Local
About Jones Walker
Jones Walker LLP (joneswalker.com) is among the largest 135 law firms in the United States. With offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas, we serve local, regional, national, and international business interests. The firm is committed to providing a comprehensive range of legal services to major multinational public and private corporations, Fortune® 500 companies, money center banks, worldwide insurers, and emerging companies doing business in the United States and abroad.
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2023-06-21T15:00:35+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/21/80-jones-walker-attorneys-ranked-chambers-usa-2023/
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DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Broncos have reportedly reached a deal to hire Sean Payton as head coach and will send draft picks to the New Orleans Saints.
Payton had stepped down as the Saints head coach last season and had been working in broadcasting this season. He remained under contract with New Orleans.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter said in a tweet Tuesday, “Saints and Broncos are finalizing compensation in return for Super Bowl-winning HC Sean Payton, sources tell ESPN. This clears the way for Payton to sign with the Broncos to become Denver’s next head coach. And so Payton is expected to head to Denver as its next HC.”
A person with knowledge of the agreement spoke with The Associated Press Tuesday, confirming the deal. That person, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Broncos will send their first-round pick, No. 29 overall, in this year’s draft to the Saints along with a future second-rounder.
Broncos post-Hackett
The Broncos parted ways with rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett on Dec. 26 after finishing the season with a 4-11 record while he was at the helm.
Hackett, now offensive coordinator for the New York Jets, was replaced by senior assistant coach Jerry Rosburg as the interim head coach. The Broncos narrowly lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and beat the Los Angeles Chargers under Rosburg to end the season 5-12.
With Rosburg in charge, quarterback Russell Wilson looked more like the nine-time Pro Bowler he was with the Seattle Seahawks in the 27-24 loss at Kansas City and a 31-28 win over the Chargers, giving the team a glimmer of hope that his poor performance in 2022 was more about a bad fit than a slippage of his skills.
Along with Payton, the organization had conversations with Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans and Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.
Payton also interviewed for the Carolina Panthers’ head coaching vacancy.
Team plagued with injuries
The Broncos’ dismal season wasn’t all on Hackett but the team knew it needed to make a change. With a league-high 22 players on injured reserve, including Garett Bolles, Javonte Williams and Tim Patrick, the team was already at a disadvantage.
Several players missed multiple games during the season because of injuries, which severely weakened an already thin offense, but the defense remained solid throughout the season.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2023-02-01T00:13:06+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/sports/sean-payton-returns-to-coaching-agrees-to-deal-with-denver-broncos-reports/
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Biden administration says it is rolling out new public-private initiatives to help Americans confronting high food prices.
“To make sure that everyone is fed and everyone is fed well,” Secretary of Agriculture Tim Vilsack said.
More than 34 million Americans, including 9 million children, are considered food insecure, according to the federal government. Administration officials met with anti-hunger groups at the White House Friday to talk about how to tackle the problem head-on.
“Figuring out ways in which we can help families stretch that food dollar. Looking for ways in which we can create what are called double-buck programs where basically every dollar you spend as a SNAP family gets matched by a nonprofit,” Vilsack said.
The Biden administration this month ended pandemic-era increases to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food stamp benefits. Vilsack said that at the same time, his agency has ramped up resources for food banks, increased SNAP benefits to meet inflation and most recently extended funding for summer feeding programs.
“So that youngsters don’t have a gap between school meal that they get 181 days out of the year and the summer months,” Vilsack said.
“If those summer programs aren’t intact, then we’re in real trouble,” Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor Paige Cognetti said.
She said the Friday meeting at the White House was productive.
“DoorDash was there talking about the way that they can help deliver food from food banks,” Cognetti said. “There’s the larger grocery stores that want to help with the food deserts. … We do have a food desert in the south side of our community. We’re looking for a partner right now to figure out how we can build a grocery store there.”
The White House has set a goal to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030.
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2023-03-24T20:54:21+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/biden-administration-brainstorms-how-to-help-families-stretch-food-dollars/
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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Flood Watch
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
336 AM CDT Tue May 24 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...The eastern third of the Oklahoma Panhandle and all but
the northwestern Texas Panhandle.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- After a prolonged period of dry conditions, heavy rainfall
rates over urban areas may occur in several rounds of
rainfall, potentially leading to urbanized flooding.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHILDRESS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 345 AM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
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2022-05-24T09:32:38+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AMARILLO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17194309.php
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MADISON COUNTY, Ark. — Testing has confirmed that a case of avian influenza, or bird flu, was detected on a poultry farm in Madison County.
The USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratory stated that chickens from the farm tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI)— which is more severe and can cause high mortality in poultry flocks.
Bird flu is an airborne respiratory virus that can spread easily among chickens through manure or nasal and eye secretions.
The virus can be spread in a number of ways, including through wild birds, contact with infected poultry, flock to flock, by equipment, and even on the clothing or shoes of caretakers.
Officials noted that avian influenza is not a public health concern— it does not affect poultry meat or egg products, which will remain safe to eat.
Arkansas State Veterinarian John Nilz said that they have quarantined the farm to prevent the virus from spreading to other poultry flocks in the state.
“The birds on the affected farm were depopulated to prevent the spread of disease and will not enter the food system,” Nilz added.
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture teamed up with the USDA and other partner agencies to contain the situation by sampling and quarantining nearby poultry flocks.
“We have taken immediate action to contain this disease and will continue to work with poultry growers, the industry, and our laboratory partners to protect against its spread,” said Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward.
Officials have advised all poultry flock owners to follow the following steps in order to prevent further spreading:
- Limit, monitor, and record all movement of people, vehicles, or animals on or off your farm
- Permit only essential workers and vehicles to enter the farm to limit the chances of bringing the virus from an outside source
- Avoid visiting other poultry farms and any unnecessary travel off the farm
- Disinfect equipment, vehicles, footwear, and any items that come into contact with flocks
- Keep your flock away from wild or migratory birds, especially waterfowl
- Isolate any sick animals and contact your veterinarian
Backyard flock owners who have sick or unusual deaths in their flocks should immediately email info@agriculture.arkansas.gov or call (501) 823-1746.
For more information on bird flu, please visit the USDA's website.
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2022-10-09T02:49:06+00:00
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5newsonline.com
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https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/health/bird-flu-confirmed-madison-county-poultry-farm/91-c61ff911-ddae-4f3a-a04e-0ad88fbb893d
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
818 PM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
...Abundant Lightning On Dry Fuels Expected through Monday...
.Heat, instability, and increasing moisture along with multiple
low pressure impulses moving through Monday are expected to bring
scattered thunderstorms and abundant lightning on dry fuels to the
area. Sunday into Monday, an approaching low pressure system will
bring more abundant lightning to areas from the Marble Mountains
and Siskiyous northeastward.
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 11 PM PDT
SUNDAY FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES
280...617 AND 623...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING
THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR
FIRE WEATHER ZONES 280...617 AND 623...
...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR
ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 280...
617 AND 623...
* Impacts: Lightning and high fire danger will likely result in
new fire starts. Gusty thunderstorm winds could contribute to fire
spread. Despite rainfall, initial attack resources could be
overwhelmed and holdover fires are possible.
* Affected area:
In Northern CA Fire Zone....280.
In Southwest OR Fire Zones...617...623.
* Wind: Southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
* Thunderstorms: Sunday, thunderstorms are expected to develop mid-
late afternoon across portions of Siskiyou County, and over
portions of the Southern Oregon Cascades.
* Rainfall: Thunderstorms Sunday will begin dry and then transition
to a mix of wet and dry. Monday the thunderstorms are more likely
to produce wetting rainfall. Locally significant wetting
rainfall will be possible with some of the thunderstorms,
especially the slower moving ones.
* View the hazard area in detail at:
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mfr/HAZARD
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
A Red Flag Warning does not mean there is a fire. It means that
critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now or will
shortly. These conditions promote rapid spread of fire which may
become life threatening. Evacuate if ordered to, or if a fire
threatens.
If you have not packed your evacuation kit yet, now is the time to
do so. This includes items like important documents and essentials
you cannot live without. Fill your vehicle's fuel tank. Visit
ready.gov/kit for more information.
Plan now to avoid using equipment that could cause sparks during
the period when critical weather conditions are possible. Visit
weather.gov/medford/wildfire for links to fire restrictions in
your area.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are possible during the valid watch time. These conditions could
promote the rapid spread of wildfires which could become life-
threatening. Check weather.gov/medford for forecast updates and a
possible upgrade of the this watch to a Red Flag Warning.
281 AND 624...
FIRE WEATHER ZONES 281 AND 624...
In Northern CA Fire Zones...281...284.
In South Central OR Fire Zone....624.
* Thunderstorms: Sunday into Monday, an approaching low pressure
system will bring a couple of rounds of scattered thunderstorms.
* Rainfall: Sunday, thunderstorms will begin dry and then
transition to a mix of wet and dry. Monday,thunderstorms are
more likely to produce wetting rainfall. Locally significant
wetting rainfall will be possible with some of the thunderstorms,
FIRE WEATHER ZONE 625...
In Northern CA Fire Zone....285.
In South Central OR Fire Zone....625.
* Thunderstorms: While isolated thunderstorms will be possible
Sunday, the possibility of abundant lightning is currently
greatest on Monday for this area.
* Rainfall: Monday, scattered thunderstorms will be a mix of wet
and dry. Locally significant wetting rainfall will be possible
with some of the thunderstorms, especially the slower moving
ones.
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2022-07-31T04:35:34+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-MEDFORD-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17340870.php
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Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked inside the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday, a spokesperson for the speaker said in a statement.
Speaker Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill said Paul Pelosi was taken to the hospital, but is “expected to recover.” Hammill confirmed that Pelosi was not at home at the time of the attack.
"An assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi. The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation," Hammill said.
“The Speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time,” Hammill added.
Paul Pelosi made headlines earlier this year when he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence. He received a five-day jail sentence.
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2022-10-28T13:25:43+00:00
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kjrh.com
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https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/house-speakers-husband-paul-pelosi-attacked-in-home-per-spokesperson
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Wednesday he will release all of his text messages related to a welfare fraud investigation — including money spent on building a university volleyball arena that was pushed by retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and others with connections to Bryant.
From 2016 to 2019, the Mississippi Department of Human Services misspent more than $77 million that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the U.S., according to the state auditor. Prosecutors have said the department gave money to nonprofit organizations that spent it on projects such as the $5 million volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Bryant, a Republican, finished his second and final term as governor in January 2020. Weeks later, the first criminal charges were filed against six people, including John Davis, a Department of Human Services director chosen by Bryant.
In a video released Wednesday, Bryant repeated what he has said before — that he was the 2019 whistleblower who told the auditor’s office about misdeeds at the Department of Human Services.
“The fact is, I did nothing wrong,” Bryant said in the video. “I wasn’t aware of the wrongdoings of others. When I received evidence that suggested people appeared to be misappropriating funds, I immediately reported that to the agency whose job it is to investigate these matters.”
The Mississippi Department of Human Services, with a new director, filed a civil lawsuit last year against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and more than three dozen other people and businesses to try to recover more than $20 million of the misspent money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
No criminal charges have been filed against Bryant, and he is not being sued. Attorneys for some of the defendants in the civil suit have filed court papers that include text-message exchanges between Bryant, Favre and others about spending welfare money on the volleyball arena. Bryant earned a degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1977, more than a decade before Favre played football there. Favre’s daughter started playing volleyball there in 2017.
In November, Bryant’s attorney cited executive privilege in seeking to block a subpoena that sought more information from the former governor.
In late March, three news organizations — the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, the Mississippi Free Press and Mississippi Today — filed papers opposing Bryant’s effort to seal any information he would provide to the court.
“After much thought and discussion with counsel, I’ve made the decision to forgo any arguments about executive privilege on my text messages in this matter and simply release them all,” Bryant said in the video Wednesday. “Frankly, I’m tired of paying legal fees to respond to lawsuits that I’m not a party to in order to protect my privacy and an executive privilege that should exist for future governors.”
Davis pleaded guilty last year in the welfare misspending case, as did Nancy New. She is a Bryant ally who also attended the University of Southern Mississippi and ran a nonprofit organization that received Human Services contracts. As part of her guilty plea, New acknowledged her organization directed welfare money toward the volleyball arena and a pharmaceutical project backed by Favre. No criminal charges have been brought against Favre.
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2023-05-05T10:06:26+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/mississippi-ex-governor-to-release-texts-in-welfare-scandal/
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The Supreme Court decision to limit how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could make an already grave situation worse for those affected most by climate change and air pollution, advocates say.
Environmental and climate justice advocates from across the United States are decrying the court’s 6-3 ruling, saying it will be felt most by communities of color and poor communities, which are located near power plants at higher percentages than the national average. They are calling on the EPA to find alternate ways to limit carbon dioxide emissions and other forms of air pollution, and for Congress to grant the agency the authority to do so.
The court did not prohibit the EPA from regulating carbon emissions, in fact Chief Justice John Roberts said capping carbon emissions to move the U.S. away from burning coal for electricity “may be sensible for the crisis of the day.”
Despite this, advocates said the ruling puts disadvantaged communities at risk of greater harm due to the effects of climate change and air pollution. They also are concerned about the ability of the EPA to enforce other bedrock environmental laws, like the Clean Water Act.
The Supreme Court decision “denies relief to Black and other communities of color as well as poor communities disproportionately exposed to power plant pollution and vulnerable to climate change,” Monique Harden, assistant director of law and policy at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice told the Associated Press.
Harden’s organization has done extensive research on the effects of heavy industry on people living along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor — also known to some as Cancer Alley — a stretch of petrochemical plants and oil refineries.
That corridor touches New Orleans and Baton Rouge, two cities that have experienced intense storm surges and hurricanes worsened by climate change over the last 20 years. And Baton Rouge has a power plant, Big Cajun II, with two coal-fired units that’s owned by Cleco Power.
Thousands of miles west the Supreme Court decision was just as alarming to Darryl Molina Sarmiento, executive director of Communities for a Better Environment. She said the ruling is part of a decades-long effort by the fossil fuel industry to strip the EPA of its ability to protect vulnerable communities, including those that live alongside power plants.
“Because the entire western grid is connected, a polluting power plant in Southeast L.A. can be supplying power to wealthy white communities in Utah,” she said. The same is true when California imports power from coal-fired power plants in Arizona and the low-income communities of color that surround them there are polluted, she said.
On a press briefing with the Green New Deal Network, a nationwide coalition of environmental organizations, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman expressed concern that the decision could set a precedent that will limit regulatory agencies in their ability to protect human health.
“This ruling could potentially undermine all kinds of regulations that are about saving lives and promoting well-being,” he said. “We cannot, we must not and we will not let this court stop us. The Biden administration must declare a climate emergency immediately and use every single power at its disposal.”
Although carbon dioxide is not a health hazard, many other pollutants that are harmful to the respiratory system, like particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, are typically emitted along with them. Recent research has shown that people of color are disproportionately exposed to this type of air pollution.
“It is our responsibility to respond at this time because we cannot allow those who are most vulnerable to pay this price,” said Sen. Ed Markey, who was also on the call. “It’s up to those of us who have been given some power, given some privilege to now stand up, shoulder to shoulder with them, to engage in this fight.”
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2022-07-02T16:41:48+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/ap-health/environmental-justice-advocates-slam-supreme-court-ruling/
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Owen McElroy: Here's what you need to know about GFP game production areas
Are you ever out and about and drive past a game production area and wonder what the heck is going on out there?
With the addition of the habitat stamp, we are hiring contractors to help us get even more projects going to provide more habitat. The start of some of these projects might have you scratching your head along with some of the other things we commonly do. Below are some of the projects you may see on a game production area.
Large tracts of crop ground that gets harvested in the fall
Usually, when you see this going on, we are prepping the area with the help of a local farmer for a new grass planting. This process usually takes three to four years. This helps smooth out very rough ground and reduces the population of unwanted vegetation. This only occurs on ground that has had a previous farming history.
Areas of grass being hayed and then sprayed with glyphosate/Roundup
This is also a way to prep the area for a grass planting or help restore an existing planting.
By haying the area in the summer, it allows us the best opportunity to target our invasive cool-season grasses with a chemical application in the fall and/or following spring. We will then directly seed into the sod to provide better cover for wildlife and hunting opportunities in the future. If there are already warm-season grasses on the area, they will not be affected from the application because they are dormant when we spray. This allows them to flourish without the competition of the invasive grasses.
Second-year corn food plots
Every spring we go around to our game production areas and check on the use on our corn food plots. If there is a lot of corn still left, we will leave them standing.
During the summer, annual weeds will grow up between the rows providing better cover and more diversity in the planting. This attracts more bugs, which attract more wildlife to feed on these bugs.
By leaving the corn food plot for the second year, it also helps with a volunteer corn issue (corn that grows on its own after being mowed). Volunteer corn can be hard to control in food plots because glyphosate doesn’t take care of it. We have also been experimenting with over-seeding our brood mix into the second-year corn plots and having pretty good success. When they turn out, they are one of our most productive food plots we can plant.
Tree removal
There are plans on removing some old, degraded shelter belts from the landscape. These areas are not providing very good cover, and the plan in most of these areas would be to plant a better tree planting.
Depending on the number of deer in the area, you may see a 6-foot electric fence put up around the new planting to protect the trees from the deer browsing. These fences will be removed when we determine the planting is far enough along that it can withstand the deer.
There will also be areas where volunteer trees are removed. The trees that are being removed are invasive. Left uncheck, they will take over grass areas, leaving little space for grass-nesting birds to nest. They will also make an area less diverse, which will in turn make it less productive.
30-to-40-foot strips mowed through or around grass areas
These are fire breaks that are made in preparation for a spring burn. By mowing in the fall, it allows these areas to green up faster in the spring, providing a better break for prescribed fire. A lot of the time we will work with our neighbors to hay them for us. Removing all the grass from the area will also provide a better break.
These areas are not trails, and you cannot drive on them with your vehicles. If caught doing so, you would be in violation of driving on public lands. Any trails on game production areas will be marked with signs noting you can drive on them.
Have questions? Give us a call
If you're ever by an area and curious what we have going on out there, feel free to give us a call and we will be able to answer your questions. The Watertown office manages game production areas in Clark, Codington, Hamlin, Deuel, Grant and Roberts counties. The Aberdeen office manages game production areas in Day, Marshall, Brown, Spink, Faulk, Edmunds and McPherson counties.
Remember we only, manage game production areas. They have yellow signs. We have no management authority on waterfowl production areas. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oversees those. And walk-in areas are private land.
Owen McElroy is the regional habitat program manager for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
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2022-07-01T13:04:03+00:00
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thepublicopinion.com
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https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/sports/outdoors/2022/07/01/south-dakota-gfp-manages-production-areas-help-wildlife/7768076001/
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, May 11, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
917 PM CDT Fri May 5 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Neches River Near Alto affecting Cherokee, Houston, Anderson and
Trinity Counties.
For the Neches River...including Lake Palestine, Neches, Alto,
Diboll, Rockland...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
For more hydrologic information, copy and paste the following website
address into your favorite web browser URL bar:
water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=shv
The next statement will be issued Saturday morning around 11 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON TO EARLY
THURSDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Neches River Near Alto.
* WHEN...From Saturday afternoon to early Thursday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 16.0 feet, Boat ramps and picnic areas near the river
will begin to flood. Ranchers should move cattle and equipment
near the river to higher ground.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Friday, the stage was 15.4 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above the 16 foot
flood stage early Saturday morning and crest near 16.7 feet
Sunday afternoon through Monday due to increased flow
upstream.
- Flood stage is 16.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
16.5 feet on 03/12/2012.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN WILLIAMSON AND CENTRAL BURNET COUNTIES...
At 917 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Oatmeal, or
near Bertram, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Burnet, Bertram, Lake Victor, Mahomet, Joppa, Oatmeal and Shady
Grove.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Angelina River Near Lufkin.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 165.0 feet, Expect flooding to continue for several
days with the majority of the gravel access roadway flooded.
Boaters and four wheel-operators should use caution traversing
both upstream and downstream on the Angelina River as currents can
become swift and turbulent.
- At 7:30 PM CDT Friday, the stage was 164.5 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:30 PM CDT Friday was 164.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river is currently at a flat crest, with a
very slow recession expected to commence Saturday night.
- Flood stage is 161.0 feet.
- Flood History...No available flood history.
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2023-05-06T03:17:08+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-shreveport-warnings-watches-and-18082594.php
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The award, named after NSF co-founder and first executive director Walter F. Snyder, honors those who contribute to the advancement of environmental and public health
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NSF, a global public health and safety organization, and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), representing more than 6,000 members of the environmental health workforce, announced today that Captain (CAPT) Luis O. Rodriguez, MS, REHS/RS, CP-FS, CPO, DAAS, is the 2022 recipient of the Walter F. Snyder Environmental Health Award. CAPT Rodriguez, a Senior Environmental Health Specialist for the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), received the award on June 30 at the 2022 NEHA Annual Education Conference. He has dedicated his career of more than 20 years to safeguarding environmental health and safety.
"It is an incredible honor to be recognized by my peers and be part of those professionals seeking to improve environmental health services across the nation," said Rodriguez.
The Snyder Award was created in 1971 in honor of Walter F. Snyder, co-founder and first executive director of NSF. Presented by NSF and NEHA, it is awarded annually to individuals who continue Snyder's legacy through outstanding contributions to environmental and public health.
"From improving emergency preparedness to strengthening environmental health programs nationwide, Luis has spent his entire career demonstrating his commitment to improving and protecting public health," said Pedro Sancha, President and CEO of NSF. "We have witnessed Luis' dedication firsthand at NSF through his active participation on the NSF Joint Committee of Food Equipment and NSF Council of Public Health Consultants. His efforts and support have had a lasting value and positive impact on public health and safety. Through these achievements and many more, Luis has proved himself worthy of the Walter F. Snyder Award."
For the past two decades, CAPT Rodriguez has served in fundamental roles addressing environmental hazards and improving environmental health services. In his role at the CDC, he leads efforts to modernize the national environmental health workforce by helping state and local health departments improve the collection, integration, dissemination and use of data related to environmental health services.
Through his extensive work in vessel sanitation, CAPT Rodriguez helped prevent the introduction of acute gastroenteritis into the U.S. from cruise ships sailing from foreign to domestic ports since 2010. He directed more than 3,000 operational and construction inspections, numerous outbreak surveillance and investigations, more than 50 training seminars for cruise ship managers, and, most recently, served on deployments to address the COVID-19 pandemic. He regularly collaborates with numerous partners, including NSF, NEHA, Conference of Food Protection, and state jurisdictions to improve environmental health.
"Luis has established an impressive track record of consensus-building and servant leadership throughout his career in environmental health, both in the United States and beyond," said David T. Dyjack, Dr.PH, CIH, Executive Director and CEO of NEHA. "Most recently, his leadership has been leveraged through a total of four CDC deployments to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in cruise ships, emergency intake sites and more. Luis continues to be called upon by our nation in recognition of his expertise in environmental health, vessel sanitation, and emergency preparedness and response."
In his previous role at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), CAPT Rodriguez oversaw the manufacturing and processing of FDA-regulated products, responded to multiple national disasters, and served as a program expert for international food and bioresearch monitoring inspections. His efforts ensuring FDA-regulated products were safe for consumers, recalling unsafe products from the market, and responding to emergencies earned him great recognition.
CAPT Rodriguez has received numerous awards for his leadership and commitment to environmental health. He most recently received a USPHS Outstanding Service Medal as well as the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry's Excellence in Quantitative Sciences Award. He was also nominated for the USPHS Environmental Health Officer Advisory Committee's (EHOPAC) Ted Moran Award. On July 1, he was promoted to USPHS Captain.
In addition to his roles with USPHS and CDC, CAPT Rodriguez serves as a NEHA technical advisor on emergency preparedness and peer reviewer and author of the NEHA Journal of Environmental Health; voting member of NSF's Joint Committee of Food Equipment and Council of Public Health Consultants; member of the Commissioned Officer Association Board of Directors; member of the Hispanic Officers Advisory Committee (HOAC); and mentor for CDC, HOAC, and EHOPAC. He holds a BA in science and education and an MS in environmental health from the University of Puerto Rico, as well as PhD studies in public health from Walden University.
Snyder Award nominations are open to the public with recipients selected by a juror panel of environmental health leaders. For more information about the Walter F. Snyder Award or to nominate a colleague for next year's award, visit NSF's website.
For media interviews, please contact Anj Oto at media@nsf.org or Chana Goussetis at cgoussetis@neha.org.
NSF is an independent, global organization that facilitates standards development to minimize adverse health effects and protect the environment. With clients in more than 100 countries, NSF tests and certifies products for the food, water, health sciences, and consumer goods industries. Founded in 1944 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, NSF is committed to protecting human health and safety worldwide. NSF is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Water Quality, Food Safety, and Medical Device Safety.
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is a professional organization with more than 6,000 members working in environmental health in the public and private sectors as well as in universities and uniformed services. It publishes the peer-reviewed Journal of Environmental Health providing a valuable resource for the complete spectrum of environmental health topics. NEHA's mission, "to build, sustain, and empower an effective environmental health workforce" is as relevant today as it was when the organization was founded through NEHA's training, education, networking, professional development and policy.
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2022-07-06T14:17:25+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/luis-rodriguez-recognized-by-nsf-national-environmental-health-association-neha-with-walter-f-snyder-environmental-health-award/
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Top Roman Catholic leaders in Oklahoma share remarks on Pope Benedict
Oklahoma's top Roman Catholic leaders shared remarks Saturday on the death of Pope Benedict XVI.
"Pope Benedict XVI was among the greatest theologians of our time, having a profound influence on our appreciation of the call to holiness for every baptized person and the obligation as disciples to live as humble servants and seekers of truth," the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, said in a statement.
"I was blessed by his appointment as Archbishop of Oklahoma City in 2010 and my episcopacy has been guided by, among other things, his crystal clear teaching and his love for the sacred liturgy," Coakley said.
"We entrust this humble servant to the merciful hands of God that he may be welcomed into the glory of paradise and find eternal rest and everlasting peace."
The Most Rev. David Konderla, bishop of the Tulsa Diocese, asked the faithful in eastern Oklahoma to join him in praying "for the repose of the soul of our Holy Father Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI." The bishop will preside at a Mass for the deceased pope at 6:30 p.m. at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa.
"Today, we entrust to the love and mercy of God, his most devoted servant Pope Benedict XVI," Konderla said in a post on the Tulsa Diocese's Facebook page.
"As the faithful collaborator of Pope St. John Paul II and then as Pope Benedict XVI, he gave his life to the service of the Church and the growth of her understanding of all that God has revealed to us. His service will go on through the voluminous theological writings that we will spend a long time unpacking. We thank you, Pope Benedict, for all you have given us. May your holy death bring you face to face with the One you studied so ardently during life."
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2022-12-31T18:52:21+00:00
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oklahoman.com
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https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/religion/2022/12/31/top-roman-catholic-leaders-in-oklahoma-share-remarks-on-pope-benedict/69768771007/
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A Florida sinkhole that claimed a man’s life in 2013 reopens, this time harmlessly
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sinkhole that in 2013 fatally swallowed a man sleeping in his own house has reopened for a third time, only now it’s behind chain-link fencing and doing no harm to people or property.
Hillsborough County officials said the sinkhole located in the Tampa suburb of Seffner appeared again Monday, which they said is not unusual for such underground formations especially in central Florida with its porous limestone base. The hole was about 19 feet (6 meters) wide at its largest point.
“None of the homes surrounding this appear to be in any danger,” said Jon-Paul Lavandeira, director of the county code enforcement department. “This is not uncommon, what we’re seeing here.”
A decade ago, 37-year-old Jeff Bush was sleeping in a bedroom when the earth opened up and devoured him and part of the house. Five other people escaped unharmed and Bush’s brother, Jeremy, tried in vain to dig him out of the hole. Jeff Bush’s body has never been found.
“There’s not a day goes by I don’t think about my brother,” Jeremy Bush told WTSP-TV. “This is the only place I’ve got to visit him.”
After Bush’s home was demolished, county officials erected a pair of fences around the lot to prevent any further injury. The sinkhole opened again in 2015 and was filled in with a water-gravel mixture, Lavandeira said at a news conference Tuesday. That will be done again.
“If there’s a reoccurrence, it’s in a controlled area. It’s going to stay right there,” he said.
Sinkholes are as much a part of the Florida landscape as sandy beaches, alligators and developers. Florida has more sinkholes than any state in the nation, mainly because the peninsula is comprised of porous carbonate rocks such as limestone that store and help move groundwater.
When dirt, clay or sand on top gets too heavy for the limestone roof, it can collapse and form a sinkhole. Sinkholes are caused naturally but they can be triggered by outside events such as rainfall or from pumping groundwater used to irrigate crops. The central Florida region is ground zero for sinkholes, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The state Office of Insurance Regulation said sinkhole claims in Florida cost insurers $1.4 billion from 2006 to 2010.
Most sinkholes are small, affecting things like parking lots and roadways. But some are quite large, such as one near Orlando that grew to 400 feet (121 meters) across in 1981 and swallowed five cars, most of two businesses, a three-bedroom house and the deep end of an Olympic-size swimming pool.
It’s quite likely the Seffner sinkhole will reopen sometime in the future, Lavandeira said.
“This is Mother Nature. This is not a man-made occurrence,” he said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-13T12:57:03+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2023/07/13/florida-sinkhole-that-claimed-mans-life-2013-reopens-this-time-harmlessly/
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—U.S. Comparable Sales Increased 3.0% —
— Third Quarter Diluted EPS of $0.25; Adjusted Diluted EPS1 of $3.27—
— Raises Full Year 2022 Outlook—
MOORESVILLE, N.C., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) today reported net earnings of $154 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.25 for the quarter ended Oct. 28, 2022, which included a pre-tax non-cash asset impairment charge of $2.1 billion related to its Canadian retail business, compared to diluted EPS of $2.73 in the third quarter of 2021. Excluding the impairment charge, third quarter adjusted diluted EPS1 increased 19.8% to $3.27 compared to the prior year.
Total sales for the third quarter were $23.5 billion compared to $22.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021, and comparable sales increased 2.2%. Comparable sales for the U.S. home improvement business increased 3.0% for the third quarter.
"We delivered better-than-expected results this quarter, with U.S. comps up 3%, driven by Pro growth of 19% and improved DIY sales trends. Sales on Lowes.com grew 12%, on top of 25% growth last year. We also drove substantial improvement in adjusted operating margin through disciplined execution and cost management. This enabled us to award $200 million in bonuses to our front-line hourly associates, while also announcing $170 million in permanent wage increases," commented Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe's chairman, president and CEO. "I am pleased that we are once again able to share the success of the company with our hard-working front-line associates, and I look forward to discussing our next chapter of growth at our Analyst & Investor Conference in December."
Capital Allocation
With a disciplined focus on its leading capital allocation program, the company continues to generate long-term shareholder value. During the quarter, the company repurchased approximately 20.5 million shares for $4.0 billion, and it paid $666 million in dividends.
As of Oct. 28, 2022, Lowe's operated 1,969 home improvement and hardware stores in the U.S. and Canada representing 208 million square feet of retail selling space, and it serviced approximately 212 dealer-owned stores.
The company is increasing its full year 2022 financial outlook reflecting stronger-than-expected operating results.
All Adjusted measures exclude asset impairment and expected transaction costs associated with the sale of our Canadian retail business, which is currently expected to close in early 2023.
Full Year 2022 Outlook -- a 53-week Year (comparisons to full year 2021 -- a 52-week year)
- Total sales of approximately $97 – $98 billion, including the 53rd week
- 53rd week expected to increase total sales by approximately $1.0 billion to $1.5 billion
- Comparable sales expected to be flat to down -1% as compared to prior year
- Gross margin rate up slightly compared to prior year
- Depreciation and amortization of approximately $1.75 billion
- Adjusted operating income2 as a percentage of sales (adjusted operating margin2) of 13.0%
- Interest expense of $1.1 to $1.2 billion
- Adjusted effective income tax rate2 of approximately 25%
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share2 of $13.65 to $13.80 (previously $13.10 to $13.60)
- Total share repurchases of approximately $13 billion (previously $12 billion)
- Adjusted ROIC2 of over 37%
- Capital expenditures of up to $2 billion
The Canadian retail business represents less than 6% of consolidated full year 2022 sales outlook, and approximately 60 basis points of dilution on the consolidated full year 2022 operating margin outlook.
A conference call to discuss third quarter 2022 operating results is scheduled for today, Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 9 a.m. ET. The conference call will be available by webcast and can be accessed by visiting Lowe's website at ir.lowes.com and clicking on Lowe's Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call Webcast. Supplemental slides will be available approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the conference call. A replay of the call will be archived at ir.lowes.com.
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 19 million customer transactions a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements including words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "plan", "desire", "project", "estimate", "intend", "will", "should", "could", "would", "may", "strategy", "potential", "opportunity", "outlook", "scenario", "guidance", and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve, among other things, expectations, projections, and assumptions about future financial and operating results, objectives, business outlook, priorities, sales growth, shareholder value, capital expenditures, cash flows, the housing market, the home improvement industry, demand for products and services, share repurchases, Lowe's strategic initiatives, including those relating to acquisitions and dispositions and the impact of such transactions on our strategic and operational plans and financial results. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties and we can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.
A wide variety of potential risks, uncertainties, and other factors could materially affect our ability to achieve the results either expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, changes in general economic conditions, such as volatility and/or lack of liquidity from time to time in U.S. and world financial markets and the consequent reduced availability and/or higher cost of borrowing to Lowe's and its customers, the risk that asset impairment and deal-related transaction costs on the divestiture of the Canadian retail business could ultimately be greater than what we currently expect, slower rates of growth in real disposable personal income that could affect the rate of growth in consumer spending, inflation and its impacts on discretionary spending and on our costs, shortages, and other disruptions in the labor supply, interest rate and currency fluctuations, home price appreciation or decreasing housing turnover, the availability of consumer credit and of mortgage financing, trade policy changes or additional tariffs, outbreaks of pandemics, fluctuations in fuel and energy costs, inflation or deflation of commodity prices, natural disasters, armed conflicts, acts of both domestic and international terrorism, and other factors that can negatively affect our customers.
Investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties, risks and potential events including, but not limited to, those described in "Item 1A - Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and as may be updated from time to time in Item 1A in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or other subsequent filings with the SEC. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these statements other than as required by law.
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1 Adjusted diluted earnings per share is a non-GAAP financial measure. Refer to the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation" section of this release for additional information as well as reconciliations between the Company's GAAP and non-GAAP financial results.
2 Adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted diluted earnings per share, and adjusted effective income tax rate are non-GAAP financial measures. In addition, adjusted Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is calculated using a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items without unreasonable effort, including timing of and deal-related transaction costs associated with the sale of our Canadian retail business.
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Non-GAAP Financial Measure Reconciliation (Unaudited)
To provide additional transparency, the Company has presented a comparison to the non-GAAP financial measure of adjusted diluted earnings per share for the three months ended October 28, 2022. This measure excludes the impact of a discrete item, further described below, not contemplated in Lowe's Business Outlook to assist analysts and investors in understanding operational performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2022.
Fiscal 2022 Impacts
During the third quarter, the Company recognized financial impacts from the following discrete item, not contemplated in the Company's Business Outlook for fiscal 2022:
- In the third quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company recognized a pre-tax $2.1 billion long-lived asset impairment of the Canadian retail business (Canadian retail business transaction costs).
Adjusted diluted earnings per share should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful indicator of, the Company's diluted earnings per share as prepared in accordance with GAAP. The Company's methods of determining non-GAAP financial measures may differ from the method used by other companies and may not be comparable.
The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items without unreasonable effort, including timing of and deal-related transaction costs associated with the sale of our Canadian retail business.
A reconciliation between the Company's GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is shown below and available on the Company's website at ir.lowes.com.
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Body dead for several months found in SC donation bin
LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) — A body found inside a donation bin in South Carolina had likely been dead for at least several months, Kershaw County authorities said.
Someone found the body after checking the rusty bin well off U.S. Highway 1 in Lugoff after smelling a bad odor, investigators said.
Investigators first thought the body might be from someone seeking shelter from the recent cold snap, but quickly determined the remains had been in the bin for at least several months, Kershaw County Coroner David West said.
The bin appeared to have not been emptied for years and had VHS tapes inside, West said.
Investigators for now are treating the death as a homicide and took the bin and the body away for further investigation, Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan said.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday, authorities sad.
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16 New Models with Sustainability in Mind Range in Size from 43 Inches to 98 Inches and Incorporate Commonly Requested Professional Features
PARAMUS, N.J., June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics is adding 16 professional BRAVIA 4K HDR displays to its expansive portfolio with the launch of the BZ50L, BZ40L, BZ35L and BZ30L series, which are optimized for commercial environments where reliability, picture quality, and broad compatibility are required. With options covering high-end, mid-range and standard needs, and sizes from 43 inches to 98 inches, the new lineup offers an extensive array of displays to address virtually every demand, while incorporating Pro BRAVIA users' favorite features such as unparalleled image quality, a wider viewing angle, thoughtful professional features and a smart System on a Chip (SoC) platform.
A unique differentiator of the new lineup is the bright BZ40L series, which features a state-of-the-art panel treatment, unlike competitive displays on the market. The BZ40L's Deep Black Non-Glare Coating offers both high haze and low reflection, while maintaining deep blacks and high contrast.
"As we evolve our professional BRAVIA display offerings, we're mindfully looking to address our customers' latest desires and needs, while prioritizing sustainability and we've done just that by expanding our lineup and incorporating new technologies into the BZ40L series that address customers' needs for a high haze, anti-reflection, non-glare portfolio that supports installations in bright high ambient light environments," said Rich Ventura, Vice President, Professional Display Solutions, Sony Electronics. "Pro AV users continue to trust Sony's professional displays due to their picture quality, flexibility, range of sizes and ease of use and we know they'll value the new options' exceptional combination of features that meet today's changing commercial landscape."
The latest professional BRAVIA display series consists of the following models.
The flagship BZ50L with Sony XR processing and unrivaled picture quality boasts 780 nits of brightness in a larger sized display:
- FW-98BZ50L (98 inch)
Additional highlights of the 98 inch BZ50L include a roughly 22% reduction in weight and 28% slimmer bezel width when compared to Sony's professional BRAVIA BZ40J series. To help make the large model more portable and installation friendly, ergonomic horizontal handles are incorporated into the bottom of the display, while vertical handles are featured on the top.
The high brightness, non-glare BZ40L series with X1 processing achieves 700 nits at a high 47% haze with anti-reflection (except for the FW-85BZ40L, which achieves 650 nits at 58% haze), without loss of contrast:
- FW-85BZ40L (85 inch)
- FW-75BZ40L (75 inch)
- FW-65BZ40L (65 inch)
- FW-55BZ40L (55 inch)
The enhanced BZ35L series features increased storage and 550 nits of robust brightness and an X1 Processor:
- FW-85BZ35L (85 inch)
- FW-75BZ35L (75 inch)
- FW-65BZ35L (65 inch)
- FW-55BZ35L (55 inch)
The complete BZ30L series offers a full range of sizes, X1 processing (except for the FW-98BZ30L, which is equipped with an XR Processor) and 440 nits of brightness:
- FW-98BZ30L (98 inch)
- FW-85BZ30L (85 inch)
- FW-75BZ30L (75 inch)
- FW-65BZ30L (65 inch)
- FW-55BZ30L (55 inch)
- FW-50BZ30L (50 inch)
- FW-43BZ30L (43 inch)
All 16 models incorporate sustainability elements – from the use of SORPLAS™ recycled plastic and less ink usage on the cartons to an optional stand for less waste and ECO Dashboard for better understanding power consumption based on settings configuration. Additional common features include 24/7 operation, one step setting of pre-sets for easy configuration and customization, mirroring capabilities, Pro Mode technology for simplifying operations, a uniform bezel design, flexible installation for portrait and tilt mounting, as well as support for multi-display installation to enable tiling and a side logo for blend-in design purposes. The BZ50L, BZ40L and BZ35L series include an increased internal storage of 32GB1 for more flexibility and ease of use. All models feature a new center alignment rail kit for easy mounting, while the 98 inch options come standard with center aligned VESA patterns. The new portfolio also incorporates a streamlined common cabinet design that allows integrators and designers to interchangeably mix and match displays from each series based on business needs. By doing this, Sony's new pro BRAVIA lineup increases efficiencies and scalability for deployments requiring different brightness levels and feature sets while maintaining a common size strategy.
The new professional BRAVIA display lineup will also support Sony's Alliance Partner Network, allowing for even further integration and compatibility with established and emerging solutions providers across corporate, education, transportation and retail applications.
In the US and Canada, the new 98 inch models, BZ30L and BZ40L series are planned to be available in July 2023 while the BZ35L series is expected in October 2023. The new pro BRAVIA BZ40L series features a 5-year standard warranty, while the BZ50L, BZ35L and BZ30L series offers a 3-year standard warranty. The latest series will be on display at InfoComm 2023 in Sony's booth, #1701, from June 14-16 in Orlando, FL.
For more information on Sony's professional display technologies, please visit: https://pro.sony/displays. For the latest on new products and solutions from Sony at InfoComm 2023, please visit https://pro.sony/infocomm and https://pro.sony/press or follow Sony Professional on social media: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
About Sony Electronics Inc.
Sony Electronics is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America and an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world, with a portfolio that encompasses electronics, music, motion pictures, mobile, gaming, robotics and financial services. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Sony Electronics is a leader in electronics for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, engineering, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Sony Electronics creates products that innovate and inspire generations, such as the award-winning Alpha Interchangeable Lens Cameras and revolutionary high-resolution audio products. Sony is also a leading manufacturer of end-to-end solutions from 4K professional broadcast and A/V equipment to industry leading 4K and 8K Ultra HD TVs. Visit http://www.sony.com/news for more information.
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TX Austin/San Antonio TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for South Central Texas
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
TXZ192-122015-
Travis-
Including the city of Austin
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.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 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ205-122015-
Bexar-
Including the city of San Antonio
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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TXZ183-122015-
Val Verde-
Including the city of Del Rio
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.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 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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TXZ220-122015-
Atascosa-
Including the city of Pleasanton
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the lower 90s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then 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 chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly
in the morning. Cooler with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
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TXZ187-122015-
Bandera-
Including the city of Bandera
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 60. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs around 90.
.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 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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TXZ193-122015-
Bastrop-
Including the city of Bastrop
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.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 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs around 80. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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TXZ190-122015-
Blanco-
Including the city of Blanco
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows around 60. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs around 90.
.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 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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TXZ172-122015-
Burnet-
Including the city of Burnet
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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TXZ208-122015-
Caldwell-
Including the city of Lockhart
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly sunny with a
slight chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY...Partly 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
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...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
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ206-122015-
Comal-
Including the city of New Braunfels
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.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 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ224-122015-
De Witt-
Including the city of Cuero
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the lower 90s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Temperature falling into the mid 80s in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs around 80. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs around 70. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ228-122015-
Dimmit-
Including the city of Carrizo Springs
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 90s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with thunderstorms likely. Showers
likely. Cooler with highs around 80. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ184-122015-
Edwards-
Including the city of Rocksprings
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ209-122015-
Fayette-
Including the city of La Grange
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.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 upper 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms. A slight chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ219-122015-
Frio-
Including the city of Pearsall
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ188-122015-
Gillespie-
Including the city of Fredericksburg
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.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 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ223-122015-
Gonzales-
Including the city of Gonzales
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ207-122015-
Guadalupe-
Including the city of Seguin
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.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 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs around 80. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ191-122015-
Hays-
Including the city of San Marcos
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly sunny with a
slight chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ222-122015-
Karnes-
Including the city of Karnes City
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the upper 60s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming north around
5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs around 80. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs around 70. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ189-122015-
Kendall-
Including the city of Boerne
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows around 60. North winds
around 5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ186-122015-
Kerr-
Including the city of Kerrville
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming sunny. Warmer
with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.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 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ202-122015-
Kinney-
Including the city of Brackettville
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. More humid with highs in the upper 80s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs
around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ225-122015-
Lavaca-
Including the city of Hallettsville
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.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 upper 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ194-122015-
Lee-
Including the city of Giddings
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ171-122015-
Llano-
Including the city of Llano
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ217-122015-
Maverick-
Including the city of Eagle Pass
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ204-122015-
Medina-
Including the city of Hondo
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers 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 AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ185-122015-
Real-
Including the city of Leakey
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs around
90. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 60. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ203-122015-
Uvalde-
Including the city of Uvalde
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. More humid with highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs
around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ173-122015-
Williamson-
Including the city of Georgetown
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ221-122015-
Wilson-
Including the city of Floresville
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with a slight
chance of showers this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ218-122015-
Zavala-
Including the city of Crystal City
202 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs
around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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2022-10-12T08:44:51+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/TX-Austin-San-Antonio-TX-Zone-Forecast-17503323.php
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3 officers hospitalized for suspected secondary drug exposure after arresting man on narcotics, police say
SUNSET BEACH, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) – Three police officers in North Carolina were hospitalized for suspected secondary drug exposure on Sunday after encountering the same man.
According to the Sunset Beach Police Department, the officers were exposed to narcotics during an arrest.
Police responded to a call for two people reportedly under the influence of drugs. The two people were arrested for felony drug possession, but suddenly, one of the officers began to feel sick.
An ambulance rushed the officer to the hospital for suspected secondary narcotics exposure.
One of the people who was arrested was also taken to the hospital for treatment. Once he was released, a second officer drove the man from the hospital to the jail.
While en route, the officer began to feel sick and called for assistance. That officer was also taken to the hospital via ambulance for suspected secondary drug exposure.
A third officer then picked up the man and brought him to the Brunswick County Detention Center, but after dropping him off, that officer also began to feel sick and was taken to the hospital.
Sunset Beach police said all three officers have been released from the hospital.
Teams in hazmat suits sealed the drugs to be moved. The State Bureau of Investigation will test the drugs to find out what they are.
Copyright 2022 WECT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-30T19:11:21+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/08/30/3-officers-hospitalized-suspected-secondary-drug-exposure-after-arresting-man-narcotics-police-say/
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives.
But in some ways, removing the dams is the easy part. The hard part will come over the next decade as workers, partnering with Native American tribes, plant and monitor nearly 17 billion seeds as they try to restore the Klamath River and the surrounding land to what it looked like before the dams started to go up more than a century ago.
The demolition is part of a national movement to return the natural flow of the nation’s rivers and restore habitat for fish and the ecosystems that sustain other wildlife. More than 2,000 dams have been removed in the U.S. as of February, with the bulk of those having come down within the last 25 years, according to the advocacy group American Rivers.
When demolition is completed by the end of next year, more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) of river will have opened for threatened species of fish and other wildlife. By comparison, the 65 dams removed in the U.S. last year combined to reconnect 430 miles (692 kilometers) of river.
Along the Klamath, the dam removals won’t be a major hit to the power supply; they produced less than 2% of power company PacifiCorp’s energy generation when they were running at full capacity — enough to power about 70,000 homes. Though the hydroelectric power produced by dams is considered a clean, renewable source of energy, many larger dams in the U.S. West have become a target for environmental groups and tribes because of the harm they cause to fish and river ecosystems.
The project will empty three reservoirs over about 3.5 square miles (9 square kilometers) near the California-Oregon border, exposing soil to sunlight in some places for the first time in more than a century.
For the past five years, Native American tribes have gathered seeds by hand and sent them to nurseries with plans to sow the seeds along the banks of the newly wild river. Helicopters will bring in hundreds of thousands of trees and shrubs to plant along the banks, including wads of tree roots to create habitat for fish.
This growth usually takes decades to happen naturally. But officials are pressing nature’s fast-forward button because they hope to repel an invasion of foreign plants, such as starthistle, which dominate the landscape at the expense of native plants.
“Why not just let nature take its course? Well, nature didn’t take its course when dams got put in. We can’t pretend this gigantic change in the landscape has not happened and we can’t just ignore the fact that invasive species are a big problem in the west and in California,” said Dave Meurer, director of community affairs for Resource Environmental Solutions, the company leading the restoration project.
PacifiCorp built the dams starting in 1918 to generate electricity. The dams halted the natural flow of the river and disrupted the lifecycle of salmon, a fish that spends most of its life in the Pacific Ocean but returns to the chilly mountain streams to lay eggs. The fish are culturally and spiritually significant to a number of Native American tribes, who historically survived by fishing the massive runs of salmon that would come back to the rivers each year.
A combination of low water levels and warm temperatures in 2002 led to a bacterial outbreak that killed more than 34,000 fish, mostly Chinook salmon. The loss jumpstarted decades of advocacy from Native American tribes and environmental groups, culminating last year when federal regulators approved a plan to remove the dams.
“The river is our church, the salmon is our cross. That’s how it relates to the people. So it’s very sacred to us,” said Kenneth Brink, vice chairman of the Karuk Tribe. “The river is not just a place we go to swim. It’s life. It creates everything for our people.”
The project will cost $500 million, paid for by taxpayers and PacifiCorps ratepayers. Crews have mostly removed the smallest of the four dams, known as Copco No. 2. The other three dams are expected to come down next year. That will leave some homeowners in the area without the picturesque lake they have lived on for years.
The Siskiyou County Water Users Association, which formed about a decade ago to stop the dam removal project, filed a federal lawsuit. But so far they have been unable to stop the demolition.
“Unfortunately it’s a mistake you can’t turn back from,” association President Richard Marshall said.
The water level in the lakes will drop between 3 feet and 5 feet (1 meter to 1.5 meters) per day over the first few months of next year. Crews will follow that water line, taking advantage of the moisture in the soil to plant seeds from more than 98 native plant species including wooly sunflower, Idaho fescue and Blue bunch wheat grass.
Tribes have been invested in the process from the start. Resource Environmental Solutions hired tribal members to gather seeds from native plants by hand. The Yurok Tribe even hired a restoration botanist.
Each species has a role to play. Some, like lupine, grow quickly and prepare the soil for other plants. Others, like oak trees, take years to fully mature and provide shade for other plants.
“It’s a wonderful marriage of tribal traditional ecological knowledge and western science,” said Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, the nonprofit entity created to oversee the project.
The previous largest dam removal project was on Washington state’s Elwha River, which flows out of Olympic National Park into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Congress in 1992 approved the demolition of the two dams on the river constructed in the early 1900s. After two decades of planning, workers finished removing them in 2014, opening about 70 miles (113 kilometers) of habitat for salmon and steelhead.
Biologists say it will take at least a generation for the river to recover, but within months of the dams being removed, salmon were already recolonizing sections of the river they had not accessed in more than a century. The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, which has been closely involved in restoration work, is opening a limited subsistence fishery this fall for coho salmon, its first since the dams came down.
Brink, the Karuk Tribe vice chair, hopes similar success will happen on the Klamath River. Multiple times per year, Brink and other tribal members participate in ceremonial salmon fishing using handheld nets. In many years, there have been no fish to catch, he said.
“When the river gets to flow freely again, the people can also begin to worship freely again,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Eugene Johnson in Seattle contributed.
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2023-07-31T19:00:51+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/national/ap-as-work-begins-on-the-largest-us-dam-removal-project-tribes-look-to-a-future-of-growth/
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-14-22-24-29
(five, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $27,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-14-22-24-29
(five, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $27,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
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2022-05-24T03:13:26+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Badger-5-game-17193910.php
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MILTON, Del. - Special Guests from Milton Elementary School came by on Thursday afternoon to visit WRDE Coast-TV News Station.
Second grade students came to learn about journalism and TV news. They spoke with WRDE's anchors Madeleine Overturf, Mallory Metzner, and Telemundo Delmarva and WRDE's reporter Ana Sofia Román.
They asked great questions about meteorology and learned a bit about storytelling and video editing, along with learning what happens behind the scenes during news production and getting a tour around the studio and newsroom.
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2023-05-26T03:33:57+00:00
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wrde.com
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https://www.wrde.com/news/students-from-milton-elementary-school-visits-wrde-news-station/article_f44a7732-fb40-11ed-8435-e3bf5e91cafd.html
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NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
If you own shares in any of the companies listed above and
would like to discuss our investigations or have any questions concerning
this notice or your rights or interests, please contact:
Joshua Rubin, Esq.
Weiss Law
305 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(212) 682-3025
(888) 593-4771
stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of UserTesting, Inc. (NYSE: USER), in connection with the proposed acquisition of USER by Thoma Bravo and Sunstone Partners. Under the merger agreement, USER shareholders will receive $7.50 in cash for each share of USER common stock owned. If you own USER shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/user
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CLR), in connection with the proposed merger of CLR with Omega Acquisition, Inc., via tender offer. Under the terms of the merger agreement, CLR shareholders will receive $74.28 in cash for each share of CLR common stock owned. If you own CLR shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/clr
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Akouos, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKUS), in connection with the proposed tender offer for AKUS by Eli Lilly and Company. Under the tender offer, AKUS shareholders will receive $12.50 in cash, plus one contingent value right ("CVR") of up to $3.00 per share for each share of AKUS common stock owned. If you own AKUS shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/akus
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2022-11-15T23:32:11+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/11/15/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-reminds-user-clr-akus-lfg-shareholders-about-its-ongoing-investigations/
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When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case leaked, Bay Area artist and activist Ashima Yadava was, like so many others, devastated. But by the time the official decision came down, she had resolved to find a meaningful way to respond. Thus, with the help of a collective of artists, Huq: I Seek No Favor was born. I called Yadava to talk about her stunning project and how her personal history informs her powerful work.
I know you and I have talked about this, but I wonder if you can tell folks a little bit about your project?
Last year when the Supreme Court draft was leaked in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, part of me…I guess I didn’t want to believe it was happening. And so I downloaded it, and I started reading through it to make sense of what was going on. And the more pages I read, the angrier I got, and the more unsettled I was. At some point, I started marking words to make haikus of what I was reading. I would shred some pages, make pulp and paper out of it, just using different forms to try and make sense of it. Then in June, the final decision came out, and it was a 213-page document. I realized that this year would be the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and I thought it was important to mark that date and point out that we’re being taken back all of these years. Everything that women have fought for, everything that nonbinary people have fought for, everything that anyone who cares about equality and equity in the workforce was being overturned. And the number 50 really stuck with me.
I decided to reach out to 50 people for their reactions. I divided the 213 pages by 50, which came out to 4.2, and I reached out to artists to see if they wanted to use this as a way to process the rage that we were all feeling.
How did your personal history growing up female in India inform the project?
Everything that I ever do stems from having grown up in India. There’s a line in a poem by the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti that says, “The fish, even in the fisherman’s net, still carries the smell of the sea.” My sensibilities you know, as an artist, as who I am, everything that I do is colored with that lens of having grown up in India. When I moved to the United States, it was to put distance between myself and the circumstances that said I had to live a certain way because I’m a woman. I remember my father hated if I wore a sleeveless dress, I remember him getting me out of the car and sending me back home to change because he didn’t think what I was wearing was appropriate. It’s so in your face every single day of your life that you’re a woman, you’re a girl, you can’t do all these things that men can. And I’m not talking 1900 or whatever. This is all relevant now.
I think that’s why it feels even harder to accept what is happening in the United States, because I was promised a better future in this country. America stood for certain things, and that is changing.
What’s the inspiration behind the project’s title?
“Huq” is the Hindustani word for “rights”—I think it has origins in Arabic. I always heard this word growing up, like, this is my right, this is my huq. I thought it was important to have a bilingual title because I think it pointed to the fact that this ruling is affecting a very diverse group of people. “I seek no favor” comes from an Audre Lorde poem, “A Woman Speaks.” The whole point is basically talking about not being defined by our circumstances, and fighting for your rights and seeking our tribe. With this project, I wanted to bring a tribe together and get a community of people to react to this. And so Huq: I Seek No Favor became the name. Reproductive autonomy is my right, I’m not seeking a favor.
I think there’s a lot of power in reacting directly to a Supreme Court decision, too, in this way, given that legal language is so lofty and inaccessible. Was that part of your intent?
I think the act of taking a bite, in the way I had to process the decision, Becca—making haikus and tearing those pages, there was some sort of a relief or an outlet in that and it was very empowering. As I spoke to more and more collaborators, I would send them the four pages, they would read, and we would brainstorm, we would talk. In those conversations, we would discuss form, we would mark words, we would try to process the meaning within those four pages. I have friends who are lawyers who are part of this project, and they pointed out to me that this language and process is deliberately complex. It’s meant to confuse people. This is done to keep you embroiled in these conversations about language and stuff. It doesn’t mean shit.
To take all of that apart felt empowering in a time of helplessness and rage.
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2023-07-12T17:11:41+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/reckon/2023/07/how-one-activist-turned-her-fury-over-the-dobbs-decision-into-art.html
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Co-Founder of legendary South African agency TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris to be recognized for a career of world-class creative excellence and contributions to society
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- John Hunt, Global Creative Chair at TBWA\Worldwide, co-founder of the internationally recognized South African agency TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, and award-winning author and playwright, will be inducted into The One Club for Creativity's Creative Hall of Fame on October 27th in New York.
The Creative Hall of Fame has a rich heritage of honoring the lifetime achievements of creative luminaries in all forms of advertising and design, beginning with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961 and TBWA\Media Arts Lab's Lee Clow in 1997. Hunt's fellow inductees in the class of 2022 are Nancy Vonk, Janet Kestin, Carol H. Williams, Joe Duffy and Cheryl D. Miller. The black-tie Creative Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is a fundraising gala to support The One Club's many global DE&I programs, will take place at Tisch Skylights at The Shed, Hudson Yards in New York.
"John Hunt is most deserving of this honor," said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club. "He has been a champion of creativity for Africa and has used creativity to build iconic brands while advancing democracy, human rights, and human welfare. He is the very definition of a creative giant. John joins a group of inductees who have influenced culture, uplifted underrepresented groups, and inspired the next generation of creative thinkers and doers. We are honored to celebrate him alongside our other inductees in October."
In 1983, Hunt and his partner Reg Lascaris founded Hunt\Lascaris, with the ambition to be the first world-class agency out of Africa. With the mantra "Life's too short to be mediocre," they created bold and breakthrough work that could only be from Africa, but routinely gained worldwide attention and recognition. Clients included BMW, Nando's, South African Airways, and The Zimbabwean's "Trillion Dollar Campaign," which raised awareness of the newspaper and the corruption within the Mugabe regime around the world, and became the most awarded campaign of all time, after sweeping the awards at The One Show, Cannes Lions, The Clio Awards, ADC and D&AD.
Shortly after its founding, Hunt\Lascaris sought an international partner to accelerate its growth. TBWA was the ideal match, with its high creative standards, entrepreneurial spirit and founder culture, and a decades long partnership was born.
The agency has continued to create bold, award-winning work, including "Breaking Ballet" for the Joburg Ballet, which brought the art form to an entirely new generation of fans, and earned a Gold Lion and South Africa's first-ever Data Lion at Cannes; and "Blame No More" which won five Cannes Lions in 2020, including a Gold and South Africa's first-ever Glass Lion.
Proof that advertising can make the world a better place, Hunt was intimately involved in Nelson Mandela's first ANC election campaign in 1993. Although harrowing at the time, this unique moment in history ushered South Africa into the light of democracy. He was also involved in creating iconic work for the First HIV AIDS campaign in South Africa. TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris was named Agency of the Century in 2000, and Agency of the Decade in 2010, the same year that work for The Zimbabwean Newspaper gained worldwide recognition.
"I'm deeply honored to receive this recognition from The One Show," said Hunt. "In truth, though, it's a team award. It belongs just as much to all the co-workers, clients and organizations I've worked with over the years. Ultimately, it's their trust that turned seemingly impossible ideas into reality. No doubt, creativity can make the world a better place. But it's so much more powerful when played as a team sport."
Troy Ruhanen, CEO, TBWA\Worldwide, added, "I have such tremendous respect for John, not just for what he has achieved, but more importantly, how he has gone about it. He inspires us, continues to be our creative north star, and has given so much to our company, industry and society. John's integrity, generosity and talent are matched only by his enormous heart. We are immensely proud to see him join the Creative Hall of Fame."
In 2003, Hunt moved to TBWA's New York headquarters to assume the role of Worldwide Creative Director, becoming a creative compass for the agency collective, helping to reshape the TBWA collective to think less about ads and more about ideas. Upon arriving in New York, Hunt founded the TBWA Young Bloods creative residency program, and a year later began the "SWAT" initiative, a program that ensures a global answer to the creative questions often asked by worldwide clients. In 2021, TBWA re-introduced the Young Bloods program with a focus on promising talent from historically underrepresented groups. Hunt returned to South Africa in 2006 to continue his Worldwide role from Johannesburg.
In 1996 he was inducted into the South African Advertising Hall of Fame and, a year later, received the Financial Mail's Long Term Achievement Award. Hunt has served as juror across every major industry awards show, including as President of the Cannes Film, Press & Outdoor Advertising Festival in 2005. He has also found time to write a number of television and theatre plays and books. He was named South African Playwright of the Year for Vid Alex, a play that condemned censorship during the apartheid years, and has also published a book, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life.
About TBWA\Worldwide
TBWA is The Disruption® Company. We use creativity to help businesses challenge the status quo and capture an unfair share of the future. Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2021, 2020 and 2019, and Adweek's 2021 and 2018 Global Agency of the Year, we are a creative company that uses trademarked Disruption® methodologies to help businesses address their challenges and achieve transformative growth. Our collective has 10,000+ creative minds in 41 countries, and also includes brands such as Auditoire, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ worldwide, GMR, The Integer Group®, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, TBWA\WorldHealth and TRO. Global clients include adidas, Apple, Gatorade, Henkel, Hilton Hotels, McDonald's, Nissan and Singapore Airlines. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. TBWA is part of Omnicom Group.
Contacts: Anaka Kobzev, Global Head of Communications, TBWA, +1-917-362-5845, anaka.kobzev@tbwaworld.com; Mary Gearing, Deputy Managing Director, Magna Carta, +27 (0) 11 784 2598, mary.gearing@magna-carta.co.za
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NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Lincoln National Corporation ("Lincoln" or the "Company") (NYSE: LNC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Lincoln and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On November 3, 2022, Lincoln issued a press release reporting its financial results for the third quarter of 2022. Among other items, Lincoln "reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2022 of $(2.6) billion, or $(15.17) per diluted share available to common stockholders, compared to net income in the third quarter of 2021 of $318 million, or $1.68 per diluted share available to common stockholders." Lincoln also reported that it "incurred a $634 million goodwill impairment to the life insurance business."
On this news, Lincoln's stock price fell $17.27 per share, or 33.15%, to close at $34.83 per share on November 3, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Published: Aug. 3, 2022 at 3:01 PM MDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Q2'22 reported net income of $785 million decreased 13% and underlying net income(1) of $892 million increased 1% from Q2'21.
Q2'22 reported EPS(2) was $1.34 and underlying EPS(1)(2) was $1.52.
Q2'22 reported ROE(1) was 13.1% and underlying ROE(1) was 14.9%.
"Sun Life's second quarter results reflect the strength and resilience of our diversified business mix in the face of market volatility and a challenging external environment," said Kevin Strain, President and CEO of Sun Life.
"We're helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives through several strategic initiatives. In the U.S., we completed our acquisition of DentaQuest, a values-driven industry leader. In Canada and Malaysia, we announced new Shariah-based products that provide our Clients with more choice when it comes to their wealth-solution needs. We also renewed our bancassurance partnership with RCBC in the Philippines for an additional 10 years. And capital raising of $5.7 billion at SLC Management during the quarter reflects strong demand for our alternative investment capabilities."
Financial and Operational Highlights - Quarterly Comparison (Q2 2022 vs. Q2 2021)
Our strategy is focused on key business segments, where we aim to be a leader in the markets in which we operate.
Reported net income of $785 million decreased $115 million or 13% from prior year, reflecting unfavourable market-related impacts and DentaQuest acquisition costs, partially offset by fair value changes on MFS' share-based payment awards(1) and a gain on the sale-leaseback of our Wellesley office in the U.S. Underlying net income of $892 million(2) was up slightly, driven by business growth, new business gains, contribution from the DentaQuest acquisition, and lower incentive compensation expenses. This was largely offset by Asset Management results reflecting a decline in global equity markets driving lower average net assets ("ANA"), lower available-for-sale ("AFS") gains and morbidity experience in the U.S.
Canada: A leader in insurance and asset management
Canada reported net income of $160 million decreased $244 million or 60% from prior year, reflecting lower equity markets and rising interest rates, partially offset by an increase in underlying net income of $54 million. Underlying net income of $344 million increased 19%, driven by business growth, higher new business gains and experience-related items. Experience in the quarter included favourable credit, investment gains and morbidity. Sun Life Health morbidity reflected improved disability experience in the quarter, driven by lower claims volumes and shorter claims durations.
Canada insurance sales were $218 million, up 11% year-over-year, driven by large case group benefits sales in Sun Life Health. Canada wealth sales were $4 billion, up 16%, driven by defined contribution(3) and defined benefit solutions sales in Group Retirement Services ("GRS"), partially offset by lower individual wealth sales.
We continue to innovate and provide Clients with wealth solutions that are tailored to their personal needs. This quarter, SLGI Asset Management announced the launch of the Sun Life Crescent Specialty Credit Private Pool fund, providing Clients access to an alternative yield source. Group Retirement Services also launched its first Shariah-based pool fund(4), which gives Canadian plan members an option that reflects Islamic principles while providing diversified access to equity markets.
U.S.: A leader in health and benefits
U.S. reported net income of $213 million increased $56 million or 36% from prior year, driven by a gain on the sale-leaseback of our Wellesley office and favourable market-related impacts, partially offset by DentaQuest acquisition costs. Underlying net income of $154 million decreased $11 million or 7%, reflecting experience-related items and lower AFS gains, partially offset by business growth including contribution from the DentaQuest acquisition. Experience in the quarter included favourable medical stop-loss margins, investment gains and favourable credit, partially offset by long-term disability claims. Mortality experience in Group Benefits improved driven by lower COVID-19-related claims.
Foreign exchange translation led to an increase of $8 million and $6 million in reported net income and underlying net income, respectively.
U.S. insurance sales were $213 million, up 12% year-over-year, driven by higher dental(5) and medical stop-loss sales.
On June 1, we completed our acquisition of DentaQuest, the second-largest dental benefits provider in the U.S(6). The transaction advances our strategy of being a leader in health and benefits in the U.S. With this acquisition, Sun Life U.S now serves more than 50 million Americans, and is expected to generate more than US$7 billion in total annual benefits revenues(7).
This quarter, we released our 10th annual medical stop-loss research report on high-cost medical claims. As the largest independent stop-loss provider in the U.S., we leveraged our extensive data, analytics, and health expertise to highlight current medical trends. The findings in the report help employers make better health plan decisions for their employees, leading to improved outcomes.
Asset Management: A global leader in both public and alternative asset classes through MFS and SLC Management
Asset Management reported net income of $296 million increased $75 million or 34% from prior year, driven by fair value changes on MFS' share-based payment awards. Underlying net income of $270 million decreased $41 million or 13%, due to lower results in MFS reflecting a decline in global equity markets driving lower ANA.
Foreign exchange translation led to an increase of $10 million in reported net income and $9 million in underlying net income.
Asset Management ended Q2'22 with $905 billion in AUM, consisting of $712 billion (US$553 billion) in MFS and $194 billion in SLC Management. Total Asset Management net inflows of $0.3 billion in Q2'22 reflected SLC Management net inflows of approximately $7.3 billion, largely offset by MFS net outflows of approximately $7.0 billion (US$5.5 billion).
In the second quarter of 2022, 98%, 71% and 49% of MFS' U.S. retail mutual fund assets ranked in the top half of their Morningstar categories based on ten-, five- and three-year performance, respectively. The MFS pre-tax net operating profit margin(1) was 36% for Q2'22, compared to 39% in the prior year, driven by the decline in ANA. The SLC Management fee-related earnings margin(1)(2) was 23%, down from 25%.
Our Asset Management businesses built on their commitment to integrating climate strategies as we continue our sustainability journey. In July 2022, MFS set an interim target to align 90% of in-scope assets(3) with the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative(4). During the second quarter, BentallGreenOak ("BGO") was also awarded the 2022 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") for the 12th consecutive year, and received Gold Recognition in the 2022 Green Lease Leaders program organized by the Institute for Market Transformation and the DOE's Better Buildings Alliance.
Asia: A regional leader focused on fast-growing markets
Asia reported net income of $131 million decreased $12 million or 8% from prior year. Underlying net income of $148 million decreased $4 million or 3% from prior year, reflecting policyholder behaviour experience primarily in Vietnam, and new business strain in Hong Kong as COVID-19 restrictions drove lower sales, partially offset by new business gains in International.
Foreign exchange translation led to a decline of $1 million in reported net income and underlying net income.
Asia insurance sales were $305 million, down 6% year-over-year, reflecting lower sales in International and Hong Kong, partially offset by sales growth in all other markets. Asia wealth sales were $3 billion, down 18%, reflecting lower sales in India and Hong Kong, partially offset by higher sales in the Philippines.
We continue to leverage Sun Life's global asset management capabilities and execute on our growth strategy through strategic partnerships. In India, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited ("ABSLAMC") partnered with BGO, a subsidiary of SLC Management, to form a real estate-focused investment vehicle. This collaboration brings together two leading investment managers with extensive track records in both the domestic and international markets, to create new investment opportunities for Clients.
In the Philippines, our joint venture, Sun Life Grepa Financial, renewed its bancassurance partnership with Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation ("RCBC"), one of the country's leading commercial banks. The 10-year renewal, through to 2033, allows more Filipinos to access financial protection products, leveraging the strength of RCBC's extensive sales network of over 430 branches and almost 2 million customers.
Corporate
Corporate reported net loss of $15 million improved $10 million from prior year. Underlying net loss of $24 million improved by $11 million, driven by lower expenses, partially offset by losses on seed investments and AFS assets.
IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts ("IFRS 17") and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments ("IFRS 9") to be Adopted in 2023
For periods beginning on or after January 1, 2023, we will be adopting IFRS 17, which replaces IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts. IFRS 17 establishes the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of insurance contracts. Effective January 1, 2023, we will also be adopting IFRS 9, which replaces IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.
The adoption of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 has no material implication on our business strategies, however, upon transition at January 1, 2022, the changes in measurement of insurance contract liabilities and timing of recognition of earnings would have resulted in the following impacts:
A net transfer of approximately $4.5 billion from shareholders' equity, primarily driven by the establishment of the contractual service margin ("CSM") on the balance sheet, among other items.
As we restate the comparative year on an IFRS 17 basis, we expect a mid-single digit decrease in our 2022 underlying net income.
The CSM balance will qualify as Tier 1 available capital. On July 21, 2022, OSFI finalized the LICAT guidelines to reflect the IFRS 17 adoption, effective January 1, 2023. We expect our LICAT ratio to improve on adoption and we also expect capital generation and capital volatility to be relatively unchanged under the new regime.
Our medium-term financial objectives following the adoption of IFRS 17 and 9 will be:
Underlying EPS growth: 8-10%
Underlying ROE: 18%+ (an increase from 16%+ prior to transition)
Underlying Dividend payout ratio: 40-50%
We continue to assess the impact that the adoption of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 will have on our Consolidated Financial Statements and estimates of the financial impacts are subject to change as we continue to assess the implications of adopting both standards. For additional details, refer to Note 2 in the Interim Consolidated Financial Statements.
Earnings Conference Call The Company's Q2'22 financial results will be reviewed at a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET. To listen to the call via live audio webcast and to view the presentation slides, as well as related information, please visit www.sunlife.com and click on the link to Quarterly reports under Investors – Financial results & reports 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. Individuals participating in the call in a listen-only mode are encouraged to connect via our webcast. Following the call, the webcast and presentation will be archived and made available on the Company's website, www.sunlife.com, until the Q2 2023 period end. The conference call can also be accessed by phone by dialing 412-902-4130 (International) or 1-833-634-2605 (toll–free within North America) and referencing the Sun Life Q2 earnings call. A replay of the conference call will be available from Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET until 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 18, 2022 by calling 412-317-0088 or 1-877-344-7529 (toll–free within North America) using access code: 2586651.
Forward-looking Statements From time to time, the Company makes written or oral forward-looking statements within the meaning of certain securities laws, including the "safe harbour" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements contained in this document include statements (i) relating to our strategies; (ii) relating to our growth initiatives and other business objectives; (iii) relating to our targets and commitments (including with respect to net zero emissions); (iv) relating to the plans we have implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic conditions and their impact on the Company, (v) that are predictive in nature or that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, and (vi) that include words such as "achieve", "aim", "ambition", "anticipate", "aspiration", "assumption", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "goal", "initiatives", "intend", "may", "objective", "outlook", "plan", "project", "seek", "should", "strategy", "strive", "target", "will", and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements include the information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations. These statements represent our current expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events and are not historical facts, and remain subject to change, particularly in light of the ongoing and developing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy and its uncertain impact on our business.
Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Future results and shareholder value may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements due to, among other factors, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic conditions on our operations, liquidity, financial conditions or results and the matters set out in the Q2'22 MD&A under the headings C - Profitability - 5 - Income taxes, E - Financial Strength and H - Risk Management and in SLF Inc.'s 2021 AIF under the heading Risk Factors, and the factors detailed in SLF Inc.'s other filings with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators, which are available for review at www.sedar.comandwww.sec.gov, respectively.
Important risk factors that could cause our assumptions and estimates, and expectations and projections to be inaccurate and our actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this document, are set out below. The realization of our forward-looking statements, essentially depends on our business performance which, in turn, is subject to many risks, which have been further heightened with the current COVID-19 pandemic given the uncertainty of its duration and impact. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include, but are not limited to: market risks - related to the performance of equity markets; changes or volatility in interest rates or credit spreads or swap spreads; real estate investments; and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; insurance risks - related to policyholder behaviour; mortality experience, morbidity experience and longevity; product design and pricing; the impact of higher-than-expected future expenses; and the availability, cost and effectiveness of reinsurance; credit risks - related to issuers of securities held in our investment portfolio, debtors, structured securities, reinsurers, counterparties, other financial institutions and other entities; business and strategic risks - related to global economic and political conditions; the design and implementation of business strategies; changes in distribution channels or Client behaviour including risks relating to market conduct by intermediaries and agents; the impact of competition; the performance of our investments and investment portfolios managed for Clients such as segregated and mutual funds; shifts in investing trends and Client preference towards products that differ from our investment products and strategies; changes in the legal or regulatory environment, including capital requirements and tax laws; the environment, environmental laws and regulations; operational risks - related to breaches or failure of information system security and privacy, including cyber-attacks; our ability to attract and retain employees; legal, regulatory compliance and market conduct, including the impact of regulatory inquiries and investigations; the execution and integration of mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments and divestitures; our information technology infrastructure; a failure of information systems and Internet-enabled technology; dependence on third-party relationships, including outsourcing arrangements; business continuity; model errors; information management; liquidity risks - the possibility that we will not be able to fund all cash outflow commitments as they fall due; and other risks - COVID-19 matters, including the severity, duration and spread of COVID-19; its impact on the global economy, and its impact on Sun Life's business, financial condition and or results; risks associated with IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments; our international operations, including our joint ventures; market conditions that affect our capital position or ability to raise capital; downgrades in financial strength or credit ratings; and tax matters, including estimates and judgements used in calculating taxes.
The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
About Sun Life Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of June 30, 2022, Sun Life had total assets under management of $1.26 trillion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.
Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.
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A Florida woman is accusing Kraft Heinz of misleading advertising, based on the time it takes to prepare a single-serving cup of microwavable mac and cheese.
While the company markets its Velveeta Shells & Cheese as being "ready in 3 1/2" minutes, Amanda Ramirez says that's only the amount of time each cup needs to be microwaved — and that the actual preparation process, from stirring in water to letting the cheese sauce thicken, takes longer (she does not specify how much).
A 15-page class-action lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that parent company Kraft Heinz sells more of the product, and at a higher price, than it would if it didn't mislead consumers about the pasta's prep time.
"As a result of the false and misleading representations, the Product is sold at a premium price, approximately no less than $10.99 for eight 2.39 oz cups, excluding tax and sales, higher than similar products, represented in a non-misleading way, and higher than it would be sold for absent the misleading representations and omissions," the court filing reads.
Ramirez's legal team says that she is like many consumers who "seek to stretch their money as far as possible when buying groceries," and chose Velveeta over other similar products because of the prep time prominently promised on its label. She wouldn't have bought it "had she known the truth," they say.
The lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in damages and looks to cover consumers in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska, Iowa, Tennessee and Virginia who purchased the mac and cheese cups during the applicable statute of limitations period. It says there are more than 100 such customers since the product is sold online and in stores across the country.
The Kraft Heinz Company called the lawsuit "frivolous" in a statement provided to NPR, saying it "will strongly defend against the allegations in the complaint."
While some might be quick to dismiss the case as cheesy, Ramirez's team says it's important to hold corporations accountable in all forms. Will Wright, one of Ramirez's lawyers, told NPR over email that while he's gotten some flak about the case, "deceptive advertising is deceptive advertising."
"There are a lot of people that may feel this is just a little fibbing and not really a case and I get that," he wrote. "But we are striving for something better. We want corporate America to be straightforward and truthful in advertising their products."
He added: "My firm also represents clients in what most would say are more compelling cases (arsenic in baby food, etc.) but we don't feel corporations should get a pass for any deceptive advertising. The consumers deserve better."
It's a matter of trust, the lawsuit says
Velveeta's claim that a cup of mac will be ready in 3 1/2 minutes is false and misleading because microwaving is only one of several necessary steps, the lawsuit says.
There are four steps listed in the directions on the back of the package: Remove the lid and cheese sauce pouch, add water to the fill line and stir, microwave for 3 1/2 minutes then stir in the cheese sauce, which the instructions note "will thicken upon standing."
Therefore, the lawsuit says, the product couldn't possibly be ready for consumption in a mere 210 seconds, and the label would only be accurate if it said the snack took 3 1/2 minutes to microwave.
It adds that Ramirez believed Kraft Heinz was accurately representing its product in part because it is "a trusted company, known for its high-quality products, honestly marketed to consumers."
"Defendant's representations and omissions regarding the Product went beyond the specific representations on the packaging, as they incorporated the extra-labeling promises and commitments to quality, transparency and putting customers first, that it has been known for," it says.
In fact, the lawsuit says Ramirez fully intends to purchase this same product again "when she can do so with the assurance its representations are constituent with its abilities, attributes, and/or composition."
Until then, it adds, she is unable to rely on the labeling and marketing of not only this microwavable mac, but of other similar products that claim they will be ready in a specific amount of time, "because she is unsure whether those representations are truthful."
It's unclear where Ramirez's case will go from here. Wright believes the most likely scenario is that Kraft will file a motion to dismiss it in a few weeks, which his team will oppose. Then, he says, "the judge will let us know how he feels about our case."
Ramirez is working with a lawyer known for his food marketing lawsuits
Another member of Ramirez's legal team is Spencer Sheehan, a New York-based plaintiff's attorney who in recent years has filed hundreds of lawsuits alleging misleading claims in food advertising and packaging.
As NPR has reported, Sheehan files at a rate of about three such lawsuits per week, and "his prolificacy has almost single-handedly caused a historic spike in the number of class action lawsuits against food and beverage companies — up more than 1000% since 2008."
Sheehan has filed over 100 suits alleging that various products, from soda to soy milk, market "vanilla" products that actually use synthetic vanilla or other flavors either in addition to or instead of the more expensive vanilla bean.
Some of his other recent cases include accusing Frito-Lay of not using enough real lime juice in its "hint of lime" Tostito chips (status: pending) and alleging that Kellogg misrepresents the amount of fruit in its strawberry pop tarts (a federal judge dismissed it earlier this year). Many of his cases get "voluntarily dismissed" — presumably, settled — rather than go to trial.
As Sheehan told NPR last October: "I guess I've always been the type who would become annoyed [and] never liked it when companies cheated people for small amounts it would be difficult to recoup."
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SPRINGFIELD — An appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a state law that would end cash bail appears to be at least two months away from resolution under a new timeline approved by the court Thursday.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the agreed motion setting the timeline for the high court’s appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated provisions of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform that would have eliminated cash bail on Jan. 1.
The motion, Raoul’s office wrote in its filing, had been agreed to by all parties in the case, scheduling briefs to be filed in January and February, with oral arguments to begin sometime in March. A ruling would come sometime thereafter at an unspecified date.
The matter came to the Supreme Court in a Dec. 30 appeal by Raoul’s office, following Kankakee County Judge Thomas Cunnington’s decision that lawmakers overreached their constitutional authority in passing a measure to abolish cash bail in Illinois.
Cunnington wrote in a 36-page decision that the cash bail provisions effectively and improperly amended a section of the state’s constitution that states “all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties,” except in a few specific circumstances.
He also wrote that ending cash bail is an improper overreach by lawmakers, who have no constitutional authority to govern the administrative functions of Illinois courts due to the separation of powers.
Bail, Cunnington wrote, has been held by the Supreme Court to be “administrative” in nature.
The constitution also specifically mentions bail in a section on victims’ rights, when it states victims have a right “to have the safety of the victim and the victim's family considered in denying or fixing the amount of bail.” Cunnington found that eliminating bail prevents courts from “effectuating the constitutionally mandated safety of the victims and their families.”
The ruling initially left the impending cash bail reform in limbo in at least 64 of Illinois’ 102 counties that had joined the consolidated lawsuit. A Dec. 31 order from the Illinois Supreme Court, however, stayed the cash bail provisions’ implementation statewide until the court could rule on an appeal to the case.
Thursday’s order set the timeline for that appeal.
On Wednesday, Gov. JB Pritzker said he was disappointed in the delayed implementation of the reform, which he and advocates say corrects an unfair system that allows wealthy individuals to pay their way out of jail as they await trial regardless of the seriousness of the crime they are accused of committing, while keeping poorer individuals who can’t make bail incarcerated pretrial even if they’re accused of relatively minor crimes.
The measure that would replace cash bail, should the new law be allowed to take effect, would give judges greater authority to keep an individual incarcerated pretrial if they’re accused of more serious offenses, but it would also limit the number of offenses for which pretrial detention can be ordered.
“The whole purpose here is fairness,” Pritzker said. “And I think that we will continue to fight for that. And I think those of us who believe in this know that there's even more work to do, but I am comfortable and confident that this is constitutional.”
Neither Cunnington’s ruling nor the Supreme Court’s orders thus far have invalidated other provisions of the SAFE-T Act which had already taken effect, such as reforms to police officer training and certification standards and police body camera requirements.
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2023-01-05T22:38:28+00:00
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news-gazette.com
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https://www.news-gazette.com/news/supreme-court-sets-march-timeline-for-oral-arguments-in-cash-bail-appeal/article_21cb6b00-cbae-5d79-bda8-46b5c881c6ce.html
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A gunman fired shots at police as he weaved through the aisles of an Indiana Walmart before being killed by law enforcement, authorities said.
At least one person in the store was wounded Thursday night by the shooter, who was not immediately identified, Evansville Police Department Sgt. Anna Gray told WFIE-TV. The victim was transported to a hospital and the severity of their injuries was not immediately known. No officers were injured, Gray said.
The victim appeared to be a Walmart employee, as a company statement said: “The entire Walmart family is shocked by the senseless violence that occurred at our Evansville store, and our hearts are with our associate at this time,” the broadcaster reported. “As we learn more, we’ll do everything we can to support our associates as they cope with this tragedy.”
The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment from Walmart.
Evansville police and Vanderburgh County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an active shooter in the store at around 10 p.m., Gray said.
“When officers went in, they were trying to locate the suspect and he was all over the store. He would shoot at officers and move. So it wasn’t contained to just one area inside,” she said.
Multiple law enforcement members returned fire during the encounter and the gunman was killed, Gray said.
“At this time we don’t know how many other people he shot at,” Gray said, adding that there could could be additional victims who fled.
Authorities asked anyone who left the scene with injuries, no matter how small, to contact emergency medical services.
A news conference was being planned for Friday, the city’s police department said in a tweet.
Evansville, a city of around 116,000 residents on the Ohio River, is located 172 miles (276 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.
A Walmart manager in Chesapeake, Virginia, killed six people in November when he began shooting wildly inside a break room before a routine employee meeting, two days ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Six people were also wounded. The gunman shot and killed himself before officers arrived.
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2023-01-20T12:22:13+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-indiana-police-kill-shooter-in-walmart-1-person-injured/
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Oil flow to Germany resumes after Poland fixed pipeline leak
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline running to Germany says it has fixed the damage that caused a leak earlier this week and that the flow of crude oil from Russia has been fully restored. The state-run operator, PERN, said Saturday that both lines of the Druzhba pipeline were operating normally. The operator said that the cause of the leak that occurred Tuesday in a field in central Poland is still being investigated. The Druzhba pipeline is one of the world’s largest pipeline systems, bringing crude from Siberia to central Europe, including Poland, Austria and Germany. The leak follows attacks last month on the Baltic Sea Nord Stream pipelines, in which explosives are said to have been used.
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2022-10-15T16:16:53+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/15/oil-flow-to-germany-resumes-after-poland-fixed-pipeline-leak/
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Kelly Marie Riggle went to rest on the morning of September 9, 2022. She passed in her mother's home in Shillington surrounded by family. Kelly was born in Lebanon on March 14, 1970, to parents James Manbeck of Mountville and Donna Boyer of Shillington. Kelly was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Christopher Riggle, son of Tom and Audrey Riggle of Reinholds.
She was a 1988 graduate of Ephrata High School and educated as a medical technician. She was employed by Eye Associates of Lancaster and Regional Gastroenterology of Lancaster.
Kelly enjoyed crafts, cooking, travel, yearly trips to Rehoboth Beach, her grandchildren, family, and pets.
In addition to her parents, Kelly is survived by three children, Brittany Manbeck of Shillington, Taylor Risser of Denver, and Justin Risser of Reading; a stepdaughter Delaina Riggle of BelAir, MD; four grandchildren; Sonya Faye, 9 years old, Jasper 6, years old, Ember 5 years old, and Iris 4 years old; her grandmother Alice E Boyer, widow of Harry E. Boyer of Newmanstown; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins. She will be sorely missed by family and friends Adele, Tara, Angie, Pam, and Liz and her sweet pets Jaxon and Opie.
In memory of Kelly, any funding may be sent to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, 733 Third Avenue Suite 510, New York, NY 10017; https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/
Special thanks to Zia Maria for their coordination and preparation of food for the family gathering in memory of Kelly and Good Sipler Funeral & Cremation Centre for the care and planning of Kelly's cremation and burial. Her final resting place will be with her husband Christopher, at the Muddy Creek Church Cemetery in Denver, PA.
Services are private including family gathering.
Obituary was loving written by Kelly's mom.
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2022-09-18T06:04:46+00:00
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lancasteronline.com
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https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/kelly-riggle/article_4cb0627b-7282-5476-b436-da782f363c34.html
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Smartphones make it easy for people to stay in touch and even keep track of loved ones.
Many times, spouses will and family members will use the same Apple ID. That’s fine for many people, but when a relationship turns sour, a smartphone can easily allow an ex-partner to stalk, threaten, and harass their former partner.
Apple is making it easier for people at risk of domestic assaults to cut ties with a former partner or spouse.
Coming in iOS 16 is Apple’s new tool called Safety Check. After you upgrade to the new operating system, you’ll find it in settings under privacy and security.
There are two options. One is an emergency reset.
This is for people who need to immediately stop someone from tracking them. With a couple of taps on the screen, it blocks everyone you’ve given permission to see your location and/or apps you have on your phone to gather information. It also resets emergency contacts and prompts you to set up a new device passcode.
The other option allows a user to manage sharing and access. You’ll be given the opportunity to choose who to block and which apps you no longer want on your phone gathering data and information to share.
Abusers have been known to use “stalkerware”, apps that you may not know are sharing your location, usernames passwords, and access to text messages, photos, calendars, and smart home devices.
Once in Safety Check, you’ll see a list of every app on the device along with what information it shares and what data it has access to.
If you suspect someone is following or stalking you or that someone has installed an app without your permission, you can delete any apps you don’t recognize and delete any data it’s gathered.
Safety Check will also show you all of the devices you’re logged into with your Apple ID.
This can be your ID or one you share with someone else. You’ll see a list of computers, smartphones, iPads, TVs, and any smart home devices that anyone with your Apple ID and password can control or access.
Another option is to delete any or all emergency contacts and add new ones, and an easy way to change your device’s passcode.
Apple also added a safety tool that can protect you if you feel you are in danger because the person you want to block is in the same room or is looking over your shoulder. A “Quick Exit” button will immediately send you back to the home screen.
You can also see all of the devices you’re logged in to. Phones, Ipads, computers, TVs. Revoke access to any you don’t recognize. This lets you delete emergency contacts and change your passcode.
You won’t be able to use Safety Check until you upgrade to iOS 16, which will be available to everyone on September 12th.
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2022-09-09T03:48:16+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/what-the-tech/what-the-tech-iphone-safety-check/
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders on Thursday approved a three-for-one stock split, a move that will make the company’s shares more accessible to smaller investors.
Preliminary results of the shareholder vote were announced at the electric car and solar panel maker’s annual meeting at its new factory in Austin, Texas.
CEO Elon Musk also discussed at the meeting a major factory expansion in the future as the company moves toward a goal of making 20 million vehicles per year. It now produces around 1.5 million per year.
Musk said Tesla might announce another factory site this year, and it expects to have about a dozen in the future. Currently the company has assembly plants in Fremont, California; Austin; Berlin and Shanghai. Musk joked that many had suggested Canada as a site for the next new plant.
The company made its 3 millionth vehicle in the past few weeks, Musk said.
Tesla stock closed Thursday at $925.90, down 12.4% so far this year, but it almost completed a split itself, tumbling more than 40% by May after Musk made a $44 billion bid to buy Twitter in April.
Investors were worried that Musk would be distracted from Tesla if he purchased the social media platform.
But Musk backed out of the deal in July and Twitter sued him to force him to make the purchase. A trial is scheduled for October in Delaware Chancery Court. Tesla stock began to recover in July, boosted by better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.
Tesla announced plans for the split in late March when shares were trading over $1,000. It will not affect Tesla’s overall market value or its status as the world’s most valuable automaker.
Share splits are used by companies when their stock price gets too high for retail investors to buy individual shares, or when a company wants more shares to exist in the marketplace to make the stock more liquid to trade.
Tesla has said it was trying to accomplish both of these goals: giving its employees greater quantities of shares as well as making the stock more accessible to retail investors.
Musk sold some shares of Tesla for the Twitter purchase and had planned on using other shares as collateral.
Shareholders also re-elected Ira Ehrenpreis and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to the Tesla board.
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2022-08-05T18:37:31+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/tesla-investors-approve-stock-split-musk-to-add-factories/
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Over Two Years of Data Detail Telehealth's Evolution throughout the Pandemic
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has undergone notable growth. It has been used for a wide array of health conditions and services that were overwhelmingly rendered in an office setting prior to COVID-19's emergence; these include mental health conditions, which have remained the most common telehealth diagnosis nationally throughout the pandemic. These and other findings on the changing nature of telehealth can be found in FAIR Health's new data brief released today, The Evolution of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multiyear Retrospective of FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The newly released study provides a window into telehealth's changing contours using over two years of private healthcare claims data from FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, a free, online tool that has tracked month-to-month changes in telehealth since the spring of 2020. Focusing on the period from January 2020 to March 2022, the brief reports on monthly changes in telehealth's utilization, top diagnoses and top procedure codes—in addition to other descriptive aspects of this venue of care—at national and regional (Midwest, Northeast, South, West) levels. Supported by infographics with vivid data visualizations, the brief also shows how the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker itself has evolved to meet the needs of healthcare stakeholders.
Among the key findings:
- From March 2019 to March 2020, the percentage of national telehealth claim lines when compared to all medical services increased 4,347 percent.1 The increase was even greater from April 2019 to April 2020 (8,336 percent).
- The top five telehealth diagnoses nationally in spring 2020 indicated that telehealth was being used for conditions that had not been among the top five the year before, including hypertension, joint/soft tissue diseases and issues, and developmental disorders.
- In November 2020, COVID-19 appeared for the first time on one of the regional lists of top five telehealth diagnoses, ranking fourth in the Midwest; in December 2020, COVID-19 emerged as a top telehealth diagnosis nationally and in every region.
- For 6 of the 12 months of 2021, telehealth utilization fell from the level of utilization in the prior month. Nevertheless, it remained much higher than before the pandemic. In December 2021, telehealth claim lines accounted for 4.9 percent of medical claim lines nationally, compared to 0.2 percent in December 2019.
- Many changes in telehealth utilization were likely related to the course of the pandemic. For example, in spring and summer 2021, telehealth claim lines dropped as vaccination levels increased. In fall and winter 2021, however, telehealth utilization rose again as the Delta and Omicron variants led to increased COVID-19 cases.
- Mental health conditions have been the most common telehealth diagnosis nationally throughout the pandemic. Consistent with that finding, in January 2022, social worker was the provider specialty rendering the most telehealth services (most commonly, psychotherapy) nationally and in every region but the West. In every region, as in the nation as a whole, three of the top five provider specialties were related to mental health: social worker, psychiatrist and psychologist.
- In January 2022, CPT®2 90837, one hour of psychotherapy, ranked highest among telehealth procedure codes nationally and in every region.
FAIR Health President Robin Gelburd stated: "In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a material component of the nation's healthcare system. We hope that this brief provides actionable and relevant insights to healthcare stakeholders—including policy makers, researchers, payors, providers and consumers—seeking to better understand telehealth as it continues to evolve."
On Wednesday, June 22, from 2 to 3 pm ET, Ms. Gelburd will host a webinar entitled "Telehealth Utilization Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-Year Retrospective," which will provide insights on telehealth's evolution since winter 2020 using FAIR Health's comprehensive collection of telehealth data. Click here to register for the free, one-hour webinar.
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FAIR Health is a national, independent nonprofit organization that qualifies as a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. It is dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information through data products, consumer resources and health systems research support. FAIR Health possesses the nation's largest collection of private healthcare claims data, which includes over 36 billion claim records and is growing at a rate of over 2 billion claim records a year. FAIR Health licenses its privately billed data and data products—including benchmark modules, data visualizations, custom analytics and market indices—to commercial insurers and self-insurers, employers, providers, hospitals and healthcare systems, government agencies, researchers and others. Certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health also receives data representing the experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B and D; FAIR Health includes among the private claims data in its database, data on Medicare Advantage enrollees. FAIR Health can produce insightful analytic reports and data products based on combined Medicare and commercial claims data for government, providers, payors and other authorized users. FAIR Health's systems for processing and storing protected health information have earned HITRUST CSF certification and achieved AICPA SOC 2 compliance by meeting the rigorous data security requirements of these standards. As a testament to the reliability and objectivity of FAIR Health data, the data have been incorporated in statutes and regulations around the country and designated as the official, neutral data source for a variety of state health programs, including workers' compensation and personal injury protection (PIP) programs. FAIR Health data serve as an official reference point in support of certain state balance billing laws that protect consumers against bills for surprise out-of-network and emergency services. FAIR Health also uses its database to power a free consumer website available in English and Spanish, which enables consumers to estimate and plan for their healthcare expenditures and offers a rich educational platform on health insurance. An English/Spanish mobile app offers the same educational platform in a concise format and links to the cost estimation tools. The website has been honored by the White House Summit on Smart Disclosure, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), URAC, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards, appPicker, Employee Benefit News and Kiplinger's Personal Finance. FAIR Health also is named a top resource for patients in Dr. Marty Makary's book The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It and Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal's book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back. For more information on FAIR Health, visit fairhealth.org.
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2022-06-14T14:59:39+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/persistent-demand-mental-healthcare-via-telehealth-during-covid-19-pandemic-according-new-fair-health-study/
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It's supposed to be a sacred spot to grieve. Instead, two families are being taunted when they come to pay their respects to two young men who were killed in a DUI crash over two years ago.
The gravesite of Andres Zacarias and Jenser Salazar, both 21, has been vandalized for the second time this year, and their families want it to stop.
“The accident occurred on New Year’s Day 2021," said Ingrid, Zacarias' sister. "Horrifying. I know that all those videos are out there somewhere of them vandalizing the memorial."
Zacarias and Salazar, along with two others, were killed in the crash. A 16-year-old driver was charged with their deaths.
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In a video from March, someone is seen kicking around flowers and candles at the gravesite, knocking them over, and spray-painting the headstone at the Caballero Rivero Cemetery in Miami. The crime was recorded, posted online, and also sent to families.
A second video, believed to be from two weeks ago, was titled “ROUND 2 HAD TO STRIKE AGAIN." In it, the person starts hammering the gravesite.
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“This is more than enough. It’s not just us there," Ingrid said. "I know that my brother is not here. We know that the victims are no longer here, they're not suffering, and it’s probably not even the siblings but our mothers are."
Zacarias’ family released a photo captured at the cemetery of a man with a hoodie in front of the headstone who may be responsible.
“This is our area of grief. Our area where we come. This is all we have left. This is all we have left," Ingrid said. "The other car, they have family members they can go visit whether he's in jail or not. His family can go see him, write letters. What do we have? We have this. A piece of stone on the ground and that’s what they come after."
Zacarias’ family says no matter how many times somebody tries to damage Andres' grave, they’ll never be able to strip them of their memories.
“My brother — if there’s one word I could use to describe him, is selfless," Ingrid said. "My brother puts always the needs of everyone before his own needs, and I know that if he was alive right now, this would not be happening. Not because it’s a grave, it’s because he was the type of man that would stand up for justice."
Miami Police said they are following every lead in this case to identify the suspect or suspects. Anyone with information should call police or Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
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2023-06-27T12:50:38+00:00
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nbcmiami.com
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/horrifying-video-shows-vandal-damaging-gravesite-of-dui-crash-victims/3060952/
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Here’s a look at your weather headlines and 7 Day Forecast for August 9, 2022!
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2022-08-09T14:33:00+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/weather/7-day-forecast/7-day-forecast-for-august-9th-2022/
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2023-02-11T06:21:08+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/sports/friday-night-frenzy/friday-night-frenzy-winter-week-6/
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Nurses respond by filing unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board
BROCKTON, Mass., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 550 registered nurses at Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, who are unionized with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, filed an unfair labor practice charge against hospital management on January 5, 2023. The charge is over a non-negotiated, unilateral change made by management to the nurses' established holiday schedule. This decision is in clear violation of the nurses' existing union contract, as well as labor law.
Specifically, management recently announced that Patriots Day would no longer be recognized as a holiday and instead the holiday would be swapped for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
For years, the nurses at Brockton Hospital have proposed, as part of their contract talks, that Martin Luther King Jr. Day be added to the list of recognized holidays. But, for years, hospital management has rejected that proposal.
"We strongly believe that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be a recognized and celebrated holiday at Brockton Hospital. In fact, we have tried, unsuccessfully, to negotiate that into our contract for years," said Nicole Tanner, RN and co-chairperson of the hospital's MNA bargaining unit. "We are not in disagreement on the addition of MLK Day as a holiday. We disagree on how the hospital went about doing this — without negotiating and while the contract is officially closed."
The nurses' union was originally told by management that the holiday change would not affect them, that it was only intended for non-union staff. But management ultimately moved ahead with a hospital-wide rollout, leaving nurses struggling to adjust their calendars and personal commitments as a result.
"For any and all changes to a union contract, there is a legally-protected process that needs to be followed," added Tanya Reynolds, RN and union co-chairperson. "Management 100 percent did not follow the process when they made this change, and, as a result, we are 100 percent confident we will win this unfair labor practice charge."
For the nurses, management's decision to violate the contract and labor law so egregiously is worthy of head scratching. "Nationwide, there are reports of how beaten down and fed up nurses are with a healthcare system that has abused and neglected them and their patients," added Cynthia Boyd, RN and a union co-chairperson. "So many of our colleagues already feel disrespected and taken advantage of. For management to pull a stunt like this while so many of us are at the ends of our ropes is imprudent. It builds no goodwill, and it is a waste of everyone's time, energy, and resources."
The nurses' contract reopens in 2024, and they believe that is the right time to address recognizing MLK Day as the important holiday it is.
A full copy of the union's unfair labor practice charge against Brockton Hospital is included.
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2023-01-12T21:23:41+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/01/12/brockton-hospital-rings-new-year-by-violating-nurses-contract-with-unilateral-decision-change-previously-negotiated-holiday-schedule-states-mna/
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NFL gaming executive boosts integrity, but mum on player suspensions
DENVER – The NFL’s sports betting overseer told attendees of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States Friday that there are six policies regarding gambling that players must follow.
But David Highhill, who was named vice president and general manager of sports betting for the league a year ago, was silent about four player suspensions announced in late June during his 15-minute keynote address to lawmakers and gaming regulators in the second day of a conference about issues facing the gaming industry.
Indianapolis Colts cornerback Isaiah Rodgers and defensive lineman Rashod Berry and free agent defensive tackle Demetrius Taylor were suspended indefinitely as a result of them violating the league’s gambling policy. Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere also was suspended six games by the league.
The Colts released Rodgers and Berry after the suspensions were disclosed.
Highhill explained to the nearly 300 people attending the three-day conference that there are six key rules guiding the NFL’s gaming policy:
— Players can’t bet on the NFL.
— They can’t gamble at their team facility or while traveling on a road game or staying at a team hotel. The Arizona Cardinals’ State Farm Stadium and the Washington Commanders’ FedEx Field have legal sports books within them, and some teams traveling to Southern Nevada to play the Raiders stay at hotels that have casinos.
— Players can’t have other people bet for them.
— Players aren’t allowed to share “inside information” about the team.
— Players aren’t allowed to enter a legal sportsbook during the NFL season.
— Players aren’t permitted to participate in fantasy football contests.
Highhill said the league prioritizes game integrity to maintain its edge as what is widely believed to be the most watched professional sports league.
Highhill told attendees that NFL rookies and agents are required to watch videos explaining NFL gambling policies.
He acknowledged that wagering increases the enjoyment of most games and that most fans will bet “the price of a movie ticket” to supplement that enjoyment.
Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta on Twitter.
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2023-07-14T23:26:03+00:00
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reviewjournal.com
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/nfl-gaming-executive-boosts-integrity-but-mum-on-player-suspensions-2872113/
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WR Lamb looks like leading man as playoffs loom for Cowboys
Posted/updated on: December 30, 2022 at 1:43 pmDALLAS (AP) – CeeDee Lamb is looking a lot like the No. 1 receiver needed by the Dallas Cowboys. The third-year pro is having a huge second half. Lamb is on a three-game streak of 100-yard showings and has reached triple digits five times in eight games. He isn’t afraid to admit it took time to adjust to the leading role after the off-season trade of Amari Cooper in a cost-cutting move. Lamb’s surge leaves little question where the Cowboys will turn in the passing game as they seek their first deep playoff run in 27 years.
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2022-12-30T20:59:48+00:00
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ktbb.com
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https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1190433
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (WDAF) — Police arrested a woman who is accused of setting fire to a Lawrence apartment early Monday morning.
Firefighters responded to the Meadowbrook Apartments around 4 a.m.
By the time emergency crews arrived, residents were evacuating, and firefighters found smoke and flames in the stairwell of the building.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical said no one was injured in the fire, and flames were contained to one end of the two-story building.
The Lawrence Police Department says the woman is being held on suspicion of aggravated arson. She has not been officially charged at this point in the investigation.
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2022-12-05T22:50:26+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/woman-accused-of-arson-at-lawrence-apartment-building/
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop.
And, scientists say, they’re probably going to get worse as climate change intensifies unless countermeasures are taken.
A mass migration of Europeans from the countryside to cities in recent decades has left neglected woodland at the mercy of the droughts and heat waves that are increasingly common amid global warming. One tiny spark can unleash an inferno.
Fighting forest fires in Europe has never been so hard. Here’s why:
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WHAT’S CAUSING EUROPE’S WILDFIRES?
The continent’s so-called rural exodus since the second half of the last century, as Europeans moved to cities in search of a better life, has left significant areas of countryside neglected and vulnerable.
Woodland is littered with combustible material, says Johann Goldammer, head of the Global Fire Monitoring Center, an advisory body to the United Nations. That includes things like dead tree trunks and fallen branches, dead leaves and desiccated grass.
“This is why we have unprecedented wildfire risk: because never before in history — say, the last 1,000 or 2,000 years — has there been so much flammable material around,” he said.
He adds: “The landscape is getting explosive.”
Carelessness with naked flames is often enough to ignite a wildfire. In Portugal, where more than 100 people died in wildfires in 2017, authorities say 62% of outbreaks stem from farming activities such as burning stubble.
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IS GLOBAL WARMING A FACTOR IN THE WILDFIRES?
Climate change has added a scary new dimension to wildfires and made them more menacing.
That is especially true in southern Europe, where the increasing occurrence of fire weather conditions — high temperatures, drought and high winds — make summer wildfires “the new norm,” says Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.
The European Union noted this month that over the past five years the bloc has witnessed its most intense wildfires on record and that the continent’s current drought could become its worst ever. The Mediterranean region is warming 20% faster than the global average, according to the U.N..
EU fire statistics bear witness to the problem. The amount of burned European countryside has more than tripled this year, with almost 450,000 hectares charred through July 16, compared with a 2006-2021 average of 110,000 hectares in those same months.
By that same date, Europe had witnessed almost 1,900 wildfires compared with an average of 470 for the 2006-2021 period.
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ARE WILDFIRES DIFFERENT NOW?
The droughts and heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight, as conditions make it easier for them to spread quickly. Scientists say climate change will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
That includes instances of so-called “megafires” — blazes so big they are virtually unstoppable.
Spain’s wildfire problems this year began with the arrival in spring of the country’s earliest heat wave in two decades. Temperatures rose above 40 C (104 F) in many Spanish cities — levels traditionally seen in high summer.
Neighboring Portugal also saw its warmest May in nine decades, when 97% of the land was classified as being in severe drought. In France, it was the hottest May on record.
“We will not be able to completely prevent wildfires,” says Otto of Imperial College. “We have to learn to live with this.”
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HOW DO WE COEXIST WITH MORE WILDFIRES?
Scientists say there is no need to lose hope, despite the images of terrifying walls of flame and overwhelmed fire services.
“This is not an act of god,” Otto says of the more frequent wildfires. “This is, to a large degree, our doing and we have quite a lot of (power) to do something about it.”
Things we can do to adapt include putting an end to the burning of fossil fuels and educating people about global warming, she says.
Forest management also needs to be reviewed, says Amila Meskin, a policy adviser at the Brussels-based European State Forest Association, which represents governments’ forest companies, enterprises and agencies in 25 European countries.
Projects such as water retention schemes, mixing forest species and the restoration of peat lands are already happening in some places.
The effects are unlikely to be seen soon, however. Short-term planning in forestry can stretch over 50 years, and fundamental change will take decades.
More broadly, Meskin sees a general lack of interest in rural jobs and notes that forestry is not a fashionable business. Those sentiments need to be reversed, but that’s a big ask.
Maybe, she says, the shock of the wildfires will generate renewed public interest in forest care.
“It’s a very emotional thing to see forests burn,” Meskin said. “It’s such a sad, sad, sad situation.”
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Instagram model arrested after boyfriend stabbed to death in Florida apartment
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Law enforcement in Hawaii on Wednesday arrested social media model Courtney Clenney on a charge of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Hawaii County police said in a statement they assisted the U.S. Marshals Service as they arrested the 26-year-old in Laupahoehoe, which is on the Big Island. Officers used an arrest warrant issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida.
She’s being held at the East Hawaii Detention Center while she waits for her initial court appearance in Hilo District Court on Thursday, police said.
The police statement gave no details about the accusations against her, but the Miami Herald reported that Clenney is accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in April.
Her Miami defense lawyer, Frank Prieto, told the Miami Herald that she was in Hawaii while in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I’m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged,” Prieto said. “We look forward to clearing her name in court.”
According to NBC News, the Miami Police Department has previously described Obumseli's death as a domestic violence-related incident that involved a physical altercation and ended with a stabbing.
Prieto has previously described the couple's relationship as "clearly toxic" and said there is “clear evidence of self-defense in this matter.”
“Obumseli attacked her and choked her that evening,” he said. “Courtney had no choice but to meet force with force.”
A cousin of Obumseli has previously said the family has "no cause to believe that this was a case of self-defense," adding: "Toby was raised by a very strong family, with strong morals, strong values. He does not come from that."
Clenney appeared on OnlyFans under the name Courtney Tailor and has 2 million followers on Instagram.
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2022-08-11T13:45:46+00:00
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BISMARCK, N.D. — Fifteen walks and four hit batsmen came back to haunt the Duluth Huskies in a 7-5 loss Tuesday night to the Bismarck Larks in Northwoods League baseball.
Duluth got off to a 4-1 lead thank to a two-run single from Evan Borst and a two-run homer, the team's first of the year, from Max Coupe, but the following innings were plagued by too much traffic on the bases, as the Larks took a 5-4 lead in the fourth inning and extended it with two more runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Duluth collected seven walks of its own, helping to mitigate their five hits, which came from five different batters.
Reliever David Stich took the loss for Duluth.
The Huskies (0-2) will face Minot, the league's newest organization, in the home opener on Friday night at Wade Stadium.
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White House launches new student loan webpage for borrowers misled by for-profit schools
(CNN) - The Biden administration launched a new webpage this week, with clearer instructions for people applying for a specific type of student loan forgiveness.
It’s called borrower defense to repayment, and it’s for students who took out loans for a school that misled or lied to them.
For example, the college may have inflated its job placement numbers.
Many of these students went to for-profit colleges like Corinthian Colleges, ITT Technical Institute, and Marinello Schools of Beauty.
Until now, the process to loan forgiveness wasn’t clearly established. But the new website has comprehensive information about how to apply.
Since Biden took office, more than 1 million borrowers have had $14.5 billion canceled under the program.
Biden’s separate plan, to cancel up to $20,000 dollars in student debt, is held up in the courts.
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2023-02-03T14:58:06+00:00
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 484,000 large SUVs in the U.S. to fix a problem that can cause the third-row seat belts to malfunction.
The recall covers Chevrolet Suburbans and Tahoes, Cadillac Escalades and GMC Yukons from the 2021 and 2022 model years.
The automaker says in documents posted Tuesday by U.S. safety regulators that rivets that hold the buckle to the mounting bracket on the left- and right side third-row seats may have been formed improperly.
The belts may not properly restrain a passenger in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The company says it’s not aware of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will inspect the rivet heads and replace buckle assemblies if needed. Owners will be notified starting Sept. 26.
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2022-08-17T03:12:51+00:00
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/gm-recalls-484k-suvs-over-a-problem-with-seat-belts/
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Cost over-runs on a Bismarck building leased by the Attorney General’s office and the deletion of e-mails from former Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s government account are issues on the minds of at least two North Dakota lawmakers.
Bismarck State Senator Tracy Potter and New Rockford State Senator and Minority Leader Joan Heckaman are holding a joint news conference today at 2:00 p.m., to discuss the questions they have about both the cost over-runs and the emails.
The two lawmakers are members of legislative committees assigned to primarily investigate the cost over-runs, but the deleted Stenehjem emails figure in the investigations.
The news conference will be streamed live from the North Dakota Capitol Building to the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Facebook page.
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2022-07-28T19:48:05+00:00
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/excess-costs-and-deleted-emails-to-top-agenda-during-news-conference-today/
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:CVSI) (the "Company", "CV Sciences", "our", "us" or "we"), a preeminent supplier and manufacturer of hemp cannabidiol (CBD) products, today announced that it will release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, before the stock market opens on Monday, August 15, 2022. The Company will hold a conference call with the investment community at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time) that same day.
The webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://ir.cvsciences.com/news-events or directly at https://viavid.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1563741&tp_key=554963c027. The webcast will be archived for approximately 30 days. Investors interested in participating in the live call can also dial (877) 407-0784 from the U.S. or international callers can dial (201) 689-8560. Please dial the conference telephone number 15 minutes prior to the start time due to increased demand for conference calls.
A telephone replay will be available approximately two hours after the call concludes and will be available through Monday, August 22, 2022, by dialing (844) 512-2921 from the U.S. or (412) 317-6671 from international locations, and entering confirmation code 13732196.
CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:CVSI) operates two distinct business segments: a consumer product division focused on manufacturing, marketing and selling plant-based dietary supplements and CBD products to a range of market sectors; and a drug development division focused on developing and commercializing CBD-based novel therapeutics. The Company's PlusCBD™ products are sold at select retail locations throughout the U.S. and it is one of the top-selling brand of hemp-derived CBD in the natural products market, according to SPINS, the leading provider of syndicated data and insights for the natural, organic and specialty products industry. CV Sciences follows all guidelines for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and the Company's products are processed, produced, and tested throughout the manufacturing process to confirm strict compliance with company standards and specifications. With a commitment to science, PlusCBD™ product benefits in healthy people are supported by human clinical research data, in addition to three published clinical case studies available on PubMed.gov. PlusCBD™ was the first hemp CBD supplement brand to invest in the scientific evidence necessary to receive self-affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status. CV Sciences, Inc. has primary offices and facilities in San Diego, California. Additional information is available from OTCMarkets.com or by visiting www.cvsciences.com.
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2022-08-09T21:18:34+00:00
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/cv-sciences-inc-announce-first-quarter-2022-results-august-15-2022/
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday set a June execution date for man convicted of killing two Missouri jailers during a botched attempt to free a friend.
Michael Andrew Tisius is scheduled to be executed June 6 at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the shooting deaths of Randolph County jailers Jason Acton and Leon Egley.
In 2000, Tisius and Tracie Bulington entered the lobby of the jail in Huntsville, aiming to break out Bulington’s boyfriend, Roy Vance, prosecutors said. Tisius fired on the two officers, killing them. The plot failed because the intruders couldn’t find the cell keys.
Tisius and Bulington, were arrested on the day of the shootings in Wathena, Kan., about 130 mile (209.21 kilometer) west of Huntsville.
Defense attorneys had argued that Tisius intended only to order the jailers into a holding cell and free Vance and other inmates.
Bulington, and Vance are serving life sentences.
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2023-03-01T22:01:56+00:00
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BetterNight, a leading provider of comprehensive sleep care through its virtual care platform, announced today $33 million in growth funding led by NewSpring. The financing round includes participation from existing investors HCAP Partners and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) via its Impact Fund II and other accounts managed by the firm.
"With awareness surrounding the health complications caused by sleep disorders rising, the sleep care industry is growing quickly and is ripe for disruption. BetterNight's comprehensive virtual care sleep solution is perfectly positioned to offer patients, providers, and payers a superior sleep care experience," said NewSpring Partner Mike Kaplan. "The data shows that BetterNight is best in class in enabling patients to adhere to sleep therapy."
BetterNight provides a full continuum of care for patients with sleep disorders, from consultation to diagnosis to treatment to long-term coaching. The company is focused on addressing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and insomnia to boost clinical outcomes, lower healthcare costs, and improve patient lives. BetterNight partners with physicians, health systems, clinics, and health plans across the United States. All services are provided digitally in the patient's home.
BetterNight will use the proceeds from this transaction to continue its nationwide expansion through partnerships with physician practices, health systems, and insurers and to accelerate the adoption and growth of its value-based sleep solution to employers and health plans. The company will continue to invest in technology to support patient engagement and remote patient monitoring.
"Untreated sleep apnea can dramatically impair a patient's quality of life and put them at risk for numerous medical conditions such as hypertension and heart disease. Our goal at BetterNight is to provide a superior sleep care platform that empowers patients to take control of their health by getting a better night's sleep," said BetterNight CEO Dave French. "The NewSpring team has a strong track record of building successful, scalable healthcare companies, and we believe they are the perfect partner to help power our company's next stage of growth."
About BetterNight
BetterNight, headquartered in San Diego, transforms sleep health with its virtual sleep care platform. Results include lower costs of care, superior adherence, improved patient satisfaction, and higher health outcomes. The company's software platforms empower sleep management by collecting actionable data from therapy devices to drive better clinical decisions. To learn more, visit betternight.com or follow BetterNight on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betternight
About NewSpring
NewSpring partners with the innovators, makers, and operators of high-performing companies in dynamic industries to catalyze new growth and seize compelling opportunities. The Firm manages approximately $3 billion across five distinct strategies covering the spectrum from growth equity and control buyouts to mezzanine debt. Having invested in over 200 companies, NewSpring brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and resources to take growing companies to the next level and beyond. Partnering with management teams to help develop their businesses into market leaders, NewSpring identifies opportunities and builds relationships using its network of industry leaders and influencers across a wide array of operational areas and industries. To learn more, visit newspringcapital.com.
About HCAP Partners
HCAP Partners is a diversely owned private equity firm specializing in providing mezzanine debt and private equity for underserved, lower-middle market companies throughout California and the Western United States. The firm seeks to invest $3 million to $25 million in established businesses generating between $10 million and $100 million in revenues in the healthcare, software, services, and manufacturing industries. HCAP Partners has invested in over 60 companies since its founding and, through ongoing, active engagement with portfolio companies, provides value-added resources to help optimize performance and increase enterprise value. The firm has been recognized as an ImpactAssets 50 fund nine years running and, through its Gainful Jobs Approach™, works to facilitate a positive impact on underserved businesses, their employees, and their communities through active portfolio engagement. For more information, please visit http://www.hcap.com/.
About Hamilton Lane:
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for more than 30 years, the firm currently employs nearly 600 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has approximately $832 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of nearly $108 billion in discretionary assets and over $724 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors, and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.
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2023-02-28T11:50:01+00:00
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Effort to find 2 children lost in a Pennsylvania flash flood may soon pivot to an underwater search
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — A broad effort to find two young siblings who were swept away from their car during flash flooding in the Philadelphia suburbs over the weekend may soon pivot to underwater searching, authorities said Tuesday.
Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer provided an update near the search area, saying the team was still looking for Matilda Sheils, 2, and her 9-month-old brother Conrad Sheils. If the children are not located by day’s end, Brewer said, the focus will be on the water, using dive teams.
With the search in a fourth day, officials acknowledged the many that have asked to volunteer to help but said they are not needed. Brewer asked people to avoid the area.
Some 100 officials, as well as drones and cadaver dogs, have combed the area near the creek that drains into the Delaware River. The search has covered about 117 acres (47 hectares), with those on land logging some 160 miles (257 kilometers), often going back and forth over the same ground, he said.
The children are members of a Charleston, South Carolina, family that was visiting relatives and friends when they got hit by a “wall of water” Saturday, Brewer said.
The children’s father, Jim Sheils, grabbed their 4-year-old son, while the children’s mother, Katie Seley, and a grandmother grabbed the other children, Brewer said. Sheils and his son made it to safety, but Seley and the grandmother were swept away. The grandmother survived, but Seley was among the five people who drowned, according to the Bucks County Coroner’s office.
The others who died were Enzo Depiero, 78, and Linda Depiero, 74, of Newtown; Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown; and Susan Barnhart, 53, of Titusville, New Jersey, Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said.
The deaths and the search for the children have led to an outpouring of support, particularly in social media posts in the suburb about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. A community vigil for those affected was planned for Thursday evening.
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2023-07-18T22:00:52+00:00
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https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/18/effort-find-2-children-lost-pennsylvania-flash-flood-may-soon-pivot-an-underwater-search/
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Updated October 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM ET
After Donald Trump outperformed among Latinos in South Texas in 2020, Republicans have been hoping to further improve their margins among those voters. Historically, South Texas has been a stronghold for Democrats in the state, but Republicans are banking on those ties not being as strong as they used to be.
Jorge Martinez, an adviser and spokesperson for LIBRE Initiative Action, said for the past decade his team has been aiding political efforts in other parts of the state and the country. But recently, he explained, more resources have been focused at his base in McAllen, Texas.
"Now all eyes are on South Texas," Martinez said. "Now we are the ones getting all the support here."
During a recent canvassing effort, Martinez and his team knocked on doors in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Mission, Texas, which sits right on the U.S.-Mexico border. Their goal was to get the word out about Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congressional candidate running for the newly competitive 15th Congressional District in South Texas against Democrat Michelle Vallejo.
One of the potential voters they talked to was Fidel Villaseñor, who said he did not know if he was going to vote for De La Cruz in the fall. He told Martinez, though, that the most important issue for him during this election is inflation.
Martinez said most of the voters he talks to are concerned about the economy and rising prices, which he thinks could be a winning issue for his group as they organize for Republican candidates in the area.
"That's what's hurting families, and everyone is feeling it whether you are going to the grocery store or anything that you consume — prices are high right now," Martinez said. "Our message is that we need the government to limit spending."
Democrats still have an edge
According to recent polling, nationwide Democrats still have an edge with Latino voters — including in Texas. Democrats opened a national field office in South Texas earlier this year and have been running radio ads in an effort to hold on to their support in key parts of the state.
But Jens Manuel Krogstad, a senior writer and editor with the Pew Research Center focused on Latino views and attitudes, has found evidence in recent polling that compared to other voters, Latinos have pretty soft ties to political parties even when they favor one over the other.
"One point that really illustrates this is that roughly 1 in 10 Latino voters who identified as either a Democrat or Republican held political views that more closely aligned with the opposing party than their own party," he explained.
This is why Latino voters are more like swing voters compared to the rest of the country.
"Latinos don't always neatly fit into the nation's two party system," Krogstad said. "And the survey shows that Latinos in some ways are charting their own course."
The surveys he has looked at show that many Latinos do not see much of a difference between the parties.
Artemio Muniz is chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans in Texas. He thinks a large swath of Latino voters actually agree with conservatives on a lot of key issues.
"They tend to be more center-right," he said.
Muniz says if Republicans do a good job of consistently talking to Latino voters about those issues, they would be able to "take away voters from what is only a skin deep type connection" to the Democratic Party.
"When the party doesn't do the work and they don't show up and they don't have the right messaging, the default is Hispanic voters tend to vote for Democrats," he explained.
Why Latinos don't have deep ties to any party
Latinos act like swing voters because neither party has had sustained and meaningful outreach to Latino voters.
Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, has been polling Latino voters in Texas for years. He explained neither party has done a good job of engaging these communities and making them feel like their votes actually matter.
"Many in the Latino community are not getting the kind of contact from campaigns organizations or political parties or community organizations," he said. "So, I think a lot of them feel lost. They feel a little bit adrift. So, they don't have a connection to these parties. And as a result, they don't feel swept up in these national trends that pit red versus blue."
In South Texas, there are some community groups — namely a nonpartisan group called LUPE — that have been plugging away for years to get these voters engaged.
Joaquin Garcia, director of organizing at LUPE, says their hard work has helped communities advocate for basic services like sewage treatment, drinking water, street lights and paved roads.
On a recent afternoon, Garcia and his team visited a neighborhood in San Juan, Texas, to let people know about the upcoming election.. Most of the potential voters they spoke to were unaware an election was soon approaching.
Garcia says he has been surprised considering all the ads and attention in South Texas this election cycle.
"We don't know why that is," he explained. "They keep repeating it on TV and on the radio stations."
"But I mean a lot of these people have two, three jobs. They are not paying attention to elections. Their thing is getting money to sustain their families. So sometimes they don't see politics as a priority for their needs," Garcia said.
This lack of time to engage or knowledge about current politics in the state is not a small obstacle for Republicans in Texas.
Rottinghaus says getting people to make voting a priority in general is not an easy task if it's something they were not doing before.
"That's the biggest challenge that Republicans face in trying to get a vote stabilized and get them to motivate them towards the Republican candidates," he said.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she will step away from Democratic leadership next Congress marked a transformational moment on Capitol Hill Thursday, with liberals and even some Republicans offering praise and kudos to the California congresswoman.
In a highly anticipated address from the House floor, Pelosi, who has led the Democratic caucus for 20 years, said she will continue serving her San Francisco district in the lower chamber but will pass the leadership torch to a “new generation” of Democrats, many of whom have been waiting in the wings for a shakeup among the caucus’s top brass.
The House chamber erupted in a standing ovation when Pelosi, dressed in a white suit, wrapped up her speech.
A swarm of Democrats lined up to hug the outgoing Speaker following her remarks. Some even recorded the moment on their cellphones from the floor. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) brought his young daughter to witness the occasion.
“She’s a historical figure. She’ll be one of the top people in American history,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), a close ally of Pelosi. “This is a tough, strong, smart, courageous woman that knows how to listen to everybody, make a decision, [and] implement.”
“She’s just such a venerated leader,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said. “It was so dignified, you know, the way that she carried and carries herself in such a dignified fashion. She went on her own terms, and I think there’s just nothing but respect there for her.”
Few Republicans ventured to the House floor to witness the speech from Pelosi, who has long been villainized in GOP messaging. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) attended — and participated in the standing ovation after her speech.
But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who this week was nominated by Republicans to replace Pelosi as Speaker next year when the party controls the House, did not attend and said shortly after that he did not watch her speech.
“I had meetings. But normally the others would do it during votes. I wish — she could have done that. I could have been there,” said McCarthy, who once joked that it would be hard to not hit Pelosi with the Speaker’s gavel when he takes it over.
The GOP leader and the Speaker have a hostile relationship, particularly during and since the Trump era. Pelosi called McCarthy a “moron” after he criticized the mask mandate she instituted on the House floor during the coronavirus pandemic.
“They’ve both [had] quite a career of how many decades they’ve been here working through,” McCarthy said of Pelosi and Hoyer on Thursday. “It’s a whole new generation for the Democrats.”
Pelosi’s historic reign in Democratic leadership began in 2002 when she assumed the role of House minority whip. She later served as chair of the House Democratic Caucus and minority leader, but will be most remembered for her ascension to the Speakership in 2007, when she became the first woman to secure the gavel.
Throughout her eight years as Speaker, Pelosi helped usher in a number of massive legislative accomplishments: she oversaw the passage of the Affordable Care Act, helped authorize trillions of dollars of emergency relief during the pandemic and pushed through this year’s multi-billion dollar tax and climate bill.
The California Democrat also twice kicked off impeachment proceedings against former President Trump during his White House tenure.
“I just admire her focus, her workmanship, her dedication and her able to get things done and work with folks,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told reporters. “When I think of the accomplishments that we’ve made under her leadership, I’m glad that I had the opportunity to be here during those times.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a close Pelosi ally who was first to hug the Speaker on the floor, called her California colleague “the most effective Speaker in the history of the United States.”
The Democratic praise for Pelosi was bicameral. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has served as Pelosi’s counterpart in the upper chamber for years, was present on the House floor during her remarks.
“I just left the floor of the House for one of the most emotional moments I’ve had in my career: the valedictory of Nancy Pelosi, one of the greatest legislators — and greatest people — I’ve ever met,” Schumer later said on the Senate floor.
“Few in American history have been as effective, as driven, as successful as Speaker Pelosi. She’s transformed practically every corner of American politics, and unquestionably made America a better, stronger nation,” he added.
But as Pelosi heads to the leadership exits, some Democrats are emphasizing that the California lawmaker will remain a consequential figure in the party — regardless of the title she holds.
“She’s not gonna leave Dem leadership, she’s still gonna be a leader in this caucus, you know, without all the nightmares of us … without the pains in the asses she had to deal with all the time,” Dingell said. “She’s got a great deal of influence, we all know how smart she is, she’s gonna be able to pull people together. She’s going to be a voice people are gonna listen to.”
“I think that her being still involved will be helpful and it’ll help us to get — get further faster,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said.
Pelosi did get some praise from Republicans.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who said he often speaks to Pelosi on the House floor about her granddaughter and his daughter who share a name, gave her a hug after her speech.
“We don’t agree on a dadgum thing. And I prayed for her husband to get well. But I’m a Christian first, not a Republican,” Burchett said. “We still talk, and I think this country needs a little more than that.”
“We disagreed probably 99 percent of the time. But she’s been a very effective Speaker for her own cause,” said Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) “She had a gracious presentation of well-prepared remarks. I think it was very appropriate.”
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) was also present for Pelosi’s speech and hugged her afterward.
“Part of it was I was first up to present on legislation immediately after. But also, I believe it was a historic moment there, and I usually tend to sit in on those no matter who it is. And thirdly, it’s an Italian thing,” LaMalfa said.
Others, however, did not contain their glee at Pelosi leaving the Speakership.
“I’m thrilled,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). “I think she’s been the most destructive Speaker that we’ve had.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) chimed in with a tweet: “Good riddance!”
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2022-11-18T00:21:28+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-celebrate-pelosi-a-historical-figure/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Minor league players reached a historic initial collective bargaining agreement with Major League Baseball on Wednesday that will more than double player salaries, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details were not announced.
As part of the five-year deal, MLB agreed during the contract not to reduce minor league affiliates from the current 120.
The sides reached the agreement two days before the start of the minor league season and hours after a federal judge gave final approval to a $185 million settlementreached with MLB last May of a lawsuit filed in 2014 alleging violations of federal minimum wage laws.
Union staff recommended approval, and about 5,500 minor leaguers were eligible to cast ballots in a vote expected Thursday. MLB teams must also vote to approve and were likely to do so over the next week.
Minimum salaries will rise from $4,800 to $19,800 at rookie ball, $11,000 to $26,200 at Low Class A, $11,000 to $27,300 at High Class A, $13,800 to $27,300 at Double A and $17,500 to $35,800 at Triple-A. Players will be paid in the offseason for the first time.
Most players will be guaranteed housing, and players at Double-A and Triple-A will be given a single room. Players at Low A and High A will have the option of exchanging club housing for a stipend. The domestic violence and drug policies will be covered by the union agreement. Players who sign for the first time at 19 or older can become minor league free agents after six seasons instead of seven.
Minor leaguers players will receive four weeks of retroactive spring training pay for this year. They will get $625 weekly for spring training and offseason training camp and $250 weekly for offseason workouts at home.
Beginning in 2024, teams can have a maximum of 165 players under contract during the season and 175 during the offseason, down from the current 190 and 180.
The union will take over group licensing rights for players.
Major leaguers have been covered by a labor contract since 1968 and the average salary has soared from $17,000 in 1967 to an average of $4.22 million last season.
MLB raised minor league minimum salaries in 2021 and last year began requiring housing for some minor leaguers.
The Major League Baseball Players Association took over as the bargaining representative of the roughly 5,500 players with minor league contracts last September after a lightning 17-day organization drive.MLB agreed to accept the union rather than force players to ask the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election.
Negotiating for players was led by Tony Clark, Bruce Meyer, Harry Marino, Ian Penny and Matt Nussbaum. MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem headed management’s bargainers.
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2023-03-30T12:03:56+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/ap-source-minor-leaguers-reach-5-year-labor-deal-with-mlb/
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This week's Mindful Music Guest is Bob Rich III. Bob is a member of the Rich family, who is known for Rich Products and also, for whom, Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills, was originally named after.
Bob first came to acclaim in the 1984 film, The Natural, where he starred in the role of Ted Hobbs, son of Robert Redford’s character, Roy Hobbs.
A graduate of Park School, Bob graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1989. He started his professional career at WNY United, serving as the organization’s Youth Development Coordinator. He joined Rich Products in 1991 and received his MBA from the Richard J. Wehle School of Business in 1995. Bob founded ROAR Logistics in 2003, where he remains President.
Listen to Bob's Playlist:
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2023-06-19T14:06:37+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/mindful-music/2023-06-19/mindful-music-bob-rich-iii
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LONDON — The kick looked good. However Wil Lutz didn’t get the bounces.
With the miss, the Vikings beat New Orleans 28-25 on Sunday in the NFL’s first international game this season.
Lutz earlier connected on a 60-yard field goal with 1:51 left to tie the game. That’s the second-longest field goal in Saints history, tying Morten Andersen’s feat from 1991.
“I hit them both as flush as I could. Just honestly kind of still in shock second one didn’t go in,” said the 28-year-old Lutz, now in his sixth season with the Saints.
The extra yard was just enough space for the ball to drift, he said.
“I thought they were both in. I hit them both on the screws. The ball is going to move a little left. And the second one just moved a little more left.”
The bad bounce symbolizes the Saints season so far. They’ve now lost three consecutive games.
“I wanted to hit that kick for the team,” Lutz said. “We needed a win today and that’s pretty frustrating.”
Lutz this week had discussed how soccer stadiums in Britain are well-protected from windy conditions. He attended an England-Germany soccer game at Wembley Stadium last week and said the wind gusts outside the stadium were hardly noticeable inside.
He called Sunday’s weather “perfect kicking conditions.”
Minnesota kicker Greg Joseph was 5-for-5 with distances ranging from 24 to 47 yards — the longest one coming with 24 seconds left to give the Vikings the lead. That last one made up for a missed extra point.
Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell marveled at the range that kickers today have.
“There’s a lot of guys in our league now that can swing it and hit from 60 plus,” the first-year coach said. “It definitely is a factor, how you manage those end-of-game situations, how you’re going to use your timeouts, use different defensive or offensive calls based upon field position knowing that the 42- or 44-yard line is in field-goal range.”
O’Connell had thought the 61-yard attempt was going to send the teams into overtime.
“I told him after the game, ‘you hit them both as pure as they come,’ When it left his foot, I thought it was going in. Then on the first bounce I thought it was probably going in. Then luckily it did not.”
The Saints will try to end their losing streak next week when they host the Seattle Seahawks in the first of back-to-back games at the Superdome.
“We need to turn some things around,” Saints coach Dennis Allen said. “We are going to keep battling and we’re going to keep fight fighting. ... We have a good group of guys in that locker room. We have got some good veteran leadership.
“We’ll bounce back from this.”
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
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2022-10-02T22:17:49+00:00
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/lutz-saints-fall-just-short-with-61-yard-miss-vs-vikings/2022/10/02/1959fa72-4294-11ed-be17-89cbe6b8c0a5_story.html
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