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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — After voters considered several city project bonds for the city of College Station, proposition A was approved by voters to create a new fire station.
69% of voters agreed that a seventh fire station should be built as the city expands. College Station fire chief Richard Mann said they were happy to see how strongly it was supported.
Mann explained how the city hasn't seen any expansion of fire department resources since opening up their first station in 2012. The fire chief also shared how significant the decision was for area.
"It's gonna directly address that area but that will have a system wide impact because right now we have resources that are being pulled out of that area and to that part of town so this will allow all our resources to stay in their predominate areas. So it's gonna have a system wide impact on everybody in town," said Mann.
The new facility with be built somewhere on the south side of the city, but according to Mann, a location has not been finalized. | 2022-11-11T06:43:42+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/politics/elections/voters-approve-building-new-fire-station-in-cs/499-db35899d-850f-488b-8cb0-0874996b1513 |
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of people marched in Colombia on Tuesday to voice their frustration with President Gustavo Petro’s government and its attempts to make sweeping changes to the nation’s health and pension systems, and its labor laws.
The protests were held as Colombia’s first leftist president struggles to keep his coalition in congress together and sees a slump in his approval ratings as violence between rebel groups grows in some parts of the country.
A corruption scandal involving two members of Petro’s inner circle has also put the government on the defensive, with the president now fighting allegations that his campaign was financed with undeclared donations.
“This government is going to take us back decades,” said Jimmy Rosero, a retired army officer, who helped carry a 40-foot-long Colombian flag at a march in Bogota. “We don’t want any of its reforms to be approved” by congress.
Petro was elected a year ago following massive protests over social and economic inequalities that worsened during the pandemic.
He promised to make peace deals with the nation’s remaining rebel groups and said his government would improve access to healthcare, university education and formal jobs.
But Petro’s Historical Pact party lacked a majority in congress. To govern, it built alliances with traditional parties on the center and the right, which were given positions in Cabinet in exchange for their support in congress.
The ideologically diverse coalition began to fracture this year, as differences emerged over legislation that seeks to reform Colombia’s health system and turn a government agency into the sole administrator of insurance payments, sidelining companies that currently handle a large portion of the insurance market.
Petro argues the reform will make it easier for the government to reimburse hospitals and enable it to invest more money in healthcare centers for remote rural areas. But his opponents say the government lacks the capacity to administer billions of dollars in insurance payments.
The health reform is currently stalled in congress, where it has been stonewalled by opposition parties and former members of Petro’s coalition. A labor law that would make it harder for employers to hire workers using temporary contracts is also struggling to gain enough votes in the senate and the lower house.
Ivan Diaz, a psychologist who owns a small empanada stand in a working class sector of Bogota, said he was worried the labor law proposed by the government would force him to lay off one of his two employees. The law obliges employers to pay additional fees for any work conducted after 6 p.m.
“We are just recovering from the pandemic, and the government wants to give us more burdens,” Diaz said. “I want to believe in Colombia, but its very hard like this.”
Petro has vowed to press on with his reform program, arguing that it is part of a popular mandate that is now threatened by Colombia’s economic elite.
Earlier this month, the government organized a march in favor of Petro’s reforms that was also attended by thousands of people. But the president’s approval rating has fallen recently, as some Colombians appear to be less concerned with social and economic reforms, and more worried with issues like security.
In a poll conducted in May by Invamer, 73% of Colombians said they believed things were getting worse, compared to just 48% in August of last year. Petro received an approval rating of 50% in a poll conducted in November by the same company, but dropped to 34% in the latest poll conducted in April. The recent poll had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 5 percentage points.
Sergio Guzman, a political analyst in Bogota, said the government has failed to build bridges with opposition parties by refusing to make adjustments to its reforms.
“The government is insisting in an all or nothing approach to its agenda” Guzman said. “And that has alienated members of the coalition, that came from traditional parties.”
Meanwhile the president’s efforts to make peace with rebel groups have shown mixed results. In December Petro offered ceasefires to two armed groups, that have fallen apart as attacks on civilians continue. A third ceasefire with the largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army, is expected to begin in August. | 2023-06-21T13:55:57+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/thousands-take-to-the-streets-in-colombia-to-protest-leftist-governments-reforms/ |
BOSTON, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its mission to expand diversity and inclusion in clinical research, Alcanza Clinical Research announces funding and mentorship to support African American professionals pursuing clinical research careers, and drive broader representation in the workforce.
For the second consecutive year in recognition of Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, Alcanza will partner with Clinical Research Fastrack to provide scholarship funding to enable two African American students to attend the Clinical Research Fastrack Bootcamp Training Program, a highly intensive, accelerated course that prepares new professionals for the field of clinical research.
"We strongly believe in investing in the future of clinical research talent, which begins by supporting aspiring young minds," said Carlos Orantes, Chief Executive Officer of Alcanza. "In honoring Juneteenth, we see the Clinical Research Fastrack program as a lever towards creating more diversity and representation in the field of clinical research, while helping the clinical research industry build a talent pipeline with skills that meet the changing needs of research."
As a trusted education provider for hundreds of the top research sites, Clinical Research Fastrack graduates have a significant likelihood of receiving job opportunities with research sites and sponsors as well as contract and academic research organizations. In addition to foundational instruction, the recipients will also receive mentorship opportunities from leadership within Alcanza and Clinical Research Fastrack.
"This generous scholarship from Alcanza truly encapsulates the spirit of Juneteenth, creating opportunities and fostering inclusivity," said David Silberman, CEO and Founder of Clinical Research Fastrack. "We are thrilled for our students and deeply grateful to Alcanza for their commitment to education and diversity."
Both scholarships will cover partial tuition for the recipients in an upcoming cohort. Alcanza and Fastrack will be collaborating to select the scholarship winners, with an announcement forthcoming in July.
About Alcanza
Alcanza Clinical Research is the next-generation site network established to support the most significant demands in our industry: diverse patient access, efficient enrollment performance, and clinical quality. It practices inclusive research that delivers education and a range of clinical trial opportunities to all people on their terms. Located in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia, Alcanza specializes in conditions across psychiatry, neurology, dermatology and infectious disease therapeutic areas.
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FIRST ALERT: 2 lanes closed on I-26W following crash
Published: Jun. 17, 2022 at 4:29 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Department of Transportation is reporting a crash on I-26 westbound that has closed two left lanes.
The crash is near exit 215 and Dorchester Road.
There is no official word yet on any injuries resulting from the crash.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Most of us have our own version of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” — that classic 1987 comedy where Steve Martin and John Candy’s characters endeavor to get home for Thanksgiving while encountering every possible travel snafu.
While the movie version is exaggerated for entertainment purposes, I’d venture to say that many “real life” travel experiences have come close.
A recent trip, while not coming anywhere near that movie’s level of travel chaos, provided a few travel anecdotes, including a semi-wild ride down a mountain with questionable brakes.
It started out innocently enough — a plan to spend Mother’s Day with my two adult children in Charlotte, N.C., where my daughter lives. My son and his girlfriend, who reside in Chicago, suggested we meet there for Mother’s Day. It’s a quick direct flight from O’Hare for them.
I, on the other hand, opted to drive two hours to Indianapolis and catch a flight from there instead of the regional flight from here and resulting layover and connection. The drive to Indy went smoothly, and within a few hours, I touched down in Charlotte. After a quick trip to the luggage carousel, I met my daughter and son at the passenger pick-up. So far, so good.
The next day, we piled into my daughter’s SUV and headed to Asheville for the weekend. We planned to explore the town, do some hiking and visit the Biltmore estate on Mother’s Day.
We agreed that I’d drive for this part of the trip. I felt that would cut down on any sibling back-seat driving, and also, I was clearly the safest driver in the group.
As the roads became a bit twisty heading into the mountains, I noticed a disconcerting shudder each time I braked. I convinced myself that the tires just needed rotating (or something innocuous), but I was apprehensive for the rest of the trip. Thankfully, we made it safely to Asheville and I put any car issues out of my mind as we explored the area.
The next morning, we drove up the mountain to a trail head for a scenic hike. On trip back down, the car shaking was markedly worse. The mama bear in me began to visualize treacherous outcomes as I white-knuckled it back to the hotel.
After googling “is it safe to drive a car if the front-end shakes when braking?” I determined that it really wasn’t. After a lengthy call to AAA to get the car towed, along with a frustrating yet eventually successful attempt at getting a one-way car rental, we were back in business.
My kids implied that I was overreacting, but after I gave them the “I’m your mom, and I care about your safety” speech, they eventually acquiesced — realizing that we were here to celebrate Mother’s Day, and maybe they’d just let me have this one. We later learned that the culprit was a “hot spot” on one of the brake rotors, along with a few other issues.
The next day, we toured the Biltmore Estate — the massive “summer home” commissioned by George Vanderbilt and completed in 1895. The estate is the largest single-family home in the country and is a major tourist attraction. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend visiting it — if only to see the indoor bowling alley, pool and gym. George was definitely ahead of his time.
After touring the “house” and gardens, we stopped for our daily vacation ice cream indulgence, piled into the rental car and headed back to Charlotte. I’m happy to report that the return drive was uneventful — with not one brake-shake the entire trip.
The next morning, the Chicago contingent took an Uber to the airport for an early departure. My daughter had to get to work early, and I had an afternoon flight, so we said our goodbyes and I spent a few hours tidying up her house — as a mom will do — before departing for to the airport.
I was determined to have an uneventful trip home. My first step was to return the rental car. Relying heavily on GPS and laser focused on the airport directional signs, I proudly arrived with no glitches. I checked my luggage, got through security (very thankful to have TSA PreCheck), had a quick lunch at the Ambassador lounge and then power-walked to my gate, where I waited in an endlessly long, slow-moving line to board the plane.
Once safely buckled in, I put in my earbuds and started listening to an audiobook. The flight time was just over an hour — by far the shortest leg of this adventure. Before long, I was picking up my suitcase and heading to my car — which I easily located thanks to the parking notes and photos I took and texted to myself.
After plugging my home address into the GPS, I was dialed in for the “easy” two-hour drive and anticipated arrival time of 5 p.m. CST. I was really feeling the independent-travel-pro-mom vibe at this point.
Since my sole need for the GPS was to exit the airport and merge onto the correct road, I turned off the routing once I merged onto westbound Interstate 74. I was puzzled when it attempted to route me through Jamestown but didn’t give it a second thought as I’ve had many a GPS try to take me through the country on past trips to Indy.
I quickly regretted not deferring to the all-knowing GPS when I encountered a major traffic back-up. While moving less than 2 miles in two hours (and being thankful the entire time for having a full tank of gas, a water bottle and having used the bathroom right before leaving the airport), I popped in my audiobook and tried to make the best of a bad situation.
When I finally arrived at an exit, the GPS then took me on a tour of rural western Indiana before spitting me back out onto I-74 for the remainder of the trip. After four-and-a-half hours of what should have been an “easy” two-hour trek, I was finally home.
I pulled into my garage and breathed a sigh of relief. I’d like to say I bounded out of the car, but stiffness from hours of driving (and let’s face it, being 59) made it more of an unfolding and a shuffle.
I then said a silent prayer of thanks for making it home in one piece. Sure, I had a few travel snafus — but in the end, it was well worth it. Spending precious time with my kids, making memories and being together for Mother’s Day made up for the unnerving drive through the mountains and few extra hours sitting in traffic.
Here’s to safe summer travels for all. | 2023-05-23T11:39:31+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/midlife-musings-unexpected-inconveniences-are-just-part-of-the-trip/article_440fe3e3-ec89-58a5-922c-06cb13f2ba8b.html |
The Sylacauga Parks and Recreation Department will host Storytime with Friends on Nov. 12 in Noble Park starting at 10 a.m. Children are invited to meet-and-greet with Chase from Paw Patrol and listen as Miss Teen Sylacauga, Allison Terrell, reads a story about Chase.
Following story time, children are invited to participate in a Thanksgiving craft session provided by Home Depot and play on the playground. Chase will be there to visit and play with the children from 10-11 a.m. The event is completely free to the public. | 2022-11-04T16:46:53+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/children-s-event-to-be-held-nov-12-at-noble-park/article_690cce00-5be9-11ed-b002-6bd3964162a3.html |
By ANDREW WILKS
Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — The first of the ships to leave Ukraine under a deal to unblock grain supplies and stave off a potential global food crisis arrived at its destination in Turkey on Monday.
The Turkey-flagged Polarnet docked at Derince port in the Gulf of Izmit after setting off from Chornomorsk on Aug. 5 laden with 12,000 tons of corn.
“This sends a message of hope to every family in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia: Ukraine won’t abandon you,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. “If Russia sticks to its obligations, the ‘grain corridor’ will keep maintaining global food security.”
A total of 12 ships have now been authorized to sail under the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations — ten outbound and two headed for Ukraine. Some 322,000 tons of agricultural products have left Ukrainian ports, the bulk of it corn but also sunflower oil and soya.
The first ship to depart Ukraine, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, which left on Aug. 1, still hasn’t reached its destination in Lebanon and was anchored off Turkey’s southern coast on Sunday evening, according to the Marine Traffic website.
Meanwhile, two more ships, carrying corn and soybeans, departed Ukraine’s Black Sea ports on Monday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
The Sacura left Yuzhny carrying 11,000 tonnes of soybeans to Italy and the Arizona left Chornomorsk with 48,458 tonnes of corn bound for Iskenderun in southern Turkey.
Four ships that left Ukraine on Sunday are expected to anchor near Istanbul on Monday evening, the Defense Ministry said. They are due to be inspected on Tuesday.
Under the arrangement, ships leaving Ukraine are checked by officials from the three countries and the U.N. to make sure they carry only grain, fertilizer or food and not any other commodities. Inbound vessels are checked to ensure they are not carrying weapons.
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The United States will co-host the second Summit for Democracy with Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia on Wednesday and Thursday. The hosts invited 120 global leaders to the summit, which will be held in Costa Rica this year.
"This summit is about highlighting the importance of democratic resilience and increasing the participation of young people in democracies," Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said.
She spoke to Morning Edition's A Martínez on Tuesday about the state of global democracy since the inaugural Summit for Democracy in 2021.
She says the second summit will recognize "those countries that made commitments and countries that actually followed through on their commitments."
Thomas-Greenfield singled out Albania and Angola for positive reforms to their judiciaries, saying that Angola has "taken steps to create an independent judiciary."
While China is excluded from the summit, Thomas-Greenfield says Taiwan will participate because they have made consistent efforts to move their democracy forward.
"Taiwan has remained a solid democratic partner," Thomas-Greenfield said. "They actively engaged in a Summit for Democracy the first time around."
"In terms of our relationship with China, we still have a one China policy, but that doesn't change the fact that through our Taiwan Relations Act, we can continue to engage with this country that is a solid democracy," she added.
Honduras established diplomatic relations with China this weekend and cut ties with Taiwan. Despite growing tensions between Beijing and the U.S., Thomas-Greenfield says the U.S. will continue to "deepen and expand engagements" with Latin America and Taiwan.
"China's influence in Latin America is only important to the extent that it counters our influence," Thomas-Greenfield said.
She says the biggest threat to global democracy is "authoritarianism," but that technology could support democratic freedom.
"Technology can be a double edged sword," Thomas-Greenfield said. "It gives people access to information about what their governments are doing, how their governments are performing, and it also gives people a platform to actually have conversations about what is happening in their countries.
"Democracies allow that to happen," Thomas-Greenfield said. "And authoritarian systems you see regularly that they block access to technology, they block access to information and they block freedoms."
Amra Pasic edited the audio interview, and Adam Bearne edited the digital version. contributed to this story
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-18T05:08:51+00:00 | wboi.org | https://www.wboi.org/2023-03-28/the-biden-administration-puts-the-state-of-global-democracy-back-in-the-spotlight |
Muncie man apparently drowns in accident outside home
MUNCIE, Ind. — Authorities said a Muncie man apparently drowned Sunday evening in an accident outside his southside home.
James W. Vance Jr., 63, was pronounced dead at the scene, in the 1900 block of West 17th Street.
Emergency personnel had been sent there about 11:35 p.m. after a family member found the victim.
A city police officer reported Vance was stuck face down in a "water meter access hole" with his head below the water line.
The officer's efforts to pull Vance out of the hole by his legs were unsuccessful. It was determined the victim's head was wedged between the water meter pipe and the hole's wall.
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Other personnel arrived, and city firefighters cut the pipe, allowing the victim to be lifted from the hole. He was then pronounced dead.
A deceased cat was found at the bottom of the hole, leading to speculation Vance might have been trying to rescue the animal.
Delaware County Coroner Rick Howell said an autopsy would be conducted at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.
More:Man fatally shot in southern Delaware County; images of vehicles released
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com | 2022-07-25T15:34:57+00:00 | thestarpress.com | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/07/25/muncie-man-apparently-drowns-in-accident-outside-home/65381943007/ |
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply shortage as outbreaks of the water-borne disease surge globally.
In a statement on Wednesday, the U.N. agency and partners that include UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said one dose of vaccine has proven effective in stopping outbreaks “even though evidence on the exact duration of protection is limited" and appears to be lower in children.
WHO and partner agencies manage a stockpile of cholera vaccines that are dispensed free to countries that need them.
“This last-resort decision is a way to avoid making the impossible choice of sending doses to one country over another,” said Dr. Daniela Garone, international medical coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, one of WHO’s partners in managing the global cholera vaccine stockpile. “Single dose vaccination will provide shorter protection, but it is the fair and equitable way to try and protect as many people as possible as we face simultaneous cholera outbreaks.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said cholera can sometimes kill within a day and warned that outbreaks in 29 countries this year were putting “unprecedented pressure” on the world's limited vaccine supply. He said authorities should aim to scale up vaccine production and that “rationing must only be a temporary solution."
WHO said countries such as Haiti, Malawi and Syria were struggling to stop large outbreaks of the disease and that climate change could make epidemics more common, as the bacteria that causes the disease can reproduce more quickly in warmer water.
In 2010, cholera killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti after the disease was imported there by U.N. peacekeepers.
WHO said that of the 36 million vaccine doses expected for 2022, 24 million were already been shipped for immunization campaigns. It said there was no short-term solution to increase production. A global task force on cholera has estimated that the world needs about 250 million cholera vaccines until 2025, both to stop outbreaks and for preventive immunization campaigns.
Shantha Biotechnics, an Indian subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, previously announced that it would stop making cholera vaccines by the end of this year, leaving the world with just one manufacturer of the easy-to-produce oral vaccine: South Korean company EuBiologics.
Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO's emergencies director, said it was not possible to estimate when countries could go back to using two doses of the cholera vaccine.
“It reflects the scale of the crisis,” Ryan said, criticizing rich countries for not doing more to help boost production.
“It's a sad day for us to have to go backwards to a one-dose strategy that is life-saving,” he said. “But if cholera were spreading in industrialized and wealthy countries right now, the production costs would be covered.” | 2022-10-19T17:02:08+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/WHO-advises-using-1-dose-of-cholera-vaccine-due-17519635.php |
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Strong putting brings Scott Piercy an even-par round two of the RBC Canadian Open
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Scott Piercy sends in 24-footer for birdie at RBC Canadian
In the second round of the 2022 RBC Canadian Open, Scott Piercy makes a 24-foot birdie putt on the par-3 13th hole.
Scott Piercy hit 10 of 18 greens in regulation during his second round at the RBC Canadian Open, and had a good round of putting, with no misses on putts within 10 feet. Piercy finished his day tied for 45th at even par; Wyndham Clark is in 1st at 7 under; Keith Mitchell, Alex Smalley, Jim Knous, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Rory McIlroy are tied for 2nd at 6 under; and Austin Cook is in 7th at 5 under.
At the par-5 11th, Scott Piercy chipped in his third shot from 3 yards off the green, scoring a eagle for the hole. This moved Scott Piercy to 2 under for the round.
After a 264 yard drive on the 394-yard par-4 12th, Piercy chipped his third shot to 8 feet, which he rolled for two-putt bogey on the hole. This moved Piercy to 1 under for the round.
At the 203-yard par-3 13th, Piercy hit a tee shot 192 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 25-foot putt for birdie. This moved Piercy to 2 under for the round.
On the 204-yard par-3 16th, Piercy's his chip went 6 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 1 under for the round.
On the 370-yard par-4 first, Piercy had a bogey after hitting the green in 3 and two putting, moving Piercy to even for the round.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 454-yard par-4 fifth hole, Piercy had a 89 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Piercy to 1 under for the round.
On the 215-yard par-3 eighth, Piercy's tee shot went 195 yards to the right side of the fairway and his chip went 22 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to even-par for the round.
On the par-4 10th, Piercy's 115 yard approach to 4 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Piercy to even for the round.
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You don’t have to have grandchildren or even live on the shore to dive into a popular style of home decor called coastal grandmother. Although both aesthetics have similar origins, coastal grandmother is not as nostalgic or stuffy as the grandmillennial home decorating trend that found popularity a couple of years ago.
So what is coastal grandmother style? According to Lex Nicoleta, the social media influencer who coined the term, if you love Nancy Meyers movies, coastal vibes, Ina Garten and cozy interiors, you might just be a coastal grandmother — no matter your age, situation or location.
“I would describe it as very neutral, classic staples in light shades … it’s very crisp, very clean,” New York City-based personal stylist Samantha Brown told “Today.” “It’s sort of like a nod to this timeless, moneyed — but not flashy — coastal grandma.”
If you aspire for a home that looks elegant and fashionable yet cozy and lived in, coastal grandmother might be for you. Keep reading to find out more about the defining aspects of this trending style.
Coastal Grandmother Colors and Textures
A palette of shades of white makes the ideal background for a room in the coastal grandmother decorating style. Neutral, seashore shades like beige and taupe along with blue, gray and green that remind you of the sea tie up the color scheme.
“Defined by the use of natural light, high–quality natural materials, a soft color palette and an abundance of foliage and flowers, coastal grandmother creates an inviting, effortlessly elegant and livable interior that feels like home,” Louise Wicksteed, design director at the English interior design firm Sims Hilditch, told Homes & Gardens.
Cotton and linen in a variety of weights and styles add inviting interest. For instance, you might have sheer cotton window treatments, linen-covered throw pillows and a soft, chunky throw in your bedroom.
Furnishings and Accents for a Coastal Grandmother Home
Furniture pieces made from wood and other natural fibers like rattan, jute and sisal enhance the easygoing, beachy vibe of the coastal grandmother interior. Live plants, bowls of fruit and fresh flowers can add splashes of color here and there. Although you wouldn’t want an abundance of nautical-themed accents, an unobtrusive branch of driftwood could also fit the aesthetic.
Handmade ceramics or terra cotta planters, brass fixtures, oversized woven baskets and comfy floor poufs can bring a coastal grandmother-inspired room together. Of course, incorporating your favorite artwork and decor pieces lets you create a chic, welcoming space that is truly your own.
“Coastal grandmother is about utilizing what you have available to you in the form of heirlooms and mixing it with elements that encourage relaxation and calm,” Joelle Smith, of the Jamaica-based design firm If Walls Could Talk, told Martha Stewart. “After two years of a pandemic, this is exactly the mood we want to capture — that feeling of being with family in what you consider a safe space.”
See, you may have been a coastal grandmother this whole and not even realized it.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-07-27T15:32:08+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/coastal-grandmother-style-breezy-decor-trend |
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Naftali Group, a leading privately held global real estate development and investment firm based in New York, which is partnering with Access Industries, a U.S.-based industrial group with global strategic investments, today announced a significant construction loan for the transformative Williamsburg waterfront development at 470 Kent Avenue. Together, the firms have closed on a $385 million construction financing package for the Brooklyn property, which will include three buildings reaching as tall as 22 stories at 470 Kent Avenue with approximately more than 645,000 square feet of space and 561 total units between them, as well as approximately 19,000 square feet of commercial space across all buildings. The project broke ground already and is estimated to be completed in 2025.
The $385 million financing package consists of a $310 million senior mortgage loan provided by Bank OZK and $75 million mezzanine financing provided by Barings.
"We are pleased to partner with Access Industries on this very special project and have the confidence of our lenders," said Miki Naftali, CEO and Chairman of Naftali Group. "We showed our support and confidence in the future of New York City during COVID and continue to do so. All our projects are well received, and we are very excited to introduce a waterfront lifestyle to future residences in this highly desirable Williamsburg location. Based on our proven track record, we are committed to long-term investments in New York City as reflected in our three record-breaking buildings over the past two years, including the acquisition of 470 Kent in 2020."
"Naftali Group consistently designs and builds the highest quality residential buildings in Manhattan, and we are thrilled to partner with them on 470 Kent Avenue," said Jonah Sonnenborn, Head of Real Estate at Access Industries. "This project will transform and bring a new life to the Williamsburg waterfront, and we are excited to work with Naftali and our lenders to bring this vision to fruition."
"Barings is pleased to provide financing to the high caliber team of Naftali Group and Access Industries. We share the sponsor's conviction in the New York City market and are delighted to support their long term investment in Brooklyn," said Jonathan Neff, Managing Director, Barings Real Estate. "This investment represented an attractive opportunity based upon the strong sponsorship, trophy quality and irreplaceable location. In the midst of an extremely challenging environment, Barings is committed to providing creative financing solutions for top tier sponsors and construction projects across the US."
470 Kent – which Naftali Group acquired in 2020 as one of the last developable sites on the Williamsburg waterfront – will transform a rare parcel overlooking the East River. Adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and located on the prominent corner of Kent Avenue between South 11th Street and Division Avenue in South Williamsburg, 470 Kent is within walking distance to the water's edge, which offers commuter services to and from Manhattan in less than 20 minutes from the South Williamsburg Ferry Terminal, as well as a host of subway lines including the J, M and Z trains. The Williamsburg Bridge, with easy access to Manhattan, is nearby.
One of the most active developers in New York City, Naftali Group successfully launched and sold out three luxury condo projects in Manhattan since 2020. The Benson, located at 1045 Madison introduced the first new luxury condominium building on famed Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side in more than 25 years and became the fastest-selling post-pandemic building. After launching with 30% of residences already sold in October 2021, 200 East 83rd – Naftali's 500-foot residential tower developed in partnership with The Rockefeller Group – reported the highest number of luxury contracts signed in Manhattan for multiple consecutive months, earning the building recognition as one of the top-selling residential projects in New York City and in Upper East Side history. The building's Penthouse A, asking $27.5M, went into contract last November, shattering real estate records for Third Avenue. In early 2022, the building topped the very record it had just set with an even more expensive contract for the most exclusive unit at 200 East 83rd, Penthouse C, asking $32.5M. The Bellemont at 1165 Madison Avenue broke records with a penthouse sale of $65.5 million only weeks after opening and is projected to start closings in Q2 of 2023.
Naftali Group, a privately held global real estate development and investment firm based in New York City, has a prestigious track record, having led some of the most significant developments and landmark restorations. Founded and led by Miki Naftali, Naftali Group is highly specialized in identifying and acquiring undervalued properties in premier geographic areas with strong potential growth while maximizing the value of unique and irreplaceable assets. Naftali Group pursues strategic acquisitions and continuously grows its extensive portfolio of new development condominiums, income-producing, mixed-use properties, and other assets. Through innovation and discipline, Naftali is recognized as a leading developer with a current and past portfolio comprised of more than 37 projects encompassing more than $12 billion in total value. Visit: https://naftaligroup.com/
Access Industries is a privately held investment company based in New York City. Founded and led by Len Blavatnik, the firm makes strategic investments to develop regional and global leaders in five target industries: industrials, media and telecommunications, real estate, technology/venture capital, and biotechnology.
Access' current commercial real estate portfolio currently comprises of thirty-two investments in the residential, office, hospitality and industrial sectors, totaling over ten million square feet across the U.S., Europe and South America. Access' extensive portfolio is a combination of ground-up, mixed-use developments in high-barrier to entry locations that are neighborhood transformational, and value add, income producing assets that generate an attractive risk-adjusted return.
As a capital partner in operating assets, Access has extensive experience working with world-class developers, operators, property managers, brokers and lenders to generate strong returns. Access distinguishes itself from other investors, due to its long-term, permanent capital and ability to transact quickly on complex opportunities. This competitive advantage, coupled with extensive debt capital markets experience and strong lender relationships with the leading financial institutions, allows Access and its partners to optimize returns through the economic cycle.
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TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KLab Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Hidekatsu Morita, hereinafter referred to as "KLab") announced the acquisition of worldwide distribution rights for a new online game based on the My Hero Academia TV animation series with permission from the My Hero Academia Production Committee. See the original press release (https://www.klab.com/en/press/) for more information.
KLab will utilize its experience in IP-based game development and operation know-how, both in Japan and overseas, to develop and distribute this new game for fans of the series and players all over the world to enjoy.
Progress on future development will be announced when available.
About "My Hero Academia"
The TV anime "My Hero Academia" is based on the popular manga series by Kohei Horikoshi which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump (published by Shueisha) in 2014. The original publication has exceeded 65 million copies worldwide.
The first season of the TV anime series began broadcasting in 2016. Season 6 began broadcasting from October 2022 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon Television's 29 stations nationwide in Japan. In addition to TV anime series, this highly popular work has also been adapted into animated movies.
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About KLab
KLab is a leader in online mobile gaming. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Tokyo, the company is listed on the Prime Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. KLab has consistently ranked as one of the top 52 grossing game publishers worldwide since 2012. With its emphasis on quality and innovative games, KLab continues to grow at a rapid pace, expanding beyond the Japanese market with an office in Shanghai. For more information about KLab, please visit https://www.klab.com/en/.
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The Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams are in serious talks over a trade that would send three-time All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey to Miami, according to CBS Sports and NFL Network on Sunday.
CBS Sports’ report labeled the talks as “deep discussions,” and while a deal is not yet finalized, added there’s “a high likelihood” it happens.
The Dolphins, on the eve of free agent negotiations beginning Monday, are in the market for a top cornerback. The team recently cut Byron Jones after his failed rehab from lower left leg surgery in March 2022 that never allowed him to suit up for Miami last season. The Dolphins also had fellow cornerback Xavien Howard struggle through groin injuries despite earning a Pro Bowl selection in 2022, and nickel cornerback Nik Needham’s season ended prematurely due to a torn Achilles.
Ramsey has made three All-Pros and six Pro Bowls in seven NFL seasons between the Rams and Jacksonville Jaguars. He was a member of Los Angeles’ 2021 Super Bowl-winning team. The former Florida State standout has 19 career interceptions, including four each of the past two seasons, and 92 pass deflections.
This breaking news story will be updated. | 2023-03-12T18:22:26+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-sp-dolphins-ramsey-trade-20230312-3g6xhffihjgixh7534vahvkah4-story.html |
A federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration official admitted Wednesday to conspiring with his brother to extort New Jersey contractors out of about $14,000 by threatening them with bogus violations unless they paid for fake safety training, according to court documents.
Alvaro Idrovo, 46, of Bloomfield, pleaded guilty in a video conference federal court hearing to charges including conspiring to defraud the United States and an act of extortion under color of his office or employment with the U.S. Department of Labor, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
While working as a compliance safety and health officer for OSHA, Idrovo falsely told contractors at construction sites in Essex, Bergen, Hudson and Morris counties they faced major fines, penalties and possible jail if they did not get the supposed safety training, prosecutors said in court papers. The workplace safety official referred the contractors to the purportedly required trainer, who turned out to be his brother using aliases of “Jose Diaz” or “Paul Mejia.”
Idrovo and his brother, Paul Idrovo, charged contractors $4,000 to $6,000 each in cash payments for the alleged required training, according to court records. In exchange for the money, Paul Idrovo gave the contractors fraudulent safety and health certificates from the fake names without providing the services, court papers show.
Paul Idrovo gave his brother $5,000 collected in the fraud, according to prosecutors.
The scheme was foiled after OSHA officials were alerted by a contractor and referred the case to federal law enforcement investigators, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Investigators arranged for the contractor to make recordings of the Idrovo brothers, according to documents in the case. The surveillance captured the contractor pay Paul Idrovo $6,000 in cash for false ladder and safety awareness training certificates and a safety and health plan, which came from a template with a fake name, during an April 2020 meeting.
Paul Idrovo pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to defraud the United States and other charges for his role in the scam, authorities said.
Alvaro Idrovo is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 16, 2023, officials said. His defense attorney could not be immediately reached to comment.
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Noah Cohen may be reached at ncohen@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-10-13T02:21:38+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/essex/2022/10/federal-workplace-safety-official-admits-scam-targeting-nj-contractors.html |
(The Hill) — A divided federal appeals court panel ruled that a North Carolina law cannot be used to prevent People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from using undercover cameras.
In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that blocking the animal rights group’s “newsgathering activities” would violate the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
North Carolina’s Property Protection Act prohibits employees from placing unattended cameras on their employer’s premises, among other provisions.
“We enjoin the Act insofar as it applies to bar protected newsgathering activities PETA wishes to conduct. But we leave for another day all other applications of the Act,” wrote Judge Albert Diaz, who was nominated by former President Obama.
Judge Henry Floyd, a fellow Obama appointee, joined Diaz’s opinion. Judge Allison Rushing, who was nominated by former President Trump, dissented.
PETA, which regularly conducts undercover animal-cruelty investigations and publishes what it uncovers, argued the law was a discriminatory speech restriction disguised as a property protection law.
“If PETA’s actions truly violate some lawful prohibition (like trespass), PETA may be charged for that violation,” the court ruled. “What North Carolina may not do, however, is craft a law targeting PETA’s protected right to speak.”
North Carolina contended the entire law passed constitutional muster and that undercover investigations in nonpublic areas are unprotected speech.
“That is a dangerous proposition that would wipe the Constitution’s most treasured protections from large tranches of our daily lives,” the court ruled. “Fortunately, it has no basis in law.” | 2023-02-24T15:21:51+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/appeals-court-rules-north-carolina-cant-ban-undercover-cameras-from-peta/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Yet another record-setting lottery prize is up for grabs. This time, it’s a $640 million Mega Millions jackpot that has been growing for three months.
If your ticket matches the numbers below that were drawn Tuesday night, you could be the winner of the seventh-largest Mega Millions jackpot on record.
The Mega Millions numbers drawn on July 18 were: 19, 22, 31, 37, and 54, and Mega Ball 18. The Megaplier was 4X.
This jackpot has been brewing since April when a $20 million prize was won by a ticket sold in Syracuse, New York, just four days after a $483 million Mega Millions jackpot was hit by a ticket sold in Queens.
Ahead of Tuesday’s drawing, Mega Millions officials estimated the jackpot’s size at $640 million with a cash value of $328 million. That puts it among the largest in the game’s history:
- $1.537 billion: Oct. 23, 2018 (South Carolina)
- $1.348 billion: Jan. 13, 2023 (Maine)
- $1.337 billion: July 29, 2022 (Illinois)
- $1.050 billion: Jan. 22, 2021 (Michigan)
- $656 million: Mar. 30, 2012 (Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland)
- $648 million: Dec. 17, 2013 (California and Georgia)
- $640 million: (estimated ahead of Tuesday’s drawing)
- $543 million: July 24, 2018 (California)
- $536 million: July 8, 2016 (Indiana)
- $533 million: Mar. 30, 2018 (New Jersey)
Should you be the lucky winner, you’ll be able to either take the cash lump sum payment or the annuity option, which offers one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that grow by 5% each time.
You may want to think twice before collecting the cash option though. Winners of giant jackpots nearly always take the cash, and financial advisers say that might be a mistake.
Your odds of winning any prize (there are nine total ways to win) while playing Mega Millions is 1 in 24, but your odds at landing the jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
Winner or not, the next Mega Millions drawing will be at 11 p.m. ET on Friday. Tickets start at $2 each, and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Meanwhile, a record-setting Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Wednesday night. That jackpot, which has also been building since April, is estimated to break $1 billion, making it one of the largest in U.S. history — and potentially the fourth lottery prize to cross the monumental mark within the last year. | 2023-07-19T03:21:31+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-the-640m-jackpot/ |
Dollar Tree can’t afford to sell eggs anymore
Published: Mar. 20, 2023 at 3:58 PM EDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
(CNN) – Eggs have recently become too expensive for many of us. Now, even Dollar Tree can’t afford to sell them anymore.
The discount chain sells most products for $1.25 and a small selection of items for three or five bucks.
The company used to sell cartons of eight or six eggs for $1.25.
Short supply and high production costs are partly to blame for the sky-high egg prices, but producers are also using those factors to justify maximizing their profits.
Most retailers have raised egg prices on customers to adjust for higher costs.
However, Dollar Tree doesn’t have as much flexibility to do that. The company said it will bring back eggs when costs come down.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-20T20:52:49+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/03/20/dollar-tree-cant-afford-sell-eggs-anymore/ |
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he is running for a second term, putting an end to any rumors that he might not run.
Biden, 80, is already the first octogenarian president. If he were to serve a full second term, he would be 86 years old, which is nine years older than Ronald Reagan was when he left office.
The 2024 election could also be a potentially rare rematch between a former president and sitting president. Former President Donald Trump is considered the frontrunner among Republican hopefuls, according to recent polling.
In making his official announcement, Biden released a video called “Let’s Finish the Job.”
“Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours,” Biden said in his campaign announcement. “That’s why I’m running for reelection”
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Friday.
CAZ300-032300-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 59. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 46. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 56 to 62. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 50. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 67. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows 49 to 55. Chance
of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs 57 to 63.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows
42 to 48. Highs 49 to 57. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs 49 to 57. Chance of showers
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs 52 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 60 44 62 /
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CAZ301-032300-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 45. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
40s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 60 38 63 /
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CAZ302-032300-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in
the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows around 40. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 57 34 60 /
Merced 59 35 63 /
Chowchilla 57 33 60 /
Madera 57 34 60 /
Firebaugh 59 33 62 /
Mendota 60 34 63 /
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CAZ303-032300-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs around
60. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south around 5 mph in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s.
East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 40s. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in
the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of showers
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 56 34 60 /
Le Grand 56 34 60 /
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CAZ304-032300-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers
60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 59 37 63 /
Avenal 58 41 61 /
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CAZ305-032300-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs around 60. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 60 37 63 /
Five Points 60 35 63 /
NAS Lemoore 59 34 62 /
Kettleman City 60 39 62 /
$$
CAZ306-032300-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south
after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 56 36 61 /
Kingsburg 56 34 61 /
Sanger 56 34 61 /
Kerman 57 33 61 /
Caruthers 57 33 61 /
$$
CAZ307-032300-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 57 39 61 /
Fresno 57 38 61 /
$$
CAZ308-032300-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 58. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 61. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs 59 to 65. West
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 68.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 52 to 60. Chance
of showers 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
50 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs 52 to 60. Chance of showers 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 57 34 60 /
Merced 59 35 63 /
Chowchilla 57 33 60 /
Madera 57 34 60 /
$$
CAZ309-032300-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers early in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the lower
60s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Chance of showers 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of showers 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs around 60. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 58 36 62 / 10
Buttonwillow 57 34 61 / 10
$$
CAZ310-032300-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain showers
early in the morning, then mostly sunny in the late morning and
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs around
60. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds becoming
west up to 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of showers 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 57 34 61 / 20
Allensworth 57 34 61 / 20
Wasco 55 34 60 / 20
Delano 55 35 60 / 20
McFarland 55 35 60 / 20
Shafter 55 35 60 / 20
$$
CAZ311-032300-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast
after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of showers 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain showers. Lows around 40. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s. Chance of showers 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 59 34 62 /
Hanford 59 34 64 / 10
Corcoran 58 34 62 / 10
$$
CAZ312-032300-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny until late afternoon then clearing. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s.
East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of showers 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 55 34 60 /
Dinuba 55 34 60 / 10
Visalia 57 36 62 / 10
Exeter 54 35 60 / 10
Tulare 57 37 61 / 10
Lindsay 54 35 60 / 10
Porterville 53 38 60 / 10
$$
CAZ313-032300-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain showers
early in the morning, then mostly sunny in the late morning and
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 53 42 60 / 10
$$
CAZ314-032300-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers
early in the morning, then mostly sunny in the late morning and
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 43. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 45. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 41 to 49.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows 46 to 52. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows 40 to 46. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 54 41 60 / 20
$$
CAZ315-032300-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers early in
the morning, then mostly sunny in the late morning and afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to 44. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 54 36 59 / 20
$$
CAZ316-032300-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers
in the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 49 to
55. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the
morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 39 to 45. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 49.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 52 38 61 / 20
Lamont 54 37 61 / 20
Mettler 52 38 59 / 30
$$
CAZ317-032300-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper
50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of showers
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 49 35 54 /
$$
CAZ318-032300-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning. Areas of
frost late in the morning. Highs 43 to 51. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the evening.
Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 28 to 36. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
49 to 57. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 43. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 62. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows 39 to 47. Highs 49 to 57.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Chance of rain showers in the evening, then rain
showers likely after midnight. Lows 34 to 42. Chance of showers
70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and snow showers likely.
Highs 41 to 49. Lows 31 to 39. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and snow showers likely. Highs 40 to 48.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers and snow showers. Lows 30 to 38.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers and snow
showers in the morning, then chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 43 to 51. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 52 24 59 /
Bass Lake 46 24 55 /
$$
CAZ319-032300-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 48 to 54. West winds up to 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 55 to 61. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 66. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 59 to 65. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Highs 51 to 57.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower
40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs 52 to 58. Chance of showers 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 55 39 59 /
Three Rivers 52 35 62 / 10
Springville 46 32 55 / 10
Tule River Reservation 50 39 59 / 20
$$
CAZ320-032300-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Highs
37 to 49. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 39. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 48 to 58. East winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 47. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 63. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows 40 to 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 49 to 61. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows 35 to 47.
.MONDAY...Rain showers likely. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain showers and snow showers. Lows 30 to
43. Highs 39 to 51.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers and snow
showers in the morning, then chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 42 to 54. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 48 39 54 /
$$
CAZ321-032300-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers early in
the morning, then partly sunny in the late morning and afternoon.
Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. East winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows around 50. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of rain showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
$$
CAZ322-032300-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers and snow
showers early in the morning, then mostly cloudy in the late
morning and afternoon. Highs 36 to 44. West winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost in the evening. Areas of
frost after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
East winds up to 5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 47 to 55. East winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to 44. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the northeast
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 59. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 52 to 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows 40 to 46. Highs 43 to 51.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 35 to 41. Highs 40 to 48.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers and snow showers. Near steady temperature around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 43 to 51.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 37 24 51 / 30
$$
CAZ323-032300-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 19 to 35. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 8 to 22. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 47. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon. Gusts up
to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 21 to 33. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 50. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers and snow showers. Lows 23 to 35. Highs
30 to 42.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Chance of snow showers and rain showers
in the evening, then snow showers likely after midnight. Lows
15 to 27. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow showers likely. Highs
19 to 33. Lows 11 to 25. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely. Highs 18 to 32. Chance of snow
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of snow showers. Lows 11 to 25. Highs 22 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 29 2 47 / 10
Wawona 45 22 55 /
Hetch Hetchy 47 29 57 /
$$
CAZ324-032300-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 31. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 47 to 59. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 42. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 62. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows 36 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs 45 to 55.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Snow showers and rain
showers likely. Lows 25 to 36. Highs 36 to 46. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning, then rain showers
and snow showers likely in the afternoon. Highs 35 to 45. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers and rain
showers in the evening, then chance of snow showers after
midnight. Lows 26 to 34. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers and snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs 38 to 48. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 52 18 63 /
$$
CAZ325-032300-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 46. North winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 32. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 57. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 43. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 61. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows 39 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs 46 to 54.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Colder. Rain showers and snow showers
likely. Lows 32 to 40. Highs 36 to 44. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow showers and rain showers likely. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow showers and rain showers. Highs 35 to 43. Lows
27 to 37.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers and rain
showers in the morning, then chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 40 to 48. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
CAZ326-032300-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 17 to 33. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 7 to 19. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 47. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon. Gusts up
to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 33. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 37 to 51. West winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with chance of rain showers and snow showers after
midnight. Lows 25 to 35. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow showers
and rain showers. Highs 30 to 42.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Chance of snow showers and rain showers
in the evening, then snow showers likely after midnight. Lows
16 to 26. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow showers likely. Highs
20 to 32. Lows 12 to 24. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely in the morning,
then chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 18 to 32.
Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 11 to 23.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance
of snow showers. Highs 22 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 28 14 47 / 10
$$
CAZ327-032300-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 22 to 32. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 20. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 37 to 45. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
Gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 24 to 32. Southwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 40 to 50. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 25 to 35.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
snow showers and rain showers. Highs 34 to 44. Lows 18 to 28.
.MONDAY...Snow showers likely. Near steady temperature in the mid
20s. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Near steady temperature in
the lower 20s. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow showers. Highs 21 to 33. Lows 13 to 23.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs 26 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 30 18 41 /
Shaver Lake 36 22 45 /
Lake Wishon 34 19 48 / 10
$$
CAZ328-032300-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 12 to 28. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 4 to 14. North winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 45. North winds
5 to 15 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up
to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Not as cold. Partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 30. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 35 to 49. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 21 to 31.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs 28 to 42. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers and
rain showers in the evening, then chance of snow showers after
midnight. Lows 14 to 24. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Snow showers likely. Near steady temperature in
the lower 20s. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows 7 to 18. Highs 15 to 29.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance
of snow showers. Highs 19 to 33.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 45 25 61 / 10
$$
CAZ329-032300-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 26 to 40. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 29. East winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 39 to 53. East winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 42. Southwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 45 to 59. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 40 to 54. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 24 to 38.
.MONDAY...Snow showers and rain showers likely. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow showers and rain showers. Lows 19 to 33. Highs
28 to 42.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then chance of snow showers and rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 31 to 45. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 32 21 43 / 10
$$
CAZ330-032300-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers early
in the morning. Highs 16 to 32. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 4 to 24. North winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 33 to 47. North winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up
to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 36. Southwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 36 to 52. Northwest winds
up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 21 to 37.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 32 to 48.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow showers and rain showers. Lows 13 to 31.
.MONDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning, then snow showers
likely and chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 19 to
37. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
snow showers. Lows 7 to 27. Highs 18 to 36.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of snow showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in
the morning, then chance of snow showers and rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 22 to 38. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 32 14 47 / 20
$$
CAZ331-032300-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers early
in the morning. Highs 27 to 39. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 29. North winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 40 to 52. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 27 to 39. Southwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 59. Northwest winds
up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 55.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of snow showers and rain showers. Lows 24 to
38. Highs 31 to 43.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
snow showers. Lows 17 to 33. Highs 28 to 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers. Highs 32 to
44. Chance of snow 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 41 14 55 / 30
$$
CAZ332-032300-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny until late afternoon then clearing. A
20 percent chance of rain showers and snow showers early in the
morning. Highs 43 to 49. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
29 to 35. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 62. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 42. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 68. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 39 to 45.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 66.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Cooler. Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs
49 to 55.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows 33 to 39. Highs 46 to 52.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows 32 to 38. Chance of showers 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 55.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 31 27 45 / 30
Kernville 49 30 62 / 20
Lake Isabella 49 33 61 / 20
Weldon 50 33 62 / 20
$$
CAZ333-032300-
Piute Walker Basin-
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy until late afternoon then becoming mostly
sunny. Chance of rain showers and slight chance of snow showers
early in the morning. Highs 33 to 43. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Gusts
up to 25 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 54. North winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows 31 to 41. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 59. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 59.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 50 percent chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows
35 to 45.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers
and snow showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 29 to 39. Highs 36 to 46.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and snow
showers in the evening. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 39 to 49.
$$
CAZ334-032300-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with chance of snow showers and rain showers
early in the morning, then mostly cloudy with slight chance of
rain showers and snow showers late in the morning. Partly sunny
in the afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning.
Highs 45 to 53. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows 32 to 42. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 58. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west with gusts to around 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 46.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 51 to 59.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 50 percent chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows
38 to 46.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 32 to 40. Highs 38 to 48.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and
snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 36 31 47 / 40
Tehachapi 39 26 51 / 30
Twin Oaks 41 32 54 / 30
$$
CAZ335-032300-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with slight chance of rain showers and snow
showers early in the morning, then mostly cloudy with slight
chance of snow showers late in the morning. Partly sunny in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 47 to 55. West winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 43. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 61. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 62.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows 41 to 47. Highs 44 to 54.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers and snow showers
in the morning, then chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 40 to 50. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and
snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 52.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 47 39 57 / 20
$$
CAZ336-032300-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers and snow
showers early in the morning, then partly sunny in the late
morning and afternoon. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 30s. South winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 45 to 55. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 46. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 60. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 49.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 62.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers. Lows 38 to 50. Highs 43 to 55.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 32 to 44. Highs 39 to 51.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers and snow showers. Near steady temperature in the lower
40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 43 to 53.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 34 28 48 / 30
Frazier Park 39 21 53 / 30
$$
CAZ337-032300-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 61. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 65. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 67 to 72. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain showers. Highs 53 to 63. Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 62.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 59 37 64 / 10
Ridgecrest 61 34 64 / 10
$$
CAZ338-032300-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Breezy, sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and
snow showers early in the morning. Patchy blowing dust until late
afternoon. Highs 39 to 53. Northwest winds 10 to 25 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 37. Northwest winds 5 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 51 to 61. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 43. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 57 to 69. West winds 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 47.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 57 to 67. Lows
43 to 49.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain showers and snow showers. Lows 36 to 42. Highs 43 to 53.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and
snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 47 to 57.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 51 34 61 / 10
$$
CAZ339-032300-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1201 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 35. Northwest winds
up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the northeast in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 32 to 40. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 44. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of rain showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of showers 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 54 39 57 / 10
California City 55 31 62 / 10
Edwards AFB 55 29 61 / 10
Rosamond 55 30 63 / 20
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Police Department kicked off its annual RGV SWAT Challenge on July 27.
The three-day challenge had participants from SWAT Agencies across the Rio Grande Valley.
“A lot of the real-world events that happen, you know, incorporate a lot of the things we do here,” said SWAT team member and investigator with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, Estevan Villanueva.
Villanueva is participating in the challenge for the third time and said it is a great way for him to learn about his skills.
“If there’s something that I feel I didn’t do that well here I can go back home and train on it and ultimately it will improve me as a SWAT operator,” he said.
Martin Sandoval, the public information officer for the Brownsville Police Department, said the challenge tests participants’ skills such as sharp shooting and endurance.
“This helps every agency out simply because it becomes a high-stress environment without the danger, and it helps them hone their targets and become very familiar with their weapons, and that way their skills actually get better,” said Sandoval.
He explained that several trophies are involved including Top Cop, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for teams.
Joe Villarreal, the challenge coordinator, and Brownsville SWAT team leader said the event is also a chance to connect with other agencies.
“This is a good opportunity for the teams to get together, network, exchange numbers, find what type of assets they have, what assets they have available. God forbid we have a critical incident kind of like Uvalde, you know who we can contact, who the point of contact is and we can contact them directly for a faster response,” said Villarreal. | 2022-07-29T14:50:41+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/brownsville-pd-kicks-off-annual-rgv-swat-challenge/ |
THORNTOWN, Ind. — A Thorntown man is accused of ramming his car into four businesses and a police car on Saturday.
The man was set to undergo a mental health evaluation at a local hospital.
According to The Lebanon Reporter, police said the man had an issue with someone at each of the businesses hit. Those include:
- Carmack's Pub
- The Hi-Wa Hut
- Scott's Garage
- J & J Muffler
The man also repeatedly rammed into a parked truck before officers caught up with him. A Lebanon police officer got behind the man and ordered him to stop, but the man then backed into the officer's car.
The man was arrested at gunpoint and then taken for evaluation.
The Boone County Prosecutor's Office will need to decide on charges, which could include leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving. | 2023-01-23T21:19:38+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/thorntown-man-accused-of-ramming-4-businesses-police-car-lebanon-boone-county-indiana/531-5776cfb7-f491-49ac-881c-3b98b526bd16 |
BEIRUT, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yassin Fawaz, better known as King Rolodex, and noted Egyptian film and music star Mohamed Ramadan pleasantly surprised patients and caregivers with a recent visit to the St. Jude affiliated Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon (CCCL). The children's spirits were uplifted with handshakes, smiles, hugs and lasting memories of their encounter with the two celebrities. The pair was welcomed to the facility by CCCL board members, Mrs. Yolla Noujeim and Mr. Joe Asseily, as well the hard-working caregivers who appreciated the two taking time out of their busy day to encourage and support the children undergoing treatment.
Mohamed Ramadan agreed, at the request of CCCL officials, to hold a charity concert for the benefit of the CCCL with all proceeds going to this worthy cause. Mr. Fawaz also pledged to provide the financial backing and logistical support behind bringing this concert to reality. Mohamed Ramadan previously demonstrated his commitment to St. Jude by performing a charity event last year in Dubai under the patronage of Wassim "Sal" Slaiby, a Lebanese-Canadian music industry executive; and his wife Rima Fakih, Miss America 2010.
Mohamed Ramadan and Yassin Fawaz both expressed their delight at the opportunity to visit the CCCL facility and bring the children a modicum of happiness during their difficult medical condition that they are bravely fighting. Mohamed Ramadan added "a message from the heart" to CCCL's Golden Book and promised to visit the facility again while actively supporting the center throughout its laudable mission.
The Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon (CCCL) is a leading national organization dedicated to the treatment and support of kids and adolescents with cancer, in addition to being a national advocate of childhood cancer control and a leading NGO in Lebanon and the region. Inaugurated in 2002, CCCL supports almost 50% of children with cancer in Lebanon (including non-Lebanese coming from the Arab region and refugees), with ages ranging between a few months old up to 18 years. The center was established under Notice no. 138AD in affiliation with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Considered a household name in the MENA region, Mohamed Ramadan is an accomplished Egyptian film actor and bona fide musical star. In 2019, he was crowned the Most Popular Artist in Africa by AFRIMA (the All Africa Music Awards), and to date, Ramadan has amassed over 4.65 billion views on YouTube, including for hits "Ensay" with Saad Lamjarred and "Ya Habibi" with French artist, Gims. With over one million Spotify monthly listeners and more than 20 million Instagram followers, Ramadan has cultivated a strong fanbase and is primed for success beyond the MENA region. He is currently working on new material, which features collaborations with international artists and producers.
Yassin Fawaz is an American social media phenomenon known for his extreme wealth and philanthropy. Under the handle King Rolodex, he has amassed an enormous following across multiple social media platforms. In 2022, he was the first black parliamentary candidate in the Middle East, running for office in Lebanon. He was born and raised in the United States to a Lebanese father and African-American mother.
Mr. Fawaz operates as the CEO of the Raddington Group, a Washington DC based advisory firm that provides services to heads of state, royals, and billionaires. He leverages his far-reaching international connections to provide his clients with services that are crucial to their global decision making and investments. His keen insights have been highlighted in Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Hill. Yassin Fawaz has been instrumental in implementing support programs in parallel with advocacy and financial support for the deserving, which includes human rights advocacy, educational grants for low-income students, and material donations to charitable causes in hotspots of the world.
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At a time Republican gubernatorial candidates are surging in heavily Democratic states such as Oregon and New York, California's Brian Dahle is still not competitive against Gov. Gavin Newsom, a new poll says.
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll, released Wednesday night, shows Newsom leading Dahle among likely voters 55% to 36%. It's movement in Dahle's direction since the last PPIC poll conducted in September (Newsom led that poll 58% to 31%), but the result is still well outside the poll's margins of error (5.1% for likely voters).
Dahle is doing better with independent voters surveyed by PPIC now (losing them 47% to 37%) than he was in September (losing them 55% to 35%), but it's still nowhere near good enough to overcome the poll's finding that Newsom has the support of 91% of California Democrats. In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1, no non-Democrat is going to win statewide office without garnering significant support from Democratic voters.
Here's another way to conceptualize the extent to which Newsom is outperforming his Democratic counterparts Tina Kotek in Oregon and Kathy Hochul in New York. President Joe Biden won Oregon by 16 percentage points in 2020, and the most recent FiveThirtyEight polling average of the Oregon governor's race shows a dead heat, good for a 16-point swing to the GOP (comparing federal to state elections isn't always appropriate, as there are different dynamics at play and voters are typically less partisan in state races, but it's useful for this exercise). Biden won New York by 23 percentage points in 2020, and the FiveThirtyEight average shows Hochul up by seven percentage points, which is another 16-point swing to Republicans.
Because Biden won California by 29 percentage points in 2020, we'd expect to see Dahle trailing Newsom by 13 percentage points if the trend perfectly mirrored Oregon and New York. Instead, the PPIC poll showed Dahle down 19 percentage points, and the most recent FiveThirtyEight poll average shows Newsom leading by an even wider margin of 21 percentage points.
The poll also found that Newsom's approval rating among California adults is up slightly, rising from 52% to 54%. In the past two years of PPIC polls, his approval rating has always been somewhere between 52% and 56%.
But the biggest indication of Newsom's strength might be found in the poll's results on Proposition 30, a tax increase on high-income earners that would pay for more electric vehicles. In September — before ads featuring Newsom urging residents to vote "no" started blanketing the airwaves — PPIC found "yes" leading "no" 55% to 40%. Now, however, "no" is leading "yes" 52% to 41%.
Newsom is at odds with the state Democratic Party, environmental groups and a host of Democratic politicians on Prop. 30. It seems the state's voters are taking Newsom's side. | 2022-10-27T19:42:09+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/poll-gavin-newsom-california-king-17538597.php |
Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald, at left, and Captain Ron Baures, at right, give commendations to patrol Deputies Eric Sedani and Heather Hughes for “heroism and lifesaving efforts” when dispatched to a snowmobiler who had broken through the ice on Prairie Lake on March 19.
The Red Cross of Northwest Wisconsin has named Barron County ice rescuers Justin Bernardin, Deputy Heather Hughes, Nick Johnson and Deputy Erik Sedani as Community Heroes and they will be honored on March 9 at a reception in Eau Claire.
Hughes and Sedani were on duty in the early morning hours of March 19 when snowmobiler Matt Ludvik of Menomonie broke through the ice on Prairie Lake near Wolf’s Den Resort.
Sedani was the first to break through the ice while the two were trying to locate the snowmobiler.
After he was pulled out by others on the scene, Hughes located Ludvik in the water, called in the location, then broke through the ice herself but was able to hold onto the snowmobiler for about 30 minutes until they were both rescued by fire department personnel and citizens on the scene.
Both deputies were transported to area hospitals for treatment of minor injuries and/or frostbite. The snowmobiler, who was hospitalized in serious condition, was released the following day.
Also to be honored by the American Red Cross are:
Adult Good Samaritan: John Goodman.
From the Heart (Biomedical): Louie and Barb Muench.
Health Care: Chippewa County Department of Public Health.
Hero of a Lifetime: Ron Larson.
Military: Chippewa Valley Technical College ~ Give Vets a Smile Program.
Youth Good Samaritan: Riley Gaetz.
The Red Cross of Northwest Wisconsin will honor these individuals and groups who have shown courage, dedication and unselfish character by their acts of heroism in the community at the Northwest Wisconsin Heroes Breakfast, emceed by Katie Phernetton, WQOW News-18. This year’s ceremony will be on March 9 at 7:45 a.m. at The Florian Gardens Conference Center, 2340 Lorch Ave., Eau Claire.
The Northwest Wisconsin Heroes Breakfast honors people making an impact through their bravery, dedication and humanitarian service. This event grew out of a desire to celebrate local members of our communities living our mission — to prevent and alleviate human suffering. The award breakfast also serves as a fundraising event for programs and services provided by the Red Cross of Northwest Wisconsin.
Heroes are nominated by the public and are chosen by an awards selection committee comprised of local community leaders. Honorees are selected based on the degree to which their actions uphold the values of the Red Cross humanitarian mission and leave a lasting and positive impact on the community.
Chronotype reporter Ruth Erickson contributed to this report. | 2023-01-26T17:19:11+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/country-today/country-life/country-life-news/american-red-cross-honors-ice-rescue-heroes/article_dd534668-b1fd-5558-8c92-8bb36935d035.html |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark chased down her 10th rebound for Iowa with 5:18 left in the game and flashed a knowing grin, her 10th career triple-double secured.
The Hawkeyes were all smiles all afternoon. Their second straight Big Ten Tournament title was locked up early.
Clark had 30 points, 17 assists and 10 rebounds for the seventh-ranked Hawkeyes, who built a 37-point halftime lead and beat Ohio State 105-72 on Sunday.
“That’s joy,” coach Lisa Bluder said. “To be able to play like that is so much fun, and I admire her for that. She’s so competitive, but she loves the game so much.”
Monika Czinano scored 26 points on 11-for-12 shooting — a Big Ten Tournament record percentage — as Iowa (26-6) entered the chat about a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament with this championship run.
Clark had 23 points in the first half, just one fewer than the 14th-ranked Buckeyes (25-7). She stepped back for NBA-range 3-pointers from the wing, drove hard to the hoop to draw fouls and dished out a steady stream of laser-like passes that were as devastating to Ohio State’s defense as they were beautiful for the Iowa-dominated crowd to watch.
“One area where I think she’s really grown is she’s reading the floor at an extremely high level,” Buckeyes coach Kevin McGuff said.
The announced attendance of 9,505 set the Big Ten Tournament record for a single session, beating the 2004 championship game in Indianapolis between Purdue and Penn State (9,417).
Clark’s final assist, one short of her career high, fed Gabbie Marshall for a 3-pointer with 4:43 left that gave the Hawkeyes their 100th point. Just before she was subbed out, Clark cupped her hand to her ear to the rile up her fans once more. A little later, she was on stage taking video of the scene as black and gold confetti showered the players during the trophy ceremony.
The two-time Big Ten Player of the Year recorded the third triple-double in Big Ten Tournament history, joining Janel McCarville (2004, Minnesota) and Amanda Zahui B. (2015, Minnesota). Clark’s was the first in the championship game.
Most of those passes were high-low feeds to Czinano, who muscled and maneuvered her way around Big Ten Freshman of the Year Cotie McMahon. McMahon had slowed Indiana star Mackenzie Holmes in the Buckeyes’ semifinal comeback from a 24-point deficit.
“Her passing skills are so phenomenal, especially coming into the post. She truly makes my life so easy,” Czinano said.
Sometimes all it takes is a glance.
“We’ve just got telepathy like that,” Clark said.
Taylor Mikesell had 24 points and McMahon added 23 points for the Buckeyes, who shot 4 for 18 in the first quarter and never recovered. Without those shots falling, they weren’t able to set up the full-court press that fueled their rally past the Hoosiers the day before.
With Indiana and Maryland having turned in resumes worthy of No. 1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament, Iowa now has a legitimate aim for the same. The Buckeyes likely solidified at least a No. 3 seed.
DRIVE HOME SAFELY
Iowa beat Indiana in the championship game last season. The Big Ten this year brought the tournament to Minneapolis for the first time, and Iowa will be happy to have it held there in 2024, too.
The Hawkeyes made Target Center their home away from home, with black and gold the dominant colors in the arena every day.
“I don’t know if we’d do it without them,” Clark said. “It’s literally home-court advantage.”
The all-time leading scorer for the Hawkeyes men’s program, Luka Garza, even showed up in a courtside seat on Sunday. He’s currently playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
SHARP SHOOTING
Marshall made all three of her 3-pointers and went 13 for 21 over the three games. Kate Martin added 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting. The Hawkeyes finished 36 for 58 to match the Big Ten Tournament record for shooting percentage (62.1) after starting the game a staggering 17 for 21.
“One of the stories of this tournament, as good as Clark and Czinano were, were the other people who made shots,” McGuff said.
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AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-03-06T05:07:57+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-clark-gets-triple-double-as-iowa-blows-out-osu-for-b10-title/ |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiversity Housing Partners ("MVHP") property management arm, MultiVersity Property Management ("MVPM"), will be overseeing the rebranding, management, and planned improvements at The Square on Butler, formally Doughboy Square and Square View in Lawrenceville, PA. An affiliate of MVHP acquired the property in August, 2022.
Located in central Lawrenceville, The Square on Butler is the fifth property that MVPM has added to its portfolio in the Pittsburgh area. This property is comprised of three buildings built between 2014 and 2017 with 59 conventional units. Floorplans consist of both one and two-bedroom apartments with nine affordable two-bedroom units located on the first level. The Square on Butler is also home to seven commercial retailers.
Community amenities include: a 24-hour fitness center, covered parking, indoor bike storage, and a dog wash area. Coinciding with MVPM's dedication to customer service and safety, controlled access to buildings, and on-site management shall remain in place. Located in "the heart" of Lawrenceville, this apartment assemblage is in close proximity to dining and entertainment options with a walkability rating of 85.
MVPM also plans to make further improvements to the lobby area and amenities by completing major upgrades to the fitness center and its equipment, performing lobby renovations, and adding a Luxor package system as well as comprehensive exterior improvements.
MVPM will bring its boutique-style approach to property management in order to operate this property more efficiently. MVPM will be adding the following upgrades: hallway updates to fit with the rest of the buildings' luxury apartment theme, improvements to steel balconies, exterior lighting and paint unit exteriors with neutral tones in order to enhance curb appeal.
Christopher Feeley, CEO and Managing Member of both MVHP and MVPM, stated that "these assets add to our portfolio of value-add multifamily properties, with these properties being market rate apartments located in one of the best submarkets (Strip District-Lawrenceville) in the City of Pittsburgh. Frankly, the Lawrenceville-Strip District is one of the best submarkets in any major city located along the East Coast."
About Multiversity Housing Partners
Multiversity Housing Partners acquires multifamily properties, with a focus on market rate apartments, workforce and affordable housing, purpose-built student housing, and Build-to-Rent ("BTR") townhome and single family home development. MVHP further focuses on acquiring Core Plus, Value-Add, and Opportunistic multifamily as well as land for development. MVHP has existing, long-standing relationships with multiple institutional investors, investment funds, family office, and high-net-worth investors. MVHP also has in-depth relationships with several multifamily lenders.
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Kindergartner removed from private school because of same-sex parents
DeQuincy, LA (KPLC) - A couple’s story went viral after they shared on social media that their daughter’s school told them she could no longer attend because they are in a same-sex marriage.
Monday was supposed to be Zoey’s first day of kindergarten at Bible Baptist Academy, but Jennifer and Emily Parker said they were told by school officials last week that she would not be able to attend.
“We got called into the principal’s office for a meeting, they informed us that Zoey wouldn’t be able to go to school there anymore because of our lifestyle choices,” Jennifer Parker said.
Jennifer Parker and Emily Parker are in a same-sex marriage. They adopted Zoe, Jennifer’s 5-year-old niece, after the girl’s father was in an industrial accident in 2020.
“She lost her father, she lost her mother and now she’s losing her school which she loves very much,” Jennifer Parker said.
Zoey, who attended Bible Baptist Academy for Pre-K, was officially adopted by her aunt last week.
However, once word got around of her new family, things changed.
“On the 3rd (of August), we adopted her and we went to open house, we got the uniforms we got the fees,” Emily Parker said. The school’s principal and pastor broke the news to them over the weekend.
“The pastor met us in the meeting room and started talking about gender identification and that they teach the words of the Lord and marriage was between a man and a women,” Emily Parker said. “They didn’t think this was a good fit.”
Bible Baptist Academy said in a statement that the school is “committed to instructing and living in accordance with the teachings of Scripture.”
They say that’s what they strive to teach students who attend.
“This should not be interpreted that we have any hatred or malice toward them. We are just as committed to loving all people as we are to holding to Bible principles that people may not agree with or may not understand.”
Jennifer Parker says they’ve received overwhelming support from community, and they are grateful.
They say they have offers from other Christian schools in the area.
“It’s a blessing in disguise,” Jennifer Parker said. “We have an opportunity to bring her to a school which is a little closer and it’s a new opportunity for her to make new friends.”
Full statement from Bible Baptist Academy.
“At BBA, we are committed to instructing and living in accordance with the teachings of Scripture. We believe that the Bible teaches that every life has value and that there is dignity in all of us because we have been created in the image of God. The Bible also teaches us to love everyone with the love of God despite their personal choices. We strive to teach this to the students who attend. We encourage them to show love and compassion to everyone. As a Baptist academy, we are also committed to provide an environment that is consistent with the beliefs that we hold. We want our students to not only know our beliefs, but we want them to see them as well. Regarding personal relationships, we hold that those relationships, whether in dating or in marriage, should be between a man and a woman.
“We live in wonderful country! We have been granted the freedom to worship as we see fit. And as a Christian institution, we are protected by federal laws that give us the opportunity to teach and practice our beliefs. We feel deeply that our first obligation is to God and being faithful to Him. There are times where our commitment to upholding our Christian values will not line up with the values of other people. This should not be interpreted that we have any hatred or malice toward them. We are just as committed to loving all people as we are to holding to Bible principles that people may not agree with or may not understand.
“BBA is committed to academic excellence with rich Scriptural instruction.”
Copyright 2022 KPLC. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-09T15:52:52+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/08/08/kindergartner-removed-private-school-because-same-sex-parents/ |
Despite losing its last three games, Illinois still has a shot to represent the West Division in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 3 — but three rivalry games must go their way this weekend.
Not only do the Illini need Iowa to lose to Nebraska and Purdue to lose to Indiana, they need to hold on to the Land of Lincoln Trophy in Saturday’s regular-season finale at Northwestern.
On paper, Illinois (7-4, 4-4) should be a significant favorite after coming within nine seconds of knocking off undefeated Michigan last week in the Big House. There’s also the fact that Northwestern (1-10, 1-7) has dropped 10 games in a row — the school’s longest losing streak since a 14-game run from 1988-90.
“Northwestern is a 1-10 football team that has played really good,” Illinois coach Bret Bielema said. “I think if you ask Ohio State and Purdue — two of their last three opponents — how good they are, I think they’d have an answer for you that they come to play every day, they’re extremely tough, they’re physical, they’re well-coached.”
Bielema’s mother, Marilyn, passed away Thursday, so his week began with her visitation Sunday and burial Monday in his hometown of Prophetstown, Ill.
“Sunday was a really tough day,” Bielema said. “I got home in the afternoon (and that was) the first time I’ve been around my family, so that was really, really, really tough. The visitation Sunday night had hundreds of people come through our little community.”
Not only will Illinois be gunning to keep the Land of Lincoln Trophy, but Chase Brown will be shooting to claim the national rushing title. Brown leads the nation with 1,582 rushing yards — 58 more than Minnesota’s Mohamed Ibrahim — and was named Tuesday as one of 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award.
Northwestern, too, will be focused on the ground game. Sophomore walk-on Cole Freeman — the team’s fourth-stringer at the start of the year — figures to make his second straight start at quarterback, but the Wildcats’ only touchdown drive last week at Purdue came when running backs Evan Hull and Cam Porter took turns running out of the Wildcat formation.
Freeman completed 9 of 20 passes for 78 yards and one interception. He also fumbled twice while being sacked.
“He learned a ton of valuable quarterback college lessons on Saturday,” said Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald. “He did a lot of things really, really well and some things that he’s going to learn and grow from. I was really proud of him. I think he stepped up for everybody. I’m sure he’s going to step up again this week with his preparation and get ready to go play one week better against the Illini.”
–Field Level Media | 2022-11-24T16:02:41+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ncaa-football/illinois-visits-northwestern-with-slim-division-title-hopes/ |
NORWOOD, Mass., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Instruments, a leading manufacturer of analytical instruments and services for bioprocessing, today announced the acquisition of SAL Scientific Ltd., a private company that develops and manufactures a portfolio of cell growth supplements for Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) and Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells. These reagents substantially improve cell growth under stressful conditions and help accelerate cell line development (CLD) biology workflows to maximize biotherapeutic production. The acquisition expands Advanced Instruments' reagent expertise and furthers its commitment to bioprocess workflows for advanced therapies.
SAL Scientific is the developer and manufacturer of the InstiGRO™, InstiSHAKE™, and InstiTHAW™ Cell Growth Supplements that Advanced Instruments exclusively distributes today. As part of Advanced Instruments' Solentim portfolio, these reagents are utilized in the early stages of biologic drug development to accelerate the selection of optimal clones for production of monoclonal antibodies and viral vectors used in gene therapies. Acquiring SAL Scientific's expertise will support the expansion of reagent technologies and deliver additional in-house capabilities that support ongoing technology adoption, new product innovation and enhanced customer support.
"The addition of SAL Scientific aligns with our core strategy to invest in leading technologies that deliver significant customer value across the cell line development workflow," commented Byron Selman, President & CEO of Advanced Instruments. "With SAL Scientific, we are investing to support customers in these workflows with these cell culture media supplements that provide improved cell growth, colony formation and cloning efficiency."
"We are excited about joining the Advanced Instruments team," said Steve Game, Founding Director of SAL Scientific. "As an existing commercial partner, we recognize the strong synergy between the Insti supplements and the Advanced Instruments cell line development systems. We are confident about the value that Advanced Instruments will add with regard to infrastructure for innovative product development, manufacturing capacity and global commercial reach and that this combination will continue to accelerate growth for the Insti products."
"We look forward to SAL Scientific joining the Advanced Instruments and Patricia Industries family and continuing on the next phase of growth together," said Yuriy Prilutskiy, Head of Patricia Industries North America, a part of Investor AB, and owner of Advanced Instruments. "Patricia Industries is committed to continuing our support of Advanced Instruments in their mission to deliver solutions that accelerate and improve the development of biopharmaceuticals globally, and we are excited to further increase investment in building Advanced Instruments' portfolio of CLD products."
Advanced Instruments was represented by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (legal advisor).
SAL Scientific was represented by Azets (financial advisor) and Paris Smith (legal advisor).
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About Advanced Instruments
Advanced Instruments is a global provider of scientific and analytical instruments for the biotechnology, clinical, and food and beverage industries. For more than 65 years, the company's innovations have helped organizations improve quality of results, achieve reliable outcomes, and increase workplace productivity. Advanced Instruments has a diverse portfolio of products, including freezing point osmometers, cerebrospinal fluid cell counters, anaerobic jar systems, cryoscopes, pasteurization test systems, and testing standards and controls. For more information, visit www.aicompanies.com
About SAL Scientific
SAL Scientific, based in Fordingbridge UK, is a developer of innovative mammalian cell biology reagents for research and drug discovery workflows. Our 'Insti' range of animal component-free, easy to use cell culture supplements (InstiGRO™, InstiSHAKE™, and InstiTHAW™) are designed to accelerate and increase productivity in the development of commercially important cell lines used in biopharmaceutical production. For more information, visit www.salscientific.com.
About Patricia Industries
Patricia Industries, a part of Investor AB, makes control investments in best-in-class companies with strong market positions, brands and corporate cultures within industries positioned for secular growth. Our ambition is to be the sole owner of our companies, together with strong management teams and boards. We invest with an indefinite holding period and focus on building durable value and capturing organic and non-organic growth opportunities. For more information, visit www.patriciaindustries.com.
About Investor AB
Investor, founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916, is an engaged owner of high-quality, global companies. We have a long-term investment perspective. Through board participation, as well as industrial experience, our network and financial strength, we work continuously to support our companies to remain or become best-in-class. For more information, visit www.investorab.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 360training, a leading OSHA regulatory and compliance training platform, has launched an updated version of its OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 Construction courses in both English and Spanish. At the heart of this update was making courses more engaging and encouraging for students.
To accomplish this, 360training has included games and quizzes within the courses to motivate learners. This gamified design both enhances learning and increases participation. Gamification in online courses has also been shown to improve memory, processing speed, and reasoning.
The new versions of OSHA 10 and 30 training leverages HTML5 programming for a rich media experience that is both more accessible across browsers and mobile-capable, allowing for upgraded speed and interactivity.
Ryan Linders, CMO at 360training, adds "We strive to constantly enhance courses to evolve with technology through gamification and interactive product enhancements, ensuring they're the best available in the market with an exceptional customer experience."
Another benefit of these dynamic and interactive web-based courses is that they can be taken anywhere, anytime, using any browser on a computer or mobile device. Their user-friendly design gets employees in the course, trained, and on the job faster, with DOL cards shipped within two weeks.
Students who enroll in these appealing, user-friendly courses can expect exciting gaming modules that make the courses go by faster and improve their chances of passing on the first try.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians' lineup had a family look on Sunday.
Manager Terry Francona's batting order against Kansas City featured the Naylor brothers hitting back-to-back. Josh hit cleanup and played first base and Bo, who was called up from the minors Saturday, hit fifth as the designated hitter. Both players bat left-handed.
Bo Naylor is expected to be on Cleveland’s postseason roster as the third catcher. He made his major league debut in the sixth inning Saturday night, going 0 for 2 and throwing out a runner trying to steal second base.
Bo Naylor, 22, was selected by Cleveland in the first round of the 2018 draft. He began this season at Double-A Akron and was promoted to Triple-A Columbus in June. Bo Naylor is the only catcher in the minor leagues this season to have 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases.
Cleveland acquired Josh Naylor, 25, from San Diego in 2020. He overcame a gruesome leg injury last season to play a major role in Cleveland’s surprising run to the AL Central title. He is batting .251 with 19 home runs and 73 RBIs.
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Credit: Phil Long | 2022-10-02T18:46:42+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/naylor-brothers-batting-back-to-back-for-guardians/7JVKYJNXRRAA3G2E4AZ26DF6OM/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The summer tourism season is almost upon us, and that means consumer groups and tourist destinations are getting ready. In southeastern South Dakota, Sioux Falls is one of the epicenters of travel for people in-state and out of state.
In Inside KELOLAND we sit down with Teri Schmidt, the CEO of Experience Sioux Falls to see how the organization is preparing for summer tourism and what they have planned.
Then, we hear from Nancy Halverson, the Executive Director of Levitt at the Falls. She tells us about their upcoming summer concert series and what else the organization has in the works.
After that, we have a conversation with Tenley Schwartz from Downtown Sioux Falls about what downtown has to offer this tourism season.
And then we give you a sampling of what options are available in the great outdoors around Sioux Falls and southeastern KELOLAND. | 2023-05-20T18:06:31+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/inside-keloland/inside-keloland-summer-tourism-in-sioux-falls/ |
LAKE MATTHEWS, Calif. (KTLA) – A dog in California is in a veterinarian hospital after it was caught in a bee swarm earlier this week.
While doing some yard work, a homeowner in Lake Matthews, a community in Riverside County, discovered the hive and attempted to remove it himself. However, after a short time, the situation got out of hand.
Part of the swarm headed for the house where Chance, a pit bull and mastiff mix, lives. The dog was stung more than 700 times and had to receive a blood transfusion after being rushed to the vet.
Just last week in Encino, a volunteer with the Los Angeles Police Department, who was directing traffic after a swarm of bees prompted road closures in the neighborhood, was stung 50-100 times. During the attack, the volunteer took a hard fall in the street and broke several bones in his face.
He was treated with anti-venom and remained in the hospital for several days.
As for Chance, his condition remains unclear. | 2023-05-22T18:23:36+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/dog-hospitalized-after-getting-caught-in-swarm-of-bees-in-california/ |
WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 29, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
128 PM MST Sat Jan 28 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 PM PST
SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Southwest corner of Imperial County.
* WHEN...From 11 PM this evening to 11 PM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions, especially for larger
vehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,
unsecured objects may become airborne. Minor tree damage
possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Wind Advisory means that sustained wind speeds of between
30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and
58 mph. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially
for high profile vehicles. In addition, strong winds over desert
areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under
a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand. Use extra
caution.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialty Networks, LLC ("Specialty Networks"), a portfolio company of Linden Capital Partners, announced that its founder and CEO, David Coury, will be moving into the Executive Chairman of the Board role while Shailendra Sharma will become the next CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Shailendra has been working closely with David as President of Specialty Networks for the past two years on company's strategy and direction.
"I am incredibly proud of the clinical and economic value we have brought to independent physician practices and industry partners in urology, from our beginnings as UroGPO in 2013 to the dramatic growth of the membership and, more recently, expansion into gastroenterology and rheumatology," stated David. "In my new role, I look forward to focusing on the long-term vision for Specialty Networks and spending more time with members and partners while balancing my time on family and community interests, starting with SoNaR for CLE with the mission to bring more African American men to get screened for prostate cancer in the City of Cleveland – a cause near and dear to my heart."
"Our network, our partners, and our organization are in great hands with Shailendra, who is supported by our same dedicated team. Specialty Networks remains focused on helping providers get every patient to the right care at the right time and thereby creating clinical and economic value for everyone involved," said David. "Joining as President of PPS Analytics in June of 2019 prior to taking on the role of President of Specialty Networks in December of 2020, Shailendra has already played a key leadership role for Specialty Networks in evolving our technology, real-world data, and research strategies for the benefit of physician practices and industry partners. I am confident that Shailendra will continue to take our organization forward and have a tremendous impact on our members and partners but most importantly, the patients they serve."
"The voice of our members and partners continues to guide us," said Shailendra Sharma. "David has given us mission clarity and a solid foundation upon which we look to build and expand our provider and industry solutions that bring value to our members and partners. We are grateful for David's vision and leadership over the years and will continue to seek his guidance as we shape the next chapter for Specialty Networks. Our relationship with member practices and industry partners is unique; it allows us to work together to drive better patient care and thereby create clinical and economic value for our network. We look forward to continuing to build technology and technology-enabled solutions that enable our members and partners to improve patient outcomes across urology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, and possibly more specialties."
Specialty Networks ("SN") is an integrated, multi-specialty platform with GPOs (Group Purchasing Organizations), Life Sciences, and Research solutions in urology, gastroenterology, and rheumatology. SN solutions include patient population health management, patient engagement, clinical research, and workflow automation technologies to achieve Center of Excellence in Standards of Care, Clinical Research, Practice Operations, and Value-based Care. SN leverages the power of its network, represented by over 8,500 providers, to help independent physician practices, industry, wholesalers/distributors, payers, and policymakers improve patient outcomes. Learn more about Specialty Networks at www.specialtynetworks.com.
Specialty Networks is a portfolio company of Linden Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. Founded in 2004, Linden is one of the country's largest dedicated healthcare private equity firms. Linden's strategy is based upon three elements: (i) healthcare specialization, (ii) integrated private equity and operating expertise, and (iii) its differentiated human capital program. Linden invests in middle market platforms in the medical products, specialty distribution, pharmaceutical, and services segments of healthcare. Since its founding, Linden has invested in over 40 healthcare companies encompassing over 200 total transactions. For more information, please visit www.lindenllc.com.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – If you have been receiving supplemental SNAP benefits this year, the next allotment should show up on your EBT card by Sunday, December 4.
Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services was given the go-ahead by the federal government to distribute benefits for December.
This “will bring families to the max for their household size,” according to the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services.
Recipients of SNAP benefits should expect a text about this approval.
DCFS provided a breakdown of how the latest supplemental SNAP benefits will be distributed below:
SNAP Recipients not Already at Max:
- Will receive a supplement to bring them to the max
- Max amounts less than $95 will be boosted to $95
SNAP Recipients Already at Max:
- Will receive a $95 supplement
DCFS said, “Those who have applied for SNAP, but aren’t yet certified as eligible to receive benefits, will have supplements loaded onto their cards on a rolling weekly basis after their applications are approved.”
If you have any questions, visit DCFS SNAP updates. | 2022-11-28T18:45:55+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/money-matters/dcfs-supplemental-snap-benefits-for-december-now-available-to-recipients/ |
Retail sportsbook launches Friday, November 18
FREDERICK, Md., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Betfred Sportsbook at Long Shot's has successfully completed its controlled demonstration with the Maryland State Lottery & Gaming Control Agency and will officially open its doors for the betting public on Friday, November 18. All proceeds from the four-day demonstration procedure have been donated to The Community Foundation of Frederick County.
The initial sportsbook which is just across from Long Shot's, the area leader in off track betting, will be in a temporary location while the permanent sportsbook is under construction.
"Long Shot's is very excited to bring both retail and mobile sports betting to Frederick County. We are thrilled to add not only jobs, but also to support our state's education fund. It will be a big win for everyone in Frederick," said Long Shot's CEO, Alyse Cohen. She added, "Our state-of-the-art permanent facility opening in early 2023 will be the first and only 100% woman owned sportsbook in Maryland. It will also be the only sportsbook in the entire region. We look forward to welcoming everyone soon."
Bryan Bennett, Betfred Sportsbook Chief Operating Officer, stated "We're excited to open our seventh retail sportsbook in the United States and could not be happier to do so with the Long Shot's team. We look forward to leveraging Betfred's 50 years of bookmaking experience to provide a first-class betting experience to the bettors of Frederick County and across Maryland."
A permanent, 6000 square foot, state-of-the-art sportsbook with a video wall and comfortable theater-style and lounge seating will open in the Spring. A robust food and beverage menu is also available to provide a full sports betting and viewing experience. In addition to the retail sportsbook, Betfred and Long Shot's also recently secured online betting licenses and will be launching an online betting product in early 2023 pending regulatory approval.
Long Shot's, LLC, based in Frederick County, Maryland will be, currently, the first and only 100% female owned business in the state of Maryland to house a Sportsbook. Created by Alyse L. Cohen, Long Shot's has been located within the Frederick Event Center since 2019 when she brought in the Maryland Jockey Club's OTB.
Betfred Sports is the wholly owned US subsidiary of Betfred Group, a Warrington, United Kingdom based bookmaker that owns and operates over 1400 betting shops in the UK as well as industry leading online and mobile products in the UK and Spain. Betfred Group, founded by brothers Fred and Peter Done in 1967, created Las Vegas based Betfred USA Sports in 2019 specifically to enter the robust and ever-expanding US sports betting market. Betfred Sports is currently a licensed operator in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Louisiana, Arizona, Washington and Maryland with Nevada and Ohio coming soon pending regulatory approval.
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Russia claims Ukraine crossborder sabotage raid; Kyiv denies
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian officials accused Ukrainian saboteurs on Thursday of crossing into western Russia and attacking local villages, an accusation that Ukraine denied and alleged would be used by Moscow to step up attacks.
The exact circumstances of the incident reported in the Bryansk region were unclear, including what the strategic purpose of such an attack would be.
If confirmed, it would be another indication following drone attacks earlier this week that Kyiv could be stepping up pressure against Moscow by exposing Russian defensive weaknesses, embarrassing the Kremlin and sowing unease among Russian civilians.
The announcement itself was a worrying development since it could be used by Russian authorities to step up its attacks in Ukraine in retaliation, as the war extends into its second year.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the Russian reports as “a classic deliberate provocation.”
Russia “wants to scare its people to justify the attack on another country (and) the growing poverty after the year of war,” he tweeted, suggesting that the attack was the work of Russian partisans.
Amid conflicting initial reports, Russia’s Federal Security Service said fighting with the sabotage unit was taking place in the Bryansk region.
The Federal Security Service was quoted by the Russian state Tass news agency as saying that “activities to eliminate armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border” were underway.
Tass, citing Russian law enforcement, reported earlier that the saboteurs were holding up to six people hostage. The local governor said the group had fired on a vehicle there, killing one man and wounding a 10-year-old child.
Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory on Tuesday, including one that got within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of Moscow.
Thursday’s apparent incursion was also embarrassing for Russian President Vladimir Putin, coming days after he ordered the Federal Security Service to tighten controls on Russia’s border with Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin canceled a planned trip to southern Russia set for Thursday and was receiving reports on the situation from the regional governor. Details of the alleged attack were still being clarified, he said.
Tass reported, citing an unnamed security official, that two villages in the Bryansk region — Sushany and Lyubechane — were under attack by “several dozen armed fighters.”
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, said the group fired on a vehicle in Lyubechane, killing one man and wounding a child. He also said that a Ukrainian drone struck a house in the Sushany, setting it ablaze.
In Ukraine on Thursday, three people were killed and six others were wounded when a Russian missile hit a five-story apartment building in a southeastern city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that several floors of the building were destroyed in the strike, which occurred while it was still dark.
The State Emergency Service said in an online statement that it had rescued 11 people so far.
Zaporizhzhia is a large city that had a population of more than 700,000 before Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor just over a year ago. It’s the administrative capital of the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region, which is home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
Russian artillery, drones and missiles have pounded Ukrainian-held areas in the country’s south and east for months. Moscow denies aiming at civilian targets, but its indiscriminate shelling has wrought wide destruction in urban centers.
The war largely slowed to a grinding stalemate during the winter months.
Zelenskyy said Russia “wants to turn every day for our people into a day of terror.” He added: “But evil will not reign in our land.”
Meanwhile, a fierce battle continued for control of Bakhmut, a key eastern stronghold where Ukrainian officials say they might strategically withdraw.
Ukraine’s General Staff reported that the Russian forces “continue to advance and storm the city,” but Kyiv’s troops repelled some of the attacks on the ruined city. Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko reported that one person was wounded in Bakhmut on Thursday morning.
Bakhmut was among cities and villages in the Donetsk region that came under Russian shelling, according to the General Staff update.
Taking the city wouldn’t only give the Russian forces a rare battlefield gain after months of setbacks, but it might rupture Ukraine’s supply lines and allow the Kremlin’s forces to press toward other Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk. | 2023-03-04T04:16:02+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/russia-says-ukrainian-saboteurs-launch-cross-border-attack/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly condemned the end of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States and called for such safeguards to be enshrined in the EU’s fundamental rights charter.
In a 324-155 vote with 38 abstentions, European Parliament lawmakers adopted a resolution that crystalized the anger seen in many of the EU’s 27 member countries since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling on June 24.
“It teaches us a lesson: Women’s and girls’ human rights can never be taken for granted, and we must always fight to defend them,” Swedish politician Helene Fritzon, who is vice president of an parliamentary alliance of Socialists and Democrats, said.
Underscoring fears that anti-abortion movements might expand in Europe, some legislators said they wanted to see EU-wide protections adopted.
“The United States has clearly shown why we must use every tool available to safeguard abortion rights in the European Union,” said Stéphane Séjourné the president of the liberal Renew Europe group in the EU Parliament.
The resolution calls on member nations to add a sentence reading “Everyone has a right to safe and legal abortion” to the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
In France, where abortion has been legal for almost half a century, there are now moves afoot to enshrine that in the nation’s constitution and make sure it could not fall victim to momentary changes in politics.
National laws determine the status of abortion in individual EU countries and is legal and practiced without much political opposition in many member nations, but is banned in Malta and increasingly restricted in Poland.
The EU Parliament resolution mentioned a recent case in Malta involving an American tourist who had an incomplete miscarriage and could not get the fetal tissue removed even if her life was in danger. A human rights activist in Poland was charged for providing an abortion pill, according to the resolution.
The Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision has emboldened abortion opponents around the world. The EU resolution expressed concern “about a possible surge in the flow of money funding anti-gender and antichoice groups in the world, including in Europe.”
Despite the support for the resolution, it is not expected to have an immediate impact on abortion legislation in the bloc. | 2022-07-07T20:03:17+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/eu-parliament-condemns-us-abortion-ruling-seeks-safeguards/ |
Supreme Court won't let Biden administration implement immigration policy
The court's order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now.
The court's order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now.
The court's order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now.
The Supreme Court won't allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
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The court's order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now. The vote was 5-4 with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in saying they would have allowed the Biden administration to put in place the guidance.
The court also announced it would hear arguments in the case, saying they would be in late November.
The order is the first public vote by Jackson since she joined the court on June 30 following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
The justices were acting on the administration's emergency request to the court following conflicting decisions by federal appeals courts over a September directive from the Homeland Security Department that paused deportation unless individuals had committed acts of terrorism, espionage or “egregious threats to public safety.”
The federal appeals court in Cincinnati earlier this month overturned a district judge’s order that put the policy on hold in a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Ohio and Montana.
But in a separate suit filed by Texas and Louisiana, a federal judge in Texas ordered a nationwide halt to the guidance and a federal appellate panel in New Orleans declined to step in.
The judge’s order amounted to a “nationwide, judicially imposed overhaul of the Executive Branch’s enforcement priorities,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in a court filing. Prelogar is the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer.
In their Supreme Court filing, Texas and Louisiana argued that the administration’s guidance violates federal law that requires the detention of people who are in the U.S. illegally and who have been convicted of serious crimes. The states said they would face added costs of having to detain people the federal government might allow to remain free inside the United States, despite their criminal records.
The guidance, issued after Joe Biden became president, updated a Trump-era policy that removed people in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or community ties. | 2022-07-22T00:32:17+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/immigration-policy-supreme-court-wont-let-biden-implement/40682618 |
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — She is from Ukraine and he is from Russia. Their love blossomed online, but with their nations at war, the odds of carrying on their relationship were stacked against them. Even so, it didn’t take long for the young couple to beat the odds.
Mariia Vyhivska and Iurii Kurochkin, now both 23, fell in love while playing an online video game. But Russia’s invasion of its neighbor threatened to scuttle their relationship before it even got off the ground. They boldly turned their backs on the war-engendered enmity pervading their homelands and chose to be together.
Vyhivska was living in Zvyagel, near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, and Kurochkin in St. Petersburg in Russia. Despite the seemingly insurmountable distance, the couple didn’t give up.
“It wasn’t hard,” said Vyhivska, smiling. “I wasn’t afraid, not at all. I am happy. Because I am loved.”
Kurochkin recalled how the couple started making plans to meet in person.
“It was a year ago … I started to organize my international passport, to visit Mariia in Ukraine.” recalled Kurochkin. “I finished it in January, and as you know, the war started in February and it crashed all our plans.”
It seemed that all hope of meeting evaporated amid the Russian onslaught in Ukraine that drew global condemnation and saw millions of Ukrainian refugees stream out of the country.
Vyhivska and Kurochkin were at a loss. She moved to Czechia soon after the war started while he stayed at home in Russia. But they didn’t give up. They started sizing up “some options to live together,” said Kurochkin.
The answer turned out to be Serbia, a fellow-Slavic nation in the Balkans that remained friendly with Russia, and where Russians could enter without a visa. Serbia’s capital Belgrade was where Vyhivska and Kurochkin met for the first time.
“I arrived to Serbia on 27th of April and I waited for her for several days,” he said. “She arrived from the Czech Republic and we met each other at the central bus station.”
He was all that she imagined, said Vyhivska.
“There was this moment of unbelievable joy,” she said. “I traveled for 16 hours and had no sleep, I couldn’t sleep. So, I came out of the bus and I fell into his arms.”
Their new life together began in that instant. A hostel served as their first abode before the couple found a small flat in a Belgrade suburb. They took up various jobs while pursing IT studies online at a St. Petersburg university.
Life together hasn’t been without its problems. Last July pro-Russian extremists in Serbia drew a huge Z sign — a symbol of Russia’s invasion — on their building and assailants broke into their flat. They were also attacked by a group of hooligans, Kurochkin said.
An estimated 200,000 Russians and some 20,000 Ukrainians have come to Serbia in the past year. Many Russians set up businesses in the Balkan country, which has refused to join Western sanctions against Russia despite seeking European Union membership.
“We talk about the war sometimes but we don’t have any problems between each other,” said Kurochkin. “With other people, of course (we have), because there are a lot of people, there are a lot of points of view, so it is impossible to handle them all.”
For Vyhivska, the biggest concern has been how she’ll be perceived by fellow Ukrainians because of her relationship, even through own family has no objections at all.
“What happens next? We’ll see,” she said. “We don’t know what happens tomorrow, there is danger even of nuclear war, they are frightening us with that now. I can’t look too far ahead.”
Kurochkin said they will just take things as they come: “We are happy because we are together.” | 2023-02-14T13:06:06+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/love-blossoms-between-ukrainian-russian-enemies/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (4-8-1) at MINNESOTA (10-3)
Saturday, 1 p.m. EST, NFL Network
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Vikings by 4
AGAINST THE SPREAD: Colts 5-8; Vikings 6-6-1
SERIES RECORD: Colts lead 18-7-1
LAST MEETING: Colts beat Vikings 28-11, Sept. 20, 2020, at Indianapolis
LAST WEEK: Colts had bye, lost to Cowboys 54-19 on Dec. 4; Vikings lost to Lions 34-23
COLTS OFFENSE: OVERALL (25), RUSH (26), PASS (19), SCORING (31)
COLTS DEFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (21), PASS (3), SCORING (19)
VIKINGS OFFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (27), PASS (8), SCORING (10)
VIKINGS DEFENSE: OVERALL (32), RUSH (16), PASS (32), SCORING (24)
TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Colts minus-14; Vikings plus-6
COLTS PLAYER TO WATCH: CB Stephon Gilmore. The 2019 AP Defensive Player of the Year has played well in his healthiest season since winning the award. The Colts need Gilmore to make his presence felt, whether he’s playing man coverage against Justin Jefferson or asked to take on other receivers while teammates work to attempt to slow down Jefferson.
VIKINGS PLAYER TO WATCH: Jefferson set the regular-season franchise record with 223 receiving yards against Detroit. With 4,516 yards, he’s already 10th in Vikings history at age 23. Jefferson leads the NFL with 1,500 yards this year.
KEY MATCHUP: Colts defense vs. Vikings running game. The Colts have allowed 533 rushing yards and seven rushing TDs over their current three-game losing streak. Vikings RB Dalvin Cook had just 151 yards on 57 carries over the past three games, an average of 2.65 yards per attempt. His season average of 4.46 yards per rush is the lowest of his six-year career.
KEY INJURIES: Colts nickel CB Kenny Moore (ankle) missed the previous game and didn’t practice on Tuesday and Wednesday. RT Braden Smith (illness) missed the previous game, but was back at practice this week as a full participant. The Colts are hoping both players can return. … Vikings LT Christian Darrisaw (concussion) has cleared the protocol and will be back from a three-game absence. C Garrett Bradbury (back) and S Harrison Smith (neck) are expected to return after missing the previous game. … CB Cameron Dantzler (illness) did not practice Tuesday or Wednesday.
SERIES NOTES: The Colts have won six straight games against the Vikings, the most recent loss was at the Metrodome in Minnesota in the 1997 regular-season finale when they finished 3-13. … Colts DEs Yannick Ngakoue and Ifeadi Odenigbo were the two starters for the Vikings for the first six games of the 2020 season before Ngakoue was traded. Now Odenigbo backs up Ngakoue, who’s on his fifth team in 3½ years. … Nate Burleson had a 91-yard punt return for a TD for the Vikings against the Colts in 2004. He’s the analyst for this game on the NFL Network broadcast.
STATS AND STUFF: The Colts are 1-3 under interim coach Jeff Saturday and have lost six of their past seven games. … With 13 pass attempts, Colts QB Matt Ryan will pass Ben Roethlisberger (8,443) for fifth place on the NFL’s career list. Ryan leads the league with 18 turnovers. … Colts RB Jonathan Taylor needs 139 rushing yards for his second straight 1,000-yard season despite missing three games. He needs 34 rushing yards to pass Randy McMillan (3,876 yards) for ninth in franchise history. … Colts WR Michael Pittman Jr. ranks sixth in the AFC with 76 receptions. … The Colts defense has had 41 negative-yardage running plays, second most in the NFL. The Colts also are tied for the second-fewest overall plays (141) of 10 or more yards allowed this season. … The Vikings can clinch the NFC North title with a win. … Since becoming the full-time starter for Washington in 2015, Vikings QB Kirk Cousins has 41 games of 300-plus passing yards to rank third in the league behind Tom Brady (47) and Ryan (46). … Cousins had a season-high 124.4 passer rating for the Vikings at Detroit and became just the fourth QB in the past three years to pass for 400-plus yards without an interception and lose the game. … The Vikings defense has allowed 400-plus yards for five straight games, the longest streak in team history. … Vikings OLB Za’Darius Smith leads the NFL with 70 pressures and 49 hurries, according to Pro Football Focus calculations. … Ryan Wright has 24 punts of 50-plus yards this season, a Vikings rookie record.
FANTASY TIP: Greg Joseph is 10 for 10 on field goals for the Vikings over the past six games. He has averaged 7.2 points per game during that span.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — No one would mistake them for best of friends.
But U.S. President Joe Biden, the son of blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose from tea seller’s son to premier, have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and a pragmatism about the shared challenges their two countries face.
Biden is hosting Modi for a state visit this week as he looks to tighten his relationship with the leader of a nation of 1.4 billion that the U.S. administration sees as a pivotal force in Asia for decades to come. The pomp-filled visit will mark the two leaders’ 10th in-person or virtual engagement since Biden became president in 2021. They’re expected to meet again in September in India at the Group of 20 summit.
The U.S.-India relationship is complicated. There are deep differences over Russia’s war in Ukraine and India’s human rights record.
But the frequent engagement between the leaders is seen by both sides as a reflection that, whatever their personal dynamics, Biden and Modi see the U.S.-India relationship as a defining one in the face of an increasingly assertive China and monumental challenges posed by climate change, artificial intelligence, supply chain resilience and other issues.
“They get along well personally, but even more important, I think both realize it is in the interest of the U.S. and India to advance the relationship,” said Arun K. Singh, a former Indian ambassador to the U.S. “For both Biden and Modi, there is a convergence of interests and you can see both leaders are invested personally in moving ties ahead.”
Biden and Modi haven’t developed the sort of tight bond that President Barack Obama had with Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh.
Singh was the first leader Obama honored with a state visit during his presidency. In his post-presidency memoir, “A Promised Land,” Obama heaped praise on the former Indian premier as “wise, thoughtful, and scrupulously honest” and credited him as the “chief architect of India’s economic transformation.”
Nor will Biden and Modi be co-headlining raucous stadium rallies like Modi and President Donald Trump did together in Houston and Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Trump likened Modi to Elvis Presley for his star appeal at a joint rally in Houston in September 2019 that drew about 50,000 people to NRG Stadium. The two leaders more than doubled that crowd about five months later with a massive rally at a cricket stadium. In Ahmedabad, Modi praised Trump as a “unique friend of India,” and Trump called Modi “an exceptional leader.”
Even without big rallies, though, the Biden White House says there is still plenty of evidence that the U.S.-India relationship is growing.
Trade between the U.S. and India in 2022 climbed to a record $191 billion. Through the Quad, an international partnership of the U.S., Australia, India and Japan, the countries launched a plan in 2021 to donate 1.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Indo-Pacific.
Earlier this year, the two countries launched the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, which sets the path for collaboration on semiconductor production, developing artificial intelligence, and a loosening of export control rules that could allow U.S. defense contractors to transfer critical technology. U.S.-based General Electric is now awaiting approval from the administration to produce jet engines in India.
“I think with Biden you don’t have these explosive warmth moments,” said Richard Rossow, chair of U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “But the tenor and pace of engagement has escalated quite a bit.”
The two leaders — Biden, a center-left Democrat, and Modi, a Hindu nationalist leading the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party — aren’t exactly cut from the same political cloth. Still, the leaders have connected over each other’s relatively humble beginnings, according to a senior Biden administration official.
The prime minister was the third of six children born to Damodardas Modi, who ran a small tea shop at the local railway station in the tiny town of Vadnagar, in the western state of Gujarat. The family struggled to make ends meet, which meant Modi had to help his father run the shop. Biden, who has been in elected office more than half his life, often speaks of his father’s own struggles to maintain a foothold in the middle class as shaping his own worldview.
Both leaders seem to appreciate each other’s “scrappiness,” said the official, who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Biden-Modi relationship isn’t without tension. Biden last year publicly called India’s response to the war in Ukraine “shaky.” India abstained from voting on U.N. resolutions condemning Russia and refused to join the global coalition against Russia. Since the start of the war, the Modi government has also dramatically increased its purchase of Russian oil.
Human rights groups and press freedom advocates are also pressing Biden to publicly raise concerns with Modi about democratic backsliding in his country. Modi has faced criticism over legislation amending the country’s citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for some migrants but excludes Muslims, a rise in violence against Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu nationalists, and the recent conviction of India’s top opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, for mocking Modi’s surname.
Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested the president would raise his concerns with Modi.
“Anytime we see challenges with respect to press freedom, religious freedom, infringements on the democratic space, we make our views known,” Sullivan said. “We do so publicly. We do so privately. We do so in a way where we don’t seek to lecture or assert that we don’t have challenges ourselves. … And that will be the nature of the conversations that take place here over the course of the next couple of days.”
In the leadup to the trip, Biden administration officials have sought to focus on the countries’ “shared values” and India’s critical role in finding solutions to some of the biggest problems facing the world.
“If you want to make a dent in the energy transition, it’s not even remotely possible to do that without India,” Amos Hochstein, a senior White House adviser, told U.S. and Indian business leaders at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce gathering ahead of Modi’s visit. Hochstein added, “I think what brings Prime Minister Modi and President Biden together is great ambition.”
Biden and Modi have had their lighter moments.
When Modi came to Washington in September 2021, he brought with him documents about people with the last name “Biden” in India.
“Are we related?” Biden asked. Modi without missing a beat responded jokingly, “Yes.”
At the Group of Seven summit in Japan last month, Modi greeted Biden by wrapping him in a tight hug that grabbed headlines around India.
Nirupama Rao, a former Indian ambassador to the United States and China, says Modi has an “aptitude and a talent” for the softer skills of politics. It’s something that the Indian premier and Biden share, she said.
“This state visit, I think, affords an opportunity and provides the backdrop perhaps for Mr. Modi to develop a very good understanding with President Biden and vice versa for Mr. Biden,” Rao said.
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Pathi reported from New Delhi. AP journalist Tracy Brown in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-06-21T10:16:35+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/biden-modi-relationship-built-around-mutual-admiration-of-scrappy-pasts-pragmatic-needs/ |
FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) will be hosting National Night Out (NNO) on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
The event will be held at Central Mall in the former Sears parking lot from 5-7 p.m., weather permitting.
NNO is an annual community event that is held throughout the U.S., Canada, and Military bases worldwide. FSPD says the purpose of this event is to build relationships between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community.
The event also promotes awareness for crime, drug, and violence prevention and education while showcasing partnerships between local businesses, law enforcement agencies, and citizens.
There will be multiple law enforcement agencies, community resources, demonstrations, free hot dogs and drinks, kids activities, bounce houses, a dunk tank door prizes, and much more.
An estimated 37 million people participate in the national event every year. Last year, the local NNO welcomed nearly 800 people.
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Court filings detail dramatic near encounter between Schumer and Proud Boys member on January 6
By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
(CNN) - Court filings have shed further light on the dramatic moment when Proud Boy Joshua Pruitt nearly came face to face with the then-Senate minority leader during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Pruitt pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, and prosecutors have asked that he receive five years in prison.
A court filing this weekend from prosecutors detailed how a Capitol Police special agent identified by his initials, M.L., pulled Chuck Schumer out of his chair on the Senate floor on January 6. Schumer, M.L., and two other members of the detail went to the basement of the Capitol in an attempt to escape the building, prosecutors say.
The New York Democrat and his detail were "crouch[ing] behind the recessed walls for cover" as they waited for an elevator to take them to an evacuation vehicle, court documents say, when the leader of Schumer's detail -- a sergeant identified as K.F. -- saw Pruitt advancing.
K.F. made eye contact with Pruitt and yelled "evac, evac, evac," prosecutors said.
Security footage from that day shows Schumer and his detail quickly fleeing the area, and prosecutors said that the sergeant "recalled hearing Pruitt getting louder behind him," and that "he felt as though they were being chased."
M.L. told investigators he believed Pruitt was four or five seconds away from reaching the Senator.
Schumer and his detail quickly ran down a ramp and shut a set of double doors behind them, prosecutors said, prompting Pruitt to turn around. The moment was also captured on video.
Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell approached the same double doors as he attempted to evacuate shortly thereafter, prosecutors said, and also had to turn back.
Pruitt eventually left the Capitol Visitor's Center after learning that someone had been shot in the building.
Pruitt also confronted police officers at the Capitol and threw a sign inside the building during the riot. Before his plea agreement, Pruitt had faced eight counts, including physical acts of violence and obstructing law enforcement.
"Every day I enter the beacon of our country, the U.S. Capitol, I relive the memories of that day, and none are as impactful as the moments I saw Mr. Pruitt approaching us with the intent to inflict harm to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate," M.L. wrote in a letter to the judge, asking for Pruitt to receive the maximum prison sentence.
The special agent also wrote that "on that day, the heroism, bravery, and resolve of my colleagues held our democracy together as it was on the brink of peril," and that his family "will never rest easy whenever I go to work again."
This story has been updated to more properly characterize the prosecutors' filings about the Capitol Police special agent identified as M.L..
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king and queen have tested positive for COVID-19, and so far have only mild symptoms, the royal palace said Saturday.
Doctors prescribed treatment for King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 70, and Queen Suthida, 44, and requested them to refrain from duties for a while, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement.
Their symptoms are “very mild,” the statement said.
Earlier Friday and Thursday, the couple visited Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol at Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok, where she was admitted after she fell unconscious due to a heart problem on Wednesday.
The number of infections spread by the dominant omicron subvariants has increased in Bangkok and Thailand’s tourist destinations after the country relaxed restrictions that were in place since 2020, according to the Department of Disease Control.
Its records show that 82% of the population, or at least 57 million, have been vaccinated with at least one jab. Of those, 53.5 million people have received a second dose and 32.5 million have received a third jab. | 2022-12-17T13:26:49+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/thailands-king-queen-test-positive-for-covid-19/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and European Union agreed Monday to intensify talks to resolve EU concerns over major subsidies for American companies contained in a U.S. clean energy law.
Although no deal was reached at a meeting of the bilateral bilateral Trade and Technology Council, the two sides pledged to continue work on preliminary progress and said they would push for a solution that benefits both U.S. and European firms, workers and consumers as well as the climate.
“We acknowledge the EU’s concerns and underline our commitment to address them constructively,” the two sides said in a joint statement after the meeting at the University of Maryland in College Park, located just outside Washington.
“We underline the TTC’s role in achieving this and in supporting a successful and mutually supportive green transition with strong, secure, and diverse supply chains that benefit businesses, workers, and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic,” it said.
The dispute revolves around the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act offers about $375 billion in new and extended tax credits to help the the U.S. clean energy industry as well as buyers of qualifying electric vehicles made in North America.
But European leaders have expressed alarm that the subsidies would be an enormous setback for European companies. French President Emmanuel Macron raised the issue directly with President Joe Biden during his state visit to Washington last week during which Biden and other U.S. officials said they were willing to address the matter, including “glitches” in the law.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted that as soon as the U.S. became aware of the EU's concerns it set up a task force to deal with them.
“Today, I think we advanced that discussion,” said Blinken, who co-chaired the meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai along with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager.
“Coming out of these conversations and feeding into the work of the task force, I’m convinced that we’re continuing to give momentum to that conversation and to working through the differences," he said.
Vestager agreed, saying Monday's discussion was “really helpful to show that there is a real concern.”
“To have the discussions that we have had today, to have the feedback from our U.S. partners, I think that is of critical importance to enhance the relationship that we have created within the framework of the Trade and Technology Council," she said.
And, she said that as the U.S. and EU continue to cooperate on the subsidy issue while opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. commitment to fighting climate change was even more welcome.
Democrats included the tax credits in the expansive climate law as a way to encourage domestic battery and electric vehicle production. But manufacturers in Europe and South Korea, which sell millions of vehicles in the U.S., have threatened to lodge legal complaints with the World Trade Organization.
And, thus far, congressional Democrats have said they have no intention of reconsidering the climate law, which passed after more than a year of negotiations without any Republican support. | 2022-12-05T21:22:00+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/US-EU-agree-to-intensify-talks-on-green-17632993.php |
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This information is presented by John Thompson. | 2022-06-10T23:56:31+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/beo-show/john-thompson-shares-tips-for-entrepreneurial-success/ |
The vast majority of candidates running to become their states’ chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans embracing conspiracy theories about voting machines.
An Associated Press survey of major-party secretary of state candidates in the 24 states found broad skepticism about hand counting among election professionals of all ideological stripes. Of 23 Republicans who responded to the survey, 13 clearly said they opposed implementing a statewide hand count of ballots instead of a machine count.
GOP candidates in Arizona and New Mexico have previously endorsed the idea of a hand count. But others cautioned it was a dangerous road to follow.
“Hand counting ballots is a process that requires time, manpower, and is prone to inaccuracies,” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican who is seeking reelection this year, wrote in response to the AP survey.
The desire to hand count ballots stems from conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the electronic machines that tabulated the results of the 2020 presidential election were rigged. Now some Republicans inspired by his election lies seek to expand or require hand counting of all ballots.
Counting by hand takes longer, requires large groups of people to examine ballots, and has been found by multiple studies to be less reliable than using voting machines.
“The reason the U.S. moved to counting machines is due to both human error and fraud with hand counts, so we looked for a better way to count the vote,” said Kim Crockett, the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Minnesota, in an email. “The error rate for hand counts is higher than the error rate for ballot counters in most cases.”
Crockett, who has called the 2020 election “rigged” and echoed some of Trump’s other election falsehoods, also stressed that she thinks her state’s voting machines still need further inspection.
The process came under scrutiny last week when rural Nye County in Nevada embarked on an unprecedented full hand count of this year’s midterm votes, starting with mailed ballots and those cast early in-person. The process was painstakingly slow until it was halted by the state’s supreme court over concerns that early vote tallies could be leaked publicly.
While the AP survey found most candidates strongly favor machine tabulators, two GOP secretary of state candidates in politically pivotal states — Arizona and New Mexico — want to shift to the unreliable method of counting ballots. A third in yet another swing state, Nevada, has backed Nye County’s effort and voiced support for making that sort of procedure standard statewide.
In Arizona, Republican State Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state, joined his party’s nominee for governor, Kari Lake, in filing a lawsuit seeking to outlaw the use of any machine to record or tabulate votes. The case was dismissed by a judge who levied sanctions against the Republicans.
In New Mexico, GOP secretary of state nominee Audrey Trujillo has said she wants widespread hand counting of votes.
“Hand count my ballot. We already have paper ballots,” she said in an interview on the video platform Rumble. “If we had that, I guarantee you tons more people would go out and vote.”
Neither Finchem nor Trujillo responded to the AP’s survey.
Nevada’s Republican secretary of state candidate has offered conflicting responses. A campaign spokesman for Republican nominee Jim Marchant told the AP that Marchant would be fine with a machine count as long as there also are paper ballots, which are universally used in Nevada. But the prior month, Marchant told the AP in a separate interview, “My goal is to go to a hand count paper ballot system.”
Nevada’s current secretary of state, Republican Barbara Cegavske, told interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf to halt the hand count of early arriving mailed ballots and early in-person votes until after polls close Nov. 8 following a ruling late last week from the state’s high court. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union had sought to halt the hand count over concerns that observers could hear the results as they were announced, risking a potential public leak of early returns.
The nascent hand-count had been riddled with problems on its first day, with repeated delays and errors among the volunteer staff of 12 teams of five split into two different shifts. They got through 900 of 1,950 ballots on the first day, with one volunteer lamenting the slow pace: “I can’t believe it’s two hours to get through 25.”
An AP reporter observed two teams of five taking as long as three hours to count 50 ballots. When teams realized they had mismatched tallies for certain candidates, they would stop and recount the ballots for those candidates again. That effort followed a hand count in another rural Nevada county, Esmeralda, where election workers in June spent more than seven hours hand-tallying the 317 primary ballots.
Kampf said the teams improved during the second day.
Eleven candidates, mostly Republicans, did not respond to the AP’s survey, including one of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists running for the position — Republican Kristina Karamo in Michigan, a community college instructor who has spread the lie that voting machines in 2020 were rigged.
“Election deniers are using the language of election integrity to dismantle the actual infrastructure of election integrity,” said David Becker, the co-author of “The Big Truth,” a book about the risks of Trump’s voting lies, and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “If you want inaccurate results that take a really long time and cost a lot, then hand counting is your solution.”
Voting machines are routinely checked before and after voting to make sure they count accurately. The post-election test usually involves pulling a sample of random ballots and counting them by hand to see if the automated tally differs.
But repeated studies — in voting and other fields such as banking and retail — have shown that people make far more errors counting than do machines, especially when reaching larger and larger numbers. They’re also vastly slower.
Jennifer Morrell, a former local election official in Colorado and Utah, noted that hand counts are enormously labor-intensive. The election consulting firm where she works estimated that in a typical-sized jurisdiction of 270,000 voters, it would take 1,300 people to count the ballots within seven days.
That’s because the typical ballot has dozens of races on it, which machines tabulate automatically but humans would have to count line by line, page by page.
“Voting equipment is uniform and efficient in a way that humans will never be,” Morrell said.
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Associated Press statehouse reporters from around the U.S. contributed to this report.
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Check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the 2022 midterm elections. | 2022-11-02T15:55:15+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-most-candidates-for-top-election-posts-say-no-to-hand-counts/ |
Tennessee bill aims to not require teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A new bill is traveling through Tennessee legislature Tuesday, calling for education leaders not to be required to use students’ preferred pronouns.
Introduced by Senator Mike Bell, SB2777 is a bill that will not legally require teachers or staff to use a student’s preferred pronouns, absolving them of any discriminatory accusations.
“A teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student’s preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student’s biological sex,” the bill reads.
It continues that a teacher or employee would be protected from “civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student’s biological sex instead of the student’s preferred pronoun.”
In a fiscal note for SB2777, lawmakers acknowledged that if the bill is found to violate federal law, this could jeopardize federal funding for the 2022-23 school year.
The note references a fact sheet issued by the U.S. Department of Education in June 2021 titled “Supporting Transgender Youth in School,” which includes “Adopting policies that respect all students’ gender identities, such as the use of the name a student goes by, which may be different from their legal name, and pronouns that reflect a student’s gender identity, and implementing policies to safeguard students’ privacy, such as maintaining the confidentiality of a student’s birth name or sex assigned at birth if the student wishes to keep this information private unless the disclosure is legally required.”
The Tennessee bill has moved onto the Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee and will be further discussed on Tuesday.
Copyright 2022 WSMV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-22T08:50:33+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/04/20/tennessee-bill-aims-not-require-teachers-use-students-preferred-pronouns/ |
INDIANAPOLIS – A conditional severe weather threat exists across Central Indiana between the hours of 6-10pm this Monday evening.
Evening storm threat
Severe storms are possible across Central Indiana this evening as a weak low pressure system approaches the state. At the surface and aloft, there is enough energy to support a storm capable of producing large hail and even some damaging wind. The question is, how many storms are able to develop and if they will become strong enough to tap into this energy.
With that being said, we feel that isolated storms are more likely than widespread activity. This will occur largely between 6-10pm.
Becoming more comfortable
Cooler and drier air will advance southward into Indiana overnight. This will assist in clearing our sky and eliminating any humidity at the surface. The sun will rise on a mostly clear sky, but a northeasterly breeze will keep warming more modest. We’ll enjoy temps in the mid 50s at the start of the day and low to mid 70s by the late afternoon. It will be the first of several days without a storm threat as well!
Wednesday and Thursday will each be exceptional days to enjoy outdoors. Dry, sunny, and warm conditions are expected each day.
Friday through the weekend we will be warm, but also potentially stormy. Don’t be afraid to make outdoors plans, but remember keep an eye to the sky if you’ll be outdoors. | 2023-05-08T22:23:04+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/weather/weather-blog/isolated-severe-storm-potential-this-evening/ |
Residents of a small Iowa town were disappointed to find out that the "Target Store Coming Soon" sign they saw pop up was all just a practical joke.
"For a Target to pop up right here on 3rd Avenue would be a little 'woohoo,' Julie Johnson, a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa said. "Nah, not going to happen," she said.
Many residents believed it might be happening, their beloved Target was bringing a store to town, causing frowns when it ended up not being true.
"Oh my God, I would love for a Target to be across the street," Johnson said. "I would love it."
The sign was placed near a building that operates UnityPoint Health, and they released a statement saying, "“Earlier this week, someone covered a billboard on one of our properties in downtown Marshalltown. The billboard covering had a Target logo and the message ‘Coming Soon!’ As has been reported, this was a light-hearted prank, and the covering has been removed. We can confirm that we haven’t had any discussions with Target Corporation about a new store location, and our property remains for sale.”
Residents of the town will still have to drive about 36 miles to the town of Ames to get to their nearest Target store. | 2022-08-20T02:35:41+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/national/prankster-put-target-store-coming-soon-sign-disappointing-town-as-it-never-came |
KALISPELL - We are learning additional information about the cause of an outage that has left several thousand Flathead Electric Cooperative (FEC) members without power amidst the frigid temperatures.
FEC reports that early Thursday morning its wholesale power provider, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), made FEC aware of an emergency shutdown of one of their main delivery points into FEC's system.
This resulted in power outages across Lake Blaine, Many Lakes, and the Echo Lake areas. According to FEC, it's not known when this main delivery point will be re-energized by BPA.
A news release states that "FEC is proactively managing this situation to the best of our abilities by re-distributing power from other areas of our service territory."
FEC notes the extremely cold weather "is creating additional challenges in distributing load across our system." FEC is asking members to help reduce demand until BPA is able to restore its delivery point.
Members in the Bigfork, Somers, and east Flathead Valley areas are being asked to help lower the demand on the system by reducing any unnecessary electric needs as soon as possible.
Ways FEC members you can help:
- Turn your thermostat down by 10 degrees or more.
- Turn off your hot water heaters if you don’t need them at this time.
- Delay your use of your oven, washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher.
- Unplug unneeded electrical equipment including Christmas lights.
FEC notes there is not a power shortage and that the problem is a main delivery point from BPA is down. Visit flatheadelectric.com/outage for additional information.
The Co-op notes there are several other outages that are not related to the BPA situation and crews are working to restore power in these areas.
People who need a warm place to go can call 406-758-2111. The line was established by Flathead Emergency Services and has information for anyone looking for shelter. | 2022-12-22T21:43:41+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-news/emergency-bonneville-power-administration-shutdown-sparks-flathead-power-outages |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Aliyah Boston had 14 points and 14 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina won its 28th straight game with an 87-69 victory over Kentucky on Thursday night.
Boston, the reigning AP player of the year, extended her school mark with her 75th career double-double and moved within 11 of the SEC record of 86 games with a double-double held by LSU great Sylvia Fowles.
Things weren’t perfect for South Carolina, which fell behind early, then had its 15-point halftime lead cut to 54-48 midway through the third quarter.
Still, its dominant inside game — South Carolina outscored the Wildcats 62-14 in the paint — was more than enough to shut down Kentucky (10-12, 2-8), the last team to defeat the defending national champions at the SEC Tournament last March.
Robyn Benton had 24 points to lead Kentucky, which has lost three of its past four games.
No. 9 NOTRE DAME 72, BOSTON COLLEGE 59
BOSTON — Olivia Miles scored 22 points with 10 assists and eight rebounds, combining with Sonia Citron to score 14 straight points in the fourth quarter when Notre Dame pulled away from Boston College.
Citron finished with 23 points to help the Irish (18-2, 9-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) bounce back from their first league loss of the season, a 69-65 defeat at North Carolina State on Sunday.
Maria Gakdeng scored 16 points, T’Yana Todd had 13 and Andrea Daly scored 10 with eight rebounds for BC (14-11, 4-8). The Eagles, who beat Pittsburgh on Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak, were looking for their second victory over a Top 25 team this season, having also beaten then-No. 10 N.C. State on Jan. 5.
BC came within five points, 55-50, before the Irish ran off 14 points in a row — nine by Citron, and five by Miles.
No. 11 NORTH CAROLINA 73, VIRGINIA 62
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Freshman Kayla McPherson came off the bench to score 14 points and North Carolina cruised to a victory over Virginia.
McPherson has played just two games in the last 800 days. She had a knee injury that sidelined her for her senior year of high school and a different lower-body injury that kept her out of the Tar Heels’ first 20 games this season. It didn’t show against Virginia.
McPherson, who had eight points in North Carolina’s 69-58 road win over Clemson on Sunday, connected on 6 of 10 shots with two 3-pointers and added four assists for the Tar Heels (17-5, 8-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who have won eight straight conference games after a three-game skid to open ACC play.
London Clarkson scored 23 points off the bench to lead the Cavaliers (14-9, 3-9), who have lost five straight.
No. 13 VIRGINIA TECH 78, SYRACUSE 64
BLACKSBURG, Va. —- Elizabeth Kitley had 20 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks, Cayla King scored 19 points with five 3-pointers and Virginia Tech beat Syracuse.
Kitley missed her first four shots and went scoreless in the first quarter before making all four shots in the second quarter to finish with eight points at the break. She made 4 of 5 shots in the third for nine points and recorded her 13th double-double of the season. King reached 200 career 3-pointers as she hit double figures for the first time since Jan. 1.
Virginia Tech (18-4, 8-4 ACC) opened the fourth quarter by scoring 14 unanswered points to pull away.
Dyaisha Fair, averaging 19.8 points per game, had 20 points, six rebound and five assists and Georgia Woolley scored 18 points for Syracuse (14-9, 5-7).
No. 16 DUKE 53, PITTSBURGH 44
DURHAM, N.C. — Shayeann Day-Wilson and Celeste Taylor each scored 13 points and Duke beat Pittsburgh.
Taylor scored nine of her points in the fourth quarter to help Duke pull away. Pittsburgh was within 35-32 with 1:47 left in the third quarter. But the Panthers missed their next 11 field goals attempts before a make with 3:26 remaining in the game.
Vanessa de Jesus finished an alley-oop layup, off an assist by Taylor, to give Duke a 49-40 lead with 2:10 left.
Elizabeth Balogun added nine points and Kennedy Brown grabbed nine rebounds for Duke (19-3, 9-2 ACC), which plays at No. 9 Notre Dame on Sunday.
Emy Hayford, averaging 1.8 points per game, scored 12 points for Pittsburgh (7-15, 0-11).
No. 18 MICHIGAN 74, ILLINOIS 57
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Leigha Brown scored 27 points to propel Michigan to a victory over Illinois.
Brown sank 10 of 13 shots from the floor and all seven of her free throws for the Wolverines (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten Conference). She added five assists and four rebounds. Maddie Nolan and Emily Kiser scored 10 points apiece. Kiser snagged six rebounds.
Kendall Bostic and Genesis Bryant both had 18 points to pace the Fighting Illini (17-6, 7-5).
No. 23 FLORIDA STATE 72, WAKE FOREST 44
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ta’Niya Latson scored 19 points, Makayla Timpson added 16 points and Florida State eased by Wake Forest.
Florida State pulled away in the second quarter by outscoring Wake Forest 21-4. The Demon Deacons were 1-of-17 shooting in the quarter with four turnovers. Erin Howard hit two 3-pointers and scored eight of her nine points in the second quarter. Latson added seven points.
Latson also scored five points during a 7-0 run to open the third quarter for a 25-point lead. Florida State (20-5, 9-3 ACC) led by as many as 29 points, 60-31, early in the fourth quarter.
Jewel Spear led Wake Forest (13-10, 4-8) with 11 points. | 2023-02-03T04:11:33+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/no-1-south-carolina-stays-unbeaten-with-win-over-kentucky/2023/02/02/0d4e3afc-a371-11ed-8b47-9863fda8e494_story.html |
Four-time world champion Adrien Broner withdrew Monday from his nationally televised fight against Omar Figueroa on Saturday night, citing mental health.
Broner announced his decision on Instagram, apologizing to his fans and asking for prayers. He said mental health is real and that “I’ve watched a lot of people die playing with they boxing career and that is something I won’t do …”
Showtime was scheduled to air the fight from Hollywood, Florida.
The 33-year-old from Cincinnati also said he loves boxing and “I feel like I came up short before because my mind was not 100% there.”
Broner said he needed to make some changes instead of worrying about other’s people’s feelings.
“In all reality I have nothing to prove to nobody,” Broner wrote. “I’m a 4 time world champion in 4 different weight classes and if I never lace up another pair of gloves again I feel like it’s safe to say I will be inducted into the #BoxingHallOfFame.”
Broner last fought on Feb. 20, 2021, posting a unanimous decision over previously undefeated Jovanie Santiago, also on Showtime. It ended a 25-month absence from boxing and improved his record to 34-4-1. There was one fight ruled no contest.
Broner has had issues away from boxing, including several arrests. In 2019, he had a restraining order issued against him after making homophobic threats on social media. He later was ordered to pay over $830,000 for sexually assaulting a woman in a Cleveland nightclub.
Broner was jailed for a parole violation last year after failing to enroll in a court-mandated alcohol treatment program. | 2022-08-16T14:53:30+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/4-time-boxing-champ-broner-withdraws-from-saturday-fight/ |
BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — Tireless. Helpful. Deeply religious.
Those were some of the ways Patti Eger’s friends remembered her Thursday in the small Maine town of Lisbon Falls, joining hands in prayer on a lawn outside a white church to say goodbye to a woman who stood alongside them to do charity work and attend services.
Patti Eger was one of four people killed in a violent rampage that shook the calm Maine community.
“I couldn’t believe it at first,” said Arlene Couture, a fellow member of the group. “We’re going to miss her terribly.
The shootings of seven people brought the national spate of mass gunfire home to a rural community where violent crime is rare. In tiny Bowdoin, Maine, a town of rolling hills, sturdy farmhouses and only one store, the property where the four were killed has drawn friends, family members and neighbors to grieve. Police have charged Joseph Eaton, 34, with four counts of murder, and have said there could be more charges coming.
Killed were Eaton’s parents, Cynthia Eaton, 62, and David Eaton, 66, along with homeowners Robert Eger, 72, and Patti Eger, 62. Police said Eaton later began firing on several cars along Interstate 295 in Yarmouth. Bullets struck a family in one of the vehicles, wounding Sean Halsey, 51; Justin Halsey, 29; and Paige Halsey, 25. Paige Halsey was critically wounded, police said.
Police have yet to discuss what might have been a motive behind the shootings on the rural property and along the busy interstate highway about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Maine’s largest city, Portland. Police also have not discussed what gun or guns were used, or how Eaton obtained them. Eaton was prohibited from having guns because of his criminal past.
Eaton has been jailed since his arrest Tuesday near the chaotic highway, where traffic backed up as heavily armed law enforcement searched the area.
Eaton’s parents were staying with their longtime friends after Cynthia Eaton picked him up from a Maine prison on April 14. The families’ friendship endured even after the Eatons move away, eventually settling in Florida.
Friends of the Egers described them as a fixture in the community and a family that valued faith and charity.
Patti Eger was a scrapbooker who appreciated for her commitment to Lisbon Area Christian Outreach, a Lisbon Falls religious group. She was known for taking time with residents who sought service, and for greeting everyone she knew with a hug, even in the the grocery store, said Couture.
“The most I’m going to miss is she was always willing to give of herself. To everybody,” said Barbara Feely, another volunteer at the outreach group.
Relatives of Cynthia and David Eaton said the fun-loving couple was most happy riding their Harley-Davidson motorcycle, often joining other relatives at biking events from Florida up to the Dakotas. Cynthia Eaton’s Facebook page has posts on food, sunsets and her conservative political beliefs.
Paul Batten Jr., Cynthia Eaton’s first cousin, said they camped together as children and later rode motorcycles. She could disarm a stranger with her smile and, in her words, she was a pool shark, he said.
Batten also recalled how the couple moved around to be close to Joseph Eaton during his prison stints. “She would do anything for Joey. He was her baby. She would do anything for him,” he said.
Betty Fagan, Eaton’s grandmother and the mother of Cynthia Eaton, said Joseph Eaton “was a good kid when he was young but we don’t know what is going on with him now.”
“It was terrible. It was his mom and his dad,” Fagan said from her home in Ocala, Florida.
Fagan said Eaton’s parents had been planning to move back to Kansas. They picked Joseph Eaton up from prison and brought him to a beach where, she said, he spent the weekend alone.
“After that, we don’t know what happened. We don’t know whether there was an argument or what,” Fagan said.
Eaton had a criminal history in Maine, Kansas and Florida, all states where he’d lived. Charges included domestic violence assault, violating a protection order, aggravated assault, burglary, stalking, and drunken driving, among others.
Deputies in northeastern Florida were called to a Nassau County home in January 2018 on a report of an armed man having a mental breakdown, according to an incident report. Eaton’s aunt had fled after he tore the home apart, breaking things and threatening to kill himself, she told police.
After serving time on the aggravated assault, he was returned to Maine to serve a two-year sentence for violating probation, state officials said.
Rob Capehart, Eaton’s cousin who lives in North Carolina and corresponded with him while was in jail, said he was still trying to understand how a man who posted on Facebook Friday about being excited to get out of jail and posted a photo of eating at dinner could go on a killing rampage.
“If we knew there was a problem, we might have been able to prevent it,” said Capehart.
On Friday, a man left a stuffed animal at a makeshift memorial outside the Bowdoin home of Robert and Patti Eger as a cleaning crew in hazmat suits brought trash bags out of the house.
At the edge of the driveway, the growing memorial included flowers and Patti Eger’s favorite candy, Twizzlers.
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Associated Press video journalist Rodrique Ngowi in Bowdoin and writer David Sharp in Portland contributed to this report from Maine. Michael Casey contributed to this report from Boston. | 2023-04-21T23:54:12+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/tiny-maine-community-devastated-by-loss-of-slain-neighbors/ |
Kaitlyn Terry leads Greenway softball to state championship game
Jenna Musselwhite knew what she was looking for. Riseball, screwball, didn’t matter. Just anything middle-in. If it took fouling off 30 pitches to get that, she’d take it.
Turns out she only needed a few foul balls. Then she got what she wanted. An off-speed pitch right over the middle of the plate.
With Kaitlyn Terry representing the winning run on second base, Musselwhite made no mistake, lining the ball into left-center field. “When I knew it was in the gap, I was jumping up and down before I even hit first base,” Musselwhite said. As Musselwhite celebrated, Terry tore towards home. Before even stepping on the plate, she ripped off her helmet with two hands, screaming with joy. When she crossed the dish, she tomahawked the helmet into the dirt, celebrating the moment she had spent four years dreaming of.
Finally, the state’s best player will play on the state’s biggest stage. That’s what Thursday’s 4-3 win over Canyon del Oro ensured, setting up a heavyweight showdown with Salpointe Catholic on Tuesday night in Tuscon. On the line: a 4A title.
“This is something that I've wanted since my freshman year,” Terry said. “Even though it was Covid, I wanted it. I wanted it last year and it just ended bad and we deserve it now.”
Over the past four years, the UCLA commit has established herself as the rare player who might be the best in the state as both a hitter and a pitcher. She entered Thursday with a .706 batting average, 23 home runs and a 0.21 ERA. All three marks are the best in 4A.
What Terry has never gotten is a championship. Her freshman season ended short due to Covid and her sophomore season was foiled by Vista Grande in the quarterfinals. Last year, as the No. 2 seed, Greenway flamed out early, stunned twice by No. 7 seed Mingus Union.
Canyon del Oro didn’t give Terry a chance to expand on her hitting numbers, intentionally walking her three times and pitching around her in the seventh, helping set up Musselwhite’s walk off.
Terry, though, was able to continue her incredible season in the circle. She struck out 15, making a mockery of Canyon del Oro’s gameplan to make things happen via the bunt.
“They were gonna bunt no matter what,” Terry said. “They have a lot of slappers. And I just made sure my team stayed up on them, throwing outside, throwing riseballs so they could foul off the bunts.”
For much of the night, it looked as if Terry would throw her 10th no-hitter of the season. That’s where the game stood in the top of the fifth inning, with Greenway holding a comfortable 3-0 lead.
The rest of the night was far less comfortable. Sydnee Wendel broke up the no-hitter with a line drive single to center field. She came around to score after an error and a safety squeeze.
In the seventh, Wendel made life difficult on Terry again. She blooped a single just over the infield into left field, putting herself on first with one out. After she moved to second on fielder’s indifference, Molly Herman laid a bunt down the third base line.
Fielded well, the play would’ve put Greenway one out from the championship game. Instead, Greenway third baseman Ariel Chandler sailed her throw into right field. When the relay came to catcher Bella Morris, Herman was halfway home — dead to rights at third base. Morris’ throw, though, was also off the mark and skipped into left field, bringing Herman home.
Players spilled out of Canyon del Oro’s dugout, mobbing Herman as she came back to the bench. For much of the night, this had seemed impossible. Scoring once against Terry was a formidable task. Three times? Forget about it.
Then it happened. Greenway’s dream, it seemed, would have to come to reality in an elimination game later Thursday night.
Instead, the Demons rallied. Now, a title is in their reach.
“Oh my gosh, we're so excited,” coach Janna Frandrup said. “That was the best team win. We were a little flat last game but we came back pumping and ready to go.” | 2023-05-12T05:54:40+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/05/11/kaitlyn-terry-leads-greenway-softball-to-4a-championship-game/70210394007/ |
Thousands of Kennedy assassination records released
(CNN) - The CIA said the agency has now released almost all its documents involving the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On Thursday, the National Archives released nearly 13,000 government documents related to JFK’s assassination.
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Congress passed legislation in 1992 requiring the release of all remaining government records about the assassination.
They gave the original deadline of 2017, but presidents have extended that deadline, including President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Biden ordered the documents released in a memo earlier in the day.
This is the largest dump of files from the National Archives’ JFK assassination record collection since 2018.
Biden has also ordered the remaining records to be publicly released by June 30, 2023.
For its part, the CIA reports that 95% of its records related to JFK have now been made public in their entirety.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-16T13:43:46+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/12/16/thousands-kennedy-assassination-records-released/ |
HOUSTON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesis Park, through its investment fund, GP Capital Partners, LP, is pleased to announce its recent investment in One Source Communications, LLC ("One Source" or the "Company"), a managed services provider providing telecom expense management, IT/telecom infrastructure, and critical cybersecurity services to mid-to-large size enterprises with multilocation operations.
Genesis Park, along with two additional private investment firms, provided a senior secured term debt facility as part of the transaction. A portion of the proceeds from the investment were used by One Source to acquire SUMO Technologies LLC ("Sumo"), an independent telecom agent that helps companies identify vendors and solutions to fulfill their telecom needs, particularly related to data centers and cloud-based infrastructure. The remaining proceeds will be used to support One Source's growth initiatives.
One Source manages the entire network and IT ecosystem of mid-to-large multilocation businesses with geographically dispersed sites including enterprise architecture, network infrastructure, expense management and cybersecurity. The Company's value proposition solves four key customer challenges: maintaining security and uptime, managing cost effectiveness, creating visibility and control and providing centralized support for distributed infrastructure.
Tim Meng, CEO of One Source, said, "One Source is pleased by the recent investment by Genesis Park and its partner firms to support the acquisition of Sumo, and provide a capital commitment to support future growth initiatives. We are excited to have Genesis Park as a partner given their experience and long history of investing in and operating managed services, wired and wireless telecom and cyber security companies. We believe this investment positions the Company to capitalize on future opportunities and accelerate our growth."
Curtis Hartman, Managing Partner of Genesis Park said, "We are thrilled to partner with the One Source team. Tim and his colleagues have built a tremendous platform, and we look forward to supporting them through this next phase of growth."
Genesis Park is a Houston-based private credit and equity investment firm. Its current investment fund, GP Capital Partners, LP, is licensed as a Small Business Investment Company ("SBIC") by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Genesis Park supports growth and later stage lower middle market businesses through flexible debt and equity capital solutions and strategic guidance. Genesis Park generally targets companies with at least $10 million of revenue and $2 million of EBITDA, with proven business models and seasoned management teams. Managed by four experienced investment professionals with broad regional relationships, Genesis Park is committed to partnering with the companies and management teams in which it invests to facilitate growth, transition, and success. For more information, visit www.genesis-park.com.
Founded in 1989 and based in Greenville, North Carolina, One Source is managed service provider focusing on implementing and maintaining mission-critical connectivity, infrastructure and cyber security for mid to large enterprises with multilocation operations. The Company offers communications lifecycle management, managed IT, and managed security services. For more information, visit www.onesource.net.
Founded in 2001 and based in Centerville, Utah, Sumo is a leading partner for sourcing customer experience, colocation, and connectivity solutions worldwide. Sumo has existing relationships with all the top telecommunications providers and helps enterprise clients identify and deliver colocation, cloud, contact center, and networking solutions. Sumo's advisory services help their customers' keep up with their ever-evolving technological and connectivity demands. For more information, visit www.sumocom.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Jacob deGrom pitched four innings Wednesday for Triple-A Syracuse, finishing strong after a shaky start in what’s expected to be his last minor league rehab outing before rejoining New York’s rotation.
“The plan right now if everything progresses well is to pitch for us next time,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. “But that could change by what we hear tomorrow or the next day.”
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner would likely return to the Mets early next week in Washington. If he pitches Monday or Tuesday, he would be lined up on full rest to make a start in a potentially pivotal five-game series Aug. 4-7 at home against defending World Series champion Atlanta — although the NL East leaders have not committed to that timeline.
“We’ll see where we slot that out,” Showalter said.
New York entered Wednesday with a two-game edge in the division over the Braves.
Sidelined all season by a stress reaction in his right scapula, deGrom gave up four runs on a pair of homers and threw 41 of 67 pitches for strikes. He struck out six — twice fanning Kansas City All-Star catcher Salvador Perez — and walked three in a game that began at 12:05 p.m.
“It was good to see him get to almost 70 pitches. That was a good sign,” Showalter said. “We’ll get arms around it here in the next day or so, but we hope that his next outing’s with us. We’ll see.”
Last week, Showalter said if deGrom needed another rehab start after this one, then that’s what the team would do. He said deGrom is well aware of what it takes to be ready to pitch in the majors.
The 34-year-old right-hander hasn’t appeared in a big league game since July 7, 2021. He missed the second half of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then went down late in spring training this year with the scapula injury.
He’s made four minor league rehab starts totaling 12 2/3 innings, two at Class A St. Lucie and two with Syracuse. He’s allowed five runs — four earned — and seven hits with 21 strikeouts and four walks, hitting 100 mph on the radar gun even in his first outing.
He threw a 60-pitch simulated game in Florida during the All-Star break, then a side session Sunday at Citi Field in New York. The simulated game was pushed back two days after deGrom experienced minor shoulder soreness.
The only hits deGrom gave up Wednesday were a solo homer to Brewer Hicklen and a three-run drive to Drew Waters that sandwiched consecutive walks and two strikeouts in the second inning against the Omaha Storm Chasers. Then deGrom struck out Perez, who’s rehabbing a thumb injury, for the second time and retired his final seven batters.
“His arm felt really good,” Showalter said.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-28T17:39:43+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/mets-degrom-goes-4-innings-at-triple-a-pennant-race-next/ |
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TimeShuffle, a play-and-earn turn-based tactical RPG, backed by renowned names like Blizzard Fund, Shima Capital, NEXO, is pleased to announce the drop of the exclusive Founders Pass NFTs and pre-alpha off-chain game access.
In TimeShuffle, players battle together and against each other in procedurally generated battlefield arenas. One faction of players is aiming to protect the current timeline whereas the other faction is fighting to rewrite history and change the future.
The pre-alpha launch will feature the game's battle grid along with a selection of attacks and defenses from some of the game's heroes, such as Leonardo DaVinci, Salvador Dali and Cleopatra. This pre-alpha sneak peek will be off-chain and will be made available to selected members of the TimeShuffle community for testing purposes. More details about the tournament will be provided on TimeShuffle's official Discord channel.
The team has taken a gameplay-first approach with development, ensuring that TimeShuffle is entertaining and engaging on its own, as opposed to using blockchain technology as a crutch.
Summarizing this vision, TimeShuffle CEO, Konstantin Dinev says, "We want to give players the experience of uniquely challenging but rewarding gameplay elements, where the whole game experience is supplemented by the Web3 model. This is definitely something that sets us apart from what is currently on the market".
The team behind TimeShuffle has worked extensively in the gaming space and understands the balance between accessibility and engaging gameplay. TimeShuffle will always remain free-to-play and is being developed for mass appeal, where players do not need to be familiar with Web 3.0 or related concepts in order to start playing the game and benefiting from blockchain and NFT integrations.
The game is being launched on the Avalanche network. As mentioned earlier, the pre-alpha release will be made available to the TimeShuffle community for testing purposes before the game's alpha release later this year.
TimeShuffle Founders Pass NFT goes on sale at 05/07/2022 4 PM UTC with a limited supply of 5,500 passes, giving holders a host of perks and benefits apart from pre-alpha access, including exclusive skins, in-game consumables, profile badges, rare NFTs, a life-time supply of monthly treasure chests and more.
To stay updated about the Founders Pass sale and the pre-alpha game release, visit TimeShuffle.io
About TimeShuffle
TimeShuffle is a Free-to-Play-and-Earn Turn-Based Tactical RPG with heroes from across history battling together and against each other in procedurally generated battlefield arenas.
Each player can start their conquest with a Free-to-Play hero and progress their heroes as they play, unlocking the full potential of Blockchain gaming and TimeShuffle's Play and Earn model made possible by Avalanche's scalability and proven track record.
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Contact: Masha Beetroot, Head of PR and Communications at TimeShuffle, masha@timeshuffle.io
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world’s largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers.
Microsoft plans to build a $1 billion data center on the 315-acre (127-hectare) parcel in Mount Pleasant, a village of about 27,000 people in Racine County, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Milwaukee. It’s unclear how many people the center might employ. Paul Englis, Microsoft’s director of global community research and engagement, told the Racine County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that such centers typically employ 300 to 400 people.
The village already is home to a Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing facility. The Taiwan-based company is best known for making Apple iPhones. The company announced plans in 2017 to build a $10 billion facility in Mount Pleasant that would employ 13,000 people.
Wisconsin’s governor at the time, Republican Scott Walker, and then-President Donald Trump praised the decision, with Trump boasting the plant would be the “eighth wonder of the world.”
The state agreed to provide Foxconn with nearly $3 billion in tax breaks. The company never delivered on its promises and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers scaled back the tax breaks to $80 million contingent on the number of jobs created and investments. The company qualified for just $8.6 million in tax credits last year after creating 768 eligible jobs and making a $77.4 million capital investment by the end of 2021.
According to a fact sheet describing the Microsoft project compiled by southeastern Wisconsin economic development groups, the parcel of land is part of a tax-increment financing district that includes the Foxconn campus. Property taxes collected in such districts can be used to subsidize development.
Foxconn spent $60 million to help Mount Pleasant officials buy the property to create the district, said Mia Tripi, a spokesperson for the village and Racine County.
Foxconn would receive the proceeds from the land sale to Microsoft as partial reimbursement of what Foxconn spent to acquire land for the district in 2017, according to the fact sheet. Microsoft would be eligible to recoup 42% of property taxes paid on new construction, up to $5 million annually.
Microsoft must begin the first phase of construction by July 2026 and begin the second phase by July 2033.
The tech sector has been contracting after pandemic-era expansions brought on a boom in demand for workplace software. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, hasn’t been immune to the trend, announcing in January that it planned to cut 10,000 workers and consolidate leased office locations. Company officials said then that the layoffs amounted to less than 5% of their total employee base.
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This story has been corrected to show that Paul Englis spoke to the Racine County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday — not Thursday. | 2023-04-20T05:38:05+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/microsoft-looks-to-buy-50m-foxconn-parcel-in-wisconsin/ |
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scott Dixon knows IndyCar’s tightest championship race in nearly 20 years would have probably been long decided if not for a rare gaffe by “The Iceman” in the Indianapolis 500.
Dixon was the dominant car at Indianapolis in May and led 95 laps until a late speeding penalty took the New Zealander out of contention. Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Marcus Ericsson instead won the race and, because the Indy 500 is worth double points, Ericsson was suddenly thrust into the IndyCar championship race.
But if Dixon had not been speeding, he’d have maybe scored the win, or at minimum finished higher than 21st. Ericsson received 109 points for the victory; Dixon earned just 33 in a crushing disappointment that may have ultimate implications on the championship.
Will Power is the points leader headed into Sunday’s season finale, a five-driver battle that is the tightest in IndyCar since 2003 when the series was called “The IRL.” Power leads Dixon and his Team Penske teammate Josef Newgarden by 20 points. Ericsson is 39 points out of the lead, with McLaughlin of Penske in fifth and 41 points out.
Going just a touch slower down pit road way back in May would have likely sent Dixon into Laguna Seca Raceway with a sizeable lead in the standings in pursuit of a record-tying seventh championship.
“Yeah, I think had we finished even in the top-three, this championship would be pretty easy right now,” Dixon told The Associated Press. “But I can’t change that. It’s history. It’s long gone. And you’ve got to move forward.”
Dixon recovered from Indianapolis to win at Toronto, where he tied Mario Andretti for second on IndyCar’s wins list, and win No. 53 moved him past Andretti when he won at Nashville in August. That second win of the season moved him back into title contention, and his drive from 16th to third last week at Portland made him a serious challenger to Power come Sunday.
Should he win that title, it would move Dixon to the mystical number seven, the record mark across the top series in the world. AJ Foyt holds the IndyCar record with seven titles, Richard Petty, the late Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson won seven in NASCAR, and Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton each have seven F1 titles.
Dixon doesn’t even entertain the idea of joining the exclusive club.
“It’s great to talk about after your accomplishments, but I’ve got six, I don’t have seven,” Dixon told AP. “I think I like seven because it is more than six. If you look at the historical side of it, or if you look at motorsports or other sports in general, seven is definitely at the top of the heap and it would of course be very special. But I have six now and that’s the facts.”
Dixon and the Chip Ganassi Racing fleet used their final test of the season at Laguna Seca, while Team Penske used its last test at Portland and went 1-2 in the race with McLaughlin and Power. It has sent two Ganassi drivers and three Penske drivers into the title decider, and the two teams have combined to win 14 of IndyCar’s last 16 championships.
Ganassi is winner of the last two championships and has come out on top in 10 of the title fights, in part because of the Ganassi philosophy to race for the greater organization. They view Team Penske as a three singular efforts with the only team orders being that the best driver wins.
It’s made for some tension in the Penske camp, particularly during a Pebble Beach media event for the contenders, where Newgarden seemed aloof as his rivals enjoyed their morning on the iconic golf course.
Newgarden, who has won a series-high five races this year and overcame an apparent concussion suffered in August, later revealed he’s had some internal struggles this season. He’s had to apologize to his crew at times, and explained it away as “an issue with trying to be a perfectionist in everything that I do.
“The more years you do this, the more you demand that excellence and perfection,” Newgarden said. “(When) it gets derailed, the easier it is to upset you. That’s been the case for me. Because I’m such a perfectionist, the longer I’ve done this, the harder it gets. If you’re a perfectionist and you do this sport long enough, and that starts to turn into an expectation that can frustrate you when it doesn’t transpire, that can be a negative.
“I felt it was a negative the way I was reacting to it, and it was just a buildup of one too many races not going according to plan was really the issue with it.”
Things seem much calmer in the Ganassi camp, even as the team remains divided over reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s decision to leave at the end of the season. Ganassi says he’s got Palou under contract through 2023, but Palou says he’s signed to drive from McLaren. The dispute is winding through both mediation and the court system.
Dixon, who is in his 20th season with Ganassi and the team’s most tenured driver, does not speak to Palou and is unsure if Palou will do anything to assist him in Sunday’s championship race. Ericsson does speak to Palou (as does Jimmie Johnson) and said there is no confusion over the rules of engagement at Ganassi.
“Always from the first day you enter Ganassi, it’s always about the team. You work with your teammates, you win with your teammates, and you lose with your teammates,” Ericsson said. “It’s pretty clear for Chip that we want to win a championship. For me, I want it to be me, but if I can’t, I want (Dixon) to do it. I would help for sure.”
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-23T00:00:26+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/sports/ap-dixon-still-in-indycar-title-fight-despite-indy-500-gaffe/ |
CROMWELL, Conn. – Xander Schauffele celebrated his one-year wedding anniversary Sunday with a dramatic victory in the Travelers Championship.
The Olympic champion won with a three-stroke swing on the final hole, hitting to 3 feet for birdie after rookie Sahith Theegala took two shots to get out of a bunker and made a double bogey in the group ahead.
A stroke in front entering the day, Schauffele finished with a 2-under 68 at TPC River Highlands to beat Theegala and J.T. Poston by two strokes. Schauffele had a 19-under 261 total.
“My mind was telling me to hit a good drive and then use your sand wedge or lob wedge in there and make birdie,” Schauffele said. “To sit there and watch what happened was a bit of a shock, obviously. I really had to try and focus on the task at hand.”
Theegala shot a 67, and Poston had a 64.
Schauffele won for the sixth time on the PGA Tour and the second this season after teaming with Patrick Cantlay to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April. It was his first ever win after having a 54 hole lead.
Theegala was lurking near the top of the leaderboard all day and grabbed a share of the lead on 15, driving the green on the par-4 hole and making a 4-foot birdie putt. He overtook Schauffele with an 11-footer for birdie on 17, pumping his fist.
But the former Pepperdine star had a bogey-free round going until his tee shot on 18 left and into the front of a fairway bunker. He needed two tries to get out of the sand.
“Somehow my body just, I just straight bladed it,” he said. “I had room there. I don’t know how it looked, but I had room there. Just didn’t think I would let myself blade it. But I guess the moment was — and then from there it’s, like, got to try and make 5 now.”
His 12-foot bogey putt lipped out, and he fell to his knees in agony.
“I did everything I thought I had to do and it just happened to be everything bad culminated on one hole,” he said. “I did so much good.”
In February in the Phoenix Open, Theegala — after leading after each of the first three days — drove into the water on 17 for a bogey and finished a shot out of a playoff that Scottie Scheffler won over Cantlay.
Theegala was trying to become just the second rookie to win this season, joining Chad Ramey, who won in the Dominican Republic. The 2020 Travelers was his first professional start, but he missed the cut.
Schauffele was consistent Sunday with two birdies and a bogey on the front before mirroring that score on the back.
He takes home just under $1.5 million, not a bad gift for a celebration he plans with his wife, Maya.
“It’s actually happy anniversary,” he said. “It’s my one-year anniversary with my wife. So I’m going to go try and get home and see my wife.”
Amateur Michael Thorbjornsen, from nearby Wellesley, Massachusetts, was fourth at 15 under after a 66.
The Stanford star was looking to become the first amateur to win on the tour since Phil Mickelson it in 1991. He shot a 31 on the front nine, including an eagle on No. 6 after putting a 261-yard approach a foot from the hole. He finished with a 66.
“I felt really good and comfortable out there, then near the end had a couple of hiccups, which happens sometimes," said Thorbjornsen, who added that he plans to return to college in the fall. "I don't think I was too nervous, just a couple of miss-executions."
The previous best finish by an amateur at the Connecticut tournament came in 1966, when Tim Grant finished tied for sixth place at the nearby Wethersfield Country Club in what was then known as the Insurance City Open.
Poston, who was the co-leader after shooting a first-round 62, started the day tied for seventh place, nine strokes back. He put up a bogey-free 64, finishing with his sixth birdie of the day.
“I putted well, drove it well, hit my irons good,” he said
Cantlay began the day just a stroke behind his good friend Schauffele. But last year’s FedEx Cup champion, who had a combined four bogeys in the first three rounds, shot five of them on the front nine on Sunday.
He finished with a 76 and in a tie for 13th at 10 under.
Luke List, who shot a 65 on Sunday to finish at 9-under had the shot of the day, opening his round with 119-yard approach on No. 1 that took a short bounce into the hole for an eagle.
Rory McIlroy, who shot an opening-round 62, also finished at 9 under with a 67 on Sunday. This was his fourth straight tournament for the No. 2-ranked player in the world, who said he won't play again before the Open Championship at St. Andrews next month.
Morgan Hoffmann, who is fighting facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, finished at 2 over in his third and final tournament of the year on a three-event medical exemption. The 32-year-old, who took several years off from the Tour to focus on his health, shot a 71 Sunday, ending his morning with a birdie after hitting his approach at 18 less than 2-feet from the pin.
Hoffman, a New Jersey native now living in Costa Rica, said he’s hoping to get a few sponsor’s exemptions this summer and is cherishing the golf while trying to inspire others by staying healthy.
“I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing, cleansing monthly, eating nourishing food and working out hard and keep gaining muscle and in the meantime I’m building a wellness center (in Costa Rica) to help other people do the same,” he said.
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — An Alabama man who drove 330 miles (530 kilometers) to set off pipe bombs at a company where he had worked was sentenced Thursday to 19 months in prison.
Furmon Earl Bozeman, 61, of Gulf Shores, was sentenced Thursday for transporting destructive devices in January, U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown said in a news release.
Bozeman had pleaded guilty in May, saying he drove from his home to New Iberia the night of Jan. 10 and set off three pipe bombs at Nabors Offshore Corp.
Two were at signs near Admiral Doyle Drive and just outside the main building's front door. The third was at the main entrance to Nabors’ human resource offices.
A search of his home on Jan. 12 found more bomb making materials, a book titled “Flash Powder Cookbook,” firearms and several rounds of different sorts of ammunition.
Bozeman's plea and associated statement don’t give a motive. A spokeswoman for Brown confirmed that Bozeman was a former employee of Nabors Offshore.
District Judge Robert R. Summerhays ordered 3 years of supervised release after Bozeman leaves prison. | 2022-08-18T23:48:26+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Man-drove-330-miles-to-set-off-pipe-bombs-at-17383164.php |
NEW YORK – Markquis Nowell broke the NCAA Tournament record for assists in a game with 19, his last two on spectacular passes in the final minute of overtime, and Kansas State beat Michigan State 98-93 on Thursday night in a Sweet 16 thriller at Madison Square Garden.
Playing in his hometown and fighting through a second-half ankle injury, Nowell found Keyontae Johnson for a reverse alley-oop with 52 seconds left in OT to give the Wildcats (26-9) the lead for good in this back-and-forth East Region semifinal. He then threw an inbound pass to Ismael Massoud, who knocked down a jumper with 17 seconds left for a 96-93 lead.
With Michigan State needing a 3 to tie, Nowell stole the ball from the Spartans' Tyson Walker and drove for a clinching layup at the buzzer. The 5-foot-8, Harlem-raised Nowell finished with 20 points and five steals in a signature performance at basketball's most famous arena that drew tweets of praise from Patrick Mahomes and Kevin Durant.
“That was a legendary display of controlling a basketball game Markquis,” Durant tweeted.
Johnson scored 22 points for the No. 3 seed Wildcats, who will face either fourth-seeded Tennessee or ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic on Saturday as they seek the program's first Final Four berth since 1964.
A.J. Hoggard scored a career-high 25 points for seventh-seeded Michigan State (21-13). Joey Hauser added 18 points and Walker had 16, including a layup with 5 seconds left in regulation that forced the first overtime of this year's NCAA Tournament.
UNLV's Mark Wade had the previous NCAA tourney assists record with 18 during the Runnin' Rebels 1987 Final Four win over Indiana.
Nowell turned his ankle early in the second half, was helped off the court and had it taped. Michigan State took the lead with him sidelined, and when he returned, he pushed off the ankle to bank in a 3-pointer that beat the shot clock and tied the game at 55-all.
Turns out he was just getting started. Neither team led by more than seven points in the final 15 minutes of regulation, and Nowell steadied Kansas State's offense down the stretch, finding Massoud for a 3-pointer that made it 80-75 and hitting a jumper with 1:07 left for the Wildcats' final basket of regulation.
Massoud, who like Nowell honed his game on the playgrounds of Harlem, finished with 15 points for the Wildcats, who shot 55.9% from the field, becoming only the second team to shoot better than 50% against the Spartans this season. Cam Carter added 12 points.
Jaden Akins added 14 points for coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans, the final Big Ten team left in the tournament. Michigan State outrebounded Kansas State 37-31 and finished 31 of 63 from the field (49.2%).
Both teams were efficient from 3-point range in a tournament that's featured shaky outside shooting, with Michigan State hitting 13 of 25 (52%) and Kansas State connecting on 11 of 24 (45.8%).
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Stitch Fix, Inc. ("Stitch Fix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SFIX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Stitch Fix investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of purchasers of Stitch Fix Class A common stock between December 8, 2020, and March 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SFIX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, Stitch Fix made numerous false and misleading statements to investors concerning the synergy between the Company's Fix and Freestyle programs, and repeatedly denied claims that the Freestyle program could cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. Specifically, Stitch Fix repeatedly assured investors that the Company's Freestyle business was "an additive experience" and "complementary" to the Fix business, that "the combination of those two things will allow us to address many more types of clients," and that "we see solid growth in both sides of the business." In truth, Stitch Fix concealed that these programs were not complementary or additive. Stitch Fix knew that the Freestyle program would be much preferred to the Company's original Fix model and that the Freestyle program would inevitably cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Stitch Fix during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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From technical achievements to diversity and collaboration, the 2023 conference set industry direction
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the preeminent event for research and development in computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), deep learning, and much more, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference annually reveals the latest evolution of the field. This year, the conference, which took place 18-22 June in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, unveiled five key trends shaping the evolution of the community:
- Render the real. Research emphasis this year was on bringing technology closer to reality. Top paper categories included 3D computer vision; image and video generation; and understanding humans in video.
- Create an autonomous ecosystem. With advances in autonomous vehicles making their operation more consistent, research attention turned to ways to address the external influences that will impact them. In short, research is shifting from how the vehicle may react in an environment to planning for how the environment may respond to it.
- Converge image and language for more sophisticated techniques. One needs to look no further than the latest artificial intelligence (AI) news to see how the technology is expanding from an image or text-based approach to a combined effort. Yet converging these modalities with accuracy creates complicated research challenges. A number of highlighted papers at CVPR turned their attention to these issues.
- Collaborate to meet market demand. Throughout the conference, there was a focus on collaboration, including cross-disciplinary, as discussed in the panel presentation, "Scientific Discovery and the Environment," and industry-academic as called out in the panel discussion, "History and Future of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision" and many other discussions. These discussions result in more widespread collaboration between academia, government, and industry to meet growing technological demands.
- Embrace diversity and inclusion to combat bias. Both from a technical standpoint (bias mitigation and fair representation) and an inclusiveness perspective (different perspectives and vantage points contributing to new ideas), diversity and inclusion are critical to computer vision developments. The IEEE Computer Society (CS), the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) and the IEEE CS Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) collectively put forward $300,000 USD for registration and travel grants aimed at drawing in a widely diverse community for this very reason.
"CVPR has been the premier outlet for research in computer vision and closely related fields for many years, and CVPR23 lived up to this tradition of excellence," said Ramin Zabih, founder and president, CVF, conference co-sponsor. "At CVPR23 we saw significant advances both in pure research, which is pursued simply for the joy of discovery, as well as in applications that are poised to have a substantial impact on society."
In addition, this year's exhibitors and sponsors offered new developments at the event. From their contributions to the technical program and award-winning papers, to new product announcements and offerings, this year's event featured deep insights from the corporate community.
"Exhibitors and sponsors brought with them fresh thinking, new developments and interesting insights," said IEEE CS President Nita Patel, co-sponsor of CVPR 2023. "What really struck me is just how many new ideas took shape from discussions in the exhibit hall, at networking events, and following presentations. We look forward to seeing how these ideas have evolved when we convene for CVPR 2024."
CVPR 2024 will take place in Seattle, Wash., U.S.A., 16 - 21 June.
For more information, download the infographic, "CVPR 2023 Reveals Top Five Computer Vision Trends," or visit https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/.
About CVPR 2023
The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the preeminent computer vision event for new research in support of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), deep learning, and much more. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (CS) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF), CVPR delivers the important advances in all areas of computer vision and pattern recognition and the various fields and industries they impact. With first-in-class technical content, a main program, tutorials, workshops, a leading-edge expo, and attended by more than 10,000 people annually, CVPR creates a one-of-a-kind opportunity for networking, recruiting, inspiration, and motivation.
CVPR 2023 took place 18-22 June at the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver, Canada, and virtually. For more information about CVPR 2023, visit https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/.
About the Computer Vision Foundation
The Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster and support research on all aspects of computer vision. Together with the IEEE Computer Society, it co-sponsors the two largest computer vision conferences, CVPR and the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Visit https://www.thecvf.com/ for more information.
About the IEEE Computer Society
Engaging computer engineers, scientists, academia, and industry professionals from all areas of computing, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) sets the standard for the education and engagement that fuels continued global technological advancement. Through conferences, publications, and programs, and by bringing together computer science and engineering leaders at every phase of their career for dialogue, debate, and collaboration, IEEE CS empowers, shapes, and guides the future of not only its members, but the greater industry, enabling new opportunities to better serve our world. Visit computer.org for more information.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister said Thursday that the country was reviewing the supervision of its gas and oil installations and other strategic locations after a weekend incident in which three foreign divers had to be rescued from near a key oil port where they had no authorization to be.
Premier Mateusz Morawiecki also said he had requested the secret security services to produce a detailed report on the incident.
Police in northern Poland are facing questions over why they released the three divers rescued from near the Gdansk oil port without conducting a detailed interrogation of them.
Security experts say the presence of the divers in the sensitive area of the Gulf of Gdansk last weekend raised concerns, given the high tensions with Russia over its energy deliveries. The divers had Spanish identity documents.
According to Polish media, the divers were rescued early Sunday after they sent a distress message when their unregistered small boat malfunctioned in stormy weather. They were equipped with professional diving gear and said they were looking for amber, but none was found in the boat. They had no permission to dive in the gulf.
Despite a high level of security introduced across Poland because of the country’s support for neighboring Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion, police released the men. That has raised questions, more so because the phone numbers they gave turned out to be inactive.
Morawiecki, asked about the matter, said he had commissioned Poland’s secret services to take a close look into it.
“Of course, it may be that they are dangerous people, but it may turn out that these are not dangerous people and what they have declared is true,” Morawiecki told reporters.
He stressed that Poland had increased its level of supervision of strategic infrastructure following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, but is also reviewing security protocols again.
“It is obvious that amid the war in Ukraine, when the risk of sabotage by Russia increased immeasurably, it was necessary to strengthen the supervision of critical infrastructure. We are also reviewing this supervision,” Morawiecki said.
In raising their concerns, experts are pointing to the underwater explosions last summer that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines that run on the Baltic Sea bed and were to carry Russian gas to Germany. Swedish and Danish authorities have said the leaks were sabotage.
Some media in Poland were suggesting the three divers might have been involved in a smuggling ring and could have been searching for contraband. | 2023-01-19T22:58:41+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-questions-in-poland-over-divers-found-near-key-port/ |
Demand for Clean Energy Remains Strong Across the Country
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosaic, a leading financing platform for U.S. residential solar and energy-efficient home improvements, today announced it has surpassed $10 billion in loans funded through its platform. This double-digit milestone comes just seven weeks after announcing $9 billion in loans funded, showing accelerated growth for the clean energy fintech company.
"We are excited to continue to help more families make the transition to clean energy," said Billy Parish, founder and CEO of Mosaic. "Homeowners add solar to save money, which is especially important right now, and is one of the many factors that is driving the continued demand for clean energy across the country."
According to the "U.S. residential solar finance update H2 2022" released in October 2022 by Wood Mackenzie, residential solar loan volumes will continue to grow through the end of the year. The report explains that increasing retail rates continue to make loans attractive compared to customers' monthly utility bills despite increased pricing due to higher interest rates. The passing of the Inflation Reduction Act — which includes a 10-year extension of the solar residential tax credit at 30% — is also expected to increase solar adoption in the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
"The Inflation Reduction Act is rich with consumer incentives and tax breaks that will drive the adoption of clean energy products," added Parish. "Families can save tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of a solar system."
Experts agree that interest in the industry is crescendoing right now. So much so that the American job market has also taken note of this momentum, with three in four U.S. adults saying they would consider a job in clean energy and solar being reported as the top industry of interest. For more information on what the job market is saying, visit https://joinmosaic.com/2022/11/01/clean-energy-jobs-survey/.
Mosaic makes financing solar, solar plus energy storage systems, and other sustainable home improvements accessible and affordable for homeowners by providing a fast and easy way to apply for financing options. Customers learn about Mosaic through approved solar installers and home improvement contractors, as well as other ecosystem partners, and can get a credit decision in minutes for no money down loans with fixed interest rates and multiple term options. Financing applied for and processed through the Mosaic platform is originated by Solar Mosaic LLC or one of its lending/financing partners. For our network of thousands of solar installers and home improvement contractors, Mosaic provides a streamlined financing platform to drive sales growth. Since 2012, Mosaic has helped more than 300,000 households switch to sustainable home improvements with its financing products.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) ("PHX" or the "Company"), a natural gas focused mineral and royalty company, today announced that Chad Stephens, President and CEO, and Ralph D'Amico, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Stifel 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference at 3:35 p.m. EDT, on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
You may access the webcast on the Investor Relations section of www.phxmin.com under Events, or by clicking here: Webcast Link
PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) Oklahoma City-based, PHX Minerals Inc. is a natural gas and oil mineral company with a strategy to proactively grow its mineral position in its core areas of focus. PHX owns approximately 75,000 net leased mineral acres principally located in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, North Dakota, and Arkansas. Additional information on the Company can be found at www.phxmin.com.
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Ely Reeves Callaway III (known as Reeves), founder of Corvette tuner Callway Cars, died on Tuesday at his home in California after sustaining injuries in a fall. He was 76.
Son of Callaway Golf founder Reeves Callaway Jr., and brother of publisher Nicholas Callaway, the younger Reeves started his company in 1977 in a garage in Old Lyme, Connecticut, growing it into a prolific builder of performance road cars and race cars.
Callaway’s first product was a turbo kit for BMWs that quickly earned a favorable review from legendary automotive journalist Don Sherman in Car and Driver. Callaway, who raced in Formula Vee before starting his company, moved on to more elaborate projects.
While Callaway Cars has offered aftermarket parts for multiple brands, including BMW, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Land Rover, and Mazda, the company is primarily associated with the Chevrolet Corvette. In 1987, General Motors gave the tuner its official stamp of approval, designating Callaway a Specialty Vehicle Manufacturer and allowing Callaway Corvettes to be sold through Chevy dealers with the B2K factory code.
In 1989, Callaway Cars built the SledgeHammer, a C4 Corvette powered by a twin-turbo 5.7-liter V-8 that produced 880 hp and 774 lb-ft of torque—unbelievable numbers in the 1980s. John Lingenfelter drove it to a top speed of 254.76 mph at the 7.5-mile Transportation Research Center test track in East Liberty, Ohio.
Callaway Cars has continued to tune Corvettes, and even launched a C7 Corvette shooting brake called the AeroWagon. A European arm of the company, Callaway Competition, was founded in 1994 and has raced them internationally. Germany-based Callaway Competition was also authorized by GM to build racing versions of the C6 and C7 Corvettes for the GT3 class, alongside the factory Corvette Racing program.
“Thanks to Reeves’ visionary entrepreneurial spirit, Callaway Cars will continue to innovate and grow in the 21st century,” his son Peter Reeves Callaway, the company’s current president, said in a statement posted to social media honoring his father.
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Twelve rescued pelicans released back into nature
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – About two months ago, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network was experiencing a pelican pandemic, with over 200 brown pelicans falling ill across the central coast. After rescuing and treatment, 12 of the pelicans were released back into the wild on Friday.
"Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network saw huge influx of pelicans in May, we had over 260 come to our center and we're finally seeing them released after weeks of rehabilitation," said Arianna Katovich, executive director of the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. "They have definitely stabilized in care with lots of fish and hydration and they're flying and they're ready to go."
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN) staff released the birds at Butterfly Beach in Montecito on Friday afternoon, and 10 birds were released last weekend.
There are still about 50 sick pelicans still in care at the SBWCN facility, but officials said that they seem to be responding well to their treatment and are hopeful that they will be able to release more of the birds soon.
The facility is still taking pelicans in "here and there," but staff said it was not nearly as many pelican patients as before.
Officials said that they believe the worst of the pelican pandemic is over, but they are still unsure what was causing the illness. | 2022-06-18T01:22:42+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/06/17/twelve-rescued-pelicans-released-back-into-nature/ |
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Monday announced the arrival of a male white rhino born to a first-time mother.
The park tweeted a video of the curious new calf following his mom, Livia, around at the Nikita Rhino Resource Center.
The unnamed calf conceived through natural breeding with father J Gregory was born on Aug. 6.
“Wildlife care specialists report the calf is healthy, confident and full of energy, and that Livia is an excellent mother, very attentive and protective of her offspring,” the park said in a statement.
Livia and the calf will remain in a private habitat to allow time for bonding before being introduced to the other rhinos living at the resource center. | 2022-08-23T02:33:25+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Male-white-rhino-born-at-San-Diego-Zoo-Safari-Park-17390885.php |
THE-630 Phase 1/2 clinical trial enrolling patients; initial data expected in Q2 2023
Nomination of development candidate for fourth-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor program expected in Q3 2022; IND expected in 2023
$228.6 million in cash, cash equivalents, and investments as of June 30, 2022; expected to fund operations into the fourth quarter of 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) (Theseus or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of cancer patients through the discovery, development, and commercialization of transformative targeted therapies, today announced business and pipeline highlights and reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
"At Theseus, we are developing next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) to outsmart cancer resistance—a key challenge facing existing therapies in targeted oncology. 2022 is a critical year of execution and we have continued to make significant progress across our programs," said Tim Clackson, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Theseus. "Enrollment in the dose escalation portion of the Phase 1/2 trial of THE-630 in patients with advanced GIST is on track and we look forward to the expected announcement of initial clinical data in the first half of 2023. We are on track to nominate a development candidate for our EGFR inhibitor program for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in the third quarter of 2022 and plan to present preclinical data supporting the promising profile for this candidate in the fourth quarter of 2022. We expect to expand our pipeline with the introduction of a third TKI program later this year."
Recent Pipeline Highlights and Upcoming Expected Milestones:
THE-630: a single molecule, pan-variant inhibitor of the receptor tyrosine kinase KIT. Designed for patients whose gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a disease that remains largely KIT-dependent following multiple lines of treatment, has developed resistance to earlier lines of therapy.
- A Phase 1/2 dose-escalation and expansion clinical trial evaluating THE-630 in patients with advanced GIST is ongoing, as the Company completes site activations and continues to enroll patients in the dose-escalation portion of the trial.
- Initial data from the Phase 1 dose-escalation portion of the clinical trial are expected to be presented at a scientific conference in the second quarter of 2023.
EGFR inhibitor for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): a fourth-generation, single molecule, selective EGFR inhibitor, designed to inhibit all major single-, double-, and triple-mutant EGFR variants found in the tumors of patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC that have developed resistance to first- or later-line osimertinib treatment, including the C797S and T790M mutations, with central nervous system (CNS) activity.
- Theseus expects to nominate a development candidate for this program in the third quarter of 2022 and to introduce this candidate along with a presentation of new preclinical data at a scientific conference in the fourth quarter of 2022.
- Theseus expects to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023.
- At the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in April 2022, the Company presented preclinical data demonstrating that pan-variant inhibition of all major EGFR mutations consisting of single-, double-, and triple-EGFR mutants, including T790M and C797S, with selectivity over wild-type and CNS activity, can be achieved with a single molecule.
R&D Portfolio: Theseus' discovery platform incorporates its structure-guided drug design and predictive resistance assay (PRA) to develop next-generation, pan-variant inhibitor molecules targeting all major cancer-causing and treatment-resistance mutations of tyrosine kinase targets.
- The Company continues advancing its preclinical discovery pipeline and expects to introduce a new kinase target program by the end of 2022.
Business Highlights:
- In May 2022, Theseus announced the appointment of Don Hayden to its Board of Directors. Mr. Hayden brings over 40 years of industry experience to the Board, including previously serving as President of Oncology and Immunology and as President of Global Pharmaceuticals at Bristol Myers-Squibb and as Chair at numerous biotech companies.
- In June 2022, Theseus appointed Steve Tuller as Vice President, Quality Assurance. Mr. Tuller has 24 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Before joining Theseus, he served as Vice President, Head of Quality Assurance at Epizyme, Inc., where he initiated the GxP Quality Assurance organization.
Second Quarter Financial Results:
Cash Position: As of June 30, 2022, Theseus had cash, cash equivalents and short-term and long-term investments of $228.6 million. Theseus expects its cash, cash equivalents, and investments to fund operations and capital expenditures into the fourth quarter of 2024 based on its current operating plan.
R&D Expenses: Research and development expenses were $7.3 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $4.5 million for the same period in 2021. This increase was primarily due to $2.0 million of increased employee-related costs, and $0.6 million of increased expenses for clinical and preclinical studies.
G&A Expenses: General and administrative expenses were $4.7 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $2.3 million for the same period in 2021. This increase was primarily due to $1.6 million of increased employee-related costs, as well as $0.5 million of increased professional fees.
Net Loss: Net loss was $11.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to a net loss of $6.8 million for the same period in 2021.
About Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Theseus is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of cancer patients through the discovery, development and commercialization of transformative targeted therapies. Theseus is working to outsmart cancer resistance by developing pan-variant tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) to target all known classes of cancer-causing and resistance mutations that lead to variants in a particular protein in a given type of cancer. Theseus' lead product candidate, THE-630, is a pan-variant KIT inhibitor for the treatment of patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), whose cancer has developed resistance to earlier lines of kinase inhibitor therapy. Theseus is also developing a fourth-generation, selective epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor for C797S-mediated resistance to first- or later-line osimertinib treatment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). For more information, visit www.theseusrx.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," "plan," "on track," "predict," "potential," "seem," "seek," "future," "outlook," and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Theseus' strategy, future operations, prospects and plans, the structure and timing of its preclinical studies and clinical trials, expected milestones, market opportunity and sizing and objectives of management, including in relation to the Phase 1/2 dose escalation and expansion clinical trial for THE-630, EGFR inhibitor program and other programs and development candidates.
Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, such as those described from time to time in the reports Theseus files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including Theseus' Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, which are on file with the SEC and available on the SEC's website at https://www.sec.gov/. Additional factors may be described in those sections of Theseus' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, expected to be filed with the SEC in the third quarter of 2022. However, new risk factors and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risk factors and uncertainties. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on the current expectations of Theseus' management team and speak only as of the date hereof, and Theseus specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Family-Oriented Animated Syrian Refugee Tale Sets Digital and DVD Debut for North American VOD Platforms on February 21, 2023
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Allen Media Group, has acquired North American DVD and VOD rights to the family-oriented Syrian refugee tale LAMYA'S POEM. LAMYA'S POEM premiered at last year's prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and went on to play at festivals in Vancouver, Zurich and Prague. LAMYA'S POEM will be available on DVD and to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms on February 21, 2023 through Freestyle Digital Media, and is currently one of 2022's 27 animated feature films eligible for an Academy Award nomination for "Best Animated Feature."
LAMYA'S POEM tells the story of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee girl named Lamya who tumbles into a dream world where she meets a poet and must help him write the poem that will save her life. When Lamya flees the violence of her country, she is given a book of poetry by the famous 13th-century poet, Rumi. As the perils of Lamya's journey mount, the book becomes a magical gateway where she meets Rumi when he was a boy and also a refugee fleeing the violence of his time. In a shared dreamworld, they battle the monsters that follow them from their real-world situations, and Lamya must help young Rumi find his calling and write the poem that 800 years later will save her life.
Written and directed by Alex Kronemer, LAMYA'S POEM was produced by Alex Kronemer, Glenn James Brown, and Sam Kadi. The cast features Millie Davis as 'Lamya' – best known for her roles as Ms. O in the PBS Kids series ODD SQUAD, 'Summer' in the film WONDER, and 'Gemma Hendrix' in the series ORPHAN BLACK, Faran Tahir as 'Baha Walad' – best known for his roles as 'Raza' in IRON MAN and 'Captain Robau' in STAR TREK, and Mena Massoud as 'Rumi' – who plays Aladdin in Disney's live-action remake of Aladdin directed by Guy Ritchie and 'Tarek Kassar' in the series TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN.
The animation studio is award-winning animation studio PIP Animation, based in Ontario, Canada. PIP Animation has been involved in numerous animated features and TV specials that reach worldwide audiences. THE CAT IN THE HAT, WANDERING WENDA, CAILLOU, CYBER CHASE, THROUGH THE WOODS, PIRATE'S PASSAGE, and the Netflix original series, THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY.
"We were inspired by accounts of displaced Syrians reading poetry and literature in refugee camps to help overcome the trauma of their displacement from home, friends, and family," said filmmaker Alex Kronemer. "At its center, LAMYA'S POEM is about the magical relationship between artists and their audiences that can cross time and space to help both heal and transcend difficult circumstances. While rooted in loss, the film ultimately is a life-affirming and family-friendly tale."
Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire LAMYA'S POEM with UTA Independent.
LAMYA'S POEM website: www.upf.tv/lamyas-poem
LAMYA'S POEM trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyB5tDWdZ0
About Freestyle Digital Media
The digital distribution unit of Byron Allen's Allen Media Group, Freestyle Digital Media, is a premiere multi-platform distributor with direct partnerships across all major cable, digital and streaming platforms. Capitalizing on a robust infrastructure, proven track record and a veteran sales team, Freestyle Digital Media is a true home for independent films. Recent releases include DEAR ZOE starring Sadie Sink from the hit Netflix series STRANGER THINGS, Jessica Capshaw and Theo Rossi, BEST SUMMER EVER the teen musical featuring a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities, produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, THE WEDDING YEAR starring Sarah Hyland and Anna Camp, THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH starring Danny Houston, BERSERK starring Nick Cannon, UNTOGETHER starring Jamie Doran, Jemima Kirke, Ben Mendelsohn, Alice Eve and Billy Crystal. Other Freestyle titles include the action-comedy BETTER START RUNNING starring Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons and Maria Bello, THE BACHELORS starring Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons, Julie Delpy and Odeya Rush, the award-winning documentary HONDROS produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and Jake Gyllenhaal, horror documentary DEMON HOUSE starring Zak Bagans, host of Travel Channel's highest rated show Ghost Adventures, sci-fi thriller THE RECALL starring Wesley Snipes, MILES starring Molly Shannon and Paul Reiser.
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SAN DIEGO, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascent, a leader in outcomes-based lending and student success, announced today the acquisition of Ampersand, a web-based professional development platform that provides skills, confidence, and training to young professionals as they gain meaningful employment. The strategic acquisition further advances Ascent's vision to be the undisputed leader in driving positive student outcomes. Earlier this month, Ascent made a commitment in the company's first Impact Report to increase students' wages by $10 billion in five years by providing capital and innovative wrap-around support services.
As employers are simultaneously reporting increased dissatisfaction with early career employees, and internship participation is declining over time (from 29.2% in 2018 to 17.6% in 2022), the demand for professional development training and career readiness grows.
"This move strengthens our ability to maximize outcomes by eliminating the education-to-employment skills gap, and further positions Ascent as a leader in student success focused on driving positive outcomes" said Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ascent Ken Ruggiero. "Ampersand's custom tools and learning modules will continue to optimize the journey for our customers from classroom to career as they build confidence, secure jobs with livable salaries, and become successful members of the workforce."
Through the transaction, Ascent will acquire Ampersand's technology including a library of high-quality, asynchronous professional development training lessons geared toward early career professionals. The content, delivered through videos, checklists, and templates, is actionable and easily digestible and includes lessons like "How to Send a Calendar Invite" and "How to Connect with Your New Boss on Day 1." These resources add to Ascent's existing digital and coaching services offered to college loan borrowers through its Success Program. Allie Danziger, who co-founded Ampersand, joins Ascent as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Student Success to lead Ascent's comprehensive and personalized learning program that builds skills from education to employment.
"Since launching Ampersand in 2020, we've received constant praise from employers, students, and universities on the real education-to-employment skills gap we are filling," said Danziger. "I take immense pride in the fact that we've helped thousands of students enter the workforce with confidence, earn higher salaries, and get set on the right career path. I know joining the Ascent team will unlock even more opportunities for our combined companies, expanding our collective impact to millions of students and job seekers."
In celebration of the acquisition, and in honor of National Intern Day, Ascent launched a $1,000 scholarship giveaway. To see the official rules and apply, click here.
About Ascent
Ascent is the leading provider of innovative financial products and student support services that enable more students to access education and achieve academic and economic success. Everything Ascent offers is designed with the best-in-class teams and technology to increase every student's ability to plan, pay, and succeed. For more information, visit www.ascentfunding.com.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group reported Thursday a loss of 970 billion yen ($7 billion) for the fiscal year that just ended — the second year in a row of red ink.
Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. racked up a 1.7-trillion-yen ($13-billion) loss the previous fiscal year.
The latest results came from massive losses on its investments, called the SoftBank Vision Fund, amid a global plunge in technology shares.
The gains from transactions in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba were not enough to offset the investment losses, the company said in a statement.
Sales for the fiscal year, which ended in March, rose 6% from the previous fiscal year to 6.57 trillion yen ($49 billion).
SoftBank invests in a sprawling array of companies, including Uber, DoorDash, T-Mobile and Arm. But the value of its holdings declined during various economic uncertainties, including the U.S. banking crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to SoftBank.
The company, which was the first to offer the Apple iPhone in Japan, said it will review its investment decisions more carefully and reduce debts, repeatedly emphasizing the word “defense” in its earnings presentation.
Softbank also promised to monetize some of its investments, saying it’s planning an initial public offering of Arm.
Geopolitical risks remain a concern, as well as inflation and other factors that could cause a further tumble on markets, SoftBank said. But the company insisted, as it has in the past, that it was on the right track in investing in technological innovation like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, the metaverse and robotics.
SoftBank’s charismatic founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, was one of the first believers in the internet business, long before the idea caught on in Japan.
SoftBank does not give earnings projections.
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Yuri Kageyama is on Twitter https://twitter.com/yurikageyama | 2023-05-12T00:23:17+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/technology/ap-technology/japan-tech-investor-softbank-sinks-into-second-year-of-losses/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Spectrum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPPI) and reminds investors of the February 3, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Spectrum stock or options between December 6, 2021 and September 22, 2022 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/SPPI.
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According to the complaint, before the class period, defendants were conducting a Phase 2 clinical trial called ZENITH20 to evaluate the safety and tolerability of poziotinib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that have certain mutations and were previously treated with the standard of care.
On December 6, 2021, Spectrum issued a press release announcing it submitted a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for poziotinib's use in patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC with HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations. The NDA submission was based on purportedly "positive results of Cohort 2 from the ZENITH20 clinical trial, which assessed the safety and efficacy of poziotinib."
During the class period, defendants represented the safety and efficacy data from the ZENITH20 trial were positive and that they had initiated the required confirmatory phase 3 study. However, unknown to investors, this was not true.
On September 20, 2022, the FDA released a briefing document ahead of its scheduled September 22, 2022 Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee ("ODAC") meeting regarding poziotinib. In sharp contrast to defendants' representations that the ZENITH20 data was positive and that the required confirmatory Phase 3 trial was initiated and patients were being randomized, the briefing document identified material negative concerns about the efficacy and safety data supporting the poziotinib NDA, and revealed that defendants' Phase 3 confirmatory trial had not enrolled a single patient.
On this news, shares of Spectrum common stock declined from a closing price of $1.06 per share on September 19, 2022, to a close at $0.66 per share on September 20, 2022, a decline of $0.40 per share, or over 37%. Analysts began reporting negatively regarding the ODAC meeting.
Then, according to Reuters, on September 22, 2022, before the opening of the market, trading in Spectrum shares was halted at $0.63 per share pending the outcome of the FDA ODAC meeting. That same day, ODAC voted 9-4 not to recommend poziotinib for Accelerated Approval.
On September 23, 2022, when trading in Spectrum common stock resumed, shares declined from a closing price of $0.63 per share on September 21, 2022 before trading was halted, to a close at $0.43 per share on September 23, 2022, a decline of $0.20 per share, or over 31%.
On November 25, 2022, defendants caused Spectrum to issue a press release disclosing that the Company received a CRL from the FDA indicating the poziotinib NDA cannot be approved in its present form.
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If you were one of the more than 106,954 people who squeezed into Ohio Stadium for Ohio State’s much-anticipated season opener with Notre Dame Saturday night or you were part of the huge audience who watched the game on national TV – here’s a question:
“Who’s Your Daddy?”
The slang expression – sometimes delivered with swag and sexy undertone and often used as the title for songs, a TV series, a film, a video game and more – has one specific answer when it comes to Ohio Stadium.
And it has its roots right here in Dayton.
Thomas Ewing French – he’s your daddy.
According to local historian and Wright Brothers author Louis Chmiel, French – a product of Central High, Dayton’s first high school, where he was part of the Class of 1890 that included Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright – later was given the affectionate moniker: “The Daddy of Ohio Stadium.”
He’s the visionary most responsible for the building of the iconic Horseshoe-shaped stadium that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this season.
It’s one of the best-known sporting venues in America and the most familiar image of Ohio State University.
And thanks, in part, to French, OSU has long been a major player in college athletics and especially football.
An OSU engineering professor who would go on to write a popular text book – “A Manuel of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen” that was used for generations in more than 500 colleges around the world – French was the school’s de facto athletics director in the late 1890s and the turn of the century.
He organized teams for various sports, lined up coaches and scheduled competitions with area colleges.
In 1912 – realizing Ohio State needed to play bigger-name football opponents if it one day wanted to rival the game’s gridiron heavyweights back then: Harvard, Yale and Princeton – he pushed the school to join the Western Conference, which eventually would be known as the Big Ten.
And he’s the man who refused to wilt when critics – and there were many – roundly dismissed his dreams of a big-time football stadium that would replace Ohio Field, which initially held 5,000 seats and later, at his prompting, had expanded to 10,000.
According to the 2003 PBS documentary, “The Birth of Ohio Stadium,” one vocal critic – Board of Trustees member and acclaimed physics professor Thomas Mendenhall – viewed French as a megalomaniac.
He said 45,000 seats were far too many for a newly proposed stadium and worried about the “psychological effect” there’d be on the OSU football team that would be playing in front of a stadium of mostly empty seats.
Credit: Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images
Credit: Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images
Today, though, Ohio State football has one of the hottest tickets in the college game. Last season, the Buckeyes averaged nearly 97,000 fans a game at home, fifth highest in the nation.
And yet, French – the man who planted the seeds of so much success and is remembered on the OSU campus with French Field House, the home to indoor track meets and several sports facilities – is all but unknown here in Dayton when it comes to his local upbringing and his link to Ohio State.
“This whole story has amazed me as I’ve developed it,” said Chmiel, who added a brief chapter on French in the 2017 second printing his book “Ohio: Home of the Wright Brothers. “There’s no one here in town that I could find who knew the man ever drew a breath.
“How he’s fallen off the radar here just amazes me.”
Strictly by chance, the 78-year old Chmiel – who got a chemistry degree at Miami University, launched the Iron Boar tavern on Patterson Road in the early 1970s and eventually was part of a group building replicas of the Wright Brothers experimental aircraft – discovered French’s connections to Dayton and later was led to his two grandnieces: Mary Sweet, an artist in Tijeras, New Mexico and her sister, Nancy Picard, who lives on their farm in Highland County, some 50 miles southeast of Dayton.
“This all came about by a very odd, serendipitous experience I had,” Chmiel said from his East Dayton home. “It was around 2016, a few years after I’d published my book. I was sitting here, reading under my reading lamp one morning and my TV was tuned into the PBS station, but with the mute on.
“At one point I happened to look up and I caught a glimpse of a photo on the TV screen. It was just for a couple of seconds, but I thought, ‘Wait, that looks like Orville Wright next to some guy I don’t know.’
“Then the camera focused on the other man. I had no idea who he was and because the sound was muted I didn’t know what was being said or what the show was about.
“Maybe a year later the show came on again. It was the documentary on the building of Ohio Stadium.” Although it never mentioned that French was raised in Dayton, Chmiel was intrigued by the Orville Wright connection and began to do research.
And what a story he found.
Roots in Dayton
Daniel French, Thomas’s father, was a minister and in 1879 he became the pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Fourth and Jefferson streets in Dayton.
Thomas – who was born in Mansfield and then lived with his family at 51 Huffman Avenue in East Dayton – eventually ended up at the Fourth District School at the corner of Brown and Hess streets in the Oregon District.
The school house is long gone and it’s now the site of Newcom Park.
But back in the mid-1880s, it was the vibrant intermediate school where French became a classmate and friend of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who lived nearby on Howard Street and one day would become the acclaimed poet, novelist and playwright now revered as one of Dayton’s favorite sons.
Chmiel found an interview French did with the Ohio State Lantern in 1933 where he recalled his desk being directly behind Dunbar’s when they were in the eighth grade.
Come ninth grade, the pair was at Central High and met classmate Orville Wright who lived on Dayton’s West Side.
As was often the case back then, students quit school early.
Orville Wright did and, Chmiel discovered, French did too, leaving school midway through his junior year to study mechanical drawing at David Sinclair’s YMCA night school and get a job in the drafting department at Smith and Vail.
When French enrolled at Ohio State in 1991, his younger brother Edward – the grandfather of the aforementioned Mary and Nancy— was becoming a star tight end on the Central High football team. Wilbur Wright, a speedster running back, was his teammate.
Edward joined the fledgling Ohio State football club in 1895 and that’s about the time Thomas – who’d just graduated with a mechanical engineering degree and already was teaching at OSU – began to take a keen interest in sports at the college.
He thought they built character in students and that athletics was a great vehicle of recognition for the school itself.
The newly-formed OSU team played games at Recreation Park, located at S. High and Whittier streets, a considerable walking distance from the campus which then had an enrollment of some 1,400 students.
Back then the Buckeyes played against teams like Ohio Wesleyan, Wittenberg, Kenyon, Oberlin, the Dayton YMCA and Antioch College.
When students rallied to get a field closer to campus, French picked up the cause and Ohio Field was opened in 1898. It had 5,000 wood-plank seats and was open on one side, enabling fans to pull up in their horse and buggies and watch from their vehicles.
As crowds grew, French envisioned a far bigger stadium, one that would rival the Ivy League powers.
Harvard Stadium, the first concrete stadium of its kind, opened in 1903 and held 45,000 fans. Princeton’s Palmer Stadium held just over 45,000 and Yale would later build an oval shaped stadium that held 70,000.
While French was becoming an academic heavyweight at OSU – 11 years after graduating he was chair of the engineering department – he had heartbreak a home. His wife Ida died in 1903, leaving him to raise their young daughter.
His outlet became athletics and in 1909, with the school having just upgraded Ohio Field to 10,000 seats, he wrote an article for the Ohio State alumni magazine in which he made the bold prediction that someday the school would have a magnificent concrete stadium that would have a horseshoe shape and would rival stadiums in the East
While his views drew many naysayers, he had a like-minded backer in OSU president William Oxley Thompson, who eventually appointed him to head OSU’s athletic board.
French soon hired Lynn St John, another visionary, as the school’s athletics director.
The move to the Western Conference meant the Buckeyes were now playing Indiana and Illinois and Wisconsin.
And then came OSU’s ultimate dream weaver, Chic Harley, a speedy halfback from nearby East High, who, in his first year, led the Bucks to an undefeated 1916 season and victory in the conference championship over mighty Wisconsin in front of an overflow crowd.
Harley became the school’s first All American and French, as the documentary noted, went from “respected crackpot to a visionary with a good grasp of reality.”
Although he left to join the World War I effort as a U.S. Army Air Service pilot, Harley returned in 1919 and led the undefeated Buckeyes into the conference title game against Illinois that drew 17,000 fans to Ohio Field.
That was the springboard for French’s bigger-stadium push which he’d begun in earnest a year earlier when he hired 32-year-old architect Howard Dwight Smith, a fellow Daytonian who’d graduated from Steele High, to created designs for a new stadium.
Pleased with Smith’s work, French then hired him to run the project.
Eventually, the school agreed to a 45,000-seat stadium, but said it would have to be privately funded.
St. John and French had plans for an even bigger stadium, though they kept that idea under wraps as they began the fund-raising drive.
Parades were held through the city streets – one was with floats, bands and OSU students dressed in full athletic garb as they did calisthenics in the street; another had 1,000 military troops who then staged a mock battle on the banks of the Olentangy River – and drew crowds of 100,000.
Columbus businesses promoted the stadium idea and a committee visited each of Ohio’s 88 counties and enlisted support.
Within three months, $1.3 million had been raised.
Construction of the stadium – horseshoe-shaped to allow track events to be run out the open end – began in the summer of 1921 and French inconceivably vowed that the work would be complete in time for the 1922 season.
Some 40,000 cubic yards of concrete and 5,300 tons of steel would be used, but it was a time, as the documentary pointed out, when there were no forklifts, cranes or elaborate scaffolding setups.
And yet, that wasn’t the most mind-boggling part of the project.
The actual size of the “Horseshoe on the Olentangy” would surprise everyone.
Stadium opens
With its initially seating capacity of 66,210, Ohio Stadium was the largest poured concrete structure in the world. It cost $1.49 million and was ready for the Oct. 7, 1922 opener against Ohio Wesleyan.
A crowd of 25,000 showed up, meaning half the stadium was empty and that briefly gave French’s critics some ammunition.
But the official dedication was two weekends later – against rival Michigan – and it drew a massive crowd of anywhere from 72,000 to 78,000.
While attendance plummeted back down for the rest of the year, a glimpse of the future was revealed and French felt vindicated.
One person had become an OSU fan was Orville Wright, who French first took to a game in 1916 when Harley shined. And Chmiel found Wright had continued to attend games throughout the 1930s.
Speaking from her home New Mexico the other afternoon, 84-year-old Mary Sweet remembered hearing a story of her aunt riding from Dayton to an OSU game in the rumble seat of car. She said her sister, an OSU alum and Buckeye fan, once knew the story better, but has been dealing with medical issues recently.
Chmiel remembered hearing the rumble seat ride was in Orville Wright’s car.
Wright and French remained lifelong friends and Chmiel said Wright attended French’s funeral in Columbus in 1944.
It wasn’t long after that – in the years following World War II – that Ohio Stadium began to sell out. With future expansions, the packed houses continued.
As for French, Mary said the family always had called him by his middle name.
“He was Uncle Ewing to me,” she said.
“I was a little kid, but I remember him vaguely coming to visit and talking with my grandfather in the study. He did a nice etching once that we had on our wall for years
“I know my aunt, Virginia French Rose, was very interested in art and did some art work. But Uncle Ewing was very scornful of it. So she quit and never did it again.
“He could be very hard on people. He didn’t hold back on what he thought.”
And while that trait may have squelched Aunt Ginny’s art career, it certainly did paint a pretty picture of Ohio State football going into the future.
So in this centennial season at Ohio Stadium, you now can answer the question:
“Who’s Your Daddy?”
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(The Hill) — American diners may be reaching a tipping point.
Not long ago, a restaurant tip was a 15 percent gratuity for the server, calculated on a napkin and scrawled on a credit card receipt at the end of a sit-down meal. The server didn’t know the sum until the diner had departed.
In 2023, tipping, or choosing not to, has expanded into a near-universal ritual of food service. Customers at a humble takeout joint might face a choice among three double-digit gratuities on a touch screen, under the penetrating gaze of a cashier.
Two societal forces, the COVID-19 pandemic and touch-screen point-of-sale tablets, have conspired to transform the American tipping culture. The gratuity has colonized the food-service universe, from fast-food restaurants to food trucks to farmers markets.
“My family went strawberry picking last weekend,” said Ted Rossman, a senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. “I made the reservation. They asked me for a tip. I asked my wife, ‘What are we tipping for?’”
Before the pandemic, most Americans understood the restaurant tip as an elastic reward system for servers, a labor force whose salaries depend on them. Outside of table-service restaurants, gratuities were largely confined to tip jars.
Then, touch screens arrived and changed the tipping dynamic. Counter-service restaurants could present customers with a default tip: 18, 20 or even 25 percent. The easiest response was to pay it.
“They present you with three options, and the middle option is always most appealing,” said Deidre Popovich, an associate professor of marketing at Texas Tech University. “I can just click the default and then move on with my life.”
The pandemic added a moral imperative to the tipping ritual. In many cities, restaurant dining ceased, leaving takeout and delivery as the sole options. Pandemic ethics encouraged diners to tip generously to support idled waitstaff.
Now, the pandemic has waned, and restaurant life has resumed. Yet, the tipping touch screens remain.
“These terminals have the same software program. So, when you buy a black coffee, where the server has not put in any effort, the software asks you for a tip, which can range from 10 percent to 25 percent,” said Vivek Astvansh, assistant professor of marketing at Indiana University. “That is ‘tipflation,’ and people are annoyed.”
Tipflation is a marketing term for the upward trend in expected tips, from the standard 15 percent of decades past to 20 percent and 25 percent and beyond.
“Tip creep” is the spread of touch-screen tipping prompts across the food-service spectrum.
“Tip fatigue” is the backlash from tip-weary diners.
Two-thirds of Americans take a dim view of tipping in 2023, according to a new survey from Bankrate, the consumer finance company.
Nearly one-third of customers believe the tipping culture has spiraled out of control, the survey found. A similar share say they don’t like navigating tip choices on touch screens.
“There’s social pressure involved with tipping,” Popovich said. “If the server’s standing there, especially.”
Some of the frustration is more about tipping itself. Two-fifths of diners feel restaurateurs should pay better wages and rely less on tips, a concern that predates the pandemic and touch screens.
Tipping is a unique and, some would argue, troubling expression of capitalism. The gratuity empowers a customer to reward or withhold a large share of a server’s salary, based on a subjective appraisal of the service.
When the service is bad, “the error could be in the kitchen or in the backroom staff,” Astvansh said. “Most customers don’t see that.”
America’s tipping habit originated in 1800s Europe. Wealthy Americans returned from European vacations and adopted the practice at home.
Following the Civil War, tipping spread across a range of service jobs worked by Black Americans “to basically continue slavery,” said Saru Jayaraman, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, in a Time magazine interview. Many white employers refused to pay salaries to Black workers, forcing them to rely on tips.
Many generations later, tipping endures, sustaining a wage system that is hard to imagine in other professions. Consider: A doctor or lawyer or professor or journalist might do subpar work on a given day, but nothing empowers a patient or client or student or reader to withhold a portion of their pay.
With tipping, “I control how much money someone makes,” Astvansh said. “I have the power. That power is bad.”
Outside America, tipping is far from universal: The practice is frowned upon in Japan and China, uncommon in Australia and New Zealand. French restaurants generally add tips to the bill.
In the United States, food-service workers earn higher or lower salaries according to what they collect in tips. The arrangement leaves some diners uneasy.
“As Americans, we have kind of a love-hate relationship with tipping,” Popovich said, “because we think these businesses should be paying their employees a fair wage to begin with.”
Age-old dining etiquette suggests that even a bad server deserves a tip. Yet, not every diner agrees. The Bankrate survey found that only 73 percent of Americans “always tipped” in sit-down restaurants in 2022.
In a YouGov poll, 38 percent of American diners said they generally tip baristas at coffee shops. Three-fifths tip delivery drivers. Two-thirds tip pub and bar staffs.
Another recent survey, from Forbes, found tipping rates of 36 percent at food trucks, 35 percent at coffee shops and 31 percent at takeout restaurants.
Tipping has even spread to the fast-food kingdom. An industry survey from Toast, a management-software firm, found that roughly half of quick-service restaurants, such as Starbucks and McDonald’s, now offer a tipping option, up from 38 percent in 2020.
Some fast-food customers bristle at tip prompts. Others welcome the chance to supplement the modest hourly wages of fast-food workers.
“We’ve transformed our consciousness on what was the purpose of the tip,” said Huy Do, research and insights manager at Datassential, a market research firm in the food-service industry.
Yet, in the counter-service world, tipping culture remains relatively new. Few diners seem to know when to tip, or how much.
“There should be a new set of rules for delivery, for takeout, for everything,” Popovich said.
Here, then, are some tips on tipping in post-pandemic America.
In a restaurant with a waitstaff?
Astvansh: 15 percent.
Popovich: 18 percent to 20 percent.
Rossman: “I think 20 percent is an appropriate tip. Unfortunately, as our data shows, many people are leaving far less than that.”
In a restaurant with no waitstaff?
Astvansh: No tip.
Popovich: 10 percent.
Rossman: Generally, zero. “It’s probably customary to tip something like 10 percent at a buffet, since someone may still be serving your drinks, clearing plates, refreshing silverware, etc.”
For takeout?
Popovich: Zero to 10 percent. “I’ve seen places where the default rate is 25 percent. I’m just getting pickup. I don’t want to leave a 25-percent tip.”
Astvansh: No tip.
Rossman: “I don’t think tipping is expected or warranted unless maybe you have a particularly large or complicated order.”
For delivery?
Popovich: 10 percent to 15 percent, on top of obligatory fees.
Astvansh: $10 or more. “It should be based on the distance from the restaurant to your home. I provide a dollar amount. You look at the labor that person is putting in, and how much you’re saving by not going to pick up that food. It’s a fixed cost.”
Rossman: “I’d say 15-20 percent is a good target. I’d suggest a $5 minimum. For instance, if you just had a $10 burrito delivered, I don’t think a $2 tip would be enough.” | 2023-06-23T12:56:37+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/is-restaurant-tipping-getting-out-of-hand/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rudy Gobert stood out on both ends of the floor — on a night when the Minnesota Timberwolves needed a big lift from their new big man.
Gobert had 23 points and 16 rebounds in his Minnesota debut, and the Timberwolves recovered to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-108 on Wednesday in the season opener.
D’Angelo Russell had 20 points and Jaden McDaniels added 19 points for the Timberwolves, who turned a 16-point lead into a six-point deficit during the third quarter.
“It shows how good we can be and how much better we can be at the same time,” Gobert said. “It’s going to be a process, and every night’s going to be an opportunity.”
Gobert stepped up with a steadying hand when Karl-Anthony Towns (12 points) and Anthony Edwards (11 points) shot a combined 6 for 27 from the floor and the entire team had trouble finishing at the rim. Gobert did his usual shot-altering work on defense in the paint, too.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 32 points and cut the lead to 105-103 with 4:04 left, but they didn’t get any closer after that.
“We have the ability to flip the switch, but the earlier we can do it the better it will be,” said Oklahoma City’s Josh Giddey, who pitched in 14 points and 11 rebounds.
The Timberwolves won all four matchups with the Thunder last season by an average of more than 26 points. One of the most anticipated seasons for Timberwolves fans in the star-crossed history of their team, coming off a return to the playoffs and the blockbuster addition of Gobert in a trade with Utah, began with the home team in complete control.
After Minnesota went ahead by a game-high 16 points, the Thunder went on a 27-5 run. Eugene Omoruyi, who did fine work defending Towns during that stretch, knocked down a shot in the paint for Oklahoma City’s first lead with 3:01 left in the period.
Gobert single-handedly cranked the crowd energy back up by stealing a bad pass by Mike Muscala, beating him to the loose ball and flipping in a one-handed runner ahead of the buzzer to tie it at 87. Gobert dunked on Giddey for a 92-89 lead to give the fans yet another highlight.
“I appreciate the love,” Gobert said. “It feels good to see the crowd and the community embracing me already.”
The Timberwolves had to work for this win against a pesky, young and fast Thunder team that’s playing without injured No. 2 overall draft pick Chet Holmgren.
“Scrappy games should suit our guys,” Giddey said. “We’re young guys. We should love those type of environments.”
The biggest question surrounding the Timberwolves is how effectively Gobert and Towns can play together, a pair of 7-footers — albeit with distinct skill sets — in this age of long-distance shooting and position-less small ball across the NBA.
Gobert put his name on the first basket of the season, a put-back of his own miss, and the twin towers provided a glimpse of how well they can play off of each other with Towns twice flipping him top-of-the-key lob passes for dunks in the first half. Towns had eight assists.
“I was just trying to utilize my passing ability,” Towns said, “and just play winning basketball.”
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The Thunder lost rookie Jalen Williams — one of three 2022 lottery selections on the roster — to a right eye injury in the second quarter. He took a hit while trying to defend a dunk attempt by McDaniels and needed assistance to leave the floor.
HOMECOMING FOR HOLMGREN
The luster was stripped off the opener for Oklahoma City’s prized rookie when he ruptured a tendon in his right foot in a pro-am game that ended his first season before it began. Holmgren grew up in south Minneapolis, just a few miles from Target Center, and accompanied the Thunder on the trip so he could see family and enjoy some bonding time with his teammates. The rehab program will take priority for Holmgren over traveling with the team over the course of the season.
TIP-INS
Thunder: Kenrich Williams and Aleksej Pokusevski were surprise starters in the frontcourt. The 7-foot Pokusevski had 11 points and seven rebounds in 25 minutes. … Jeremiah Robinson-Earl started the second half in place of Williams.
Timberwolves: Jaylen Nowell, who had 13 points, put the Timberwolves ahead for good with his layup with 10:47 remaining. … Eric Paschall, who played 58 games for Utah last season and was in camp on a two-way contract, was waived before the game amid lingering left Achilles trouble.
UP NEXT
Thunder: Visit Denver on Saturday night. Their home opener is against Minnesota on Sunday night.
Timberwolves: Host Utah on Friday night, when Gobert takes on his former team. “It’s going to be fun,” he said. “It’s all love from me.”
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Shang Juncheng becomes first Chinese man to win a match at the Australian Open in the Open Era
By Alasdair Howorth, CNN
Seventeen-year-old Shang Juncheng made Australian Open history by becoming the first Chinese man to win a match at Melbourne Park in the Open Era.
The qualifier secured a 6-2 6-4 6-7(2) 7-5 win against world No. 74 Oscar Otte in what became a comfortable victory for the youngster. Shang twice saved break points in the first set and went on to dominate the match, winning in four sets.
“I’d say in some way, I’m a little surprised that it came this fast,” Shang said after the match.
“But at the same time, I think it’s all the hard work from my team and myself that paid off. I’m just nothing else but excited about what’s coming next.”
Shang was composed in his play as the lefty dropped two match points in the fourth set, but recovered to see out the game with his fourth break of the match.
After only dropping a single set in his three qualifiers, Shang entered the competition as the youngest player at the tournament and is the first 17-year-old to win a men’s singles match at a grand slam since current world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in 2021.
“After hearing this, I think it’s quite a big accomplishment,” Shang said. “He’s the best player in the world right now. Just watching him play on the court really inspires me, inspires the young players. So to do this, it’s very special for me.”
Shang, whose father was a professional footballer and mother was a world champion table tennis player, joined fellow compatriots Zhang Zhizhen and Wu Yibing in the main draw. It is the first time in the Open Era that three Chinese men have played in a grand slam.
“Those two guys, they are definitely my inspiration,” Shang said on Zhang and Wu.
“They’ve been on tour longer than me and are way more experienced than me. I hope I can get to watch them in the main draw.”
After his victory, Shang jumped up 50 places in the world rankings to a career high No. 144.
He now faces American Francis Tiafoe in the second round who beat German Daniel Altmaier in four sets. The 16th-seeded Tiafoe will be another step up for Shang, but the 17-year-old will be confident having beaten four men ranked higher than him in qualifying and the first round.
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TEMPE, Ariz., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moov, the largest and fastest growing global marketplace for used semiconductor equipment, today announced it will be expanding its presence in South Korea with additional full-time, native Korean speaking staff dedicated to serving the market.
"South Korea is a critical market for Moov as a memory chip manufacturing and foundry leader with strong demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment including hard to find older systems," said Steven Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Moov. "In 2022, Moov's platform helped Korean customers source several millions of dollars worth of equipment. With new full-time staff dedicated to growing this market, we expect to see those numbers grow exponentially this year."
Moov's real-time digital marketplace and end-to-end management, transaction, and fulfillment platform enables manufacturers to easily buy, sell, and manage pre-owned semiconductor equipment from anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes.
This announcement comes as part of Moov's plan to expand presence in APAC in 2023, and as South Korea invests in ramping up semiconductor manufacturing capacity. In January, South Korea announced plans to offer tax deductions up to 35% for companies investing in strategic industries including semiconductor manufacturing, expanding tax breaks from the initial proposed breaks in 2022. Small and medium sized companies will receive larger tax breaks than large corporations under this plan.
Moov's expansion in South Korea also comes at a time when Korean chipmakers know they need to stay nimble to respond to changing sociopolitical, trade, and demand tides. By growing the secondary market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, Moov is helping to make these high-value assets more liquid. Moov's global marketplace brings transparency and data to the equipment resale market so that manufacturers can find the equipment they need for a competitive price and offload idle assets to recoup capital.
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Maricopa County supervisors unanimously reappoint elections director and give him new boss
Maricopa County supervisors unanimously reappointed Elections Director Scott Jarrett to his position Wednesday — and assigned him to a new boss.
"In some of the most trying times, when folks are pushing out conspiracies and unfounded claims without wanting to talk about the facts, he has marched on," said Supervisor Steve Gallardo. "I think he has done an admirable job. He has come through, time and time again."
Jarrett, who has been tasked with running Election Day voting and vote tallying since 2019, will now report to County Manager Jen Pokorski rather than the Board of Supervisors.
The organizational change means Jarrett will now have one manager instead of five, and it creates space between Jarrett and the supervisors, who oversee election operations alongside Recorder Stephen Richer.
But Supervisor Bill Gates said he and his colleagues aren't "backing away from elections," noting that responsibility for printer problems at many of the county's voting sites last year still lies with the board.
Instead, Gates and others framed the move as a matter of efficiency.
"There are a lot of logistics involved," Gates said. "There are resources needed from the county that are really not elections-related."
Wednesday's vote potentially insulates Jarrett if any new supervisors take power in 2025. All seats on the board are up for election next year. Although Gates has said he's not running for reelection, several supervisors are widely expected to run for their positions again in primary and general election races that are sure to be competitive.
"I've long felt that even if it's only from an appearance standpoint, elected officials should not have a direct report handling elections," said Supervisor Jack Sellers, who has already filed a statement of intent to run for reelection in his southeast Valley district. "And this gets us to that point."
While Pokorski serves at the pleasure of the board, the supervisors cannot directly hire or fire other county staff.
Therefore, if a future board wished to remove a department head under Pokorski's domain, such as Jarrett, she would need to agree to fire him. Otherwise, the board would need to dismiss her to remove Jarrett — unless he became frustrated enough with their leadership to resign, as Pinal County Election Director Geraldine Roll did with a scathing email to Pinal County Manager Leo Lew on Tuesday.
"Scott Jarrett is in an extremely tough and visible position," said Chairman Clint Hickman. "Now, compound that because he had five separate and equal bosses all wanting to know information on their own accord and wanting to give guidance, advice. We've all kept an open mind through all of these elections that it's tough. ... This is just the ability to tell our people who work for this county, we stand behind you."
Sasha Hupka covers Maricopa County, Pinal County and regional issues for The Arizona Republic. Do you have a tip to share on elections or voting? Reach her at sasha.hupka@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter: @SashaHupka. | 2023-06-29T01:23:45+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/06/28/maricopa-county-supervisors-give-elections-head-new-boss/70365938007/ |
Company pairs most successful slot theme of all time with industry-first technology to create pioneering omnichannel jackpot link in the US
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as the Philly Pops’ conductor for more than three decades, has died. Nero was 89.
Nero died Thursday at Home Care Assisted Living Facility in Eustis, Fla., according to his daughter, Beverly Nero, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Services will be private.
Nero colored his renditions of pop songs — from Cole Porter and George Gershwin to the Beatles and Bob Dylan — with classical, swing, Broadway, blues and jazz melodies. He often called his sound “undefinable” and was not offended when others called it “middle of the road.” (He once told a newspaper, “Middle of the road and doing great business.”)
Recruited by Philadelphia concert promoter Moe Septee, Nero started the Philly Pops orchestra in 1979, the year Arthur Fiedler died. Fiedler is credited with virtually inventing the modern version of the pops orchestra in Boston, and Nero hoped to rival it in popularity.
“I’d like to beat the pants off them,” Nero said at the time.
Nero’s orchestra wasn’t as prominent as Boston’s, but it did tout routine sellouts in Philadelphia, no doubt helped by Nero’s lively playing style and warm stage presence.
In his work as both performer and conductor, Nero returned frequently to Broadway tunes, Hollywood themes and Gershwin, the subject of the Philly Pops’ first concert. But he also dipped into Motown’s catalog and farther afield to bands such as Procol Harum and an album devoted to disco and ’70s love songs.
In 1975, he lamented to The Washington Post: “I find it impossible to use a lot of the new material that’s coming out. There is some rock material in my repertoire … but a lot of rock groups are selling a sound, not music. You take the tune apart and there’s nothing there to work with.”
He led the Philly Pops until 2013, exiting his leadership role when the orchestra said it could no longer afford him.
By his own admission, Nero struggled early in his career — under the name Bernie Nerow — during stints in New York and Las Vegas. But he found his stride in his late 20s playing in New York’s club circuit.
He was signed to RCA by Stan Greeson, who saw a potential star and had him change his name to Peter Nero. A steady stream of early 1960s club shows led to regular radio and TV appearances and two dozen RCA albums over the span of a decade.
Nero earned Grammy Awards in 1961 for best new artist and in 1962 for best performance by an orchestra or instrumentalist for his record “The Colorful Peter Nero.”
A 1963 album, “Hail the Conquering Nero,” peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard pop album chart. It included versions of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” and “Mack the Knife.”
He also charted with a version of “Theme from `The Summer of ’42,'” a song written by Michel Legrand for the 1971 movie. Nero’s version hit No. 21 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
Nero also wrote the score for the 1963 Jane Fonda film “Sunday in New York” and made an appearance in the movie.
Born Bernard Nierow in 1934, Nero was raised in Brooklyn. He started taking piano lessons at age 7 and, by age 11, he was said to have been able to play Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D Major from memory. He later won a scholarship to take classes at Juilliard, won several talent contests and graduated from Brooklyn College.
When headlining, Nero disliked having a set list and would pick songs on the spot. The idea of mixing styles and genres carried over to the Philly Pops.
“My programs for the Philly Pops may open with ‘Die Meistersinger,’ then ‘Chariots of Fire,’ then Enesco’s Rumanian Rhapsodies, then a television theme,” Nero told The New York Times in 1982. “I keep going back and forth, and the audience bought it from the beginning.” | 2023-07-09T11:54:57+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/ap-peter-nero-a-grammy-winning-pianist-and-ex-conductor-of-the-philly-pops-dies-at-89/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Through seven hearings this summer, the House Jan. 6 panel has maintained two consistent themes: Donald Trump’s stubborn resistance to advisers who told him that Joe Biden won the election, and the former president’s role in inciting the Capitol insurrection.
Each hearing has had a separate focus — this week’s was domestic extremism — but the nine-member panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack has not strayed from its central findings: that Trump made historically unprecedented moves to overturn his 2020 election defeat and then turned a blind eye as his supporters beat police and broke into the Capitol to defend him.
A rundown of what we’ve learned so far from the public hearings of the select Jan. 6 committee — and what’s next:
TRUMP IGNORED HIS ADVISERS
At every hearing, the panel has played video testimony from White House aides and Trump associates who said they told Trump that Biden won the election and advised him to drop his false claims of widespread voter fraud. Many were emboldened by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s declaration in early December 2020 that there was no evidence of mass fraud that could change the election outcome.
Among those aides was Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, who told the panel that she accepted Barr’s conclusions. Eugene Scalia, Trump’s labor secretary, said he told Trump it was time for him to say Biden had won after states certified the electors on Dec. 14. Barr, who told Trump to his face that the fraud claims were “b——-t,” said he feared the president was becoming “detached from reality.”
But Trump ignored those advisers. Instead he listened to a small group of allies outside the White House who were pushing the fraud claims, sometimes in fantastical ways.
At Tuesday’s hearing, video testimony from White House lawyers described theories pushed by lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that they thought were “nuts,” including compromised voting machines and thermostats. A Dec. 18 meeting in the White House lasted for six hours and devolved into “screaming” and profanity, several participants said, as the two sides clashed over Trump’s next steps.
Trump’s White House counsel, Pat Cipollone told the committee in a videotaped interview that the lawyers kept asking Powell and Giuliani for evidence, but never received any good answers.
THE PRESIDENT’S CALLS TO ACTION
Rebuffed by many of those closest to him, Trump turned toward a much wider audience on social media. Hours after the Dec. 18 meeting, he tweeted that his supporters should come to a “big protest” on Jan. 6, when Congress would certify Biden’s win.
Trump tweeted: “Be there, will be wild!”
The committee showed a montage of videos and social media posts after the tweet as supporters reacted and planned trips to Washington, some of them using violent rhetoric and talking about killing police officers. Far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers mobilized their members to come to Washington and protest, and members of those groups descended on the Capitol before Trump had even finished his fiery speech outside the White House that morning.
At a hearing last month, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump knew that some of his supporters gathered for the event were armed because they had been turned away at security checkpoints. But she quoted Trump as directing his staff, in profane terms, to take away the metal-detecting magnetometers if their presence meant fewer people would be at the rally. He then took the stage and urged the entire crowd to march to the Capitol.
Stephen Ayres, who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, testified in person at Tuesday’s hearing. He talked about how he believed Trump’s lies as they were amplified on social media, and said he came to Washington at the behest of his president.
His arrest changed his life for the worse, Ayres said, and he’s angry he believed the claims of fraud.
A MISSED MARCH TO THE CAPITOL
The committee has focused in particular on Trump’s efforts to go to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech. Hutchinson said that many of Trump’s aides, and even House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, were aware of his plan and tried to stop it. She also described Trump’s anger as security officials refused to take him there after his speech.
On Tuesday, the committee revealed more evidence that Trump had planned to call for his supporters to march to the Capitol, and that he would go with them. The panel showed a draft tweet, undated and never sent, that said “Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the Steal!” The draft tweet was stamped, “president has seen.”
They also showed texts and email exchanges between planners and White House aides about a secret plan for the march.
“This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court” after Trump’s rally, wrote one of the rally’s organizers, Kylie Kremer, to a Trump confidant. “POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol.” People will try to “sabotage” it if they found out, she said.
PRESSURE TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
The committee’s first few hearings focused on Trump’s pressure campaign to thwart Biden’s victory – aimed at state election officials, at the Justice Department and finally at Vice President Mike Pence. The president’s pressure ramped up as courts rejected dozens of lawsuits and after the states certified the electors in mid-December.
At a hearing with state officials, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, told of Trump’s phone call in which he asked him to “find 11,780 votes” that could give him a win. Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s GOP House speaker, testified about a call from Trump in which the president proposed that his chamber reject the slate of electors for Biden, who had won the state. Both Raffensperger and Bowers testified in person.
In a separate hearing, Justice Department officials described Trump’s effort to not only have them declare the election “corrupt” but to replace the acting attorney general with an ally of his in the department who sympathized with his false claims.
And Greg Jacob, a lawyer to Pence, testified about scheming within the White House to try and convince Pence to object to the results or delay the certification in his traditional ceremonial role presiding over the count. But Jacob said that as he and Pence reviewed the constitution, the law, “and frankly just common sense,” they confirmed that Pence did not have that authority.
On Jan. 6, hours after Trump’s supporters broke in and interrupted the proceedings, Pence declared Biden the winner.
WHAT’S NEXT
The committee is planning to hold its eighth hearing next week. That hearing is expected to feature the testimony of White House aides and center on what Trump was doing during the hours that his supporters were violently breaking into the Capitol.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee, said the hearing “will be a profound moment of reckoning for America.”
Once the hearings are over, the panel is expected to issue a final report. That could come before the November midterm election, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, in an interview on Tuesday.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. | 2022-07-14T17:01:47+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/jan-6-hearings-what-weve-learned-and-whats-next-2/ |
NEW ORLEANS, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy has been named a 2023 honoree of The Civic 50, Points of Light's prestigious annual list recognizing the top community-minded companies in the United States. This is the eighth time Entergy has been part of this list. Entergy was also recognized as this year's Utilities Sector Leader.
Points of Light, the world's largest nonprofit dedicated to accelerating people-powered change, based the list on the results of its annual survey and honored Entergy for its corporate social responsibility initiatives, ongoing service to its communities and positive societal impact.
"For over a century, Entergy has remained committed to making a positive impact where we work, live and serve. This award is a testament to the shared commitment of our employees and community partners to strengthen and empower our communities," said Patty Riddlebarger, Entergy's vice president of corporate social responsibility. "We are honored to receive this recognition for eight years and to be named as this year's Utilities Sector Leader. We look forward to continuing our legacy of making a difference in our communities."
With roots in its communities for more than 100 years, Entergy is a nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship. Since 2018, Entergy has delivered more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to local communities through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. In 2022, Entergy employees and retirees contributed more than 100,000 volunteer hours valued at $3.3 million.
"Companies play a critical role in creating thriving, participatory communities," said Diane Quest, interim president and CEO, Points of Light. "Companies like Entergy set a model for others, showing how to best use employee talent, business assets and integration to create meaningful impact, and we're thrilled to uplift and celebrate their work as an honoree of The Civic 50 2023."
Now in its eleventh year, The Civic 50 is a national standard for corporate citizenship and showcases how leading companies are moving social impact, civic engagement and community to the core of their business. The Civic 50 honorees are companies with annual U.S. revenues of at least $1 billion and are selected based on four dimensions of their corporate citizenship and social impact programs: investment of resources and volunteerism, integration across business functions, institutionalization through policies and systems and impact measurement.
The Civic 50 is the only survey and ranking system that exclusively measures corporate involvement in communities.
About Entergy
Entergy (NYSE: ETR) is a Fortune 500 company that powers life for 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We're investing in the reliability and resilience of the energy system while helping our region transition to cleaner, more efficient energy solutions. With roots in our communities for more than 100 years, Entergy is a nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship. Since 2018, we have delivered more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to local communities through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees. Learn more at entergy.com and follow @Entergy on social media. #WePowerLife
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The FDA recently granted accelerated approval for a new drug called Leqembi to help slow cognitive decline in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
The treatment isn’t covered by Medicare or Medicaid right now, and it comes with a huge price tag that puts it out of reach for most patients.
Alzheimer’s is a debilitating brain disease that causes memory loss and dementia. The disease affects more than 6 million people in the United States and most, but not all, are over the age of 65. Right now, there’s no cure. So when a new treatment that might slow disease progression becomes available, it raises hope for patients and their families.
Lindsey Leonard is the executive director of the Central Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She said the FDA approved drug lecanamab, marketed as Leqembi, is a step forward in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
“It works to remove the proteins in the brain that are thought to cause this disease. In clinical trials lecanamab was proven to slow the rate of cognitive decline by 27%,” she said.
Leonard said there seems to be a window of time when the treatment works, so early detection of the disease as well as early access to the medication is key. But the cost for treatment is prohibitive for most patients, especially because Medicare and Medicaid won’t cover it.
“Currently, the out-of-pocket expense is $26,500 per year,” Leonard said.
A similar drug, Aduhelm, is also FDA approved, expensive, and not covered. The Alzheimer’s Association has filed a formal request with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging them to change their position.
Pharmacy director Maurina Bartlett is with Central Coast Community Health Centers. CHC sees patients of all ages in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, many of whom are covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
She said FDA accelerated approval is given to drugs that are likely to make a significant difference for patients.
“They are so promising to the general public that they don’t want to hinder it and wait for it to go through all of the clinical testings because it takes so much time,” Bartlett said.
However, she said FDA approval does not automatically lead to Medicare coverage.
“Just because a drug is approved by the FDA doesn’t mean that any of the insurance companies are going to pay for it,” she said.
The number one risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is being over the age of 65, yet in some cases, patients are much younger.
Tony Gonzales from Santa Maria is only 48 years old. He said no one, not even the doctors, expected someone so young to have early stage dementia, and it took two years for a diagnosis.
“Unfortunately, everyone sees Alzheimer’s dementia in only over-65. They immediately picture in their mind an elderly person,” Gonzales said.
Over the years, Gonzales worked in broadcasting and real estate – jobs that require quick thinking and the ability to multitask. He said he began to notice subtle changes, like forgetting a story or struggling to do basic math, then he got lost driving home.
“It used to be that I went to work. I mowed the lawn. I don't do those things anymore, my son comes and helps me, my daughter comes and helps me,” he said.
Gonzales recently became a national spokesperson for the Alzheimer’s Association. He said he wants to share his story and focus attention on the need for more research and resources.
His wife Kori drives him where he needs to go. She said the dementia diagnosis came as a shock to both of them.
“I had seen gaps as far as his memory, I just really thought it was exhaustion or stress,” she said.
Kori said she went through periods of disbelief and sadness, then she studied up on the disease.
“What I really delved into was, ‘okay what can I control?’ Diet, exercise, brain exercises. I just kind of took a hold of that, and I changed a lot of things for him,” she said.
In addition to lifestyle changes and daily brain exercises, Tony participates in a support group through the Alzheimer’s Association. He described feeling anxious and shaky, especially in the late afternoons and said, at those times, he relies on Kori’s reassurances and a long nap.
Gonzales said the clinical trials for Leqembi are encouraging and he might even be a candidate for the drug. But whether or not he benefits directly, he said getting treatment shouldn’t depend on your ability to pay out of pocket.
More information is available at the Alzheimer’s Association's website. | 2023-02-03T03:19:00+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/health-science-and-technology/2023-02-02/a-new-treatment-option-for-early-stage-alzheimers-disease-comes-with-a-huge-price-tag |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South Carolina city have been dropped.
The Post and Courier reports that the American Heritage Association helped fund one of the lawsuits. It had been filed by descendants of John C. Calhoun, a former congressman and vice president who died before the Civil War, opposing the city of Charleston’s removal of Calhoun’s statue.
The association also had filed a lawsuit opposing the removal of a Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway marker from the campus of a charter school in Charleston, and the renaming of an auditorium that had been named after Christopher Memminger, a treasury secretary of the Confederacy.
The stone-and-metal monument to Confederate Gen. Lee, was removed in July 2021 and placed in storage.
The city made a deal with the South Carolina State Museum to take the statue of Calhoun.
Both suits had been filed in state court. The highway marker and auditorium lawsuit was dropped Sept. 13. The Calhoun lawsuit was dropped Sept. 15, the newspaper reported.
AHA President Brett Barry declined to comment on the status of the Calhoun case, despite the descendants’ request for dismissal.
“Charleston monuments are an integral part of the city’s historical and artistic American landscape,” Barry told The Post and Courier. “Both the American Heritage Association and members of the Calhoun family look forward to commenting on the destruction of U.S. Vice President Calhoun’s monument and the associated lawsuit in the coming weeks.”
Opponents of the removal of the Lee memorial had accused the city of violating the state Heritage Act, which protects certain monuments.
“As city attorneys have made clear from the start, there was never a violation of the Heritage Act,” Charleston city spokesman Jack O’Toole told The Post and Courier on Sept. 16. “And now that these lawsuits have been dropped, the city can start moving forward once again with plans for these historical items to be displayed in an appropriate public setting here in our state.” | 2022-09-18T22:52:55+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/ap-suits-to-save-confederate-icons-dropped-in-south-carolina/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Kelsey Plum got Las Vegas started and Jackie Young helped the Aces close the door from the free throw line.
Plum scored 27 points, A'ja Wilson and Young each added 23 and the Aces beat the New York Liberty 107-101 on Tuesday night. Young made all eight of her free throws in the final 34 seconds.
Wilson also had 14 rebounds for the Aces, who went 34 for 35 from the foul line. That set the WNBA record for free throw percentage with more than 30 attempts in a game.
“Down the stretch my team executed well. made big free throws on the road. That’s never easy,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “I was pleased how they executed down the stretch offensively.”
The teams played last week before the All-Star break and combined for the highest-scoring regulation game in WNBA history, with New York winning 116-107. This game nearly matched it.
Plum, the MVP of the All-Star Game, and Las Vegas (16-7) jumped all over New York and led by 14 after one and 52-28 at the half. The Aces looked to be cruising in the third quarter before Sami Whitcomb got hot for New York (9-14). She hit five 3-pointers in the period to get the Liberty within 71-63 heading into the fourth quarter.
“Our defense dictated our offense in the second half,” Sabrina Ionescu said.
Las Vegas seemed to be in control behind Plum and Wilson before New York crept within six on Natasha Howard's three-point play with 1:26 left that made it 95-89. That came right after Plum missed the only free throw of the night for the Aces.
Young then worked the shot clock down before hitting a pull-up jumper from the elbow to give the Aces some breathing room.
It nearly wasn't enough as Ionescu got going. She hit three 3-pointers and converted a three-point play in the final 49 seconds, but Las Vegas made all 10 of its free throws, including the ones by Young.
Despite the win, Plum wasn't happy with the Aces' defensive effort in the second half, when they let up after a solid first half.
“We had a big lead and then took our foot of the gas,” Plum said. “They scored 70 points in the second half and that’s embarrassing.”
Ionescu finished with 27 points — 21 in the fourth quarter — and Howard added 20 for New York, which was 15 for 31 from behind the arc.
The game marked the first appearance of Hammon in New York as coach of the Aces. Hammon spent the first eight years of her playing career in New York with the Liberty and is in the team's Ring of Honor. She received a warm ovation from the crowd when she was introduced pregame.
Hammon, who is fourth on New York's career scoring list, said before the game that she was close to taking the vacant Liberty coaching position this offseason, choosing instead to take the job in Las Vegas.
“I had multiple conversations with the Tsais,” Hammon said, referring to the Liberty's owners. “They are hard people to say no to.”
Hammon became the league's first million dollar coach when she accepted the Aces' offer.
The teams will meet again on Thursday in a matinee game.
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More AP women’s basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-13T03:31:44+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Plum-Wilson-lead-Las-Vegas-to-107-101-win-over-17301188.php |
Updated November 10, 2022 at 8:48 AM ET
As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, the high cost of both turkey and travel is grating on their sense of gratitude. At many family get-togethers this month, inflation will be on the menu.
Wholesale turkey prices have jumped 23% from a year ago, gobbling up a big chunk of the holiday budget. Potatoes and cranberries are more expensive as well.
"We haven't caught a break yet," says Michael Swanson, lead agricultural economist at Wells Fargo.
High energy costs, labor shortages, challenging weather conditions and avian flu have combined to push the cost of a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving through the roof, he's found.
Grocery prices in October were 12.4% higher than a year ago, according to a report from the Labor Department released on Thursday. That outstrips the overall inflation rate of 7.7%.
Polls showed inflation was a top concern for voters heading into this week's midterm elections.
Swanson says that while some families might try to cut their food bill by shopping at discount supermarkets or switching to less-expensive store brands, he doubts many will scrimp on the big holiday meal.
"People will eat what they want to eat on Thanksgiving," he says, and make adjustments elsewhere in their budgets.
Likewise, millions of people are paying a premium to see distant family members this year. Airfares declined slightly in October from the previous month, but are still nearly 43% higher than they were a year ago. Nevertheless, planes are still packed.
"Travelers are resilient," says Haley Berg, lead economist for the travel booking app Hopper. "Thanksgiving and Christmas travel to see family is considered essential by many, and something they won't compromise on, even when there are higher prices."
For some families, this holiday season might be the first opportunity for a reunion since the beginning of the pandemic.
"Keep in mind that in November and December of last year, we had the delta and omicron waves of COVID, which caused mass cancellations and many travelers to change their plans at the last minute," Berg says.
Travelers who need to rent a car may find some savings. Rental prices are 3.5% lower than they were a year ago, when rental car companies were still struggling to rebuild their fleets.
"There's been relief on the supply side," Berg says. "Car rental companies [have been] bulking up the number of cars they have available."
Looking toward a post-holiday debt hangover
With prices climbing faster than incomes on average, some people are digging into savings to help cover expenses. Others are relying on credit cards, even though it's getting more expensive to carry a balance.
The average interest rate on credit cards now tops 19%, according to Bankrate — up from 16.3% at the beginning of the year.
"It's really all about the Fed," says Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate. He notes that borrowing costs on credit cards have risen steadily as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates at the fastest pace in decades.
Since March, the central bank has raised its benchmark rate by 3.75 percentage points. Rates are likely to go even higher, as the Fed tries to tamp down demand and bring inflation under control.
"The most important point for consumers is: your [credit card interest] rate is way up," Rossman says. "It's probably going to go up more. So it's more important than ever to pay down this debt."
In general, Americans are not following that advice. The outstanding balance on credit cards and other forms of revolving debt rose nearly 13% in the summer and early fall, according to the Federal Reserve.
"Despite all the worries, people are spending aggressively," Rossman says. "I think the holiday season factors into this as well."
He notes that so far, delinquencies and defaults on credit card debt are well below historical levels. But Rossman thinks consumers' willingness to keep paying higher prices may be reaching its limit.
"I think there's going to be a lot of post-holiday debt hangovers," he says. "A lot of sticker shock in January, unfortunately."
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) — Some summertime favorites are in jeopardy. You can add city of Green Bay recreational softball leagues to the growing list of areas where help is needed.
Local 5 first told you about staffing shortages at Green Bay’s public pools earlier this year. It continues to be a problem. And while June 11 is normally opening weekend, that might be pushed back because of the need for more people to get hired and trained.
“I have about 10 more lifeguard positions to fill and at least a dozen more facilities attendant positions,” said the city’s recreation supervisor, Ann Moeller.
Certification for lifeguards takes about 27 hours. Everything else is a job where you do not need to be certified, just 14 years or older.
Those are jobs like working the concession stands and admissions area, said Moeller. If you want to work on one of the slides, you have to be at least 16 years old.
The city says it’s not just pools that need help. There’s people needed to work on summer and fall softball leagues.
“Rec league umps, site supervisors, working those evening rec leagues. It’s great for anybody who’s looking for a little extra cash,” added Moeller.
Of course, this is a problem not only facing the city of Green Bay. Most cities in our area, like Menasha, are in desperate need of extra help as we head into summer.
“The lifeguard shortage is a real problem across the country, so we’re doing our best,” Moeller said. “We’re trying to get the best people on the job and trained and keeping our pools safe and getting them to open.”
Whether it be on the water, or the mound, the help wanted signs are out.
“Give a couple hours a week will go a long way and really help us keeps these leagues running,” Moeller said.
Some of the jobs do have age restrictions. You can see what’s available on the city’s website here. | 2022-06-07T19:48:52+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/no-home-run-yet-staffing-shortages-plague-softball-leagues/ |
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EMX is a leading end-to-end programmatic technology group focused on the planning, buying, and measurement of CTV and omnichannel media. As a premium global direct to publisher supply side platform (SSP), data platform, media trading desk, and local marketing cloud, EMX is the fully owned technology that powers Big Village's programmatic media business. Big Village is a global advertising, technology, and data company. Find out more at emxdigital.com
Jounce Media is the industry leader in data-driven supply path optimization. Through daily-updating audits of over 1.5 million websites, mobile apps, and CTV apps, Jounce maintains a comprehensive mapping of every programmatic advertising supply chain and makes that data available to programmatic buyers and sellers. Jounce is trusted by the world's largest marketers, media companies, and advertising technology platforms to enable high efficiency programmatic trades.
Media Contact
Laura Czaja, Director, Corporate Communications
Big Village
Laura.czaja@big-village.com
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