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Women remain significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics, a new study shows.
Thursday’s report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) issued another F for gender hiring, a C for racial hiring and an overall grade of D+ for 2022. Those grades largely look as they have in past editions of the study, which have shown leadership positions like president or chancellor, athletic director and conference commissioner are dominated by white men.
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TIDES director and lead report author Richard Lapchick called the lack of significant change “incredibly discouraging.”
“I felt that there was a shift in attitudes at all levels in sport after the murder of George Floyd and during that period of the racial reckoning,” Lapchick told the The Associated Press. “And the results that just haven’t proven that out in these leadership positions.
Those scores are particularly striking when examining gender.
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Women made up only 22.9% of presidents and chancellors, up slightly from last year’s figure (20.8%) after sitting as low as 13.8% in 2019. The number of women working as athletic directors dropped from 13 to 10 (7.6%) in 2022, with six of those in Power Five conferences ( Duke, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Washington).
Women now lead two of the FBS’ 10 leagues: Judy MacLeod with Conference USA and the Mountain West’s Gloria Nevarez, who was hired in November from the West Coast Conference.
“There’s been no sustained improvement to make me think we’ve turned the corner and this is going to get a lot better in the next couple of years,” Lapchick said.
Women fared best in the faculty athletics representative position — 42% for an A-minus grade. These are typically faculty members designated to serve as a liaison to the athletics department.
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In all, white people held 79.9% (321 of 402) of leadership positions in the study. But racial hiring scores increased, showing people of color holding 21.4% of president or chancellor positions and 22.9% of AD roles, though it fell for faculty athletics representatives (16.4%).
Felicia Martin, the NCAA's senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement, issued a statement that pointed to multiple steps taken by college sports' governing body to address diversity hiring.
Those include NCAA leadership development programs for administrators and coaches, as well as the Leadership Collective — a database to assist hiring officials in diversifying their candidate pools.
Still, Martin said: “The report reflects the reality that there is much work that remains in diverse hiring.”
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Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap | 2023-02-23T22:04:29+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/study-women-still-underrepresented-in-fbs-17802069.php |
Confusion, chaos and wrong information appear to have contributed to law enforcement's delay in stopping the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
The gunman spent more than an hour inside the school while police waited outside, authorities say. This was because the incident commander, school district police chief Pete Arredondo, treated the scene as a barricaded-person situation rather than as an active shooter situation.
Details of exactly what went wrong are still hazy as the investigation is ongoing.
Law enforcement experts say what happened in Uvalde is reminiscent of what occurred in prior mass shootings, including the attack at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
As shown by the Uvalde shooting and others before it, police are still making tragic missteps in the most critical moments of active shooter situations — regardless of training.
"Columbine changed everything"
When two students attacked Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999, cops were taught at the time to surround the building and create a perimeter, while tending to the wounded. Students were inside the school for hours, some injured, as they waited to be rescued by members of law enforcement.
Three weeks after the Columbine shooting, The Washington Post reported: "Decisions made at a hastily assembled command post had excruciating consequences. Following instructions, police moved methodically through the building, evacuating students instead of racing through the corridors in search of the gunmen. But that meant that hours would pass before SWAT teams reached a critically wounded teacher on the second floor."
The attack at Columbine High School was a tragic impetus for law enforcement to review what went wrong and determine how to do better in the future. In the 23 years since Columbine, law enforcement agencies have trained much differently.
"Columbine changed everything," Joseph Giacalone, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York City Police Department detective sergeant, told NPR. "When you have an active shooter, you have to end the threat. Because if you don't, the person continues on killing."
Following Columbine, police largely adopted a strategy that "calls for a four-person team to advance in a diamond-shaped wedge," according to a 2009 review of actions taken by police in a report on the website Slate. A solo officer is also trained to potentially go in alone.
The report, written by Dave Cullen, who later wrote Columbine, an examination of the Columbine High School massacre, stated that police had since been "trained to move toward the sound of gunfire and neutralize the shooter. Their goal is to stop him at all costs. They will walk past a dying child if they have to, just to prevent the shooter from killing more."
Cullen went on to say that this protocol has worked. During the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, he wrote, "it probably saved dozens of lives."
In the years since, training has continued to evolve in response to the most recent school shooting.
"There's been a very strong movement in law enforcement training for law enforcement to go in as a solo response. And what that means is an officer goes in and stops the threat to stop the killing from occurring," said Lisa Dadio, a senior lecturer and the director of the Center for Advanced Policing at the University of New Haven. She is a retired police lieutenant from the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut.
Though this may be the standard now, instances have shown that fear may get the better of responding officers.
Like in Uvalde, the same issue arose in Parkland, Florida, during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A commission report analyzing the 2018 shooting found that several officers didn't go in immediately when they arrived at the school.
Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer deputy on scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, most famously didn't go inside when he initially heard gunfire.
In the months following the shooting, he took much of the blame for not stopping the gunman sooner. But the report found that several other deputies also didn't respond immediately and rush into the school to stop the shooter.
Police all train differently — creating confusion
It's unclear how exactly Uvalde police were trained.
A New York Times report found that in August 2020, officers from five law enforcement agencies gathered in Uvalde to role-play and train on how to stop a shooter. It was at the same time school officials were updating security protocols and hiring more officers into the school district's police department.
This still didn't stop the outcome on May 24.
Dadio said she wanted to withhold judgment on what went wrong in Uvalde until all the facts are known.
The public does know that several law enforcement agencies responded to the school that day, including the school district's police department, U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service. In Dadio's experience, she knows that this kind of response can create an even more chaotic working environment for responders. She has seen it now in Uvalde, in Florida (during the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting) and in Las Vegas (during the attack on the Route 91 Harvest music festival a year later).
A mass shooting "involves multiple agencies coming together. So you're dealing with different training, you're dealing with different responses, and of who's in charge. So it's massive chaos," she told NPR. "And at the same time, you have people that are injured, that are dying."
How officers respond will always be different as long as different agencies across the U.S. ultimately follow different training methods.
"There needs to be national standards or universal training for situations just like these," Giacalone said. Recommended national standards do exist, but they are still just a suggestion.
"We need to make it mandatory. Basically, you have 18,000 or so police agencies that are pretty much doing all sorts of stuff," he said. "If we are looking to improve policing, we need to have a better understanding of what they're actually teaching to the police."
The most up-to-date intelligence is needed
An important part of active shooter drills for police is learning how to organize a chain of command amid chaos, Giacalone said.
"It's about the unifying of command. It's about having an unseen coordinator. It's about somebody dictating what has to go on inside and when somebody has to go on dealing with things outside," he said.
This was clearly a missing piece in Uvalde, Giacalone said.
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said during a news conference Thursday that 911 calls from inside Robb Elementary School were being routed to the Uvalde Police Department, not the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department. That ultimately contributed to miscommunication on the day of the shooting, Gutierrez said.
As reports have indicated, the school district's police chief believed that there was no longer an active threat and that the situation at the school was a barricaded-suspect situation. This was while multiple students called 911 reporting injured children.
"I do understand that during a chaotic situation that mistakes can be made," Giacalone said. "But unfortunately, this could have been the worst mistake to make, ever."
It's a heartbreaking problem that came up during the Columbine and Parkland shootings.
In that Washington Post article on Columbine, the paper reported, "Dozens of interviews with officers and others on the scene make it clear that police faced a range of critical problems, from the lack of a common radio channel to the quandary of how to handle hundreds of terrified students."
In Parkland, several things went terribly wrong. Part of the problem was initial information given to other officers by Peterson, the school resource officer deputy. Despite his training throughout his career, Peterson told deputies to remain at least 500 feet away from the building under attack. He also told officers he was unsure if gunshots were coming from inside or outside the school.
Other painful mistakes have been made.
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School occurred just outside the Coral Springs Police Department's jurisdiction, yet the 911 dispatch center didn't make any officers aware of the shooting for over four minutes after receiving the first 911 call, according to the commission report analyzing the shooting.
Additionally, officers reported their radios not working at all, causing many not to respond urgently when they heard gunshots.
Once a command post was established in the early stages of the response at the school, everyone from city officials to school board members to other officials were unnecessarily gathered there.
"Their presence interfered with command-and-control operations," the report found. There was also "abundant confusion over the location of the command post and the role of the staging area. This stemmed from an absence of command and control and an ineffective radio system."
These mistakes and communication problems go beyond just school shootings.
After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, a review showed that fire and emergency medical service personnel were prohibited from responding to the scene by their chain of command, delaying treatment for the injured.
Similar problems popped up in Las Vegas during the attack on the Route 91 Harvest music festival. That night, police officers were on the grounds of the concert and security officers were in the surrounding hotels while other first responders attempted to manage the scene after gunfire started. For a critical first few minutes during the attack, no central command post was in place guiding responders.
The report reviewing the shooting found that responders' communications were overwhelmed by 911 calls, the sheer number of victims and incorrect information about multiple shooters and the gunman's location.
More work needs to be done to address intelligence available to officers at these scenes, Giacalone said.
"The lesson learned here is that somebody has got to be in charge of getting that information and getting it to the incident commander on the scene, so that he or she can make a better-informed decision."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-06T21:49:05+00:00 | kut.org | https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2022-06-06/the-tragic-history-of-police-responding-too-late-to-active-shooters |
CAIRO (AP) — The Sudanese army called Monday on young people and anyone else capable of fighting to enlist at the nearest military command for battle against rival paramilitary force.
Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted on Apr. 15 between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. Since then, over 3,000 people have been killed, the country’s Health Ministry said, while about 2.5 million people have been displaced, according to the U.N. The true death toll is believed to be much higher.
“The commanders of the military divisions and regions have been instructed to receive and equip the fighters, and they must go to the nearest military command or unit,” the army said Monday morning on their official Facebook page.
Monday’s call to arms comes just days after Burhan made a near-identical appeal during a televised speech, asking Sudan’s youth and those capable of fighting to support the army, either from “their place of residence or by joining the military movement.”
It remained unclear if Monday’s call to arms was a forced conscription.
In the capital, Khartoum, RSF troops appear to have the upper hand on the city’s streets, having commandeered civilian homes across the capital and turned them into bases. Throughout the 10-week conflict, the army has retaliated with airstrikes that have hit residential areas and sometimes hospitals.
The province of West Darfur has seen some of the worst violence. In a report issued two weeks ago by the Dar Masalit sultanate, the leader of the African Masalit ethnic community, he accused the RSF and Arab militias of “committing genocide against African civilians.” He estimated that over the past two months, more than 5,000 people were killed in the province’s capital, Genena.
Several rounds of peace talks hosted by Riyadh and Washington in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah have all but broken down, with both mediators publicly accusing the RSF and the army of continually violating truces brokered by the two nations.
At least nine cease-fires have been agreed upon since the conflict broke out. None have lasted. | 2023-07-04T07:24:46+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-sudans-army-calls-for-young-people-others-to-enlist-in-fight-against-rival-paramilitary/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Michael Hiers passed for 446 yards and four touchdowns and added 2-yard scoring run to help Samford beat East Tennessee State 55-45 Saturday night.
Hiers completed 45 of 51 passes with no interceptions and finished with 50 yards rushing on 13 carries. Kendall Watson had 11 receptions for 146 yards and a touchdown and Chandler Smith, who also finished with 11 catches, had 97 yards receiving — including a 5-yard TD that gave Samford (6-1, 4-0 Southern Conference) the lead for good at 31-24 late in the second quarter.
The Bulldogs have won five on a row since a 33-0 loss to No. 1 Georgia on Sept. 10.
Tyler Riddell threw completed 25 of 43 passes for 389 yards and five touchdowns for ETSU (3-5, 1-5).
Samford finished with 34 first downs and 609 total yards.
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The Canadian government announced Wednesday that it would become the first nation in the world to place warning labels on each cigarette. Implementation of the law begins Aug. 1, but will be done in phases.
The government said retailers will be required to carry tobacco product packages that feature the new health-related messages by the end of April 2024. King-size cigarettes will be required to contain health warnings by the end of July 2024. Regular-size cigarettes and cigars will be required to contain warnings by April 2025.
“The requirement for a health warning directly on every cigarette is a world precedent-setting measure that will reach every person who smokes with every puff,” said Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society. “This innovative measure will be accompanied by enhanced warnings on the package exterior, and health messages on the package interior that are internationally unique. The new regulations deserve strong support.”
The government will also require a minimum of 75% of the main display area of tobacco packaging to include health warnings for most products.
SEE MORE: US adult cigarette smoking rate hits all-time low
Canada said its goal is to get its tobacco use rate to below 5% by 2035. As of 2020, 13% of Canadians over age 15 smoked cigarettes on a daily basis, according to government figures.
The Canadian government estimates that the health and economic costs associated with tobacco use in Canada were $12.3 billion (US$9.1 billion) in 2017, with direct health care costs of $6.1 billion (US$4.5 billion).
“Tobacco use continues to kill 48,000 Canadians each year. We are taking action by being the first country in the world to label individual cigarettes with health warning messages,” said Carolyn Bennett, Canada’s minister of Mental Health and Addictions and associate minister of Health. “This bold step will make health warning messages virtually unavoidable, and together with updated graphic images displayed on the package, will provide a real and startling reminder of the health consequences of smoking. We will continue to do whatever it takes to help more people in Canada stop smoking and help young people to live healthy tobacco-free lives.”
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-01T18:35:30+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/canada-will-require-dire-health-warnings-on-each-cigarette |
Didion-Dunne archives acquired by New York Public Library
NEW YORK (AP) — The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, spanning from letters and wedding pictures to manuscripts and screenplay drafts, have been acquired by the New York Public Library.
“The Library is thrilled to announce that our outstanding research collections will now include the archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, iconic voices of postwar American journalism, fiction, and screenwriting,” Declan Kiely, the library’s director of Special Collections and Exhibitions, said in a statement Friday.
Didion and Dunne were married from 1964 until his death in 2003. They were among the world’s most prominent literary couples and the letters in their archives include correspondence with Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Nora Ephron and former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, childhood friend of Didion’s who spoke at her memorial last year.
“We anticipate that the Didion and Dunne papers, once processed, will become one of our most heavily used collections and an essential resource for scholars, students, and those interested in their intensely collaborative life and work,” Kiely’s statement said.
Didion was known for the novels “Play It as It Lays” and “A Book of Common Prayer,” such classic essay collections as “The White Album” and “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and for her memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking,” in which she writes about mourning Dunne.
Dunne’s books included the nonfiction Hollywood account “Studio” and the novel “True Confessions.” He and Didion also collaborated on several screenplays, including “The Panic in Needle Park” and the 1976 remake of “A Star Is Born.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-01-27T17:41:34+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/didion-dunne-archives-acquired-by-new-york-public-library/ |
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Personalis Inc. (PSNL) on Wednesday reported a loss of $28.7 million in its first quarter.
The Fremont, California-based company said it had a loss of 61 cents per share.
The provider of contract research and genomic information posted revenue of $18.9 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in June, Personalis said it expects revenue in the range of $16 million to $17 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $68 million to $72 million.
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Pizzeria goes viral for looking to hire ‘non-stupid people’
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS) - A restaurant in Ohio was having a hard time finding reliable employees until management turned to humor to help recruit new employees.
Santino’s Pizzeria manager Heather Stockton said the restaurant’s phone has been ringing off the hook since posting a unique employment sign.
According to Stockton, the sign saying the team is “now hiring non-stupid people” was supposed to be a joke and nothing serious. However, it has gone viral on social media.
Stockton said the sign has been on display for months, but it was a social media post this week that has taken it to another level.
“We’re going to have people that love the sign, people that hate it,” she said.
The restaurant manager said the team has had trouble hiring and defined “non-stupid people” as being reliable, on time and having common sense.
“A lot of people are lacking it nowadays,” she said.
Stockton said the pandemic is playing a huge role in the quality of applicants. She said the pizzeria keeps facing no-shows or employees that don’t take the job seriously.
“I had a high school student who thought it was OK to bring a Nerf gun in with another employee here,” she said.
But is the sign helping or hurting business?
“We’ve gotten so many new customers,” Stockton said.
New customer Paul Robbins said he thought the sign was funny.
“I didn’t think it was offensive at all. It made me really curious about this pizza place,” Robbins said. “So, that made me decide to come in and check it out.”
A fellow business owner also said they understand the hiring challenges and stand by the pizzeria.
“I thought it was awesome because they’re not saying people are stupid, they’re saying, ‘Hey, let’s pay attention, let’s communicate, let’s get things going back to the way they’re supposed to be, helping each other,” said business owner Kathy Thomas.
Copyright 2023 WBNS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-23T02:06:46+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/02/23/pizzeria-goes-viral-looking-hire-non-stupid-people/ |
WASHINGTON – Kamala Harris used her first late-night network TV appearance since becoming vice president to reflect on how her life has changed since she got the job — including a shortage of emojis — and to talk up the need to vote in the midterm elections.
Harris, appearing early Tuesday on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in a taped appearance, promoted Biden administration efforts to fight climate change, restore abortion rights and pardon people with federal convictions for marijuana possession as she urged people to “speak with your vote” in the midterms.
“Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed, right?” she said, adding that governors and states should follow the president’s lead in offering pardons for state convictions.
Asked by Meyers how life had changed for her since she became vice president, Harris referenced “high-class problems” like security restrictions that alter day-to-day dynamics. She said taking a walk with her husband, Doug Emhoff, is no longer a one-on-one affair and that family chats via group text are “no longer a thing.”
As for her digital conversations, Harris said: “I have not received directly an emoji in a year and a half.” | 2022-10-11T11:32:25+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/10/11/harris-in-late-night-tv-gig-pushes-voting-laments-no-emojis/ |
COFFEYVILLE, Kan. – Vandals targeted a Coffeyville park over the weekend causing damage to park equipment, the City of Coffeyville said.
Damage to park equipment and graffiti was reported at Little Pfister Park, the city said in a social media post.
City staff worked over the weekend to clean the concrete and park equipment at the park and will continue on Monday, the city said.
Anyone who has information about the vandalism at Little Pfister Park is asked to contact the Coffeyville Police Department. | 2023-07-31T23:43:51+00:00 | fox23.com | https://www.fox23.com/news/vandals-target-coffeyville-park/article_0000ea6e-2ef6-11ee-801c-332a313dc679.html |
Southern Baptist leaders are in New Orleans for their annual meeting. On the agenda this year, whether to uphold the expulsion of congregations that have women pastors.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Southern Baptist leaders are in New Orleans for their annual meeting. On the agenda this year, whether to uphold the expulsion of congregations that have women pastors.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-11T12:30:49+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/2023-06-11/southern-baptist-leaders-will-decide-the-fate-of-congregations-with-women-pastors |
The rose business on Valentine’s Day is a mad rush of flowers grown and shipped from around the world. An intricate supply chain must come together to cap off a single day.
NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Describing his father as his “superhero,” a young boy made his anguish known in an emotional letter read at a murder sentencing Monday.
“My heart is broken and I feel completely empty since the death of my dad,” Shanita Brown read on behalf of the boy.
His father, 30-year-old Demarcus Javon Brown, was shot and killed Oct. 22, 2021 on on Highland Street SE near Jefferson Avenue in Grand Rapids.
The killer, 30-year-old Cordney Toliver, was sentenced Monday, Jan. 23, to a 25 to 48 years in prison for second-degree murder and two additional years for felony firearm.
About 30 family and friends of Brown attended the hearing, with Kent County Circuit Judge George Quist saying the turnout was perhaps his largest for a sentencing.
Shanita Brown, a cousin to Demarcus Brown, choked with emotion as she read the boy’s letter.
“My father was my everything and all I had besides my grandmother,” she read. “(Tolver) took my superhero from me and my sisters.”
Rodney Brown, an uncle to Demarcus Brown, described Toliver as a “coward” who shot his nephew in an ambush.
“You need to spend the rest of your life behind bars,” Brown said as he looked at Toliver.
Toliver was credited with already serving 432 days in jail. He also was ordered to pay $4,906 in restitution to the family of Demarcus Brown.
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Cremations readied for Thai day care massacre victims
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA
Associated Press
UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Makeshift furnaces made of clay bricks have been built on the grounds of Buddhist temples in a small town in northeastern Thailand on the eve of the cremation of the young victims of last week’s massacre at a day care center. Last Thursday’s brutal gun and and knife attack left 36 people dead, including 24 young children. It was the biggest mass killing by an individual in the country’s history. The town abbot says group ceremonies to cremate the victims will be held Tuesday at three temples, bringing an end to a three-day mourning ceremony for their families. A clear motive for the killings may never be determined after the perpetrator took his own life. | 2022-10-10T17:08:12+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/10/10/cremations-readied-for-thai-day-care-massacre-victims/ |
ANNAPOLIS, Md—Governor Larry Hogan today announced that all employees across state government will receive a 4.5% cost of living adjustment (COLA) increase—effective November 1, 2022—as part of a series of measures to enhance statewide workforce recruitment and retention efforts.
The governor’s action follows official budget projections from the Board of Revenue Estimates showing that, for the second consecutive year, the state is reporting a multi-billion dollar surplus. Overall, after inheriting a $5.1 billiion structural budget deficit, the governor will leave office with a record $5.5 billion in reserves—a more than $10 billion swing in the state’s fiscal fortunes under the Hogan administration.“
After once again holding the line and bringing fiscal responsibility to Annapolis, we are able to take additional steps to honor our firefighters, law enforcement officers, nurses, and state employees for the meaningful work they do to change Maryland for the better,” said Governor Hogan. “This cost of living adjustment will help state employees and their families with the challenges they face from historic inflation, and—amid the post-pandemic labor shortage—today’s actions advance our enhanced efforts to recruit and retain a talented workforce.” | 2022-09-30T01:43:27+00:00 | wrde.com | https://www.wrde.com/news/maryland-state-employees-to-see-pay-increase/article_3e1c0a28-4053-11ed-b05f-bf46fd534a47.html |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian officials on Tuesday gave conflicting accounts of what appeared to be a brazen attack on Russian cruise missiles being transported by train in the occupied Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula.
A Ukrainian military spokesperson indicated that Kyiv was behind the explosion late Monday that reportedly destroyed multiple Kalibr cruise missiles near the town of Dzhankoi in northern Crimea, while stopping short of directly claiming responsibility.
Natalia Humeniuk, the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s southern operational command, described the strike as a signal to Russia that it should leave the Black Sea peninsula it illegally took from Ukraine in 2014.
Speaking on Ukrainian TV, Humeniuk pointed out Dzhankoi’s importance as a railway junction and said that “right now, the way ahead (for Russian forces in Crimea) is clear — they need to make their way out by rail already.”
A vague statement by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency on Monday said that multiple missiles carried by rail and destined for submarine launch had been destroyed, without saying outright that Ukraine was responsible or what weapon had been used. However, the agency implied that Kyiv was behind the blast, saying it furthers “the process of Russia’s demilitarization, and prepares the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea for de-occupation.”
Moscow-installed authorities in Crimea on Tuesday offered a different version of events, saying that Ukrainian drones attacked civilian facilities in Dzhankoi.
Sergei Aksenov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, said that the attack left one civilian wounded, but caused “no serious damage.”
Aksenov’s adviser, Oleg Kryuchkov, rejected Ukraine’s claims and said that Ukrainian drones had targeted residential areas rather than the railway. Igor Ivin, head of the local administration in Dzhankoi, said that the attack damaged power lines, a private house, a store and a college building.
Unconfirmed social media reports late Monday claimed that Russia’s anti-aircraft defenses shot down multiple drones over Crimea. None of the statements could be independently verified.
Throughout the current war, reports have surfaced of attacks on Russian military bases and other infrastructure in Crimea, with Ukraine rarely explicitly claiming responsibility but greeting the incidents with jubilation.
In August, powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in western Crimea, with Ukraine later saying nine warplanes were destroyed. Satellite photos showed at least seven fighter planes had been blown up and others probably damaged. Ukrainian officials initially steered clear of taking credit, while mocking Russia’s explanation that a careless smoker might have caused ammunition at the Saki base to catch fire and blow up. Unusually, Ukraine’s top military officer weeks later announced that he had ordered the strikes.
Russian-appointed authorities have also previously reported repeated Ukrainian drone attacks on Crimea, most of which targeted the port of Sevastopol that hosts the main Russian naval base there.
These incidents in Crimea, as well as reported drone attacks on Russian territory far from the war’s front lines, have exposed major weaknesses in Moscow’s defenses and embarrassed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reportedly believed the invasion of Ukraine would be quick and easy.
In other developments:
— Ukraine’s human rights chief on Tuesday said that Kyiv has brought back 15 more Ukrainian children deported by Russian forces from the country’s south and northeast, where Moscow held large swaths of territory earlier in the war.
Dmytro Lubinets spoke just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. According to Ukrainian government figures, over 16,000 minors were forcibly taken to Russia and Russian-occupied areas, with some being put up for adoption by Russian families and just 308 repatriated so far.
— Civilians were killed and wounded after Russia pounded an eastern Ukrainian town with missiles on Tuesday, damaging more than a dozen buildings, Ukraine’s national broadcaster Suspilne reported. A spokeswoman for the regional prosecutor’s office, Anastasia Medvedeva, told Suspilne that a couple had died after an anti-aircraft missile slammed into their house in Chasiv Yar, just over 10 kilometers (six miles) west of the embattled city of Bakhmut, while another resident had been hospitalized. Earlier on Tuesday, top Ukraine presidential aide Andriy Yermak posted photos on Telegram of what he said was the aftermath of the attack, showing major damage to an apartment building.
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday chaired a meeting of top defense and security officials, focusing on coordinating arms and ammunition supplies for the Ukrainian army as well as information security, Zelenskyy’s press office said in an online statement. The meeting came a day after European Union countries endorsed a fast-track procedure aimed at providing Kyiv with sorely needed artillery shells to repel Russia’s invasion forces, and hours after U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the Pentagon is set to speed up its delivery of Abrams tanks by opting to send a refurbished model that can be ready faster.
— Ukraine’s presidential office reported that at least three civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded by Russian shelling in the previous 24 hours. It said that Russia fired on the southern city of Kherson and its suburbs more than 60 times over that period, killing one person and injuring seven others across the Kherson province.
Fierce battles continued in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is straining to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defense. Local Gov. Petro Kyrylenko on Tuesday said on Ukrainian television that Russian shelling there over the previous day killed one civilian and wounded another. Kyrylenko added that a further civilian died and two more suffered wounds in Avdiivka, another place that routinely comes under heavy fire.
Ukrainian authorities have reported on civilian deaths in Bakhmut on a near-daily basis since Moscow’s grinding push to take the city began months ago. Out of Bakhmut’s prewar population of around 70,000, only several thousand remain as much of the once-proud mining hub has been pounded to rubble.
Ukraine’s ground forces chief on Tuesday said that Bakhmut’s Ukrainian defenders continue to thwart Russian attempts to push on to the city center.
“The defense of Bakhmut continues,” Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi tweeted.
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TIJUANA (Border Report) — For most of Sunday night and into Monday morning, more than 350,000 customers in Tijuana and other Northern Baja California communities had no electricity.
Sporadic outages began around 5 p.m. Sunday and kept increasing as the night went on.
A private electricity generating plant in the city of Mexicali, about 120 miles east of Tijuana, is being blamed for the blackouts, although no specific cause was given.
According to Mexico’s Center for National Energy Control, more outages were ordered as a way to ease the strain on the rest of the grid for fear of a total lapse in power for the entire region.
It also said that at 6:30 p.m. another and wider outage was ordered leaving another 260,000 people without power.
The lack of power affected many areas in Tijuana and in the cities of Tecate and Rosarito.
Tijuana’s fire department and the area’s Red Cross did not report any emergencies related to the lack of electricity.
Two people were reported trapped in elevators but were rescued without incident.
Baja California’s Electric Commission said that by 9:30 p.m. most people had their electric service restored.
But as of Monday morning, there were many traffic signals and streetlights not operating in many areas of Tijuana. | 2022-06-07T01:57:09+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/northern-baja-california-hit-with-major-power-outage/ |
At first, Nikola Jokic wouldn’t concede that his right wrist was an issue.
“It’s fine,” he said when asked about the sprain that limited him to just three of five preseason games. Pressed further, Jokic was asked why he was still wearing tape over it and whether it was bothersome at all during games.
“A little bit,” Jokic said. “Maybe it’s a new trend.”
Tired of the probing questions, Jokic unraveled his tape and tossed it on the ground.
And what to make of the open 3-point shots that had been there against the Warriors on Friday night but he’d bypassed?
That, he said, had nothing to do with his balky wrist.
“No, I hesitate because I cannot make shots,” Jokic said in his dry deadpan.
Three days away from opening night in Utah, Jokic doesn’t seem overly concerned about his wrist. When Nuggets coach Michael Malone tried to hold him out of parts of practice on Sunday, Jokic declined. He was a full participant.
“’I want to stay in,’” Malone conveyed of the two-time MVP, eager to get healthy reps with his teammates.
Yes, that included Jamal Murray, who missed the final three games of the preseason after tweaking his hamstring. Murray participated in most of Monday’s competitive practice, too.
Malone said that Murray badly wanted to play in Friday’s preseason finale against Golden State, but it came down to a risk/reward decision. Had he played, he likely would’ve only seen the floor for the first quarter.
With several days of practice ahead of the season opener, Malone and the training staff opted to sit Murray. As of now, according to Malone, he should be available against the Jazz.
“Jamal looked good today,” Malone said. “Come opening night, he should be good to go.”
Given that Murray has yet to play into the second half of a game, the Nuggets will be extremely cautious with his ramp-up. The same principle holds once the Nuggets get into the throes of the season, including three games in four nights, or four games in six.
“It’s gonna be a work in progress,” Malone said.
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Mortgage rates fall to lowest level since September
Mortgage rates continued to fall this week to their lowest levels since September as the latest round of economic data showed signs that inflation is starting to cool.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.15% on Thursday from 6.33% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year ago, the average rate was 3.56%.
"As inflation continues to moderate, mortgage rates declined again this week," Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said. "Rates are at their lowest level since September of last year, boosting both homebuyer demand and homebuilder sentiment."
"Declining rates are providing a much-needed boost to the housing market, but the supply of homes remains a persistent concern," Khater added.
Meanwhile, the average rate on a 15-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.28% from 5.52% last week. A year ago, it averaged 2.79%.
The big rise in mortgage rates during the past year has throttled the housing market, with sales of existing homes falling for 10 straight months to the lowest level in more than a decade.
US REAL ESTATE MARKET IN ‘BIG TROUBLE,' EXPERT WARNS
Though inflation at the consumer level has declined for six straight months, Fed officials have signaled that they may raise the central bank’s main borrowing rate another three-quarters of a point in 2023, which would be in a range of 5% to 5.25%.
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MADISON, N.J., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS), a global leader in residential real estate services (formerly known as Realogy Holdings Corp.), this week announced that 49 of its affiliated agents have been featured on the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Top Producers list, spanning across the company's industry-leading brands including Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, and Sotheby's International Realty®. In its second year, the list honors 236 individual member agents and teams, an increase of 20 percent over last year's inaugural list, which combined for 10,940 transaction sides in 2021 and $4.85 billion in volume.
"It's so gratifying to see the growth not only in the Anywhere representation on the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Top Producers list, but also of the list as a whole," said Sue Yannaccone, president and chief executive officer, Anywhere Brands. "The presence of more high-producing, influential LGBTQ+ agents and allies than ever is a measure of progress in the Alliance's mission to build a more representative and equitable real estate industry."
The 49 featured Anywhere-affiliated agents make up almost 21 percent of the list across brands including Sotheby's International Realty (19), Coldwell Banker (17), Century 21 (11), and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (2). Anywhere-affiliated agents represent the majority of the top 25 producing agents as measured by individual transaction sides.
Anywhere was a founding partner of the Alliance and a sponsor of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Top Producers list, which recognizes members who generated at least 25 transaction sides or $10 million in sales volume in 2021. Teams with leaders who are Alliance members also qualified with at least 40 transaction sides and $15 million in sales volume last year. RealTrends compiled the list for The Alliance utilizing its RealTrends + Tom Ferry America's Best Real Estate Professionals report, combined with member entries.
As one of the largest full service residential real estate services companies in the U.S., Anywhere is dedicated to creating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is a vocal advocate for equal opportunity and fair housing. In June, the company officially completed its corporate rebrand from Realogy to Anywhere, signifying a strategic emphasis on building a more frictionless and digitized home buying and selling experience for any consumer, anywhere. The transformation also represents the company's mission to further move its culture and talent strategy into the future – empowering employees' growth anywhere in their career journey.
Read more about Anywhere and its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in its 2021 CSR Report. For more information, please visit anywhere.re and follow Anywhere on social media by visiting its LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages.
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is moving the real estate industry to what's next. As the leading and most integrated provider of U.S. residential real estate services encompassing franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses as well as a mortgage joint venture, the Company supported approximately 1.5 million home transactions in 2021. The Company's diverse brand portfolio includes some of the most recognized names in real estate: Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby's International Realty®. Using innovative technology, data and marketing products, high-quality lead generation programs, and best-in-class learning and support services, the Company fuels the productivity of its approximately 197,600 independent sales agents in the U.S. and approximately 140,600 independent sales agents in 119 other countries and territories, helping them build stronger businesses and best serve today's consumers. Recognized for eleven consecutive years as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, the Company has also been designated a Great Place to Work four years in a row, named one of LinkedIn's 2021 Top Companies in the U.S., and honored on the Forbes list of World's Best Employers 2021.
The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is a 501(c)6 non-profit dedicated to empowering the LGBTQ+ community on the path to homeownership as we also advocate on behalf of the community on housing issues. The Alliance, founded in June 2020, is an all-inclusive organization that works to improve the professional lives of its members through a public-facing Alliance Referral Community. The Alliance began accepting members in October 2020 and has more than 2,600 members and dozens chapters in North America. It was named the 2022 Inman News Innovator of the Year in the MLS, Association, or Industry Organization category. For more information visit realestatealliance.org.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Friday ordered pretrial detention for a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent in Russia that spiked to unprecedented levels since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow jailed Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, and Svetlana Petriychuk, a playwright, for two months pending investigation and trial. The two were detained in the Russian capital on Thursday because of the play Petriychuk wrote and Berkovich staged, “Finist, the Brave Falcon.” Police also raided the apartments of Berkovich’s parents and grandmother in St. Petersburg.
The play, named after a Russian fairy tale, depicts Russian women who faced prosecution after being lured into marriage and life in Syria by representatives of radical Islam.
The authorities have alleged that the play justifies terrorism, accusations that both Berkovich and Petriychuk have rejected, maintaining their innocence.
Berkovich’s lawyer Yulia, Tregubova, pointed out in court on Friday that the play was supported by the Russian Culture Ministry and won the Golden Mask award, Russia’s most prestigious national theater award. Petriychuk’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin told the court that in 2019, the play was read to inmates of a women’s prison in Siberia, and Russia’s state penitentiary service praised it on its website.
Justifying terrorism is a criminal offense in Russia, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The case against Berkovich and Petriychuk elicited outrage in Russia. An open letter in support of the two artists, started by the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been signed by more than 3,400 people by Friday evening. The play, the letter argued, “carries an absolutely clear anti-terrorist sentiment.”
Dozens of Russian actors, directors and journalists also signed affidavits urging the court to release Berkovich from custody pending investigation and trial.
Immediately after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin unleashed a sweeping campaign of repression, unparalleled since the Soviet era. It has effectively criminalized any criticism of the war, with the authorities targeting not only prominent opposition figures who eventually received draconian prison terms, but anyone who spoke out against it, publicly or otherwise.
Pressure mounted on critical artists in Russia, too. Actors and directors were fired from state-run theaters, and musicians were blacklisted from performing in the country. Some were slapped with the “foreign agent” label, which carries additional government scrutiny and strong negative connotations. Many left Russia.
Berkovich, who raises two adopted daughters, has refused to leave Russia and continued working with her independent theater production in Moscow, called Soso’s Daughters. Shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, she staged an anti-war picket and was jailed for 11 days. | 2023-05-05T19:35:35+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/russia-jails-theater-director-amid-crackdown-on-dissent/ |
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Princess Eugenie has given birth to a baby boy, Buckingham Palace announced Monday.
Eugenie, the niece of King Charles III, and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, welcomed their son, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, on May 30th. The baby, who weighed 7 pounds 1 ounce, is the couple’s second child.
The couple’s eldest child, two-year-old August, is now a big brother.
“He is named after his great great great Grandfather George, his Grandpa George and my Grandpa Ronald,” the princess said on her Instagram page. “Augie is loving being a big brother already.”
Eugenie, 33, is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York.
The child is 13th in line to the throne.
The new parents uploaded one photo of the infant wearing a blue and white stocking cap and another of August gently touching his brother’s head. | 2023-06-05T18:28:52+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/britains-princess-eugenie-gives-birth-to-second-son/ |
Qatar detains workers protesting late pay before World Cup
By MALAK HARB
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar recently arrested at least 60 foreign workers who protested going months without pay and deported some of them, an advocacy group said, just three months before Doha hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The move comes as Qatar faces intense international scrutiny over its labor practices ahead of the tournament. Like other Gulf Arab nations, Qatar heavily relies on foreign labor. The workers’ protest a week ago — and Qatar’s reaction to it — could further fuel the concern.
The head of a labor consultancy investigating the incident said the detentions cast new doubt on Qatar’s pledges to improve the treatment of workers. “Is this really the reality coming out?” asked Mustafa Qadri, executive director of the group Equidem.
In a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday night, Qatar’s government acknowledged that “a number of protesters were detained for breaching public safety laws.” It declined to offer any information about the arrests or any deportations.
Video footage posted online showed some 60 workers angry about their salaries protesting on Aug. 14 outside of the Doha offices of Al Bandary International Group, a conglomerate that includes construction, real estate, hotels, food service and other ventures. Some of those demonstrating hadn’t received their salaries for as many as seven months, Equidem said.
The protesters blocked an intersection on Doha’s C Ring Road in front of the Al Shoumoukh Tower. The footage matched known details of the street, including it having several massive portraits of Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, looking down on passers-by.
Al Bandary International Group, which is privately owned, did not respond to requests for comment and a telephone number registered in its name did not connect on multiple attempts to call it.
The Qatari government acknowledged that the firm hadn’t paid salaries and that its Labor Ministry would pay “all delayed salaries and benefits” to those affected.
“The company was already under investigation by the authorities for nonpayment of wages before the incident, and now further action is being taken after a deadline to settle outstanding salary payments was missed,” the government said.
Qadri said police later arrested the protesters and held them in a detention center where some described being in a stifling heat without air conditioning. Doha’s temperature this week reached around 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Qadri described police telling those held that if they can strike in hot weather, they can sleep without air conditioning.
One detained worker who called Equidem from the detention center described seeing as many as 300 of his colleagues there from Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal and the Philippines. He said some had been paid salaries after the protest while others hadn’t. His comments could not be corroborated.
Qatar, like other Gulf Arab nations, has in the past deported demonstrating foreign workers, and tied residency visas to employment. The right to form unions remains tightly controlled and available only to Qataris, as is the country’s limited right to assembly, according to the Washington-based advocacy group Freedom House.
Qatar, a small, energy-rich nation on the Arabian Peninsula, is home to the state-funded Al Jazeera satellite news network. However, expression in the country remains tightly controlled. Last year, Qatar detained and later deported a Kenyan security guard who wrote and spoke publicly about the woes of the country’s migrant labor force.
Since FIFA awarded the tournament to Qatar in 2010, the country has taken some steps to overhaul the country’s employment practices. That includes eliminating its so-called kafala employment system, which tied workers to their employers, who had say over whether they could leave their jobs or even the country.
Qatar also has adopted a minimum monthly wage of 1,000 Qatari riyals ($275) for workers and required food and housing allowances for employees not receiving that directly from their employers.
Activists like Qadri have called on Doha to do more, particularly when it comes to ensuring workers receive their salaries on time and are protected from abusive employers.
“Have we all been duped by Qatar over the last several years?” Qadri asked, suggesting that recent reforms might have been “a cover” for authorities allowing prevailing labor practices to continue.
The World Cup will start this November in Qatar.
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Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC) "UEC" or the "Company") invites investors and shareholders to attend the Company's presentation at the 2023 TD Securities Mining Conference on Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 10:20 am Eastern Time.
Interested investors can register to attend UEC's live webcast via the 2023 TD Securities Mining Conference registration link: https://bit.ly/3WiDend
The presentation recording will be made available on the company's website for 90 days after the conference.
About Uranium Energy Corp.
Uranium Energy Corp is the fastest growing supplier of the fuel for the green energy transition to a low carbon future. UEC is the largest, diversified North American focused uranium company, advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly In-Situ Recovery ("ISR") mining uranium projects in the United States and high-grade conventional projects in Canada. The Company has two production-ready ISR hub and spoke platforms in South Texas and Wyoming. These two production platforms are anchored by fully operational central processing plants and served by seven U.S. ISR uranium projects with all their major permits in place. Additionally, the Company has diversified uranium holdings including: (1) one of the largest physical uranium portfolios of North American warehoused U3O8; (2) a major equity stake in Uranium Royalty Corp., the only royalty company in the sector; and (3) a Western Hemisphere pipeline of resource stage uranium projects. The Company's operations are managed by professionals with decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis great Martina Navratilova said Monday that she has been diagnosed with throat cancer and breast cancer.
In a statement released by her representative, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame said her prognosis is good and she will start treatment this month.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favorable outcome,” the 66-year-old Navratilova said. “It’s going to stink for a while but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
She said she noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck while attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy showed early stage throat cancer. While Navratilova was undergoing tests on her throat, she said, the unrelated breast cancer was discovered.
Navratilova was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She won 59 Grand Slam titles overall, including 31 in women’s doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. The last was a mixed doubles championship with Bob Bryan at the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
Navratilova originally retired in 1994, after a record 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and occasionally competed in singles, too.
Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She has worked as a TV analyst in recent years.
The statement issued Monday said Navratilova would not be a regular part of Tennis Channel’s coverage of the Australian Open later this month “but hopes to be able to join in from time to time” via video conference.
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-02T19:12:43+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/ap-martina-navratilova-diagnosed-with-throat-breast-cancer/ |
Mexico’s capture of drug kingpin could be signal to US
By MARÍA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexican marines closed in on infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero deep in the mountains of his native state of Sinaloa, it was a 6-year-old bloodhound named “Max” who rousted from the undergrowth the man allegedly responsible for the murder of a U.S. DEA agent more than three decades ago.
While the United States’ motivation to find Caro Quintero was never in doubt — hence the $20 million reward for information leading to his capture — there was less certainty about the commitment of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had made clear his disinterest in pursuing drug lords.
Yet on Friday, three days after López Obrador and U.S. President Joe Biden met in the White House, the most wanted target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was in Mexican custody.
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said in a statement late Friday that Caro Quintero was arrested for extradition to the U.S. and he would be held at the maximum security Altiplano prison about 50 miles west of Mexico City.
“It seems to me that in the private talks between President Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel (López Obrador) they surely agreed to turning over high-profile drug traffickers again, which had been suspended,” said security analyst David Saucedo.
Cooperation between the DEA and Mexico’s marines had led to some of the highest-profile captures during previous administrations, but not under López Obrador, Saucedo noted.
Both presidents face domestic pressure to do more against drug traffickers. With Caro Quintero’s arrest, “Narcos are being captured again and I believe that clearly it was what was in fact needed,” Saucedo said.
Samuel González, who founded the organized crime office in Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and now a security analyst, said that to López Obrador’s benefit, the arrest “shows evidence that there’s no protection of capos” from his administration.
González believes Caro Quintero has long been a thorn in the bilateral relationship, but said that “without doubt” his capture was fruit of the recent negotiations in Washington.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar both expressed gratitude for Mexico’s efforts to catch the man blamed for the brutal torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985 — a case that brought a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
“This achievement is a testament to Mexico’s determination to bring to justice someone who terrorized and destabilized Mexico during his time in the Guadalajara Cartel; and is implicated in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena,” Salazar said in a statement late Friday.
Garland said the U.S. government would seek his immediate extradition.
Mexico’s navy and Attorney’s General Office led the operation deep in the moutains that straddle the border between Sinaloa and Chihuahua states, many miles from any paved road. They found Caro Quintero, with help of “Max,” hiding in brush in a place in Sinaloa called San Simon.
Caro Quintero came from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same township as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, which came later. Caro Quintero was one of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel and according to the DEA was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s.
He blamed Camarena for a raid on a huge marijuana plantation in 1984. The next year, Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara, allegedly on orders from Caro Quintero. His tortured body was found a month later.
Caro Quintero was serving a 40-year sentence in Mexico when an appeals court overturned his verdict in 2013. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence, but it was too late — Caro Quintero had been spirited off in a waiting vehicle.
Caro Quintero was added to FBI’s 10 most wanted list in 2018 with a $20 million reward for his capture.
López Obrador had previously seemed ambivalent about his case.
Last year, the president said the legal appeal that led to Caro Quintero’s release was “justified” because supposedly no verdict had been handed down against the drug lord after 27 years in jail. López Obrador also depicted a later warrant for his re-arrest as an example of U.S. pressure.
“Once he was out, they had to look for him again, because the United States demanded he shouldn’t have been released, but legally the appeal was justified,” López Obrador said.
Presidential spokesman Jesús Ramírez said at the time, “The president was just saying that it was a legal aberration that the judge had not issued a verdict on Mr. Caro Quintero after 27 years … but he was not defending his release.” | 2022-07-16T08:07:22+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/07/15/mexicos-capture-of-drug-kingpin-could-be-signal-to-us/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The founder of the mobile payment service Cash App died after an apparent stabbing near downtown San Francisco early Tuesday morning, and police are asking the public to come forward with any information.
Bob Lee, 43, was an executive at cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin.
Around 2:35 a.m., officers were called to the 400 block of Main Street after receiving a report of a stabbing in the area. Officers found Lee suffering from what appeared to be stab wounds.
Lee was given first aid by officers and emergency medical responders before he was taken to a local hospital. He later died of his injuries.
No arrests have been made and no description of a suspect has been released.
Police are investigating this incident as a homicide. | 2023-04-05T16:09:36+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/cash-app-founder-killed-in-san-francisco-stabbing/ |
FREMONT, Calif., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Leopard Imaging Inc. (Leopard Imaging), a global leader in intelligent embedded camera design and manufacturing, is going to showcase its latest state-of-the-art camera LI-ADL-ADP-IMX415-MIPI-081H. The camera is powered by Intel Atom® processors x7000E Series, Intel® Core™ i3 processors, and Intel® Processors N-Series, providing cutting-edge performance.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Brittney Griner is “the fun aunt,” according to Nneka Ogwumike. She is resilient and kind, Ogwumike said. A fellow daughter of Texas, and Ogwumike’s father’s favorite player.
Speaking Friday ahead of the WNBA’s All-Star festivities in Chicago, Ogwumike focused more on Griner’s humanity than her playing ability as the league continued to push for Griner’s release from her detention in Russia.
“BG, Brittney Griner, is an American hero,” said Ogwumike, an All-Star forward for the Los Angeles Sparks. “She is ours and she is yours, and we must get her home.”
Ogwumike, the president of the WNBA players’ association, joined Griner’s wife, Cherelle, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Seattle Storm star Sue Bird and union leader Terri Jackson for a press conference calling for mercy for Griner a day after the eight-time All-Star pleaded guilty to drug possession charges that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
Returning to play basketball in Russia, Griner, 31, was first detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February. Police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
“She’s been there 4 1/2 months, having to be transported in vehicles too small for her frame,” Sharpton said. “Incarcerated where, she’s in a place where most of the people in that place can’t speak her language. I think she’s already done a lot of time given what we’re talking about was the infraction.”
Speaking through an interpreter, Griner told the court Thursday she had no intention of committing a crime and had acted unintentionally because she had packed for Moscow in a hurry. The trial was then adjourned until July 14.
Griner’s guilty plea could be an effort by her and her advisers to expedite the court proceedings.
“BG has taken accountability, and now it is time — past time — for this to come to a conclusion,” Jackson said.
Griner’s detention comes at a low point in relations between the United States and Russia. The State Department’s designation of Griner as wrongfully detained put her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
President Joe Biden called Cherelle Griner on Wednesday to assure her that he’s doing all he can to win her wife’s release as soon as possible. They spoke after Biden read a letter from Brittney Griner in which she said she feared she’d never return home.
“At this point I am in the position where I understand that what they are doing is very challenging due to the circumstances with Russia and the United States right now,” Cherelle Griner said. “And so I want to make it very clear that our next move as supporters for BG is to make sure that the administration understands that they have our full support in doing any and everything necessary to be able to bring BG home as well as every other wrongfully detained American.”
Cherelle Griner, along with Ogwumike and Bird, did not answer any questions at the press conference.
After first staying quiet in the wake of Brittney Griner’s arrest, Cherelle Griner and the WNBA have stepped up their campaign for the release of the two-time Olympic gold medalist. The WNBA put a decal on each of its courts with Griner’s initials as well as her No. 42, and cleared the way for the Phoenix Mercury to pay her without it counting against the team’s salary cap.
Griner is an honorary starter for Sunday’s All-Star Game, and Jackson said the league is planning a special recognition for Cherelle and the Griner family during the contest.
“Sanctity of sport is important,” Bird said, “and as an athlete community made up of friends from countries around the world, we all feel rattled by this, and just want her home.”
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Jim Heintz in Moscow and AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg in New York contributed to this report.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy travel industry press releases from PR Newswire, including the world's best travel experiences and Royal Caribbean's new weekend trips.
NEW YORK, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the travel industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Tripadvisor reveals best travel experiences in the world for 2023
Travelers' Choice Best of the Best "Things to Do" is a definitive list of extraordinary experiences for travelers looking to create memorable moments. The list brings together the very best activities and excursions – from bookable tours and experiences to top attractions that travelers can visit along the way. - Introducing the World's Biggest Weekend: Royal Caribbean's Utopia of the Seas is Revealed Starting July 2024 from Port Canaveral (Orlando), Florida, Utopia will introduce unmatched weekend energy across a combination of more than 40 ways to dine and drink, more pools than the days to count, ways to thrill and chill, and more of all the above at Perfect Day at CocoCay – Royal Caribbean's private island in The Bahamas – including its new adults-only Hideaway Beach opening in early 2024.
- Marriott International Commits to Hiring More Than 3,000 Refugees Globally by 2026
"Marriott's goal to hire an additional 1,500 refugees in Europe builds on the work we're doing to promote opportunities for refugees in the U.S. and highlights our steadfast commitment to put people first and provide economic opportunity for refugees and underrepresented populations," said Marriott President and CEO Anthony Capuano. - "Summer Gets Bueno" by Kinder Bueno Returns with Themed Rest Stop to Help Roadtrippers Savor the Journey
At this year's Kinder Bueno "Summer Gets Bueno: Savor the Journey" rest stop takeover in Connecticut, fans can expect a one-of-a-kind white glove experience that makes pumping gas feel anything but ordinary. - Wyndham Rewards' New 'Cubicle Caddie' is a Hole-in-One for Golfers Looking to Make the Fairway Their Summer Office
Free from eight-hour days in the office, schedules now bend and flex, creating new opportunities to balance work with play. Enter the Wyndham Rewards® Cubicle Caddie, a first-of-its kind tricked out golf cart helping avid golfers worry less about being away from their desk this summer and more about missing par. - Timesaver! Alaska Airlines and CLEAR team up to make travel easier and more secure
With the new partnership, Mileage Plan members can take advantage of a discounted rate for a CLEAR Plus membership and also receive bonus miles for a limited time. This is the first step in the partnership to accelerate the adoption of digital identity and remove friction throughout the travel journey. - Ocean Prime Las Vegas Now Open on the Las Vegas Strip
This premier location is set four stories above the Las Vegas Strip and offers breathtaking views from the restaurant's outdoor terrace. Ocean Prime Las Vegas promises an unparalleled dining experience that blends extraordinary cuisine, genuine hospitality and captivating atmosphere. - United Airlines Selects Pratt & Whitney GTF™ Engines to Power 120 Airbus A321neo and A321XLR Aircraft
Rick Deurloo, president of Commercial Engines at Pratt & Whitney, said, "GTF engines will enable United to get the most out of their A321neo and A321XLR aircraft, delivering industry leading payload, range and environmental performance for those aircraft types." - Three-Quarters of Americans Say Taking a Summer Vacation is Important, Confidence Levels Ride High
Allianz Partners USA's 15th Annual Vacation Confidence Index* reveals that consumer vacation confidence is continuing its three-year trend with 61% of Americans intending to book a summer trip of 100 or more miles away from home for at least a week (up one point from last year, 19 points since 2019). - Hipcamp and RVshare partner to give away $10 million in RV campsite stays
The limited-time promotion will provide RV renters with a credit toward an RV campsite booked on Hipcamp, and the credit may be used upon checkout at hipcamp.com. - Cambria Hotels brings back its summer "Taste of the Destination" culinary program featuring boozy ice cream flights from Tipsy Scoop
Tipsy Scoop ice cream flights will be exclusively offered at six Cambria Hotels located across the country for a limited time from June 21 to Sept. 8, 2023. The flights can be ordered at the restaurant bars, including the rooftop bars if applicable for the location, and each flight will start at $15 for three scoops of ice cream.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Despite reaching 1,000 games in management, Jurgen Klopp must feel like he is at the beginning of a new journey at Liverpool.
An uninspiring 0-0 draw with Chelsea in the English Premier League on Saturday was in stark contrast to the glorious performances his teams have produced during his trophy-laden time at Anfield.
His 250th game in charge of Liverpool laid bare the challenge he faces to get his struggling team back in contention for the biggest prizes.
It was only last year that the Merseyside club mounted a stirring bid for an unprecedented quadruple of trophies.
Now Liverpool sits eighth in the league — Chelsea is 10th — and belongs there after three games without a win. Liverpool is in a fight just to secure a place in the top four and next season’s Champions League.
“Arsene Wenger lost his 1,000th game 6-0 (Arsenal vs. Chelsea, 2014), so I am really happy that didn’t happen,” Klopp said.
“For me, it is clear, in this situation you have to be ready for little steps . . . and this was a little step today, that’s how it is. I expect progress and I think from the last league game (a 3-0 loss against Brighton) it was progress, definitely, and that’s important.”
There are several factors behind Liverpool’s sudden decline.
The impact of Sadio Mane’s move to Bayern Munich has been significant – and compounded by a host of injuries up front, with Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino all out.
Mane’s replacement, Darwin Nunez, has been inconsistent in his first season in English soccer and January signing Cody Gakpo will also need time to adapt.
Virgil van Dijk is another high-profile injury absentee, while Klopp’s aging midfield looks in need of an overhaul, with England’s Jude Bellingham widely regarded as a dream recruit.
This is a season of transition, with the FA Cup and Champions League remaining as Liverpool’s best chances of silverware after being overtaken by Manchester United and Newcastle in the league. Those teams look capable of finishing in the top four and maybe more.
MUDRYK’S INSTANT IMPRESSION
On as a 55th-minute substitute, new Chelsea signing Mykhailo Mudryk injected quality into a game that looked desperately short of match-winners.
The winger’s move from Shakhtar Donetsk could be worth up to $108 million but there was little sign of that price tag weighing him down as he sparked panic in Liverpool’s defense with his dribbling and burst of pace.
“He’s had two sessions with us, but from watching him at Shakhtar, seeing his quality there, he is dangerous in one vs. one situations," Chelsea manager Graham Potter said. "In the final third he can make things happen. He’ll get supporters off their seats,”
PRESSURE ON LAMPARD
It just gets worse for Frank Lampard after Everton lost to West Ham 2-0 in front of the Merseyside club chairman Bill Kenwright and majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri.
That’s eight losses in a winless run that stretches to 10 games in all competitions.
Kenwright was asked as he left London Stadium if the latest defeat spelled the end for Lampard.
“It’s been a bad run of results for us all, and for Frank, but I would never say that to you. We’ve just got to start winning, haven’t we?” he said.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to see where Everton’s next win will come from and whether Lampard can turn his team’s fortunes around.
The nature of the loss against a West Ham team that was also in desperate need of the points, deepened the doubts about Lampard’s position.
West Ham had managed just one win in its previous eight games before Saturday, but Jarrod Bowen’s first-half double lifted it out of the bottom three.
RELEGATION SCRAP
No one has been cut adrift in the fight for survival with just three points separating Leicester in 14th and bottom-of-the-table Southampton.
Leicester was denied a first win in the league since November when substitute Evan Ferguson struck in the 88th minute to earn visiting Brighton a 2-2 draw.
Nottingham Forest’s upwards trajectory continued after Sam Surridge’s 83rd-minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth which dropped the Cherries into the bottom three.
Forest has picked up 11 points from a possible 18 to move five points away from the drop zone.
EMERY’S VILLA TRANSFORMATION
Ollie Watkins’ 77th-minute goal secured for Aston Villa a 1-0 win against Southampton.
Villa's rise under manager Unai Emery extended to five wins in the Spaniard’s seven league games in charge, with only one defeat.
Villa was a place above the relegation zone on goal difference when Steven Gerrard was fired in October, but is up to 11th and one point behind Liverpool and Chelsea.
“We can do better," Emery said. “We are winning some matches, but there’s more in my mind I want to do.”
NEWCASTLE MISS CHANCE
This weekend represented a chance for Newcastle to take advantage of at least one of Arsenal or Manchester United dropping points when they meet at Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Eddie Howe’s team moved back up to third, above United on goal difference after drawing at Crystal Palace 0-0. But it felt like a missed opportunity to put pressure on two of their closest rivals in the standings.
The Magpies also failed to capitalize on the draw between Liverpool and Chelsea earlier in the day by widening the gap on them.
Still, the point extended Newcastle’s unbeaten run in the league to 15 games since defeat to Liverpool in August.
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GREENSBORO — Local "Hamilton" fans may get a glimpse around town of its cast members, who say they are eager to explore the city — from its rich history to its culinary options.
The Broadway blockbuster opened Wednesday at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, which will host performances through April 24.
Tyler Belo, who plays the characters of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, said Friday that he recently enjoyed lunch at local taco favorite, Crafted, in downtown Greensboro. It's his first trip to North Carolina.
"I've only had good experiences so far in Greensboro," Belo said during an interview at the Tanger Center. "It's been great. I'm excited to go to the civil rights museum."
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Belo said he looks forward to his interactions with people who come out to see the show. And, don't be surprised to see him around town taking pictures in his off time, which he said is one way he likes to feed his creativity.
Josh Tower, who plays Aaron Burr, is no stranger to North Carolina. He studied acting and earned his master's degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998.
"I cut my teeth there," Tower said about UNC's influence on his acting career.
Tower said he is already enjoying his time at the Tanger Center.
"This theater is beautiful," he said, noting the view from the stage is spectacular. "It really is a pretty space."
As a husband and a father of two children, ages 7 and 9, Tower said he is doing his best to balance his joy of performing with knowing he may be missing special moments at home.
"I feel every minute of it," he said as he placed his hand over his heart.
Fellow cast member Zoe Jensen plays Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton. She said the show has inspired her interest in learning more about history — including Greensboro's.
"I'm really looking forward to exploring," Jensen said. "It's actually fun to learn about history."
Jensen hopes audiences will enjoy the depth of characters like Eliza.
"She always looks forward," Jensen said. "Even through tragedy, she can see how lucky she is."
Belo said he has also learned life lessons from playing James Madison, such as choosing when and how to express opinions.
Certain themes resonate deeply with characters, Tower said, including lyrics in the song "Wait For It" that speak to how love and life do not discriminate between sinners and saints.
"That really embodies Burr to a T," Tower said.
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the script, music and lyrics for "Hamilton" and originally starred in its titular role. It has won 11 Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a special citation from Kennedy Center Honors.
The musical has been a smash hit since its off-Broadway debut in 2015, followed by its Broadway premiere. | 2022-04-09T01:04:11+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/entertainment/watch-now-hamilton-cast-members-eager-to-explore-greensboros-history-culture-and-cuisine/article_79ebe630-b760-11ec-b74a-8f764afc8ef1.html |
BEREA, Ohio – Myles Garrett knows he's lucky. His life could be very different or even over.
Speaking to reporters for the first time since losing control and flipping his Porsche after practice on Monday, the Browns' star defensive end promised to change his behavior after surviving a crash he caused by driving too fast.
“Definitely grateful to be here,” Garrett said Friday after the Browns practiced without him.
Garrett sustained a sprained shoulder, strained biceps and cuts along with a ruptured blood vessel in his left eye during the single-car wreck on a rural road near his home following practice.
“This will be definitely a wake-up call for me, just try to be smart overall with driving," said the 26-year-old, who has been ticketed numerous times for speeding in the past few years. "Don’t take anything for granted. Be grateful that I’m still able to be here and just take my time.”
If not for wearing seatbelts, Garrett said, both he and a female passenger probably would not have walked away from the crash.
"With what I saw, the pictures (of his car), I think it was a hell of an event and just grateful that not only am I alive, I was able to have so much of my family and the support system that was around me and just keep me locked in and keep me focused on taking it day by day,” he said.
Despite his injuries, and not practicing for the past three days, Garrett is being listed by the Browns (2-1) as questionable for Sunday's road game against the Atlanta Falcons (1-2).
Coach Kevin Stefanski said the Browns' medical staff will see how Garrett responds to rest and treatment over the next two days before deciding on whether he’ll play. The Browns leave for Georgia on Saturday.
Garrett cleared concussion protocol following the accident. He's still a little sore,but feeling better and said he'd like to face the Falcons.
“That’s up to the training staff and the coaches,” he said. "If it were up to me, I would love to go. That’s just my competitive spirit and my nature. Physically we have to assess that going up to the game, today, tomorrow and on Sunday.
“But that’s just a decision we’ll make closer to game time.”
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the 26-year-old Garrett was traveling at an "unsafe speed” when his 2021 Porsche Turbo S went off the road, veered into a ditch and hit a fire hydrant before rolling several times.
The 23-year-old female with Garrett also suffered minor injuries and was treated at a hospital.
“That was a big sigh of relief for me because I was the one who put us in danger,” Garrett said. “So it was very calming for me to know that they were OK.”
Garrett told officers he thought was going 65 mph in a 45 mph zone before going off the hilly road near his home in Wadsworth, Ohio. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected, the highway patrol said in its post-crash report.
The accident destroyed Garrett's car and left him along with many of his teammates shaken.
“I think emotionally I’m pretty grounded with everything, I’ve put it behind me,” Garrett said. "Physically I’m still dealing with some of the injuries that came along with it, but it’s really just a blur, it all happened pretty fast.
“Sometimes, the last couple nights I’ve sat and thought about some of the different situations, scenarios, how it played out, but knowing that I can’t change the past, just got to keep moving forward and glad everyone’s all right.”
Garrett said that in the moments after the crash, his focus was on everything but his playing career.
“I thought about my family. I thought about them worrying,” he said. “I thought about my passenger and making sure that they were OK and that their life was going to remain the same. It was not on football because at that point, everything that had just happened was much bigger than football, and it really involved our lives just moving forward.”
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft has been ticketed numerous times for speeding. He was cited on successive days last year for going 120 mph and paying a fine for an amended 99 mph violation in a 70 mph zone.
Garrett said the crash will change the way he drives.
“I don’t think it takes something as drastic as this to tell me that I need to slow down,” he said. “It’s about listening to my love ones, hearing them out and understanding that it is serious every time you get into the car.”
Garrett has a team-high three sacks in three games. He needs just one one to pass Clay Matthews (62) for the franchise career record.
NOTES: Browns DE Jadeveon Clowney (ankle) is also questionable for Sunday. He missed last week's game against Pittsburgh with the injury. ... If Garrett and Clowney don't play, rookie Alex Wright and Isaac Rochell will start. ... DT Taven Bryan (hamstring) was ruled out and will be replaced in the starting lineuo by Tommy Togiai.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-01T07:40:44+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/sports/2022/09/30/browns-star-garrett-listed-as-questionable-after-car-crash/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Schools received $3 billion in federal relief funding from the pandemic, and the clock is ticking to spend it.
Districts have until September 30th to spend the first round of funding before it expires.
According to the State Department of Education, $194 million has been allocated to districts and there is $54 million left for them to spend.
Derek Phillips with the State Department of Education explained the money can only be used for pandemic-related things like learning loss prevention, cleaning supplies, mental health services and summer learning.
Phillips added each district is required to submit a spending plan for its funding. Once the State approves the plan, the money is released.
"[School districts] had to show documentation that they got public input," said Phillips. "Whether it be a public meeting, or a survey that they send out to the districts, to their families, and communities."
Each district's plan is available on the Department of Education's website.
"The districts have, have really put it to good use towards, you know, getting their kids back in the buildings, being able to gain start gaining back what they lost during the pandemic," said Phillips.
Phillips said many school districts spent most of the first round money on technology like laptops and Wifi as well as PPE.
Richland Two teacher and Director of Governmental Affairs for the Palmetto State Teachers Association Patrick Kelly explained the impact ESSER funds has had on his classroom.
"ESSER funds played a big role in returning safely to the classroom in terms of making sure that we had the PPE and the standardization materials that we needed," said Kelly. "But recently, the bigger use of ESSER funds has been around learning recovery for students, especially in elementary and middle school, but also at high."
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Kelly pointed to Richland Two's Summer Opportunity for Academic Readiness (SOAR) program, a free, in-person extended learning camp for elementary and middle school students.
According to state data from June 10, Richland Two has $1.2 million remaining from the first round of funding. Districts like Richland One, Lexington Four, and Clarendon 1 have used all their round one funding.
According to their plans submitted to the Department of Education, Lexington Four spent $1.8 million on school repairs and improvements and $4.3 million on improving indoor air quality. $1.3 million was allocated for technology while $250,000 was budgeted for cleaning supplies and sanitation.
Richland One put $20 million towards Technology and nearly $1 million towards school repairs. $300,000 was budgeted for mental health services while $1.3 million was allocated for cleaning and sanitation supplies.
Richland one is planning to spend $36 million in ESSER funds this year on staffing, Instructional Materials, Afterschool Remediation Program and Summer Programs at elementary and secondary schools.
According to Kershaw County School District Communication Director Rebecca Bean, KCSD was given a total of around $32.3 million in ESSER II and III money. The district has around $17.5 million left.
Kelly called the funding a once in a lifetime opportunity to address urgent issues like teacher shortages.
"If we're trying to address two years of disrupted learning due to COVID and instructional changes and instructional models, Let's get high quality teachers in the classroom," said Kelly. "Let's use those extra funds in a way that help attract and recruit the very best talent."
According to the Department of Education, once the money expires, it's gone for good. Districts have until 2023 to spend the second round of funding and 2024 to spend the third round before it expires.
The two rounds total more than $2 billion. | 2022-08-25T16:48:04+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/education/clock-ticking-sc-schools-federal-covid-relief-funding/101-8112d1b5-3548-4150-bb5c-fbce1d285d10 |
- CU22-06 – 7.0 metres of 12.18 g/t Au Eq
- CU22-09 – 3.0 metres of 11.80 g/t Au Eq
- CU22-12– 50 metre down dip step-out below CU22-05 (5.0 metres of 30.47 g/t Au Eq): 7.0 metre interval with visually similar characteristics
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Luminex Resources Corp. (TSXV: LR) (OTCQX: LUMIF) (the "Company" or "Luminex") is pleased to announce drill results from four holes at the Cuyes West structure and from three holes at the Ruiz structure. At Cuyes West, the current drilling has confirmed the strike length of the structure is in excess of 300 metres, and it has been mapped at surface for more than 500 metres. The drill intersection in hole CU22-12, the deepest so far, indicates that it has a vertical extent of at least 250 metres. The western edge of the Cuyes West structure is approximately 300 metres from the Camp deposit.
Marshall Koval, CEO and Director commented: "We are extremely pleased with the results coming in from our step-out drilling at Cuyes West. The mineralized structure is taking shape after the positive results from the first nine holes. The six additional pending holes, including the visual core logging on hole CU22-12 has the geological team optimistic about future success at Cuyes West. Outside of Cuyes West, we also have five holes pending at Camp. The team has planned a 2023 drill program to continue expanding Cuyes West and Camp. Given that the 2021 PEA did not include the Cuyes West discovery, the team looks forward to seeing its impact."
Hole CU22-06 intersected 7.0 metres from 225 metres down hole grading 11.88 g/t gold and 25.4 g/t silver (12.18 g/t Au Eq). This hole stepped out approximately 60 metres below hole CU22-01, which intersected 8.6 metres grading 5.10 g/t gold and 24.85 g/t silver (5.39 g/t Au Eq) within a wider interval of 17.6 metres grading 2.91 g/t gold and 15.23 g/t silver (3.09 g/t Au Eq). Combined with hole CU22-01, these holes may indicate the emergence of a high-grade vertical zone or "shoot".
Hole CU22-09 stepped out approximately 60 metres to depth on hole CU22-04 and intersected 12 metres grading 3.71 g/t gold, 21.2 g/t silver (3.97 g/t Au Eq.), including an intercept of 3.0 metres grading 11.51 g/t gold, 23.7 g/t silver (11.80 g/t Au Eq). Hole CU22-04 contained 4.0 metres grading 6.38 g/t gold and 108.1 g/t silver (7.68 g/t Au Eq.).
Holes CU22-08 and CU22-09 may represent an area between higher grade and thicker "shoots", but nonetheless demonstrate the continuity of the mineralized structure. Results are detailed in Table 1.
The emerging Cuyes West structure is similar to the Camp deposit and contains multiple structures into which rhyolite dikes have been emplaced. Mineralization typically occurs in and along the contacts of these structures. Both deposits are interpreted to be hosted in large scale "ring-fractures" centred around the Los Cuyes Diatreme (See Figure 1).
At Cuyes West and Camp, the gold-bearing mineralization style is quite recognizable, with pyrite and sphalerite breccias, veins and disseminations, often with marcasite and rhodochrosite, and rarely other sulphides. Drilling has been ongoing at Cuyes West with step-outs based on logged mineralization. Holes that have been drilled, for which results are pending, are shown in Figure 2. Geological logging of hole CU22-12, a 50 metre, near-vertical step-out on hole CU22-05 is of particular note, as it contains a seven-metre intercept resembling the five-metre intercept cut in hole CU22-05 from 277m: five metres grading 29.43 g/t gold and 86.5 g/t silver (30.47 g/t Au Eq). Intervals shown in Figure 2 represent the primary interval for the zone. Other intervals are present in parallel structures that are not presented as pierce points in Figure 2.
At the Ruiz structure, the results of a fan of three shallow holes drilled from the southwest to test the upper part of Ruiz intersected a consistent gold bearing structure, as shown in Figure 3, with results listed in Table 1. Hole RZ22-01 also contained a 22-metre intercept grading 0.36 g/t gold and 26.8 g/t silver (0.68g/t Au Eq) as disseminated pyrite and sphalerite mineralization in a diatreme host rock, resembling the Los Cuyes deposit. This area will be the focus of future surface mapping to better define the diatreme body. The interpretation of the intersection of the Cuyes West and Ruiz structures is developing as drilling in this area continues.
Table 1. Drill intercepts for Cuyes West and Ruiz drill holes. Asterisked intervals are shallower and belong to the diatreme at Los Cuyes and at Ruiz (see note below).
All Luminex sample assay results have been independently monitored through a quality control / quality assurance ("QA/QC") protocol which includes the insertion of blind standards, blanks as well as pulp and reject duplicate samples. Logging and sampling are completed at Luminex's core handling facility located at the Condor property. Drill core is diamond sawn on site and half drill-core samples are securely transported to ALS Laboratories' ("ALS") sample preparation facility in Quito, Ecuador. Sample pulps are sent to ALS's lab in Lima, Peru for analysis where gold content is determined by fire assay of a 50-gram charge with ICP finish.
Silver and other elements are also determined by ICP methods. Over-limit samples assaying greater than 10 g/t gold and 100 g/t silver are re-analyzed by ALS using fire assay with a gravimetric finish. Luminex is not aware of any drilling, sampling, recovery or other factors that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of the data referred to herein. ALS Laboratories is independent of Luminex.
Leo Hathaway, P. Geo, Senior Vice President Exploration of Luminex and the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed, verified and approved the scientific and technical information concerning the Condor Project in this news release and has verified the data underlying that scientific and technical information.
Luminex Resources Corp. (TSXV:LR, OTCQX:LUMIF) is a Vancouver, Canada based precious and base metals exploration and development company focused on gold and copper projects in Ecuador. Luminex's inferred and indicated mineral resources are located at the Condor Gold-Copper project in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, southeast Ecuador. Luminex also holds a large and highly prospective land package in Ecuador, including the Pegasus and Orquideas projects, which are being co-developed with Anglo American and JOGMEC respectively.
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LUMINEX RESOURCES CORP.
Signed: "Marshall Koval"
Marshall Koval, CEO and Director
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Certain statements and information herein, including all statements that are not historical facts, contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements or information include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future drilling and work programs at Condor. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements or information can be identified by the use of phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will" occur or be achieved.
With respect to forward-looking statements and information contained herein, the Company has made numerous assumptions including among other things, assumptions about general business and economic conditions, the prices of gold and copper, and anticipated costs and expenditures. The foregoing list of assumptions is not exhaustive.
Although management of the Company believes that the assumptions made and the expectations represented by such statements or information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that a forward-looking statement or information herein will prove to be accurate. Forward-looking statements and information by their nature are based on assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. These factors include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the business of the Company; business and economic conditions in the mining industry generally; the supply and demand for labour and other project inputs; changes in commodity prices; changes in interest and currency exchange rates; risks relating to inaccurate geological and engineering assumptions (including with respect to the tonnage, grade and recoverability of reserves and resources); risks relating to unanticipated operational difficulties (including failure of equipment or processes to operate in accordance with specifications or expectations, cost escalation, unavailability of materials and equipment, government action or delays in the receipt of government approvals, industrial disturbances or other job action, and unanticipated events related to health, safety and environmental matters); risks relating to adverse weather conditions; political risk and social unrest; changes in general economic conditions or conditions in the financial markets; changes in laws (including regulations respecting mining concessions); and other risk factors as detailed from time to time in the Company's continuous disclosure documents filed with Canadian securities administrators. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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It’s always fun to kick off the weekend with a massive breakfast feast. But sometimes when Saturday morning rolls around, the last thing you want to do is destroy the kitchen with a morning of cooking.
Make it easy on yourself — and feed a crowd — with this easy French toast bake recipe from the Passionate Penny Pincher. You can prepare it the night before and have it ready to go first thing in the a.m.!
Or, if you’re a breakfast-for-dinner kind of family, Laurie Hise (the writer behind the blog) suggests making the French toast bake in the morning. Pop it in the oven at dinner time and serve with protein-packed eggs and fresh fruit for the full breakfast experience.
The recipe suggests using thick-cut bread for the French toast bake — you’ll need that extra thickness to absorb the egg mixture. Other ideas: use croissants or cut-up cinnamon rolls.
First, you’ll make a melted-butter-and-brown-sugar mixture in the microwave, then pour it into the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Make sure the whole dish is evenly coated.
Next, you’ll beat together eggs, milk and vanilla, then place a layer of bread in the dish. Pour about half of the egg mixture on top of the bread, then add a second layer of bread on top of that (we told you this would feed a crowd!).
Pour the rest of the egg mixture on the second layer, then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Believe it or not, that’s it!
Cover and refrigerate the dish for at least six hours, or overnight if you’ll be eating the bake the next morning.
About an hour before go-time, preheat your oven and pop in the baking dish. Keep the dish covered with aluminum foil for about half of the cooking time, then remove for the final half. The dish bakes in about 45 minutes.
Finally, top the bake however you wish — powdered sugar and strawberries, perhaps? — and serve slices with maple syrup. Yum!
Read the full recipe from Passionate Penny Pincher for all the details. And enjoy!
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-03-10T18:24:34+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/french-toast-bake-is-an-easy-make-ahead-breakfast |
The best Wayfair decor deals for college-bound students
Heading off to college after high school can be stressful and even scary. In addition to being prepared for classes with the right accessories, books and tools, any college-bound student needs to ensure their dorm room is well furnished.
Wayfair is running sales on plenty of excellent items for college-bound students. You may want to shop for a mattress, a dresser for keeping their clothes and a desk for doing homework. You can also add a few other things to the mix to make your child’s dorm room more cozy.
Shop this article: Steelside Avera 47.2-Inch L-Shaped Corner Desk, Mercury Row Roybal TV Stand and Birch Lane Carney Coffee Table
Getting ready to move in
It depends on the college your kid is attending and what kind of accommodations the school offers, but there are several essentials you can consider getting for your kid to furnish their dorm room and ensure they’re good to go once school starts. If your kid’s dorm room isn’t furnished, they’ll have to provide their own bed, shelves and desk. A few other things worth considering are nightstands, dressers, TV stands and even decorations to make it can add a cozy touch.
Best Wayfair decor deals
Steelside Avera 47.2-Inch L-Shaped Corner Desk
This clean-lined executive desk is made from engineered wood with a natural finish and has a sturdy metal base. The L shape makes it perfect for a dorm room corner, and the workspace can accommodate a laptop, lamp and accessories. Plus, it has two shelves for keeping books, papers and more.
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This stand has a contemporary style and can accommodate TVs as large as 70 inches wide. The frame is made from sturdy, engineered wood, and the open cubbies are perfect for keeping media players, cable boxes, speakers and gaming consoles. Plus, there is a storage cabinet on either side.
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Birch Lane Carney Coffee Table
Tempered glass and a metal frame are an excellent combination for a modern-looking coffee table. This table measures 19 by 48 inches and is sturdy enough to hold potted plants, picture frames and electronics. It’s scratch-resistant and stain-resistant, and the lower shelf is great for keeping decorations, games and other accessories.
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Kelly Clarkson Home Ayden Five-Drawer 38-Inch W Solid Wood Chest
Although this dresser is expensive, its high-quality solid wood construction guarantees your kid will use it for years after they’ve left college. It has a tall and slim silhouette, so it doesn’t take up much space, and it has a white hue finish and contrasting chestnut on top for a vintage look.
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Flash Furniture Four-Drawer Vertical Storage Dresser
If your kid only needs something basic and space-saving to keep their clothes and other stuff, this vertical storage dresser is what you’ll want to get them. It has a wooden top that lets you use it as a nightstand, and the easy-pull drawers have a simple but charming nonwoven fabric design.
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Nicole Curtis Oriental Light Area Rug
This rug is made from a blend of chenille and cotton for a plush, premium feel and has an elegant design with a Persian floral print throughout. The distressed finish adds a vintage look, and the lightweight design makes it suitable for dorm rooms, bedrooms or home-office spaces.
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Kelly Clarkson Home Indigo Botanical I 3-Piece Canvas Print
Although not essential, decorating your kid’s dorm room walls can create a cozy ambiance. You can keep things cheap but stylish with this canvas print featuring a charming floral touch with excellent cohesion across all three pieces. Plus, they’re ready to hang right out of the box.
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Zipcode Design Beckville Solid Nightstand
This nightstand has a sturdy frame made from a blend of solid and engineered wood and a light oak finish contrasting the copper handles. The frame’s foundation is built on block feet, and the shelves smoothly glide in and out to reveal storage space.
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Wayfair Sleep 12-Inch Pocket Spring Mattress
This pocket spring mattress offers low-motion transfer and has layers of memory foam for medium firmness and superior breathability. Moisture-wicking properties help you stay cool at night, and the individually wrapped pocket coil springs offer increased durability. Plus, it’s suitable for any sleeping position.
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Andover Mills Rushville Wood Nightstand
A three-drawer nightstand is perfect for smaller dorm rooms and keeping books, chargers, glasses, small electronics, stationery supplies and more. The drawers have round handles, and the 18.5-inch surface area can accommodate a plant, table lamp or several accent pieces. Plus, it arrives fully assembled and comes in eight colors.
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Mercury Row Ahart Coffee Table
This coffee table has a two-tone finish and an X-shaped base for a modern look. It’s perfect for keeping drinks nearby or playing board games. The neutral colors allow it to blend in with the rest of the décor in any room, and the rectangular surface can support up to 125 pounds.
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Andover Mills Hansley Upholstered Barrel Chair
Comfort is important for any student to focus, making this barrel chair an excellent buy for those late-night study sessions. The sleek silhouette offers a modern look suitable for any dorm, and its upholstery is foam-filled polyester blend fabric available in 27 colors. The cushion is removable for easy cleaning.
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Worth checking out
- This Cosmoliving Westerleigh Manufactured Wood Nightstand has two front drawers and a spacious surface.
- The Red Barrel Studio Harney Solid Wood Bed is available in three wood finishes and offers excellent durability.
- Your kid will love this Everly Quinn Joclynn Upholstered Bed thanks to its charming platform design.
- With X-based legs and metal accents, the Mercury Row Marotta Solid and Manufactured Wood Nightstand suits any dorm room.
- The Mercury Row Annie Nightstand is a modern two-drawer accent table with two open shelves for books and other items.
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — School may be out for the summer, but Henrico Schools is still looking to hire new security and nutrition staff, bus drivers, teachers and more for the coming school year.
Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) is hosting several job fairs throughout July to fill full-time and part-time positions for the 2023-24 school year. The fairs include one all-encompassing job event for bus drivers, teachers, nurses, custodians and more, as well as two fairs specifically for school security officer positions and one fair specifically for school nutrition staff.
Ready to start looking for you next job? Here is everything you need to know about July’s job fairs:
Henrico County Public Schools Job Fair
- When: Tuesday, July 11 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- Where: Libbie Mill Area Library, 2100 Libbie Lake E. Street
- What jobs are available: Bus drivers, school nutrition staff, teachers, substitute teachers, school nurses and temporary instructional assistant
- More to know: A HCPS human resources representatives will be on site to answer any questions
School Security Officers Job Fair
- When: Thursday, July 13 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- Where: Highland Springs High School, 200 S. Airport Drive
- What jobs are available: School security staff
- More to know: Interested candidates should fill out a survey at www.hcps.info/SecuritySurvey ahead of time and bring a copy of their updated resume to the job fair.
School Security Officers Job Fair
- When: Thursday, July 20 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- Where: J.R. Tucker High School, 2910 N. Parham Road
- What jobs are available: School security staff
- More to know: Interested candidates should fill out a survey at www.hcps.info/SecuritySurvey ahead of time and bring a copy of their updated resume to the job fair.
School Nutrition Services Job Fair
- When: Tuesday, July 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Where: Tuckahoe Area Library, 1901 Starling Drive
- What jobs are available: School nutrition staff
For more information about working at Henrico Schools, go to the HCPS Careers website or call the HCPS Human Resources Department at 804-652-3664. | 2023-07-05T23:03:53+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/henrico-schools-to-hold-job-fairs-for-teachers-security-guards-and-more/ |
Class D Baseball and Softball Heal Point Standings – May 16
Most schools are a little over half-way through their 16 game baseball and softball schedules. Although all teams are eligible this year for post-season play, teams are vying for seeding. Here are the records and Heal Point Standings of the Class D Northern Maine Baseball and Softball Teams as of Monday morning, May 16th. Best of luck the rest of the season
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MCALLEN, Texas (KVEO) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in an accident while on duty, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
At about 1 a.m. Wednesday, a Border Patrol agent on an all-terrain vehicle assigned to the McAllen station was tracking a group of people suspected of crossing the border illegally, the agency said. While on the vehicle, the agent was involved in an accident near Mission, Texas.
A news release stated he was found unresponsive by his fellow agents who initiated life-saving efforts and requested EMS support.
The agent was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“The death of an agent who died while securing our nation’s border is a tremendous loss for our organization and our nation, our prayers are with his family and co-workers during this difficult time,” said United States Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. | 2022-12-07T19:07:27+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/border-patrol-agent-dies-in-atv-accident-while-on-duty/ |
Tigers vs. Nationals Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 20
The Washington Nationals (18-27) take a four-game losing run into a home matchup versus the Detroit Tigers (20-22), at 4:05 PM ET on Saturday.
The Nationals will give the nod to Patrick Corbin (2-5, 4.65 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 3 on the season, and the Tigers will turn to Alex Faedo (0-1, 4.22 ERA).
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Tigers vs. Nationals Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
- Time: 4:05 PM ET
- TV: MASN2
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Venue: Nationals Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Corbin - WSH (2-5, 4.65 ERA) vs Faedo - DET (0-1, 4.22 ERA)
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Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Alex Faedo
- The Tigers will look to Faedo (0-1) to open the game and make his third start this season.
- In his most recent time out on Saturday, the right-hander threw six innings against the Seattle Mariners, giving up three earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- He has a 4.22 ERA and 6.7 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are batting .179 against him over his two games this season.
- Faedo is looking to secure his second quality start of the season.
- Faedo is looking to pick up his second start of five or more innings this year in this matchup.
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Nationals Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Patrick Corbin
- Corbin (2-5) will take to the mound for the Nationals and make his 10th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last start was on Monday, when he tossed six innings while giving up two earned runs on eight hits in a matchup with the New York Mets.
- The 33-year-old has pitched in nine games this season with a 4.65 ERA and 5.5 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .295.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his fourth consecutive quality start.
- Corbin has eight starts in a row of five innings or more.
- The 33-year-old's 4.65 ERA ranks 56th, 1.430 WHIP ranks 60th, and 5.5 K/9 ranks 72nd among qualified pitchers in the majors this year.
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By JUSTIN SPIKE and BERNAT ARMANGUÉ
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — When Zafer Mahmut Boncuk’s apartment building collapsed in Turkey’s devastating earthquake, he discovered his 75-year-old mother was still alive — but pinned under the wreckage.
For hours, Boncuk frantically searched for someone in the ancient, devastated city of Antakya to help him free her. He was able to talk to her, hold her hand and give her water. Despite his pleas, however, no one came, and she died on Tuesday, the day after the quake.
Like many others in Turkey, his sorrow and disbelief have turned to rage over the sense there has been an unfair and ineffective response to the historic disaster that has killed tens of thousands of people there and in Syria.
Boncuk directed his anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, especially because she seemed so close to rescue but no one came. Nearly a week the building collapsed, her body — as well as that of his father — are still in the rubble.
“What would happen if it was your own mother, dear Recep Tayyip Erdogan? What happened to being a world leader? Where are you? Where?” he screamed.
“I gave her water to drink, I cleared her face of rubble. I told her that I would save her. But I failed,” said Boncuk, 60. “The last time we spoke, I asked if I should help her drink some water. She said no, so I rubbed some water on her lips. Ten minutes later, she died.”
He blamed “ignorance and lack of information and care — that’s why my mother died in front of my eyes.”
Many in Turkey express similar frustration that rescue operations have been painfully slow since the Feb. 6 quakes and that valuable time was lost during the narrow window for finding people alive.
Others, particularly in southern Hatay province near the Syrian border, say Erdogan’s government was late in delivering assistance to the hardest-hit region for what they suspect are both political and religious reasons.
In the southeastern town of Adiyaman, Elif Busra Ozturk waited outside the wreckage of a building on Saturday where her uncle and aunt were trapped and believed dead, and where the bodies of two of her cousins already had been found.
“For three days, I waited outside for help. No one came. There were so few rescue teams that they could only intervene in places they were sure there were people alive,” she said.
At the same complex, Abdullah Tas, 66, said he had been sleeping in a car near the building where his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were buried. He said that rescuers had first arrived four days after the earthquake struck. The Associated Press could not independently verify his claim.
“What good is that for the people under the debris?” he asked.
Onlookers stood behind police tape Saturday in Antakya as bulldozers clawed at a high-rise luxury apartment building that had toppled onto its side.
Over 1,000 residents had been in the 12-story building when the quake struck, according to relatives watching the recovery effort. They said hundreds were still inside but complained the effort to free them had been slow and not serious.
“This is an atrocity, I don’t know what to say,” said Bediha Kanmaz, 60. The bodies of his son and 7-month-old grandson had been pulled from the building — still locked in an embrace — but his daughter-in-law was still inside.
“We open body bags to see if they’re ours, we’re checking if they’re our children. We’re even checking the ones that are torn to pieces,” she said of herself and other grief-stricken relatives.
Kanmaz also blamed Turkey’s government for the slow response, and accused the national rescue service of failing to do enough to recover people alive.
She and others in Antakya expressed the belief that the presence of a large minority of Alevis — an Anatolian Islamic community that differs from Sunni and Shia Islam and Alawites in Syria — had made them a low priority for the government. Traditionally, few Alevis vote for Erdogan’s ruling party. There was no evidence, however, that the region was overlooked for sectarian reasons.
Erdogan said Wednesday that disaster efforts were continuing in all 10 affected provinces and dismissed allegations of no help from state institutions like the military as “lies, fake slander.”
But he has acknowledged shortcomings. Officials said rescue efforts in Hatay were initially complicated by the destruction of the local airport’s runway and bad road conditions.
Anger over the extent of the destruction, however, is not limited to individuals. Turkish authorities have been detaining or issuing detention warrants for dozens of people allegedly involved in the construction of buildings that collapsed, and the justice minister has vowed to punish those responsible.
Kanmaz blamed negligence on the part of the developer of the apartment building where her family had been killed.
“If I could wrap my hands around the contractor’s neck, I would tear him to shreds,” she said.
That contractor, who oversaw the construction of the 250-unit building, was detained at Istanbul Airport on Friday before boarding a flight out of the country, Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported. On Saturday, he was formally arrested. His lawyer suggested the public was looking for a scapegoat.
In multiethnic southern Turkey, other tensions are rising. Some expressed frustration that Syrian refugees who fled to the region from their devastating civil war are burdening the sparse welfare system and competing for resources with Turkish people.
“There are many poor people in Hatay, but they don’t offer us any welfare; they give it to the Syrians. They give so much to the Syrians,” Kanmaz said. “There are more Syrians than Turks here.”
There were signs Saturday the tensions could be boiling over.
Two German aid groups and the Austrian Armed Forces temporarily interrupted their rescue work in the Hatay region citing fears for the safety of their staff. They resumed work after the Turkish army secured the area, the Austrian Defense Ministry spokesman tweeted.
“There is increasing tension between different groups in Turkey,” Lt. Col. Pierre Kugelweis of the Austrian Armed Forces told the APA news agency. “Shots have reportedly been fired.”
German news agency dpa reported that Steven Berger, chief of operations of the aid group I.S.A.R. Germany, said that “it can be seen that grief is slowly giving way to anger” in Turkey’s affected regions.
For Kanmaz, it was a mixture of grief and anger.
“I’m angry. Life is over,” she said. “We live for our children; what matters most to us is our children. We exist if they exist. Now we are over. Everything you see here is over.”
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Emrah Gurel in Adiyaman, Turkey, Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul, Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed.
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Follow AP’s earthquake coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/earthquakes | 2023-02-12T22:37:40+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/02/12/grief-gives-way-to-anger-over-turkeys-earthquake-response-2/ |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tom Brady as the first 45-year-old starting quarterback in NFL history looked quite a bit like the younger versions.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were left with an old, familiar feeling that isn’t quite so fuzzy.
Brady and Mike Evans connected on a punctuating touchdown, Leonard Fournette ran for 127 yards, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominated the Cowboys 19-3 in a season opener Sunday night.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game Prescott needs surgery for a fracture near the thumb on his throwing hand and will miss multiple weeks, a season-altering blow for the defending NFC East champs.
A rough night for Prescott got worse after his right hand struck a defender when throwing a pass in the fourth quarter. He was checked on the sideline before jogging to the locker room.
The latest injury came almost two years after the compound fracture of Prescott’s right ankle on the same field, a gruesome injury that ended his 2020 season in Week 5.
“It’s very disappointing, but injuries happen,” Prescott said. “Can’t necessarily control it. Obviously going to miss some time, not be there for my team. And that’s what hurts more than anything.”
Brady was in control throughout despite an extended break during training camp to attend to personal issues. The seven-time Super Bowl champ got a big assist from the defense in Todd Bowles’ debut as Tampa Bay’s coach following three seasons as defensive coordinator.
“I always play the game for my team, my teammates and the organization,” Brady said. “Just being around them is something I always enjoy. It keeps me very grounded, very humble. I feel like just one of the guys. Not many places where I can go where I feel like just one of the guys, but the locker room’s definitely one of those places.”
The Cowboys and Bucs had the top two offenses in the NFL last season, which started with Tampa Bay’s 31-29 win at home over Dallas when Brady and Prescott combined for seven TDs passing. Only one offense showed up this time.
Dallas drove 54 yards to a field goal on the first possession, but didn’t score again while finishing with its second-fewest points in an opener. The Cowboys lost to New Orleans 28-0 in 1989 — Jerry Jones’ first game as owner.
Julio Jones had a 48-yard catch in the two-time All-Pro’s Tampa Bay debut to set up one of four first-half field goals from Ryan Succop, who had five attempts before the break without a punt from the Bucs.
Brady, who improved to 7-0 against the Cowboys, was 18 of 27 for 212 yards with an interception that didn’t amount to much because Prescott and receiver Noah Brown couldn’t connect on an easy third-down throw near midfield early in the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys did nothing to quiet questions about the receiving group behind CeeDee Lamb, the third-year player who is the new No. 1 target after the offseason trade of Amari Cooper.
Lamb had two catches for 29 yards while drawing most of the attention. Noah Brown had five catches for 68 yards, while Prescott finished 14 of 29 for 134 yards with an interception that set up one of the first-half field goals.
The gap in receiving depth was clear, with Evans and Chris Godwin both having catches of at least 20 yards in the first quarter before Godwin had to leave with a hamstring injury.
The Cowboys stayed close in the first half only because of two sacks from reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons. Both forced field goals, and Succop missed one of the tries.
Devin White matched Parsons with two sacks of Prescott as the Cowboys lost to the Bucs at home for just the second time while coach Mike McCarthy dropped to 0-3 in openers with Dallas.
Bowles is 1-0 with the Bucs after taking over when Bruce Arians retired and moved to the front office.
“I think it was just about being dominant,” White said. “We wanted to set a tone for him as a head coach, for us as a defense as a whole. I think it was a great thing. We still have some things. We left a lot of plays out there.”
Fournette had 40 of the 79 yards on the drive that ended with Brady’s 5-yard scoring pass to Evans for a 19-3 lead.
ROOKIE LINEMEN
Dallas first-round pick Tyler Smith was the first rookie in franchise history to start an opener at left tackle. The Bucs also had a rookie starter in left guard Luke Goedeke, a second-rounder. Both teams entered the opener with questions up front because of injuries and personnel changes.
The injuries mounted, too. Dallas left guard Connor McGovern didn’t return after injuring his right ankle on the first series. Tampa Bay left tackle Donovan Smith exited in the second quarter with an elbow issue and also was ruled out.
INJURIES
Bucs: Godwin’s hamstring injury came after he entered the game with an uncertain status because of his recovery from a knee injury. … Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury. … Dallas DE Tarell Basham was sidelined by a thigh injury. Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: At NFC South rival New Orleans next Sunday. One of these teams has either won or shared the past five division titles.
Cowboys: Defending AFC champion Cincinnati visits next Sunday. Dallas opens with three of four games at home.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-09-13T01:03:49+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ap-brady-bucs-throttle-cowboys-19-3-as-prescott-injures-hand/ |
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Take a sneak peek at Peterboro Chinese restaurant, reopening in Cass Corridor
The Peterboro, a Chinese restaurant and cocktail bar in Detroit's Cass Corridor, quietly closed over the summer.
The restaurant was hotly anticipated when it debuted in 2016 under the co-ownership of managing partner Chuck Inchaustegui and the Detroit Optimist Society restaurant group (Sugar House, Wright & Co. and others).
With Asian and American influences on the menu — and opening chef Brion Wong at the helm — plus a focus on modern craft cocktails, the spot paid homage to the neighborhood's roots as a hub for Chinese-American businesses that flourished there in the early 20th century.
After months of being dark, Inchaustegui is readying to reopen the Peterboro in the next few weeks as the sole owner.
"I'm excited ... It's going to be good," he said at an invite-only soft service last week. "We cut down our food menu probably in half. I wanted to be able to do a few things and do them really well. I just picked the stuff that people liked the best."
One of those items people like best is, hands down, the cheeseburger spring roll. It has seasoned ground beef with melted cheese encased in a crispy wrapper and served with a Thousand Island-style dipping sauce and sliced pickles. It's on a list of small plates that also includes a vegetarian spring roll, sweet and spicy wok-fired chicken wings and house-made crab Rangoon. Gone are the salt and pepper calamari and the lettuce wraps.
Entrees, sticking in the $14-$20 range, include American Chinese flavors like General Tso, sesame and kung pao, each available with choice of chicken, tofu or cauliflower, plus a selection of fried rice and lo mein dishes.
The bar and restaurant look just about the same, save for a few colorful additions to the entrance to the back patio and a massive crimson dragon kite attached to the ceiling.
The cocktail menu, however, is completely new. Priced $11-$15 per drink, the flavors complement the food menu and include concoctions like the well-balanced Ghost, a smoky drink made with gin, St. Germain, cream of coconut, grapefruit and lemon. For their take on an old fashioned, the Gold Fashioned has toasted sesame rum and bourbon plus turmeric, mandarin and Ango soda.
So when will the Peterboro reopen? "A couple weeks," says Inchaustegui, adding he's got a mix of old and new team members and just hired some additional kitchen staff.
Until then, keep an eye on their social media — facebook.com/ThePeterboro and instagram.com/thepeterboro — for the official reopening. The Peterboro is at 420 Peterboro in Detroit.
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Twitter: @melodybaetens | 2022-12-01T20:12:46+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/dining/2022/12/01/peterboro-chinese-restaurant-reopening-in-detroits-cass-corridor/69682777007/ |
Jan. 6 witnesses push Trump stalwarts back to rabbit hole
One by one, several of Donald Trump's former top advisers have told a special House committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection that they didn't believe his lies about the 2020 election, and that the former president knew he lost to Joe Biden.
But instead of convincing Trump's most stalwart supporters, testimony from former attorney general Bill Barr and Trump's daughter Ivanka about the election and the attack on the U.S. Capitol is prompting many of them to simply reassert their views that the former president was correct in his false claim of victory.
Barr's testimony that Trump was repeatedly told there was no election fraud? He was paid off by a voting machine company, according to one false claim that went viral this week. Ivanka Trump saying she didn't believe Trump either? It's all part of Trump's grand plan to confuse his enemies and save America.
The claims again demonstrate how deeply rooted Trump's false narrative about the election has become.
"It's cognitive dissonance," said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a Syracuse University professor who has studied how Trump used social media and advertising to mobilize his base. "If you believe what Trump says, and now Bill Barr and Trump's own daughter are saying these other things, it creates a crack, and people have to fill it."
The lawmakers leading the hearings into the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol said one of their goals is to show how Trump repeatedly lied to his supporters in an effort to hold onto power and subvert American democracy.
"President Trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false, and convincing millions of Americans that the election was corrupt and he was the true president," said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the panel's vice chair. "As you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on January 6th."
For those who accept Trump's baseless claims, Barr's testimony was especially jarring. In his interview with investigators, he detailed Trump's many absurd allegations about the election 2020, calling them "bogus" and "idiotic."
Barr told the committee when he talked with Trump, "there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were."
"He's become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff," Barr said.
Following his testimony, many Trump supporters using sites like Reddit, GETTR and Telegram blasted Barr as a turncoat and noted that he's disputed Trump's election claims before.
But many others began grasping for alternative explanations for this testimony.
"I'm still hoping Barr is playing a role," one poster said on a Telegram channel popular with Trump supporters.
One post that spread widely this week suggested Barr was paid by Dominion Voting Systems, a company targeted by Trump and his supporters with baseless claims of vote rigging. "From 2009 to 2018, DOMINION PAID BARR $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings. (No wonder Barr can't find any voter fraud!)," the post read.
Wrong Dominion. Barr was paid by Dominion Energy, a publicly traded company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, that provides power and heat to customers in several mid-Atlantic states.
Unlike Barr, Ivanka Trump has remained intensely popular with many Trump supporters and is seen by many as her father's potential successor. That may be why so many had to find an an alternative explanation for why she told Congress she didn't accept her father's claims.
Jordan Sather, a leading proponent of the QAnon theory, claims both Barr and Ivanka Trump lied during their testimony on Trump's orders, part of an elaborate scheme to defeat Trump's enemies by confusing Congress and the American public.
"I can just imagine Donald Trump telling Ivanka: 'Hey, go to this hearing, say these things. Screw with their heads,'" Sather said last week on his online show.
Some Trump supporters dismissed Ivanka Trump's testimony entirely by questioning whether any of it was real. That's another common refrain seen on far-right message boards. Many posters say they don't even believe the hearings are happening, but are a Hollywood production starring stand-ins for the former president's daughter and others.
"She looks different in a big way," one poster asked on Telegram. "CGI?" | 2022-06-18T10:28:25+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/jan-6-witnesses-push-trump-stalwarts-back-rabbit-hole/40328578 |
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A Russian court on Friday sentenced a top opposition figure to a years-long prison term, the latest move in the Kremlin’s multipronged crackdown on opposition activists, independent media and rights groups.
Andrei Pivovarov, former head of the Open Russia group, was sentenced to four years in prison by a court in the southern city of Krasnodar. Pivovarov was charged with “directing an undesirable organization,” a criminal offense under a 2015 law. He has maintained his innocence and has insisted that the charges against him were brought because of his plans to run for parliament in September 2021.
Pivovarov’s jailing and prosecution came as part of a sweeping effort by President Vladimir Putin’s government to stifle any and all dissent in Russia. It kicked off with the arrest and jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in January 2021. Since then, dozens of opposition activists have faced prosecution and pressure from the authorities. Many have left Russia, while others have been imprisoned.
The clampdown intensified after Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, with the remaining Kremlin critics facing charges for publicly denouncing the war. Earlier this week, a court in Moscow remanded another top opposition figure, Ilya Yashin, in custody pending investigation and trial on the charges of spreading false information about the Russian military. Yashin was one of the few prominent opposition politicians who haven’t left Russia.
Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound plane at St. Petersburg’s airport just before takeoff in May 2021. He was taken to the southern city of Krasnodar, where he was accused of supporting a local candidate on behalf of an “undesirable” organization. The charges were based on his social media posts supporting independent candidates in Krasnodar’s municipal election.
Pivovarov rejected the charges and noted that the criminal case against him was opened two days after Open Russia shut down. The group disbanded to shield members from prosecution after it was designated an “undesirable” organization.
Commenting Friday on his sentence, Pivovarov’s close ally Tatyana Usmanova vowed in a Facebook post that the fight for his freedom will continue. “An appeal, cassation and the Supreme Court are ahead, we will fight on,” Usmanova wrote.
Also Friday, Russian authorities declared two investigative news outlets “undesirable,” outlawing their operation in Russia.
The Prosecutor General’s office told Russia’s state news agency Tass that the investigative group Bellingcat and the Russian online outlet The Insider, as well as the Czech nonprofit CEELI Institute, “pose a threat to the foundations of the (country’s) constitutional order and security.”
The Insider, a news outlet registered in Latvia, has worked with Bellingcat on high-profile cases such as the nerve agent poisonings of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and Russian opposition leader Navalny. The websites of both have been blocked in Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian authorities have blocked dozens of news sites and taken renowned critical radio station off the airwaves. The websites of several foreign news outlets have also been blocked in Russia, as Moscow sought to control the narrative of what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Follow all developments linked to the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-07-16T11:34:17+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/another-top-opposition-figure-in-russia-handed-prison-term/ |
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Nataliya Hibska quickly brushes her teeth and makes the bed. She is rushing to her new job.
From a small hostel room in eastern Warsaw, Hibska, a Ukrainian refugee, is slowly rebuilding her life, which was abruptly upended by Russia’s invasion of her homeland.
European Union member nations like Poland and Romania — the two neighboring countries to have received the most refugees from Ukraine — have launched programs to help them integrate.
The 47-year-old former manager of a private education center from Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, Hibska fled her hometown after a second wave of shelling. When bombs struck a nearby military warehouse, rattling her home, she knew it was time to leave and seek refuge for herself and her 11-year-old son.
“We were afraid to go out, to let them go out into the yard, we were afraid to let them ride bicycles or play football. We were just so scared and we decided that that was enough. It was time to flee,” she said, describing the decision she and many of her neighbors were forced to take.
With only some basic belongings they embarked on what became a challenging five-day journey to the safety of Poland.
Three weeks on, and by a combination of help extended by ordinary people in Poland and policies put in place at the national and municipal level, Hibska and her son are starting to feel safe.
They have a simple yet welcoming home. Her son is enrolled at a local school, and she has started a new job as cook at a Ukrainian food bar launched specially to provide employment to refugees.
The workday starts early with food preparation ahead of the lunchtime rush.
Hibska and the five other Ukrainian women working here, all recently arrived refugees, roll out dough and chop fillings for traditional Ukrainian dumplings, pelmeni, that are a staple.
“I used to have five people working for me and I organized (youth) camps,” she said, reflecting on her past life in Kharkiv. “I am not embarrassed by the fact that currently I am working in a kitchen.”
Warsaw city authorities say work helps refugees integrate but is also filling vacancies in the health sector and in education, where special classes are being launched to assist newly arrived Ukrainian children.
Of the more than 4 million refugees that have fled Ukraine, over 2.4 million have crossed into Poland. While many have traveled onward throughout Europe, plenty have stayed in Poland which is offering free temporary accommodation, medical care, education and some social benefits. Some 625,000 refugees have sought and obtained Polish ID numbers entitling them to all that for 18 months.
But living off benefits was not something Nataliya would accept for too long.
“Volunteers help us with everything. We can live off Poland, but I don’t see that as a good thing,” she said. “ I need to work. You won’t get much doing nothing.”
Her new job helps provide for her and her son, Roman, and anything left over she hopes to send to her parents and husband, still living in Kharkiv.
Her good fortune in Poland was thanks to a free hostel run by a family of developers and hotel owners. The same company launched a Ukrainian food bar specifically to provide jobs to refugees.
The place opened 10 days ago and is quickly gaining in fame, with customers intent on helping Ukrainians all the while enjoying a good meal.
“The forms of help are evolving” said Karolina Samulowska awaiting her order. “At fist there was aid, sandwiches, railway stations.”
Now, at the bar “on the one hand the products are here and promote the country, on the other hand the money moves on, giving meaning to the refugees’ lives.”
As a regular flow of customers comes by to pick up lunch, the restaurant’s manager, Dorota Wereszczynska, reflects on the success.
“We were not expecting such popularity,” she said. “Our motto is “You buy. You eat. You help.”
Further south on Europe’s map, Romania has taken in more than 600,000 refugees from Ukraine.
Flavia Boghiu, the deputy mayor of the central city of Brasov, says the key to integration is to help people be “as autonomous as possible.”
The city’s refugee centers offer support and information on work offers, kindergartens and other activities, she told the AP, and local authorities proudly boast that of 1,200 refugees who arrived in the city, more than 75% want to stay.
The employment process is “much slower than normal, because most of them don’t have paperwork with them. … Also you need to discuss with them to understand their particular situation. If you have a mother with three children you need to see what you’re going to do with the children (while) she’s at work,” Boghiu said.
Four generations of Anastasia Yevdokimova’s family fled from their homes near the Black Sea. The 21-year-old beauty industry worker came to Brasov with her grandmother, her mother and her 3-year-old son. Brasov drew them with its impressive architecture and access to nature “which helps to distract from the circumstances,” Yevdokimova said.
They’ve already had to seek urgent medical care for the child and found it to be quick and attentive. That reassured them.
Another refugee, 27-year-old Karina Buiukli, a human resources manager from the Black Sea port city of Odesa, and her family have been offered free accommodation with a Brasov couple, but were not expecting the great kindness they have met with.
“Our hosts, the owners of this apartment, are so kind and now we’re just like friends,” Buiukli said. “They showed us the town, they asked us to their house, it seems like we’ve know each other for a long (time).”
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McGrath reported from Brasov, Romania. | 2022-04-04T14:10:15+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ukrainian-refugees-find-jobs-kindness-as-they-settle-in/ |
Addition of pickleball courts pits neighbor against neighbor, leads to lawsuits
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - The rise of pickleball in an Arizona neighborhood has turned neighbor against neighbor and even led to lawsuits.
Pickleball is described as a mix between tennis, badminton and ping-pong and is the fastest-growing sport in the U.S.
The demand for the sport has many cities, towns and homeowners associations trying to keep pace. Many passionate fans are even advocating for basketball and tennis courts to be converted to pickleball courts.
KPHO spoke to Tyler Minton and his wife, Clarissa. They both said it took just a few games to determine they were pickleballers.
Clarissa Minton said it’s an easy game to pick up.
”Then you’re pretty competitive, and everybody can play,” Tyler Minton said.
The couple often plays at Encanto Park in Phoenix. The city has tried to meet the growing demand for the sport over the last few years. They said they’ve converted tennis courts into pickleball courts at two parks and have another in the works.
But in private communities, these changes are more complicated.
Bothered by the noise from the game, Debbie Nagle and her partner, Michael Kucklinca, recorded sound and video from a pickleball court near their house in Scottsdale.
“Painful. It has completely changed my life,” Debbie Nagle said.
In the videos shared with KPHO, the repetitive “popping” noise of the ball hitting the paddles of the players can be heard.
“Very distracting, the high-pitched sound ... you lose your concentration,” Michael Kucklinca said.
The North Scottsdale homeowners said their HOA, Stonegate Community Association, didn’t consult them when they converted a nearby tennis court into two pickleball courts.
“My problem is that the HOA didn’t do due diligence. They didn’t do a sound study prior to putting the courts in,” Nagle said.
Lance Willis with S&W Acoustics and Noise Control told KPHO he sees it all the time. He’s called in to do noise mitigation studies.
“It’s intrusive, it’s a high onset rate, which is similar to other high impact sounds,” Willis said. “The thing that people complain about is the ‘popping’ sound the paddle makes when the ball hits the paddle.”
When compared to tennis, more people are also able to play at one time with pickleball. In conversions, a tennis court is turned into two pickleball courts, which means up to 8 people can play in the same space.
Willis advises against changeovers. He’s usually called in once they’ve been done to conduct a study. He then uses the data from the study to develop a noise abatement plan, which often comes down to putting something between the court and the homeowner, usually in the form of a wall. But Willis admits it doesn’t always fix the problem.
“Pickleball really is different and it needs to be planned for differently than other sports,” he said.
Willis advises courts be at least 150 feet from homes. In the case of Nagle and Kucklinca, the court is only 65 feet away.
Stonegate confirmed to KPHO it recently called in a noise expert. The HOA recommended building two 12-foot walls at a cost of $140,000. Homeowners, including Nagle and Kucklinca, voted it down.
“The HOAs are trying to make everyone happy, so it’s kind of hard for them,” Nagle said.
The last resort for many is suing. Attorney Robert Ducharme, who’s based in New Hampshire, has handled several of these cases.
“It’s a new noise and people aren’t used to it and they’re not sure how to handle it yet,” Ducharme said. He explained that in private communities, HOA boards control the common areas.
“Courts have routinely said that as long as they’re not doing anything blatantly illegal, like saying you can kill someone who loses at pickleball, they can do anything they want,” Ducharme said.
Ducharme said he tells homeowners to “be very careful with your vote, these are the people you are seeding power to.”
“I haven’t seen anyone win one yet and I would be surprised if they did,” Ducharme said about the lawsuits.
The Stonegate Community Association provided a statement saying, in part, that it takes the concerns of all of its residents seriously and took the step of “limiting the pickleball courts hours of use in order to address the noise complaint while balancing the desire of the other residents to continue to have the use of the courts.”
The HOA also said it consulted with a sound abatement specialist to determine what sound modifications could be made to reduce the noise coming from the courts. When the suggestion was made to build a wall at the cost of $140,000, the plan was voted down by the association members.
Nagle and Kucklinca said limiting the hours people can play hasn’t really helped. The courts have become so popular there’s always people playing.
“It’s a great sport I’m sure, and my problem isn’t really with them,” Kucklinca said.
Kucklinca said the ideal outcome for himself and Nagle would be to have the courts removed. The couple said they intend to file a lawsuit.
Copyright 2023 KPHO/KTVK via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-13T22:29:20+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/02/13/addition-pickleball-courts-pits-neighbor-against-neighbor-leads-lawsuits/ |
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian sniper adjusted his scope and fired a.50-caliber bullet at a Russian soldier across the Dnieper River. Earlier, another Ukrainian used a drone to scan for Russian troops.
Two weeks after retreating from the southern city of Kherson, Russia is pounding the town with artillery as it digs in across the Dnieper River.
Ukraine is striking back at Russian troops with its own long-distance weapons, and Ukrainian officers say they want to capitalize on their momentum.
The Russian withdrawal from the only provincial capital it gained in nine months of war was one of Moscow’s most significant battlefield losses. Now that its troops hold a new front line, the army is planning its next move, the Ukrainian military said through a spokesman.
Ukrainian forces can now strike deeper into the Russian-controlled territories and possibly push their counteroffensive closer to Crimea, which Russia illegally captured in 2014.
Russian troops continue to establish fortifications, including trench systems near the Crimean border and some areas between the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east.
In some locations, new fortifications are up to 60 kilometers (37 miles) behind the current front lines, suggesting that Russia is preparing for more Ukrainian breakthroughs, according to the British Ministry of Defense.
“The armed forces of Ukraine seized the initiative in this war some time ago,” said Mick Ryan, military strategist and retired Australian army major general. “They have momentum. There is no way that they will want to waste that.”
Crossing the river and pushing the Russians further back would require complicated logistical planning. Both sides have blown up bridges across the Dnieper.
“This is what cut Russians’ supply lines and this is also what will make any further Ukrainian advance beyond the left bank of the river more difficult,” said Mario Bikarski, an analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
In a key battlefield development this week, Kyiv’s forces attacked Russian positions on the Kinburn Spit, a gateway to the Black Sea basin, as well as parts of the southern Kherson region still under Russian control. Recapturing the area could help Ukrainian forces push into Russian-held territory in the Kherson region “under significantly less Russian artillery fire” than if they directly crossed the Dnieper River, said the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. Control of the area would help Kyiv alleviate Russian strikes on Ukraine’s southern seaports and allow it to increase its naval activity in the Black Sea, the think tank added.
Some military experts say there’s a possibility the weather might disproportionately harm poorly-equipped Russian forces and allow Ukraine to take advantage of frozen terrain and move more easily than during the muddy autumn months, ISW said.
Russia’s main task, meanwhile, is to prevent any further retreats from the broader Kherson region and to strengthen its defense systems over Crimea, said Bikarski, the analyst. Ryan, the military strategist, said Russia will use the winter to plan its 2023 offensives, stockpile ammunition and continue its campaign targeting critical infrastructure including power and water plants.
Russia’s daily attacks are already intensifying. Last week a fuel depot was struck in Kherson, the first time since Russia withdrew. This week at least one person was killed and three wounded by Russian shelling, according to the Ukrainian president’s office. Russian airstrikes damaged key infrastructure before Russia left, creating a dire humanitarian crisis. Coupled with the threat of attack, that is adding a layer of stress, say many who weathered Russia’s occupation and are leaving, or considering it.
Ukrainian authorities this week began evacuating civilians from recently liberated parts of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, fearing lack of heat, power and water due to Russian shelling will make winter unlivable.
Boarding a train on Monday, Tetyana Stadnik has decided to go after waiting for the liberation of Kherson.
“We are leaving now because it’s scary to sleep at night. Shells are flying over our heads and exploding. It’s too much,” she said. “We will wait until the situation gets better. And then we will come back home.”
Others in the Kherson region have decided to stay despite living in fear.
“I’m scared,” said Ludmilla Bonder a resident of the small village of Kyselivka. “I still sleep fully clothed in the basement.” | 2022-11-24T17:32:38+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-after-russian-retreat-ukrainian-military-plans-next-move/ |
93-year-old woman and grandson complete quest to visit all 63 US national parks
(Gray News) – A 93-year-old woman and her grandson recently completed a seven-year quest to visit all 63 U.S. national parks.
Joy Ryan and her grandson Brad Ryan documented their adventures on Instagram through @grandmajoysroadtrip.
The pair hit their 63rd national park together this week, visiting the National Park of American Samoa, according to a post on Instagram.
“Grandma Joy made history today as the oldest living person to visit every U.S. National Park! What more can I say? It was the greatest privilege of my life to be in the driver’s seat for Grandma Joy’s Road Trip,” Brad Ryan wrote in the post, showing a photo of them holding official certificates from the National Park Service.
Brad Ryan made it his mission to take his grandma to all U.S. national parks when she told him she regretted how few trips she took in her life, CNN reported.
Grandma Joy and her grandson started their adventure by visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in September 2015.
It took them four years to visit 29 of the national parks, according to Brad Ryan.
He created a GoFundMe in 2017 to help finance travel to the remaining parks on their checklist.
“Your generosity has fueled my dream to give Grandma Joy access to the great outdoors she didn’t experience in her first 85 years of life,” Brad Ryan wrote.
The fundraiser helped the pair defy financial and logistical constraints along their journey.
“We defied erroneous assumptions about the limitations of aging,” Brad Ryan wrote on Instagram. “We even defied a pandemic. And you might have noticed that I accidentally made Grandma Joy the superstar I always knew her to be.”
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-18T15:33:47+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/05/18/93-year-old-woman-grandson-complete-quest-visit-all-63-us-national-parks/ |
(NEXSTAR) – It’s all going to the same place anyway, right?
PepsiCo — apparently operating under the assumption that people enjoy both soda and hot dogs, and therefore have no qualms about combining the two in the same food item — is launching a new cola-flavored condiment intended to top frankfurters à la ketchup or mustard.
Called “Colachup,” the new condiment was developed by Pepsi and the Culinary Institute of America’s (CIA) consulting division, according to a press release.
“The concept is both simple and creative,” David Kamen, the director of client experience for CIA Consulting, was quoted as saying in a press release. “The distinctive flavors and vibrant citrus blend of Pepsi enhances the bright and tangy characteristics of ketchup, offsetting the smokiness of the hot dog.”
Specifically, Colachup is made with a Pepsi reduction, smoked tomatoes, onion, ketchup and a “delightful blend” of clove, cinnamon, thyme, oregano and paprika, according to a Pepsi representative who spoke with Nexstar.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that most consumers will ever get to taste Colachup’s flavors for themselves: The condiment will only be available on July 4 at “sampling carts” within four MLB ballparks: Chase Field in Phoenix, Yankee Stadium in NYC, Target Field in Minneapolis, and Comerica Park in Detroit.
PepsiCo did not say whether there were plans for a wider rollout or retail version in the coming months.
Those hoping to try a cola-based condiment for themselves aren’t completely out of luck: The internet boasts plenty of recipes for cola-infused barbecue sauces, syrups and even cake frosting. One-time internet sensation Alexa Greenfield even marketed her own line of cola-flavored dipping sauces after she was filmed dipping her chicken fingers into a cup of soda at the U.S. Open in 2018, though it no longer appears to be available for sale online. | 2023-06-28T16:57:23+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/pepsi-is-launching-a-condiment-made-specifically-for-hot-dogs/ |
SAN MATEO — In Friday’s game to begin Central Coast Section Open Division basketball pool play, Santa Cruz started slowly against Archbishop Mitty and fought evenly thereafter but could not catch up. On Monday against Junipero Serra, another West Catholic Athletic League powerhouse, the Cardinals did it again, falling behind early and then fighting back but losing again. The score was 65-53.
“It was a physical game, but a winnable game,” Santa Cruz senior Aden Cury said. “We came out slow again. Then we proved we can play with them. We just came out too slow.”
Santa Cruz trailed 17-9 after one quarter and 33-19 at halftime, but a nine-point run bridging the third and fourth quarters narrowed the margin to 46-39. After a Serra push, Santa Cruz charged again and closed within 53-47 with 3:15 to play. But the Padres pulled away.
Cury led Santa Cruz (22-6) with 24 points and Ben Dotten added 14. The Padres (16-10), tied for third-place in the WCAL behind Mitty and Archbishop Riordan, were paced by Ryan Pettis with 22 points, Marcel Elicagaray with 15, and Seamus Gilmartin with 12.
The Cardinals conclude pool play on Wednesday at Saint Ignatius and will then move into the NorCal playoffs.
The battle in San Mateo featured a score nearly identical to the 63-51 tally against the Monarchs and the game followed a similar pattern. In that game, the Cardinals trailed by as much as 21 and fought back late to get within 11 points.
Against the Padres, Santa Cruz broke down the Serra defense but had trouble finishing. And had problems converting from the charity stripe too.
“You can’t miss 17 layups and shoot seven of 16 from the free throw line,” Santa Cruz coach Lawan Milhouse said. “Those are going to kill you all day long. And we didn’t match their intensity or their physicality. They’re bullies and we knew it, but we let them bully us.”
Serra shot 16-of-25 in the first half, with many buckets coming on layups by breaking the Cardinals’ full-court zone press and halfcourt zone defense. The refs were calling fouls on the Padres but lots of physical play, commonplace in the WCAL, was allowed.
The contest featured exciting back-and-forth action before a nearly-packed gym. Serra rooters filled the majority of the venue but a sizable Santa Cruz contingent cheered on the visitors.
In the third quarter, Cury gave them a lot to shout about. The 6-foot-5 wing, Santa Cruz’s only senior starter, scored five straight buckets for the Cardinals. Dotten, Kirby Seals and Demarco Hunter provided support and kept Serra under control during the rally.
The charge continued as Demeke Smith opened the final stanza by draining three free throws when fouled on a long shot. The score was 46-39. Pettis replied for the Padres with a long three-pointer and a coast-to-coast dunk after a steal. Cury, Hunter, Dotten and Smith led the last Cardinals’ flurry, creeping SC within 53-47 with 3:15 to play.
“We decided to start playing basketball,” Milhouse said. “We started to understand our assignments. We played physical.”
But the Padres closed things out with eight free throws down the stretch.
“We locked up our defense on them,” Pettis said. “We’re a defensive school. Coach (Chuck Rapp) told us to move the ball to get past their press and it got us open shots. Santa Cruz is very good. They’re athletic, a lot like Riordan.”
Serra will next face Mitty, a 67-43 victor against St. Ignatius on Monday, in a battle for the top spot in the pool and a CCS finals berth. The Cardinals will travel to San Francisco to face the SI Wildcats to decide third place in the pool. Milhouse will try to get his young team off to a better beginning.
“If you play in the WCAL or against WCAL teams, you can’t have that slow start,” Milhouse said. “You have to play the entire 32 minutes.” | 2023-02-21T13:33:12+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/02/21/another-slow-start-costly-for-sc-in-open-division-pool-play-ccs-boys-basketball/ |
In recent years, there's been a growing movement of Native Americans reclaiming land that historians say the government stole from tribes in the early 1900s. Historians say the birth of this movement was a 1969 occupation on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
Surrounded by strong currents and cold water, the island of Alcatraz was designed to imprison some of the country's most notorious criminals. However, the penitentiary shut down in 1963. Six years later in 1969, Eloy Martinez stepped foot on the island to participate in a Native American Occupation. It's now a key part of the island's history.
Historians say Native Americans chose to take the island because of an 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie that allows the indigenous people to occupy land abandoned by the federal government. Yale professor of American Studies Ned Blackhawk says Native Americans were demanding reparations for what had been taken from them. Blackhawk is a member of the Te-Moak Western Shoshone tribe and the author of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.
He says the federal government had passed laws in the late 1940s and early 1950s that called for tribal nations to be terminated. It was known as the era of assimilation.
"The activists are trying to think through how do we articulate what we want in relationship to these current government policies, as well as the future of an Indian world that we would like to inhabit," Blackhawk said.
Today, Martinez visits often. His hope is that the occupation is never forgotten. He points out the welcome sign that was painted by Native Americans soon after they arrived on the island.
He says nostalgic feelings flood back every time he returns.
"Free, it was free, happy," Martinez said. "It was exciting because people were doing things, you know, I mean, it was fresh. Nothing, nothing like that had ever happened anywhere else."
He often returns with his good friend, Ilka Hartmann. She's a photographer who was born in Germany during World War II. She says the genocide Native Americans faced during the Gold Rush in the US reminded her of genocide during WWII, igniting her passion to stand up for marginalized communities.
"I was trying to take pictures of the Indians here having taken this land, and I was trying to show them with their pride and their success," Hartmann said.
She captured dozens of photos during the 19-month occupation. They are now on display at an exhibit on the island that she hopes becomes permanent. Other photographers at the exhibit include Brooks Townes and Alan Copeland.
"I remember hearing all the sounds here, the beautiful sounds of the riots that were loose everywhere," Hartmann said. "And it was like a sing-song everywhere. It really, really impressed me. And there were only here and there a few people, so it was very desolate."
Only about 89 Indigenous men, women, and children seized the land, but as Blackhawk states, they also seized the nation's attention.
"And for the first time, really in the 20th Century, Native Americans land literally on the front pages of the national headlines and newspapers," Blackhawk said.
"It was right there," Martinez said. "You had to look at it."
Blackhawk says the occupation sparked a movement of change in the years that followed.
"The occupation of Alcatraz was part of an era that launched a whole range of Native American, what are known as self-determination efforts in education, in the arts, in gaming or economic development, in land management," Blackhawk said.
"Termination policies were ended, the Indian Child Welfare Acts was reenacted, religious acts reenacted, gravesite protection, all that was enacted," Martinez said. "And that would've never happened if Alcatraz hadn't happened."
Blackhawk, Martinez and Hartmann all mention the federal government also returned millions of acres of land back to the tribes in the years that followed.
"45,000 acres of land to the Taos Blue Lake in New Mexico," Hartmann said. "And about 160,000 acres of land to Warm Spring Oregon tribe."
Sacred land is still being returned to Native tribes today. A revolution they say started with the Alcatraz occupation. | 2023-02-06T20:55:06+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/historians-say-1969-occupation-sparked-native-american-land-reclamation-efforts |
Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84.
Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes, according to his publicist. The singer-songwriter had long suffered from serious health problems that caused extensive hospitalization in 2002.
Lightfoot hailed from a tiny town in Ontario. He first made his name in Toronto's coffeehouse scene. There, he impressed folk music stars Ian and Sylvia, who helped introduce him to the world outside Canada by recording some of his songs. Lightfoot himself found international fame in 1971, with a song called "If You Could Read My Mind."
That song, says former Toronto Globe and Mail music critic Robert Everett Green, contains what would become some of Lightfoot's favorite themes: loss, longing and nostalgia.
"It's a song about inarticulateness," Everett Green said. "But somehow, it really makes an amazing case. Here's someone who really can't say what he wants to say, yet by singing about that inability, he connects."
Lightfoot's voice was raspy and regretful, the perfect complement to his rugged hinterlands look. But the hearty facade hid a roiling personal life.
In a 1983 NPR interview, Lightfoot – one year sober at the time – discussed his struggle with alcoholism. "The people that were very close to me were beginning to question my credibility and my decision-making process," he confessed, adding: "Now, the irony is that they still question my credibility and my decision-making process."
Many of Lightfoot's songs about Canadian wildlife, streets and weather doubled as cultural elegies — like his 1976 hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a dramatic retelling of a real-life maritime disaster.
"As he's singing it, you're getting the strong sense that not only is one ship going down, but a whole way of life is disappearing," says Everett Green. "It's something kind of dusty and genuine and isolated, and it's gone."
Lightfoot never displayed the range or inventiveness of such contemporaries as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, but some fans found the consistency of his wistful ballads reassuring. Everett Green says Lightfoot's best songs, such as the often-covered "Early Morning Rain," described a fading world.
"You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train," says Everett Green, quoting the song's chorus. "The freights crossing the prairie, with that great lonely moaning-whistle sound, have been obliterated by jet travel and the shrinking of spaces and the invasion of the hinterland that formerly was one of Canada's strengths."
Gordon Lightfoot wrote more than 400 songs about what he loved — and what he missed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday arrested a Georgia man who they say had several guns in his van and claimed to be in Washington to deliver documents to the Supreme Court.
Tony H. Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, was arrested on a charge of illegally possessing a weapon on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. His arrest came after police surrounded his van — which officials said was illegally parked — and shut down several streets around the Capitol and Supreme Court for hours.
Police said Payne’s van came to their attention shortly before 4 p.m. as a “suspicious vehicle” that was illegally parked on Capitol grounds.
Police initially detained Payne and two other people when Payne admitted to having guns in the white van. The other two people were released without charges.
Inside the van, police found two handguns and a shotgun, authorities said.
The people detained by police told investigators they “were here to deliver documents to the U.S. Supreme Court,” police said. Investigators conducted an extensive search of the van after they found “a pipe and containers” inside, but the vehicle was eventually cleared.
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Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE
SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.
Artifacts found in this town on Siniyah Island in Umm al-Quwain, likely once home to thousands of people and hundreds of homes, date as far back as the region’s pre-Islamic history in the late 6th century. While older pearling towns have been mentioned in historical texts, this represents the first time archaeologists say they have physically found one from this ancient era across the nations of the Persian Gulf.
“This is the oldest example of that kind of very specifically Khaleeji pearling town,” said Timothy Power, an associate professor of archaeology at the United Arab Emirates University, using a word that means “Gulf” in Arabic. “It’s the spiritual ancestor of towns like Dubai.”
The pearling town sits on Siniyah Island, which shields the Khor al-Beida marshlands in Umm al-Quwain, an emirate some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Dubai along the coast of the Persian Gulf. The island, whose name means “flashing lights” likely due to the effect of the white-hot sun overhead, already has seen archaeologists discover an ancient Christian monastery dating back as many as 1,400 years.
The town sits directly south of that monastery on one of the curling fingers of the island and stretches across some 12 hectares (143,500 square yards). There, archaeologists found a variety of homes made of beach rock and lime mortar, ranging from cramped quarters to more sprawling homes with courtyards, suggesting a social stratification, Power said. The site also bears signs of year-round habitation, unlike other pearling operations run in seasonal spots in the region.
“The houses are crammed in there, cheek by jowl,” he added. “The key thing there is permanence. People are living there all year around.”
In the homes, archaeologists have discovered loose pearls and diving weights, which the free divers used to quickly drop down to the seabed while relying only on their held breath.
The town predates the rise of Islam across the Arabian Peninsula, making its residents likely Christians. Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was born around 570 and died in 632 after conquering Mecca in present-day Saudi Arabia.
Umm al-Quwain’s Department of Tourism and Archaeology, UAE University, the Italian Archaeological Mission in the emirate and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University all took part in the excavation. Umm al-Quwain, the least-populated emirate in the UAE, plans to build a visitor’s center at the site.
Today, the area near the marshland is more known for the low-cost liquor store at the emirate’s Barracuda Beach Resort. In recent months, authorities have demolished a hulking, Soviet-era cargo plane linked to a Russian gunrunner known as the “Merchant of Death” as it builds a bridge to Siniyah Island for a $675 million real estate development. Authorities hope that development, as well as other building, will grow the emirate’s economy.
However, even this ancient site bears lessons for the Emirates.
The story of pearling, which rapidly collapsed after World War I with the introduction of artificial pearls and the Great Depression, holds particular importance in the history of the UAE — particularly as it faces a looming reckoning with another extractive industry. While crude oil sales built the country after its formation in 1971, the Emirates will have to confront its fossil fuel legacy and potentially plan for a carbon-neutral future as it hosts the United Nations COP28 climate talks later this year.
Those searching the site found a dumpsite nearby filled with the detritus of discarded oyster shells. People walking across the island can feel those remains crunching under their feet in areas as well.
“You only find one pearl in every 10,000 oyster shells. You have to find and discard thousands and thousands of oyster shells to find one,” Power said. ”The waste, the industrial waste of the pearling industry, was colossal. You’re dealing with millions, millions of oyster shells discarded.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California legislators will consider a new law within days to keep dangerous people from carrying concealed weapons in public, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his top law enforcement official said Thursday after a U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidated the most populous state’s current law.
The high court struck down a New York law requiring that people seeking a license to carry a gun in public demonstrate a particular need, such as a direct threat to their safety. California is among a half-dozen states with a similar requirement.
Newsom in a tweet called the ruling a "dangerous decision from a court hell bent on pushing a radical ideological agenda and infringing on the rights of states to protect our citizens from being gunned down in our streets, schools, and churches.”
Attorney General Rob Bonta said the high court’s ruling still leaves states with the right to limit concealed carry permits to those who meet legal standards to safely possess firearms.
Lawmakers are amending legislation to expand the qualifications people must have to obtain a concealed carry permit, and to expand the places where no weapons may be carried. The revised bill will get its first hearing Tuesday, and lawmakers hope to send it quickly to Newsom for his signature.
Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said he is “1,000% confident” that based on the high court’s ruling the new legislation “will be thrown into the waste bin of unconstitutional laws.”
Bonta conceded the ruling clearly overturns California’s law requiring people to give a good reason for carrying a concealed weapon. But he said the decision still allows the state to require things like an assessment of a person's dangerousness.
He said that will be “robust,” by examining things like arrests and criminal convictions, restraining orders “and other publicly available information that might suggest that a person poses a danger to themselves or to others.”
The state will require background checks, including with fingerprinting, as well as firearms training and a mental health assessment, Bonta said. Many of the precautions already are allowed under current law.
The Supreme Court decision “has made it clear that states like California still have many venues to prevent senseless death and keep our families safe from gun violence, and we’re going to use those avenues in California,” Bonta said.
Moreover, he said the decision still allows states to prohibit concealed weapons in certain sensitive areas like parks, amusement parks, sporting venues and other areas “of significant public congregation.”
Attorney Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, predicted Democrats pushing the bill are “going to declare every place they think of as a ‘sensitive place.'"
“These are the kind of games that they’re going to play to frustrate the spirit of the ruling,” he said.
Paredes said he expects a flood of gun owners to apply for concealed carry permits, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area and greater Los Angeles region, “and just dare the permitting authorities to go against this decision.”
San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said his office already saw a jump in applications — 22 by Thursday afternoon, compared to two pending applications submitted since the beginning of the year. Miyamoto said his office hasn’t issued any permits since January 2020, when he was sworn in.
“We’re going to see a consistent interest in applying for concealed weapon carry because of the current climate that we’re in and people’s perception that it’s unsafe in the community,” he said. “My only concern would be more guns out in the community doesn’t mean it’s safer.”
John Parkin, co-owner of Coyote Point Armory in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, said the court's decision removes the sheriff's ability to subjectively determine whether someone has a valid reason for a concealed carry permit.
“The people in San Francisco will now have the ability to go and apply for a license and actually not get rejected by a good cause statement that doesn’t meet the criteria of the elected sheriff," he said, adding the ruling “ will even out what happens between states that have more strict rules against states that have more normal Second Amendment federal rules that they use."
Nearly two-thirds of California’s 58 counties already make it relatively easy to obtain concealed carry permits but many are in rural areas. Michel's association plans to immediately update a lawsuit already under consideration by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Los Angeles County's concealed weapon permitting policy.
Deputy Grace Medrano, a spokesperson for Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, said in a statement he has already issued more permits “as violent crime has risen within Los Angeles County."
"The Sheriff recognizes the threats to the residents have increased and has responded accordingly,” Medrano said.
Officials in both San Francisco and the city of Los Angeles said they are reviewing the Supreme Court’s decision and will seek a legal opinion from Bonta’s office.
Newsom and Bonta are backing a bill by Democratic state Sen. Anthony Portantino, who earlier this month amended pending legislation to update California’s concealed carry permit requirements. Bonta and Portantino said it will be further amended before Tuesday’s hearing to conform with details in the Supreme Court ruling.
Bonta said the bill could go to Newsom by month’s end, before lawmakers adjourn for a monthlong summer recess. If two-thirds of lawmakers approve the bill it would take effect immediately instead of in January, but Bonta said those details still are being worked out.
Paredes said the bill “will do nothing but complicate the process and increase the costs of obtaining a permit by law-abiding citizens.”
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Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles, Olga Rodriguez in San Francisco and Haven Daley in Burlingame contributed to this report. | 2022-06-24T00:50:36+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/California-leaders-pledge-new-law-to-address-gun-17262127.php |
MOSCOW (AP) — A gas explosion in an apartment building in the south-central Russian city of Novosibirsk Thursday morning killed three people, according to the latest reports from local authorities.
Novosibirsk is the administrative capital of Siberia and Russia’s third-largest city by population.
Regional Gov. Andrey Travnikov confirmed the deaths of three people, noting that two children were among a further nine people taken to the hospital. Two people were in intensive care.
“The nature of the injuries is varied — there are combined injuries, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning,” Travnikov said.
The explosion caused two entrances of the five-story building to collapse, with 30 apartments destroyed by the ensuing fire. Eight people who may have been inside when the explosion occurred at 7:43 a.m. remain unaccounted-for.
A criminal case has been opened on the incident, which preliminary data suggests was caused by a gas leak. The Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities of the region said that the gas system of the building was checked in September 2022. | 2023-02-09T10:52:08+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/3-dead-in-apartment-building-fire-in-novosibirsk-17773445.php |
WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — AP sources: Musk's Twitter disbands Trust and Safety Council of outside groups advising it on content issues.
- Laredo CBP agent gives back on final day before retirement
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- DEA operation in Laredo yields numerous arrests
- Police: Woman bit, kicked cop
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- Laredo ISD student struck by vehicle
- Four confirmed dead in S.A. explosion, SAPD investigating cause
- Affidavit: Woman assaulted pregnant sister-in-law
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- DA reflects on four-year journey after Ortiz trial ends
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Tuya Inc. ("Tuya") (NYSE: TUYA) shareholders:
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Florida is in the news a lot these days, but the Florida that journalist Anne Hull writes about in Through the Groves is a place accessed only by the compass of memory.
Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her earliest recollections are pre-Disney, almost prehistoric in atmosphere. Hull's father was a fruit buyer for a juice processing company. Every day, he drove through miles and miles of remote orange and grapefruit groves, armed with a pistol and a rattlesnake bite kit. Think Indiana Jones searching for the perfect citrus, instead of the Lost Ark. Here are some of Hull's descriptions of riding along with her dad when she was 6:
His CB radio antenna whipped in the air like a nine-foot machete. ... Leaves and busted twigs rained down on us inside the car. Pesticide dust exploded off the trees. And oranges — big heavy oranges — dropped through the windows like bombs. ...
Looking out my father's windshield, I was seeing things I would never see again. Places that weren't even on maps, where the sky disappeared and the radio went dead. Whole towns were entombed in Spanish moss . ... Birds spread their skeletal wings but never flew off. When it seemed we may not ever see daylight again, the road deposited us into blinding sunlight.
Hull, a wise child, soon catches on that her father has a drinking problem and that her mother wants her to ride shotgun with him, especially on payday, to keep him from "succumbing to the Friday afternoon fever."
Eventually, her parents divorce, Hull grows up, and she struggles with her queer sexuality in a culture of Strawberry Festival queens and pink-frosted sororities. At the time of that early ride-along with her father, Hull says, Walt Disney had already taken "a plane ride over the vast emptiness [of Central Florida], looked down, and said, 'There.'" Much of that inland ocean of citrus groves and primordial swamplands was already destined to be plowed under to make way for the Kingdom of the Mouse.
With all due respect to Hull's personal story, Through the Groves is an evocative memoir not so much because of the freshness of its plot, but because Hull is such a discerning reporter of her own past. She fills page after page here with the kind of small, charged and often wry details that make a lost world come alive; describing, for instance, a Florida where "Astronauts were constantly flying overhead ... but [where] the citrus men hardly bothered to look up. ... The moon was a fad. Citrus was king and it would last forever."
Of course, other things besides astronauts were in the air, such as everyday racism. Hull observes that when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the newspaper in her hometown of Sebring, Fla., "put the story at the bottom of the front page." The headline that day announced the crowning of: "A NEW MISS SEBRING." And, then, there were literal airborne poisons — the pesticides that fostered the growth of those Garden of Eden citrus groves. Here's Hull's recollection of seeing — without then understanding — the human cost of that harvest:
At each stop, [my father] introduced me to the growers, pesticide men, and fertilizer brokers who populated his territory.
I had never seen such a reptilian assemblage of humanity. The whites of the men's eyes were seared bloody red by the sun. ... Cancer ate away at their noses. They hawked up wet green balls of slime that came from years of breathing in pesticide as they sprayed the groves with five-gallon containers of malathion strapped on their backs. No one used respirators back then. ... When the chemicals made them nauseous and dizzy, they took a break for a while, then got back to it.
Hull left the world of her childhood to become a journalist, one who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her stories about the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Maybe those early trips with her father first awakened her to the horror of how casually expendable some human beings can be.
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A Jamestown man who was involved in two separate fatal crashes has had his bail revoked and is in jail.
Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said 59-year old Randall Rolison is in the County Jail without bail following his release from UPMC Hamot Medical Center where he had been receiving treatment for injuries he sustained in a fatal crash on December 5, 2022. That crash in the town of Arkwright resulted in the death of 71-year Linda Kraemer and seriously injured 71-year old Gary Kraemer, both of South Dayton.
Schmidt said charges are still pending against Rolison in that incident.
Rolison had previously been indicted by a Chautauqua County Grand Jury on manslaughter charges after striking and killing 15-year old Lexy Hughan on December 31, 2021 with a commercial vehicle. He also is charged with three counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree. | 2023-02-10T15:08:37+00:00 | wrfalp.com | https://www.wrfalp.com/jamestown-man-involved-in-two-fatal-crashes-has-bail-revoked/ |
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
The Los Angeles Lakers acquired former lottery pick Rui Hachimura from the Washington Wizards on Monday in exchange for Kendrick Nunn and a package of second-round draft picks.
Hachimura and the Wizards did not agree on a rookie extension before the season started, which prompted speculation that the Japanese power forward wouldn’t be in their long-term plans.
And it makes sense for the Lakers to be seeking help. At 22-25, they’re in 12th place in the Western Conference, but entered Monday just two games behind the Los Angeles Clippers for the No. 6 spot and four games back of the New Orleans Pelicans for No. 4 in the West — with LeBron James averaging nearly 30 points per game and a belief that Anthony Davis will be back from injury sooner than later.
“I just want to be somewhere that wants me as a basketball player,” Hachimura told reporters last week. “And I want to be somewhere that likes my game. … I just want to be somewhere that believes in me and I can be myself. That’s my goal.”
The 6-foot-8 Hachimura figures to provide the Lakers with wing defense and 3-point shooting ability, two clear needs for a team fighting to stay afloat during Davis’ latest lengthy injury absence.
“Adding both size and depth to the wing position has been a goal, and the chance to accomplish that by acquiring a player with Rui’s two-way skills and upside was an opportunity that doesn’t present itself often,” Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said.
The Wizards got second-round picks this year, 2028 and 2029, plus a trade exception.
“Kendrick has shown the ability to be a solid perimeter threat who can provide instant offense as a reserve,” Wizards President Tommy Sheppard said. “He has proven to be a valuable contributor during his young career, most notably as key role player helping Miami make a run to the Finals.”
Los Angeles has hit only 33.7% of its 3-pointers this season, ranking near the bottom of the NBA. Hachimura is hitting 34% of his 3-point shots this season after hitting 44.7% last season, but he excels in the catch-and-shoot situations that are often created for James’ teammates by his penetration and playmaking.
Hachimura is also a standout midrange shooter, while his length should provide the Lakers with an option against teams with taller wing players who have occasionally exploited Los Angeles’ lack of mobility on the perimeter.
Hachimura has appeared in 30 games for the Wizards this season, all off the bench, averaging 13.0 points on 49% shooting. He was the No. 9 pick in the 2019 draft out of Gonzaga.
Hachimura will be reuniting with penetrating guard Russell Westbrook, his teammate in Washington during the 2020-21 season. Hachimura famously said Westbrook was his “senpai” — his “leader” in Japanese.
Nunn is in his fourth NBA season, his second with the Lakers, though he missed all of last season with a knee problem before activating his $5.25 million option for this season in the final year of his deal. Nunn has averaged 6.7 points in 39 games this season, 37 of them in a reserve role, with wildly inconsistent contributions offensively. He has not matched the offensive success he had in his first two seasons with the Heat.
The Lakers soon will have a glut of guards with Lonnie Walker and Austin Reaves due to return from injury, and Nunn’s departure alleviates the logjam. Westbrook, Dennis Schröder, Patrick Beverley and rookie second-round pick Max Christie also have logged significant minutes when healthy this season.
The Lakers have given no definite timeline for Davis’ return, but coach Darvin Ham said Davis “looked great” in a full scrimmage last weekend. If he continues to improve, Davis could return during the Lakers’ upcoming five-game road trip, which begins Saturday in Boston.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The COVID-19 death toll throughout the pandemic is at 3,033 in South Dakota.
According to Wednesday’s update to the South Dakota Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard, the deaths are up 12 from 3,021 the previous week. The new deaths include four women and eight men in the following age ranges: 30-39 (1); 40-49 (1); 60-69; 70-70 (3); 80+ (6). New deaths were in the following counties: Codington (1), Edmunds (1), Minnehaha (1), Pennington (3), Potter (2), Roberts (1), Union (1) and Walworth (1). One death was removed from Haakon County.
Active cases are now at 566, up from the previous report (540).
As of October 5, the DOH has updated its COVID-19 dashboard. The information on community spread is no longer available on the South Dakota DOH page; instead, users are directed to the CDC tracker.
When it comes to community transmission, it shows that 52 of South Dakota’s 66 counties are listed as having “high” or “substantial” community spread. The CDC says health care facilities use Transmission Levels to determine infection control interventions. “High” community transmission is 100 cases or greater per 100,000 or a 10% or greater NAATs tests during the past seven days.
There are now 66 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, down from last week (81). Throughout the pandemic, there have been 11,804 total people who have been hospitalized.
There were 842 confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases reported.
The state’s total case count is now at 262,213, up from last week (261,371). That total does not include at-home positive results as those are not required to be reported to the state.
The state has also removed trend data from the dashboard. According to the CDC, the latest seven-day PCR test positivity rate for the state is 20 -24.9% for data through Saturday, October 1.
The number of recovered cases is at 258,614.
The number of Omicron cases detected in South Dakota through sentinel monitoring is now at 1,700. The state is also reporting 164 Omicron BA.2 cases, which is unchanged.
There have been 1,720 Delta variant cases (B.1.617.2 and AY lineages) is detected in South Dakota through sentinel monitoring. There have been 176 cases of the B.1.1.7 (Alpha variant), 4 cases of P.1. (Gamma variant) and 2 cases of the B.1.351 (Beta variant).
The DOH now directs users to the CDC page for vaccination information.
For COVID-19 vaccines, 85.6% the population 5-years-old and above has received at least one dose while 68.9% have completed the vaccination series. For booster doses, 44.6% of those eligible have completed their booster dose. | 2022-10-05T18:38:11+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/coronavirus/covid-19-in-south-dakota-12-deaths-reported-active-cases-up-slightly-hospitalizations-down/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-3-5
(eight, three, five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-3-5
(eight, three, five) | 2022-06-01T00:07:31+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17210812.php |
NEEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --SharkNinja, a world-leading producer of small household appliances, today announced the appointment of Paul Carbone as Chief Financial Officer of SharkNinja, effective November 7, 2022. To ensure a smooth transition, Mr. Carbone will work closely with SharkNinja's current CFO, Dave Stevenson, who will remain with the Company in an advisory capacity.
"SharkNinja is a powerful brand with a dynamic senior management team, and I'm excited to have Paul Carbone on board to help achieve continued growth and expansion," said Mark Barrocas, Global President of JS Global and President of SharkNinja. "Paul's strong track record of success throughout his career and his outstanding leadership qualities make Paul a tremendous addition to the team."
Mr. Carbone joins SharkNinja with significant financial executive experience in consumer goods and retail. He most recently served for four years as CFO of YETI Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: YETI) beginning in 2018, when the company completed its initial public offering. Prior to his career at YETI Holdings, Inc., Mr. Carbone served as Chief Operating Officer at Talbots, an American retailer of women's clothing, shoes, and fashion accessories, and held several finance leadership roles, including CFO, at Dunkin' Brands. Mr. Carbone earned his MBA in Finance at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; has a BSBA in Accounting and Finance from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina; and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mr. Carbone is a Massachusetts native and looks forward to returning to his home state. He will be based out of SharkNinja's headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts.
"I have always admired the incredible brand SharkNinja has built, and I am thrilled to join the team during this exciting time for the company," said Mr. Carbone. "I look forward to building upon the momentum of successful product innovation that has been the hallmark of SharkNinja, as we look to further strengthen the brand and deliver long-term growth."
About SharkNinja
SharkNinja is an innovation leader in the housewares industry and creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®. SharkNinja provides the latest in easy-to-use innovative technology with a growing line of solutions that consist of Shark cleaning and home care products and Ninja kitchen appliances. Products are sold at major retailers and through distributors around the world. Ninja and Shark are registered trademarks of SharkNinja Operating LLC. SharkNinja is a subsidiary of JS Global Lifestyle Company Limited (Hong Kong: 1691) a leader in small household appliance innovation.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police on Sunday arrested a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India’s northern Punjab state, which has a history of violent insurgency.
Amritpal Singh had been on the run since last month after capturing national attention in February, when hundreds of his supporters stormed a police station in Ajnala, a town in Punjab state, with wooden batons, swords and guns to demand the release of a jailed aide.
Punjab state police tweeted Sunday that Singh was arrested in Moga, a town in the state.
A Sikh religious leader, Jasbir Singh Rodde, said Singh surrendered after offering morning prayers at a Sikh shrine in Moga.
Police officer Sukhchain Singh Gill said police had surrounded the village on intelligence that Singh was in the shrine. “Relentless pressure built by the police over the past 35 days left Singh with no choice,” Gill told reporters.
He said the police didn’t enter the shrine, implying that Singh was taken into custody after he left. Gill declined to confirm whether Singh surrendered as claimed by his supporters. Singh was flown to Dibrugarh in India’s northeast where he will be detained until he is brought to court to face charges.
Punjab suffered a bloody insurgency in the 1980s that led to the killing of India’s then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards at her official residence in New Delhi. Her assassination in 1984 triggered bloody rioting by her Hindu supporters against Sikhs in northern India.
Ashwini Dubey, a lawyer in Punjab state, said Singh’s arrest would help police dismantle the separatist network and its supporters.
Tavleen Singh, a political commentator and former journalist who covered the Punjab insurgency in the 1980s, said: “The police took this man out, which is good because had they gone into a gurdwara (Sikh shrine), and started shooting you would have had a reaction from the general populous. The Sikhs happen to be very sensitive to gurdwaras being attacked.”
Sikhs are a religious minority in India and say they are discriminated against by the majority Hindus. More than 3,000 people were killed by extremists during the 1980s insurgency in the prosperous farming state. The insurgency was crushed by Indian forces by 1990.
Punjab borders India-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of supporting, training and arming insurgents, a charge Islamabad denies.
Police declared Singh, a 30-year-old preacher, a fugitive and accused him and his aides of creating discord in the state. Police accused them of spreading disharmony among people, attempted murder, attacking police personnel and obstructing public servants’ lawful discharge of duty.
Authorities have deployed thousands of paramilitary soldiers in the state and arrested nearly 100 of his supporters. Singh’s wife was prevented from leaving India last week.
Very little was known about Singh until he arrived in Punjab state in 2022 and began leading marches calling for the protection of rights for Sikhs, who account for about 1.7% of India’s population.
Singh claims to draw inspiration from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Sikh militant leader accused by the Indian government of leading an armed insurgency for Khalistan in the 1980s. Bhindranwale and his supporters were killed in 1984 when the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion.
Singh has styled himself after Bhindranwale, with a long, flowing beard. He also dresses like Bhindranwale.
Singh also heads Waris Punjab De, or Punjab’s Heirs, an organization that was part of a massive campaign to mobilize farmers against controversial agriculture reforms being pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The legislation triggered a year of protests that began in 2020, as farmers — most of them Sikhs from Punjab state — camped on the outskirts of New Delhi through a harsh winter and devastating coronavirus surge. The protests ended after Modi’s government withdrew the legislation in November 2021.
Waris Punjab De was founded by Deep Sidhu, an Indian actor who died in 2022 in a traffic accident.
Singh’s speeches have become increasingly popular among supporters of the Khalistan movement, which is banned in India. Officials see it and affiliated groups as a national security threat. Even though the movement has waned over the years, it still has some support in Punjab and beyond — including in countries like Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, which are home to a sizable Sikh diaspora.
Last month, supporters of the movement pulled down the Indian flag at the country’s high commission in London and smashed the building’s windows in a show of anger against the move to arrest Singh. India’s Foreign Ministry denounced the incident and summoned the U.K.’s deputy high commissioner in New Delhi to protest what it called the breach of security at the embassy in London. The supporters of the Khalistan movement also vandalized the Indian Consulate in San Francisco in the United States.
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Associated Press video journalist Prabhjot Gill in Amritsar, India, contributed to this report. | 2023-04-24T02:12:21+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/indian-police-arrest-sikh-separatist-leader-after-long-hunt/ |
Development of new build-to-rent homes soars in 2022 compared to previous year
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Institutional investment in rental single family rental (SFR) homes is on the rise and expected to grow dramatically over the next eight years, according to a new bulletin on the sector released today by Yardi® Matrix. However, rising interest rates are forcing investors to reassess the most effective strategies for growing portfolios and may contribute to lower near-term returns.
Institutions have committed more than $60 billion to buying single-family homes over the past year, according to various corporate announcements and news articles.
Recent research by MetLife Investment Management (MIM) estimated that institutions own some 700,000 single-family rentals in 2022, about 5 percent of the 14 million SFRs nationally. MIM forecasts that by 2030, institutions will increase SFR holdings to 7.6 million homes, more than 40 percent of all SFRs. Institutional acquisitions of SFRs in communities of 50 or more units soared in 2021 to $2.5 billion, according to Yardi Matrix.
Institutional portfolio growth is currently focused on build-to-rent (BTR) projects or acquiring portfolios from smaller owners. BTRs are on track to deliver far more units in 2022 than in any previous year. More than 25,000 units are under construction and nearly 4,300 were already delivered in the first half of 2022, meaning the industry will easily surpass 2021's record-high 7,705 deliveries.
"Rising home and mortgage costs in the second quarter of 2022 increased the cost of capital for institutional buyers, so the segment's growth is likely to slow and returns will moderate. Even so, the industry benefits from strong long-term demand drivers and the explosive growth in institutional capital," say Matrix analysts.
Get more insight into investment activity, development and rent trends for the SFR/BTR sector in the new Yardi Matrix bulletin.
Yardi Matrix offers the industry's most comprehensive market intelligence tool for investment professionals, equity investors, lenders and property managers who underwrite and manage investments in commercial real estate. Yardi Matrix covers multifamily, student housing, industrial, office and self storage property types. Email matrix@yardi.com, call (480) 663-1149 or visit yardimatrix.com to learn more.
About Yardi
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The peculiar Russian missile ‘cemetery’ in eastern Ukraine
By VASILISA STEPANENKO
Associated Press
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people. This graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them. Local authorities hope they can help provide information for any prosecution case against Russians authorities and soldiers. And one day, maybe they will become part of a museum of the atrocities in the country. | 2022-12-23T10:44:30+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2022/12/23/the-peculiar-russian-missile-cemetery-in-eastern-ukraine/ |
STOCKHOLM , July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
JANUARY 1 – JUNE 30, 2022 (compared with the corresponding period a year ago)
- Net sales increased 27.8% to SEK 72,230m (56,496)
- Sales growth, including organic sales growth and acquisitions, amounted to 19.0%. Organic sales growth, excluding exchange rate effects, acquisitions and divestments, was 16.3%, of which volume accounted for 5.5% and price/mix for 10.8%.
- Price increases were implemented and further increases will be carried out in the second half of 2022
- The company's assets in Russia have been impaired by approximately SEK 1.6bn. Furthermore, work has been initiated to exit the Russian market.
- Operating profit before amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets (EBITA) amounted to SEK 4,313m
(6,937) - Adjusted EBITA amounted to SEK 5,984m (7,017) and the adjusted EBITA margin amounted to 8.3% (12.4). Higher costs for raw materials, energy and distribution had a negative impact of 12.4 percentage points on the margin. The margin was positively impacted by higher volumes, higher selling prices and a better mix.
- Return on capital employed amounted to 9.2% (14.0). Adjusted return on capital employed amounted to 10.2% (14.1).
- Profit for the period was SEK 2,194m (4,627)
- Earnings per share were SEK 2.55 (5.56) and adjusted earnings per share were SEK 5.69 (6.03)
- Cash flow from current operations increased to SEK 2,295m (1,741)
- On July 7 and 8, 2022, the acquisitions of Knix and Modibodi were announced, two leading companies in leakproof apparel
CEO'S COMMENTS
Record growth and higher sequential profit
In a turbulent world, Essity stands strong. We have further strengthened the company through significant price increases, successful product launches, increased productivity and leading sustainability work. In July, we announced the acquisition of two companies in leakproof apparel to become the fastest growing company in Intimate Hygiene.
During the second quarter of 2022, net sales increased 31% to approximately SEK 38bn. Sales growth, including organic sales growth and acquisitions, amounted to 20.6%. We implemented significant price increases, while we had higher volumes in all business areas. Price elasticity in our categories is low and our brands are strong. Essity's market shares increased for approximately 50% of branded sales in the retail trade over the past 12 months. This was the result of long-term investments in innovation, digitalization and marketing. E-commerce sales increased organically by 25% to about 15% of net sales. Organic sales growth for the Group was 17.8%, of which price/mix accounted for 14.1% and volume for 3.7%. Further price increases will be carried out in the second half of 2022.
Adjusted EBITA decreased 7% compared with the corresponding period of 2021 but increased 12% compared with the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITA amounted to SEK 3,158m and EBITA to SEK 2,650m. The adjusted EBITA margin decreased 3.5 percentage points to 8.3%, which was an improvement compared with the first quarter of 2022. Raw material, energy and distribution costs continued to rise in the second quarter, negatively impacting the adjusted EBITA margin by 12.8 percentage points. We offset a large share of this through significantly higher selling prices, a better mix and higher volumes. We also continued to improve productivity through increased efficiency in our production facilities, material rationalizations and digitalization of processes. Our efficiency efforts are continuing at a high pace but the reported cost savings were negatively impacted by high cost inflation and the net outcome for the quarter is therefore negative. Sales and marketing costs were higher during the quarter but decreased as a share of net sales. The adjusted return on capital employed was 9.6%. Adjusted earnings per share increased to SEK 2.97 and earnings per share amounted to SEK 2.11. Cash flow from current operations amounted to SEK 1,225m.
In July, we announced the acquisition of two companies. Knix and Modibodi are leading companies in leakproof apparel, which is the fastest growing product segment in Intimate Hygiene as consumers choose more comfortable, discrete, reliable and sustainable solutions for periods and incontinence. Through the acquisitions, Essity will become the global market leader within leakproof apparel* and builds the fastest growing company in Intimate Hygiene.
Magnus Groth
President and CEO
FUTURE REPORTS
In 2022, an interim report will be published on October 27. The Year-end report for 2022 will be published on January 26, 2023.
INVITATION TO PRESENTATION OF THE HALF-YEAR REPORT FOR 2022
In conjunction with publication, a telephone and web presentation will be held where President and CEO Magnus Groth will present the report and answer questions.
Presentation
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
Time: 09:00 a.m. CET
Link to web presentation: https://essity.videosync.fi/2022-07-21
To participate by telephone, call: +44 330 165 36 41, +1 646 828 80 82 or +46 8 566 427 54. Please call well in advance of the start of the presentation. State pin code 275669.
The presentation of the half-year report will also be available on LinkedIn and Twitter.
For further information, please contact:
Fredrik Rystedt, CFO and Executive Vice President, +46 8 788 51 31
Johan Karlsson, Vice President Investor Relations, Group Function Communications, +46 70 511 15 81
Joséphine Edwall Björklund, Senior Vice President, Group Function Communications, +46 8 788 52 34
Per Lorentz, Vice President Corporate Communications, Group Function Communications, +46 73 313 30 55
NB:
This information is such information that Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is obligated to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and the Securities Markets Act. This report has been prepared in both Swedish and English versions. In case of variations in the content between the two versions, the Swedish version shall govern. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 07:00 a.m. CET on July 21, 2022.
Karl Stoltz, Media Relations Director, +46 70 942 63 38
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PARKER, Colo. (KDVR) — A destructive wood-boring beetle has been detected for the first time in Arapahoe County. The emerald ash borer was detected in June in a small area in northeast Littleton, raising concerns as the beetle continues to spread.
“Now that it’s been announced in Littleton, we’re going to see a lot more calls on it.” Davey Tree District Manager Jay Judd said.
Judd’s team has been busy treating ash trees in Boulder and other confirmed EAB communities since 2013 but expects parts of his business to increase in Douglas County now.
“This has been here for about a month,” he said. “But you don’t know unless you hear about it.”
The beetle was first discovered in Colorado back in 2013, in Boulder County, and has since been detected in Broomfield, Larimer County, Erie and Thornton.
An estimated 1.45 million ash trees exist in metro Denver, and Judd said it would be a major hit to lose even a portion of that.
“That’s a lot of ash trees to be plucking out, and the value of our trees in a place that’s so unforgiving, is super important,” he said.
How to treat trees for emerald ash borer?
Judd said there are treatment options, but only if you beat the beetle to your tree.
Even if you don’t live in a confirmed area, Judd said now is the time to be treating your ash trees.
“I think we learned a lot from other cities,” he said. “Boulder is a testament to that. Boulder still has ash trees, they’ve had them there for a decade. They were able to get ahead of it.”
Treatment options include drenching the soil near the base of the tree or injecting the tree with insecticide.
Judd said the injection option is more efficient and lasts about twice as long. | 2023-07-15T21:44:21+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/emerald-ash-borer-tree-experts-how-to-treat/ |
LOS ANGELES , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronnie C. Wright and Amblacks Media announced the first show that will reach fans devices everywhere is "AFTER THE GAME - Let's Talk - with Ronnie C. Wright," on The Boat sports podcasting network.
Sports fans can stay up-to-date with their favorite major stars on this talk show project from Amblacks Media, September 2022.
AFTER THE GAME - Let's Talk with Ronnie C. Wright will feature in-depth interviews with guests who Wright finds fascinating.
"The show is focused on 'ABC' – A Big Conversation with a single guest," Wight said. "The close conversations take place, inside and outside of the studio."
Wright is allowed to explore and express his curiosity in each episode with A-list guest; and, concluded, "George Plimpton would be proud."
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TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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645 FPUS54 KCRP 080833
ZFPCRP
Zone Forecast Product for South Texas
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
TXZ343-082200-
Coastal Nueces-
Including the cities of Corpus Christi and Flour Bluff
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat
index values up to 114.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 112 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon. Heat index values up to 114 in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ443-082200-
Nueces Islands-
Including the city of Port Aransas
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ243-082200-
Inland Nueces-
Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this
afternoon. Heat index values up to 113 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 110 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Heat index values up to 113 in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ234-082200-
Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon. Heat index values up to 113 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Heat index
values up to 111 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Heat index values up to 113 in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs
in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ239-082200-
Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 112.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ242-082200-
Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat index
values up to 114 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 113 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Heat index values up to 111 in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ342-082200-
Coastal Kleberg-
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat
index values up to 114 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 110 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon. Heat index values up to 111.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ442-082200-
Kleberg Islands-
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat index
values up to 109.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds around 10 mph,
increasing to southeast with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds around 10 mph,
increasing to southeast with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ344-082200-
Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Heat index
values up to 110.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ244-082200-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat
index values up to 111.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon. Heat index values up to 112 in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ245-082200-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Heat index values up to 109.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ345-082200-
Aransas Islands-
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ346-082200-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Heat index values up to 109.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ246-082200-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 110.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ247-082200-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Heat index values up to
110.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Heat index values up to 111.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ347-082200-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to south 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ447-082200-
Calhoun Islands-
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ233-082200-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 111.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ232-082200-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 110.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ241-082200-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat index
values up to 114 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph
after midnight. Heat index values up to 110 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ231-082200-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 111.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Hot with highs 100 to 105. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ240-082200-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 111.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ229-082200-
La Salle-
Including the cities of Cotulla and Encinal
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 107. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 114.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 110 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 107. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ230-082200-
McMullen-
Including the cities of Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, and Tilden
333 AM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 111.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph
after midnight. Heat index values up to 110 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
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TEGA CAY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – On any day in Tega Cay, you may see a deer hiding in the shade or roaming around neighborhoods.
Neighbors say the rising population of deer in the area is alarming, and the city is almost split down the middle of what should be done about it.
“Accidents impact have gone up; we’ve have reported cases of the deer harassing pets and children and the biggest complaints that people have is droppings from them defecating in their backyards,” said Tega Cay councilman Scott Shirley.
One solution on the table is hiring sharpshooters to decrease the population.
Mary Ickert says there’s got to be a better way.
“It’s a bonus to have deer in our yard,” she said. “We do have a lot of deer in Tega Cay, there is a lot of deer in the area, and homeowners who spend a lot of time gardening, invest in their plants, their landscape, are frustrated that they put in on this work and the deer come and eat it, and they have nothing to show for it.”
But Scott Normand feels differently.
He says although he loves the deer, sharp shooting may be the best option.
“The problem now here with the overpopulation, they’re doing more harm than they are good,” he said. “They’re getting a horrible disease that makes their legs fall off; they’re just massively out of control, and so as we’ve understood the options that are out there, sharpshooting them is the best, most cost-effective, most humane way to go about approaching this.”
South Carolina department of natural resources biologists conducted two deer spotlight surveys: one in March and the other in early September.
The March survey found at least 700 deer in the area.
Six months later, the city’s population increased to at least 850 deer.
“On the peninsula here, which is about 5.5 acres, we should have about 96 deer,” said councilman Shirley. “After our last count last week, we’re pushing 900 now, so nearly 9 or 10 times more than what we should have.”
City officials sent out a public information survey to neighbors with three options for handling the problem.
The city could do nothing and allow them to continue to populate, hire sharpshooters through the d-n-r, relocate them to another part of the state, or put the female deer on birth control to slow the population.
“There’s a way to coexist with them; there’s deer repellent plants if you’re a gardener or you’re someone that really enjoys planting their hostas or roses or all of that, learn other ways to deter them maybe back into the woods,” Ickert said. She also suggested that neighbors stop feeding the deer because that makes them more comfortable.
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Shirley says, “it’s not an easy decision; we don’t want to kill animals; we would certainly want to avoid that if we could. We’re going to make the decision that’s in the city’s best interest as well as the deer population’s best interest, and we’re going to do the job that they elected us to do.” | 2022-09-24T10:22:10+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/tega-cay/not-an-easy-decision-tega-cay-neighbors-split-on-how-to-deal-with-rising-deer-population/ |
UConn vs. Saint Mary's (CA): Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Second Round
The No. 4 seed UConn Huskies (26-8) are favored by 3.5 points against the No. 5 seed Saint Mary's Gaels (27-7) for their NCAA Tournament matchup on Sunday. A trip to the Sweet 16 will be awarded to the winner of the 4-5 West Region bracket contest, which tips off at 6:10 PM on TNT. The matchup has an over/under of 129.5 points.
UConn vs. Saint Mary's (CA) Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, March 19, 2023
- Time: 6:10 PM ET
- TV: TNT
- Where: Albany, New York
- Venue: MVP Arena
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UConn vs Saint Mary's (CA) Betting Records & Stats
- So far this season, the Huskies have put together a 19-9-0 record against the spread.
- This season, UConn has won 16 of its 19 games, or 84.2%, when favored by at least -190 on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 65.5% chance of a victory for the Huskies.
- Saint Mary's (CA) is 17-13-0 against the spread this season.
- The Gaels have been listed as an underdog of +155 or more on two occasions this season and lost both games.
- Saint Mary's (CA) has an implied victory probability of 39.2% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
UConn vs. Saint Mary's (CA) Over/Under Stats
Additional UConn vs Saint Mary's (CA) Insights & Trends
- UConn has an 8-2 record against the spread while finishing 8-2 overall in its past 10 games.
- Four of Huskies' last 10 contests have gone over the total.
- Saint Mary's (CA) has gone 7-3 in its last 10 contests, with a 4-6 record against the spread during that span.
- Six of the Gaels' past 10 games have hit the over.
- The 78.7 points per game the Huskies record are 18.8 more points than the Gaels give up (59.9).
- When UConn scores more than 59.9 points, it is 16-8 against the spread and 24-6 overall.
- The Gaels' 71.1 points per game are 6.1 more points than the 65 the Huskies allow to opponents.
- Saint Mary's (CA) is 14-7 against the spread and 22-2 overall when it scores more than 65 points.
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Dear Amy: I work for a well-known company in an office environment that was very busy and stressful – before the pandemic hit.
All of the workers in my category have been working from home for almost three years now.
I have completely adjusted, and find that I am just as productive as before – and much happier. In addition to the convenience of working from my home office, I have saved 10 hours of commuting time a week, as well as a substantial sum that I would have spent on clothing, lunches, and commuting.
My company is now urging all of us to return to the office. I’ve heard through the grapevine that they will start really cracking down.
I’m wondering what I should do.
– Happily Working
Dear Happily Working: The first thing you should do is to communicate with your manager to see if there is flexibility in this dictate – for a productive and seasoned worker like you. Are you willing to go into the office at all?
According to a recent article published in Forbes magazine, your company is part of a trend of workplaces insisting that workers return to the office.
There are few labor laws that protect your preference to work from home.
The marketplace, however, is on your side.
Adzuna, a search engine for job advertisements, conducted “a year-over-year analysis of advertised job vacancies across the United States and found that from November 2020 to 2022, job postings grew by more than 6.2 million. Yet less than 2 percent were for office-based roles, whereas ads for remote roles rose by nearly 10%.”
It might be time for you to hop back into the job market.
Dear Amy: When my wife was a teenager, a 20-something man she knew in her social circle became obsessed with her. He kept calling her and would mainly whine about his life.
He started talking about marriage, although for her he was an annoying acquaintance.
She finally had enough and told him to stop contacting her. He then started in on her friends and family.
When she and I became engaged, he started contacting me and my friends and family.
He wrote lots of long, whiny letters about how miserable he was and how terrible she was and why can’t they just be friends.
This went on for years. We have bunches of letters he wrote. Finally, he stopped writing, and we hoped he had finally moved on.
But he started up again. We’re in our 60s now.
His letters are the same as before, and full of delusions about how things used to be.
The letters are very distressing to my wife, every time. She’s in counseling.
We’ve contacted lawyers, but they’re not interested because he hasn’t made any violent threats and because we haven’t seen him in person in years.
What can we do?
– Conflicted
Dear Conflicted: According to you, these letters don’t contain threatening language and don’t cross the line into harassment. Are you sure? You have expressly asked not to be contacted, so you should do more research to see if the content of these letters is over the legal line.
Writing and sending these letters might be a venting exercise for this unstable person – and you merely receiving them but never responding may cause him to taper off.
You should go to the post office and speak with your local postmaster. Ask about your options for refusing this mail. Ask if they are able to withhold delivery of mail from this particular sender, or if filing a form called PS 1500 (which applies to sexually explicit material), might be possible or advisable.
They might advise you (not your wife) to open and read these letters to make sure they have not changed in tone (keep them in a file), or for you to order an ink stamp that says, “Moved, no forwarding address” or “return to sender,” and send the letters back unopened.
If you do this, take a photo of these letters to have a record of when they were delivered.
Dear Amy: “Sad Sister in WY” described her brother’s girlfriend as “fixing” his looks in a number of ways, and then critiquing the way he used to look.
You described the girlfriend as controlling and lacking tact.
Unfortunately, I identified with the girlfriend. I realize I’ve been criticizing the way my husband used to look. I see now how rude that is.
– I’ll be Changing
Dear Changing: I appreciate how this insight came about, as well as your honesty in admitting it.
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©2023 Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. | 2023-03-09T10:17:04+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/03/ask-amy-ive-adjusted-well-to-working-from-home-but-now-our-company-wants-us-to-return-to-the-office.html |
Shania Twain calls for equal pay and more diversity in country music
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Shania Twian is standing up for others in country music.
The legendary star in the genre used her acceptance speech for the Equal Play Award at Sunday’s CMT Awards to call for more equity and diversity in the country music industry.
“When I wrote the phrase ‘Man I feel like a woman’ I honestly had no idea at the time it would become an undercurrent of a decades-long career,” she said, referring to one of her biggest hits. “It’s amazing how one statement can empower so many.”
The phrase, Twain said, “has been adopted by an array of fantastic communities all around the world and become a genuine path of power…which brings me so much joy.”
“I believe in an all-inclusive country music. We’re family,” Twain said. “This is a genre of music with a rich history that raised and nurtured my own songwriting and performance and recording career from childhood. Currently, the industry standard does a real disservice to this.”
Twain, who was presented the award by rapper Megan Thee Stallion, shouted out some of the diverse acts she is spotlighting on her “Queen of Me” tour this year, including Lily Rose, Lindsay Ell, Hailey Whitters, Mickey Guyton and others.
“I will continue to do my best as a trailblazer,” Twain said. “Together, let’s ensure all our fellow artists get equal play regardless of gender, age or race.”
She also performed acappella with the African American singing group, The BoykinZ, while presenting an award onstage. Twain connected with the group, who are sisters and rising country stars, after Kelly Clarkson surprised them recently by bringing Twain out to meet them during an episode of Clarkson’s daytime talk show.
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GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — An aftershock took more lives Friday and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week.
Wednesday’s magnitude 6 quake struck a remote, mountainous region already grappling with staggering poverty at a time when the country as a whole is spiraling deeper into economic crisis after many countries pulled back critical financing and development aid in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover.
That aid had been keeping the country afloat, and its withdrawal left millions unable to afford food and further strained already struggling medical facilities. Nearly half the population of 38 million cannot meet their basic food needs, while some civil servants, like doctors, nurses and teachers, weren’t paid for months because the Taliban government is unable to access frozen foreign reserves. Salary delays continue throughout the public sector.
Afghanistan’s international isolation is also complicating relief efforts since fewer aid organizations have a presence in the country, and many governments are wary of putting money in the Taliban’s hands.
Aid groups lament that means they have to pay local staff with bags of cash delivered by hand.
Aid organizations like the local Red Crescent and U.N. agencies like the World Food Program have sent food, tents, sleeping mats and other essentials to families in Paktika province, the epicenter of the earthquake, and neighboring Khost province.
Still, residents appeared to be largely on their own to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggle to bring in help. The shoddy mountain roads leading to the affected areas were made worse by damage and rain.
Thousands of stone and mud-brick homes crumbled in the quake, which struck at night, often trapping whole families in the rubble. Many of those who survived spent the first night outside in a cold rain. Since then, villagers have been burying their dead and digging through the rubble by hand in search of survivors.
The Taliban director of the state-run Bakhtar News Agency said Friday the death toll from the first quake had risen to 1,150 people. Abdul Wahid Rayan said at least 1,600 people were injured.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has put the death toll at 770 people.
It’s not clear how death toll counts are being reached, given the difficulties of accessing and communicating with the impacted villages. Either grim toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades.
On Friday, Pakistan’s Meteorological Department reported a new, 4.2 magnitude quake that Bakhtar reported took five more lives in hard-hit Gayan District and injured 11 people.
State media reported that close to 3,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, including at least 1,000 in Gayan. While modern buildings withstand magnitude 6 earthquakes elsewhere, Afghanistan’s mud-brick homes and landslide-prone mountains make such quakes more dangerous.
In villages across Gayan district, toured by Associated Press journalists for hours Thursday, families who had spent the previous rainy night out in the open lifted pieces of timber of collapsed roofs and pulled away stones by hand, looking for missing loved ones. Taliban fighters circulated in vehicles in the area, but only a few were seen helping dig through the rubble.
There was little sign of heavy equipment — only one bulldozer was spotted being transported. Ambulances circulated, but little other help to the living was evident. One 6-year-old boy in Gayan wept as he said his parents, two sisters and a brother were all dead. He had fled the ruins of his own home and took refuge with the neighbors.
Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August as the U.S. and its NATO allies withdrew their forces, ending a 20-year war that drove the same insurgents from power in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Groups that remain are scrambling to get medical supplies, food and tents to the remote quake-struck area. U.N. agencies are also facing a $3 billion funding shortfall for Afghanistan this year.
Trucks of food and other necessities arrived from Pakistan, and planes full of humanitarian aid landed from Iran and Qatar. India sent a technical team to the capital, Kabul, to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
India said its aid would be handed over to a U.N. agency on the ground and the Afghan Red Crescent Society.
Other countries that have offered aid were at pains to underscore that they would work only through U.N. agencies, not with the Taliban, which no government has officially recognized as of yet. Some nations have called on the Taliban to first address human rights concerns, chief among them the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.
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Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | 2022-06-24T23:46:51+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/death-toll-from-afghanistans-quake-rises-to-1150-people/ |
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A 25-year-old Lawton man will serve 25 years in prison for the 2020 shaking death of a 3-month-old boy.
Wallace Cleveland Clay III pleaded guilty July 21 in Comanche County District Court to a count of second-degree murder, records indicate. He received a 35-year sentence with 10 years suspended and will be under at least two years of supervised probation upon release.
Clay also was ordered to pay $2,637.31 in fines, costs and restitution.
Clay pleaded guilty to using “unreasonable force while squeezing and shaking” the infant the night of Nov. 25, 2020. He made his initial court appearance Dec. 3, 2020.
Lawton police first responded shortly to Comanche County Memorial Hospital after the child was brought in suffering trauma to the right side of the head, according to the probable cause affidavit. The child was later flown to Oklahoma City Children’s Medical Center where he later died.
The State Medical Examiner determined the boy died from blunt force trauma, including multiple skull fractures, the affidavit states.
Clay told police he’d taken an 800-mg Ibuprofen for a sore shoulder around 3:30 p.m. and fell asleep on his bed. The sound of the boy crying in his crib woke him up around 11:30 p.m., the affidavit states.
When he wouldn’t stop crying, Clay said he picked the unidentified infant up and “out of frustration” began shaking him for “five to 10 seconds,” according to the affidavit. He said he put the boy back in the crib and later noticed he was not breathing.
Written by Scott Rains: scott.rains@swoknews.com. | 2022-08-04T10:12:56+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/news/lawton-man-to-serve-25-years-for-shaken-baby-death/article_415b46ea-dd1a-5b34-899b-bbcdfb65e800.html |
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Mariners Notebook: Moore’s setback, Haggerty and Muñoz nearing returns
Apr 21, 2023, 4:11 PM | Updated: 4:28 pm
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The Seattle Mariners revealed two good pieces of news on the injury front ahead of Friday’s series opener with the St. Louis Cardinals and one bit of bad news.
The good news? Utility man Sam Haggerty (concussion) has been cleared and could return as soon as Saturday, manager Scott Servais said. Additionally, ace reliever Andrés Muñoz (deltoid strain) threw a bullpen session that went well and he will be joining Triple-A Tacoma next week to throw a live batting practice session. If that goes well, Muñoz will begin a multi-appearance rehab assignment.
“He is progressing. Everything has been good, feels good, he’s responding really good the next day, so I feel very good about him rejoining us,” Servais said. “I don’t know if he makes it during the next road trip. I’m hopeful that he is (with us) when we get back to the West Coast, maybe in Oakland. If not, he could join us when we get back here at home.”
After this three-game set with the Cardinals, the Mariners fly to Philadelphia to face the Phillies Tuesday-Thursday before going international Friday-Sunday against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Right after that, the Mariners play in Oakland against the A’s May 2-4 before coming home to face the Houston Astros May 5-7. As Servais noted, he expects Muñoz back for one of those two series.
The bad injury news? Utility man Dylan Moore (oblique) began his rehab assignment recently, but is shutting things down for the time being.
“Well, anytime it gets pushed back, there’s concern,” Servais said. “I think the latest I’ve heard on Dylan’s situation is he’s got some lingering effects. He doesn’t feel 100%. So he’s gonna get checked out again by a doctor and see where it goes from there. That’s about all I know. He had the one rehab outing in Everett and he’s not ready to go do another one yet.”
Mariners Lineup
Julio Rodríguez, CF
Ty France, 1B
Eugenio Suárez, 3B
Teoscar Hernández, RF
AJ Pollock, DH
Jarred Kelenic, LF
Tom Murphy, C
Jose Caballero, 2B
J.P. Crawford, SS
George Kirby, SP
Cardinals Lineup
Brendan Donovan, 2B
Alec Burleson, LF
Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
Nolan Arenado, 3B
Willson Contreras, C
Nolan Gorman, DH
Lars Nootbar, CF
Jordan Walker, RF
Tommy Edman, SS
Steven Matz, SP
Seattle Mariners Notes
• With the Cardinals starting a lefty in Steven Matz, Friday is the third start in a row for Jose Caballero, and his second straight start at second base.
Caballero made his MLB debut last Saturday as a defensive replacement against the Colorado Rockies, and he started the last two games for the Mariners.
Even though he’s just 1-for-8 (.125) to start his big league career, Servais likes what he’s seen from the 26-year-old infielder.
“I think Cabby has handled everything thrown at him very well,” Servais said. “He has not been wide-eyed, he’s not afraid. He’s playing like he’s always played, which is good. You never know when guys get to the big leagues for the first time. I think the quality of his at-bats have been very good. I think he’s had eight at-bats and hit four balls pretty good. He’s taken a walk, he’s aggressive on the bases, he’s played good D.
“You’ll see Cabby move around, too. He’s at second tonight, he’s played third base in career, obviously was at short the other night. So you’ll see him move around as we go forward.”
• Jarred Kelenic entered the season as a platoon guy in left field, but his bat is keeping him in the lineup against lefty starters. Kelenic is 4-for-11 (.376) with a home run and three RBIs off lefties this year, and 4-for-10 (.400) against left-handed starting pitchers.
• Cal Raleigh, a switch hitter, is not in the lineup against the lefty starter, with Tom Murphy getting the start behind the plate.
“Looking at the schedule and certainly Cal being a switch hitter, it leaves a lot of options,” Servais said. “I think Murphy, he’s done his damage against left-handed pitching. We had a lefty (starter) the other day, off day (Thursday), getting a lefty tonight, then (the Cardinals will) come back with two righties, so you probably see Cal in there. But yeah, we need everybody to contribute, hopefully it’s an opportunity to get Murph going a little bit with a little bit more consistent at bat. So we’ll see.”
Morosi thinks Seattle Mariners’ bats will ‘come around,’ DH woes are ‘fixable’ | 2023-04-22T02:24:58+00:00 | sports.mynorthwest.com | https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1754511/seattle-mariners-notebook-moores-setback-haggerty-and-munoz-nearing-returns/ |
Authorities were investigating Signature Bank’s work ahead of its shut down on Sunday, according to a Bloomberg report.
The report said that the Justice Department’s offices in Manhattan and Washington were investigating whether the bank took enough measures to detect possible money laundering schemes orchestrated by clients, according to people familiar with the matter. Two other people told Bloomberg that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was also looking into the institution.
Signature Bank was seized by The New York Department of Financial Services on Sunday “to protect depositors” after its customers withdrew billions from the bank after the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday. The bank had $89 billion in deposits end of last year, according to the department, but more than $79 billion of those deposits were not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), The New York Times reported.
The FDIC only insures up to $250,000 per customer account if a bank fails.
The FDIC and the SEC declined to confirm the report to The Hill, but a SEC spokesperson pointed to SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s statement on Sunday about current market events.
“In times of increased volatility and uncertainty, we at the SEC are particularly focused on monitoring for market stability and identifying and prosecuting any form of misconduct that might threaten investors, capital formation, or the markets more broadly,” he said. “Without speaking to any individual entity or person, we will investigate and bring enforcement actions if we find violations of the federal securities laws.”
The pair of bank closures over the weekend has raised concerns in the banking industry, and has prompted some lawmakers to call for reform. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) introduced a bill to repeal rollbacks in banking regulations that was enacted during the Trump administration.
If enacted, the bill would put banks with at least $50 billion in assets back under strict Federal Reserve oversight and make them subject to Dodd-Frank Act stress tests. This would reverse at the Trump-era banking regulation rollback that raised the limit to $250 billion that exempted dozens of banks — including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — from the strictest federal oversight. | 2023-03-15T20:16:07+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/hill-politics/signature-bank-had-criminal-investigation-looming-before-it-collapsed-report/ |
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Two nearby shooting incidents within four days led to an inspection that uncovered code and safety violations at a popular live music club and prompted its temporary shutdown.
The 52-year-old has served the city since Jan. 31, 2020. “I’m very disappointed,” Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, adding that the chief, who joined the Greensboro Police Department in 1996, "has left a great legacy."
GREENSBORO — The Blind Tiger, one of the area's most popular nightspots, has become the focal point of another shooting.
Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to critical race theory, "inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics," the release states.
Police are looking for a black four-door sedan — possibly a BMW, 2010-2015 year model with dark tinted windows — and damage along the right passenger side.
Davie County investigators say a family went to the sheriff's office just hours before a murder-suicide in which two young children and their parents were killed.
BURLINGTON — A mother driving with two small children crashed into a parked car, setting off a chain reaction that involved two other vehicles…
Four troopers were inside a Statesville store when their patrol vehicles were set on fire. The N.C. Highway Patrol says the suspect was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric exam.
A woman and her two young children were among the four people found dead in a house fire on Monday near Coolemee in Davie County, friends said Tuesday.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Mackenzie Valenza just started her first year in high school.
So, in addition to high school level math, science, english and history the newly minted Sarasota County freshman will also be getting a new level of sexual health education.
She welcomes it.
“I feel like we should talk about safe sex practices and how to make sure before you decide you want to engage in something like this, you’re ready,” she told us recently.
But in Florida, while laws mandating health education include teen dating and disease control, Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone discovered there’s no statewide curriculum for sex education.
As a result, what and how Florida students are taught about sexual and reproductive health in public schools is left to individual school boards to approve policies, school principals to interpret them and instructors who, ultimately, drill it all down for students.
“Sex education in Florida public schools is very inconsistent,” explained Professor Dr. Elissa Barr of the University of North Florida. Dr. Barr has been studying sex eduction policies for more than two decades.
“Because it's not consistent we have kids in our state who are receiving quality sex education and learning the skills and resources and information to really protect themselves and advocate for themselves. Then we have other counties where kids aren't getting that information,” Dr. Barr said.
A map her team created using information provided by Florida’s Department of Education, showed just how mixed sex education curriculums are across Florida with policies meeting one of three categories.
- Comprehensive sex education- includes information about human development, anatomy and reproductive health, contraception, childbirth, STDs, HIV/AIDS.
- Abstinence Plus- emphasizes the benefits of abstinence as the expected standard but also instructs students on making responsible decisions to protect their health, and transmission of diseases along with some discussion about barrier methods.
- Abstinence Only- emphasizes abstinence as the expected standard with limited discussion on other aspects of sexual health.
According to the map, the majority of Florida school districts teach abstinence plus or comprehensive sex education. There are currently (6) school districts in Florida that are funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to offer comprehensive sexual health education. But approximately one-third (20) of school districts in FL still identify as abstinence only school districts.
“I’m as surprised as you,” said Dr. Barr when asked about these district policies.
Studies show abstinence only instruction doesn’t prevent teens from having sex.
A 2019 youth risk behavior study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found by 12 grade, more than half of Florida teens have already engaged in sexual intercourse.
Chlamydia rates among teens in Florida are also four times higher than the national average.
When asked about teen birth rates in Florida, “in counties where they have abstinence only policies, we do see higher teen birth rates,” explained Dr. Barr.
In Escambia County, an abstinence only school district, a 16-year-old’s pregnancy made national headlines this week after a Judge there ruled the teen isn’t “sufficiently mature” for an abortion.
While it’s unclear if the teens attends a public school, in response to questions about the district’s abstinence only curriculum, a district spokesperson responded by email, “we are respectful of parental rights as we follow state guidelines regarding health education.”
For years, Florida advocates have been pushing decision makers to adopt more comprehensive sex education statewide.
“It’s unfair that the quality of sex ed you get depends on where in Florida you are born and raised,” said Amy Weintraub of Progress Florida, a reproductive rights advocacy group.
Add in the state’s new Parental Rights in Education Law, which bans talk of gender identity among some elementary-aged students and any content deemed not age-appropriate, and advocates fear lessons on sexual and reproductive health in Florida will suffer.
“A lot of teachers are really pulling back,” said Takeate King Pang with the Women’s Foundation of Florida.
Last month, the school board in Miami Dade first approved, then rejected, then approved again a new series of sex ed textbooks after a small group of citizens questioned if the middle and high school level books violated the state’s new law.
Alex Serrano, who represents the Miami Dade chapter for County Citizens Defending Freedom, a group largely behind book challenges in school libraries, spoke on behalf of citizens concerned the new textbooks violated the state’s new law.
“Much of the content is not age appropriate, usurps parental rights and is scientifically not inaccurate and not factual,” he told the board at the time,” he said during the school board meeting.
Back in Sarasota County, last month school board members approved this year’s health education curriculum which, for high schoolers will include instruction on avoiding pregnancy, STD’s and the consequences of sexual relationships.
But during the same board meeting, the district’s superintendent told board members about the district’s standard for sex education in schools, “we have chosen abstinence,” said Dr. Brennan Asplen. [A district spokesperson would not elaborate or explain Dr. Asplen’s statement. Instead we were directed to the district’s approved plan.]
Before Mackenzie Valenza gets any high school sex ed, her mom will have to sign a form allowing her to participate. The district adopted opt-in policies a few years ago. If students don’t have a signed form turned in, the default will be for students not to get any sexual health instruction at all at school.
Valenza’s mom called it “tragic,” and her 14-year-old daughter called it “disappointing.”
“High school is meant to prepare you for adulthood. All your teachers will tell you that we’re preparing you for adulthood, we’re preparing you for adulthood. Ok, but are you preparing me for that part of it,” she said. | 2022-08-22T14:25:53+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/sex-ed-across-florida-very-inconsistent-with-some-districts-still-opting-for-abstinence-only-curriculums |
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Hannah L. Schacter, Wayne State University; Adam Hoffman, Cornell University, and Alexandra Ehrhardt, Wayne State University
(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Teens with domineering friends are at heightened risk for mental health problems, according to our new research.
Dominant friends often harness decision-making power – for instance, dictating which classmates their friends should follow on Instagram. They can also exert behavioral control, like by making the subordinate friend go to a party they don’t want to attend.
Friendships are extremely important relationships for teens, but are they always a positive influence? We arepsychologyresearchers interested in the potential psychological consequences of having dominant friends. We suspected that being part of this kind of friendship with a peer might make adolescents feel worthless or distressed.
To investigate, we surveyed 388 adolescents at U.S. high schools five times across one year. Each time, we asked our teen participants to answer questions about their close friends’ dominating behaviors: Do they make all the decisions? Do they always get their way?
Consistent with our predictions, we found that when adolescents felt powerless in their close friendships – like their friends always “called the shots” – they experienced lower self-esteem and more symptoms of depression or anxiety.
Why it matters
Adolescence is a high-risk time for the onset of psychological disorders; rates of depression and anxiety tend to rise during the teenage years. Supportive and equitable friendships can positively affect teen mental health, but our new research reveals a potential dark side to some close friendships.
Although some teens might be OK going with the flow and letting their friends take the reins, our study found some of the first evidence that this kind of unequal relationship can be psychologically harmful. Healthy friendships should offer both partners opportunities to have a say and make decisions.
Our findings suggest that it’s important to teach teens how to establish healthy, equitable friendships. One friend shouldn’t consistently feel bossed around or powerless. Also, adolescents may benefit from receiving help in developing effective communication tools for asserting their wants and needs to their close friends.
What still isn’t known
There is still a lot to learn about how power dynamics in friendships affect teen mental health. For example, is it better to have dominant friends than no friends at all? Does having several supportive friends negate the harm of having one dominant friend? And are there reasons some teens might be more likely than others to end up in these lopsided friendships? For example, it’s possible that personality plays a role, with more introverted teens gravitating toward more assertive peers, and vice versa.
We also need to learn more about the best ways to effectively intervene. Many programs are designed to promote healthy teen romantic relationships, but far fewer address healthy teen friendships. Recognizing that friendships are not unequivocally protective is an important first step in helping teens reap their benefits and avoid their costs.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/a-friend-whos-more-boss-than-bff-may-be-harmful-for-teens-mental-health-201637. | 2023-03-21T13:44:03+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/a-friend-who-s-more-boss-than-bff-may-be-harmful-17851286.php |
WCIA — Illinois football is one week down at Spring practice with four more still to come in the lead up to the Spring Game on April 20.
This is the first chance for tight ends coach Robby Discher, defensive backs coach Antonio Fenelus, and outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen to teach their position groups. For Bullen, he brings NFL experience to a group full of talent.
“Just attacking, just attacking off the ball at all times,” Bullen said of what he wants his guys to take from Spring. “On all downs, just rolling off the ball and being disruptive on the other side of the line of scrimmage.”
“When [Bullen] first came to us he talked about how the DBs were that group,” Seth Coleman said. “The DBs were that group for us. He’s put it on us to make sure it’s time to step up, for us to be that group.”
The Illini will be back on the practice field on Tuesday. | 2023-03-27T04:41:59+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/your-illini-nation/bullen-preaching-aggression-to-olbs-in-first-spring-practices/ |
AUSTIN (KXAN) – In recent years, hunting for an apartment in Austin has probably had many wondering if a California zip code was accidentally input into the real estate search engine rather than an Austin one.
While the Austin area has become well known for its soaring rent prices, some Texas metropolitan centers remain more affordable. KXAN looked at five cities in the Lone Star State to see what living accommodations would be available for $2,000 using Zillow and the average fair market rate – the 40th percentile of gross rents in each housing market– in each city.
Austin
It is no secret that people have flooded into the “Live Music Capital” in the past decade. And the rent prices match that population growth – the city consistently ranks towards the top of cities with the fastest-rising rent prices in the country.
Rent evaluation: The fair market rent prices for the Austin-Round Rock region are “very high” and more expensive than 99% of the state, per RentData.org. In the region, fair market rent for a studio is $1,253; a one-bedroom is $1,386, a two-bedroom is $1,626 and a three-bedroom is $2,088.
What can you find for $2,000?
If you want to live in the heart of east Austin, you could choose the Residences at Saltillo, where $1,983 would get you a 600-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment. The building also comes with a swimming pool, in-unit laundry, a pool and downtown views.
A few miles north, in the North Loop neighborhood, someone paying $1,900 a month can get a nearly 800-square-foot, two-bedroom home at 914 E. 53rd St.
Houston
Rent evaluation: A slightly different story in Houston – fair market rent prices are “very low” compared to the national average. RentData.org reports that fair market rent for a studio in the county is $623; for a one-bedroom, $635; a two-bedroom at $826 and a three-bedroom at just over $1000 a month.
What can you find for $2,000? If you’re keen on the bustle of downtown, $2,000 can get you a two-bedroom,1,200-square-foot apartment in the Circuit at 2424 Capitol St. If you want a slower pace in the suburbs, $1,980 can get you a three-bedroom, two bathroom house at 806 E 33rd St. in Independence Heights.
Dallas
Rent evaluation: Similar to Austin, Dallas has seen spikes in rent prices in recent years. The fair market rent prices for Dallas are “very high,” and more expensive than 99% of the state, per RentData.org. In the region, fair market rent for a studio is $1,259; a one-bedroom will cost around $1,326, a two-bedroom $1,565 and a three-bedroom $1,972.
What can you find for $2,000? If you want to live in downtown Dallas, $2,000 can get you a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with just under 1,000 square feet at the MAA Uptown Village, located at 2121 Routh St.
San Antonio
Rent evaluation: Fair market rent prices in San Antonio are also ranked “very high” compared to the national average, according to RentData.org. In the San Antonio-New Braunfels region, fair market rent for a studio is $918; a one-bedroom will cost around $1,057, a two-bedroom $1,282 and a three-bedroom $1,631.
What can you find for $2,000? For $1,986, you can get a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with over 1,000 square feet a few blocks away from the iconic River Walk in the River House at 122 Roy Smith St. A couple of miles south of the River Walk at 1013 S Pine St, $1,900 a month will get you a three-bed, one-bathroom house with a front and backyard.
El Paso
Rent evaluation: Fair market rent prices in El Paso are ranked a little higher than the national average, according to RentData.org. In the El Paso metropolitan region, fair market rent for a studio is $672; a one-bedroom will cost around $824, a two-bedroom $977 and a three-bedroom at $1,361.
What can you find for $2,000? $2,000 can get you pretty far in El Paso.
At 11001 Duster Dr, somebody with $2,000 a month can get a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house with nearly 2,500 square feet and a backyard. | 2023-05-19T21:14:20+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/state/this-is-what-2000-in-rent-will-get-you-in-these-texas-cities/ |
Ohio-based Lordstown Motors announced Thursday that it has started production of “commercially saleable” examples of its fleet-only Endurance electric pickup truck.
There’s a reason the company isn’t making much ado about it right now with a first delivery celebration, too: It’s not yet up on all the certifications it needs.
Lordstown reported that deliveries are still ”subject to full homologation testing and required certification.” Concurrently, the company reports that it’s continuing to put test miles on vehicles and complete software updates. Applications to EPA and CARB have been submitted, and U.S. FMVSS crash testing has been completed, it says.
To that, the company confirmed a start of sales for the fourth quarter of the year—which could translate to any time from early October through late December.
The first models produced are the first two of a lot of just 500 saleable vehicles, and it aims to deliver 50 of those by the end of 2022, with the remainder of that 500 “in the first half of 2023, subject to raising sufficient capital.”
“We will continue to build at a slow rate as we address remaining part pedigree and part availability issues,” said CEO and president Edward Hightower, in a company release. “We expect to increase the speed of production into November and December.”
Lordstown saved itself from bankruptcy by selling the former Ohio GM factory it held to Taiwan’s Hon Hai Technology Group—otherwise known as Foxconn, a longtime contract maker for Apple and other electronics companies. Foxconn will serve as the contract maker of the Endurance, as well as other vehicles at the Ohio facility, including models for Fisker, and electric tractors. And it’s now the majority investor in a joint venture with Lordstown to “develop electric vehicles for the global market.”
With that, Lordstown appears to have pivoted away from seeing the personal-use market as an eventual expansion—after it had delivered a “nationwide fleet” of work trucks, as it told Green Car Reports in 2020. Lordstown confirmed today that it is focused solely on the commercial vehicle market. It hasn’t clarified the state of other production-bound projects, such as the electric van the company announced in 2021, claiming it would be ready for 2022 production.
Lordstown is clearly not out of the weeds quite yet, as it faces a daunting production ramp. It noted that it will finish the quarter with about $195 million in cash and cash equivalents, dropping to $110 million by the end of the year.
As Lordstown has cautioned before, it will need more funding to foster an acceleration in production. It noted in today’s update that it will “continue to explore capital raising alternatives,” including in connection with the Foxconn joint venture and in “strategic partnership discussions.”
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Jeff Cook, co-founder of country band Alabama, dies at 73
NEW YORK (AP) — Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.
Cook had Parkinson’s disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. He died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida, said Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
Tributes poured in from country stars, including Travis Tritt who called Cook “a great guy and one heckuva bass fisherman.”
As a guitarist, fiddle player and vocalist, Cook — alongside cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry — landed eight No. 1 songs on the country charts between spring 1980 and summer 1982, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That run included the pop crossover hits “Love In The First Degree” and “Feels So Right,” as well as “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”
“Jeff Cook, and all of the guys in Alabama, were so generous with wisdom and fun when I got to tour with them as a young artist,” Kenny Chesney said in a statement. “They showed a kid in a T-shirt that country music could be rock, could be real, could be someone who looked like me. Growing up in East Tennessee, that gave me the heart to chase this dream.”
The band had a three-year run as CMA Entertainer of the Year from 1982-1985 and earned five ACM Award Entertainer of the Year trophies from 1981-1985. He stopped touring with Alabama in 2018.
Cook released a handful of solo projects and toured with his Allstar Goodtime Band. He also released collaborations with Charlie Daniels and “Star Trek” star William Shatner. He entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of Alabama.
Survivors include his wife, Lisa.
You can find more national news here. | 2022-11-09T00:42:30+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/11/08/jeff-cook-co-founder-of-country-band-alabama-dies-at-73/ |
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2019 disappearance and death of a 6-year-old girl on the Crow Indian Reservation, according to court documents.
Mildred Alexis Old Crow was physically assaulted and left in a bathtub to drown before her body was wrapped in plastic and concealed inside a container, Big Horn County Attorney Jeanne Torske said in court documents.
The container was taped shut and remained hidden for more than two years while the defendants collected benefits that were meant for the victim, Torske wrote.
Roseen Lincoln and Veronica Dust, both 36 years old, could face life in prison if convicted in state district court. They remained in custody Tuesday on $1 million bond each and were scheduled to be arraigned on March 28 before state District Judge Matthew Wald in Hardin.
Indigenous women are victimized at astonishing rates, with federal figures showing that they — along with non-Hispanic Black women — have experienced the highest homicide rates.
A 2018 Associated Press investigation found nobody knows the precise number of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans nationwide because many go unreported, others aren’t well documented, and no government database specifically tracks them.
The suspects in Mildred’s death could not be reached for comment and did not have attorneys, court officials said. Lincoln previously was identified in court documents as Roseen Lincoln Old Crow.
The defendants were initially arrested in December 2020 as suspects in the girl’s disappearance. They were convicted months later of misdemeanor endangerment and custodial interference, and sentenced in Crow tribal court to 18 months in jail and $2,000 each in fines. The tribal court does not prosecute major crimes.
Mildred — a direct descendant of Chief Pretty Eagle, one of the Crow’s last war chiefs — was removed from her birth mother and placed in the care of Lincoln and Dust in 2017, Torske said.
Family members described the victim as their “Little Angel” and said she had loved to dance, especially at powwows.
In November 2020, Mildred’s relatives informed federal investigators that they had not seen the girl since April 2019. Her body was discovered in February 2021 in a trailer near the tiny community of Garryowen, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of the Montana-Wyoming border.
An autopsy revealed a head cut on the girl’s body and signs that she was habitually abused before her death, Torske said. Violence against the girl occurred generally when the defendants had been drinking, the prosecutor wrote. None of the previous incidents of abuse were reported to authorities, Torske said. | 2023-03-22T00:06:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/couple-faces-murder-charges-in-crow-girls-2019-death/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
Well now that the Democratic race seems closer than ever and the outcome is even more in doubt, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are sharpening their criticism of one another and they're going after John McCain, the certain Republican nominee. But they're saving some of their fire for the media.
As NPR's Peter Overby reports, both campaigns are promoting the notion that the news media are biased.
PETER OVERBY: It took that barometer of pop culture, "Saturday Night Live," to make the media bias argument take hold. The show has lampooned the Clinton-Obama debates twice in two weeks. With special barbs aimed at the press, here is Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton last Saturday.
(Soundbite of TV show "Saturday Night Live")
Ms. AMY POEHLER (Actress): (As Hillary Clinton) I'm sorry. Is that really the toughest question you could think of to ask him because, frankly, there are several issues where he's more vulnerable?
Mr. WILL FORTE (Cast, Saturday Night Live): Excuse me, we'll ask the questions here, sister.
(Soundbite of laughter)
OVERBY: And then came the real Clinton.
(Soundbite of cheers and applause)
Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York; Presidential Candidate): The scene you just saw was a re-enactment, sort of, of last Tuesday's debate and not an endorsement of one candidate over another. I can say this confidently because when I asked if I could take it as an endorsement, I was told, absolutely not.
OVERBY: The new conventional wisdom held that reporters had gone in the tank for Obama. Then came Tuesday, with four primary and caucus states, a day of bad press for Obama, headlines proclaimed Clinton's win in the Ohio and Texas primaries, not his own continuing lead in the delegate count.
Also this week, a former political patron and money man of Obama's, Tony Rezko, went on trial for corruption charges. Obama isn't implicated. His name never came up in the prosecutor's opening arguments today. Still, if there have been plenty of Obama-Rezko stories fueled, in part, by the Clinton campaign. Now, the Obama Campaign is pushing back. It's raising questions on one of Clinton's core arguments that he's been thoroughly vetted and thus, free of scandal. Obama talked about it last night on his campaign plane.
Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois; Presidential Candidate): I think it's important to examine that argument because if the suggestion is somehow that -on issues of ethics or disclosure or transparency, that somehow she's going to have a better record than I have and will be better able to withstand the Republican attacks, I think that's an issue that should be tested.
OBERBY: The Obama Campaign has a litany of issues to raise. Who gave money to Bill Clinton's Presidential Library? The list has never been made public. Why haven't the Clintons released her first lady papers? Why hasn't Hillary Clinton released her tax returns as Obama has? The tax return question came up in the Clinton campaign's conference call with reporters this morning. Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said they'll be released before the Pennsylvania primary April 22. He also said this:
Mr. HOWARD WOLFSON (Spokesman, Clinton Campaign): I, for one, do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president, but perhaps that theory will be tested.
OVERBY: Ken Starr, of course, was the independent prosecutor who investigated Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky case through much of Bill Clinton's term as president. Megan Garber is a writer for Columbia Journalism Review who's been covering the campaign coverage. She says a few reporters do seem to be in the tank for Obama.
Ms. MEGAN GARBER (Assistant Editor, Columbia Journalism Review): Ultimately, reporters thrive on newness and drama and excitement, and I think that's been especially true in this campaign given that the primary has basically been going on for a year.
OVERBY: And this presidential campaign will be going on for another eight months with plenty of time to take more swings at the press coverage.
Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
The money continues to roll in for this year's presidential candidates. Barack Obama's campaign announced today that it raised $55 million in February, that's just in 29 days. So far he's raised a total of $193 million.
SIEGEL: Hillary Clinton has also been raking it in. Her campaign has raised $4 million since Tuesday, and they say have $300,000 new donors. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. | 2023-07-22T12:52:20+00:00 | kclu.org | https://www.kclu.org/2008-03-06/democratic-rivals-accuse-media-of-bias |
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