text
stringlengths 80
124k
| date_download
stringdate 2022-04-02 20:48:07
2023-07-31 23:59:06
| source_domain
stringclasses 387
values | url
stringlengths 21
528
|
|---|---|---|---|
DOHA, Qatar — Lionel Messi is not ready to walk away from Argentina yet, despite ending his pursuit of a World Cup winner's medal.
The soccer great secured the one major trophy that has eluded him in his storied career as Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties in the final at Lusail Stadium on Sunday.
The match finished 3-3 through extra time with Messi scoring twice and converting his penalty in the shootout.
At 35, this is likely his last appearance in soccer's biggest tournament, but he confirmed after the match that he intends to play on.
“Obviously, I wanted to complete my career with this, (I) can’t ask for more,” Messi said. "Finishing my career this way is impressive. After this, what else? I have a Copa América, a World Cup. Almost at the very end.
"I love soccer, what I do. I enjoy being part of the national team, the group. I want to enjoy a couple of more matches being a world champion.”
Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world on seven occasions.
He has also won the Champions League four times with former club Barcelona, but the World Cup is the biggest prize in the sport.
“If he wants to keep playing, he can be with us, he is more than entitled to decide if he wants to stay with us,” Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said. “It’s a huge pleasure to coach him, everything that he transmits to his team is unparalleled. It’s something I’ve never seen before.”
Messi put Argentina ahead from the penalty spot and played a part in Angel Di Maria’s goal that made it 2-0 after 36 minutes.
Mbappé scored two goals in a 97-second span to take the game to extra time,
Messi put Argentina back in front in the 108th minute, but Mbappe’s penalty in the 118th saw the Paris Saint-Germain star complete the first hat trick in a World Cup final in 56 years.
“It’s just crazy that it became a reality this way. I craved for this so much. I knew God would bring this gift to me, I had the feeling that this (World Cup) was the one," Messi said. “It took so long, but here it is. We suffered a lot, but we managed to do it.”
|
2022-12-18T21:29:29+00:00
|
wtsp.com
|
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/messi-future-plans-after-world-cup-win/507-0f1906d6-6532-47c8-b256-e4d2e22d5ff4
|
Cyclist killed in crash near Edinburg identified
A cyclist killed in a weekend crash was identified as a 36-year-old Edinburg man.
Amilcar Gomez succumbed to his injuries Sunday at 11 p.m. on Tower Road north of South Trail Drive east of Edinburg when a Chevrolet Tahoe collided with him and fled the scene Sunday, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
PREVIOUS STORY: DPS: 19-year-old arrested for fatally striking cyclist, fleeing scene
The Chevrolet was found near the crash scene at the intersection of Alamo Road and Texas Road with "damage consistent with the evidence found at the crash scene,” the news release stated.
The driver, identified as 19-year-old Alan Nicolas Rios, was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter, DPS stated.
DPS continues to investigate the crash.
|
2023-07-12T02:34:27+00:00
|
krgv.com
|
https://www.krgv.com/news/cyclist-killed-in-crash-near-edinburg-identified
|
Opportunities, Challenges Identified for Pregnant People and Babies 0-2
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last two decades, science has shown that the 1,000-day window, the time between a pregnancy and the baby's second birthday, is most critical for brain development and when good nutrition has the greatest influence on future health. Today, on the heels of the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in more than 50 years, The American Journal of Public Health released a special series that identifies opportunities to unlock the untapped potential of this critical time by closing data gaps, enhancing promising programs, strengthening policies and uniting around this powerful window of growth.
"Prioritizing the health of babies, younger children, and mothers will reap significant returns on investment, setting the foundation for the health of our nation," said Ambassador Susan Rice, White House Domestic Policy Advisor, in one of the editorials in the series. "Everyone has a role to play—the private sector; state, local, tribal, and territory governments; civil society; academia; philanthropy; and other partners." The series identifies:
- Gaps in data of nutrition status and eating behaviors through pregnancy, infancy and toddlerhood (H. Hamner), including micronutrient deficiencies such as iron status, which leaves women vulnerable to poor maternal outcomes (M.E. Jefferds).
- Steps to improve nutrition of pregnant people, including how to realize the potential benefits of breastfeeding so no one is left behind (R. Perez-Escamilla).
- Impacts of early disparities from historically underserved communities, especially racial disparities that stem from systemic racism in food access, education, housing, health care and employment that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (S. Bleich).
- Efforts to counter repeated exposure of marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks (J. Harris), and address overconsumption of ultra-processed food through government policies (J. Krieger).
- Opportunities to leverage federal and state programs and policies, such as ECE funding streams, state licensing regulations, state quality improvement programs and more (C. Dooyema).
"Unfortunately, nutritious foods are not uniformly and equally available to all. This has unique relevance to the first 1,000 days as inequities in childhood growth and development due to poor nutrition can have long-term effects on cognitive development and health throughout that child's life," said Dr. Ruth Petersen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), guest editor of the series and an author (R. Petersen).
View original content:
SOURCE 1,000 Days
|
2022-10-26T22:33:16+00:00
|
kswo.com
|
https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/new-series-american-journal-public-health-identifies-1000-day-window-untapped-potential-improve-health-families/
|
Lilly’s drug to slow Alzheimer’s progression may be approved in the US this year
(CNN) — The full approval this month of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi marked a historic shift in the treatment of the disease: For the first time, doctors have a medicine to prescribe that has been proven to slow the loss of memory and ability to do daily tasks that Alzheimer’s brings.
A second drug may join Leqembi — known as lecanemab before it got its brand name — on the market by the end of the year: Eli Lilly’s donanemab.
It was shown in May and in fuller Phase 3 clinical trial results released at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Monday to delay the disease’s progression. Lilly said in a news release that it had completed its US Food and Drug Administration submission for the drug, and expects regulatory action by year’s end.
More than 6 million Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer’s disease, with about 1 million estimated to be in the early symptomatic stages where these drugs have shown benefit. But even though the medicines are the first to put a brake on the seemingly inexorable progression of Alzheimer’s, experts questioned the degree of their benefit in a series of editorials published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, alongside the donanemab data.
Both Leqembi and donanemab work by clearing buildups of a protein in the brain called amyloid, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.
“Donanemab was very effective at eliminating its target, cerebral amyloid, but the clinical effect was comparatively weak,” Jennifer Manly, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Kacie Deters, of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in one editorial.
Patients taking the medicine in the more than 1,700-person trial had 35% slower progression of disease than those on placebo over a year and a half on a measure called the integrated Alzheimer’s Disease Rating Scale, or iADRS, the results showed. That equated to a loss of six points on a 144-point scale for those on the drug, compared with a loss of nine points for those on placebo.
In another editorial in JAMA, researchers sought to put that result and others from the trial into real-life terms: For patients taking donanemab, there’s a lower risk of progressing from having mild cognitive impairment, or being fully independent in daily activities, to mild dementia, requiring assistance with some daily activities; or of progressing from mild to moderate dementia, requiring some assistance with basic self-care.
Lilly assessed patients in groups based on their levels of another Alzheimer’s-associated protein, called tau, and the 35% slowing of disease progression was seen in those with low to medium levels, thought to be in less advanced stages of the disease than those with higher levels. When those with higher levels were included, the benefit was 22% versus placebo.
For patients in the low/medium tau category, the researchers pointed out the drug slowed decline by 4.4 months over the 18-month trial on the iADRS scale. On another scale, known as Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes, or CDR-SB, it slowed decline by 7.5 months.
“While the slowing of clinical decline seen in this trial represents an important start, and may be deemed clinically meaningful for some patients, development of more impactful and safer treatments is still needed,” wrote the authors, the University of California, San Francisco’s Dr. Gil Rabinovici and Renaud La Joie.
Experts’ hesitation on the degree of benefit isn’t limited to donanemab; it also applies to Leqembi. On the CDR-SB measure of disease progression, donanemab showed a 36% slowing compared with placebo in the low/medium tau group, and a 29% slowing overall, while Leqembi, sold by the drugmakers Eisai and Biogen, showed a 27% benefit over placebo.
To Lilly’s chief of research, Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, the donanemab trial results answer some key questions, and hint toward ways to reach greater benefits for patients with Alzheimer’s.
“One of the questions we had was: Does the effect grow over time?” he said in an interview with CNN. “That’s important because Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic disease that can last a decade or more.”
He said at every time point researchers measured, the difference between patients on donanemab and placebo was growing.
The company also designed the trial so that patients could stop taking the drug if enough amyloid was cleared from their brain; about half the patients switched to placebo based on that metric at six or 12 months, Skovronsky said. Even for those patients, he noted, “the benefits continued to increase over time.”
“We were delighted to see that,” Skovronsky said. “Once you get rid of the plaques, you’ve fundamentally changed the trajectory of the disease in a positive way. You don’t need to continue to take therapy to get those benefits.”
Another question the trial sought to answer, Skovronsky said, was whether there was greater benefit for people earlier in the course of the disease. It’s been a hypothesis that treating Alzheimer’s earlier with amyloid-clearing drugs would yield better results; Skovronsky said the donanemab trial bore that out.
“We could look at people who had mild cognitive impairment, MCI, which is the earliest stage, versus mild Alzheimer’s versus moderate Alzheimer’s,” Skovronsky explained. “And the drug worked in all three groups, but the effect was strongest in the earliest, in the MCI patients.”
They saw a similar effect when patients were separated by age: those under 75, in the low/medium tau group, had greater disease slowing than those 75 or older: 48% on the iADRS scale for the younger patients compared with 25% for the older ones.
Lilly is running a trial in patients who don’t yet have symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to see if the results are stronger, and Skovronsky said these results give them more confidence that study will succeed.
“If this trial could slow disease progression by 40 or 50% in the early stages of the disease, now we go even earlier in our prevention study, and maybe we can stop it entirely,” Skovronsky said. “So we’re really excited about that.”
Leqembi is also in a prevention study in people at elevated risk for Alzheimer’s.
For the current use of the medicines, in people with early stages of the disease, the editorials emphasized the need to continue study over longer periods, which the companies will continue to do. They also noted that how well they work isn’t the only concern.
“The modest benefits would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers, if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive and simple to administer,” wrote UCSF’s Dr. Eric Widera, SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Dr. Sharon Brangman and the University of Wisconsin’s Dr. Nathaniel Chin. “However, they are none of these.”
The drugs are administered by intravenous infusion – Leqembi, every two weeks, and donanemab, every four.
The biggest safety concerns are swelling or bleeds in the brain typically seen on MRI, known as amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, or ARIA. Donanemab had an ARIA rate of either type of 37%, compared with 15% for patients on placebo. While Lilly said most of the cases were mild to moderate, a few were severe, and there were three patient deaths in the donanemab group, and one on placebo, considered treatment-related.
In Leqembi’s Phase 3 trial, 22% of patients experienced ARIA of either type, compared with 10% on placebo. Some patient deaths have been reported in extension studies of Leqembi as well.
Patients can also experience infusion reactions.
And the medicines aren’t inexpensive: Leqembi costs $26,500 per year before insurance. Its full approval by the FDA unlocked broader Medicare coverage, but researchers noted in the editorials Monday that some patients could still be on the hook for large out-of-pocket costs for portions of treatment or accompanying testing that insurance doesn’t cover. Lilly hasn’t disclosed where it will price donanemab once approved, as drugmakers typically don’t comment on pricing before approval.
The fact that donanemab is designed to be stopped once patients reach a certain level of amyloid clearance differentiates it from Leqembi. Dr. Lawrence Honig, a professor of neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who had not yet seen the full donanemab results, argued that it’s scientifically and medically “unrealistic to think that the Alzheimer process will be stopped by six to 18 months of antibody treatment.”
“Alzheimer’s is a chronic disease involving slow, gradual accumulation of amyloid beta forms in the brain,” he wrote to CNN in an email. “It is not likely that removing plaques over some months will prevent the disease process from progressing.”
Further, Honig, who said he consults for companies including Eisai, Biogen and Lilly and does clinical research on Alzheimer’s medicines, said it may be difficult to use donanemab longer-term, because many patients develop an immune response against it in the form of antidrug antibodies. This immune response happens with Leqembi as well, Honig said, but noted they “occur in a much more prominent fashion” with donanemab.
One limitation to the donanemab trial, researchers argued in the editorials, was that a majority of patients were White – about 90%.
“Dementia-related burdens are disproportionately felt within historically marginalized communities because structural inequalities rooted in racism, xenophobia and sexism increase risk factors for cognitive impairment, increase barriers to diagnosis, and reduce access to care,” Manly and Deters wrote. “It has been discouraging that recent clinical trials of amyloid-clearing monoclonal antibodies have not been able to meet goals of inclusion of minoritized groups.”
Lilly said that more than a quarter of the people it screened for the trial were members of minority groups, but that fewer people who were Black or Hispanic had positive scans confirming they had both amyloid and tau proteins required to join the study. The company said in a statement there’s a need for more study to understand why, and pledged that it’s “committed to identifying and implementing solutions that will result in diverse representation, improve health equity, and generate evidence to support better patient outcomes.”
Even with the many questions about the magnitude of the new medicines’ benefit, their cost, safety and complexity of administration, for some patients, they represent one of the most important things there is: hope.
“When we get our diagnosis, there are many things that go through our minds — and it’s not just how this disease is going to impact my family and myself, but that there’s really no hope for our future,” said Joe Montminy, who at 59 is living with younger-onset Alzheimer’s. “And with these treatments, we now have hope, the hope that one of these treatments might help us.”
|
2023-07-18T06:57:05+00:00
|
wishtv.com
|
https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-news/lillys-drug-to-slow-alzheimers-progression-may-be-approved-in-the-us-this-year/
|
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – A high speed chase took place Saturday afternoon in Harrison County.
The chase started near the Staples located on Emily Drive at around 12:20 p.m. this afternoon and later ended near mile marker 122 on I-79 northbound with the driver and passenger both in custody.
According to the Harrison County Communications Center, there is uncertainty as to why the chase started at this time. The center also said that the driver’s vehicle caught fire on I-79, which forced them to get out of their vehicle. The driver sustained minor injuries.
The Clarksburg Police Department is investigating the situation, and they were assisted by state police, the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office and the Bridgeport Police Department.
The names of the driver and passenger aren’t being released at this time.
The video below shows the end of the chase.
|
2022-09-24T20:31:42+00:00
|
wboy.com
|
https://www.wboy.com/news/crime/2-arrested-after-high-speed-chase-on-i-79/
|
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Colorado Springs Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade about his victory in Tuesday's election. He's the first Black person to be elected mayor there.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Colorado Springs Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade about his victory in Tuesday's election. He's the first Black person to be elected mayor there.
Copyright 2023 NPR
|
2023-05-21T12:26:42+00:00
|
kvpr.org
|
https://www.kvpr.org/2023-05-21/colorado-springs-mayor-elect-yemi-mobolade-reflects-on-his-historic-victory
|
QI previews the G20 with leaders from Brazil, Singapore, South Africa, & more
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES: Monday, November 14 from 9:00-11:00 AM EST (Streaming)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As world leaders gather next week for the G20, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft will host a global discussion to delve into one of –if not the– defining dynamics at the summit: the emergence of new centers of power far from Washington.
Is America Ready for a Multipolar World? comes as the United States' position as the world's sole superpower appears to be slipping. Chinese power and reach continue to grow. Much of the Global South has adopted an independent position on the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as well as on America's effort to contain China's growth and influence.
The Quincy Institute will bring together political leaders and analysts from Brazil, Singapore, South Africa, and France to assess how America will fare in a world of shared leadership, and what it must do to flourish in this new reality. This global conversation will be livestreamed on Monday, November 14 from 9:00-11:00 AM EST. Media coverage is encouraged. Register here.
America's power and purpose is at a crossroads. Challengers of U.S. power – such as Russia's Putin – welcome a new world order. Does that mean, however, that America should seek to restore American primacy through military dominance? Is this even possible? Or is America better off shifting strategy toward managing a world of shared leadership?
- Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation for the Republic of South Africa
- Celso Amorim, senior advisor to the Brazilian President-elect and former Foreign Minister and Minister of Defense of Brazil
- Gérard Araud, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and Permanent Representative to the U.N.
- David Kang, USC Professor of International Relations and Director of the Korean Studies Institute
- Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the National University of Singapore and former Ambassador to the U.N.
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher of The Nation magazine.
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 14 from 9:00-11:00 AM EST
RSVP: Register
CONTACT: Jessica Rosenblum, Rosenblum@quincyinst.org, 202.279.0005
View original content:
SOURCE Quincy Institute
|
2022-11-11T20:26:39+00:00
|
wsfa.com
|
https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/11/11/event-is-america-ready-multipolar-world/
|
NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Core Scientific, Inc. ("Core" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CORZ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Core and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 3, 2022, Culper Research issued a report alleging, among other things, that Core Scientific "has wildly oversold both its mining and hosting businesses, which it cobbled together in a series of questionable transactions before dumping onto the market via SPAC." Moreover, the Company had "waived the 180-day lockup on over 282 million shares, making them free to be dumped just 5 trading days" from the time of the report, showing that "insiders have abandoned any pretense of care for minority shareholders."
On this news, Core Scientific's stock price fell $0.72 per share, or 9.4%, to close at $6.98 per share on March 3, 2022.
Then, on September 28, 2022, Celsius Network LLC and related entities filed a motion to enforce the automatic stay and for civil contempt in bankruptcy proceedings alleging that Core Scientific "has knowingly and repeatedly violated the automatic stay provisions" by refusing to perform its contractual obligations, threatening to terminate the companies' agreement, and adding improper surcharges.
On this news, Core Scientific's stock price fell $0.15 per share, or 10.3%, to close at $1.30 per share on September 29, 2022.
Finally, on October 27, 2022, Core Scientific disclosed that "given the uncertainty regarding the Company's financial condition, substantial doubt exists about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern," and that it is exploring alternatives to its capital structure. Moreover, the Company held 24 bitcoins, compared to 1,051 bitcoins as of September 30, 2022.
On this news, Core Scientific's stock price fell $0.79 per share, or 78.1%, to close at $0.22 per share on October 27, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris 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, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm 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.pomerantzlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Pomerantz LLP
|
2023-01-12T08:50:17+00:00
|
wsfa.com
|
https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/01/12/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-core-scientific-inc-corz/
|
Eastern Carolina man wins $100,000 lottery prize
Published: Sep. 19, 2022 at 9:19 AM EDT|Updated: moments ago
DUCK, N.C. (WITN) -A Dare County man bought a scratch-off ticket and won a $100,000 prize.
Luke Ash from Duck bought the $25 Extreme Cash ticket from My Stop on Hooker Road in Greenville.
He got the money Friday at the lottery headquarters.
After state and federal taxes were taken out he took home $71,017.
Congratulations Luke!
Do you see something needing a correction? Email us!
Copyright 2022 WITN. All rights reserved.
|
2022-09-19T13:24:40+00:00
|
witn.com
|
https://www.witn.com/2022/09/19/eastern-carolina-man-wins-100000-lottery-prize/
|
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Pushed to the brink, Zia Cooke and South Carolina finally exerted control once the game went into overtime.
Cooke scored five of her 24 points in overtime to help the No. 1 Gamecocks remain unbeaten with a 64-57 victory over Mississippi on Sunday.
The defending national champion Gamecocks (27-0, 14-0 Southeastern Conference) got one of their biggest scares of the season before winning their 33rd straight game. The Rebels (20-7, 9-5) never trailed by more than six points in regulation and flirted with their first win over a No. 1 team in 46 years.
“They were locked in,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “They played their zone and were committed to it, and we didn’t handle it well until we actually had to. So it was a good gameplan.”
She called the Rebels “an NCAA Tournament team,” and they certainly looked the part.
Cooke had six rebounds and four assists to help off-set a 7-of-18 shooting performance. Aliyah Boston added 13 points and 11 rebounds on 4-of-14 shooting and didn’t score in the first quarter.
The deep Gamecocks didn’t get their usual supply of scoring help for the two stars, though Kamilla Cardoso had eight points and 11 boards.
Angel Baker led Ole Miss with 17 points. Snudda Collins added 11 while Marquesha Davis had nine points and seven rebounds. Rita Igbokwe blocked six shots.
Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin began her postgame news conference with a big sigh.
“Tough one. Man, today was an incredibly emotional game for me, our players, everybody,” she said. “I just grew up looking up to Dawn Staley. I just have so much respect for her as a person. She has become a mentor of mine.
“To be able to take them into overtime and have an opportunity to win after being our third game of the week was incredible.”
It was only the third single-digit margin and second overtime game for the defending national champions, who had been winning by an average of 33.5 points. The first two came against No. 3 Stanford (76-71 in overtime) and No. 6 UConn (81-77). South Carolina dominated overtime, 9-2.
Cooke’s second basket of overtime matched South Carolina’s biggest lead to that point, 63-57, with 1:33 left. The teams swapped turnovers but Ole Miss missed three shots trying to stay alive, including two straight 3-point tries by Baker after offensive rebounds.
Cooke, who had scored South Carolina’s first eight points of the game, then made one of two foul shots.
Ole Miss had rallied from a six-point deficit over the final 7 minutes to force overtime.
Baker had a steal and layup and then gave Ole Miss its first lead since the opening minutes with a jumper to go up 55-54 with 1:20 left. Then Igbokwe blocked two shots by Boston to preserve the edge.
With 30 seconds left, Boston made 1 of 2 free throws to tie it up. Ole Miss turned it over without getting a shot off, and Boston couldn’t make one at the buzzer as South Carolina finished regulation on a 1-of-11 slump.
Overtime was a different story.
“I thought we just were calculating in where we wanted the ball to go and our posts (players) came through,” Staley said.
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: Made only 23 of 61 shots (37.7%) but outrebounded the Rebels 49-36. The nation’s top scoring defense put the clamps on in overtime.
Ole Miss: Has dropped 17 in a row against South Carolina. … Had six players with two points in the first quarter, trailing 16-12. … The 1977 team had beaten eventual national champion and No. 1 Delta State 73-72 in Oxford.
LOOK BACK
Ole Miss has come a long way since McPhee-McCuin remembers about 500 fans (officially, 1,225) on hand for her first time hosting Staley’s Gamecocks. It was an 87-32 Gamecocks win, but the score was 32-2 at the half.
“Nobody was in the Pavillion and the only reason I remember is because I was embarrassed because I looked up to Dawn,” the Rebels coach said. “And I know she built something and I’m trying to build something.
“And today to hear the fans, they were so engaged and they almost took us to the ‘W’.”
UP NEXT
South Carolina visits Tennessee on Thursday night.
Ole Miss hosts Missouri on Thursday night.
___
AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll
|
2023-02-20T02:54:12+00:00
|
everythinglubbock.com
|
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/ap-no-1-south-carolina-survives-64-57-in-overtime-at-ole-miss/
|
Cissie Lowe is a huge Elvis Presley fan who loves everything about The King, especially his movies.
"We've got Viva Las Vegas with Anne Margret," she said. "And I also like King Creole and Blue Hawaii."
She founded an Elvis fan page on Facebook 7 years ago, gaining 32,000 followers, whom she considers personal friends.
Moderating the site took up a good part of her free time, until recently.... when a hacker took it over and locked her out.
"A month ago, it got stolen from me," she said. "And nothing's been done about it."
Lowe believes a hacker in Indonesia (based on tracing the new administrator) now controls the group she founded seven years ago.
"He took me out of my group, blocked me, and I couldn't even get in it," she said. "He took my admin status away."
She believes the hacker is now making money selling the contact info of all her followers.
So how did a scammer get her password? She has no idea.
We contacted Facebook executives, hoping they could investigate, but have yet to hear back.
How this new Facebook scams works
Unfortunately, scams are all too common, where someone takes control of your Facebook page or another social media site.
One phishing scheme, however, has impacted 10 million people and counting.
That's according to Chris Cleveland, founder, and CEP of PIXM, which recently uncovered a massive phishing campaign on Facebook Messenger.
Cleveland says an attack typically starts with a message from someone you know.
But the message isn't from your friend: it's actually from a hacker who has taken over their page.
"I get this message," Cleveland explained, "and I enter my credentials there. Now the hacker can send that message to all my friends (posing as me) and propagate the message that way."
In an example provided by PIXM and HelpNet Security, you click a link about something interesting (or perhaps a government stimulus or grant program) that appears to be sent by a friend.
Once you click the link, you're redirected to a legitimate ad (that makes the whole thing look official) before being sent back to a fake login page.
That's where hackers ask you to re-enter your Facebook password. As soon as you do that, they have control of your account.
How to protect yourself
So how do you protect your information?
Cleveland says two-factor authentication is a must, where you get a text alert before anything is changed on your account.
Beware unusual requests from friends, such as requests to click something to get free government money.
"Even if you trust that person," Cleveland said, "make sure you contact them first before you take that call to action or click on that link."
Finally, he says never use your Facebook password for other accounts. If the password is compromised in any way, the hacker can get into your other social media accounts, even your bank account.
Cissie Young is devastated, unable to access her Elvis fan club and contact her 32,000 friends.
"I got robbed. I feel violated," she said.
She may or may not be a victim of this latest scam but is just praying that Facebook restores her administrator credentials for her Elvis fan club.
Bottom line: If something feels strange, don't click, so you don't waste your money.
_______________________
Don't Waste Your Money" is a registered trademark of Scripps Media, Inc. ("Scripps").
Like" John Matarese Money on Facebook
Follow John on Instagram @johnmataresemoney
Follow John on Twitter (@JohnMatarese)
For more consumer news and money-saving advice, go to
|
2022-08-03T11:43:28+00:00
|
krtv.com
|
https://www.krtv.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/facebook-messenger-scam-snags-10-million-victims-more-conned-every-day
|
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an improved way to create a luxurious and attractive look when curling your eyelashes," said an inventor, from Sparks, Nev., "so I invented the LASH LIFT CURLER. My design enables you to effectively curl your natural lashes without chemicals, lifts and lash extensions."
The invention provides an improved device for curling eyelashes. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional eyelash curlers. As a result, it ensures that lashes hold the desired form for a longer period of time and it eliminates the need to use chemical products that can damage lashes. The invention features a compact and user-friendly design that is easy to use so it is ideal for women. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-MHO-179, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InventHelp
|
2023-01-09T18:21:57+00:00
|
live5news.com
|
https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/01/09/inventhelp-inventor-develops-improved-eyelash-curler-mho-179/
|
NEW YORK, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaeger-LeCoultre is delighted to name Lenny Kravitz as a new Ambassador for the Maison. One of the preeminent rock musicians of our time, the singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, designer and photographer is the archetype of the modern Renaissance man.
Since the very beginning of his career, Lenny Kravitz has been defiantly original, always following his own path, steadfast in his artistic vision. With a strong parallel between his creative philosophy and that of Jaeger-LeCoultre, the relationship with the Maison has come very naturally: "For creators, the most important thing is finding their voice, knowing what they represent and being true to their vision – while always staying open to new ways of thinking," he says.
A watch enthusiast since childhood, when he became fascinated by his father's chronographs, Lenny says: "I feel very drawn to Jaeger-LeCoultre. The way they combine such a high level of craftsmanship, design and function in their watches – that really resonates with me." "With his artistry, inventiveness and ability to transcend genres, Lenny epitomises Jaeger-LeCoultre's values and style," says Catherine Rénier, the CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre. "We are delighted to have him represent our Maison."
One of Lenny's favourite watches is the Reverso, which he paired with a black silk jumpsuit and layered jewellery when he performed at the 2023 Oscars ceremony. An instantly recognisable design icon, the Reverso is an ideal match for a man whose innate sense of style was recognised last year by the Council of Fashion Designer of America (CFDA) with its 'Fashion Icon' award. Fusing 1970s bohemian influences with rockstar classics and fashion-forward statements, Lenny's nonchalant elegance makes even his most daring outfits look effortless and timeless.
"Beyond the function of a watch, style is very important – how it looks and the way it fits on your wrist. You have to really connect with it," he adds. "My Jaeger-LeCoultre pieces feel like they have always been there – they blend with me and their style is absolutely timeless. You can really make these watches your own and when you want to change the mood, change the vibe, they always fit. It's as if they become one with you."
Lenny's music has always blended inspirations from rock, blues, funk, and soul, fusing them into a unique and constantly evolving musical style that is matched by his distinctive and individualistic personal style. His renowned design work is confident and timeless with a boldly modern edge. Similarly to Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lenny's work in all of his creative endeavours is driven by a spirit of curiosity and constant exploration. He blends myriad influences and inspirations with innovative ideas so that every new creation is fresh, exciting – and distinctly his own.
Along with fellow Jaeger-LeCoultre Ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy, he recently completed the filming of a new campaign for the Maison, to be released in May.
About Lenny Kravitz
Regarded as one of the preeminent rock musicians of our time, Lenny Kravitz has transcended genre, style, race, and class over the course of a three decade-plus musical career. Reveling in the soul, rock, and funk influences of the Sixties and Seventies, the writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has won four consecutive Grammy® Awards, as well as setting the record for the most wins in the 'Best Male Rock Vocal Performance' category. In addition to his eleven studio albums, which have sold 40 million worldwide, this multi-dimensional artist has segued into film, appearing as Cinna in the box-office hits, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Kravitz can also be seen in the critically-acclaimed films Precious and The Butler. His creative firm Kravitz Design Inc. touts an impressive portfolio of noteworthy ventures, including hotel properties, condominium projects, private residences, and high-end legendary brands like Leica and Dom Perignon. He was also recognised by the CFDA in 2022 with its 'Fashion Icon Award' for his role as not only one of rock's most esteemed musicians, but also a major fashion influence. Kravitz is also the author of Flash, a book that showcases unique rock photography. His recent memoir, Let Love Rule, landed on The New York Times' Best Sellers List. Lenny released his eleventh full length album, Raise Vibration, in 2018. He currently serves as the brand ambassador and global face for YSL Beauty's Y cologne. Most recently, he was selected as a 2023 Hollywood Walk of Fame inductee. Kravitz will release a new album in 2023.
Link to assets here
PR CONTACT:
jaeger-lecoultre@prconsulting.net
Jaeger-LeCoultre: HOME OF FINE WATCHMAKING SINCE 1833:
In the serene setting of the Vallée de Joux, Jaeger-LeCoultre's Manufacture offers a special sense of belonging. It is here, inspired by the magnificent landscape of the Jura Mountains and guided by an unquenchable thirst for innovation and creativity, that La Grande Maison gets its soul. With all crafts brought together under one roof within the Manufacture, watchmakers, engineers, designers and masters of the decorative crafts give birth to fine watchmaking creations that combine technical ingenuity with aesthetic beauty and a distinctively understated sophistication. Known as the Watchmaker's Watchmaker, the Manufacture has expressed its relentlessly inventive spirit through the creation of more than 1,300 different calibres since 1833 – and it was this spirit that led to the birth of the Reverso in 1931. With its sleek, Art Deco lines and distinctive reversible case, the Reverso became a classic of 20th-century design and is one of the most immediately recognisable watches of all time – remaining a symbol of timeless modernity to this day. jaeger-lecoultre.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Jaeger-LeCoultre
|
2023-04-27T09:04:25+00:00
|
wlbt.com
|
https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/04/27/jaeger-lecoultre-announces-its-newest-global-ambassador-lenny-kravitz/
|
Nourish your skin eco-consciously with the first ever zero waste compostable version of the fan-favorite Korean facial sheet mask; a plastic-free, guilt-free way to offset your mask sheet
TORONTO, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time ever, the beloved sheet mask in your skincare routine has become compostable. Masque BAR, the premiere brand that brought exceptional Korean beauty products to the North American market, is leading the innovation once again and has answered the call to improve consumers' eco-conscious habits with clean products that integrate sustainability effortlessly into their lifestyles.
"Making sheet masks that can be easily composted is the natural evolution for Masque BAR. We continue to push the bar on best solutions for both beauty and sustainability. We care about how our planet ages and aim to support its rejuvenation and regeneration with products that nurture skin and earth," said founder and CEO Allan Lever.
Masque BAR Naturals is the latest innovation from the founder and 45-year industry maven. From the luxurious sheet mask to the packaging it comes in, each Masque BAR product from the Naturals line can be composted at home and commercially. It's truly zero waste for guilt-free beauty which aligns with the values of today's consumers and the initiatives of major retailers like Target and its program, Target Zero. A step beyond biodegradable, compostable items break down the way organic elements like fruits and vegetables do, producing humus (the richest, most valuable part of the soil) when composted.
The clean, compostable sheet masks are made up of natural fiber, 99% natural, vegan, gluten-free, paraben-free, sulphate-free, cruelty-free and Leaping Bunny Certified. Moreover, the sheet masks from Masque BAR Naturals are as nourishing to skin as they are to the plants and Earth.
The Naturals line of masks is available at select Target stores and Target.com and includes.
- Green Tea Sheet Mask: A soothing experience that reduces puffiness and redness.
- Rose Sheet Mask: Anti-inflammatory formula that soothes irritation and minimizes redness.
- Lavender Sheet Mask: Achieve a brightened complexion with lavender that nourishes and calms the skin.
Masque BAR Naturals retails for $4.99.
For more information, visit Masque BAR online and follow the brand on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information about Masque BAR and to arrange to speak with a company spokesperson, please contact Nancy Trent or Pamela Wadler at 212-966-0024 or pam@trentandcompany.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Masque BAR
|
2023-02-06T17:41:50+00:00
|
kcbd.com
|
https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/02/06/masque-bar-introduces-first-its-kind-compostable-sheet-masks/
|
Judge OKs lawsuit against Angels over Tyler Skaggs death
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A California judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the Los Angeles Angels over the drug-related death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Glenn Salter on Monday rejected the team’s motion to dismiss and set the start of a 20-day jury trial for Oct. 2, 2023.
Skaggs, 27, was found dead on July 1, 2019, in a hotel room in the Dallas suburb of Southlake on the same day that the Angels were supposed to open a four-game road trip against the Texas Rangers.
A coroner’s report said Skaggs choked to death on his vomit and that a toxic mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone was in his system.
Last month, Eric Kay, a former Angels public relations employee, was sentenced in Texas to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy and distributing the drugs that led to Skaggs’ death.
The trial included testimony from five major league players who said they received oxycodone pills from Kay at various times from 2017-19, the years he was accused of obtaining pills and giving them to players at Angel Stadium.
Skaggs’ widow, Carli Skaggs, sued the Angels for wrongful death and negligent hiring and supervision, alleging that team officials knew Kay was distributing drugs to players but promoted him and allowed him continued access to them.
The Angels have denied the accusation, but the judge rejected a request from the team to dismiss the suit, saying, “There are enough factual allegations” to proceed to trial.
Two lawsuits were filed, one in Texas on behalf of Skaggs’ parents and one in California for his widow. The Angels this year agreed to allow the parents to join the California suit, and the Texas case is expected to be withdrawn.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
|
2022-11-02T01:37:32+00:00
|
wcjb.com
|
https://www.wcjb.com/2022/11/02/judge-oks-lawsuit-against-angels-over-tyler-skaggs-death/
|
CHICAGO, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago-based Swervnation is proud to announce the launch of its new clothing line, "Thinking Millions," through its brand SwervShop. This new collection is a tribute to those who think big and aspire to achieve great success.
The "Thinking Millions" collection is designed to inspire people to dream big and think outside the box. The collection features a wide range of streetwear, including hoodies, t-shirts, sweatpants, and accessories, all adorned with bold graphics and thought-provoking messages.
Swervnation's CEO, James Samuels Jr,, said, "Our new clothing line, 'Thinking Millions,' is a testament to our brand's mission to inspire and empower people to achieve their dreams. We believe that everyone has the potential to achieve greatness, and our clothing is designed to reflect that spirit of possibility and ambition."
The new collection is available exclusively on SwervShop's website, https://shop.swervnation.com/. The site offers easy browsing and a seamless checkout experience. The launch of "Thinking Millions" is the latest addition to Swervnation's growing portfolio of brands and products. The company plans to continue expanding its offerings in the coming months, including new collaborations and partnerships.
For more information on Swervnation and its products, visit www.swervnation.com. For inquiries and press-related matters, please contact tamille@swervnation.com.
Social Media and Websites
Dreadrock's Social media Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dreadrock700/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreadrocksge
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreadrocksge_/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFkUkAHYrTVLlaQICg8KsQ
Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreadrock-the-rap-artist-0b3a16177/
Websites:
Swervnation: https://swervnation.com/
Dreadrock: https://dreadrock.swervnation.com/
Shop: https://shop.swervnation.com/
Songwhip : https://songwhip.com/dreadrock
LinkTree : https://linktr.ee/dreadrock
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Swervnation
|
2023-04-14T13:27:27+00:00
|
kmvt.com
|
https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/04/14/thinking-millions-new-clothing-line-chicago-brand-swervnation-is-released-now/
|
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Rochester police officer who shot and killed a man following a robbery was justified in doing so, the Mower County Attorney's Office said.
The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office says Joshua Clayton Hippler, 27, was shot multiple times by police in the upper torso on July 29. Police say he charged at officers before he was shot. He was taken to St. Marys Hospital for treatment, where he later died.
"Mr. Hippler’s actions and statements gave Officer Bottcher no option other than the use of deadly force. Based upon the information available to Officer Bottcher at the time he fired his weapon at Mr. Hippler, a reasonable officer in his position would have concluded that deadly force was necessary to protect the officer and/or other persons from death or great bodily harm. Thus, Officer Bottcher was justified in his use of deadly force and we will take no further action in this matter," the attorney's office said.
|
2022-10-28T14:29:58+00:00
|
kimt.com
|
https://www.kimt.com/news/crime/attorneys-office-fatal-shooting-by-rpd-officer-was-justified-with-body-cam-footage/article_ef3ac608-56c6-11ed-803c-47cb1a9d04e8.html
|
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats' bill to write Roe v. Wade into law blocked by GOP-led filibuster as Supreme Court weighs abortion case.
- Startup offers $800-a-month bunk bed 'pods' in Bay Area home
- SF car burglary kingpin used popular boba shop as front, DA says
- COVID-19 cases are increasing in San Francisco Bay Area. Why?
- Courtside fan tries to help Dubs' Draymond Green avoid tech
- Devin Nunes unleashes stream of cope after Musk's Trump remarks
- 'The backyard of 15M people': How tourism is ravaging Tahoe
- SF police held 'Ice Cream with a Cop' event. It turned chaotic.
- Bay Area girl who died was allegedly subject to exorcism
- Sourdough bagels from former Tartine baker coming to Inner Sunset
- Paul McCartney was a musical grave robber in Oakland last night
- Hawaii helicopter crash that killed 7 was '100% preventable'
- 'Succession' star glues hand to Starbucks counter in protest
MOST POPULAR
|
2022-05-11T21:56:51+00:00
|
sfgate.com
|
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alert-Senate-Democrats-bill-to-write-Roe-v-17166020.php
|
76ers vs. Nets: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
The Philadelphia 76ers are 4.5-point favorites heading into Game 3 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on Thursday, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT, YES2, and NBCS-PH. The 76ers hold a 2-0 lead in the series. The matchup has an over/under of 209.5.
76ers vs. Nets Odds & Info
- When: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- Where: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
- TV: TNT, YES2, and NBCS-PH
Check out the latest NBA odds and place your bets on this matchup with BetMGM Sportsbook.
76ers Betting Records & Stats
- In 61 games this season, Philadelphia and its opponents have scored more than 209.5 total points.
- The average total in Philadelphia's contests this year is 226.1, 16.6 more than this matchup's over/under.
- The 76ers are 48-34-0 against the spread this season.
- This season, Philadelphia has been favored 56 times and won 41, or 73.2%, of those games.
- This season, Philadelphia has won 20 of its 27 games, or 74.1%, when favored by at least -200 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the 76ers, based on the moneyline, is 66.7%.
Nets Betting Records & Stats
- Brooklyn and its opponents have combined to score more than 209.5 points in 66 of 82 games this season.
- Brooklyn has a 225.9-point average over/under in its outings this season, 16.4 more points than this game's total.
- Brooklyn has a 43-39-0 record against the spread this season.
- The Nets have been chosen as underdogs in 38 games this year and have walked away with the win 14 times (36.8%) in those games.
- Brooklyn has a record of 5-9, a 35.7% win rate, when it is set as the underdog by +165 or more by sportsbooks this season.
- Brooklyn has an implied victory probability of 37.7% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
76ers vs. Nets Over/Under Stats (Regular Season)
Additional 76ers Insights & Trends
- The 76ers have a 7-3 record against the spread while finishing 7-3 overall over their last 10 contests.
- The 76ers have gone over the total in six of their last 10 outings.
- Philadelphia has done a better job covering the spread when playing at home (25-16-0) than it has in road games (23-18-0).
- The 115.2 points per game the 76ers record are just 2.7 more points than the Nets give up (112.5).
- Philadelphia has a 35-11 record against the spread and a 41-5 record overall when scoring more than 112.5 points.
New to BetMGM Sportsbook? We've got a great offer for new users! Be sure to use our link to get this fantastic first-time player promotion.
Additional Nets Insights & Trends
- Brooklyn has a 3-7 record against the spread while finishing 5-5 overall in its past 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Nets have hit the over four times.
- In 2022-23 against the spread, Brooklyn has a lower winning percentage at home (.488, 20-21-0 record) than away (.561, 23-18-0).
- The Nets score an average of 113.4 points per game, only 2.5 more points than the 110.9 the 76ers give up to opponents.
- When it scores more than 110.9 points, Brooklyn is 35-15 against the spread and 35-15 overall.
76ers vs. Nets Betting Splits
76ers vs. Nets Point Insights
Not all offers available in all states, please visit BetMGM for the latest promotions for your area. Must be 21+ to gamble, please wager responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, contact 1-800-GAMBLER.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.
|
2023-04-20T12:56:02+00:00
|
mysuncoast.com
|
https://www.mysuncoast.com/sports/betting/2023/04/20/76ers-vs-nets-nba--betting-trends-stats/
|
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordan Clarkson scored 23 points, reserve Collin Sexton added 22 and the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Clippers 110-102 on Sunday night.
The Jazz rallied after blowing a 10-point lead in the first half and trailing in the third and fourth quarters.
“Finding ways to win is fun,” rookie Utah coach Will Hardy said. “I’m very proud of the team to overcome 20 turnovers.”
The Jazz are second in the Western Conference at 8-3. They earned a rare sweep in Los Angeles, having beaten the Lakers 130-116 on Friday.
Paul George scored 34 points, the third time in four games that he topped 30, but Los Angeles had its three-game winning streak snapped. Marcus Morris added 18 points for the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard missed his eighth game while dealing with knee stiffness.
“We got to stick together,” Nicolas Batum said. “We’ll be OK.”
The Clippers missed all 11 of their 3-point attempts in the fourth. George missed several shots down the stretch when the Jazz pulled away after erasing a four-point deficit.
“Lauri (Markkanen) did a really good job of making Paul George work hard and not just to make shots but to get the ball,” Hardy said. “Not all 11 (3-pointers) were guarded perfectly. There were just some that were missed.”
The Jazz scored nine in a row, capped by Malik Beasley’s 3-pointer to take the lead for good with 5 1/2 minutes remaining. It was part of a 14-2 run that extended Utah’s lead to 106-98. Sexton had seven points in the spurt.
“I’m starting to get more comfortable in myself,” Sexton said. “Just staying ready and being present throughout the game.”
The Clippers pulled within four on a dunk and inside basket by Ivica Zubac before Sexton dunked with 54 seconds left.
“We battled the entire game and we didn’t get down when Paul George made a tough shot,” Sexton said.
Sexton fed Markkanen for an inside basket in the closing seconds. Playing his first season in Utah, Markkanen finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Clarkson’s 3-pointer early in the fourth tied it at 87-all.
The Clippers scored the first seven points of the third to pull into a 63-all tie. They closed within two five times before John Wall’s steal and basket forced an 81-all tie.
Wall followed with a dunk that put the Clippers ahead for the first time since the first quarter.
The Jazz took an 84-83 led on Clarkson’s 3-pointer before Wall scored again, sending the Clippers into the fourth leading by one point.
George’s 3 drew the Clippers within one before the Jazz closed on a 13-7 run to go into halftime leading 63-56. Markkanen scored 11 of Utah’s points in the spurt when he made all five of his free-throw attempts.
TIP-INS
Jazz: Markkanen didn’t miss a shot in the first half. He hit all four of his field goal attempts and made his only 3-point try in addition to all five free-throw attempts for 14 points. … Jarrod Vanderbilt sat out with right adductor soreness.
Clippers: Robert Covington returned after missing four games while in the league’s health and safety protocols. … Luke Kennard sat out with chest discomfort. He will undergo further testing Monday.
UP NEXT
Jazz: Host the Lakers on Monday to conclude a back-to-back. Utah is 4-0 at home.
Clippers: Host Cleveland on Monday in the second game of a back-to-back.
___
AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
|
2022-11-07T08:01:50+00:00
|
wtmj.com
|
https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/11/07/clarkson-sexton-lead-surging-jazz-past-clippers-110-102-3/
|
Days after Former President Donald Trump revealed he was the target of an investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a group of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol desiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the Republican front-runner raged about it on the campaign trail.
"We have a man — the only way he can get elected is to weaponize the Justice Department, which he's gone around doing," Trump told a crowd in Iowa this week, referring to President Joe Biden.
Making an assertion without evidence, Trump alluded to the ongoing Special Counsel investigation into the events of Jan. 6. Hundreds of Trump supporters have already pleaded guilty to charges in connection with that day. A civil jury has already found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse.
In addition, Trump faces federal criminal charges in connection with the mishandling of top-secret documents as well as charges in New York City that he falsified business records. And of course, he’s running for the Republican nomination for president again.
But many Republican competitors continue to hedge their bets when it comes to attacking their party’s standard bearer. A recentFox News poll of South Carolina shows voters put him atop a crowded field.
SEE MORE: Trump's trial for classified documents case set for May 2024
Trump’s former vice president, now presidential contender Mike Penn, is anemic in the polls. He condemned Trump’s Jan. 6 rhetoric—the false allegations that the 2020 election outcome was rigged—but he couldn’t say whether Trump's actions warranted indictments.
"While his words were reckless,based on what I know, I’m not yet convinced that they were criminal," Mike Pence told CNN."President Trump was wrong on that day, and he's still wrong in asserting that I had the right to overturn the election, but what his intentions were—and as you know, criminal charges have everything to do with intent—what the president's state of mind was, and I don't honestly know what his intention was that day, whether as he spoke to that crowd, as he tweeted during the riot itself."
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who, along with hundreds of other lawmakers, hid in fear during the attempted 2021 insurrection, was quick to condemn Trump.
"The president is not above the law. We saw what happened; it was very clear," said Pelosi on CNN.
The California Democrat says Trump has a vice grip on Republican politics. Commenting on recent reports, her successor to the House Speaker's Office told Trump he’d expunge the former president's impeachments from the record.
"This is about being afraid. Donald Trump is the puppeteer. And as I’ve said before, what does he do? He shines the light on the strings," said Pelosi.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is leading the investigation into the events of Jan. 6 and has not commented on the target letter Trump says he received last Sunday.
Trump has not shown any indication that the string of bad news is affecting him in any negative way.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
|
2023-07-23T22:47:55+00:00
|
krtv.com
|
https://www.krtv.com/fmr-vp-mike-pence-doubts-donald-trump-s-jan-6-actions-were-criminal
|
This family had big plans for this year. Then Hurricane Ian hit and they were given a deadline to move out of their home
By Christina Maxouris, CNN. Photographs by Erica Lee, CNN
Miguel Romero proudly calls himself a “Florida boy.”
He loves the Sunshine State’s warm weather. He’s lived in the same neighborhood in Lee County, along Florida’s southwestern coast, for most of his life. It’s where he got his first job, at a Wendy’s, when he was 16. It’s where he drove his first car, a white Buick Century that he bought from his godfather. It’s where he met his partner, Nicole, during senior year of high school.
Together, they now share a 1-year-old daughter, Emma — a name inspired by one of Nicole’s favorite shows, “Friends.” Money was always tight, but life on Linda Loma Drive was good, Romero says.
The family had big plans for this year: they were going to visit an annual Halloween attraction in Orlando. For the first time, Romero was hoping to see his favorite stand-up comedian live later this month. They were hoping to set up their first at-home aquarium in the large fish tank Romero recently purchased.
Someday soon, the couple hoped to get married here, too. But Hurricane Ian changed their plans.
Linda Loma Drive, a short street just 10 minutes away from the island of Fort Myers Beach, is home to predominantly lower- and working-class families, some of them immigrants, whose homes were flooded by the powerful storm in late September.
Like Romero’s family, most of his neighbors are longtime tenants who spent days after the hurricane cleaning their rental homes and piling on their driveways the moldy furniture, electrical devices and cherished memories that the floodwaters destroyed.
“It was so surreal,” Romero, 26, said on an early October afternoon, as he walked around his empty apartment. “It took us hours and hours to clean all this up and … the big trash trucks with the claws, they just come in, they pick that stuff up like it’s nothing.”
“Years’ worth of hard work gone in a matter of five minutes,” he said.
That wasn’t all they lost. Days after the storm, Romero says his landlord announced they had less than two weeks to move out so that repairs from the flood damage could begin. And he offered no guarantee they’d be able to move back in after those were finished, Romero says. The news came as a gut punch, shattering the image of the life Romero had envisioned for the months and years ahead.
Romero used his savings to rent a storage unit while he frantically looked for a new apartment. But in an area that was already deep in a housing crisis before the hurricane, that quickly proved next to impossible, and his family was forced to look to a different state.
“I’m just sad, heartbroken and hurt,” he said. “Mentally, I’m not in a good place, but I also can’t afford to let my family see that, especially my little girl.”
He wasn’t the only one that was pushed out after the storm. Tenants in several communities across the state’s three hardest-hit counties received orders to vacate their homes, according to reports compiled by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
Low-income households, which typically receive the “least assistance and fewest protections where recovering,” were those most impacted, the coalition said last month. In states like Florida, where available housing is already scarce, landlords have used natural disasters as opportunities to push those tenants out to fetch higher prices, says Sarah Saadian, the coalition’s senior vice president of public policy and field organizing.
“What happens is that households that are already struggling are pushed deeper into housing instability,” Saadian said. “And the worst cases result in homelessness.”
Nearly two months since the storm ripped through the state, many Floridians who were forced to leave their homes have had to start their lives from scratch, with little money and help in doing so.
‘Tired of being in this tunnel’
For Romero’s family, family trips and plans for new hobbies and shows are now out of reach. Instead, they’re planning to use all their savings for their big move to Indiana on November 19.
“People who spent years saving … in the midst of and in response to an emergency like this when they’re displaced, that money is gone,” said Sheena Rolle, senior director of strategy for local grassroots advocacy group Florida Rising.
Romero said he’s dreading the day of the move. But staying in Florida was simply not an option: the financial assistance the family received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency was not nearly enough to help pay the bills or cover housing, he says. Rent in Indiana is nearly a third of what it is in Florida and family members who already live there told Romero he will likely be able to get a job at a factory.
“You can only take in so much canned goods, so much water, so much clothes,” Romero said. “What people really need is money. Money to get back on our feet.”
For others, what comes next is a question unanswered.
A 24-year-old mother of three who lived in the same neighborhood says her family was given just days to move out of their home after Ian hit. The woman did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation by her previous landlord, who other family members are also renting from.
The woman tells CNN she moved to the neighborhood with her spouse and their children nearly three years ago — a special milestone that marked the first time the family lived on its own.
In that short time, the family made their house a home, filling it with memories including “Toy Story” and “Minions” movie nights, spaghetti and meatball preparations for when dad returned from work and bedtime rituals for the three young children — 1- and 6-year-old sons and a 2-year-old daughter.
The family evacuated ahead of Hurricane Ian. When they returned, everything was ruined, drenched by more than five feet of floodwater that poured inside the home. They were at least able to save some clothes, the woman says. And then, they found out her spouse was now unemployed after the Sanibel Island restaurant he worked in was decimated.
The woman tells CNN she called her landlord to ask for some more time past October 1 — their usual pay period for rent — while they worked to rearrange their savings. His response: they had two days to get everything out.
“I was crying,” she said. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. We didn’t know where we were going to go.” They have been staying with family since the eviction, the woman says, but that’s a temporary solution and they don’t know where they’ll be able to move to next.
In times of disaster, when local and state governments are often consumed by response efforts, it’s often more likely that some landlords will engage in illegal practices to push tenants out and tenants often don’t have access to legal counsel to fight back, says Saadian, with the NLIHC. That problem is exacerbated by challenges that have existed long before the storms hit, like a lack of renter protections and a lack of enforcement for the protections that do exist, Saadian says.
“The households that are going to be most harmed are those low-income renters who don’t have a lot of options for affordable places to live anyways,” Saadian said. “What we see in many cases is homelessness increases.”
In Houston, after years of declines in the homeless population, advocates recorded a 15% increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness in 2018, the year after Hurricane Harvey pummeled Texas, according to a report from the Coalition for the Homeless. There are still people this year who attribute their homelessness to that storm, the report says.
“Renters whose buildings got impacted or destroyed (in a disaster) have no recourse,” said Rolle, with Florida Rising. “They either must live through what would in any other situation be deemed unlivable conditions or they must flee.”
After disaster, a deadline to leave
On the street behind Romero’s old home, Melissa Harper says she also faces an approaching deadline to leave her house. The neighborhood quickly became a safe haven for Harper, offering a newfound stability after she spent more than a year experiencing homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic. About a month before the storm hit, Harper moved in with her boyfriend and a good friend of his, a man who had been renting the single-story home for more than a decade.
Much like Romero’s family, the three of them spent the days after the storm cleaning out the destruction. And though most of their furniture and electric devices were gone, they felt hopeful they’d be able to continue living there, adding new pieces of furniture they found at donation drives or on the street.
Several weeks after the storm, their landlord gave them a December 1 deadline to leave, Harper says, adding she was informed he had plans to turn the home into an Airbnb.
“It’s put a lot of pressure on us and a lot of stress. We haven’t saved any money because we had to pay that rent,” she said. “I’m just taking it day by day.”
The latest rounds of evictions after Hurricane Ian highlight a dire need to add more protections for renters, including following disasters, and ensure they have access to housing and financial resources, both Rolle and Saadian tell CNN.
Rep. Val Demings, who last week lost to Sen. Marco Rubio in the election for the US Senate, introduced a bill in September to protect residents from evictions during and after disasters like hurricanes. The bill has been endorsed by organizations including the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the National Housing Law Project.
“At any moment, your life can change and your options are few, but the rules surrounding what you can and can’t do are many,” Rolle said. “Some of this is climate change, some of this is the Earth. A lot of it is bad leadership, bad policy that ignores people at the bottom rung of the ladder.”
Romero hopes coverage of stories like his could bring about some change. The eviction — more than the storm itself — shifted their entire lives and futures. But he tries to remain hopeful about what life in Indiana will look like.
“It’s going to be hard, I mean hard. But I’m just ready for new beginnings,” he said. “Even if we don’t like it, maybe someday we can come back.”
The-CNN-Wire
™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
|
2022-11-14T00:12:34+00:00
|
krdo.com
|
https://krdo.com/news/2022/11/13/this-family-had-big-plans-for-this-year-then-hurricane-ian-hit-and-they-were-given-a-deadline-to-move-out-of-their-home/
|
ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) – The Staffbuilders Training Calendar is a free professional development resource for nonprofit staff and volunteers and for people interested in improving their communities. The schedule consists of workshops held in The Rapides Foundation Building in downtown Alexandria and webinars offered online at BigMarker.com/cdworks. Participants do not need to download software to attend the online courses.
Spring trainings cover three topic areas: starting a nonprofit, fund development and internal operations.
Spring class titles are as follows:
- Start-Up Series for Nonprofits: To Be or Not To Be a 501(c)(3); Introduction to Finding Funders; Keeping It Real – Telling Your Story; Nonprofit Fundraising 101.
- Fund Development Series: Fundraising During Hard Economic Times; Basic Grant Writing; Readiness for Federal Funding; How to Craft the Evaluation Section of Your Application; Nice or Necessary: Prove Your Program’s Need; Developing Outcomes to Demonstrate Impact.
- Internal Operations Series: Bring Back the Joy to Your Nonprofit Team; Introduction to Using QuickBooks Financial Reports; QuickBooks Online for Nonprofits – Part 1; QuickBooks Online for Nonprofits – Part 2.
Participants have the option of attending all trainings in a series or choosing only the ones that interest them. Residents who register for a webinar but are unable to attend at the designated time will be given a link to watch at a later date.
Visit www.communitydevelopmentworks.org/attend-training to find a list of the classes and to register. Call CDW at 318-443-7880 or 800-803-8075 for more information.
CDW trainings are part of The Rapides Foundation’s Social Environment Initiative and have the goal of building the capacity of nonprofit staff and volunteers in Central Louisiana. Trainings are offered in the spring and the fall.
|
2023-02-23T00:34:55+00:00
|
cenlanow.com
|
https://www.cenlanow.com/local-news/community-development-works-announces-spring-training/
|
Water woes in Jackson forcing JPS to begin new semester teaching virtually
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Water woes in the capital city.
WLBT has told you about the problems they’re creating for residents and businesses, but what about local school districts?
These water issues are forcing the Jackson Public School District to start off the new semester with virtual learning.
When the semester started Thursday, nearly three dozen schools either had low water pressure or no water pressure at all.
As of Friday, the water pressure had increased at all schools.
“When I found out that we had to be virtual for a little while, of course, it just took me back to the drawing board, go back find different ways to teach those students,” said Tisithia Knotts, who teaches second grade at Bates Elementary School.
To kick off the new semester, Knotts said she had lesson plans already prepared for her students, thinking they were going to meet in person.
However, those plans were suddenly altered due to the ongoing water issues.
While the second-grade teacher was able to come up with a new set of lesson plans, she admits, teaching virtually isn’t ideal.
“Because of course you have to find new ways to keep those students engaged, Knotts explained. “They’re not in the classroom doing hands-on [activities], so you have to find better ways to grasp their attention just like they’re in the classroom.”
Having to switch to virtual learning due to the city’s water crisis isn’t anything new.
The district found itself in this same situation during the fall semester.
Knotts said going back and forth from teaching in-person to virtual can be hectic.
“One day you may have a lesson plan where you’re going to be doing this, but then the next day you may not be in the building,” Knotts described. “You have to go back and start over from scratch and figure out, how can I still teach this same lesson, how can I allow my students to still understand what’s going on, but through the computer.”
Two days into the new semester, Knotts and the district are doing their best to make the transition as smooth as possible for everyone.
Although virtual learning isn’t the preferred option, Knotts said it’s still better than the alternative.
“If we’re not virtually learning then the other alternative would be to not have school at all,” said Knotts. “If we’re not having school then our kids are not learning, if they’re not learning, they’re not growing.”
JPS hopes to return to in-person learning on Monday. The district will continue to monitor the water pressure at all schools over the weekend, and then make a decision on whether to return in person next week or continue virtually.
Want more WLBT news in your inbox? Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.
Copyright 2023 WLBT. All rights reserved.
|
2023-01-07T05:01:57+00:00
|
wlbt.com
|
https://www.wlbt.com/2023/01/07/water-woes-jackson-forcing-jps-begin-new-semester-teaching-virtually/
|
Stray dog gets second chance, becomes police department’s ‘Community Outreach Canine’
TRUCKEE, Calif. (Gray News) – A police department in California is adding a new partner to their roster – a stray dog.
The Truckee Police Department said the department officially adopted an 8-month-old American bulldog they named Captain Mugshot, who will also be known as Mugz.
Mugz was originally picked up as a stray and placed in a local shelter. Truckee police and the Humane Society both saw that Mugz was something “very special.”
“It didn’t take long for Truckee PD to decide it was time to bring a dog back into the local police department,” police wrote in a Facebook post. They adopted him on Friday.
However, Mugz won’t be a typical police K-9. He’ll be a “Community Outreach Canine,” working hard to provide outreach and education in the community on behalf of the police department.
“We are so excited to have this special canine working alongside Truckee PD,” Truckee police support services manager Deverie Acuff said. “Community Outreach is an important part of what we do, and we’re excited for the community to meet the newest member of the team.”
Mugz will be competing his training before he is ready for duty.
Truckee is located about 30 miles southwest of Reno, Nevada.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
|
2022-05-12T18:16:13+00:00
|
wlox.com
|
https://www.wlox.com/2022/05/12/stray-dog-gets-second-chance-becomes-police-departments-community-outreach-canine/
|
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 25, 2023
_____
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
614 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ROBERTS AND
SOUTHWESTERN OCHILTREE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has switched
direction and is no longer moving towards the warned counties.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
the Panhandle of Texas.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR NORTHERN HUTCHINSON...SOUTHERN HANSFORD AND NORTHEASTERN MOORE
COUNTIES...
At 613 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles west of
Pringle, or 23 miles east of Dumas, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail
damage to vehicles is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Spearman, Stinnett, Gruver, Morse and Pringle.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Fisher County
through 700 PM CDT...
At 614 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Us-180 Near The Fisher-
Scurry County Line, or 7 miles northeast of Hermleigh, moving
northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Rotan, Roby, Sylvester, Hobbs, Longworth, Mccaulley, Hitson, Busby,
Capitola and Us-180 Near The Fisher-Scurry County Line.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3267 10014 3266 10015 3263 10014 3262 10015
3257 10066 3279 10066 3296 10024 3296 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 242DEG 29KT 3269 10065
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
_____
Copyright 2023 AccuWeather
|
2023-04-26T00:34:19+00:00
|
ourmidland.com
|
https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-amarillo-warnings-watches-and-advisories-17918547.php
|
Six times, families in Maryland woke up to the terror of a fire burning at their homes, the work of an arsonist. He hit one target three times — including just before a family was about to move back into their damaged home. In all, 12 fires damaged or destroyed cars and buildings.
Some attacks were caught on video. But for years, investigators didn't know who was setting the fires, which hit several Maryland counties over nearly a decade. Then came another shocker: the man behind the fires was David Crawford, who had repeatedly pledged to protect others and had recently been the police chief in Laurel, Md.
In a stunning turn of events, Crawford was arrested in 2021; a Howard County jury convicted him in March, after prosecutors presented a "target list" of victims and other evidence. And now Crawford, who spent his career in law enforcement, has been sentenced to eight life terms, plus 75 years.
Some of those terms will run concurrently, leaving Crawford, 71, with an "executable prison sentence" of two life terms, prosecutors said.
"The horror and nature of arson is so deeply powerful in its impact and complete in its destruction in the victim's peace of mind that it is only fitting the defendant spend the rest of his natural life behind bars," State's Attorney Richard Gibson said after the sentencing.
The attacks took place in the counties of Howard, Frederick, Charles, Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Prince George's, from 2011 to 2020.
Disputes over "white privilege" and professional grudges
"Concealed within the suspect's cellular phone, Investigators found a 'Target List', listing all known victims," according to court documents filed in the case.
Crawford targeted people for a range of reasons, from perceived slights by his former colleagues to anger directed at his chiropractors. There were also racial and social motivations: One entry on his arson target list identified a person only as "White Privilege."
That reference was linked to Crawford's wife, Mary, who disputed the concept of white privilege during training for volunteers in a Court Appointed Special Advocate program, according to charging documents in the case. After the program's coordinator removed Mary Crawford from the program, a car was set on fire at the coordinator's home, causing significant damage to her mother's 2014 Toyota Camry.
And after Crawford disagreed with a woman who served with him on a committee setting new school district boundaries, he caused more than $340,000 in damages to her home, setting three separate fires, investigators said.
Another trio of fires targeted Crawford's stepson and his family — first at one home in Montgomery County, and then at a different address. In one of those fires, a neighboring townhouse sustained more than $40,000 in damages. Crawford apparently had several heated arguments with his stepson shortly before the first of those fires, in 2016.
Other fires targeted people Crawford clashed with during his police days, including police and city officials he believed had worked against him.
Video and a "target list" incriminated Crawford
Investigators from several police and fire agencies identified telling patterns in the fires. In some cases, surveillance video captured the arsonist on camera, showing a man gushing gasoline onto cars and buildings before lighting fires that were sometimes explosive. His identity was shielded by a hoodie.
While community tips and witnesses helped build a case against Crawford, Prince George's County Battalion Chief Shajahan Jagtiani said at the time of Crawford's arrest that a breakthrough came when his county, after running out of leads in a 2019 arson, decided to post video of the arsonist online.
When an investigator in neighboring Montgomery County saw the footage, alarm bells went off.
"That surely looks exactly like the person in my video," Lt. Christopher Moe recalled thinking when he saw the footage. The investigators started to meet and share information, convinced they were chasing the same man. The case grew from there.
Finally, a key connection was made: all the victims had had disagreements with Crawford. And in several cases, victims said he had called or messaged them shortly after the fires, even asking for photos. When officers searched Crawford's home, they found the document titled "Target List," naming his victims.
Crawford used Google Maps to find targets' addresses
Electronic devices provided a host of details about Crawford's activities, from Google Map searches for victims' addresses to Apple Health app data showing he was awake and active during the pre-dawn timeframe of several attacks.
A trove of evidence was also recovered from an attack that went very badly for Crawford in 2011, when he set fire to two vehicles at the home of Laurel's then-deputy city manager. In scenes caught on video, the arsonist inadvertently set his own lower leg on fire and stomped his shoe in an attempt to put out the flames. Investigators found that shoe — a size 10 Nike sneaker — along with a Bic lighter, a wooden stick and, farther afield, the remnants of some burned-up jeans.
Records also showed that Crawford's email was used in a posting on a medical forum about a burn on his calf, about 17 days after the arsonist was seen setting his leg on fire. Officers later confirmed that he sustained a burn scar in that spot.
No one other than Crawford was reported as injured in the fires. But the charging document stated, "A reasonable person would know that if you set a fire to a home in the middle of the night when most people are sleeping, serious injury and/or death are likely."
Crawford's career in law enforcement dates to the 1970s. He earned the rank of major in the Prince George's County Police Department before retiring in 2000 and becoming chief at the District Heights Police Department. He was the police chief in Laurel from 2006 until he resigned in 2010.
Crawford was found guilty of eight counts of attempted first-degree murder (because some of his victims were sleeping in the homes he set on fire), along with three counts of first-degree arson and one count of first-degree malicious burning.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
|
2023-06-28T19:54:01+00:00
|
mtpr.org
|
https://www.mtpr.org/2023-06-28/a-police-chief-who-became-a-serial-arsonist-is-sentenced-to-life-terms-plus-75-years
|
Is there a water crisis happening in Manila? It depends on who you ask and from where you're getting your information. The answers, though, say a lot about the current state of Philippine media.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Is there a water crisis happening in Manila? It depends on who you ask and from where you're getting your information. The answers, though, say a lot about the current state of Philippine media.
Copyright 2023 NPR
|
2023-07-07T22:33:51+00:00
|
upr.org
|
https://www.upr.org/2023-07-07/the-water-crisis-and-government-influence-on-the-media-in-the-philippines
|
Kansas City Museum partners with world renowned architect to create the city’s first ‘skyspace’
By Alan Shope
Click here for updates on this story
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — A new way to look up at the sky is coming to Kansas City.
It’s called a skyspace and coming to the Kansas City Museum ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
It’s part art sculpture and part planetarium. The museum’s executive director believes it could become iconic for the next generation in KC.
“An observation chamber with an oculus carved in the roof,” Kansas City Museum Executive Director Anne Marie Tutera said.
The spot for looks up at the sky while inside a light show changes its colors of it. The Kansas City Museum is working with internationally known artist James Turrell to design and eventually build the project.
The nearby water-cooling tower will be the home of the skyspace that will actually sit 11 feet below ground.
“It is an unbelievable experience,” International Architects Atelier’s Elizabeth Amirahmadi said.
There are only 85 similar installations worldwide, and none in Kansas or Missouri.
It’s an idea that began in 2014 but is one they hope to have completed by the time Kansas City hosts the World Cup.
“It did take several years to build the capacity to take on a project like this,” Tutera said.
The project is currently at the end of the design phase. They hope that when finished, it will allow those who see it reflection, observation and healing.
To see examples of other skyspace projects, go to kansascitymuseum.org.
The sky space will only be around 700 square feet.
Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.
|
2023-01-10T20:32:07+00:00
|
localnews8.com
|
https://localnews8.com/cnn-regional/2023/01/10/kansas-city-museum-partners-with-world-renowned-architect-to-create-the-citys-first-skyspace/
|
Large crowd shows up for celebration
The Goleta Valley Library on Saturday celebrated its 50th birthday and the retirement of the longtime library director, Allison Gray. These milestones were marked with a family-friendly community celebration which took place from 2-4 pm.
“It went great; we had a huge turnout. Speakers included Second District Supervisor Laura Capps, and Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann, a representative from Assemblyman Gregg Hart’s office, all the city council members, and the head of the library advisory commission. A huge number of library patrons and former employees were in attendance. Many attendees wore gray in my honor,” Allison Gray, outgoing library director told the News-Press. Ms. Gray estimated about 130-150 were in attendance.
“It was very celebratory. The speakers talked about the importance of libraries to democracy and the importance of this library to the community. All the speakers were kind enough to say things about the changes I made to the library. It was really sort of half a celebration of the 50th birthday of the library and half a celebration of my leadership and the changes I have implemented. I had about an hour before speeches where I got to see a lot of my favorite patrons I haven’t seen for a while. I was thrilled they made the effort to come. There were lots of hugs; it was pretty emotional for me. I’ve had fifteen years of knowing these people. It was very emotional,” Ms. Gray told the News-Press.
“It was a wonderful celebration on so many levels the achievement of Allison and her tenure steadying the ship of that treasure of a library. It was also a celebration of children and the way libraries reinforce that. They are important in society and literacy is important to the community. It was a celebration of the opportunity libraries provide for internet access, learning, and knowledge to those who might not otherwise be able to access them. It is important not to take libraries for granted because they are vital to democracy, open the world and provide knowledge and truth to people … I was honored to be part of the celebration to thank the staff, Allison, and the many volunteers of the Goleta Valley Library,” Second District Supervisor Laura Capps told the News-Press.
“The mayor, on behalf of the city council, read a proclamation and a representative from Assemblyman Hart’s office presented a proclamation from the legislature honoring the library. Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann also gave a certificate of recognition – one for me, and one for the library. I also received a tile in appreciation of my work from the city of Goleta,” said Ms. Gray. “People told me they loved the staff and felt it was a friendly place to come and it felt very hometown. The library has sophisticated services but is intimate and welcoming. There was also a lot of talk about appreciation for the services we provided during covid.
“I think the city was probably impressed by the number of people who made an effort to come on a Saturday afternoon. It was hard in a lot of ways and made me sad that I won’t be working with the staff and patrons anymore. The library offers the traditional things that people still want, including physical materials, programs, and a place where they can bring their kids. I hope my successor understands the importance of blending the past with the future,” said Ms. Gray.
Ms. Gray’s successor has not yet been named.
email: kzehnder@newspress.com
|
2023-03-16T07:34:58+00:00
|
newspress.com
|
https://newspress.com/goleta-library-turns-50-2/
|
You’re in a time crunch with a decision in front of you: Should you help your neighbor with her chickens on the loose or rush into work to help your local newspaper cover an historic flood?
That’s one of the first choices a user must make in “Headlines and High Water,” a recently released journalism education video game from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Field Day Lab in the School of Education.
The path you pick affects how the story plays out later in a “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style, with the goal of building skills like trust, resourcefulness, research and technology while working at your first job out of journalism school in a small community.
Sarah Gagnon, Field Day’s creative director, began envisioning the game in 2019 as she watched other games focused on the idea of “fake news” and how to recognize it.
“I want kids to be able to think about how journalistic knowledge is created,” Gagnon said. “When they read the news, I want them to think about the importance of the news for the sake of democracy and for making decisions, and as they’re seeing news, that they want to be able to notice what good news sounds like.”
She read a book by UW-Madison Journalism School Professor Sue Robinson and reached out to her to partner on the concept. Robinson, who said the idea "sounded like the most fun ever," connected the game creators with other journalists to ensure the game was a realistic reflection of the job.
“The game is so cool, really sophisticated and I think gets at all of these sorts of values of journalism that we’re trying to teach our students,” Robinson said.
The game was released for free public use earlier this month and can be accessed by anyone online. It’s aimed at middle school students, but Gagnon and Robinson believe it’s accessible to older students and even adults.
Robinson said she learned a lot about the process of making a game, which includes developing storylines, figuring out how they work together and creating the art to tie it all together.
“The whole project from start to finish has been really illuminating for me because I had no idea how much work went into this kind of thing and how many people had to be doing their part correctly and competently and reliably,” Robinson said.
A key piece of any game is a “resource” that users can gather. Gagnon said a usual go-to is money, and the game’s creators initially thought of using that in this case. Robinson and the journalists quickly suggested they find an alternative, and eventually they settled on time.
The game creates situations in the fictional small town of Twin Lakes, with story deadlines and a variety of locations to gather information. The user is provided various options of who to talk to or what action to take, with each taking a different amount of time as the clock runs toward deadline.
In testing the game with students, Gagnon said the feedback was that it was “really unfair.”
“And journalists were like, ‘Yes, it is unfair, we aren’t given enough resources,’” she said.
That helped the developers lean into the importance of the game saying “you have to spend time to build trust within the community.”
“So instead of trying to make the game more fair, what we tried to do is talk about that unfairness within the game and to let the main character complain like, ‘Why won’t these people talk to me? Why don’t they trust me?’” Gagnon said.
That trust-building was a key component for Robinson, whose new book, “How Journalists Engage: A Theory of Trust Building, Identities, and Care,” includes anecdotes about the game and its development. She also wanted it to illustrate how journalists are a part of the community they cover, and therefore are invested in the information they’re sharing.
“It was really important for me for people to see all of the hard choices that journalists have to make every single day and it seems like they’re little choices, but all these choices have these big consequences for the community,” Robinson said. “It still gives over this feeling that the journalist is part of the community, that the journalist is trying to help the community through this flood in the best way possible.
“What this game does is really show the true connection between community and journalism and how those two are so integral for each other’s health.”
|
2023-04-20T11:43:39+00:00
|
captimes.com
|
https://captimes.com/news/education/uw-madison-develops-game-to-highlight-trust-in-journalism/article_70298ad6-6521-54f7-8076-2f78341a676a.html
|
The collaboration pairs Bain's extensive experience and network with Prysm Group's research and innovation
BOSTON, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company, a top global management consultancy, and Prysm Group, a leading economic consulting and corporate education firm, have announced a collaboration to expand corporate learning on web3 and emerging technologies. By leveraging Bain's extensive consulting network and industry insight, Prysm Group will further refine the strategic messaging used within its executive education program delivered in collaboration with the Wharton School.
"By enrolling in Prysm Group's web3 programs with Wharton, business leaders can establish a valuable level of knowledge in just six weeks, per course," said Richard Walker, web3 and metaverse partner within Bain's Financial Services practice. "Such courses will allow leaders to engage more effectively and to better act upon recommendations surrounding technology. While organizational innovation and translation is critical, its implementation can be hard; we value the opportunity to provide a trusted source of truth to build knowledge and establish alignment within organizations."
For many organizations, the topic of emerging technologies is top of mind. Those same organizations, however, have expressed challenges relating to their ability to effectively evaluate the cost benefits of adopting a particular technology and subsequently determine the business models needed for successful adoption.
"There is a costly gap between an organization's interest in staying at the forefront of emerging technologies and one's ability to do so," said Reed Cataldo, founding partner at Prysm Group. "Due to the ever-evolving nature of the subject, sourcing and distributing timely, trustful information at scale on an ongoing basis is a major pain point. This creates issues when implementing top-down management goals to capture future value for a firm. Through our Snippet Learning™ methodology, we leverage thousands of hours of research and consulting engagements to produce easily digestible information consumed in learning bites of 30 minutes or less, allowing for company-wide organizational change."
Bain seeks to push the limits of the industry by supplying Prysm Group with invaluable insights from emerging technology efforts. In turn, Bain will leverage Prysm Group's Wharton Executive Education programs on blockchain and digital assets, and the metaverse to help develop the managerial capabilities of its clients at scale, and to help them execute technology plans for their businesses, giving them a competitive advantage.
###
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 64 cities in 39 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Prysm Group is an economic consulting and corporate learning firm focused on emerging technologies. Founded by Harvard Ph.D. economists, the firm assists enterprises, governments, and startups in the adoption and implementation of blockchain, digital assets, and the metaverse through its advisory and educational services. Prysm Group's areas of expertise include incentive design, token economics, monetization, and governance for both open and closed blockchain and metaverse platforms. It is a member of Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. To learn more about Prysm Group, visit www.prysmgroup.io.
Media Contact:
Dan Pinkney
Bain & Company
Tel: +1 646 562 8102
dan.pinkney@bain.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Bain & Company
|
2022-10-04T15:07:59+00:00
|
ksla.com
|
https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/10/04/bain-amp-company-prysm-group-announce-collaboration-expand-corporate-learning-web3-emerging-technologies/
|
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based law firm Sklar Kirsh LLP announced today that the firm has been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's 2022 list of 'Most Admired Law Firms.' According to the publication, the list is comprised of particularly outstanding law firms who are consciously working towards creating diverse, positive, and supportive environments to help drive the success of their attorneys.
"On the heels of being recognized as a 'Best Places to Work,' it is exciting to receive this accolade for our efforts to create an inclusive environment that cultivates success," said Co-Chairman Jeffrey Sklar.
Sklar Kirsh is a corporate, real estate, entertainment, litigation and bankruptcy law firm founded by attorneys from nationally and internationally recognized firms who provide top-tier legal services in an entrepreneurial, sophisticated and focused manner. The team has the experience to handle complex transactions as well as sophisticated commercial litigation.
"The firm has a proud 'no screamer' policy and is committed to making the office a friendly, supportive, positive, and safe place to work," states the issue that published today. "Attorneys and staff socialize both in and outside the workplace (there is no 'us vs. them' mentality between attorneys and staff), and the culture is familial and casual (the year-round casual dress code is an example of this). There is a focus on the team at Sklar Kirsh and everyone works to support both the clients and one another in delivering outstanding legal service," the publication adds. The feature closes by highlighting, "Founders Jeff Sklar and Andrew Kirsh have from the beginning built Sklar Kirsh to be both a premiere boutique law firm and a positive and supportive workplace, never compromising their values as the firm has grown from four to 41 attorneys in just nine years. Outside of normal working hours, Sklar Kirsh has focused on fun team-building activities since its founding in 2013."
Sklar Kirsh LLP is a boutique law firm that provides sophisticated and expert advice in the areas of corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, and entertainment law as well as commercial, real estate and entertainment litigation. For more information, visit www.SklarKirsh.com.
View original content:
SOURCE Sklar Kirsh LLP
|
2022-09-20T17:18:41+00:00
|
wagmtv.com
|
https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/20/sklar-kirsh-named-most-admired-law-firm-by-los-angeles-business-journal/
|
In 2015, Congress passed a law creating a new structure to handle partnership tax audits.
Audits now occur at the partnership level with IRS dealing with a “partnership representative” (PR).
We call the new structure “centralized audits.” It is a radical change from the old audit procedures. I believe most partners underestimate how significant the change is.
In a centralized audit, the partnership itself will be assessed taxes, penalties and interest. The PR may either cause the partnership to pay the assessment or take one of several alternative options. One is to “push out” the tax assessment to the partners.
The PR will have unconstrained powers to bind the partnership in dealings with the IRS. The partners may try to constrain the PR by agreement, but they remain bound by the PR’s actions with the IRS.
The change was so significant that the 2015 law was deferred until 2018. Partnerships could elect to “early” adopt the new rules as early as 2016.
Certain “small” partnerships may elect out of the centralized audit procedures. There will continue to be “regular” partnership audits for the elect-out group.
In March, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report of the early centralized audits. It covered 480 audits for 2016 through 2019 years.
TIGTA found a curious result. Of the 480 centralized audits, 376, or 78%, were closed with no changes. This was significantly higher than the 50% no-change rate for “regular” partnership audits during the same period.
Several other things surprised TIGTA. IRS had not set any goals for centralized audits. The selection criteria was said to be no different than for regular audits.
TIGTA concluded that the high rate of no-change audits is a problem. I suspect that many of you think their point is that IRS should be more aggressive in shaking money out of these taxpayers.
But TIGTA had more subtle points to make. First, a high percentage of no-change audits means that IRS resources are being wasted on audits that produce no new revenues. The study even showed more time spent on the no change audits than the cases that closed with agreed changes.
Second, IRS spent $54 million preparing for the new audit regime. Technological implementation alone was $40 million. There should be goals set for expected audit results.
To be fair, the TIGTA study looks only at early results from an entirely new audit structure. The degree of difficulty of these audit procedures is high. Tax professionals and IRS personnel need training.
Abraham Lincoln said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Maybe IRS is still sharpening.
Early adopters of the new rules for 2016 and 2017 may also be systematically different than partnerships in general. We may need longer-term data.
The axe also seems to be more easily directed at larger targets. IRS audits are handled by a “large” and a “small” group. The large group deals with taxpayers with assets of $10 million or more.
Of the 480 centralized audits in the study, 84 were handled by the large group and 396 by the small group. The no-change rate was 38% for the large partnerships and 87% for the small.
TIGTA also pointed out that new hire training in partnership tax returns could not, under IRS procedures, begin until 12 months after hire. Again, maybe the axe is still being sharpened.
Partnership tax filings present compliance problems. They are growing in number and in total amount of income. They present compliance problems.
Most taxpayers have their income reported to the IRS on W-2 and 1099 forms. Both are prepared by third parties with no incentive to play with the reported numbers.
Partnerships do not pay tax. They report shares of income to partners using a K-1 schedule. The partners report what the K-1 says.
Unlike the W-2 and the 1099 forms, the K-1 is prepared by a partnership that is often controlled by the very people who use the form in preparing their own returns.
TIGTA’s study is too small to draw clear conclusions. We really should hope it reflects four years of sharpening the axe.
Jim Hamill is the director of Tax Practice at Reynolds, Hix & Co. in Albuquerque. He can be reached at jimhamill@rhcocpa.com.
|
2022-04-30T14:40:42+00:00
|
abqjournal.com
|
https://www.abqjournal.com/2494510/new-audit-structure-too-early-for-firm-results.html
|
CLEVELAND, Ohio— A Cuyahoga County Jail officer sold drugs to an inmate as sheriff’s deputies watched him in real-time on surveillance videos, according to court records.
Stephen Thomas’ arrest marks the latest in a growing number of investigations into issues at the jail following eight inmate deaths in 2018. Other investigations have focused on mismanagement of the jail, civil-rights abuses and officers attacking inmates.
Thomas was arrested Wednesday and charged Thursday with drug trafficking, drug possession possessing criminal tools and illegally conveying drugs into a jail.
Bond was set at $10,000. If Thomas can pay the 10 percent of the bond, he’ll be released on GPS monitored house arrest, court records say.
The county placed Thomas, who was hired in February 2018, on unpaid administrative leave Thursday, county records say.
Sheriff’s investigators watched surveillance video on Wednesday as Thomas, who was on-duty at the time, walked in a jail cell and deliver drugs to an inmate, court records say.
Investigators searched the cell shortly after Thomas walked out and found 10 oxycodone pills, court records say.
The detective also wrote in court records he found in Thomas’s pocket a small piece of plastic glove that contained suspected drugs.
Investigators seized $1,409 in money, according to the court records. Investigators also recovered a cellphone Thomas used to conduct transactions, court records say.
County spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said she could not provide more information about an on-going case.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is overseeing the investigation that led to Thomas’ arrest, attorney general spokesman Steve Irwin said in an email. Irwin declined to provide more information on Thomas’s arrest, citing the on-going investigation.
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation in January 2018 into possible corruption in the county’s IT department. The investigation pivoted to include problems at the Cuyahoga County Jail that came to light after the eight deaths and a report from the U.S. Marshals Service uncovered “inhuman” conditions at the jail. The state’s attorney general took the lead role in the investigation in February 2019, and federal investigators are probing suspected civil-rights abuses in the facility.
Drugs an issue at jail
Drugs getting into the jail has been an on-going issue for years.
County investigators launched 119 investigations into drugs in the county jail from 2015-2017, according to county records. County officials have not responded to a records request for updated records for drug investigations in 2018.
Two former corrections officers were sentenced to prison for drug dealing in separate cases in 2017.
Investigators in January discovered drugs inside the cell of a 44-year-old inmate who survived an overdose.
Questions also continue to surround the death this year of 46-year-old inmate Randall Kain.
Jailers booked Kain into the jail July 31 and transferred him to the county-run Euclid Jail on Aug. 10. He died of a fentanyl overdose on Aug. 30. County officials have not provided documentation on the case nor responded to questions about how Kain came into contact with the drugs while in the jail.
Officer filed for bankruptcy last month
Thomas filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on April 12. Court fillings say he owes $36,058 to numerous creditors and that his monthly expenses are about $200 more than he makes.
He owns $8,010 worth of personal property, including a 2009 Chevrolet Impala valued at $5,900, the filings say.
Thomas has three children between the ages of 7 and 2, the records say. His 2015 Nissan Altima was impounded, according to the court filings.
Thomas makes $15.61 per hour at the jail, which equates to an annual salary of $32,468 before overtime. He made $10,712 in overtime for the 11 months he worked at the jail, according to county records.
The starting salary for Cuyahoga County Jail officers is among the lowest in the state.
Thomas a member of jail’s Special Response Team
Thomas is a member of the jail’s Special Response Team, known as the “Men in Black” because of their paramilitary gear and called the “Goon Squad” by Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney during a meeting with cleveland.com reporters and editors following the release of the Nov. 21 U.S. marshals report.
The marshals report found the team frequently threatened, harassed and intimidated inmates and withheld basic necessities and hygiene products as a way to control the inmates.
The officers threatened inmates and called them “snitches” as the officers were escorting inmates to interviews with the marshals team.
The report also said the SRT team used excessive use-of-force against inmates.
Several members of the SRT team have since been punished and one member, Officer John Wilson, was indicted April 18 on accusations that he beat a 21-year-old Army Veteran in the jail until he knocked out several teeth. He and another officer then lied about the incident blocked the inmate from getting medical treatment. That inmate needed facial reconstruction surgery to repair the injuries, according to court records.
Another SRT member, Christopher Perdue, was suspended for five days after he attacked, choked and slammed to the ground an inmate who was trying to pray.
A third member of the SRT, Brandon Smith, was given a written letter of discipline after he threatened an inmate who was on his way to give an interview to the U.S. Marshals team that conducted the review of the jail.
The marshals found “inhumane” treatment and civil rights violations of inmates at the jail, specifically pointing out then-Warden Eric Ivey’s failure to supervise the SRT team, among other issues.
Ivey since was demoted to associate warden, not over the accusations contained in the marshals report but because of a nepotism investigation by the county’s inspector general. Ivey was indicted April 18 on charges that accuse him of ordering officers’ body cameras turned off during an investigation into one of eight inmate deaths at the county’s jails in 2018.
Ivey pleaded not guilty to the charges of tampering with records and falsification.
Ivey and Wilson are among 10 jail officials and officers criminally charged in the attorney general’s on-going investigation into civil rights violations at the jail.
|
2022-05-23T13:45:55+00:00
|
cleveland.com
|
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/05/deputies-used-cuyahoga-county-jail-surveillance-system-to-watch-guard-sell-drugs-to-inmate-records-say.html
|
CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who acknowledged killing another man and hanging the victim’s mutilated body from the ceiling of his home was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
A Shiawassee County judge sentenced Mark Latunski, 53, to life in prison without the possibility of parole on a first-degree murder charge for killing 25-year-old Kevin Bacon, of Swartz Creek, in December 2019.
Latunksi was also sentenced to 11 months to be served concurrently on a charge of disinterment and mutilation of a dead body.
He pleaded guilty to murder in September for killing Bacon, leaving it to Shiawassee County Judge Matthew Stewart to determine if it would be classified as first-degree or second-degree murder. Stewart determined in October that the killing was premeditated first-degree murder and that Latunski would face life without parole.
Family members reported Bacon missing when he didn’t show up for breakfast on Christmas Day 2019. His mutilated body was found three days later, hanging from the ceiling of Latunski’s home in Bennington Township, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
Police said Latunski admitted to killing Bacon, whom he had met through the dating app Grindr, and eating parts of his body.
Latunski was initially found incompetent to stand trial, but that status changed after mental health treatment and he was ordered to trial. He pleaded guilty before a trial could begin.
|
2022-12-15T20:38:19+00:00
|
ourquadcities.com
|
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/ap-michigan-man-gets-life-sentence-for-2019-killing-mutilation/
|
3 students, 3 adults, shooter dead after Nashville school shooting, police say
WSMV4 has crews on the scene working to find out more.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Multiple children and adults are dead, and an investigation is underway after a school shooting in Nashville Monday morning.
Three students and three adults are dead after being shot at Covenant Presbyterian School, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. A 28-year-old Nashville woman entered the school through a side entrance with two assault-style rifles and a handgun police said. Officers arrived and entered the school through the first floor and heard shots coming from the second floor.
MNPD said the responding officers engaged the shooter on the second floor and killed her at 10:27 a.m. Her identity has not been released.
One officer sustained an injury from broken glass, according to MNPD. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is on scene investigating.
There is no current threat to the public, according to authorities.
“In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper wrote in a tweet Monday afternoon. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Our entire city stands with you. As facts continue to emerge, I thank our first responders and medical professionals.”
The Covenant is located at 33 Burton Hills Boulevard, and Hillsboro Pike is closed from Harding Place to Hobbs Road for police at the scene.
A student reunification area has been set up by the Nashville Fire Department at Woodmont Baptist Church, at 2100 Woodmont Boulevard. NFD recommends that parents use this area to meet their students from the school.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and others have offered their support and prayers in response to the shooting.
Tennessee Representative Bob Freeman offered this statement on the shooting:
WSMV4 crews are at the scene and are working to update this story with the latest information.
Check back for more information.
Copyright 2023 WSMV. All rights reserved.
|
2023-03-27T18:55:58+00:00
|
foxcarolina.com
|
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/03/27/3-students-3-adults-shooter-dead-after-nashville-school-shooting-police-say/
|
Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement like a trapped animal. She hadn’t heard from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol for over a week, and she didn’t know what to do.
An Associated Press investigation shows that Russia’s strategy is well underway. Thousands of children have been taken from basements of bombed out cities like Mariupol and from orphanages in the Russian-backed separatist territories of Donbas. They include those whose parents were killed by Russian shelling, others in institutions or with foster families.
Russia claims many of these children have no parents or guardians, or that they can’t be reached. But the AP found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
The investigation is the most extensive to date on the grab of Ukrainian orphans, and the first to follow the process all the way to those already growing up in Russia. It drew on dozens of interviews with parents, children and officials in Ukraine and Russia; emails and letters; Russian documents and Russian state media.
Raising the children of war in another country or culture can be a marker of genocide, an attempt to erase a people’s very identity. Prosecutors tie the policy directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s not something that happens spur of the moment on the battlefield,” said Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues who is advising Ukraine on prosecutions.
Russian law prohibits the adoption of foreign children. But in May, Putin signed a decree expediting granting Russian citizenship to Ukrainian children without parental care.
Russia has prepared a register of suitable Russian families for Ukrainian children and offers substantial financial support. It portrays the adoptions as an act of generosity. Russian state television airs ceremonies of officials handing out passports to Ukrainian children.
How many is hard to say. Ukrainian officials claim nearly 8,000 children have been deported to Russia.
Russia hasn’t given an overall number. In March, Russian children’s rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said 1,000 children from Ukraine were in Russia. Many more have come since, including over 230 in early October.
Lvova-Belova herself has taken in a Mariupol teenager and has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, the European Union, Canada and Australia. Her office referred the AP to her reply in a state-owned news agency that Russia was “helping children to preserve their right to live under a peaceful sky and be happy.”
The AP visited a leafy seaside camp near Taganrog, where hundreds of Ukrainian orphans were housed.
One professional foster mother in the Moscow region said the local social services called her to take in Ukrainian children. Already fostering six Russian kids, she picked three from Mariupol. After a guardianship court case in now occupied-Mariupol, she was granted custody of the children, who are now Russian citizens.
The children said after their foster mother dropped them off at a bunker in Mariupol, the Russian military got them out. They had to choose between adoption by a Russian family and life in a Russian orphanage.
At the house with a courtyard and inflatable swimming pool, the 15-year-old girl said she is eager to start a new life in Russia — in part because her school in Ukraine was bombed, one of her classmates died, and almost everyone has left.
Russia was also accused of stealing children from Ukraine in 2014, after it annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Then, Ukraine reported to the European Court of Human Rights that more than 80 children from Luhansk were abducted at a checkpoint and taken to Russia. Separately, Russian families adopted at least 30 children from Crimea.
This time, at least 96 children have been returned to Ukraine since March following negotiations, some at top government levels.
In Mariupol, Lopatkina’s kids cowered for days in a basement at the resort where they’d been vacationing. The 17-year-old foster son, Timofey, minded his younger siblings — three with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
They lost contact with their mother when the power went out across the city. Then a Mariupol doctor succeeded in evacuating them — only to be turned back by pro-Russia forces at a checkpoint. They ended up in a hospital in the separatist Russian-controlled Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR.
When Timofey messaged his mother, she was already out of the country. He was livid.
It took a few calls for Olga Lopatkina to explain to Timofey what had happened.
For the music and arts teacher who had lost her mother as a teenager and her home in the 2014 fighting, the nightmare with her children was the hardest thing she experienced. When this war broke out, it quickly became deadly to get from her home in Vuhledar, now a front line, to Mariupol, 100 kilometers (60 miles) away. Her 18-year-old biological daughter, Rada, was stranded with her uncle near Kharkiv, another front-line city.
When the bombing approached, Lopatkina decided to head to the borders, fetching her daughter along the way. They made their way to France.
She campaigned Russian and Ukrainian officials and reached out to activists. The Donetsk authorities finally told her she could have her children back if she came through Russia to get them. She feared a trap and declined.
In the DPR, officials told Timofey a court would strip Lopatkina and her husband of their guardianship and his younger siblings would end up with new families in Russia.
Then finally, a breakthrough. DPR authorities agreed to allow a volunteer with power of attorney from Lopatkina to collect the children.
After a three-day bus trip through Russia, the children met their father in Berlin and drove to France. “The burden of responsibility was gone,” Timofey said. “I said: ‘Mother, take the reins, that’s all ... I’m a child now.”
___
Lori Hinnant, Cara Anna and Erika Kinetz contributed to this report.
|
2022-10-13T11:03:35+00:00
|
washingtonpost.com
|
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-moscow-grabs-ukrainian-kids-and-makes-them-russians/2022/10/13/8de86752-4ae1-11ed-8153-96ee97b218d2_story.html
|
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers have pulled more survivors from the debris of the Feb. 6 earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria even as the window for finding people alive shrank.
Here’s a look at the key developments Friday from the aftermath of the earthquake.
DEATH TOLL RISES
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu updated the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360.
The figure is certain to increase further as search teams retrieve more bodies amid the devastation.
The powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake was the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history.
MORE SURVIVORS RESCUED
Rescuers on Friday removed a survivor from the rubble of a collapsed building in the district of Defne, in hard-hit Hatay province, more than 11 days after the powerful earthquake struck.
Hakan Yasinoğlu, 45, spent 278 hours beneath the rubble, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. TV footage showed him being carried on a stretcher to an ambulance.
Search teams working overnight also found a woman and two men alive in earthquake wreckage.
The latest rescues came as crews began clearing debris in cities devastated by the earthquake.
Neslihan Kilic, a 29-year-old mother of two, was removed from the rubble of a building in Kahramanmaras, after being trapped for 258 hours, private DHA news agency reported late Thursday.
In the city of Antakya, police rescue crews found a 12-year-old boy named Osman alive after retrieving 17 bodies from a collapsed building.
“Just when our hopes were over, we reached our brother Osman at the 260th hour,” police rescue team leader Okan Tosun told DHA.
An hour later, crews reached two men inside the debris of a collapsed hospital in Antakya.
One of them, Mustafa Avci, used the mobile phone of a rescuer to call his brother and ask about family members.
“Have they all survived? he asked. “Let me hear their voices.”
UN AID CROSSES INTO SYRIA
A total of 143 trucks carrying aid from Turkey into northwest Syria have crossed the border since Feb. 9, a United Nations official said.
Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the trucks are carrying a “multitude” of items from six U.N. agencies — including tents, mattresses, blankets, winter clothes, cholera testing kits, essential medicines, and food from the World Food Program. They crossed through the border gates of Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salam, he said.
Meanwhile, The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said it was working closely with Turkey to determine the steps needed to rehabilitate infrastructure in the agricultural sector damaged by the quake, including irrigation systems, roads, markets and storage capacity.
“In Syria, rapid assessments by FAO of areas affected by the earthquakes suggest major disruption to crop and livestock production capacity, threatening immediate and longer-term food security,” the Rome-based agency said in a statement.
SYRIANS’ RETURN
The bodies of at least 1,522 Syrians have been brought back to Syria from Turkey for burial, an official at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, reported that when the numbers from other, smaller crossings are tallied, the number of earthquake victims returned to Syria for burial is 1,745.
Syrian survivors have also begun crossing back from Turkey. Some 1,795 Syrians crossed from Turkey into Syria on Wednesday, the first day after Turkey agreed to allow Syrian refugees impacted by the earthquake to return to their country temporarily without losing their protected status in Turkey, an official at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing said.
The decision allows holders of Turkish temporary protection cards residing in earthquake-damaged areas to cross into Syria without having to obtain a travel permit from Turkish authorities. Normally, Turkey would consider Syrians holding protected status who crossed into Syria without a permit to have relinquished their status as asylum-seekers. They would be required to surrender their protection cards and banned from reentering Turkey for five years.
SPAIN TO TAKE IN 100 SYRIANS
Spain says it will take in some 100 Syrian refugees in Turkey that have suffered in the earthquake. Migration Minister José Luis Escrivá said the refugees would be those considered most vulnerable and badly affected by the quake.
Making the announcement late Thursday, Escrivá said “the earthquake reminds us of Syria’s drama in a tremendous way and we are going to try to help within our possibilities.”
OVER 1,500 CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM FAMILIES
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said the state was caring for 1,589 children who were separated from their families in the earthquake, including 247 who have not yet been identified.
He said 953 children had been reunited with their families.
Oktay also said search and rescue teams were working at fewer than 200 sites, with Hatay province accounting for the largest number.
___
Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Geneva, Frances D’Emilio in Rome, Ciaran Giles in Madrid and Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed.
___
Follow AP’s earthquake coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/earthquakes
|
2023-02-17T21:25:21+00:00
|
wjhl.com
|
https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-key-developments-in-the-aftermath-of-the-turkey-syria-quake/
|
LAKEWOOD, N.J., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Commerce Bank (the "Bank") (OTC: CMRB) today reported net income of $2.9 million and $7.1 million, respectively, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $4.4 million and $8.7 million, respectively, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. Basic earnings per common share for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, were $0.12 and $0.30 respectively, compared to $0.19 and $0.38 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.
The changes in net income for the 2022 periods compared to the 2021 periods primarily reflect greater allowance expense related to growth in the loan portfolio and increases in salary and benefits expense reflecting both increases in employee benefit expense and the impact of a new bonus plan designed to attract and retain employees in a very competitive market.
Regarding the performance of the Bank, President & CEO Donald Mindiak stated, "The Bank has engaged in a concerted effort to deploy the excess liquidity that was on our balance sheet at December 31, 2021 into higher yielding interest earning assets in the form of both loans and investment securities. This initiative has proven successful as we have realized growth in the loan and investment portfolios of $78.3 million and $40.4 million, respectively, year-to-date. As a result of the strong loan growth exhibited during this six-month period, an increase in the allowance for loan losses of approximately $512,000 was recorded. The Bank continues to produce competitive operating results, evidenced by our strong net interest margin, return on equity and efficiency ratios, and remains on track to grow our asset and core deposit base consistent with capital levels and as opportunities present themselves".
Financial Highlights
- Net interest margin increased by fifteen basis points to 4.06% for the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 3.91% for the second quarter of 2021 and increased by thirteen basis points to 4.05% year-to-date for 2022 as compared to 3.92% year-to-date for 2021.
- Total yield on interest earning assets increased by four basis points to 4.24% for the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 4.20% for the second quarter of 2021 and decreased by one basis point to 4.24% year-to-date for 2022 as compared to 4.25% year-to-date for 2021.
- The cost of interest-bearing liabilities decreased by nine basis points to 0.32% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to 0.41% for the second quarter of 2021 and decreased by fourteen basis points to 0.31% year-to-date for 2022 as compared to 0.45% year-to-date for 2021.
- The efficiency ratio was 56.37% year-to-date for 2022 as compared to 47.24% year-to-date for 2021.
- Loans receivable, net increased by $78.3 million or 8.6% to $987.4 million at June 30, 2022, as compared to $909.1 million at December 31, 2021.
- The net loans to deposits ratio increased to 101.34% at June 30, 2022, from 96.87% at June 30, 2021.
- Return on equity was 1.23% at June 30, 2022 compared to 1.60% at June 30, 2021.
Balance Sheet Review
Total assets increased by $42.3 million or 3.7% to $1.18 billion at June 30, 2022 from $1.13 billion at December 31, 2021. The increase in total assets was mainly related to increases in investment securities and loans receivable, net, partially offset by a decrease in total cash and cash equivalents.
Total cash and cash equivalents decreased by $76.2 million or 67.2% to $37.1 million at June 30, 2022 from $113.3 million at December 31, 2021. This decrease was primarily due to the investment of excess liquidity into investment securities and loans receivable, net, previously discussed.
Loans receivable, net, increased by $78.3 million or 8.6% to $987.4 million at June 30, 2022 from $909.1 million at December 31, 2021. Total loan increases for the six months ended June 30, 2022 occurred primarily as a result of a $79.8 million increase in commercial mortgages and a $22.2 million increase in construction loans, partially offset by a $13.1 million decrease in SBA loans and a $7.2 million decrease in commercial loans. The allowance for loan losses increased by $512,000 to $18.2 million or 1.81% of gross loans at June 30, 2022 as compared to $17.7 million or 1.91% of gross loans at December 31, 2021.
Total investment securities increased by $40.4 million or 87.3% to $86.6 million at June 30, 2022 from $46.2 million at December 31, 2021. The increase in investment securities resulted primarily from investment security purchases totaling $51.1 million, partially offset by $9.2 million in mortgage-backed security amortization and $1.5 million in municipal bond maturities.
Deposit liabilities increased by $32.4 million or 3.4% to $974.3 million at June 30, 2022 from $941.9 million at December 31, 2021. The increase in total deposits occurred primarily as a result of a $12.2 million increase in non-interest-bearing deposits, an $8.8 million increase in money market deposits, a $6.0 million increase in time deposits, a $4.8 million increase savings deposits and a $1.6 million increase in NOW deposits, partially offset by a $983,000 decrease in interest checking deposits.
Stockholders' equity increased by $7.9 million or 4.6% to $180.2 million at June 30, 2022 from $172.3 million at December 31, 2021. The increase in stockholders' equity was primarily attributable to net income of $7.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and increases of $714,000 and $728,000 in common stock and additional paid in capital, respectively as a result of the exercise of certain stock options, partially offset by a decrease of $706,000 in other comprehensive income.
Three Months of Operations
Net interest income increased by $809,000 or 7.7% to $11.27 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $10.46 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Interest income increased by $634,000 or 5.6% to $12.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $11.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in interest income resulted primarily from an increase in the average balance of loans receivable, net of $62.6 million or 6.9% to $964.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $902.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and an increase in the average balance of investment securities of $23.2 million or 42.5% to $77.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $54.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, partially offset by a $267,000 or 53.6% decrease in fees from loans to $231,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $498,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in loan fees is primarily related to the reduction in fees received from the Paycheck Protection Program - (PPP) as the bulk of the Bank's PPP loans were forgiven, and fees earned, in 2021.
Interest expense decreased by $175,000 or 18.6% to $768,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $943,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in interest expense occurred primarily as a result of a decrease in the average cost of interest-bearing liabilities of nine basis points to 0.32% for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from 0.41% for the three months ended June 30, 2021, partially offset by an increase in average balance of deposit liabilities of $49.9 million or 5.4% to $974.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $924.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in the average cost of interest-bearing liabilities resulted primarily from the persistent lower interest rate environment and the active management of liability pricing.
Net interest margin increased by fifteen basis points to 4.06% for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to 3.91% for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in the net interest margin is primarily attributable an increase in the average balance of interest earning assets of $47.5 million or 4.4% to $1.124 billion for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $1.077 billion for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and an increase of four basis points on the yield of average interest earning assets to 4.24% for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from 4.20% for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Non-interest income increased by $225,000 or 224.1% to $326,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $101,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in total non-interest income resulted primarily from BOLI income of $165,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from no such income for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The Bank made a $25.0 million BOLI purchase during the fourth quarter of 2021 which accounts for the lack of BOLI income for the three months ended June 30, 2021. This was partially offset by a decrease in service charges and fees of $48,000 or 23.5% to $156,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $204,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Non-interest expense increased by $1.1 million or 20.6% to $6.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $5.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. Salaries and employee benefits increased by $737,000 or 23.4% to $3.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 as compared to $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in salaries and employee benefits resulted primarily from a 27% year-over-year increase in employee benefits costs as well as increased salary expense. In an effort to both retain and attract qualified personnel, the Bank instituted an industry competitive bonus plan which was not in place in 2021. Occupancy and equipment expense increased by $66,000 or 8.8% to $815,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 as compared to $749,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in occupancy and equipment expense occurred primarily as a result of the renewal and increase in several service contracts. Other non-interest expense increased by $294,000 or 20.8% to $1.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $1.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. Other non-interest expense consists primarily of marketing, professional fees, data processing, FDIC assessments and other expenses. The increase in other non-interest expense occurred primarily as a result of an increase in other expenses of $347,000 or 55.7% to $970,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $623,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021, partially offset by a decrease in professional fees of $149,000 or 29.1% to $361,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $510,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in other expenses resulted primarily from an increase in unfunded loan commitments.
The income tax provision decreased by $407,000 or 28.6% to $1.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $1.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in the income tax provision resulted primarily from a decrease in earnings before income taxes of $1.9 million or 32.2% to $4.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 from $5.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Six Months of Operations
Net interest income increased by $1.7 million or 8.2% to $22.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $20.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Interest income increased by $1.1 million or 5.0% to $23.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $22.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in interest income resulted primarily from an increase in the average balance of loans receivable of $60.4 million or 6.8% to $947.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $887.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and an increase in the average balance of investment securities of $7.6 million or 13.4% to $64.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $56.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and a $150,000 or 14.2% increase in fees from loans to $1.20 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $1.06 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Interest expense decreased by $554,000 or 27.2% to $1.48 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $2.03 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in interest expense occurred primarily as a result of a decrease in the average cost of interest-bearing liabilities of fourteen basis points to 0.31% for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from 0.45% for the six months ended June 30, 2021, partially offset by an increase in average balance of deposit liabilities of $59.3 million or 6.5% to $965.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $905.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in the average cost of interest-bearing liabilities resulted primarily from the persistent lower interest rate environment and the active management of liability pricing.
Net interest margin increased by thirteen basis points to 4.05% for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to 3.92% for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in the net interest margin is primarily attributable an increase in the average balance of interest earning assets of $55.0 million or 5.2% to $1.11 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $1.06 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2022 partially offset by a decrease of one basis point on the yield of average interest earning assets to 4.24% for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from 4.25% for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Non-interest income increased by $386,000 or 127.2% to $689,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $303,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in total non-interest income resulted primarily from BOLI income of $326,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from no such income for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The Bank made a $25.0 million BOLI purchase during the fourth quarter of 2021 which accounts for the lack of BOLI income for the six months ended June 30, 2021. This was partially offset by a decrease in service charges and fees of $59,000 or 15.0% to $332,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $391,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Non-interest expense increased by $3.07 million or 31.2% to $12.93 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $9.86 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Salaries and employee benefits increased by $2.0 million or 33.3% to $8.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 as compared to $6.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in salaries and employee benefits resulted primarily from a 27% year-over-year increase in employee benefits costs as well increased salary expense. In an effort to both retain and attract qualified personnel, the Bank instituted an industry competitive bonus plan which was not in place in 2021. Occupancy and equipment expense increased by $90,000 or 5.4% to $1.77 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 as compared to $1.68 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in occupancy and equipment expense occurred primarily as a result of the renewal and increase in several service contracts. Other non-interest expense increased by $972,000 or 45.4% to $3.11 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $2.14 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Other non-interest expense consists primarily of marketing, professional fees, data processing, FDIC assessments and other expenses. The increase in other non-interest expense occurred primarily as a result of an increase in miscellaneous loan expense of $535,000 related to an increase in unfunded loan commitments due to the growth in the loan portfolio during 2022 from a credit of $146,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021. FDIC Assessment increased by $201,000 or 152.7%. Marketing expense increased by $27,000 or 40.3% to $94,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $67,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in marketing expense occurred primarily as a result of a reconstitution of marketing efforts subsequent to a COVID related marketing hiatus.
The income tax provision decreased by $523,000 or 17.7% to $2.44 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $2.96 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease in the income tax provision resulted primarily from a decrease in earnings before income taxes of $2.0 million or 17.6% to $9.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 from $11.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Asset Quality
The allowance for loan losses increased by $512,000 or 2.9% and $1.2 million or 7.2% from December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021, respectively to $18.2 million at June 30, 2022 from $17.7 million at December 31, 2021 and $17.0 million at June 30, 2021. The increase in the allowance for loan losses is primarily attributable to an increase in loans receivable, net of $78.3 million or 8.6% to $987.4 million at June 30, 2022 from $909.1 million at December 31, 2021 and $102.8 million or 11.6% from $884.6 million at June 30, 2021. The Bank had non-accrual loans totaling $13.6 million or 1.35% of gross loans at June 30, 2022 as compared to $8.8 million or 0.94% of gross loans at December 31, 2021 and $8.96 million or 0.99% of gross loans at June 30, 2021.
The allowance for loan losses was $18.2 million or 1.81% of gross loans at June 30, 2022 as compared to $17.7 million or 1.91% of gross loans at December 31, 2021 and $17.7 million or 1.96% of gross loans at June 30, 2021. The allowance for loan losses was 134.2% of non-accrual loans at June 30, 2022, 202.5% of non-accrual loans at December 31, 2021 and 197.1% of non-accrual loans at June 30, 2021.
About First Commerce Bank
Established in 2006 and headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, the Bank has offices in Allentown, Bordentown, Closter, Englewood, Fairfield, Freehold, Lakewood, Montvale, Robbinsville and Teaneck, New Jersey. The Bank provides businesses and individuals a wide range of loans, deposit products and retail and commercial banking services. For more information, please go to www.firstcommercebank.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release, like many written and oral communications presented by First Commerce Bank, and our authorized officers, may contain certain forward-looking statements regarding our prospective performance and strategies within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are including this statement for purposes of said safe harbor provisions. Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe future plans, strategies, and expectations of the Bank, are generally identified by use of the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "seek," "strive," "try," or future or conditional verbs such as "could," "may," "should," "will," "would," or similar expressions. Our ability to predict results or the actual effects of our plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
In addition to the factors previously disclosed in prior Bank communications and those identified elsewhere, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Bank, its operations and its customers, changes in asset quality and credit risk; the inability to sustain revenue and earnings growth; changes in interest rates and capital markets; inflation; customer acceptance of the Bank's products and services; customer borrowing, repayment, investment and deposit practices; customer disintermediation; the introduction, withdrawal, success and timing of business initiatives; competitive conditions; the inability to realize cost savings or revenues or to implement integration plans and other consequences associated with certain corporate initiatives; economic conditions; and the impact, extent and timing of technological changes, capital management activities, and actions of governmental agencies and legislative and regulatory actions and reforms.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE FIRST COMMERCE BANK
|
2022-07-29T20:38:50+00:00
|
kcrg.com
|
https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/07/29/first-commerce-bank-earns-29-million-71-million-three-six-months-ended-june-30-2022/
|
High pressure kept the weather dry and unseasonably warm the last several days. It begins to break down over the next several days as a storm system stalls out near the West Coast. Some moisture from the system will trigger isolated thunderstorms in the southwest Idaho and eastern Oregon on Sunday and Monday evenings. The greatest risk will be sporadic wind gusts up to 30-40 MPH.
The low pressure system remains to the west through midweek which will keep central and southern Idaho under southwesterly upper-level flow. Thus, temperatures remain 10-20 degrees above normal. Eventually, the ridge breaks down and gives way to the low pressure. Unsettled and cooler conditions return towards the end of the week.
Shower and thunderstorm chances are greatest on Friday, but continuing into the weekend. High temperatures will be close to or below normal during this timeframe.
|
2023-04-30T23:18:34+00:00
|
kivitv.com
|
https://www.kivitv.com/weather/unseasonable-warmth-with-increasing-storm-chances-this-week
|
TODAY:
Snow showers linger today behind yesterday’s system. Cold air also gets ushered in today, so temperatures drop throughout the day. Winds will also be strong out of the west with gusts over 30 mph possible.
TONIGHT:
Clouds hold into tonight and a westerly wind ushers in more lake-effect snow showers overnight. Little to no accumulation is expected from these snow showers.
TOMORROW:
Stray snow showers linger tomorrow and we are mostly cloudy. Tomorrow is our next best opportunity for some sunshine with some broken cloud cover possible. Any sunshine looks limited though.
|
2023-01-26T16:16:37+00:00
|
mytwintiers.com
|
https://www.mytwintiers.com/regional-forecast-northern-tier/regional-forecast-northern-tier-1-26-23/
|
The expansion strengthens the College's drafting, estimating and design programs
MINNEAPOLIS, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunwoody College of Technology, a private, non-profit institution and pioneer in technical education, today announces the addition of two new online degree options in the sought-after fields of electrical drafting, estimating, and design. The Associate of Applied Science in Electrical Construction Design & Management and the one-year Electrical Drafting & Estimating Certificate will both provide a flexible, online learning option for students and working professionals.
"Electrical designers and estimators are very much in-demand right now," said Polly Friendshuh, Dean of Construction Sciences & Building Technology, Dunwoody College of Technology. "Our hope is that these programs will bridge the gap between the field, the engineers, and the front office. Both programs have online options, allowing a tremendous amount of flexibility for working professionals and potential students."
There continues to be a shortage of professionals in the electrical field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment among drafters, estimators and designers has shrunk to less than 3 percent as demand continues to increase for these highly skilled positions. Dunwoody has a long-standing commitment to creating programs and degrees that align with industry needs and provide opportunity for students to enter successful careers. The addition of these two online degree options reinforces this mission for the electrical field.
The Electrical Construction Design & Management program is the only two-year program of its kind in Minnesota. The program, now being offered online in addition to the on-campus option, provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to create estimates, develop schedules, and effectively manage complex electrical construction projects from start to finish.
The program covers a range of topics, including project management, cost estimation, drafting, designing, and BIM modeling. Throughout the program, students engage with industry experts and compete in national competitions. The new online option allows more flexibility for working professionals and students. Following graduation, students are primed with the skills and knowledge for a career in electrical estimating, design, and project management. Throughout its years being taught in-person, the program has a 100 percent job placement rate, according to Dunwoody's Graduates Employment Report.
The Electrical Drafting & Estimating Certificate is a new one-year program, designed for working professionals in the electrical field, with an anticipated first graduating class in May 2023. Course sessions are available in the evenings and online, taught by experts who have worked professionally in the field.
This program focuses on basic and advanced estimating, 3D drafting and design, and illumination technology. Students will gain the skills and knowledge to build construction documents, develop schedules, and estimate the cost of a project. Using industry-current software, graduates will become sought-after professionals in the electrical design field.
Dunwoody's Construction Sciences & Building Technology department is committed to providing coursework and degree programs that fulfill current industry needs. Through interdisciplinary projects, online students throughout all construction programs learn to work together, with the guidance of instructors directly from the industry.
For more information on Dunwoody's Construction Sciences & Building Technology department and programs that are preparing the next generation of doers, visit https://dunwoody.edu/ or follow the College on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Founded in 1914, Dunwoody College of Technology is the only private, not-for-profit technical college in the Upper Midwest. Having provided hands-on, applied technical education to more than 250,000 individuals, Dunwoody is the college for experimenters and makers, a place where the curious and the confident learn by doing. Located in Minneapolis, Dunwoody offers a unique campus experience in dedicated labs, studios, and shops that treats students like future professionals from day one. With certificates, associate's, and bachelor's degrees in more than 46 majors - including engineering, robotics, design and other STEM-related fields - Dunwoody challenges students to come determined and graduate destined. More information on Dunwoody can be found at www.dunwoody.edu or by following Dunwoody on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Dunwoody College of Technology
|
2022-07-13T16:28:50+00:00
|
kcrg.com
|
https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/07/13/dunwoody-college-technology-expands-electrical-program-offerings-meet-rising-demands-construction-industry/
|
May Mobility continues to focus on delivering equitable autonomous mobility solutions.
- May Mobility garners commercial traction with partners leading the adoption of AV technology in the business-to-government and business-to-business sectors, including a project with MONET Technologies Inc. and SoftBank Corp. for an international route in Tokyo
- May Mobility will continue collaborating with Toyota, with more deployments coming in late 2022 with the Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platform and preliminary development on Toyota's e-Palette mobility platform
- Insurance conglomerate backs AV technology, stating potential reduction in accidents.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- May Mobility, a leader in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, today closed a $111 million Series C round of funding. Additionally, the company plans to continue to pursue its deployment programs using the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platform while beginning development on another vehicle design centered around mobility, Toyota's e-Palette, signaling the next potential milestone as it seeks new ways to bring equitable mobility solutions to the masses.
"With the close of this latest investment round, May Mobility will continue to accelerate growth in our technology, business development and platforms, all with a global reach," said Edwin Olson, CEO of May Mobility. "Our additional investors, as well as our continued strategic collaboration with Toyota and others, will enable us to march toward driver-out commercial operations in 2023 and enable our expansion into new markets as we roll out more Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicles now and look to next generation platforms, such as the e-Palette."
Joining Tokio Marine, State Farm Ventures® participated in the round, supporting May Mobility's growth and becoming one of the first U.S.-based insurers to invest in AVs. With improving road safety as a key goal for May Mobility, the investment indicates the insurance industry's growing support for AV operations to reduce road accidents.
"The insurance industry sees the future of mobility and is recognizing the importance of helping to design the way insurance will support autonomous vehicles in the future," said Ryan Green, CFO of May Mobility. "Having partners like Tokio Marine and State Farm Ventures helps expedite that vision for the future of mobility."
State Farm Ventures focuses on investing in start-ups developing technologies and products to fulfill customer needs in ways they may not expect from their insurance company. As the leading U.S. automobile insurer, they look to invest in technologies, services and capabilities that improve vehicle and pedestrian safety.
"May Mobility's technology is a potential compelling advancement in the evolution of autonomous driving and may help to reduce accidents and improve road safety." said Michael Remmes, Vice President, State Farm Ventures.
In addition to the new round of funding, May Mobility is also continuing its collaboration with Toyota. Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platforms modified by May Mobility have already been launched for testing and demonstrations in Ann Arbor, with other public deployment locations anticipated in late 2022. The program also features an ADA-compliant up-fit through the company's partnership with Braunability.
Furthermore, May Mobility has begun initial development work on incorporating the company's ADK onto the Toyota e-Palette, a battery-electric vehicle platform that is positioned to further transform the future of mobility. With greater rider capacity and the expansion of more efficient transit services made possible from a platform like e-Palette, May Mobility will continue its mission to ultimately reduce traffic and the need for parking lots and garages, creating more livable green space.
"We are already seeing the benefits of using Toyota's Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platform as it was designed from the ground up to interface with computers, and we look forward to future discussions on the use of Toyota's e-Palette as an exciting opportunity to set new milestones as we transform mobility with an autonomous, electric vehicle platform. This platform, coupled with our technology, has the power and capability to accelerate the future of mobility," said Olson.
Bringing the company's total raised funding to date to $194 million, the round is expected to increase May Mobility's engineering headcount, expand its global customer base, enhance rider experiences and further invest in technology advancements. With this round of funding, May Mobility has doubled down on its commitment to driver-out operations in 2023. SoftBank, State Farm Ventures, Next Century Ventures, SAIC, Wanxiang, Karma and 10x Group join the list of partners committed to the company's mission of driving a greener, more accessible future through mobility. The round was led by SPARX Group Co., Ltd.'s Mirai Creation Fund II alongside Tokio Marine, Toyota Tsusho, Bridgestone Americas and returning investors Toyota Ventures, Millennium Technology Value Partners, Cyrus Capital Partners, LG Technology Ventures and Maven Ventures, among others.
With its Series C round, May Mobility also garnered commercial traction with partners leading the adoption of AV technology in the business-to-government and business-to-business sectors. In addition to its previously-announced program with Bridgestone, May Mobility is working on a project with MONET Technologies and SoftBank for an international route in Tokyo.
For more information, visit maymobility.com.
About May Mobility
May Mobility, established in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2017, is building the world's best autonomy system. Their proprietary Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) system is at the core of their mission to help make cities safer, greener, and more accessible. MPDM's proven track record has delivered more than 320,000 autonomy-enabled rides to date in several public transit applications across the U.S. and Japan. With key strategic partnerships including some of the world's most innovative automotive and transportation companies, such as Toyota Motor Corporation, May Mobility aims to achieve the highest standard in rider safety, sustainability, and transportation equity. For more information, visit www.maymobility.com.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. for more than 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our nearly 1,500 dealerships.
Toyota directly employs more than 39,000 people in the U.S. who have contributed to the design, engineering, and assembly of nearly 32 million cars and trucks at our nine manufacturing plants. By 2025, Toyota's 10th plant in North Carolina will begin to manufacture automotive batteries for electrified vehicles. With more electrified vehicles on the road than any other automaker, a quarter of the company's 2021 U.S. sales were electrified.
To help inspire the next generation for a career in STEM-based fields, including mobility, Toyota launched its virtual education hub at www.TourToyota.com with an immersive experience and chance to virtually visit many of our U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub also includes a series of free STEM-based lessons and curriculum through Toyota USA Foundation partners, virtual field trips and more. For more information about Toyota, visit www.ToyotaNewsroom.com.
About State Farm Ventures
State Farm Ventures focuses on investing in start-ups developing technologies and products to fulfill customer needs in ways they may not expect from their insurance company. State Farm Ventures, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary and registered trademark of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE May Mobility
|
2022-07-12T16:18:18+00:00
|
kcrg.com
|
https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/07/12/may-mobility-closes-111-million-series-c-funding-begins-preliminary-development-toyotas-next-generation-mobility-platform/
|
WASHINGTON – The persistence of high inflation will likely be on display — again — in Wednesday's latest government report on consumer price increases.
Yet there may also be some signs of improvement in the March inflation data, with the prices of some key items, such as gasoline, furniture and new cars, potentially rising more slowly or falling outright. Compared with 12 months earlier, economists predict that inflation slowed sharply, from 6% in February to 5.2% in March, according to a survey by the data provider FactSet.
But excluding volatile food and gas costs, so-called core prices are thought to have ticked up to 5.6% from a year ago, compared with a 5.5% rise in February. That figure has changed little since December. The Federal Reserve and many private economists regard core prices as a better measure of underlying inflation.
Rapid price increases in the economy's vast service sector — ranging from rents and restaurant meals to haircuts and auto insurance — are keeping core inflation high, at least for now. From February to March, core prices are expected to have risen a substantial 0.4% for the third time in the past four months.
That stubbornness will likely lead the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate for a 10th straight time when it meets in May. Fed officials have projected that after one additional quarter-point increase — which would raise their benchmark rate to about 5.1%, its highest level in 16 years — they will pause their hikes but leave their rate elevated through this year.
When the Fed tightens credit with the goal of cooling the economy and inflation, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit card borrowing and many business loans. The risk is that ever-higher borrowing rates can weaken the economy so much as to cause a recession.
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund, a 190-nation lending organization, warned that persistently high inflation around the world — and efforts by central banks, including the Fed, to fight it — would likely slow global growth this year and next.
“Inflation is much stickier than anticipated even a few months ago,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF's chief economist, wrote in its latest World Economic Outlook.
Even so, there are signs that inflation pressures are easing, which could mean lower core price increases in the months ahead. One unfortunate reason inflation could decline is that economists expect growth to slow in the United States later this year, in part because turmoil in the banking sector may cause banks to restrict lending.
The Fed’s year-long streak of rate hikes are also starting to cool a hot labor market, with recent data showing that companies are advertising fewer openings and that wage growth has been slowing from historically elevated levels.
“Should inflation come in as we expect, the Fed is unlikely to take much comfort," economists at Bank of America wrote in a research note. "However, the slowdown in other (economic) data should translate into downward pressure on inflation over time.”
The biggest driver of core inflation is probably the cost of housing, including rents. They are rising at an annual pace of about 9%, according to the government's figures.
Still, Apartment List, which tracks real-time changes in new leases, shows rents rising at a 2.6% pace compared with a year ago. As more apartments reset with those smaller increases, the government's inflation data should show milder increases in coming months.
The Fed is also laser-focused on the cost of services, which are rising at historically rapid rates. Officials at the central bank have said they believe that raising wages, while good for workers, are contributing to those price increases.
Last week's March jobs report, though, showed that wage growth has slowed steadily in the past year. Businesses are posting fewer open positions, and the number of Americans quitting their jobs to take new, mostly higher-paying work — a driver of higher pay — is falling.
A more worrisome trend is the possibility that banks will pull sharply back on lending to conserve funds, after two large banks collapsed last month, igniting turmoil in the United States and overseas. Many smaller banks have lost customer deposits to huge global banks that are perceived to be too big to fail. The loss of those deposits will likely mean that those banks will extend fewer loans to companies and individuals.
Some small businesses say they are already having trouble getting loans, according to a survey by the National Federation for Independent Business. The IMF said Tuesday that pullbacks in lending could slow growth by nearly a half-percentage point over the next 12 months.
A slowdown in the economy could cool inflation and as a result would help the Fed achieve its objectives. But the blow to the economy might prove larger than expected. Under the worst-case scenario, it could mean a full-blown recession with the loss of millions of jobs.
|
2023-04-12T12:30:10+00:00
|
ksat.com
|
https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2023/04/12/latest-inflation-data-could-show-further-gradual-improvement/
|
Pedestrian killed by car fleeing Secret Service near White House
Published: Jul. 12, 2023 at 5:01 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was killed by a car fleeing law enforcement officers Wednesday afternoon just outside of the White House.
The incident occurred just before 1:30 p.m. when uniformed members of the Secret Service attempted to stop a vehicle with an expired registration, according to a statement on Twitter from the agency. The driver initially indicated they would stop, but then accelerated away, the statement said.
The driver sped through a red light and struck multiple people in the crosswalk of the intersection of 17th Street Northwest and Constitution Avenue. One man who was struck by the car died at an area hospital.
Authorities are still searching for the driver.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
|
2023-07-12T22:09:45+00:00
|
kalb.com
|
https://www.kalb.com/2023/07/12/pedestrian-killed-by-car-fleeing-secret-service-near-white-house/
|
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Thailand’s prime minister on Monday as part of an effort to strengthen what Austin says is Washington’s “unparalleled network of alliances and partnerships" in the region.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is also defense minister, also met Austin last month in Washington. Thailand and the United States are longtime military allies, despite a cooling of relations after the 2014 military coup that brought former army commander Prayuth to power.
A U.S. Defense Department statement said Austin's visit, his first to Thailand as defense secretary, is an important step toward modernizing the U.S.-Thai alliance and expanding the depth and breadth of military cooperation.
Thai media reported that Prayuth would likely discuss arms procurement with Austin, including of F-35 fighter aircraft. No details of what they talked about were immediately available.
Tensions between the U.S. and China have been growing in part over Beijing's claims to Taiwan and much of the South China Sea, and its increasing power and influence in the region.
In a speech Saturday at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue defense summit in Singapore, Austin said China’s “steady increase in provocative and destabilizing military activity near Taiwan” threatens to undermine the region’s security and prosperity.
He said he was proud that Washington’s “unparalleled network of alliances and partnerships has only deepened” in the past year.
China’s defense minister, Gen. Wei Fenghe, said at the same conference that the U.S. is trying to turn Southeast Asian countries against Beijing and is seeking to advance its own interests “under the guise of multilateralism.”
China over the past decade has been trying to extend its influence in Southeast Asia, both through aid and investment, including its “Belt and Road” infrastructure projects and use of its navy and other maritime resources to press its claims to vast areas of the South China Sea.
Thailand and the United States were close allies during the Vietnam War, and in 2003, Washington designated Thailand a major non-NATO ally, one of about 20 worldwide.
Such status means the U.S. regards Thailand as a strategic partner, and facilitates some aspects of military assistance and cooperation. The annual multinational Cobra Gold military exercise, one of the world’s biggest, is hosted in Thailand in partnership with the United States.
|
2022-06-13T10:47:00+00:00
|
seattlepi.com
|
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/US-Defense-Secretary-Austin-meets-Thai-leader-to-17237555.php
|
Countdown to high school football: Gainesville Sun previews 22 teams in 22 days
As the high school football season steadily approaches, The Gainesville Sun is running its 22 teams in 22 days series, which will preview one program per day leading up to Week 1 kickoff on Aug. 26.
The series started Aug. 5 and the final high school preview will publish on Aug. 26, the first day of the 2022 regular season. Many teams are playing in preseason kickoff classics the previous week.
Did you miss any of your favorite teams?
Here is a collection of the high school football preview content available for Gainesville Sun subscribers so far and every day we'll add more.
Super 11:Gainesville Sun picks area's best high school football players for 2022 season
Mark your calendar:Complete 2022 weekly high school football schedule for Gainesville area
First team in countdown to season:Can the Bell Bulldogs bounce back, make the playoffs?
Countdown to high school football:Bradford has new coach at the helm for 2022
Countdown to high school kickoff:Defensive coordinator Tim Jones now Bronson coach
Countdown to high school football:Buchholz coming off state semifinal run
Countdown to high school football:Chiefland has new coach, plenty of experience
Countdown to high school football:Can Columbia and its new players on offense make a run?
More Gainesville area football news and coverage
Receiving attention:Wide receiver prospect Jaren Hamilton talks transfer to Buchholz, college recruitment
Listen now!Talking UF offers, football recruiting with Buchholz's Gavin Hill, Kendall Jackson
FHSAA new football districts:Here's what the changes mean for Gainesville area teams
Best in Florida:See which Gainesville-area football players made USA Today Florida Top 100
Welcome back:Harold 'Gator' Hoskins hired as Eastside football coach
|
2022-08-10T16:39:50+00:00
|
gainesville.com
|
https://www.gainesville.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/08/10/high-school-football-look-gainesville-area-teams-2022-season-previews/10278788002/
|
Your skin care needs change as you age
As you age, your skin will change, and so should your skin care routine. People over 50 are prone to skin characteristics that may not have been present years before, such as wrinkles, dry skin, melasma, age spots, blood vessels, increased bruising and even skin cancer. To learn the best way to address these needs, we turned to BestReviews’ skin care expert and dermatologist, Dr. Alina Zufall.
Shop this article: AlphaRet Overnight Cream, Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 30 and SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2
How skin changes as you age
As people age, “skin thickness and elasticity decreases, leading to wrinkling and fragile skin,” explains Dr. Zufall. Furthermore, the skin barrier becomes dry and “loss of fat pads and resorption of bone further leads to sagging skin and a sunken appearance.”
Sun exposure throughout one’s lifetime will also damage the skin with changes including “wrinkling, textural change, thinning, dryness, blood vessel development and pigment changes,” adds Dr. Zufall, noting that the development of benign and malignant lesions can occur as well.
All of these skin concerns, which are specific to mature skin in people over the age of 50, require targeted care.
How to best care for mature skin
For people over 50, Dr. Zufall suggests the following skin care routine. Morning and night, wash your face with a gentle cleanser. Gentle cleansers are preferred over harsh antibacterial soaps that dry out the skin.
In the mornings, follow cleansing with moisturizer and sunscreen. “I recommend moisturizing the body and face daily with a gentle, non-scented moisturizing cream or ointment (not lotion, as these are less moisturizing),” Dr. Zufall adds. “Sunscreen daily is extremely important to protect from ‘photo-aging,’ or aging due to skin exposure to UV radiation.”
In the evenings, forego the sunscreen and use a retinol-based product followed by a nighttime moisturizer. “Nightly use of a retinol-based product will also help to combat the aging process,” says Dr. Zufall. “If you are dealing with dark spots, then an over-the-counter lightening agent can be used in the morning and evening.”
Best skin care ingredients for mature skin
When shopping for moisturizers for mature skin, Dr. Zufall recommends products with glycerin or hyaluronic acid, as they’re “good ingredients for pulling water into the skin.” In addition, “shea butter and colloidal oatmeal can help hydrate the skin and prevent evaporation of water.”
“Petrolatum, dimethicone and lanolin are excellent occlusive ingredients to keep moisture locked in,” notes Dr. Zufall. “Ceramins can help repair the skin barrier and lock in moisture.”
For body moisturizers, try products with urea or lactic acids, which Dr. Zufall says “are great ingredients for removing the top layer of dead or dry skin on the body and also pulling moisture into the skin.”
For sunscreen, look for broad spectrum protection against UVA, UVB and visible light. It’s best to find products that are water-resistant for at least 40 minutes, or ideally, 80 minutes.
“Tretinoin is the best retinoid available for combatting aging, but it’s also only available by prescription,” notes Dr. Zufall. “There have been some studies that show that retinol and retinaldehyde products work just as well as tretinoin, but the data is limited.”
As for lightening agents, over-the-counter ingredients Dr. Zufall likes include niacinamide, kojic acid, azelaic acid, alpha arbutin, tranexamic acid, thiamidol, glycolic acid, retinol, vitamin C and cysteamine.
Watch out for scented products and instead look for fragrance-free versions. “Fragrance is generally irritating to the skin and can worsen dry skin,” she explains.
Best skin care products for people over 50
“Alpha ret consists of conjugated lactic acid and retinyl retinoate. This would be an over-the-counter product worth trying due to some promising data showing that it may be just as effective as — and with fewer side effects than — tretinoin, the gold standard of anti-aging,” says Dr. Zufall.
Sold by SkinBetter
“Cysteamine is one of the best ingredients available over the counter for skin lightening,” Dr. Zufall notes. “This is an excellent option for someone wanting to try to lighten those dark spots before going to see a dermatologist. But remember, sunscreen is the best way to prevent worsening and recurrence of the dark spots.”
Sold by Walmart
Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 30
“This product has some of the best protection for anti-aging and dark spots available in the U.S.,” says Dr. Zufall. “It goes on the skin relatively lightweight and comes in four shades to find the one that matches your skin tone the most.” Another bonus, she notes, is the affordable price point.
Sold by Amazon
SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2
This cream helps restore essential skin lipids including ceramides, natural cholesterol and fatty acids. Dr. Zufall loves this product because it’s a “high-quality moisturizer” that can help “improve the look and feel of skin.”
Sold by SkinCeuticals
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Talia Ergas writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved.
|
2023-06-13T17:36:13+00:00
|
kxnet.com
|
https://www.kxnet.com/reviews/br/beauty-personal-care-br/skin-treatments-br/dermatologist-recommended-skin-care-for-people-over-50/
|
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska gave a video tour of human rights violations in the country following Russia’s invasion almost a year ago, telling a U.N. meeting Wednesday: “We have the right to live free, not to be killed or tortured.”
She showed destruction in the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut, which Russia is trying to capture, where shelling is killing civilians and water is scarce; the mass graves of Ukrainians left behind after Russian occupiers left the city of Izium; the Kramatorsk train station, which was hit by a missile killing 50 people and wounding dozens more trying to flee the war; and many other examples.
At a meeting on “Gross Human Rights Violations Due To The Aggression Against Ukraine” organized by the Kyiv government, Zelenska also pointed to ill-treated emaciated Ukrainian prisoners of war, and the thousands of children Russia has taken from Ukraine and the reported adoption of some of them by Russian families.
“We are fighting for human rights,” she said, speaking virtually. “We are fighting for what unites us, the right to freedom, life, not to get tortured and to live freely.”
The wife of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine’s victory in the war will mean the victory of human rights over “lawlessness, torture and destruction.”
She called on the United Nations to establish a special tribunal to prosecute crimes of Russian aggression, stressing that “it is not only us who need that, we need that for everyone.”
“Justice for Ukraine is justice for the entire world,” Zelenska said.
International pressure has been mounting for a special tribunal to be established to prosecute the crime of aggression. The European Union’s legislature passed a non-binding resolution in January calling on the 27-nation bloc to work “in close cooperation with Ukraine to seek and build political support in the U.N. General Assembly and other international forums … for creating the special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.”
The International Criminal Court, which has a mandate to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, has opened an investigation into crimes committed in Ukraine. But it does not have jurisdiction to prosecute Russia’s leaders for aggression.
Netherlands Foreign Minister Wopke Hoeksta told the meeting that Russia’s crimes are piling up a year after its Feb. 24, 2022 invasion, pointing to “child abductions, sexual violence, torture, the shelling of schools, hospitals and houses, the destruction of entire neighborhoods.”
He said the Netherlands is taking a leading role in ensuring justice for the people of Ukraine and the quest for accountability which requires “watertight evidence.”
Hoeksta announced that the Netherlands is sending two more forensic investigation missions to Ukraine to collect evidence and urged all countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court to contribute to this effort.
He said the Netherlands also strongly supports establishment of an International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression “to collect evidence that can be used to eventually try Russian leadership.” He said it should be based in The Hague, the Dutch city that is also the headquarters of the ICC and the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s highest court.
“We must do all we can to prevent further injustice,” Hoeksta said. “There can never be peace in a world where crime and brute force prevails over justice.”
|
2023-02-23T14:16:50+00:00
|
kfor.com
|
https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-ukraine-first-lady-cites-rights-violations-urges-tribunal/
|
The strikes continue to throw Hollywood off kilter.
The Television Academy and Fox have postponed the Primetime Emmy Awards, according to Variety. The telecast will no longer take place on Sept. 18 on Fox, due, of course, to the actors and writers strikes. Vendors for the event have been informed of the delay, according to Variety, even though no official announcement has been made. No new date has been set.
The last time the Emmys were postponed was in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks. The event, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, took place on Nov. 4. The Emmys did go on during the pandemic, but the show was modified.
Advertisement
Meanwhile, the second phase of voting is moving forward, despite the broadcast being in limbo. The nominations were announced on July 12, and TV Academy members will vote for winners starting Aug. 17. The big nominees are “Succession,” “Abbott Elementary,” “The White Lotus,” “The Bear,” “The Last of Us,” and “Ted Lasso.”
Matthew Gilbert can be reached at matthew.gilbert@globe.com. Follow him @MatthewGilbert.
|
2023-07-28T17:09:47+00:00
|
bostonglobe.com
|
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/28/arts/hollywood-strikes-force-postponement-emmys/
|
DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in the German city of Düsseldorf against Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kurdish region and the international community’s apparent apathy about the issue.
The participants started at two separate locations before joining under the motto “Stop Chemical Warfare in Kurdistan!” Speakers criticized international governments for not doing more to address alleged war crimes that have been denied by Turkey.
Düsseldorf police spokesman Marcel Fiebig told The Associated Press that “several thousand” people took part in the demonstration organized by Kon-Med, a Germany-based association of Kurdish groups.
Last month, Turkish officials strongly rejected the allegations made by Kurdish militants that the Turkish military used chemical weapons against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, insisting the military doesn’t have such weapons.
Those statements did little to assure Saturday’s demonstrators, who were critical of Germany’s reticence to investigate.
“The federal government recently declared that it sees no way for an international investigation into the Turkish use of chemical weapons. From our point of view, this is scandalous,” said Zübeyde Zümrüt of Kon-Med. “The federal government supports the regime in Ankara politically, financially and also militarily. If the federal government remains inactive in the face of these crimes, we believe that it is jointly responsible for the crimes in Kurdistan.”
Last month, Turkish police detained Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, president of the Turkish Medical Association, after she called for an independent investigation into allegations that Turkey’s military had used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants.
Fincanci, a leading human rights activist, was detained on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda,” according to the Ankara chief prosecutor’s office.
Turkey has been conducting a series of military operations in northern Iraq since 2019, saying it’s targeting the PKK to prevent it from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey.
|
2022-11-12T21:40:34+00:00
|
wwlp.com
|
https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-protesters-ask-turkey-to-stop-alleged-chemical-weapons-use/
|
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With the goal of improving cervical cancer care, AACC has published a new guidance document with expert recommendations on detecting this cancer. The guidance aims to update healthcare and laboratory medicine professionals on the latest advancements in this field, and to help them select the most effective cervical cancer detection strategy for their patients.
Read the guidance document here: http://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/aacc-academy-guidance/cervical-cancer-detection
Over the last couple decades, cervical cancer detection has evolved rapidly. Clinicians used to rely primarily on Pap testing, also known as cervical cytology, to screen for this cancer. However, in light of the fact that the human papillomavirus (HPV) actually causes the majority of cervical cancers, medical organizations now recommend screening for cervical cancer with either primary HPV testing, or by co-testing with both HPV testing and cervical cytology. Three recent guidelines put out by the American Cancer Society (ACS), American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF), respectively, all advocate for these new approaches. However, the three guidelines also contain nuanced differences, which could make it difficult for clinicians and labs to determine how best to update their cervical cancer detection strategies.
In order to help clinicians and labs navigate these guidelines, AACC's guidance provides a clear comparison of the ACS, ASCCP, and USPSTF guidelines in the context of the latest evidence on cervical cancer detection. Significantly, AACC's guidance notes that there are no randomized trials comparing mortality rates among the various screening strategies recommended by these organizations. This means that certain decisions about cervical cancer screening should be based on informed discussions with the patient, while other decisions can be made based on what works best for an institution. As an example of the latter, primary HPV screening performs similarly to and with lower costs than screening with co-testing. This means that institutions can screen with HPV testing alone if they have an HPV test that is FDA-approved for primary screening, while institutions with one of the other HPV tests can continue to use co-testing.
One other feature of the guidance is an ideal lab report template for HPV and cervical cancer testing that is designed to help clinicians quickly review results and make care decisions. The guidance also examines the latest studies supporting the use of self-collected vaginal specimens for HPV testing, an approach that is not yet used in the U.S. but that could improve cervical cancer detection in underscreened populations.
"This guidance document addresses key questions related to cervical cancer screening and management and introduces the most recently updated screening guidelines, risk-based management for screening and surveillance, as well as methodologies for the diagnosis of cervical cancer," said the guidance document authors Drs. Yusheng Zhu, Sarah Feldman, Shuk On Annie Leung, Michael H. Creer, Joshua Warrick, Nicole Williams, and Stephen Mastorides. "Additionally, a laboratory report template is proposed for human papillomavirus and cervical cancer detection to facilitate interpretation of results and clinical decision-making. This guidance document will help clinical laboratorians and clinicians utilize the most recent guidelines for cervical cancer screening, surveillance, and diagnosis."
About AACC
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
Christine DeLong
AACC
Senior Manager, Communications & PR
(p) 202.835.8722
cdelong@aacc.org
Molly Polen
AACC
Senior Director, Communications & PR
(p) 202.420.7612
(c) 703.598.0472
mpolen@aacc.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE AACC
|
2023-03-06T18:53:10+00:00
|
kswo.com
|
https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/03/06/new-aacc-guidance-aims-serve-roadmap-healthcare-professionals-navigating-cervical-cancer-testing-options/
|
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Firefighters in Alaska got an unusual request for assistance last weekend from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, but it wasn’t your mundane cat-stuck-in-a-tree situation.
“They were looking for some help getting a moose out of a basement,” said Capt. Josh Thompson with Central Emergency Services on the Kenai Peninsula.
The moose, estimated to be a 1-year-old bull, had a misstep while eating breakfast Sunday morning by a home in Soldotna, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.
“It looks like the moose had been trying to eat some vegetation by the window well of a basement window and fell into it, and then fell into the basement through the glass,” Thompson said.
That’s where it was stuck, one floor below ground.
A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was able to tranquilize the moose, but the animal wasn’t completely unconscious.
“He was still looking around and sitting there, he just wasn’t running around,” Thompson said.
Once sedated, the next problem was getting the moose — which weighed at least 500 pounds (225 kilograms) — out of the house.
Improvising a bit, responders grabbed a big transport tarp that’s typically used as a stretcher for larger human patients. Once the moose was in position, it took six men to carry him through the house and back outside.
Photos of the morning rescue show the moose unfazed, simply looking ahead between the two men maneuvering the front of the tarp down a hallway, watching where they are going.
Thompson said the moose just hung out for a while after they got outside until a reversal agent for the tranquilizer kicked in. The biologist also treated minor lacerations on the back of the moose’s legs from falling through the window, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Once the sedative wore off, the moose apparently had his fill of human companionship and wanted to get back to the wild.
“He got up and took off,” Thompson said.
|
2022-11-24T02:42:02+00:00
|
kfor.com
|
https://kfor.com/strange/ap-strange-news/ap-alaska-firefighters-help-rescue-a-moose-trapped-in-a-home/
|
KDADS awards $500K to support suicide prevention organizations
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services has awarded $525,000 to address the ongoing suicide crisis in Kansas.
On Wednesday, March 8, Governor Laura Kelly announced that 15 community organizations have received $35,000 each to develop community-specific strategies to prevent suicide among at-risk Kansans
The allocation of $1.5 million in state general funds to KDADS’ Behavioral Health Services Commission by Governor Kelly in the fiscal year 2023 will help strengthen and expand suicide prevention efforts across Kansas.
“Improving mental health in every community is essential to creating a healthy, thriving Kansas,” Governor Laura Kelly said. “By investing in organizations that directly work with Kansans in crisis, we are furthering our mission to prevent suicide and ensure every Kansan can access the mental health services he or she needs.”
Governor Laura Kelly said these 15 organizations across the state will engage in community and evidence-based suicide prevention services and activities that prevent suicidial behavior, reduce suicidal ideation, attempts and deaths, and address shared risk and protective factors.
- Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan – Manhattan
- Clay County Health Department – Clay Center
- DCCCA – Lawrence
- Finney County Community Health Coalition – Garden City
- Kansas Black Leadership Council – Lawrence
- Johnson County Mental Health Center – Mission, Olathe, Shawnee
- Miami County Health Department – Paola
- Nemaha County Community Hospital – Seneca
- Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center – Chanute
- Prime Fit Youth Foundation – Wichita
- Republic County Health Department – Belleville
- Flint Hills Volunteer Center – Manhattan
- Suicide Prevention of Cowley County – Arkansas City
- Wichita State University – Wichita
- Youth Educational Empowerment Program – Wichita
“Financial support for local suicide prevention efforts is a significant investment in the suicide prevention infrastructure of Kansas,” said KDADS Behavioral Health Services Commissioner Andrew Brown. “KDADS is working strategically with local partners to reduce the number of suicide deaths in Kansas, and these grants will strengthen prevention strategies in these local communities and promote a prevention mindset.”
Governor Kelly said grantees will be required to create a plan that includes conducting a community assessment, building suicide prevention infrastructure, addressing cultural competency, and ensuring suicide prevention efforts are evidence-based. Grantees will receive continued support from KDADS and the Kansas Suicide Prevention Coalition to reduce the stigma surrounding suicide, emphasizing diversity and inclusion. These grants will serve individuals of all ages.
Copyright 2023 WIBW. All rights reserved.
|
2023-03-08T22:12:35+00:00
|
kwch.com
|
https://www.kwch.com/2023/03/08/kdads-awards-500k-support-suicide-prevention-organizations/
|
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest-ever Global Faith and Media Study is launched today, looking at the portrayal of faith and religion in the media. It reveals a strong demand across the world for more news media coverage on faith, despite the reality that journalists and editors admit coverage of the topics is rarely encouraged in newsrooms.
The study captures the views of 9,000 global citizens as well as journalists and editors in 18 countries covering the world's major religions. The research was commissioned by the Faith and Media Initiative (FAMI) and conducted by global market research company HarrisX.
The study reflects the feeling among the general population that media coverage can perpetuate faith-related stereotypes rather than protect against them. It also lays out some of the factors that journalists and editors think can lead to religious and faith stereotypes in news coverage.
The study also signals universal recognition among journalists and editors that coverage of faith and religion needs a reset. It captures detailed insights about the complex set of factors that have created the current status quo affecting editorial coverage.
"The data reveals that faith and religion are a core element of personal identity globally, with 82% of respondents viewing themselves as faithful, religious or spiritual," said Dritan Nesho, CEO of HarrisX. "Yet the journalists with whom we spoke to believe that faith and religious coverage are becoming increasingly marginalized due to everything from newsroom economics to fears of 'getting it wrong'.
"Ultimately, the research points to a clear global deficit in coverage, treatment and quality of understanding of faith and religion in modern media." Nesho added.
Key insights from the Global Faith and Media Study include:
People globally see the need for better representation of faith and religion in the media
- 63% of people globally said that high -quality content on faith and religion is needed in their respective countries.
- 53% of people globally believe that the media coverage actively ignores religion as an aspect of society and culture today.
- 59% of people globally think that it is important that the news media coverage reflect a diverse set of religious perspectives in their content and reporting.
- 56% of people globally agree that there should be more nuanced coverage of complex religious issues.
Religious stereotypes are a concern globally in relation to faith and religious coverage
- 61% of people globally said that media coverage often perpetuates faith-based stereotypes rather than addresses and protects against them.
- 53% of people globally think that religious stereotypes should get the same level of attention as other stereotype issues in the media.
More varied spokespeople are needed to represent faith and religion in media coverage
- More than 80% of people globally feel that faith and religious groups need to provide the media with greater variety of spokespeople.
- Journalists and editors admit there is an issue with religious stereotyping in media coverage and noted that the lack of varied media sources and spokespeople for faith organizations is a significant issue that they believe perpetuates the problem.
Media agree that editorial coverage on faith and religion has become more marginalized
- The Global Faith and Media Study uncovers the complex set of factors that have influenced the way faith and religion is covered in the media, based on direct interviews with journalists.
- Media respondents universally described a continued marginalization of media coverage on faith and religion and cited many influencing factors giving rise to increasingly unbalanced reporting:
"This ground-breaking global study on the attitudes of people, journalists and editors toward coverage of faith and religion in media will be used as a springboard for positive change," said Brooke Zaugg, Vice President of The Faith and Media Initiative. "These new findings shine a light on the urgent need to offer faith leaders improved access to the power and reach of the news media, and media a direct line to faith leaders for enhanced understanding of beliefs in the context of modern society. "By joining forces, we can better serve humanity by ensuring a more accurate, balanced representation of all faiths in journalism and entertainment worldwide,"
You can follow the conversation for FAMI at: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, #faithandmedia, #FAMI and for HarrisX: Twitter and LinkedIn
For media inquiries, please contact:
Perri Dorset, Rakhee Rathod and Leila Hrycyszyn on: HarrisX@transatlanticent.com
Corinne Gorda on: Corinne@rokksolutions.com
About the Global Faith and Media Study
The Global Faith and Media Study represents the views of 9,489 quantitative interviews between August and September 2022. Surveys were carried out across 18 countries globally, with regions selected to cover the world's major religions in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In addition, views of the news media were gathered through 30 in-depth qualitative interviews with journalists and editors across the same geographic footprint. To download the report please visit:http://index.faithandmedia.com/data
The study is the first flagship insights report available from The Faith and Media Index, a new platform launched by The Faith and Media Initiative, which will partner with the world's most respected institutions to build a robust platform of research and data. The Index will include original insights on the global landscape of faith and media, early identification of trends and opportunities for collaboration, as well as a robust data resource for journalists, editors and content creators. The first issue of The Global Faith and Media Study was funded, in part, by a grant from the Radiant Foundation
About The Faith and Media Initiative
The Faith and Media Initiative (FAMI) is a non-profit that connects and provides resources to a global, diverse network of media members, content creators, faith leaders and community members working together to ensure accurate, balanced representation of all faiths in entertainment and journalism. The work to date has been driven by an exploratory task force, including diverse experts from faith, media, academia and business. The task force is committed to building strategies for change – from coalition building, fluency training, research and recognition of individuals and businesses leading the way. More information about the Faith and Media Initiative is available here.
About HarrisX
HarrisX is a leading global research consultancy that conducts major market research, public policy polling and social science studies in more than 40 countries around the world. It is part of Stagwell Global and the sister company of the Harris Poll, which has conducted public release polling internationally since 1963.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE FAMI; HarrisX
|
2022-09-20T11:50:58+00:00
|
wcjb.com
|
https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/20/largest-ever-global-study-reveals-high-consumer-demand-more-news-religion-faith-along-with-roadblocks-among-journalists-editors/
|
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.
Email us tips and feedback: Max Greenwood, Julia Manchester and Caroline Vakil. Someone forward this newsletter to you? Subscribe here.
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.
|
2022-10-11T23:15:24+00:00
|
nwahomepage.com
|
https://www.nwahomepage.com/hill-politics/campaign-report-warnock-pulls-ahead-in-new-ga-poll/
|
BERLIN (AP) — Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced Friday that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date.
Ministers from the G-7 countries meeting in Berlin also announced a target to have a “highly decarbonized road sector by 2030,” meaning that electric vehicles would dominate new car sales by the end of the decade.
And in a move aimed at ending the recurring conflict between rich and poor nations during international climate talks, the G-7 recognized for the first time the need to provide developing countries with additional financial aid to cope with the loss and damage caused by global warming.
The agreements, which will be put to leaders next month at the G-7 summit in Elmau, Germany, were largely welcomed by climate activists.
“The 2035 target for power sector decarbonisation is a real breakthrough. In practice, this means countries need to phase out coal by 2030 at the latest,” said Luca Bergamaschi, director of Rome-based campaign group ECCO.
Coal is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that’s responsible for a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans. While there are ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, experts say it is almost impossible to reduce it to zero, meaning it will likely have to be the first fossil fuel to be phased out.
G-7 members Britain, France and Italy have already set themselves deadlines to stop burning coal for electricity in the next few years. Germany and Canada are aiming for 2030; Japan wants more time; while the Biden administration has set a target of ending fossil fuel use for electricity generation in the United States by 2035.
A common target would put pressure on other major polluters to follow suit and build on the compromise deal reached at last year’s U.N. climate summit, where nations committed merely to “phase down” rather than “phase out” coal — with no fixed date.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry called the agreements reached in Berlin “very comprehensive and forward-leaning.”
“I think it will help lay the groundwork for what has to happen at the G-20,” he told The Associated Press, referring to a meeting later this year of the broader Group of 20 leading and emerging economies, who are responsible for 80% of global emissions.
Getting all G-20 countries to sign on to the ambitious targets set by some of the most advanced economies will be difficult, as countries such as China, India and Indonesia remain heavily reliant on coal.
Under pressure to step up their financial aid to poor nations, the G-7 ministers in Berlin said they recognized that “action and support for vulnerable countries, populations and vulnerable groups need to be further scaled up.”
This includes governments and companies “providing enhanced support regarding averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change,” they said.
Developing countries have for years demanded a clear commitment that they will receive funds to cope with the destruction wrought by climate change. Wealthy nations have resisted the idea, however, for fear of being held liable for costly disasters linked to their emissions.
“After years of roadblocks, the G-7 finally recognize that they need to financially support poor countries in addressing climate-related losses and damages,” said David Ryfisch of the Berlin-based environmental campaign group Germanwatch.
“But that recognition is not enough, they need to put actual money on the table,” he added. “It is now up to (German Chancellor Olaf) Scholz to mobilize significant financial commitments by leaders at the Elmau summit.”
Germany’s energy and climate minister, Robert Habeck, said the 40-page communique couldn’t hide the fact that G-7 countries had long been laggards on combating global warming.
“But we’re trying to make up for those things that didn’t go so well in the past,” he said. “Including on climate finance.”
Speaking at a former coal depot, later converted into a gas storage facility and now home to clean energy startups, Habeck also highlighted the pledge by G-7 countries to end what he called the “absurdity” of fossil fuel subsidies in the coming years.
Separately, the United States and Germany signed an agreement Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The deal will see the two countries work together to develop and deploy technologies that will speed up that clean energy transition, particularly in the area of offshore wind power, zero-emissions vehicles and hydrogen.
The U.S. and Germany pledged to also collaborate on promoting ambitious climate policies and energy security worldwide.
Kerry said both countries aim to reap the benefits of shifting to clean energy early, through the creation of new jobs and opportunities for businesses in the growing market for renewables.
Such markets depend on common standards of what hydrogen can be classified as “green,” for example. Officials will now work on reaching a common definition to ensure that hydrogen produced on one side of the Atlantic can be sold on the other side.
Habeck said the agreement reflected the urgency of tackling global warming. Scientists have said steep emissions cuts need to happen worldwide this decade if the goals set in the 2015 Paris climate accord are to be met.
“Time is literally running out,” Habeck said, calling climate change “the challenge of our political generation.”
___
Follow all AP stories on climate change issues at https://apnews.com/hub/climate
|
2022-05-27T20:25:49+00:00
|
wcia.com
|
https://www.wcia.com/news/international/us-germany-to-boost-cooperation-on-shift-to-clean-energy/
|
Snapshot: Utah Valley 81, CU Buffs MBB 69
Turning point: The Wolverines broke a 58-58 tie with eight consecutive points to take control down the stretch.
Buff of the game: Lawson Lovering. The 7-foot sophomore capped a solid stretch run to the season by going 9-for-13 with a career-high 21 points. Lovering also grabbed a team-high seven rebounds and recorded two steals.
What’s next?: The offseason, as the Buffs turn the page to look ahead to 2023-24.
Colorado couldn’t force stops, and Utah Valley rarely missed.
That combination ended the 2022-23 season for the Buffaloes.
Unable to keep pace with the hot-shooting assault of visiting Utah Valley, the CU men’s basketball team suffered an 81-69 defeat in the second round of the NIT on Sunday night at the Events Center.
While the Wolverines advance to face Cincinnati in the NIT quarterfinals, a season full of dramatic highs and frustrating lows for the Buffs ends with an 18-17 mark.
“Disappointing, obviously. We wanted to advance. We didn’t,” CU head coach Tad Boyle said. “Utah Valley is a good team. We knew that coming in. The proved it tonight. To me, that’s an NCAA Tournament-caliber team. They’re good. Their guards, holy cow are they good. If you want to be simplistic about this game tonight, the reality is they had Trey Woodbury, and we didn’t. He was the difference in the game. We had no answer for him.”
Utah Valley lit up the Events Center the entire night, finishing with a .559 mark overall while going 9-for-17 on 3-pointers. The Wolverines had four players finish with double-figure points, but none of them did the sort of damage inflicted upon CU by Woodbury.
With an array of CU defenders attempting, and failing, to slow Woodbury, the 6-foot-4 senior guard went 11-for-15 before finishing with 25 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
Utah Valley’s .559 mark from the field was the third-highest posted by a CU opponent this season.
“They’ve got really good players,” CU guard Ethan Wright said. “They’ve got a lot of shooters that can spread the floor. They have a tough lob threat. The kid Woodbury was killing us, making shots. They have a really dynamic offense. I thought we could’ve done a lot better on offense, but credit to them. They’re a good team.”
The first half alone featured 10 ties and eight lead changes, with the teams playing to a 38-38 tie at the break. The game remained tied at 58-58 after a putback basket by CU’s Lawson Lovering with about 8:45 remaining, but Woodbury scored five points in an 8-0 Utah Valley run that put the Wolverines in control.
Lovering finished 9-for-13 with a career-high 21 points while also adding seven rebounds. Wright hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, but after shooting .548 as a team in the first half (17-for-31), the Buffs cooled off to a .387 mark in the second half. CU also finished just 4-for-19 on 3-pointers, with every player not named Wright combining to go 0-for-11.
A win would’ve allowed the Buffs to play at home one more time with a berth in the NIT Final Four on the line. Yet in a season that featured one of the most impressive nonconference wins by the entire Pac-12 Conference (CU’s win against Tennessee, now in the Sweet 16, in Nashville on Nov. 11) along with one of the ugliest losses in Boyle’s 13 seasons in Boulder (a defeat in Berkeley on Dec. 31 against a California team that finished with three wins), ending in disappointment seemed fitting.
“We just couldn’t ever string together stops,” Boyle said. “Teams that advance this time of year are the teams that guard. That’s the bottom line. I don’t care if you’re in the NIT or the NCAA Tournament. We’ve got a lot of work to do.”
Utah Valley 81, Colorado 69
Utah Valley (27-8)
Fuller 2-3 0-0 4, Bandaogo 6-9 0-0 12, Harmon 7-11 2-2 18, Woodbury 11-15 3-4 25, Darthard 4-11 4-4 13, Nield 0-2 0-0 0, Small 1-3 0-0 3, Potter 2-5 0-0 6. Totals 33-59 6-6 81.
Colorado (18-17)
da Silva 5-12 2-2 12, Lovering 9-13 3-6 21, O’Brien 4-9 0-0 8, Wright 6-12 1-1 17, Clifford 2-5 1-2 5, Hammond III 3-8 0-0 6, Gabbidon 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 29-62 7-11 69.
Halftime — Utah Valley 38, Colorado 38. 3-point field goals — Utah Valley 9-17 (Bandaogo 0-1, Harmon 2-4, Darthard 1-3, Woodbury 3-4, Nield 0-1 Small 1-1, Potter 2-3); Colorado 4-19 (da Silva 0-4, O’Brien 0-3, Wright 4-8, Hammond III 0-2, Gabbidon 0-2). Rebounds — Utah Valley 32 (Bandaogo, Harmon, Woodbury 7); Colorado 30 (Lovering 7). Assists — Utah Valley 14 (Woodbury 7); Colorado 11 (O’Brien, Clifford 4). Turnvoers — Utah Valley 13, Colorado 12. Total fouls — Utah Valley 10, Colorado 12. A — 3,964.
|
2023-03-20T07:57:18+00:00
|
dailycamera.com
|
https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/03/19/utah-valley-ends-season-for-colorado-mens-basketball-in-second-round-of-nit/
|
DALLAS (KFDX/KJTL) — A $1 million lawsuit was filed on July 13, 2022, after two customers claimed the restaurant manager of a Taco Bell in Dallas poured boiling water on them.
Ben Crump Law and McCathern Law, who are handling the case, said that the customers were given “severe burns and trauma” as a result of the incident that happened back in June at the fast food chain.
Below is surveillance video of the alleged incident from Ben Crump Law via Storyful:
“This tragic and violent incident that has caused customers, one being a child, life-altering burns and psychological damage over a taco order raises questions about Taco Bell’s hiring and vetting process, as well as their training procedures relating to resolving disputes with customers,” the firm said in a join statement posted to Twitter on July 22.
The law firms released footage from June 17 which shows the Taco Bell manager splashing water on the customers, who left the restaurant after the incident.
According to both firms, after the initial incident, more footage shows another employee handling a firearm.
In Texas, gun laws allow employer’s to enforce and ultimately make the final decision on policies in regards to carrying firearms in the workplace.
When Storyful reached out to ask Taco Bell Corp about its policy on employees carrying firearms in the workplace, Taco Bell said they could not comment on the matter due to the lawsuit.
“Everyone deserves to feel safe in Taco Bell restaurants. We take this very seriously and are working with our local franchisee to investigate,” Taco Bell told Storyful.
Newswire by Storyful contributed to this story.
|
2022-07-30T21:08:47+00:00
|
wate.com
|
https://www.wate.com/news/texas-taco-bell-worker-poured-boiling-water-on-customers-lawsuit/
|
Internationally recognized physician to lead clinical innovation strategy
NEWARK, Del., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ace Vision Group, Inc, (AVG) an emerging ophthalmic device company focused on bringing innovative touchless lasers to patients suffering from age related vision loss, announced today that Elizabeth Yeu, M.D., partner at Virginia Eye Consultants, has been appointed to the role of chief strategic advisor. In her new position, Yeu will manage AVG's clinical advancement strategy.
As an accomplished and well-respected surgeon, researcher, and educator, Yeu has contributed greatly to the field of ophthalmology throughout her more than 20-year career. Yeu is an avid proponent of novel technologies and disruptive therapeutics that improve the current standard of care for patients. She is recognized and sought after as an industry leader in clinical care and new product development in the ophthalmic surgical and therapeutics spaces.
"I am excited to begin working with AVG in this capacity. I have closely followed the ongoing development of the Laser Scleral Microporation® (LSM) technology which began with restoring the loss of dynamic range of focus (DRoF) related to the manifestation of presbyopia," said newly appointed Chief Strategic Advisor, Yeu. "I have been impressed by the detailed science behind the VisioLite® technology and the clinical results of the multiple LSM studies. The sustainability of the results of each, as well as the consistent reproducible clinical results seen from patient to patient are noteworthy. I am looking forward to serving in this role with AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, Ph.D. and the AVG executive management team."
AVG is a privately held U.S. ophthalmic medical device company developing Laser Microporation Therapeutic technologies to treat diseases of the aging eye. The LSM technology is a minimally invasive rejuvenation procedure for the treatment of presbyopia, glaucoma, and other eye diseases. Currently, AVG is preparing for the commercialization of its VisioLite ophthalmic laser system, an innovative, first-in-class touchless laser technology offering.
In addition to her clinical practice at Virginia Eye Consultants, Yeu serves on the board of directors for STAAR Surgical, Avellino Lab USA, OSRX Pharmaceuticals, and the Virginia Eye Foundation. She also serves as chief medical advisor for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals and executive board member of CVP Physicians, Mid-Atlantic.
Yeu earned her bachelor's degree in science and completed her M.D. through an accelerated academic program at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and the UF College of Medicine. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois where she served as chief resident. Yeu then went on to Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas to complete her fellowship in cornea, anterior segment and refractive surgery where she was as assistant professor. In 2013, Yeu joined Virginia Eye Consultants and became a partner in 2014. She continues her commitment to residency training in ophthalmology as assistant professor at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. She is also the medical director at Virginia Surgery Center.
"At AVG, we are working diligently to pioneer a new area of understanding of the true biomechanical mechanisms that underly the loss of DRoF which typically starts around the age of 40 and beyond," said AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Ace Vision Group. "We have developed a touchless technology that is outside of the visual axis to address the ocular rigidity caused by age-related crosslinking which manifests as the well-known symptoms of presbyopia. This contributes to progressive visual disability for one of the largest markets in the ophthalmic space. LSM is the first biomechanical solution to address the underlying cause of presbyopia pathogenesis, while also illuminating the potential ocular health benefits of accommodation recovery."
Hipsley continued, "We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Yeu join our team at this critical time as we translate our VisioLite laser system into the commercial pathway. Her expertise and guidance will be invaluable as we make strategic decisions related to the treatment paradigm platform in order to convert AVG's new technology into clinical practice."
About Ace Vision Group
Ace Vision Group, Inc. (AVG) is a privately held Delaware corporation, established in 2006 to develop laser-based therapeutic technologies to address age-related eye dysfunction and restore the eye's natural biomechanical performance. AVG's Laser Scleral Microporation or LSM, is the only therapeutic eye laser treatment that restores visual function naturally without involving vision correction, artificial implants or devices. The goal of AVG is to provide the field of ophthalmology with innovative devices, procedures and education for the treatment and delay of onset of age-related ocular dysfunction, disability and disease. For more information about Ace Vision Group please visit www.acevisiongroup.com.
Media Contact:
Cassandra Dump
Cassy.dump@precisionvh.com
619-971-1887
Organization Contact:
Emily Zimcosky
ezimcosky@acevisiongroup.com
330-807-1929
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Ace Vision
|
2022-06-17T13:35:32+00:00
|
kcbd.com
|
https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/06/17/ace-vision-group-appoints-elizabeth-yeu-md-chief-strategic-advisor/
|
-
-
Webb Simpson shoots 2-over 72 in round two of the FedEx St. Jude Championship
-
August 12, 2022
By PGATOUR.COM
-
August 12, 2022
-
Highlights
Webb Simpson holes birdie putt at FedEx St. Jude Champ
In the opening round of the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Webb Simpson makes a 3-foot birdie putt on the par-5 16th hole.
Webb Simpson hit 5 of 18 greens in regulation during his second round at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, finishing at 3 over for the tournament. Simpson finished his day tied for 100th at 3 over; J.J. Spaun is in 1st at 11 under; Sepp Straka and Troy Merritt are tied for 2nd at 10 under; and Denny McCarthy is in 4th at 9 under.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 434-yard par-4 first hole, Simpson had a 127 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Simpson to 1 under for the round.
On the 401-yard par-4 second, Simpson had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and one putting, moving Simpson to even for the round.
On the par-5 third, Simpson's approach shot set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Simpson to 1 under for the round.
Simpson got a bogey on the 482-yard par-4 seventh, getting on the green in 4 and one putting, moving Simpson to even-par for the round.
Simpson missed the green on his first shot on the 171-yard par-3 eighth but had a chip in from 10 yards for birdie. This moved Simpson to 1 under for the round.
At the 162-yard par-3 11th, Simpson hit a tee shot 145 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 22-foot putt for birdie. This moved Simpson to 2 under for the round.
At the 406-yard par-4 12th, Simpson got on in 3 and missed his bogey putt from 5 feet, finishing with a 3-putt double bogey. This moved Simpson to even for the round.
On the 453-yard par-4 18th, Simpson had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and one putting, moving Simpson to 2 over for the round.
-
-
Don’t miss anything from the PGA TOUR & its partners
Connect to get special offers and updates
Please enter a valid email address.
|
2022-08-13T14:14:20+00:00
|
pgatour.com
|
https://www.pgatour.com/roundrecap/2022/fedex-st--jude-championship/round-2/webb-simpson.html
|
Weeks of demonstrations have turned deadly amid protesters’ cries to have Peruvian President Dina Bolouarte resign and hold presidential elections.
According to Peruvian authorities, 56 deaths have been associated with the protests including 46 that were linked to the clashes with the riot police.
“The right to protest cannot be accompanied by violence, destruction, and death,” Bolouarte said in Spanish during a speech Tuesday to call for a “national truce.”
Bolouarte, the former vice president and the country’s first woman to serve as president, stepped up after Congress impeached the former leftist President Pedro Castillo on Dec. 7, after his attempt to dissolve Congress.
Castillo, a socialist who won the presidential election in 2021, is facing charges of rebellion. Bolouarte asked Congress to hold presidential elections in April 2024.
During her speech, Bolouarte blamed the protests on “radical groups with a political and economic agenda” who benefit from “drug trafficking, illegal mining, and smuggling.” She also said “the chaos” continues to disrupt travel and business.
“That is not a peaceful protest,” Bolouarte said.
Torres reported from Miami.
Related social media (Spanish)
|
2023-01-25T23:59:55+00:00
|
local10.com
|
https://www.local10.com/news/world/2023/01/25/havoc-continues-in-peru-amid-confrontations-between-riot-police-protesters/
|
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump says he’s not a fan of sharing news about his multiple criminal indictments with his wife, Melania.
“It’s always unpleasant when you have to go in and tell your wife that, ‘By the way, tomorrow sometime I’m going to be indicted,’” the 45th president said during a Friday interview on “The John Fredericks Show.”
Trump continued the reenactment of a supposed conversation between him and the former first lady about the multiple probes.
“And she says, ‘For what?’ And I say, ‘I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea,’” he said.
On Thursday, the Justice Department accused Trump in a superseding indictment of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida related to his classified records case, which is scheduled to go to trial in May.
Last week, Trump announced that he had been informed that he is a target in the Justice Department investigation into his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
The ex-commander in chief in April pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in New York, and he also faces another potential looming indictment in Georgia.
Asked by Fredericks on Friday how his family, including his wife and 17-year-old son, Barron, were “holding up” in light of the multiple criminal cases, Trump said he attempts to put barriers between them and the legal drama.
“Well, I try to keep them shielded and out of it,” he said.
“I just stay away from the standpoint of this.”
|
2023-07-28T19:17:15+00:00
|
kdvr.com
|
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/trump-says-its-unpleasant-to-discuss-indictments-with-melania/
|
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is coming up on the zero hour for his long-anticipated 2024 campaign launch.
After months of travel, preparations and posturing, the governor is set to file paperwork next week declaring his candidacy for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, a person familiar with the plans told The Hill. The filing is expected to come just before he meets with donors in Miami.
His formal entrance into the race will end months of speculation that have swirled around a deeply conservative governor who quickly emerged as one of the country’s most prominent and influential Republicans.
DeSantis’s political operation declined to comment on or confirm an impending campaign announcement. A senior official with DeSantis’s team noted that the governor had committed to deliver on his promises in Tallahassee before making a decision on a 2024 campaign.
“And he has made good on all his promises to the people of Florida,” the official said.
“The Governor’s political operation is fielding unprecedented interest and support for his candidacy – potentially the biggest bundler operation in Republican presidential primary history,” the official said, later adding that DeSantis’s “operational strength should not be underestimated.”
There has been little doubt about DeSantis’s intentions. He began touring the country earlier this year to promote his latest book — a move that was widely viewed as a soft launch for an eventual campaign. And he’s steadily assembled a political team, bringing in veteran campaign staffers and consultants and expanding his once-small political circle.
Last weekend, he attended a pair of Republican fundraising events in Iowa and made a surprise stop in Des Moines. Two days later, his political shop moved out of Florida GOP headquarters and into a new office space, beginning the countdown to a formal campaign launch.
“He’s running around Iowa and has an army of 26-year-olds in Tallahassee,” one Republican donor who’s backing DeSantis for the GOP’s 2024 nomination told The Hill. “Let’s rip the Band-Aid and get on with it.”
DeSantis’s central argument for his candidacy is simple: that he’s more electable than former President Trump. He’s repeatedly pointed to his 19-point reelection victory in November and his long list of legislative accomplishments to argue that he’s not only a winner, but a conservative fighter.
Speaking in Iowa last Saturday, DeSantis sought to appeal directly to Republican malaise after several lackluster election cycles that saw the party lose the House, the Senate and the White House. The GOP, he said, needed to shake its recent streak of failure.
“We must reject the culture of losing that has impacted our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,” DeSantis said in Sioux Center, Iowa. “If we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again.”
And in a call with donors Thursday reported by The New York Times, DeSantis made his case that there are only three credible candidates for the White House: Trump, President Biden and himself.
“And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him,” DeSantis said, according to the Times.
The exact details of DeSantis’s announcement plans are being held close. His meeting with donors is expected to take place sometime mid-week, and the Times reported Thursday that he’s likely to release a video to coincide with his candidacy filing.
There are still challenges ahead for DeSantis. His decision to wait until after his state’s annual legislative session to launch a campaign created an opening for Trump and his allies to go on the attack and define the early phase of the race, while the governor was tied up with official business in Tallahassee.
And despite public polling that shows him running in second place in the nascent 2024 primary field, he’s still well behind Trump, and there are signs that his support has begun to flatline.
Yet his allies remain optimistic about his prospects, noting that he’s maintained relatively steady support without formally campaigning. They also point to his high favorability numbers among Republican voters in key early states like Iowa, suggesting that there’s still plenty of room for him to grow his base of support.
During his Saturday trip to Iowa, DeSantis made a surprise stop in Des Moines, not far from where Trump was scheduled to appear. Trump scrapped his planned rally amid tornado warnings in the area.
DeSantis has also won an extensive list of endorsements from key elected officials in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first and second states, respectively, to vote in the GOP’s 2024 nominating contest. On Wednesday, 99 of Florida’s 113 Republican state legislators announced their support for DeSantis.
“People think this is an automatic coronation of the former president,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), one of four Republican members of Congress who have endorsed DeSantis for the 2024 nomination. “It isn’t. I promise you.”
|
2023-05-19T17:41:12+00:00
|
wric.com
|
https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/desantis-poised-to-enter-2024-race-ending-months-of-anticipation/
|
On a recent evening, a crowd was getting riled up during a debate between two candidates vying to represent Washington's 3rd Congressional District.
The debate, hosted by nearby Oregon Public Radio on the campus of Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash. saw audience outbursts towards the candidates, the moderator and each other.
"No they didn't!" "Fact check! Pinocchio!" "Shush up!"
That's a small sample of what was heard from members of the audience during a gathering that lasted more than an hour.
They were there to see political newcomer, Republican Joe Kent, face off against local business owner, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Their district covers the southwest corner of the state along the Oregon border.
The candidates sparred over reports of Kent's ties to white nationalist groups, among other controversial issues.
This year, Kent ousted Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler, one of ten House Republicans who voted for former President Trump's impeachment. Like others on that list, she drew Trump's ire.
Kent had earned Trump's endorsement, and running on a MAGA-style "America First" platform. He's also aligned himself with some of the more extreme House GOP members, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona.
The race has highlighted the GOP's tenuous and complicated relationship to popular candidates with controversial ties whose contentious races could help drive turnout.
"He wants to reestablish a white majority," Gluesenkamp Perez charged during one of the debate's most heated discussions over abortion.
"That's not true whatsoever. ...No, that's not true," Kent responded. "She's calling me a racist and misrepresenting what I've said."
A couple days after the debate, during a visit to a Día de los Muertos event at a Vancouver, Wa. church, Gluesenkamp Perez said she was worried about violence spilling out during the heated exchanges.
"The last debate, really at a couple of points, looked like audience members might come to blows," said Gluesenkamp Perez. "It is boiling under the surface and I'm very concerned that we are entirely too sanguine about, frankly, Democratic collapse."
Kent draws controversy, passionate support
In an interview with NPR, Kent downplayed the worries, saying he saw many families in the audience.
"The crowd looked pretty tame," Kent said from a Mediterranean restaurant in Battle Ground, Wa. the next day. "They were raucous, both sides were, but... they're not going to get in a fist fight."
He also rejected reports on his ties to extremists by multiple media outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN and the New York Times. He's also faced questions about his more recent employment, including questions raised by one of his former campaign staffers.
"Absolute garbage journalism," Kent says, referring to one of the first articles reporting on the connections. Other stories that followed, "that's the anatomy of a hit."
Kent moved to Washington's 3rd Congressional District from Oregon in 2020.
An ex-Green Beret who worked for the CIA, Kent entered politics after his wife Shannon Kent, a Navy linguist, was killed in a 2019 attack in Syria.
That's when he met President Trump as he joined other families at Dover Air Force Base to receive the remains of the fallen.
"I mean he was very gracious. I mean, I think he was I think was really gracious of him to come and meet with all the families of the fallen personally," Kent said.
He said the two talked foreign policy one-on-one for 10 to 15 minutes.
"I took the opportunity to just tell him that, 'hey, you're getting the foreign policy piece right like as far as getting us out of the Middle East... But you're being thwarted on all your goals," he said, arguing, "because people deeply entrenched Washington, D.C., they want to stay in the Middle East."
Soon after the father of two returned home to Oregon, he heard from the administration about potential jobs in a second Trump term. Kent said he met with White House Senior Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and other officials to discuss possibilities.
However, once those second term plans fell through, Kent weighed a political future for himself in the Pacific Northwest.
Kent, who is running on a Trump-style "America First" platform, has faced his own limits on running to Herrera Beutler's right. A far-right live streamer, Nick Fuentes, took aim at Kent.
"Some of the fiercest attacks I've had came from Nick Fuentes and those guys," he said. "They spent money against me. They launched this whole website that I was some sort of a deep state operative. They sent people to heckle multiple town halls."
Fuentes has rejected some of Kent's claims, and said the two tried to work together earlier in his campaign.
Heated rhetoric impacting the race's tenor
Gluesenkamp Perez, a mom who has worked in public service, says it has been challenging to break through the controversies that have taken up much of Washington's Third congressional race.
She's facing a red district, trying to break through to voters with her rural background and ties to a fifth-generation Washington state family. One of her key goals is to draw out voters left abandoned after Herrera Beutler was ousted.
"I'm running this race on my own terms. I'm not here to be a cheerleader for any political party," she told NPR. "I'm here to pay attention to what actually matters to small business owners, to people working in the trades, to people trying to find daycare. You know, working moms like me, that that just need real representation."
Back at the candidate debate, voter Jeff Woll gets emotional when he explains why he's voting for Kent, saying America is falling behind other countries and his district needs someone with military experience to lead it.
"Joe Kent has, I mean, he's as honest as the day is long, and that's why we're supporting him," Woll says, with tears welling up in his eyes. "It's a serious time."
At the Día de Los Muertos event in Vancouver, voter Karen Morrison also gets emotional when she explains why she's voting for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
As a Black woman, she said she's worried about Kent's extremist ties.
"I want a peaceful life like everyone else. I want to be able to have my family come here and feel safe and significant in this community," Morrison said. "But with that rhetoric going on, I no longer feel safe."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
|
2022-11-08T11:57:05+00:00
|
wksu.org
|
https://www.wksu.org/npr-news/2022-11-08/in-washington-state-controversial-ties-and-rhetoric-are-upending-a-house-race
|
Dec. 27, 2013, was a cold winter blue sky day, like many in Montana. We were walking our dog on a path where we have walked for the past 17 years. Our dog was glad to be out in this familiar setting about 30 feet to our side sniffing for rodents.
Suddenly she was leaping into the air, crashing back to the ground, frantically screeching, yelping and biting uncontrollably. One leg trap was clamped above her front left paw and another on her back left paw. She was fiercely trying to bite them off and blood was flowing.
We restrained her from breaking more teeth and calmed her. We did not try to release the traps for fear of hurting her more. My friend started having severe chest pain. We both had our cell phones so we called 911, our vet, and the land owner. We tried to pull the traps from the frozen ground where they were staked, no luck, such a mixture of archaic tools and telephones!
People are also reading…
Our vet was able to release the traps and Solano was taken to our vets office for x-rays, found to have no broken bones, though several broken teeth from trying to bite off the steel traps. My friend continued to have chest pain and later was taken by ambulance to Bozeman for an emergency angiogram. She had a stress induced cardiomyopathy and is now doing fine.
Both were lucky; other pets or people might not be so lucky. A wild animal would definitely not be so lucky. The horror of my dogs reaction and injury in this short amount of time haunts us with the unthinkable hell a wild animal might go through in the 24 to 48 hours or more before her killer arrives.
Montana regulations are very much all about the trapper and not about the public or the animals that are being trapped. A trap can be set 150 feet or less from a road, and the trap does not need to be marked in any way for a person to see it. This treatment of animals is not a “hunt” at all, it is malicious torture of our wildlife and can lead to injury of people, their children and their pets.
We must stop trapping on our public lands and I-177 can do just that, it will not affect private lands or public officials from trapping but it will be the answer to our lands, please vote for I-177.
Ursula Neese
Bozeman
|
2023-04-02T12:29:09+00:00
|
billingsgazette.com
|
https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/letters/letter-to-the-editor-we-must-strop-trapping-on-public-lands/article_669999a4-cd7d-11ed-bd39-4b3aaee1aa3f.html
|
ATLANTA, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- White Cap Supply Holdings, LLC ("White Cap") has closed on an agreement to acquire CSI Geoturf, a Michigan-based wholesale distributor of civil site construction geosynthetic and landscape supplies. With locations in metro Detroit, Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Michigan, CSI Geoturf will join White Cap in its North Central Region to serve local customers with exceptional customer service.
"With their specialized expertise in geosynthetics and a strong branch footprint in Michigan, we look forward to offering stronger service capabilities, extended breadth and depth of products, and additional locations for local customers, alongside the talented team at CSI Geoturf," said John Stegeman, Chief Executive Officer of White Cap.
White Cap Supply Holdings, LLC ("White Cap") serves as a one-stop shop providing concrete accessories and chemicals, tools and equipment, building materials and fasteners, erosion and waterproofing and safety products to professional contractors by meeting their distinct and customized supply needs in non-residential, residential and infrastructure end markets. White Cap is comprised of multiple brands in the U.S., including Ram Tool, and the Brafasco, Brock White and NCA brands in Canada. White Cap operates more than 450 branches across North America with more than 9,000 employees supporting approximately 200,000 customers. For more information, visit about.whitecap.com.
CSI Geoturf was founded in 1980 to provide effective civil site construction geosynthetic and landscape products to clients throughout Michigan. CSI Geoturf has grown to become Michigan's largest privately held wholesale distributor of geosynthetic products. With locations in metro Detroit, Grand Rapids and Traverse City, they are able to deliver materials and support projects throughout the state of Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula. For more information, visit https://geoturf.com/
View original content:
SOURCE White Cap Supply Holdings LLC
|
2022-06-01T17:40:24+00:00
|
waff.com
|
https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/06/01/white-cap-expands-north-central-region-with-acquisition-csi-geoturf/
|
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks OB-GYN Kristin Lyerly what doctors and patients in Wisconsin have been dealing with before the Supreme Court election — and how it affects abortion in the region.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks OB-GYN Kristin Lyerly what doctors and patients in Wisconsin have been dealing with before the Supreme Court election — and how it affects abortion in the region.
Copyright 2023 NPR
|
2023-04-06T21:53:09+00:00
|
wbfo.org
|
https://www.wbfo.org/2023-04-06/the-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-has-given-hope-to-the-states-medical-community
|
LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP Pennsylvania joined Lehigh County officials and PA Dole Fellow Georgette Wenton as Lehigh County became a Hidden Heroes County, joining the Elizabeth Dole Foundation's network of nearly 200 communities nationwide committed to identifying military caregivers and increasing awareness and support.
The Hidden Heroes Cities and Counties Program is part of The Elizabeth Dole Foundation's Hidden Heroes Campaign. The program was launched in 2016 by Senator Elizabeth Dole, Campaign Chair Tom Hanks, and nearly 200 military caregivers representing virtually every state in the union as a way to engage with leaders at the local level to raise awareness about the issues military caregivers face, bring critical resources to our nation's "hidden heroes" caring for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans, and connect military caregivers to a community of their peers.
AARP has a long history of supporting those who have served in the United States armed forces and has partnered with the Dole Foundation for several years. This partnership has included creating the Respite Relief Program for Military and Veteran Caregivers nationwide in February 2021. This free program grants family caregivers access to no-cost, short-term assistance to help those caring for wounded, ill or injured veterans or service members at home.
"Whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or other loved one, a veteran's caregiver needs to know they are supported as they help those who sacrificed the most for us," said AARP PA State Director Bill Johnston-Walsh. "On behalf of our 1.8 million members, AARP Pennsylvania is proud that another Keystone State community is making that support more visible in Lehigh County."
Lehigh County Executive Philips Armstrong signed the Resolution Friday, making Lehigh County the 5th Hidden Heroes county in Pennsylvania, joining the counties of Allegheny, Berks, Monroe and Wyoming, along with the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
"Lehigh County is pleased to have been recognized for our work to help veterans and members of our armed services," said Armstrong. "These brave men and women fought for us, so in Lehigh County, we fight for them."
As a 2021 Dole Caregiver Fellow, Georgette Wenton represents a select group of Dole Foundation in a formal capacitity, including advocacy, sharing their stories, and connecting other caregivers with information and resources. In recognition of the Lehigh County designation as a Hidden Heroes County, Ms. Wenton commented, "Being a part of the Hidden Heroes Caregiver Community reinforces that I am not alone in this journey—in both the emotions I feel and the challenges of being a caregiver… Being my husband's caregiver means I have the opportunity to make sure he feels loved and cared for on a daily basis."
Individuals caring for someone who served, or those who wish to support the campaign can visit HiddenHeroes.org for more information.
The Elizabeth Dole Foundation is the preeminent organization empowering, supporting, and honoring our nation's 5.5 million military caregivers – the spouses, parents, family members, and friends — who care for America's wounded, ill or injured service members and Veterans at home. Founded by Senator Elizabeth Dole in 2012, the Foundation adopts a comprehensive approach in its support and advocacy, working with leaders in the public, private, nonprofit, and faith communities to recognize military caregivers' service and promote their well-being. The Foundation's Hidden Heroes campaign brings vital attention to the untold stories of military caregivers and provides a network for military caregivers to connect with their peers and access carefully vetted resources. Visit www.hiddenheroes.org for more information.
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members - including 1.8 million in Pennsylvania - AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol @AARPadvocates and @AliadosAdelante on social media.
CONTACT: TJ Thiessen, (202) 374-8033, tthiessen@aarp.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE AARP Pennsylvania
|
2022-08-12T22:00:30+00:00
|
wagmtv.com
|
https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/12/lehigh-county-joins-growing-movement-nearly-200-communities-nationwide-committed-empowering-military-caregivers-their-hometowns/
|
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees avoided an arbitration hearing Friday by agreeing to a $19 million, one-year contract, a deal that leaves the slugger on track to become a free agent after the World Series.
Unable to agree to a long-term deal in talks that ended on opening day, the sides split the difference between the proposed arbitration figures they exchanged on March 22: $21 million by Judge and $17 million by the Yankees.
Judge can make an additional $500,000 in award bonuses: $250,000 for MVP and $250,000 for World Series MVP.
The slugging outfielder is in the midst of perhaps his best season, batting .304 with a major league-leading 27 homers and 53 RBIs in 68 games. On track for his fourth All-Star selection in seven big league seasons, he hit a game-winning single during Thursday night's 7-6 come-from-behind victory over defending AL champion Houston.
Judge has helped power the Yankees to a major league-best 52-18 record, New York's best through 70 games since 1939 and the best among all big league teams since the 2001 Seattle Mariners. He also has shifted from right field to become the Yankees' primary center fielder.
A deal came together before the scheduled noon start of a Zoom hearing before a three-person panel.
No statistics or evidence from after March 1 were admissible other than contract and salary comparisons, timing set when Major League Baseball and the players’ association agreed to the deal that ended the lockout.
Judge batted .287 with 39 homers and 98 RBIs last season,.
___
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
|
2022-06-24T17:40:01+00:00
|
seattlepi.com
|
https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Judge-Yankees-agree-to-19-million-deal-avoid-17263622.php
|
Major global banks and other TT clients gained immediate access when trading began through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect on July 29
CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, announced today that the firm successfully began offering clients access to the popular Nifty equity derivatives through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect (the Connect), a new joint initiative between Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) and National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) launched on Friday, July 29. The Connect – a collaboration in trading of India's stock index-based products – is a prominent achievement for India's first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) known as GIFT (Gujarat International Finance Tec) City in Gandhinagar.
The Connect, which was officially launched by India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, enables both international and domestic market participants to take a position on India's equity markets through futures based on the Nifty 50. International members of SGX Group and domestic clients of NSE IFSC can trade and access real-time trading data of Nifty contracts via SGX Group's derivatives trading infrastructure in GIFT City.
Under the Connect, all orders on Nifty derivatives placed by SGX Group members are routed to and matched on the NSE-IFSC order matching and trading platform. As one of the first technology providers to offer international market participants access to the Connect, Trading Technologies is giving global banks and other major financial institutions that use the TT® platform seamless access to Nifty equity derivatives alongside products from more than 50 other major international markets, including SGX Group.
TT EVP and Chief Revenue Officer Guy Scott said: "We are delighted to be among the first technology providers to offer day-one global access to the benchmark Nifty products under the innovative new trading regime in India's GIFT City. We've seen strong demand for this access from many of our biggest global bank clients, which serve institutional investors that incorporate the Indian equity markets as part of their global macro-economic portfolios. We're also pleased to build further on our longstanding relationship with SGX Group and support its diverse product offering through the new Connect initiative."
Pol de Win, Head of Global Sales & Origination, SGX Group, said: "We are excited that the Connect has now gone live, enabling direct and efficient access for international and domestic investors to trade Nifty futures. With an enhanced pool of liquidity from all over the world, we are optimistic it will support a more vibrant capital market in India. This has been a tremendous undertaking and we are pleased to roll this innovative pathway out with the efforts from Trading Technologies and our members."
About Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) creates professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions for a wide variety of users, including proprietary traders, brokers, money managers, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), hedge funds, commercial hedgers and risk managers. In addition to providing access to the world's major international exchanges and liquidity venues via its TT® trading platform, TT offers domain-specific technology for cryptocurrency trading and machine-learning tools for trade surveillance.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Trading Technologies
|
2022-08-03T02:19:55+00:00
|
wagmtv.com
|
https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/03/trading-technologies-successfully-launches-day-one-connectivity-new-joint-initiative-between-sgx-group-national-stock-exchange-india-international-nifty-equity-derivatives-trading/
|
NEW YORK, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CBIO, NAT, BRQS, CMRX, and AGRI.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- CBIO: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=CBIO&prnumber=052320226
- NAT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=NAT&prnumber=052320226
- BRQS: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=BRQS&prnumber=052320226
- CMRX: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=CMRX&prnumber=052320226
- AGRI: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=AGRI&prnumber=052320226
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver
|
2022-05-23T15:43:50+00:00
|
kswo.com
|
https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/05/23/thinking-about-buying-stock-catalyst-biosciences-nordic-american-tanker-borqs-technologies-chimerix-or-agriforce-growing-systems/
|
XUZHOU, China, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XCMG (SHE: 000425), world's top three construction machinery manufacturer, recently completed its Global Service Month event, making visits to some 3,000 companies spanning 50 countries and regions to enhance the customer experience among its globe wide industrial clients from resources, energy, transportation, construction and more.
Taking place during the month of September, company representatives racked up over one million kilometers in journeys as they endeavored to provide XCMG clients with value-added services such as equipment inspections, operational guidance, and overseas promotion of the company's X-GSS app. For key market areas, they emphasized and guaranteed the company standards of "responding within 15 minutes, arriving within 2-24 hours, and completing work within 4-48 hours."
"XCMG has always held the global construction aftersales market as a top priority during our push for international development," said Lu Chuan, President and Deputy Party Secretary of XCMG Machinery. "We have continuously raised investments in this area in recent years and established a complete after-market network overseas."
"XCMG has built a team of nearly 4,000 overseas service engineers and empowered its global clients through the 'XCMG Global Digital Spare Parts Service Information System (X-GSS).' We will give full play to cutting-edge new-generation technologies such as big data and 5G so that we can provide timely and convenient services," Lu added.
Among the more interesting highlights of Global Service Month were the experiences of the service team in Gabon, Africa. The five-person team set off from the capital Libreville in early September, traversing more than 2,000 kilometers to four construction sites located in areas of old-growth forest to provide door-to-door services to customers.
To reach the sites, the group had to cross two rivers by boat and then navigate a new forest road built by bulldozers, in an epic trip taking more than 10 hours. Around the world, there were countless other service teams, like the one in Gabon, going above and beyond to make a difference during XCMG Global Service Month. The service teams comprise engineers and product managers who assist global machinery users with maintenance, training, and other professional services.
XCMG has also announced plans to join hands with global partners to build overseas training centers in more than ten countries, such as Thailand and Indonesia, to provide support for localized training overseas. They aim to newly train 1,000 service engineers and 10,000 mechanics abroad.
XCMG Global Service Month was well-received across the board. "With the help of the XCMG service team, I was taught how to use the X-GSS system firsthand," said Mr. Supia, a client in Indonesia.
Other customers felt reassured by the level of aftersales services. "I am so pleased I bought a ZL50GN loader, it works so well," said Mr. Ahmend in Ghana. "XCMG's perfect after-sales service also makes me feel more at ease."
Mr. Shakhawat from Bangladesh was impressed by the availability of the services. "No matter when the problem occurs, XCMG's service team can come to the site and help solve the problem first time, which is really great!" he said.
Going forward, XCMG aims to establish a multi-functional system for registering overseas customers' service information based on its existing global service network. The company aims to raise the quality of the services on offer through this initiative.
For more information, please visit XCMG.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE XCMG
|
2022-11-04T13:54:20+00:00
|
waff.com
|
https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/11/04/xcmg-engages-3000-customers-50-countries-global-service-month/
|
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — All-Star slugger Manny Machado and the San Diego Padres finalized a $350 million, 11-year contract on Tuesday, the fourth-largest in baseball history.
Machado gets a $45 million signing bonus, of which $10 million is payable this Dec. 1 and $5 million on each Dec. 1 from 2027 through 2033.
He receives salaries of $13 million in each of the next three seasons, $21 million in 2026 and $35 million annually from 2027-33.
Machado gets a full no-trade provision, a hotel suite on road trips and the right to purchase a luxury suite and four premium tickets to all home games. He agreed to make a charitable contribution of 1% of his salary each season.
The deal will keep Machado with the Padres through 2033 and is the latest contract handed out by big-spending owner Peter Seidler.
Machado, who has helped turn the Padres into a World Series contender, finished second in the NL MVP race last year. He’ll anchor a star-laden lineup that includes Xander Bogaerts, Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr., who can return on April 20 from an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.
Machado batted .298 with 32 home runs and 102 RBIs in 2022 and is entering his 12th big league season. He has a career .282 batting average with an .833 OPS, 283 homers and 853 RBIs.
He helped lead the Padres on a stirring run to the NL Championship Series last year, where they lost in five games to Philadelphia.
His deal’s total trails contracts for Mike Trout ($426.5 million for 12 years), Mookie Betts ($365 million for 12 years) and Aaron Judge ($360 million for nine years). However, Machado’s $31.8 million average ranks just 16th.
Machado, 30, had said that after this season he planned to opt out of the $300 million, 10-year free agent deal he signed in 2019. With the $120 million he already has received, the new deal increases the free-spending Padres’ commitment to Machado to $470 million over 15 years.
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
|
2023-03-01T07:09:38+00:00
|
cenlanow.com
|
https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/ap-manny-machado-padres-finalize-350m-11-year-contract/
|
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — The first running of the bulls at Pamplona's San Fermín festival in three years has taken place after previous events were canceled due to the pandemic.
No one was gored, but several runners took knocks and hard falls on Thursday.
Six bulls guided by six tame oxen charged through Pamplona's streets for around two minutes and 35 seconds without provoking too much carnage among the thousands of observers and participants cramming the course.
At least two men were smacked in the head by a bull's horn, but neither were skewered.
The Pamplona hospital said six people were brought in for treatment.
They included a 30-year-old American man who broke an arm and a 16-year-old Spanish girl who lost part of a finger in the bullring.
Four Spanish men between the ages of 19 and 45 were also injured.
The last time the festival was held was in 2019. The pandemic caused the cancelation of the event in 2020 and 2021.
Since the first bull run in 1910, only 16 people have died.
|
2022-07-08T01:45:07+00:00
|
wrtv.com
|
https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/bulls-run-in-pamplona-for-1st-time-since-2019-no-one-gored
|
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma on Monday became the latest state to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors as Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that makes it a felony for healthcare workers to provide children with treatments that can include puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
Oklahoma joins at least 15 other states with laws banning such care, as conservatives across the country have targeted transgender rights.
Stitt, who was reelected in November, made the ban a priority of this year’s legislative session, saying he wanted to protect children. Transgender advocates and parents of transgender children say such care is essential.
Stitt signed bills last year that prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams and prevent transgender children from using school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity.
“Last year, I called for a statewide ban on all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies on minors so I am thrilled to sign this into law today and protect our kids,” Stitt said in a statement released after the signing. “We cannot turn a blind eye to what’s happening across our nation, and as governor, I am proud to stand up for what’s right and ban life-altering transition surgeries on children in the state of Oklahoma.”
Download the 5NEWS app on your smartphone:
Stream 5NEWS 24/7 on the 5+ app: How to watch the 5+ app on your streaming device
To report a typo or grammatical error, please email KFSMDigitalTeam@tegna.com and detail which story you're referring to.
|
2023-05-02T12:27:38+00:00
|
5newsonline.com
|
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/politics/oklahoma-governor-signs-gender-affirming-care-ban-kids/527-17e05648-dcb7-4acb-b9d3-2b76b680fa91
|
ISTANBUL (AP) — The attack on a central avenue in Istanbul is a stark reminder of the bombings in Turkish cities between 2015 and 2017 that crushed the public’s sense of security and heralded a new phase in Turkey’s decades-long fight against outlawed Kurdish groups.
After Sunday’s explosion with a TNT-laden bomb that killed six people and wounded dozens of others, Turkish police said they apprehended a Syrian woman who is accused of planting the device after crossing illegally from Syria. Authorities said she confessed to carrying out the attack on behalf of Kurdish militants.
Here’s a look at the militant groups, the nearly four-decade conflict and its political implications.
TURKEY VS THE PKK
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984 with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in southeast Turkey, which has since morphed into a campaign for autonomy.
The conflict between militants and state forces has killed tens of thousands of people. The PKK is considered to be a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
A fragile peace process and a 2½-year cease-fire with the PKK collapsed in 2015 as the Islamic State group began bombings in Turkish cities. Kurdish militants also launched car bombings.
Street battles between Turkish forces and Kurdish fighters turned southeastern towns into conflict zones where rights groups also documented civilian deaths. The International Crisis Group says that 6,264 people, including Turkish forces and PKK fighters, have been killed in clashes or attacks since 2015.
The Turkish government is often very quick to blame the PKK for attacks, which have traditionally targeted Turkish military or police.
A 2016 car bombing, near a football stadium and close to the avenue where Sunday’s bomb exploded, killed 38 police officers and eight civilians. The government blamed the PKK.
Turkey says the PKK was behind the attack over the weekend. But the group denied any involvement, saying in a statement that it doesn’t target civilians. Its Syrian affiliate also said it had no links to the suspect or the attack.
The government has clamped down on pro-Kurdish politics in Turkey, jailing Kurdish lawmakers, including the former leaders of the second-largest opposition party in parliament. Thousands of activists and journalists also have been arrested. The judiciary has used Turkey’s broad anti-terror laws, including terror propaganda clauses, to accuse them of links to the PKK.
FIGHTING KURDISH MILITANTS ABROAD
Turkey launched its first cross-border operation into Syria in 2016 to clear the border area of IS militants and Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which Ankara considers terrorists.
Turkey says the YPG is a direct affiliate of the PKK and the groups follow the same ideological leader, who has been imprisoned on a Turkish island since 1999. The YPG has also formed the backbone of American-led forces that fought IS in northeast Syria. U.S. support for the group, despite their links to the PKK, has infuriated Turkey, a NATO ally.
In two other incursions, Turkish and allied Syrian opposition forces took control of regions in northern Syria after pushing the YPG out. Turkey also regularly hits the militants there with artillery.
Turkey has also been bombing and fighting the PKK in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, aiming to destroy PKK camps.
This summer, Ankara threatened to launch another incursion into Syria, saying the YPG’s presence wouldn’t be tolerated, and to resume Turkish efforts to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) buffer zone in Syria.
TURKEY HEADS TO ELECTIONS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is proud of his government’s anti-PKK campaigns in Turkey, Iraq and Syria and a majority of Turks are united in their enmity of the Kurdish militants after decades of conflict.
Erdogan has often used that sentiment to rally for votes and he’s likely to do so again ahead of the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections.
That strategy worked before. When the bomb attacks started in 2015, Erdogan’s party had lost its majority in a parliamentary election but after failing to form a coalition government, his party won another election, campaigning on the need for a strong government to crack down on militant groups. The Syria operations also took place before the election and shored up nationalist votes.
But Erdogan’s grip on power for more than two decades could face its most serious challenge in the coming elections because the government’s unorthodox economic policies have led to skyrocketing inflation.
TURKISH PRESSURE ON WESTERN ALLIES
The Turkish government has repeatedly told the world that the Kurdish militants are security threats and Sunday’s attack could strengthen its hand.
Relations with Washington have been tense and continued American support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters is among the top reasons. Ankara has argued that weapons provided to the YPG by U.S. and some European countries would be turned on Turkish soil. On Monday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu snubbed a U.S. message of condolence for Sunday’s attack.
Turkey has also held up Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO membership bids for their perceived leniency towards the Kurdish groups. After Erdogan accused the two Nordic countries of turning a blind eye to terrorism, the three countries signed a joint memorandum in June where Sweden and Finland said they “confirm” the PKK is a terror organization and promised “to not provide support” to the YPG. They also lifted an arms embargo on Turkey that was imposed following the 2019 Syria operation against the YPG, while stating they’d address Turkey’s extradition requests for people Turkey deems terrorists.
Sunday’s attacks could renew Turkish threats of a military operation into Syria that would need a tacit green light from the U.S. and Russia. Turkish police said the suspect confessed to having received the go-ahead for the bombing from Kobani in northern Syria where the YPG is based.
The YPG said in a statement that Erdogan was trying to gather international support for his plans to launch a new incursion into northern Syria before next year’s elections.
___
Suzan Fraser in Ankara, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, contributed to this report.
|
2022-11-15T02:16:36+00:00
|
krqe.com
|
https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-explainer-why-istanbul-blast-has-political-implications/
|
TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, March 8, 2023
_____
772 FPUS54 KHGX 090828
ZFPHGX
Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
TXZ211-092200-
Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog after midnight. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Warmer
with highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ237-092200-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds, becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ196-092200-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower
80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ195-092200-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ214-092200-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight, then patchy
fog this morning. Highs around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ210-092200-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ227-092200-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming
east in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ238-092200-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs around
80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs around
80. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ198-092200-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy, cooler with highs around 70. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower
80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ213-092200-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ163-092200-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
evening, then showers and thunderstorms likely after midnight.
Lows around 60. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after
midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
morning. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ235-092200-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ200-092200-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ176-092200-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming south this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ236-092200-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ199-092200-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ179-092200-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. East winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ178-092200-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ164-092200-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
southwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
morning. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. East winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ177-092200-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ212-092200-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ197-092200-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy, cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the lower
50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ226-092200-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ300-092200-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ313-092200-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight, then patchy
fog this morning. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds, becoming
east 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ338-092200-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming
southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ337-092200-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ336-092200-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ335-092200-
Coastal Jackson-
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Patchy
fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ436-092200-
Matagorda Islands-
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ437-092200-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ438-092200-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Areas of fog after midnight. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Near steady temperature around 70. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ439-092200-
Bolivar Peninsula-
228 AM CST Thu Mar 9 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper
60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
_____
Copyright 2023 AccuWeather
|
2023-03-09T09:51:16+00:00
|
expressnews.com
|
https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/tx-houston-galveston-tx-zone-forecast-17828667.php
|
NY Marine Warnings and Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
_____
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
311 AM EDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 5 to 10 kt and seas 4 to 7 feet.
* WHERE...In Massachusetts coastal waters, Coastal Waters
extending out to 25 nm South of Marthas Vineyard and
Nantucket. In Rhode Island coastal waters, Coastal Waters from
Montauk NY to Marthas Vineyard extending out to 20 nm South of
Block Island.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
|
2022-07-26T07:52:52+00:00
|
seattlepi.com
|
https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/NY-Marine-Warning-and-Forecast-17328868.php
|
Erik Godoy scores in 90th, Whitecaps tie Earthquakes 3-3
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Erik Godoy scored in the 90th minute off a corner kick to give the Vancouver Whitecaps a 3-3 tie with the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday. Lucas Cavallini and Ryan Raposo also scored for Vancouver (2-6-2), with all six goals coming in the second half. Jeremy Ebobisse scored twice for San Jose (2-5-4). Jamiro Monteiro added a goal.
|
2022-05-15T02:18:45+00:00
|
keyt.com
|
https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/14/erik-godoy-scores-in-90th-whitecaps-tie-earthquakes-3-3/
|
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts on Tuesday endorsed the biggest shakeup since the Cold War of the way the military alliance would respond to any attack on its territory by Russia.
Inspired in part by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the highly-secretive defense plans lay out which of the 31 member countries would be called on to respond an attack anywhere from the Arctic and Baltic Sea regions through the northern Atlantic and south to the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
“Peace in the Euro-Atlantic area has been shattered,” the leaders said in a statement, laying out the twin threats posed by Russia and terrorism. “Together, this family of plans will significantly improve our ability and readiness to deter and defend against any threats, including on short or no notice, and ensure timely reinforcement of all Allies.”
The leaders, meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, “committed to fully resource and regularly exercise these plans to be prepared for high-intensity and multi-domain collective defense.”
Under the new plans, NATO commanders will know more clearly what troops and equipment they would have at their disposal and how long it would take to have them in place, officials said.
The defense blueprint was revamped after Russia’s war on Ukraine challenged NATO’s traditional security calculus.
NATO, as an organization, does not provide weapons or ammunition to Ukraine. It’s sought to avoid being dragged into a wider war with nuclear-armed Russia. At the same time, it is massively reinforcing the security of member countries near Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Around 40,000 troops are on standby from Estonia along NATO’s eastern flank with Russia and down to Romania on the Black Sea. About 100 aircraft take to the skies in that territory each day, and a total of 27 warships are operating in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Those numbers are set to rise.
Under its new plans, NATO aims to have up to 300,000 troops ready to move to its eastern flank within 30 days. The plans divide its territory into three zones – the high north and Atlantic area, a zone north of the Alps, and another in southern Europe.
The planning was based on the strength of the Russian army before President Vladimir Putin launched the war on Ukraine almost 17 months ago. The war has depleted Russia’s army, but not its navy or air force, top NATO brass say.
NATO’s 31 member countries took part in a “force generation conference” in late June in an effort to understand how many troops and how much equipment the alliance might have at its disposal to respond to any Russian attack, both in the short and longer term.
Senior officers were upbeat about the results, although they declined to provide details for security reasons. Experts and some NATO diplomats, however, have expressed doubt about the willingness of member countries to put a total of 300,000 troops on standby.
One part of the process that has not been streamlined is the need for all 31 allies to approve launching the new plans in case of attack, and at certain points once they’re put into action. Such political decisions, which require consensus, can be time-consuming.
“Political decision makers still retain political control,” a senior U.S. official told reporters in the days leading up to the summit.
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Christopher Cavoli, “still has to come back to the NAC to ask for permission,” the official said, referring to the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s chief decision-making body which meets at the level of ambassadors, ministers or national leaders.
“But he might have more authority, once that permission is given, to stage and move forces around in theater,” the official said, on condition of anonymity because the planning documents were still under discussion.
|
2023-07-11T17:52:42+00:00
|
seattletimes.com
|
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/the-invasion-of-ukraine-spurred-nato-to-revamp-its-defense-plans-against-russian-attack/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
|
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday told leaders of six Balkan countries that aspire to join the European Union that “it is high time to overcome regional conflicts” and stand together as Russia wages war in Ukraine.
Scholz and the European Union’s top officials joined leaders from Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania for a meeting at which they are expected to sign agreements on easing regional travel arrangements and mutual recognition of academic qualifications. They are also expected to discuss energy issues.
Scholz highlighted the need to deliver on the countries’ longstanding desire to join the EU, which he said “is in our interest.”
But, with tension brewing again between Serbia and Kosovo this week, he said that the nations themselves need to overcome problems that have slowed their path to the EU and pointed to “a sense of urgency.”
“Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine forces us to stand together to preserve Europe’s freedom and security,” Scholz said. “It is high time to overcome regional conflicts that have continued for far too long — conflicts that divide you and hold your countries back on your European path.”
“The normalization process between Serbia and Kosovo in particular must speed up, so let’s get it done,” he added. Serbia doesn’t recognize its former province’s 2008 declaration of independence.
Alongside regional reconciliation and cooperation, “the challenges of irregular migration, corruption and organized crime are crucial issues for all of us,” Scholz said, adding that the Balkan countries’ commitment to align visa policies with those of the EU is “essential in this context.”
Germany and others have been pushing Serbia in particular to tighten its entry policies as an increasing number of migrants have tried to reach wealthier western European countries via the Balkans in recent months.
|
2022-11-03T12:16:14+00:00
|
wate.com
|
https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-germany-urges-western-balkan-leaders-to-resolve-conflicts/
|
(The Hill) — Chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Sunday said COVID-19 was politicized by a “triple whammy” as the pandemic hit an already divided nation during a contentious election year.
“It got political very, very quickly because we had the misfortune of an outbreak, and a double misfortune of an outbreak in a divided society, and the triple misfortune of a divided society in an election year,” Fauci said in an interview aired on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I mean, you couldn’t get more … cards stacked against you, than right there. It was a triple whammy.”
Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, working under seven administrations, but surged into the spotlight as the lead voice of the Trump White House response to COVID-19.
He became a lightning rod for criticism and conspiracy theories throughout the pandemic, with some on the right insisting that Fauci was a Democratic puppet. The doctor also faced death threats for his public health guidance.
“To say that I, who have been an advisor to seven presidents, and have never ever veered one way or the other from an ideological standpoint, for somebody to say that I’m political, I mean that’s completely crazy,” Fauci said Sunday.
Fauci announced earlier this summer that he plans to step down from his position by the end of President Biden’s time in office.
He later made it clear that his move away from his government position isn’t a retirement, and that he plans to pursue other professional goals away from the White House.
|
2022-10-17T15:46:08+00:00
|
wcia.com
|
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/fauci-says-covid-19-was-politicized-by-triple-whammy-of-outbreak-division-and-2020-election/
|
NEW YORK CITY -- More than 112 million people have seen "The Lion King" on stage around the world since the show opened on Broadway 25 years ago, and in honor of that anniversary, an invitation-only performance will be held on Sunday in New York City.
It's been called 'a pageant with a soul,' a mix of memorable music and a timeless story brought to life by a unique presentation.
"You may go from being a child who sees it, to having a child when you come back to it," President of Disney Theatrical Thomas Schumacher said. "You age, but the show keeps telling you the same story and you just find your own place within it."
So, it's hard to believe that the success of "The Lion King" was by no means assured 25 years ago.
"We didn't know what we had," Schumacher said. "We didn't know what we had at all."
When Schumacher first brought the vision of Julie Taymor to the stage, he could not have predicted a run lasting a quarter of a century.
"The idea of any kind of success of it was some short-term expectation," he said.
In part, that was because this was so new and so different, yet the musical struck a chord all over the world in so many languages.
"More than a hundred million people have seen it, so everybody when they come in here the excitement and just the fact, they they're in here, they are so excited and happy," original cast member Lindiwe Dlamini said.
Dlamini was in "The Lion King" on opening night and she will be performing here the night of the 25th anniversary.
"The backstage of the show is very, very, very like family oriented, so when you're here you feel like you're part of the family," she said.
In fact, the performer met her husband in the show 15 years ago.
"She's the rock of my life, but also the rock of this show," performer Bongi Duma said.
Both hail from South Africa like many in this cast, and through the years they have raised millions for charities back home, part of an initiative by the management that also benefits the local Broadway community.
"'The Lion King' has raised over $10 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDs," said Tom Viola of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDs.
Ensuring this show touches even those who never get the privilege of enjoying it.
|
2022-11-11T23:58:22+00:00
|
abc30.com
|
https://abc30.com/the-lion-king-broadway-25th-anniversary-nyc/12442854/
|
What toys should you buy for an 8-year-old?
Most 8-year-olds won’t require supervised play at all times like younger children. But they are still easily distracted. Having a selection of toys on hand that keeps them entertained promotes independence and gives you more time to get on with your own day-to-day tasks.
But toys need to be age-appropriate to hold a child’s interest and keep them engaged. If you’re trying to keep your child busy and reduce screen time, you need toys that are made with an 8-year-old’s capabilities in mind.
Types of toys to buy for 8-year-olds
Children can get tired of toys pretty quickly. Adding some variety to their collection means you always have something on hand to keep them busy. Categories of toys suitable for 8-year-olds include:
- Creative toys: Whether it’s painting, drawing or molding clay, creative toys help with brain development and give children an outlet to express their imagination. Just make sure to lay down a protective layer over whatever surface they use to protect your furniture.
- Action toys: Action figures and dolls typically fall into the “home life” toys category, as children use the dolls to imitate real-life scenarios. Dolls are one of the most traditional types of toys you can get. But these days, they’re updated with kids’ favorite characters and additional accessories to extend the enjoyment.
- Educational toys: Not all kids are into reading, but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn effectively through play. Construction sets, science experiment kits and gamified learning tools are all great ways to encourage curiosity and skill development in your 8-year-old.
- Movement-based toys: Physical activity is important for health at any age. Outside of sports teams, toys that encourage physical movement are ideal for energetic 8-year-olds. Choose between indoor toys like dance mats or set up toys like tetherball in the yard to keep them active.
- Electronic toys: Toys that make noise or move about on their own provide interactive play that will keep your kids occupied. Classics like remote-control cars and planes still have their place alongside high-tech electronic toys like robots.
11 best toys to buy for 8-year-old kids
If your 8-year-old loves Marvel, this fun, award-winning guessing game will test their knowledge of their favorite characters to the limit. This strategic guess-to-10 game comes with 52 cards and can be played with friends or as a fun family game.
Sold by Amazon
This light-up dance pad provides excellent exercise for high-energy 8-year-olds who want to try out complex dance routines and have fun. With three interactive games, five difficulty levels, a freestyle function and the ability to play music from your device via AUX cables and Bluetooth, your 8-year-old won’t be bored in a hurry.
Sold by Amazon
Carrera GO DTM Racing Kids Toy Race Track
This race set comes with two intricately designed cars that race at scaled speeds of up to 370 mph around a track with two loops, a flyover and banked curves. Kids can race alone or with friends, and the track is easy to construct and disassemble.
Sold by Amazon
Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Plastic Model Kit
This build-it-yourself model allows kids to work through a process that includes gluing, painting and applying stickers. Ultimately, they will have a scale model of one of the world’s best-known fighter jets to use as decoration in their room.
Sold by Amazon
Sillbird STEM 12-in-1 Education Solar Robot
This STEM kit allows kids to build up to 12 sun-powered robots for use on land or water. It’s not only fun but also educational, stimulating the imagination and developing engineering skills by giving kids hands-on experience.
Sold by Amazon
Dolanus Remote Control Car and Robot Transformer
In just one click, your 8-year-old can transform a remote control sports car into a robot. The car uses five wheels to travel at a high speed while maintaining a high level of control for stunts and 360-degree spins.
Sold by Amazon
Force1 Scoot Hand Operated Drone for Kids
This self-flying UFO-style drone can be used hands-free and comes with a motion sensor and a gesture control function so kids can fly it around. Launched at the touch of a button, this drone can be used to play catch with friends. It comes with a webbed shell to protect fingers.
Sold by Amazon
Perfect for budding astronauts, this NASA telescope is uniquely designed for moon viewing, is easy to assemble and includes two eyepieces to view craters on the moon. It also comes with a detailed learning guide containing information about the moon and its many wonders.
Sold by Amazon
Slinky Original Walking Spring Toy
The Slinky has never gone out of style, and this original slinky can be used to walk downstairs and occupy restless hands. Not only does it stretch, wiggle, walk and jiggle, but it can also help kids develop motor skills and creative thinking abilities.
Sold by Amazon
Kids can make over 70 shapes in this little cube, making it one of the most versatile puzzle toys. Using 36 rare earth magnets, kids can stack and combine the geometric pieces to build structures, solve puzzles and have limitless fun.
Sold by Amazon
At the push of a button, kids can make their own mini-movies, weather reports and other cool videos using the built-in microphone and special effects of this creator camera. Video files can only be transferred to a USB rather than uploaded directly to the internet so parents can maintain oversight.
Sold by Amazon
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Lauren Farrell writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved.
|
2023-04-06T17:18:33+00:00
|
cbs42.com
|
https://www.cbs42.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/pretend-play-br/best-toys-for-8-year-olds/
|
HALL COUNTY, Ga. — A Gainesville woman was arrested after officials say she stole thousands from residents in a fraud scheme.
Police said 51-year-old Olga “Betty” Beatrice Villarreal of Gainesville is accused of deceiving people by claiming to process their immigration status expeditiously.
[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]
During this scheme, police said Villarreal would use threatening means to further extort money out of the victims in addition to the thousands she had already stolen.
Police did not say how much money Villarreal stole or how many victims she had.
Villarreal was charged with three counts of felony theft by deception and felony criminal attempt.
TRENDING STORIES:
- Neighbors thought they were paying their taxes. Deputies say the Spalding clerk was stealing them
- Server gifted her dream car at retirement party after 38 years with Ray’s on the River
- Cobb County teacher fighting to save her job after reading book to students
Investigators believe there are other victims involved in the case.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the Gainesville Police Department at 770-534-5252.
[SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
IN OTHER NEWS:
©2022 Cox Media Group
|
2023-06-26T16:18:00+00:00
|
wsbtv.com
|
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/hall-county/hall-county-woman-accused-stealing-thousands-immigration-scheme-police-say/WE6A77DMU5FUDII463PTC7NEPM/
|
Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake holds a wide lead over other prospective challengers in a hypothetical Arizona Senate Republican primary, according to a new poll.
A poll released by J. L. Partners shared with The Hill on Monday found Lake receiving 38 percent support in an Arizona Senate GOP primary among registered Republican and undeclared voters, followed next by former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and developer Karrin Taylor Robson at 10 percent.
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb came in third at 8 percent, followed by former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters with 7 percent, former state Attorney General candidate Abe Hamedah with 4 percent, businessman and former Arizona Senate candidate Jim Lamon at 3 percent and 2 percent saying someone else.
But a large swath of respondents — 29 percent — say they’re undecided, meaning there’s plenty of time for voters to coalesce around a candidate other than Lake. So far Lamb is the only candidate to officially enter the race.
Lake retained an edge among both voters who expressed a preference for former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as their presidential picks. But among voters who did not have a presidential primary preference, Lake found herself tied for first place against Robson at 13 percent each.
“If Kari Lake decides to run it’s clear she is not only the front runner, but will run away with the nomination. The GOP establishment would be smart to get behind her right away so we can win Arizona,” said one GOP strategist who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
The polling comes as Sen. Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has not yet formally announced whether she’ll be running for reelection, though The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that she’s gearing up for another run.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) has announced a run on the Democratic side; because Sinema is now a registered independent, it frees up both of them to run separately to avoid a primary challenge.
The polling is also likely to confirm fears that some Republicans have expressed about a possible Senate bid from Lake, whose name recognition still remains strong among her base but whose espousal of election conspiracy theories could cost her in a general election.
The same poll found Trump leading DeSantis in Arizona, 47 percent to 24 percent.
The J. L. Partners poll was conducted between April 10 to April 12 with 550 registered Republicans and undeclared voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
|
2023-04-17T18:09:42+00:00
|
ourquadcities.com
|
https://www.ourquadcities.com/hill-politics/kari-lake-holds-wide-lead-in-hypothetical-arizona-senate-gop-primary-poll/
|
NEW YORK (AP) — A grieving David Jones scored 16 points, AJ Storr added 15 and St. John's beat No. 20 Providence 73-68 on Saturday, handing the Friars a costly defeat in their pursuit of a second consecutive regular-season conference title.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Joel Soriano had 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Red Storm (15-11, 5-10 Big East), who had lost three straight and five of six. It was his 20th double-double this season — he entered the game second in the nation in that category.
Posh Alexander added 10 points and a season-high nine assists, and Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 13 for St. John's, which built a big early lead at Madison Square Garden and led nearly the entire way.
Bryce Hopkins equaled a career best with 29 points for the Friars (18-7, 10-4), who had won four of five. The only loss during that stretch was in overtime at then-No. 16 Xavier.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Hopkins also grabbed nine rebounds, but Providence shot just 33% from the field. Devin Carter had 12 points and seven rebounds for the Friars, who are in a crowded race with three other teams atop the Big East standings.
Jones came off the bench after missing two games to go back home to the Dominican Republic following his father’s death. The junior forward entered averaging 12.7 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.
St. John’s jumped out to a 25-9 lead after 9 1/2 minutes behind Alexander and Jones, but the Friars closed the first half with a strong push and trailed 37-35 at the break.
They tied it 39-all early in the second half before consecutive baskets from Soriano, a 3-point play from Storr and three buckets by Jones put the Red Storm in front by six.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
BIG PICTURE
Providence: Coming off a trip to the Sweet 16 in last year's NCAA Tournament, the Friars are 13-0 on their own court but 5-7 away from home. They have dropped four of their past five road games.
St. John’s: It was probably the second-best win of a disappointing season for the Red Storm, behind an 11-point victory on Jan. 15 at then-No. 6 UConn. They need at least one more to ensure Mike Anderson won't finish with a losing record for the first time in 21 seasons as a head coach, including stints at UAB, Missouri and Arkansas. Three ranked opponents and two other road games remain.
BENCHED
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Red Storm junior guard Andre Curbelo was on the bench but not in uniform. Before the game, St. John’s said Curbelo would not play and that it was a coach’s decision. Curbelo, an Illinois transfer, is averaging 9.6 points and a team-best 4.5 assists per game. He was ejected from a Feb. 1 loss to Seton Hall for throwing his goggles to the floor in anger and then shot a combined 8 for 24 off the bench in the next two games.
UP NEXT
Providence: Will host No. 23 Creighton on Tuesday night in a pivotal Big East matchup. Senior point guard Jared Bynum was out injured when the Friars lost 73-67 at Creighton on Jan. 14, ending their nine-game winning streak. Hopkins had 20 points and 10 rebounds in that one.
St. John's: Plays at DePaul (9-16, 3-11) on Tuesday night. The Red Storm won the first meeting this season 86-67 at Carnesecca Arena on campus. The skidding Blue Demons have dropped six straight.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
___
AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
|
2023-02-11T20:22:22+00:00
|
seattlepi.com
|
https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/jones-leads-st-john-s-past-no-20-providence-17778718.php
|
CINCINNATI (14-4) at KANSAS CITY (15-3)
Sunday, 6:30 p.m. EST, CBS
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Bengals by 1 1/2.
AGAINST THE SPREAD: Bengals 13-5, Chiefs 6-11-1.
SERIES RECORD: Bengals lead 18-14.
LAST MEETING: Bengals beat Chiefs 27-24 on Dec. 4 in Cincinnati.
LAST WEEK: Bengals beat Bills 27-10; Chiefs beat Jaguars 27-20.
BENGALS OFFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (7), PASS (5), SCORING (29).
BENGALS DEFENSE: OVERALL (16), RUSH (7), PASS (23), SCORING (6).
CHIEFS OFFENSE: OVERALL (1), RUSH (20), PASS (1), SCORING (1)
CHIEFS DEFENSE: OVERALL (11), RUSH (8), PASS (18), SCORING (16)
TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Bengals plus-6; Chiefs minus-3.
BENGALS PLAYER TO WATCH: QB Joe Burrow is 3-0 against Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes, including his comeback win in last year's AFC title game. He's coming off a season in which he set Bengals records for completions (414), pass attempts (606) and touchdown passes (35). He threw for 250 yards with two touchdowns and a pick in last year's AFC championship game.
CHIEFS PLAYER TO WATCH: All eyes are on Mahomes, and more specifically his right ankle, which was sprained in last weekend's divisional win over Jacksonville. Mahomes had X-rays during the game but returned to lead Kansas City to the eventual clinching touchdown in the fourth quarter. He had an MRI exam the following day that confirmed a high ankle sprain, but Mahomes and Chiefs coach Andy Reid insisted all week that he would play against the Bengals. The All-Pro quarterback has had perhaps his best season, throwing for a career-high 5,250 yards with 41 touchdown passes.
KEY MATCHUP: The Bengals' fleet of wide receivers, led by Ja'Marr Chase, against the Kansas City defensive backfield, which regularly plays three rookie cornerbacks and a rookie safety. Chase had seven catches for 97 yards in the Bengals' 27-24 win in December, while Tyler Boyd had four catches for 60 yards and Tee Higgins had three for 35 yards and a score.
INJURIES: Bengals OG Alex Cappa (ankle) and OT Jonah Williams (knee) missed practice this week while CB Tre Flowers (hamstring) and LB Joe Bachie (foot) were limited. Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman (pelvis) also was limited.
SERIES NOTES: The Bengals have won three straight against Kansas City, all by three points, with two of them being played in Cincinnati. The one played in Kansas City was last year's AFC title game, when the Bengals rallied from an early 21-3 deficit to win 27-24 in overtime. That was the first postseason game played between the two former AFL rivals, who first met in Cincinnati's inaugural season of 1968. Andy Reid is 1-4 against the Bengals, and Mahomes is 1-3, since the coach and quarterback joined the Chiefs. The Bengals won their most recent meeting, 27-24 in December.
STATS AND STUFF: This is the record fifth straight conference championship game hosted by Kansas City. The five consecutive appearances by the Chiefs are tied with Oakland (1973-77) and behind only the Patriots (2011-18) for the most in NFL history. ... The Bengals are making their fourth AFC championship appearance. ... Bengals RB Joe Mixon needs 43 yards rushing to pass Pete Johnson (5,421) for fourth in franchise history. ... Chase set the Bengals single-game record for yards receiving with 266 against Kansas City in a win on Jan. 2, 2022. ... Bengals K Evan McPherson was 4 for 4 on field goals and hit his only PAT try in last year's AFC title game. ... Cincinnati ran for 172 yards in last week's divisional win over Buffalo, the fourth-best postseason total in franchise history. ... Chiefs coach Andy Reid is tied with Tom Landry with 20 postseason wins. The only coach with more is the Patriots' Bill Belichick (31). ... TE Travis Kelce and LS James Winchester set the Chiefs record last week with their 16th career playoff games. ... Kelce had 14 catches last week against Jacksonville, setting a Chiefs playoff record. The total was one off the NFL postseason record shared by the Saints' Darren Sproles and the Patriots' James White. ... Kelce has 1,389 yards receiving in the playoffs, tied with the retired Rob Gronkowski for third in NFL history. Kelce needs 53 yards to pass Julian Edelman for second behind Jerry Rice. ... Mahomes is 9-3 in the playoffs as an NFL starter. ... Mahomes needs three TD passes to pass Dan Marino (32) for eighth on the league's career postseason list. ... Mahomes and Chiefs backup Chad Henne will become two of five QBs to be active for five consecutive conference championship games. Tom Brady, Ken Stabler and Daryle Lamonica are the others. ... Chiefs DE Frank Clark has 12 playoff sacks, tied with Reggie White for No. 4 on the career list since they became an official stat in 1982.
___
AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Joshua Bessex
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Charlie Riedel
Credit: Seth Wenig
Credit: Seth Wenig
|
2023-01-26T18:25:02+00:00
|
daytondailynews.com
|
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/bengals-headed-back-to-kc-for-rematch-of-afc-title-game/BNGEWXSCOFHXLNVWSXBGBF2NCE/
|
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 3, 2022
_____
HIGH WIND WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
926 PM EST Thu Dec 1 2022
...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...Chautauqua and Southern Erie counties.
* WHEN...From Friday evening through Saturday evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING...
* WHERE...Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Northern Erie, Genesee, and
Wyoming counties.
* WHEN...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening.
* WHERE...Jefferson county.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
|
2022-12-02T03:35:03+00:00
|
lmtonline.com
|
https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BUFFALO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17625503.php
|
COLORADO SPRINGS — There is a plan in the works to create a network of open-space parks on the east side of Colorado Springs.
City parks leaders have already secured land at Corral Bluffs and Jimmy Camp northeast of the airport.
Now they have their sights set on another thousand acres in the same area called Wild Horse Ranch.
“It's rolling prairie land, there are some very big trees along a beautiful pond. We saw antelope out on the property when we went to look at it,” said Colorado Springs Parks and Recreation Director, Britt Haley.
The city has many popular open space parks on the west near the mountains.
On the east side, Corral Bluffs and Jimmy Camp are in the development stage.
The $ 7.5 million Wild Horse Ranch property is adjacent.
“This property being just south of Corral Bluffs fits into that map really wonderfully in terms of realizing our goal of having all that connection,” said Haley.
The vision is neighboring parks complimenting each other.
“The nice thing that we see there is that to the extent that Corral Bluffs has these truly unique fossil discoveries, this property may allow for more recreational use,” said Haley.
For this proposal to move forward there has to be approval by the Colorado Springs City Council.
If that happens, planning for this new park could start as soon as June.
____
Watch KOAA News5 on your time, anytime with our free streaming app available for your Roku, FireTV, AppleTV and Android TV. Just search KOAA News5, download and start watching.
|
2023-01-10T03:32:48+00:00
|
koaa.com
|
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/a-thousand-plus-acres-eyed-for-open-space-park-east-of-colorado-springs
|
Jeremy Renner has progressed even further in his recovery, months after he was severely injured in a snowplow accident in January.
A month after he and his cane danced onto the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” stage in April, the “Hawkeye” star shared a video of himself jogging on social media.
“First attempt at a light jog with weight assisted lift for the broken tibia,” he captioned his Instagram story, shared Thursday. “Pain is progress for me.”
Jogging at a gentle pace on an anti-gravity treadmill, the “Avengers” actor said that the exercise is “the new activity that I’m not used to.” He explained to the person filming his routine that “walking and jogging are very different muscle groups.” In March, he was simply walking on the machine.
Renner was hospitalized on Jan. 1 for severe wounds he received in a snowplow accident. The “Rennervations” host was crushed by a 14,000-pound Tucker Sno-Cat and broke his right knee and left and right ankles — among a slew of other injuries.
He underwent surgery and was released from the hospital weeks later. On Jan. 21, Renner said on Instagram he was dealing with “30 plus broken bones” as a result of the accident.
Since then, Renner has kept his fans in the loop regarding his physical recovery — sharing significant milestones including his first steps post-accident.
In recent months, Renner’s progress went from exercising on a recumbent bike to walking with a cane at the April premiere of his Disney+ vehicle-makeover show “Rennervations,” to shuffling his feet on “Kimmel.”
The actor seems to be recovering without a hitch, but during his jog he said “the leg’s still broken.”
“Thank goodness for the titanium,” he said.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
|
2023-05-20T01:38:44+00:00
|
seattletimes.com
|
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/jeremy-renner-is-up-and-jogging-as-he-rehabs-from-horrific-snowplow-accident/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
|
Consumer confidence dipped again in April as anxiety over a slowing economy and possible recession weighed on American households.
The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 101.3 in April from 104 in March. It's the third time in four months that overall U.S. consumer confidence has declined.
Optimism about current economic conditions ticked up again, although consumers are less positive about the short-term future.
The index remains below 2022’s average level of 104.5.
The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — inched up to 151.1 from 148.9 last month.
The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions — fell to 68.1 this month from 74 in March. A reading under 80 often signals a recession in the coming year. The Conference Board noted that reading has come in below 80 every month but one since February of 2022.
Consumer spending, which makes up about 70% of U.S. economic activity, has remained strong despite the Federal Reserve raising interest rates nine straight times since March of last year in its effort to cool the economy and bring down persistent, four-decade high inflation.
Those rate increases can raise the cost of using credit cards or taking out a loan for a house, car or other purchases.
U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices. But prices still point to an elevated inflation rate far above the Fed’s 2% target and the central bank is expected to raise its main borrowing rate when it meets next month.
The board said consumer expectations about inflation remain elevated.
“Overall purchasing plans for homes, autos, appliances, and vacations all pulled back in April, a signal that consumers may be economizing amid growing pessimism,” said Ataman Ozyildirim, senior director of economics at The Conference Board.
Respondents to the Conference Board’s survey remained optimistic about the U.S. job market, which has held up well even as the Fed has ratcheted up its benchmark borrowing rate.
Last month, the government reported that employers added 236,000 jobs in March, fewer than in February and well off January’s huge gain but strong enough to keep pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively to fight inflation. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%, just above a recent 53-year low of 3.4%.
With an average long-term U.S. mortgage rate of 6.39%, many potential homebuyers have been pushed to the sidelines because those higher rates mean hundreds of dollars a month in extra costs.
|
2023-04-25T15:22:39+00:00
|
ourmidland.com
|
https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/us-consumer-confidence-falls-for-3rd-time-in-4-17917157.php
|
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at the market in central Mali in March when Islamic extremists attacked his village, killing dozens of people and stealing about $10,000 worth of his cows and camels.
“We lost everything,” the 62-year-old told The Associated Press by phone from the Menaka region in the West African nation.
Cattle raiding by Islamic extremists is soaring at unprecedented levels in Mali, with jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group stealing millions of dollars' worth of cattle to buy weapons and vehicles to fund their insurgency across the war-torn West African country and region below the Sahara Desert, known as the Sahel.
As jihadis gain control of more territory, looting is increasing and fueling conflict among already impoverished communities fighting to keep their families fed and alive, according to a recent report by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Mali has been battling to contain an Islamic extremist insurgency for more than a decade.
Despite a victory in 2013, when France sent troops in to help its former colony to drive al-Qaida-linked militants from northern areas of the country, violence has not only continued, but spread. Attacks have spilled into neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso, where extremists are exploiting people’s grievances against the state to recruit fighters and control land.
While cattle rustling has been at the heart of Mali’s war economy for years, the recent surge by Islamic extremists is worrying, according to the global network's report.
In the central Mopti region, one of the hardest hit by more recent violence, some 130,000 cattle were stolen in 2021, about the same amount taken between 2018 and 2020 combined, said the report by the global initiative known as GI-TOC. While the groups have several funding streams, including drug trafficking, hostage taking and gold mining, analysts say livestock raiding is one of the most preferred because of the consistent cash flow, especially in Mali, which is the second biggest cattle exporter in the region after Nigeria. Jihadis loot livestock and then rely on a network to sell it and use the money to buy weapons and vehicles.
“Unlike other criminal markets (such as cocaine or kidnappings), cattle rustling has proven to be a resilient and stable source of income for armed groups, because Mali is a key regional producer and exporter of cattle,” said Flore Berger, Sahel analyst at GI-TOC. “It’s likely that cattle rustling continues to provide sources of revenue because countries in the region will continue to buy from Mali,” she said.
Villagers say jihadis are strategic about their theft, staking out watering holes where they know the cattle will come to drink.
“They set up shop next to the wells for several days and every time the thirsty animals come to get water the terrorists take them,” said Mahamad Ag Moustapha, the mayor of Inekar commune in the Menaka region. Last April, the father of nine lost more than $84,000 worth of cattle when jihadists attacked his town. He now lives in a displacement site in Menaka.
“There are no animals within a 186-mile (300-kilometer) radius of the town of Menaka. ... The terrorists are trying to weaken the population economically, so the population does not fund a resistance,” he said.
While it is hard to determine how much money jihadis are making from stealing livestock, analysts estimate they are taking cattle worth tens of millions of dollars a year.
Net profits made from stolen livestock from one district in the Mopti region — under jihadi influence — was approximately $730,000 in one year, said the report. In neighboring Burkina Faso, where violence has been raging since 2016, jihadis can earn nearly $50,000 a month from cattle raiding in regions such as the Sahel, North and Center-North, where they operate.
“We are aware that the money generated by the sale of stolen cattle is used to finance activities of the terrorists," Col. Abdoulaye Dembele, spokesman for the Malian army, told AP.
“It is difficult to secure the cattle of Mali from terrorists, the country is vast, and our first concern is to secure the people," he said.
However, in recent months, “we have recovered several hundred head of cattle in Mopti, in the center, and also in the Menaka region. In both cases, we have handed the cattle over to the local authorities who will take charge of finding their owners and returning the animals to them. As long as the stolen cattle are within a radius of our military camps, we can intervene, but if it is far from the military camps it becomes difficult,” he added.
Yet despite the increase in cattle theft, conflict experts say it doesn’t compare to the highly profitable business of hostage taking.
“We’ve heard unconfirmed reports that ransoming hostages is (jihadis') most lucrative revenue stream, generating approximately 30% of its income,” said William Linder, a retired CIA officer and head of 14 North Strategies, an Africa-focused risk advisory. At least 25 foreigners and untold numbers of locals have been kidnapped in the Sahel since 2015, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
French journalist, Olivier Dubois was kidnapped by jihadis from northern Mali in April 2021. He was released last month, however, the conditions of his release, including whether it involved a ransom, have not been disclosed.
Still, the surge in cattle raiding unsettles some residents in the Sahel region more because it cuts into their ability to survive.
Two years ago, villagers in the Gourma region said they noticed a spike in jihadis selling thousands of stolen cattle in villages at a third of the price, making it hard for traders to compete. The jihadis sell cattle in the thousands, generally to beef traders who take it across the border to neighboring Burkina Faso or Niger, said a 34-year-old tea seller at a market in Gossi town who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal.
By controlling the cross-border livestock markets, jihadis are strengthening their legitimacy in the territory they take and diminishing control by the state, said Mucahid Durmaz, senior analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a global risk intelligence company.
“The consistent flow of income enables them to acquire arms, recruit new members, extend their power, and undermine state authority,” he said. To cut revenue, governments in the Sahel region need to establish authority, tighten border controls, regulate cattle markets and gain the trust of local communities, he said.
___
Mednick reported from Dakar, Senegal.
|
2023-04-20T07:45:04+00:00
|
lmtonline.com
|
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/cattle-raiding-by-jihadis-soars-in-mali-fuels-17907843.php
|
Navy Yeoman Jacob Tate remembers his time as a gay serviceman during the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" era, which kept openly LGBTQ service members from serving in the military.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Navy Yeoman Jacob Tate remembers his time as a gay serviceman during the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" era, which kept openly LGBTQ service members from serving in the military.
Copyright 2023 NPR
|
2023-04-29T13:11:17+00:00
|
kgou.org
|
https://www.kgou.org/2023-04-29/a-navy-yeoman-remembers-his-time-as-a-gay-serviceman-in-the-dont-ask-dont-tell-era
|
HENNIKER, N.H. – Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his opening arguments against Donald Trump on Thursday, sounding like the prosecutor he once was and the presidential candidate he might become again.
“Tonight is the beginning of the case against Donald Trump,” Christie said in New Hampshire, where he devoted his entire opening remarks at a town hall meeting to pounding on the former president he once supported.
“You’re not going to beat someone by closing your eyes, clicking your heels together three times and saying, ‘There’s no place like home.’ That’s not going to work,” he said. “In American politics you want to beat somebody? You have to go get them.”
Christie called out several Republican candidates and potential candidates — including former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — for barely uttering Trump’s name and argued that Trump’s policy and character failures would only grow if he returns to office.
“Donald Trump is a TV star, nothing more, nothing less,” he said. “Let me suggest to you that in putting him back in the White House, the reruns will be worse than the original show.”
As he nears a decision on his own campaign, Christie is spending two days in the state where he finished a dismal sixth place in the 2016 GOP primary. He endorsed Trump soon after dropping out of that year's race and later worked on his presidential transition team. In 2020, he worked with Trump on his debate prep against Joe Biden but broke with Trump after he refused to accept his loss of the election and spurred the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Since then, Christie has emerged as one of the few prominent GOP Trump critics, largely via his position as an ABC political analyst.
He said Thursday he won’t stand by and let Trump win.
“If I decide to run, I’ll be able to try to do something directly about it. And if I don’t, then I’ll be still on ABC-TV every Sunday,” he said.
|
2023-04-21T01:45:16+00:00
|
wsls.com
|
https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/04/21/christie-trump-reruns-would-be-worse-than-original-show/
|
CHICAGO (AP)Josh Giddey matched a season high with 25 points and added 10 rebounds, helping the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 124-110 win over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night.
Rookie Jalen Williams scored 22 points and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 21 for the Thunder, who have won two straight, four of five and completed a sweep of their season series against Chicago.
”I thought we drifted from our identity, especially in the third quarter,” Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault said. ”But we got it back on track to start the fourth quarter. Those were growth points for us.”
Zach LaVine scored 25 points and Nikola Vucevic had 19 points and 11 rebounds as the Bulls lost their third straight. Leading scorer DeMar DeRozan missed a second straight game due to a quadriceps injury suffered in Monday’s loss at Boston.
The Bulls trailed by as many as 18 points early in the second half before going on an 18-5 run and closing within 91-90 by the end of the third period. Chicago never did overtake Oklahoma City, which got consecutive baskets off Chicago turnovers to push the lead to 104-94 midway through the final period.
”We were able to get the car back on the road,” said Darius Bazley, who came off the bench to add 14 points and three of the Thunder’s 10 steals. ”When we get stops like that and teams aren’t even getting shots at the rim, it feels really good.”
The Bulls never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.
”Self-inflicted wounds,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said after his team’s 16 turnovers turned into 23 Thunder points. ”We knew going in they were a hard-driving team and we needed to stop a little bit shorter and defend one on one.”
Giddey said the Thunder’s ability to shake off Chicago’s third-quarter charge shows how far its young core has come.
”Twelve months ago, if a team goes on a run like that, maybe we crumble a little bit more; maybe guys go into their shells,” he said. ”Tonight guys stood up and were ready for the challenge.
”We didn’t flinch when they threw their punch.”
Gilgeous-Alexander scored six points during a first-half-ending 18-6 run that gave the Thunder a 72-58 lead at the break.
LaVine, who averaged 35.5 points in his last four games, was 14 for 15 from the free-throw line. Coby White added 19 points.
TIP-INS
Thunder: Oklahoma City has won two straight road games after a six-game skid away from home. . C Mike Muscala made his third start of the season.
Bulls: DeRozan (quadriceps) was in street clothes for the second straight game. Coach Billy Donovan said the team doesn’t want to rush him back and risk a setback. The All-Star had played in Chicago’s first 41 games. . G Lonzo Ball (left knee) posted videos of himself dunking during a rehab workout to his Instagram account earlier in the day, but Donovan said a return isn’t imminent. ”There’s going to be a significant ramp-up period before he’s ready to play,” the coach added. Ball, who last appeared in a game Jan. 14, 2022, underwent surgery in September.
UP NEXT
Thunder: At Brooklyn on Sunday.
Bulls: Host Golden State on Sunday.
—
AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
|
2023-01-14T18:02:48+00:00
|
kxnet.com
|
https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/giddey-scores-25-leads-thunder-to-124-110-win-over-bulls/
|
The West’s iconic whitebark pine trees are in trouble. The federal government announced Wednesday it’s designating whitebark pine trees as threatened and placed the trees on the Endangered Species List.
Whitebark pine trees in the Northwest face a number of threats from climate change, encroachment of other trees, hungry mountain pine beetles, and white pine blister rust, a fungal disease caused by an invasive pathogen.
“This is a species that has been of concern for a very, very long time,” said Daniel Omdal, a forest pathologist with the Washington Department of Natural Resources. “Some would argue that the listing is long overdue.”
According to the U.S. Forest Service, whitebark pine trees are dying faster than the trees naturally reproduce. A recent study found 51% of all standing whitebark pine trees in the United States are dead.
If you’ve backpacked in the Northwest’s high mountaintops or spent time at Oregon’s Crater Lake, you’ve likely seen whitebark pine trees, said Jen Hooke, a botanist at Crater Lake National Park.
“I think this is a very charismatic tree. It means a lot to people. This tree exists in places that people go to renew themselves, so I think this tree is really special for a lot of people in a lot of ways,” Hooke said.
Whitebark pine trees are known as a foundational species, Hooke said, which means when whitebark pines establish themselves in an area, they allow other species to start to grow.
“They set the stage. They’re able to establish in very harsh places without a lot of vegetation cover. Once they get established, then they provide the shade and the shelter for other species to establish around them,” she said.
In addition, she said, whitebark pine trees have an open crown, which allows light to seep through. That means a diversity of species can grow near the whitebark pines, which also means a variety of wildlife will come to the area.
Whitebark pines are an integral part of the park, Hooke said in an earlier interview.
“I think it would be an empty, sad place without whitebark pine,” Hooke said. “This is the highest mountain in the park, Mount Scott, in front of us here. The primary tree cover is whitebark pine. You can see the mountain hemlock, which are the pointy crowns, and the whitebark, which are rounder. Imagine all of that devoid of trees. It would be a huge change.”
This threatened species listing is an effort to prevent further loss of whitebark pine trees and the many species that depend upon the trees.
“As a keystone species of the West, extending Endangered Species Act protections to whitebark pine is critical to not only the tree itself but also the numerous plants, animals, and watersheds that it supports,” said Matt Hogan in a statement. Hogan is the regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The cones of whitebark pine trees provide a source of high-protein for lots of wildlife. Some tribes consider the seeds a delicacy.
Whitebark pine stands also slow snowmelt and prevent soil erosion, said Diana Tomback, the policy and outreach coordinator for the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation.
“Whitebark pine really enables the snowmelt to be protracted, so you get downstream flow through most of the summer,” Tomback said. “This is really important economically for the farmlands and ranchlands below whitebark pine.”
These trees also grow on steep, rocky slopes, which sometimes can help prevent avalanches, she said.
“These are all ecosystem services provided by whitebark pine, and we are losing these,” she said.
The biggest threat to the trees is white pine blister rust, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The fungus is a parasite that infects the tree through its needles, Omdal said.
Healthy trees can drop the needles before the fungus works its way through the tree. However, most whitebark pine trees don’t have that ability, he said.
That allows the fungus to creep along the branches and around the stem.
“Because it’s a parasite, it’s rotting the wood. It’s disrupting the movement of sugars and water up and down the stem. When infection occurs on the mainstem over a period of time, then the tree gets girdled, or strangled, if you will,” Omdal said.
Now, researchers are testing for families of whitebark pine trees that are resistant to blister rust, Omdal said.
“That’s our hope, that we can find those families that have those genes that confer a level of resistance to the pathogen,” he said.
Additional funding from the threatened species listing could help shortcut the process to identify blister-rust resistant trees, Tomback said. Right now, the technology is decades old, but scientists are working to sequence the whitebark pine genome, she said. That could help develop new, less expensive technology, she said.
“Blister rust resistance is going to be the key to restoring whitebark pine,” Tomback said.
In March 2023, the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation plans to release a national whitebark pine restoration plan, which will prioritize up to 30% of whitebark pine for priority restoration among federal agencies and tribes.
This listing as a threatened species also will allow federal and state agencies to continue developing restoration plans, which would include collecting seedlings, identifying suitable locations for planting whitebark pines, and genetically identifying unique families, Omdal said.
“It takes a lot of hands to do the heavy lifting required here,” he said. “It’s sort of bittersweet that the designation is finally here. It’s a recognition that this is a species that’s truly imperiled. At the same time, support will come as a result of this listing that will hopefully benefit the species over time.”
While Crater Lake National Park has worked for years as if the trees were already threatened, Hooke said additional funding could help the park thin forest stands after years of wildfire suppression. That would help make trees more resilient to the inevitable wildfire that will burn through the park, she said.
Hooke said the listing announcement made her feel slightly emotional as she realized the gravity of the moment. Saving these trees has been a national and international effort, she said.
“I do have hope that we’re going to make a difference,” Hooke said of the work to save the trees. “This species is a tough species. It’s under siege from so many factors, but I am optimistic that it’s going to stay with us and that we’re going to be able to hold on to it.”
Copyright 2022 Northwest News Network. To see more, visit Northwest News Network.
|
2022-12-19T15:35:51+00:00
|
klcc.org
|
https://www.klcc.org/environment/2022-12-19/whitebark-pines-the-quintessential-wilderness-tree-added-to-the-endangered-species-list
|
STATE COLLEGE – Our region is under a Fire Weather Watch through 8 p.m. today. A Fire Weather Watch means that conditions are high for potential wildfires due to a combination of dry conditions, strong winds, and low relative humidity. There is an increased risk for rapid wildfire growth and spread. Persons need to be careful with the use of machinery, cigarettes, and matches during the period.’
|
2023-04-13T06:56:40+00:00
|
wdac.com
|
https://wdac.com/fire-weather-watch-for-our-region/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-weather-watch-for-our-region
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.