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NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstVet, a leading provider in on-demand video consultations for pet parents, is partnering with Fletch to embed a pet insurance marketplace for its US users. Users will now be able to access several pet insurance options within FirstVet's televet platform, allowing them to decide which provider works best for them and their pet's unique needs. FirstVet delivers more than 50,000 consultations per month globally, with over one million registered users. With immediate access to pet insurance quotes, users will be able to decide whether they want to add insurance or wellness from leading U.S. pet insurance providers.
David Prien, CEO at FirstVet:
"Speed to market has always been a key focus for us at FirstVet. Fletch's API-first solutions enabled us to plug in multiple leading pet insurance companies through one simple integration. Veterinarians, pet parents, and pets all benefit from access to the insurance products and video consultations that can save time and money."
Frankie Lopez, Partnerships at Fletch:
"Digital ecosystems are increasingly looking for new ways to provide users with the insurance options they need within the customer journey. Fletch's robust suite of integration routes helps avoid the hurdles of wrangling different insurance APIs, through our no-code widgets and single point of connectivity. Together with televet solutions like FirstVet, Fletch is excited to complement a holistic pet health offering with a seamless insurance experience for pet owners. This brings FirstVet one step closer to becoming their users' only app for everything pet wellness."
About FirstVet
FirstVet is a mobile app service that offers virtual veterinary consultations for pet parents to provide instant peace of mind and advice about the health of their pets. FirstVet was founded in Stockholm in 2016 and has since expanded to seven countries.
FirstVet is a trailblazer in bringing the benefits of digital platforms to the veterinary sector. Available on iOS and Android, FirstVet allows pet parents to arrange video calls with registered vets who, in addition to offering advice on treatments and symptoms, can also refer them to a local vet. Video appointments can be booked as often as necessary through their subscription plans, with users often being able to meet with vets in under 30 minutes. Each month, FirstVet veterinarians improve the lives of thousands of animals from cats, dogs, rabbits, reptiles, to birds, hamsters, and horses. www.firstvet.com/us
About Fletch
Fletch Technologies Inc., connects digital ecosystems to relevant insurance products through an open protocol. Insurance policies are distributed by Fletch Insurance Services, LLC., a licensed producer in its operating states. To learn more about Fletch, please visit https://fletch.co/.
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SOURCE FirstVet | 2023-01-23T15:49:26+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/01/23/firstvet-partners-with-fletch-enable-pet-insurance-marketplace/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Revenue is reminding people that the state income tax filing deadline is almost here. A news release notes that the deadline is Monday, and anyone who wants an extension must ask before then.
Taxpayers can file their returns electronically through Louisiana File Online, the state’s free web portal for individual tax filers. They can also submit their returns using commercially available tax preparation software. Or they can print and mail state returns, which are available at www.revenue.louisiana.gov/Forms.
The department notes that while a filing extension allows more time for the paperwork, it does not extend the payment deadline. Unless the taxpayer gets an installment agreement, payments submitted after May 16 are subject to penalties and interest. | 2022-05-11T16:28:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Louisiana-state-income-tax-filing-deadline-is-17165223.php |
Pay-as-you-grow comes to vector search
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SeMI Technologies, the leader in open-source vector-search technology, announces an entirely new pricing model for its Weaviate Cloud Service.
Inspired by "pay-as-you-grow" pricing used in cloud storage, SeMI has introduced a new business model that makes it easier and more affordable for enterprises of any scale to take advantage of its Weaviate vector-search engine. Beginning today, users have the option of paying a usage-based rate for search on a per-dimension basis. Pricing begins at $0.05 per million dimensions. (No, that's not a typo; the rate is five cents per million.)
"At this point, as we've reached 1,500,000 downloads, a lot of people know and love our open-source software, but they want us to run it for them," says SeMI Technologies' co-founder Bob van Luijt." So, we've created a 'NoOps' option that allows them to pay only for what they use on our optimized Weaviate Cloud Service."
In addition to remarkably convenient access to the latest vector-search capabilities, Weaviate Cloud Service customers get dedicated customer support on a private Slack channel. However, consistent with SeMI's commitment to creating truly open-source software, customers using the free service will always be able to access all of the Weaviate vector-search engine's capabilities.
SeMI Technologies' Weaviate vector-search engine is an example of a "third wave" database technology. Data is processed by a machine learning model first, and AI models help in processing, storing, and searching through the data. As a result, Weaviate excels at answering questions in natural language, but it is not limited to language; it is as adaptable to searching images or even genetic information.
"Depending on the machine-learning model used, a "document"—basically a data object—in a vector database typically has anywhere from 120 to 12,800 dimensions," van Luijt explains. "Since vector dimensions are the lowest common denominator, it makes sense for vector dimensions to be the basis for cost—as opposed to, say, API calls. We feel that this very transparent and predictable pricing model is consistent with our open-source philosophy."
For more information about the open-source vector search engine Weaviate visit: https://weaviate.io
For more information about SeMI Technologies visit: https://semi.technology
Customers interested in the private beta of the Weaviate Cloud Service can purchase service for $0.05 per million dimensions. Or, spend an entire dollar and get 20 million dimensions.
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SOURCE SeMI Technologies | 2022-09-01T15:43:11+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/semi-technologies-introduces-an-all-new-business-model-vector-search/ |
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Station intercepted a human smuggling attempt on Saturday that resulted in the arrest of seven subjects, including the U.S. citizen driver.
Agents initiated a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle near Interstate 8 and Sidewinder Road, which is west of Yuma.
However, instead of pulling over, agents said the driver drove into the desert, where all of the vehicle’s occupants got out and fled on foot.
Agents quickly captured six Mexican nationals and the alleged driver, who was later identified as Raymundo Delgado Diaz, of Yuma.
Also discovered in the vehicle, agents said, were a loaded Smith and Wesson handgun, drug paraphernalia, and nearly four grams of methamphetamine.
The vehicle’s occupants were arrested and transported to the Yuma Sector for further processing.
Delgado Diaz, who was convicted of felony drug possession in Yuma County Superior Court in 2017, will be prosecuted on human smuggling charges. | 2022-07-06T15:46:44+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/news/yuma-man-arrested-in-human-smuggling-attempt/article_7648a29c-fcc1-11ec-956c-73b5f8776681.html |
Concerns about illness or inflation aren’t stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might.
Forecasters predict an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds from Thursday to Saturday in a broad swath of the country, from the Plains and Midwest to the East Coast. A surge of Arctic air will follow. The Christmas weekend could be the coldest in decades.
The National Weather Service said Wednesday that the storm was so large and encompassing that around 190 million people are currently under some type of winter weather advisory.
The Federal Aviation Administration said flight delays due to snow and wind gusts were possible in Minneapolis Wednesday. High winds could also delay flights in Chicago and Denver.
Delta, American, United, Frontier, Alaska, Southwest and other airlines were waiving change fees and offering travelers the option of choosing new flights to avoid the bad weather.
Airports said they would work hard to stay open. Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports said they have 350 pieces of equipment and 400,000 gallons of pavement de-icing fluid between them to keep runways and taxiways clear.
Bianca Thrasher-Starobin, a consultant and lobbyist in Atlanta, flew into New York Wednesday morning for an event and planned to fly out the same night.
“I’m trying to get out of this weather. I would have stayed longer but I just can’t take that chance,” she said as she raced through LaGuardia Airport.
Bus and train travelers were also bracing for cancellations and delays.
Greyhound canceled bus service on 25 routes for Wednesday and Thursday, including service from Las Vegas to Denver, Denver to St. Louis and Chicago to Minneapolis, Memphis and Nashville. And Amtrak has cancelled train service from multiple locations, including Seattle, Chicago and New York, over the next several days.
The weather added uncertainty to what was expected to be a busy travel season. Earlier this month, AAA estimated that nearly 113 million people would travel 50 miles from home or more between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2. That’s 4% higher than last year, although still short of the record 119 million in 2019.
Most planned to travel by car. About 6% will travel by air, AAA said. Either way, many travelers found themselves hastily changing their itineraries.
Joel Lustre originally planned to drive from Bloomington, Indiana, to McGregor, Iowa, on Thursday. But he shifted his work schedule, and his wife canceled an appointment so they could leave Wednesday and beat the storm.
In Montana, several ski areas announced closures Wednesday and Thursday due to the extremely cold temperatures and sustained winds. Others scaled back offerings. Schools were also closed due to the cold.
Authorities across the country are worried about the potential for power outages and warned people to take precautions to protect the elderly, the homeless and livestock — and, if possible, to postpone travel.
“If you don’t have to be out driving, especially on Friday, we ask that you don’t be out there,” said Ron Brundidge, Detroit’s public works director. Brundidge said 50 trucks will be out salting major roads on around-the-clock shifts once expected rain turns to snow on Friday.
Kelli Larkin arrived Wednesday from Florida for a holiday trip to New York. She plans to fly back Saturday night but said she’ll watch the forecast and change her return flight if she has to.
“It’s a little concerning,” she said. “We’ve got to play it by ear.”
Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, said fee waivers give airline passengers valuable time ahead of a storm to figure out alternate days and routes. But consumers should read the fine print carefully. Airlines might charge the difference in fares if passengers book beyond a certain window, for example.
Ebenhoch stressed that passengers have the right to ask the airline to book them on a different airline’s flight if there are no options that meet their needs. And if the airline cancels the flight, consumers have the right to a full refund, not just credits for future travel.
The urge to travel and visit family and friends over the holidays appeared to outweigh concerns about illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said coronavirus cases and deaths have increased in recent weeks, and the trio of COVID-19, seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, continues to stress the health care system.
Inflation also didn’t seem to be cutting into holiday travel demand. The average round-trip airfare rose 22% to $397 in the second quarter of this year — the most recent period available — according to U.S. government data. That was higher than overall U.S. price inflation, which peaked at 9% in June.
Lindsey Roeschke, a travel and hospitality analyst with Morning Consult, a market research company, said travelers appear to be cutting back in other ways.
In a recent survey, Morning Consult found that 28% of U.S. travelers were planning a one-day trip for the holidays, up from 14% last year. There was also an uptick in the number of people planning to stay with friends or family instead of at hotels. Roeschke thinks higher prices were a factor.
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Associated Press Photographer Julie Nikhinson in New York and Associated Press Writers Corey Williams in Detroit, Julie Walker in New York, Amy Hanson in Helena, Montana, and Amancai Biraben in Los Angeles contributed. | 2022-12-21T23:25:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/storm-adds-uncertainty-to-strong-u-s-holiday-travel-demand/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M men’s golfer and 2022 U.S. Amateur champion Sam Bennett was named to the Fred Haskins Award Watch List, the Haskins Foundation announced Thursday.
The award is presently annually to the most outstanding men's college golfer, as voted on by players, coaches and media members.
A finalist for the Haskins Award last season, Bennett is coming off his championship run at the 122nd U.S. Amateur that saw him beat five players ranked in the top-30 of the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
The Madisonville, Texas, native was a PING First Team All-American for the second-consecutive season after shattering the school record in stroke average at 69.97.
The reigning SEC Golfer of the Year, who is ranked No. 2 in the WAGR and No. 3 in the PGA TOUR University Velocity Global Rankings, recorded eight top-10 finishes for the Aggies last season and captured his fourth-career victory as he shot an 18-under at the Louisiana Classics.
At the NCAA Championships, Bennett placed 10th after shooting a final round score of 64 to finish at 3-over.
Bennett and the Aggies begin the 2022-23 campaign under third-year head coach Brian Kortan at the Badger Invitational beginning Sept. 11. | 2022-09-02T04:14:26+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/sports/sam-bennett-named-to-fred-haskins-award-watch-list/499-a9021873-695e-4819-822d-8c6ef40535bf |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-4-3
(eight, four, three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-4-3
(eight, four, three) | 2022-12-11T01:54:10+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17645646.php |
Queen’s music catalog is currently up for sale, and it could go for more than $1 billion.
Universal Music Group is said to be in talks to acquire the British rock band’s catalog, which consists of both music publishing and recorded music rights, from Disney Music Group.
The record-breaking deal is expected to close within a month and surpass $1 billion, according to CNN.
The band enjoyed a huge bump in popularity after the 2018 hit biopic release of "Bohemian Rhapsody," which follows Freddie Mercury as he and his bandmates rise in stardom. The movie dominated the box office and brought in $50 million in its first weekend in North America.
So far, music icon Bruce Springsteen tops the charts of the highest-selling catalogs based on a $500 million acquisition by Sony. But if the Queen sale goes through, it will be the highest amount a music catalog has ever sold for.
SEE MORE: Biopics Are Pretty Formulaic, And 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Is No Exception
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-29T21:01:23+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/queen-s-entire-music-catalog-may-sell-for-more-than-1-billion |
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First lady Jill Biden had cancerous lesions removed on Wednesday, according to the White House physician.
President Biden accompanied his wife as she underwent a Mohs surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to remove a skin lesion above her right eye.
The outpatient procedure confirmed “that the small lesion was basal cell carcinoma,” a form of skin cancer, physician Kevin O’Connor said Wednesday afternoon.
While all of the cancerous cells were removed, doctors identified “an additional area of concern” on Biden’s chest, which was also removed and later confirmed to be cancerous.
Another lesion on the 71-year-old first lady’s left eyelid was removed and is poised to undergo “standard microscopic examination.”
O’Connor noted that basal cell carcinoma lesions, the most common type of skin cancer, “do not tend to ‘spread’ or metastasize,” but “have the potential to increase in size, resulting in a more significant issue as well as increased challenges for the surgical removal.”
The president’s physician said Jill Biden experienced “some facial swelling and bruising,” but was in “good spirits” and was “feeling well.”
The president returned to the White House on Wednesday, and O’Connor said the first lady is expected to head back to executive mansion later in the day. | 2023-01-11T22:59:14+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/jill-biden-has-cancerous-lesions-removed/ |
Striking New York City nurses reach deal with hospitals
NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City hospitals have reached a tentative contract agreement with thousands of striking nurses that ends this week’s walkout that disrupted patient care, officials announced Thursday.
The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, walked out early Monday after negotiations with management ran aground at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx. Each has over 1,000 beds and 3,500 or more union nurses.
Nurses for both hospitals were to return to work Thursday morning, the union said.
The union has stressed staffing levels as a key concern, saying that nurses who labored through the grueling peak of the coronavirus pandemic are stretched far too thin because too many jobs are open. Nurses say they have had to work overtime, handle twice as many patients as they should, and skip meals and even bathroom breaks.
The agreements with both hospitals include concrete, enforceable staffing ratios, the union said. The agreement with Montefiore also included what the union described as community health improvements and nurse-student partnerships to recruit local nurses from the Bronx.
“Through our unity and by putting it all on the line, we won enforceable safe staffing ratios at both Montefiore and Mount Sinai where nurses went on strike for patient care,” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said in a statement. “Today, we can return to work with our heads held high, knowing that our victory means safer care for our patients and more sustainable jobs for our profession.”
The privately owned, nonprofit hospitals say they have been grappling with a widespread nursing shortage that was exacerbated by the pandemic.
“Our bargaining team has been working around the clock with NYSNA’s leadership to come to an agreement,” Montefiore said in a statement. “From the outset, we came to the table committed to bargaining in good faith and addressing the issues that were priorities for our nursing staff.”
The hospital said it focused on ensuring the nurses had “the best possible working environment, with significant wage and benefit enhancements” through the deal with the union.
“We know this strike impacted everyone — not just our nurses — and we were committed to coming to a resolution as soon as possible to minimize disruption to patient care,” the hospital said.
A post on Mount Sinai’s website said the hospital was pleased to have reached a tentative agreement with the union. The Associated Press sent an email to a hospital representative seeking comment.
Several other private hospitals around the city reached deals with the union as the strike deadline loomed. The agreements included raises totaling 19% over three years.
Mount Sinai and Montefiore said before the strike that they had offered the same pay boosts.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-12T12:17:30+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/01/12/striking-new-york-city-nurses-reach-deal-with-hospitals/ |
Good morning, Gamecock fans. It’s time for another edition of The Star’s Jacksonville State newsletter.
JSU’s men’s basketball team defeated Lipscomb on Thursday before knocking off Austin Peay on Saturday. JSU’s women also won twice last week, knocking off Central Arkansas and North Alabama. | 2023-02-01T02:25:43+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/sports/jsu/newsletter_header/jsu-men-women-pick-up-two-victories-apiece/article_9fe404d6-a1bf-11ed-83b2-5726caabce69.html |
Stephen Smith was 19 years old when his body was discovered on a rural two-lane road in South Carolina in 2015. His family has never accepted a medical examiner's ruling that Smith died from a hit-and-run. They think foul play was involved — and state agents agree.
"The Stephen Smith case is being investigated as a homicide," Renée Wunderlich, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's public information director, told NPR on Wednesday.
"We do believe it was a murder," as South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel told The State newspaper. "We don't believe it was a hit-and-run."
Interest in Smith's case has spiked because of where he died: in Hampton County, not far from Moselle, the hunting estate where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death, in a case that became an international sensation. SLED agents opened their inquiry into Smith's death in June of 2021 — the same month the pair died.
Smith's family is exhuming his body
SLED issued its update as Smith's mother, Sandy, is taking new actions to learn more about his death in July of 2015. That includes arranging for an exhumation and private autopsy. She has raised about $90,000 to fund her effort.
"Stephen was in the process of discovering himself and his sexuality," Sandy Smith told local news outlet Bluffton Today months after her son died. "He was gay. One rumor is that he may have had a man stalking him, the authorities asked me about that, but I've heard other stories I believe more."
Smith went on to say her son would have been wary of any approaching cars on a dark road — and that she thought some of Stephen's former classmates were involved in his death.
"One of the guys that supposedly did this, Stephen told his twin sister that he had 'a fling' with the boy," Smith said. "He also told me that he and the boy had a deep sea fishing trip planned for July. Stephen died on the eighth of July."
No signs of hit-and-run, early reports noted
When he died, Smith was returning home from night classes at a tech college in Orangeburg, where he was studying to be a nurse.
A 911 caller alerted police after seeing Smith's body in the early morning of July 8, near the center of Sandy Run Road. His car was later found not far from that spot, with its fuel cap off, suggesting he might have run out of gas.
Smith had a head injury but no other immediately apparent injuries. Initial reports mentioned the possibility that Smith's head jury might have been a gunshot wound, according to police documents posted online by the FITSNews site.
Both Smith's family and officers at the scene have cited a lack of a hit-and-run's telltale signs at the spot where he was found, particularly the absence of vehicular debris. Police noted Smith's shoes had stayed on his feet, despite being loosely tied. They also saw no skid marks near where Smith's body was found in the middle of the road.
So, why was homicide initially ruled out?
In her preliminary autopsy report, Dr. Erin Presnell, a medical examiner, concluded that Smith died from being hit by a motor vehicle — possibly by a side mirror.
"Due to the medical examiner's determination, the Hampton County Sheriff's Office requested the South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP) to investigate Mr. Smith's death" rather than SLED, the agency said on Wednesday.
The cause-of-death determination was crucial, as Smith's death became a matter for the highway patrol, which investigates vehicular deaths, instead of SLED, which helps local agencies investigate homicides.
"We don't believe it ever elevated to invoke the full investigatory authority of SLED," Ronnie Richter, an attorney for Smith's family, told NPR on Wednesday. "It has now."
The Murdaugh case boosted interest in Smith
This phase of the Smith case is playing out against the backdrop of the Murdaugh murders, which took place about 8 miles from where Smith's body was found.
The glaring spotlight on those killings placed new attention on Stephen Smith's death, in part because police reports mentioned the Murdaugh family name several times, including their citing of local rumors that Buster Murdaugh, Alex's surviving son, might somehow have been involved.
Smith knew the Murdaughs; he went to Wade Hampton High School with Buster. Just weeks ago, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and youngest son at their property in the area.
With Murdaugh's murder trial now over, Smith's attorneys say, SLED is able to focus more resources on solving the 2015 case. The agency is also asking anyone with relevant information to call 803-737-9000 and ask for Investigative Services.
Rumors are unfounded, Buster Murdaugh says
This week, Buster Murdaugh released a statement through his lawyer, Jim Griffin, saying he had nothing to do with Smith's death. He also said he's been "targeted and harassed by the media and followers of this story."
"This has gone on far too long," Murdaugh said. "These baseless rumors of my involvement with Stephen and his death are false. I unequivocally deny any involvement in his death, and my heart goes out to the Smith family."
Murdaugh said he had not spoken out earlier about Smith's "tragic death" because he was trying to maintain his privacy while grieving his mother and brother, and following his father's criminal trial.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-23T00:19:06+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/npr-top-stories/2023-03-22/stephen-smith-died-8-years-ago-more-people-than-ever-want-to-know-why |
Matthew McConaughey says he and Woody Harrelson might be brothers
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson's bromance is well known, their chemistry memorably translating on screen for the critically acclaimed first season of "True Detective."
Now, McConaughey has suggested in an interview with the podcast "Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa" that he and Harrelson could actually be brothers.
"You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line," McConaughey said earlier this week.
"And that's part of our bromance, right? My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew etc etc. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him."
"In Greece a few years ago, we're sitting around talking about how close we are and our families," McConaughey said. "And my mom is there, and she says, 'Woody, I knew your dad' ... Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after 'knew.' It was a loaded K-N-E-W."
"We went on to unpack what this 'knew' meant and did some math and found out that (Harrelson's) dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad were in their second divorce. Then there's possible receipts and places out in West Texas where there might have been a gathering, or a meeting, or a 'knew' moment."
McConaughey added that the pair are "on the precipice" of doing DNA tests to verify their suspicions, but that he was more reluctant than Harrelson in case he discovered that his father might not be his biological parent "after 53 years of believing that."
The pair are appearing in the comedy series "Brother From Another Mother" for Apple TV+, a fictionalized portrayal of their own friendship.
The two actors first met in 1997 while working on Ron Howard's "EDtv," although they disagree about the precise moment.
"There was tequila involved," McConaughey quipped in a video on his verified YouTube channel.
He first remembers meeting Harrelson at a costume fitting in San Francisco for "EDtv," when Harrelson walked in wearing "bike shorts, professional bike top and he's still got his professional bike riding shoes on that he's walking the streets of San Francisco in."
Since then, McConaughey and Harrelson have starred in the movie "Surfer, Dude," and "True Detective" together. | 2023-04-14T18:51:27+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/matthew-mcconaughey-woody-harrelson-might-be-brothers/43603462 |
Martial Solal keeps a Macintosh computer in almost every room of his house in the suburbs of Paris.
"I'm crazy about those machines," Solal says. "I have five computers in the house."
He uses them to compose, to create variations on those tunes and to test out improvisations. Aside from his relentless jazz performances, he has composed 15 piano etudes and more than 35 film scores.
When Apple came up with composing software, it marked a kind of deliverance for Solal. Sitting at the piano, he spins his chair toward one of the computer keyboards. The written score of a new etude he is composing opens up.
"It's fantastic to write the music and to hear the music you just composed," he says.
It's not often that an 81-year-old embraces such complex technology. But, then again, not every 81-year-old — or even someone half his age — can maintain the busy international touring schedule that the great jazz pianist does.
La Vie En Solal
Though still little-known in the U.S., Solal is one of the greatest European musicians alive today. His life at the piano ranges from lessons with his opera-singer mother in Algiers to post-war collaborations with Django Reinhardt and Sidney Bechet in Paris, to a wide variety of film work.
Solal's music is as complex as his life. Born to Algerian Jewish parents, he moved to France in 1950 when he was 23. He began playing in the underground jazz dives around St.-Germain-des-Pres, and before long, he was recording with the great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and ex-pat American saxophonist Don Byas. Fame came to Solal for the music he composed for Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 breakthrough film, Breathless (A Bout de Souffle).
In a new memoir, Solal describes his experiences in the American black jazz world, in the film industry and as a classical composer. His manner betrays an almost childlike sense of curiosity and playfulness. That comes from his lifelong fascination with freedom and structure, says Claude Carriere, a jazz historian and longtime programmer at Radio France.
"He goes in every direction and comes back," Carriere says. "He breaks the tune. ... He plays with the tune."
You could say that that's true of all jazz improvisation, and Carriere agrees — to a point.
"Yeah, but maybe more with somebody like him, because he's so brilliant."
Practice Makes Playful
What sets Solal apart from other musicians, according to Carriere, is his mind — how his conscious brain is always engaged in what he's playing.
"He's one of the rare musicians, I think, who can exactly play with his fingers what his brain asks him to do," Carriere says. "You know, because usually many, many piano players, they have so many things under the fingers, they can almost sleep and continue to play. Martial — everything, he thinks he can play it. That's because he has worked, worked, worked every day, hours and hours."
At least two hours, and sometimes six. Even today, at 81.
"I play exercise every morning, but my specialty is to play exercise only with one hand and improvising in the right hand," Solal says. He demonstrates on the keyboard. "See what sort of music it is? It's very enjoyable, because it's never the same. ... I could play for 100 years. It would be never the same, because right hand is very free to do what she wants, and left hand plays just the melody."
Solal spends 20 minutes on these exercises. Then he turns to Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Schumann. He never really plays jazz at home, he says.
"If I play too much improvisation at home, I would maybe have nothing more to say," Solal says. "[I want] to keep the best for the concerts."
Martial Solal says this will be his last year of giving concerts, though it's hard to imagine that he won't make an exception now and then. But to wake up in the morning, take his coffee and not touch his fingers to the keyboard: That's just not something he can imagine.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-27T10:47:02+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/2009-01-08/at-home-in-paris-with-pianist-martial-solal |
Ozzie Albies Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Dodgers - May 24
Published: May. 24, 2023 at 8:27 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Ozzie Albies, with a slugging percentage of .368 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, with Tony Gonsolin on the mound, May 24 at 7:20 PM ET.
He had two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double) in his last game against the Dodgers.
Ozzie Albies Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Tony Gonsolin
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Ozzie Albies At The Plate
- Albies is hitting .257 with 10 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and nine walks.
- Among qualified hitters, he ranks 83rd in batting average, while his on-base percentage ranks 133rd and he is 44th in slugging.
- In 32 of 48 games this season (66.7%) Albies has had a hit, and in 12 of those games he had more than one (25.0%).
- He has homered in nine games this season (18.8%), homering in 5% of his chances at the plate.
- Albies has an RBI in 17 of 48 games this season, with multiple RBI in 10 of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- In 35.4% of his games this year (17 of 48), he has scored, and in three of those games (6.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Ozzie Albies Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Dodgers have the 16th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.26).
- Dodgers pitchers combine to allow 56 total home runs at a clip of 1.1 per game (to rank 15th in the league).
- The Dodgers will send Gonsolin (2-1) out for his sixth start of the season. He is 2-1 with a 1.13 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Saturday against the St. Louis Cardinals, the right-hander threw five scoreless innings while surrendering one hit.
- The 29-year-old has an ERA of 1.13, with 7.1 strikeouts per nine innings, in five games this season. Opponents are batting .153 against him.
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Naomi Osaka is pregnant and plans to return to competition in 2024, the tennis star announced Wednesday.
“I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom,’” Osaka wrote.
Osaka hasn’t played a competitive match since September and withdrew from the Australian Open, which begins Sunday. She has won that tournament twice, along with two U.S. Open championships.
She has taken mental health breaks in recent years and didn’t play again after the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, shortly after falling in the first round of the U.S. Open. Osaka said the few months away have given her “a new love and appreciation for the game I’ve dedicated my life to.”
Ash Barty, the 2022 Australian Open champion, announced last week she was pregnant. She retired last year while holding the No. 1 ranking.
But Osaka said she will return to tennis and plans to be in Melbourne next year for the start of the Grand Slam season.
“2023 will be a year that’ll be full of lessons for me and I hope I’ll see you guys in the start of the next one cause I’ll be at Aus 2024,” Osaka wrote. “Love you all infinitely.”
Osaka closed by saying she doesn’t know if there’s a perfectly correct path in life, but that “if you move forward with good intentions you’ll find your way eventually.”
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-11T18:53:17+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tennis/naomi-osaka-says-shes-pregnant-plans-tennis-return-in-2024/2023/01/11/c00eca28-91db-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html |
BERLIN (AP) — German climate activists best known for bringing traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves to the road instead staged a rare protest on the move Friday, marching through Berlin and causing gridlock in parts of the capital.
Members of the group Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in the past year in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change. On several occasions, they have glued themselves to the roads, enraging some motorists and prompting accusations of extremism from conservative politicians.
Friday’s protest saw hundreds of activists gather at a major road in the east of Berlin, then march very slowly toward the center, singing along the way. Police tried to get protesters to move off the road but later agreed to let the march continue along a set route.
The group said earlier this week that its members would step up their actions in the coming days and try to “peacefully bring the city to a standstill.”
Last Generation wants Germany to stop using all fossil fuels by 2030 and take short-term measures including the imposition of a general speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) on highways as a way of cutting transport emissions.
Transport Minister Volker Wissing, who has rejected the idea of a speed limit, plans to meet activists on May 2, his spokesman said. He has sharply criticized the group for its road blockades in the past.
Officials warned motorists Friday not to engage in vigilantism against the group. At some earlier protests, activists whose hands were glued to the road were violently dragged away by drivers who were angry at being inconvenienced.
“The monopoly of force naturally lies with the state and the police in such situations,” Interior Ministry spokesman Maximilian Kall said Friday. “That’s an important principle of the rule of law that always needs to be emphasized.” | 2023-04-21T14:29:45+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/international/climate-activists-stage-slow-march-through-german-capital/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expanding sanctions against the aviation and defense sectors of North Korea and Myanmar as it continues to punish the two countries for weapons-related violations of U.S. and United Nationsregulations and human rights abuses.
The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it had imposed penalties on two agents for North Korea’s state-owned airline Air Koryo and redesignated a previously sanctioned North Korean cyber agency that it said launders profits from cryptocurrency heists to further Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
Treasury also announced sanctions against the Myanmar aviation firm Sky Aviator Company Limited and its owner for facilitating weapons purchases for the country’s military government to crackdown on protesters following a February 2021 coup.
North Korean agents Ri Sok, an Air Koryo representative based in China, and Yan Zhihong, an airline logistics manager, were targeted with sanctions for their support for for North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
Air Koryo, which has previously been accused of transporting critical weapons components into North Korea mainly from China, was already under U.S. sanctions. The new penalties freeze any assets that the two men may have in U.S. jurisdictions or assets that may cross into them. It also bars Americans from conducting any business with them.
Treasury also reupped sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cyber firm that has allegedly served as a conduit for processing stolen virtual currency, including from the largest known such theft to date, a $455 million heist that was orchestrated by the North Korean-controlled company Lazarus Group.
“Today’s sanctions action targets two key nodes of (North Korea’s) weapons programs: its increasing reliance on illicit activities, including cybercrime, to generate revenue, and its ability to procure and transport goods in support of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs,” Treasury said in a statement.
On Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, Treasury said it was hitting Sky Aviator and its owner, Kyaw Min Oo, for importing aviation parts, weapons and other material used by the government to clamp down on post-coup dissent.
Treasury said the sanctions, which include asset freezes and a bar on American transactions with those named, “target those who profit from the oppressive actions of the regime by operating in the defense sectors of Burma’s economy and by enabling Burma’s military connections to foreign militaries.” | 2022-11-09T16:27:41+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-expands-sanctions-on-myanmar-nkorea-aviation-sectors/ |
CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Snapsheet is the leading global Insurtech provider of virtual appraisals and claims management software. 2022 resulted in continued strategic growth and new opportunities for the company.
2022 Key Results
- 63% year-over-year growth
- 54 new & expanded customer relationships
- 700,000+ total appraisals estimates written
- 150,000+ specialty vehicle estimates written
- $3.1 billion in claims payments
- 131 new Snapsheet employees
- Millions of automated tasks, workflows, & processes
"Snapsheet delivered another fantastic year of operational performance with growth north of 60% - two years in a row," Snapsheet CEO Brad Weisberg said. "We're proud of the 50+ new & expanded customers we supported in 2022 and are thrilled to pass more than 3 million claims appraisals written."
2022 Notable Highlights
- Together we accomplished strategic milestones including:
- Snapsheet named to Sønr's Top 100 Insurtechs, compilation of leading insurtechs from around the world who are reshaping insurance.
- CB Insights recognized Snapsheet in Fintech 250, a global list of the 250 most promising private fintech companies. Snapsheet was 1 of only 25 insurtechs honored with this distinction.
- Built-In recognized Snapsheet as one of the top fully remote companies, having proudly created a highly engaged & productive remote-friendly atmosphere.
- FEI Chicago names Susan Sell, a finalist for their Small Private Company, 2022 CFO of the Year Award.
- Honored to be named a 2022 CityLIGHTS finalist at 1871 Chicago's Momentum Awards, recognizing growth stage companies who are "serious competitors in the marketplace."
- Snapsheet proudly works with 7 of the Top 10 P&C insurers in the US, along with top MGAs, Insurtechs, TPAs, and self-insureds
2023 Strategic Outlook
Inflation remains high and insurers are expected to face continued challenges in 2023, which suggest the industry prioritize solutions saving time and money, while improving the customer experience.
Incumbent carriers have an opportunity to deliver customer value by integrating partnerships with technology providers to streamline and automate claims processes. It's time for providers to collaborate, design, and deliver a suite of solutions with incumbents. Snapsheet's ongoing innovation, development, and powerful APIs allow us to drive effective partnerships and desired outcomes.
Snapsheet is positioned to provide tech-forward solutions to improve the customer and adjuster experience. Customers demand seamless digital claims experiences and Snapsheet delivers with our claims management software, virtual appraisals solutions, and payment distribution; automating millions of interactions, processes, and workflows.
"The future is strong at Snapsheet. We'll keep driving forward in 2023, anticipating our best year yet, as we offer customers and partners a differentiated claims experience focused around improved efficiencies, claims outcomes, and customer experiences", said Weisberg.
About Snapsheet
Snapsheet started the virtual appraisals revolution & is a leader in claims management software, enabling claims organizations to deliver seamless customer experiences. Snapsheet was built on claims innovation, having deployed the fastest digital auto insurance claims process in the U.S.
Snapsheet works with over 140 customers, including many large insurance carriers, TPAs, MGAs & insurtechs. We simplify claims, streamline appraisals & scale payments with insurance technology for the modern world.
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Beats non-GAAP earnings expectations
Delivers sequential revenue and billings growth for Cybersecurity business unit
First Quarter Fiscal 2024:
- Total company revenue of $373 million.
- IoT revenue of $45 million.
- Cybersecurity revenue of $93 million.
- Licensing & Other revenue of $235 million.
- Non-GAAP basic earnings per share of $0.06 and GAAP basic loss per share of $0.02.
WATERLOO, ON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today reported financial results for the three months ended May 31, 2023 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).
"This quarter we delivered sequential revenue growth in our Cybersecurity business unit. Revenue growth was driven by a year-over-year increase in billings and pipeline, anchored on strength in our core verticals, particularly government," said John Chen, Executive Chair & CEO, BlackBerry. "In our IoT business unit we saw some temporary delays to the start of new programs as a number of customers review their plans to capitalize on the software-defined vehicle (SDV) trend, impacting revenue this quarter. However, we see no change to the strong secular trends that are a multi-year tailwind for QNX and BlackBerry IVY. We continue to expect to achieve revenue consensus for both our IoT and Cybersecurity business units this fiscal year."
First Quarter Fiscal 2024 Financial Highlights
- Total company revenue was $373 million.
- Total company GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin was 48%, both lower due to completion of the significant sale of the non-core portion of the patent portfolio in the quarter. Excluding the patent sale, the non-GAAP gross margin was 22 percentage points higher.
- IoT revenue was $45 million, with gross margin of 80%.
- Cybersecurity revenue was $93 million, with gross margin of 60% and ARR of $289 million.
- Cybersecurity billings were $122 million, increasing for the 4th consecutive quarter, with 14% sequential and 37% year-over-year growth.
- Licensing and Other revenue was $235 million, including $218 million relating to the patent sale.
- Non-GAAP operating profit was $35 million and GAAP operating loss was $11 million.
- Total cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments increased by $91 million to $578 million, with the first instalment of $170 million received from the patent sale.
- Net cash generated from operating activities in the quarter was $99 million.
Business Highlights & Strategic Announcements
- BlackBerry completes patent sale transaction of substantially all of its non-core patents and patent applications to Malikie Innovations Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Key Patent Innovations Limited
- BlackBerry QNX releases ultra-scalable, high-performance compute ready operating system to advance software development efforts for next generation vehicles and IoT systems
- BlackBerry® QNX® software is now embedded in over 235 million vehicles worldwide: a year-over-year net increase of 20 million vehicles
- Upstream Security joins the BlackBerry IVY® partner ecosystem, leveraging IVY's rich telemetry data and edge compute capabilities to protect software-defined vehicles from cyber threats
- BlackBerry launches enhanced AI-based Cylance® cybersecurity solutions portfolio, reducing alert fatigue, offering faster incident response and expanding cloud defense coverage
- BlackBerry introduces integration of CylanceGUARD® managed detection and response (MDR) and BlackBerry® AtHoc® critical event management (CEM) technologies for secure bi-directional response communications during cyber incidents
- BlackBerry extends partnership with leading managed security services provider (MSSP), Solutions Granted, enabling better scale to address small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)
- McKinsey names BlackBerry a cybersecurity and IoT convergence leader, well positioned in an addressable market of up to $750 billion by 2030
Outlook
BlackBerry will discuss its outlook in connection with the quarterly earnings announcement on its earnings conference call.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios used by the company to comparable U.S. GAAP measures and an explanation of why the company uses them.
Conference Call and Webcast
A conference call and live webcast will be held today beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET, which can be accessed using the following link (here) or through the Company's investor webpage (BlackBerry.com/Investors) or by dialing toll free +1 (844) 512-2926 and entering Elite Entry Number 6312676.
A replay of the conference call will be available at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET on June 28, 2023, using the same webcast link (here) or by dialing Canada toll free +1 (855) 669-9658 or US toll free +1 (877) 344-7529 and entering Replay Access Code 6786029.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including more than 235M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry.
Investor Contact:
BlackBerry Investor Relations
+1 (519) 888-7465
investorrelations@blackberry.com
Media Contact:
BlackBerry Media Relations
+1 (519) 597-7273
mediarelations@blackberry.com
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of certain securities laws, including under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives including its expectations with respect to increasing and enhancing its product and service offerings.
The words "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "should", "could", "intend", "believe", "target", "plan" and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, the launch of new products and services, general economic conditions, competition, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding its financial performance. Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, risks related to the following factors: BlackBerry's strategic review of its businesses, including risk related to BlackBerry's ability to realize the benefits of any strategic alternatives being explored and risk that uncertainty relating to the review may adversely impact the Company's business and relationships with its partners, customers and employees; BlackBerry's ability to enhance, develop, introduce or monetize products and services for the enterprise market in a timely manner with competitive pricing, features and performance; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or expand its customer base for its software and services offerings to grow revenue or achieve sustained profitability; the intense competition faced by BlackBerry; the occurrence or perception of a breach of BlackBerry's network cybersecurity measures, or an inappropriate disclosure of confidential or personal information; the failure or perceived failure of BlackBerry's solutions to detect or prevent security vulnerabilities; BlackBerry's continuing ability to attract new personnel, retain existing key personnel and manage its staffing effectively; litigation against BlackBerry; BlackBerry's dependence on its relationships with resellers and channel partners; acquisitions, divestitures and other business initiatives; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; network disruptions or other business interruptions; BlackBerry's ability to foster an ecosystem of third-party application developers; BlackBerry's products and services being dependent upon interoperability with rapidly changing systems provided by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use third-party software and its use of open source software; failure to protect BlackBerry's intellectual property and to earn expected revenues from intellectual property rights; BlackBerry being found to have infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the substantial asset risk faced by BlackBerry, including the potential for charges related to its long-lived assets and goodwill; BlackBerry's indebtedness; tax provision changes, the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional tax liabilities; the use and management of user data and personal information; government regulations applicable to BlackBerry's products and services, including products containing encryption capabilities; environmental, social and governance expectations and standards; the failure of BlackBerry's suppliers, subcontractors, channel partners and representatives to use acceptable ethical business practices or comply with applicable laws; regulations regarding health and safety, hazardous materials usage and conflict minerals; foreign operations, including fluctuations in foreign currencies; adverse economic, geopolitical and environmental conditions; the fluctuation of BlackBerry's quarterly revenue and operating results; the volatility of the market price of BlackBerry's common shares; and rising inflation.
These risk factors and others relating to BlackBerry are discussed in greater detail in BlackBerry's Annual Report on Form 10-K and the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" section of BlackBerry's MD&A (copies of which filings may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). All of these factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on BlackBerry's forward-looking statements. Any statements that are forward-looking statements are intended to enable BlackBerry's shareholders to view the anticipated performance and prospects of BlackBerry from management's perspective at the time such statements are made, and they are subject to the risks that are inherent in all forward-looking statements, as described above, as well as difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results and performance for future periods, particularly over longer periods, given changes in technology and BlackBerry's business strategy, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the industries in which BlackBerry operates. Any forward-looking statements are made only as of today and the company has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of them, except as required by law.
Reconciliations of the Company's Segment Results to the Consolidated Results
The following table shows information by operating segment for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022. The Company reports segment information in accordance with U.S. GAAP Accounting Standards Codification Section 280 based on the "management" approach. The management approach designates the internal reporting used by the Chief Operating Decision Maker for making decisions and assessing performance of the Company's reportable operating segments.
The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended May 31, 2023 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended May 31, 2022 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures with the Nearest Comparable U.S. GAAP Measures
In the Company's internal reports, management evaluates the performance of the Company's business on a non-GAAP basis by excluding the impact of certain items below from the Company's U.S. GAAP financial results. The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios provide management, as well as readers of the Company's financial statements, with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting periods and is useful in helping management and readers understand the Company's operating results and underlying operational trends.
Readers are cautioned that adjusted gross margin, adjusted gross margin percentage, adjusted operating expense, adjusted net income (loss), adjusted income (loss) per share, adjusted research and development expense, adjusted selling, marketing and administrative expense, adjusted amortization expense, adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income (loss) margin percentage, adjusted EBITDA margin percentage and free cash flow (usage) and similar measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in the context of the U.S. GAAP results.
Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022
A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 to adjusted financial measures is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expense for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 to adjusted operating expense is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net loss and U.S. GAAP basic loss per share for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 to adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted basic earnings (loss) per share is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 to adjusted research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:
Adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income (loss) margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 are reflected in the table below.
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The Company uses free cash flow (usage) when assessing its sources of liquidity, capital resources, and quality of earnings. The Company believes that free cash flow (usage) is helpful in understanding the Company's capital requirements and provides an additional means to reflect the cash flow trends in the Company's business.
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for the three months ended May 31, 2023 and May 31, 2022 to free cash flow (usage) is reflected in the table below:
Key Metrics
The Company regularly monitors a number of financial and operating metrics, including the following key metrics, in order to measure the Company's current performance and estimate future performance. Readers are cautioned that annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), dollar-based net retention rate ("DBNRR"), Cybersecurity total contract value ("TCV") billing and recurring revenue percentage do not have any standardized meaning and are unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
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SOURCE BlackBerry Limited | 2023-06-28T21:29:04+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/06/28/blackberry-reports-first-quarter-fiscal-year-2024-results/ |
Production for Netflix's royal drama "The Crown" paused briefly while filming season six of the show as the world paid their final respects to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II after her death.
Season five is still set for release on Nov. 9 and will feature a new actress playing the queen.
Claire Foy played Queen Elizabeth II for the first two seasons of the show. Then for seasons three and four, Olivia Colman took over portraying Her Majesty.
Now for the latest season, Imelda Staunton will take over the role.
Season five is expected to focus on the queen's preparations for the 40th anniversary of her ascension to the throne, Netflix revealed.
"She reflects on a reign that has encompassed nine Prime Ministers, the advent of mass television, and the twilight of the British Empire," the streaming giant said.
The role of then-Prince Charles is portrayed by Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki was cast in the role of Princess Diana. | 2022-09-26T20:12:20+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/after-brief-production-pause-the-crown-viewers-will-get-a-new-queen |
As temperatures climb, you’re probably reaching for a refreshing, ice-cold drink to cool down. While cold water is a staple summertime drink, other chilled and flavorful drinks elevate your beverage game. Whether you’re heading to the beach, hitting the pool, or hanging out on your porch, make sure you have a delicious drink in hand. We consulted with seasoned baristas and bartenders who shared some of their favorite summertime drinks with us — which can be made at home in three steps or less.
Shop this article: Red Diamond Iced Tea Bags, Stevia in the Raw and Aofmee Glass Pitcher
Alabama sweet tea
You’ll make a splash at backyard parties with this sweet beverage that hails from the South.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 4 quart-sized tea bags (Optional substitution: swap 1/2 cup Stevia in the Raw for sugar)
Tools
- Saucepan
- Tempered glass pitcher
Instructions
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Add 4 cups of water and granulated sugar to the saucepan, stir, and bring to a gentle boil. Sugar is adjustable to taste, though it’s important to add sugar before bringing water to a boil.
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Turn off heat and add two tea bags, then cover the saucepan and let steep for five minutes.
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Remove tea bags and transfer liquid into the pitcher filled one-third full with ice, then refrigerate immediately.
Cold brew coffee
Try your hand at cold brew coffee: a chilled, low-acidity drink that is especially popular among coffee drinkers in the hotter months.
Ingredients
- 1 cup ground coffee
- 12 to 18 ounces filtered water
Tools
- Cold brew coffee maker
- Water filter pitcher
Instructions
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Add one cup of ground coffee to your cold brew coffee maker per 12 to 18 ounces of filtered water.
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Let it sit overnight to enjoy a refreshing morning beverage, then remove the coffee grounds.
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Keep it in the refrigerator for up to a week and enjoy chilled as-is or over ice with milk and sugar.
Chilled Irish coffee
Cool down with this summer spin on Irish coffee, either as an afternoon pick-me-up or as a delicious dessert drink.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Irish whiskey
- 4 ounces cold brew coffee
- 1 ounce heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
Tools
Instructions
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Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well.
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Strain mixture into a tumbler filled with ice.
Fruity cucumber-infused water
This spa-inspired infusion is ultra-refreshing, especially when served ice cold.
Ingredients
- Cucumbers
- fresh-squeezed lemons or lemon juice
- Melon
- Up to 64 ounces of filtered water
Tools
Instructions
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Slice and dice the fruits. About half a cucumber, juice from a couple of lemons, and half a melon.
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Place fruit inside the infusion pitcher and let the concoction sit for at least four to eight hours — or longer if you prefer stronger flavors.
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Drink over ice and freeze any leftovers into ice cubes to flavor water in a pinch.
Tropical medley water
This island-inspired medley features tropical fruits.
Ingredients
- Pineapple
- Mango
- Kiwi
- Strawberries
Tools
- Infusion pitcher
Instructions
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Slice and dice fruits, using any combination or ratio that suits you.
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Place inside the infusion pitcher and let the medley sit for at least two to four hours, or overnight if you prefer a sweeter drink.
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Drink over crushed or shaved ice and garnish the glass with the remaining fruit.
Zesty basil-lemon water
This refreshment combines unique flavors and ingredients in a healthy beverage. It also fights inflammation.
Ingredients
- 1 fresh basil plant
- 1 sliced lemon
- 1 peeled and diced knob of ginger
- 1 teaspoon of turmeric
Tools
- Infusion pitcher
- Muddler
Instructions
-
Place all ingredients in a glass or bowl to muddle them.
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Add muddled ingredients to a filled water pitcher and let sit for at least two hours.
-
Strain mixture and pour into an ice-filled glass.
Blueberry peach sangria
Kick back and relax with this summertime spin on peach sangria, which is both refreshing and invigorating.
Ingredients
- Peaches
- Blueberries
- 1 bottle dry white wine
- 1/2 cup peach Schnapps
- 4 cups club soda
- 2 tablespoons sugar (optional)
Tools
- Bar spoon
- Sangria pitcher
Instructions
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Pour the wine and peach Schnapps into a sangria pitcher, followed by the blueberries and diced peaches. Stir well with a bar spoon.
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Let mixture sit inside the refrigerator overnight.
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Remove from the refrigerator and add club soda, mixing well.
Ciroc summer colada islander
Rock out with Cîroc’s seasonal release in this contemporary spin on the classic piña colada.
Ingredients
- 1.5 ounces Ciroc Summer Colada
- 3 ounces pineapple juice
- 1 ripe banana
- A splash of grapefruit juice
- Cherries, pineapple and kiwi for garnish (optional)
Tools
Instructions
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Add ingredients to a blender with 3/4 cup of ice and combine until mixture is even and opaque.
-
Pour into a tall glass and garnish if desired.
Blue ocean cocktail
Embrace beachy vibes in this simple and sweet rum drink featuring an ocean-themed cerulean hue.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces rum
- 2 ounces Blue Curacao
- 2 ounces Sprite or any lemon-lime soda
- 1 shot of vodka (optional)
- 1 splash of grape juice (optional)
- 1 splash of simple syrup (optional)
- Thin orange slice for garnish (optional)
Tools
- Cocktail shaker
- Ice crusher
Instructions
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Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled three-fourths full with ice.
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Strain the mixture and pour over ice in a highball or Collins glass.
Mojito
For a refreshing, uplifting drink, craft your own minty mojito instead of relying on store-bought mixes.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces white rum
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- A splash of club soda
- Sprigs of fresh mint
Tools
- Bar spoon
- Muddler
Instructions
-
Add lime juice and sugar to a tall tumbler and mix with a bar spoon until the sugar dissolves.
-
Add mint leaves and muddle the mixture.
-
Fill the glass with ice and rum, then top off the drink with club soda.
Traditional shandy
This traditional British drink pairs with any meal, especially barbecues. Or on its own.
Ingredients
- Chilled beer (preferably a dark variety)
- Chilled Sprite or any lemon-lime soda
Instructions
-
Pour equal parts beer and lemon-lime soda into a tall beer glass.
-
Enjoy.
Wine slushies
Ice-cold slushies are an easy way to cool down in warm weather. When you add your favorite wine, it becomes a go-to summer beverage.
Ingredients
- 12 to 16 ounces of frozen berries and fruit (island mix recommended)
- Bottle of wine
Tools
- Blender
Instructions
-
Add frozen berries or fruit and wine to a blender, and mix until the consistency is slushy.
-
Add up to a cup of ice if you prefer a thinner consistency.
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Pour into a tall glass and garnish with fruit or edible flowers.
Grapefruit wine spritzer
Grapefruit is an ever-popular fruit with a lightweight, versatile flavor. In this recipe, it gives the classic wine spritzer a makeover.
Ingredients
- 5 ounces chilled white wine
- 5 ounces chilled club soda
- 1/2 cup grapefruit juice
Tools
- Bar spoon
Instructions
-
Combine equal parts of wine and club soda in a tall tumbler filled with ice.
-
Add grapefruit juice and stir gently with a bar spoon.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The northern Arizona city of Flagstaff is synonymous with mountains — lush with ponderosa pines, meadows and hiking trails that are a respite from the desert heat.
Now, parts of them are burning yet again, fueled by winds that grounded air resources Monday. Fire crews were anticipating more moderate winds Tuesday and throughout the week, which could help them get a better handle on the blaze that has largely spared homes but made a run into a wilderness area and toward a lava dome volcano.
Residents around the city looked toward the mountains as smoke billowed through the air and winds howled, some scared, some nervous — most hoping that moisture in the forecast late this week brings some relief.
“We’re most definitely dry,” Flagstaff resident Colin Challifour said late Monday. “The forests are dry. It’s unfortunate. You don’t like to see it.”
Roughly 2,500 homes have been evacuated because of two wildfires burning on the outskirts of Flagstaff. One home and a secondary structure burned, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. Hundreds of other people in California and New Mexico have also been forced to flee homes threatened by wildfires.
In northern Arizona, Coconino County declared an emergency because of the wildfire.
Fire incident Cmdr. Aaron Graeser said the Flagstaff-area blaze is one of the top priorities in the country for firefighting resources. It was estimated at 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) late Monday, but fire managers haven’t been able to do aerial mapping.
Two other smaller wildfires northeast of the blaze merged, forcing evacuations in a more remote area Monday.
Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. A springtime fire outside Flagstaff destroyed more than two dozen homes. Most of the residents who evacuated then are out of their homes again because of this latest wildfire.
The number of square miles burned so far this year is more than double the 10-year national average, and states like New Mexico have already set records with devastating blazes that destroyed hundreds of homes while causing environmental damage that is expected to affect water supplies.
Nationally, more than 6,200 wildland firefighters are battling nearly three dozen uncontained fires that had charred over 1 million acres (4,408 square kilometers), according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Even in Alaska, forecasters have warned that many fire in the state’s south have grown exceptionally over the last week, which is unusual. Southwest Alaska normally experiences shorter periods of high fire danger because intermittent rain can provide relief, but since mid-May the region has been hot and windy, drying out vegetation.
Favorable weather Monday helped slow the progression of a tundra wildfire just over 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) away from an Alaska Native village. Moderate temperatures and a shift in the wind that had been driving the fire toward St. Mary’s will allow firefighters to directly attack the flames and increase protections for the Yup’ik community.
The lightning-sparked fire is estimated at about 193 square miles (500 square kilometers). It’s burning dry grass and shrubs in southwest Alaska’s mostly treeless tundra.
In California, evacuations were ordered for about 300 remote homes near a wildfire that flared up over the weekend in forest land northeast of Los Angeles near the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. It had scorched about 1.5 square miles (3.9 square kilometers) of pine trees and dry brush as of Monday and was 27% contained, fire spokesperson Dana Dierkes said.
A second fire in Tehama County in Northern California had destroyed 10 buildings, damaged four others and threatened about 160 structures, fire officials said. It was 20% contained Monday night.
Farther south in San Diego County, five people were rescued after a small wildfire broke out Monday near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.
In Northern California, a 50-mile (80-km) stretch of State Route 70 was closed indefinitely on Monday after mud, boulders and dead trees inundated lanes during flash floods along a wildfire burn scar.
The causes of the latest California fires were under investigation.
Authorities don’t yet know what started the northern Arizona fire. A man who was camping near where the fire was reported Sunday was cited a day earlier for lighting toilet paper on fire in violation of a year-round fire ban in the area, but he is not charged with starting the wildfire.
Parts of U.S. Route 89, the main route to reach the Grand Canyon’s East Rim entrance and through the Navajo Nation, remained closed, as did the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort.
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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska; Jim Anderson in Denver; and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this report. | 2022-06-14T17:52:51+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/western-wildfires-force-evacuations-in-arizona-california/ |
NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Sunday, June 26, 2022
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801 FPUS51 KALY 270746
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FPUS51 KALY 270745
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Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
NYZ033-272000-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to
around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely. Lows
in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ052-272000-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ058-272000-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 40s. Northwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ065-272000-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Some thunderstorms may
produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Not as warm with highs in
the upper 70s. South winds around 10 mph, becoming west this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Much cooler.
Less humid with lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
around 60. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ041-272000-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs around 80. Southwest winds around 10 mph, becoming
west this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph,
diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ038-272000-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ032-272000-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers after midnight. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely. Lows
around 60. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ042-272000-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Not as warm with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Much cooler with lows around 50. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 50s. Highs around 80.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ083-272000-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 10 mph, becoming west this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph
after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ043-272000-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs around 80. Southwest winds around 10 mph, becoming
west this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s. West winds 10 to
15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ084-272000-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs around 80. South winds around 10 mph, becoming west
this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming
southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ082-272000-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows around 50. West winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ039-272000-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower
50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ040-272000-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ047-272000-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Not as
warm with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ048-272000-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower
50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ049-272000-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ050-272000-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ051-272000-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower
50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ053-272000-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
west this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ054-272000-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms this
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows around
50. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. West winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ060-272000-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...A chance of thunderstorms this morning. Showers likely.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ061-272000-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms this morning, then
showers likely this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy
rainfall this morning. Not as warm with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Chance
of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ059-272000-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the
mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ063-272000-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
morning. Not as warm with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming northwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler. Less humid with lows around
50. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ064-272000-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...A chance of thunderstorms this morning. Showers likely.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the lower 80s. South winds around 10 mph,
becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly clear.
Much cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the mid
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ066-272000-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
345 AM EDT Mon Jun 27 2022
.TODAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Not as warm with highs
in the upper 70s. South winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph,
becoming west this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Much cooler.
Less humid with lows in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
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DANVILLE — A Danville teen convicted of the murders of two males, including his own friend, during a drug deal that went bad faces life behind bars.
A Vermilion County jury on Friday convicted Dustin Cooper, 16, of murder and armed robbery in connection with the fatal shooting of Wyatt Bailey, 19, of Oakwood, and murder for the shooting death of his own friend, Clayvonte Sloan, 15, of Rantoul.
A release from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Vermilion County State’s Attorney Jacqueline Lacy said Mr. Sloan had had gone to Oakwood with Cooper and three others to rob Mr. Bailey.
The shootings occurred about 2:45 p.m. Jan. 17 in the 200 block of Wayne Drive on the south side of Oakwood.
Evidence presented at trial, which began July 19, was that Cooper had contacted Mr. Bailey to buy cannabis and cannabis products from him.
Cooper and Mr. Sloan, both of Rantoul, and Ali Bryant, 20, Jaevin Griggs, 18, and Camarion Halthon, 19, all of Danville, arrived at Mr. Bailey’s home that Sunday, apparently intent on robbing him.
Mr. Bailey, who also had a gun and cash on him, came out to greet the group. During a struggle between him and some of the others, he was shot in both legs and Mr. Sloan was shot in the lower abdomen.
Prosecutors said Mr. Sloan's friends put him back in their car, and before fleeing, Cooper shot the wounded Mr. Bailey in the chest as he was on the ground.
The shooting was reported immediately by neighbors, and a Vermilion County sheriff’s deputy who responded stopped Cooper’s car as it headed back to Danville. Authorities found the mortally wounded Mr. Sloan, who was taken to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, where he died later in surgery.
In the car, police found a bag of cannabis products and a gun stolen from Mr. Bailey and another unregistered "ghost gun" used in the shooting.
The case was prosecuted by attorneys from Raoul’s office and the state’s attorney’s office. Cooper was represented by Hallie Bezner.
Judge Derek Girton set sentencing for Sept. 15. Cooper faces a minimum of 40 years.
Court records indicate that Halthon is expected to be tried next, beginning Aug. 8. Bryant and Griggs are due back in court Sept. 13. | 2022-07-26T20:07:25+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/danville-teen-convicted-of-two-murders-in-botched-drug-deal/article_e3dcc091-71f7-580d-a526-02309f71ff80.html |
Mexico is one of the great soccer countries in the world. The country's team exited the World Cup early — something they haven't done since 1978.
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Mexico is one of the great soccer countries in the world. The country's team exited the World Cup early — something they haven't done since 1978.
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Report: Long COVID-19 responsible for thousands of US deaths, but true numbers likely much higher
Long COVID-19 leaves some people with long-term symptoms, but it can be deadly, too. It played a part in at least 3,544 deaths in the United States in the first 30 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report says.
The report is the first official attempt by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics to quantify the number of long COVID-19 deaths in the United States.
Some experts say this finding is probably a significant undercount, considering that up to 30% of people who get COVID-19 go on to have long-term symptoms, according to the CDC.
The research, published Wednesday, analyzed death certificates in the National Vital Statistics System from January 2020 through the end of June 2022.
The research was difficult because, unlike with diseases such as cancer or diabetes, the U.S. did not have a specific disease code to track long COVID-19 during that time period.
Not every doctor, medical examiner or coroner fills out a death certificate the same way, so the researchers had to create a program to scan more than a million death certificates for text. Because there is not one settled term to describe long COVID-19, they included several key terms in their search, including "chronic Covid," "long Covid" and "post-COVID syndrome."
They found that long COVID-19 deaths made up less than 0.3% of the 1,021,487 COVID-19-related deaths from January 2020 through June 2022. There were some common elements among those who died, as well.
Deaths mostly in seniors, whites, males
The majority of people who died from long COVID-19 were white, older and male.
Specifically, 78.5% of the deaths were among non-Hispanic white people. Non-Hispanic Black people made up 10.1% of the deaths, followed by Hispanic people at 7.8%.
The death rate was highest among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Natives, at 14.8 per 100,000 people.
COVID-19 deaths have disproportionately been among people of color, CDC research shows, and the new report notes that more people who identify as Black or Hispanic may have died of the initial disease before they could even develop long COVID-19. This may account for some of the racial differences in the new findings.
Studies have also found that with more barriers to health care for people of color, some people who died may not have been able to see a doctor to get an official COVID-19 diagnosis, so it wouldn't be recognized on a death certificate, the report said.
Adults 75 to 84 accounted for 28.8% of long COVID-19 deaths, followed by people 85 and older at 28.1% and people between 65 and 74 years old at 21.5%, the report says. In general, it is much more common for older adults to die from COVID-19 than younger populations, CDC data shows.
Men accounted for a slightly larger proportion of the deaths, at 51.5%, which fits with other studies finding that being male is associated with a relative risk of developing severe COVID-19 that's 1.29 times the relative risk for women.
The new report had several limitations, including that the death numbers are still provisional and could change. Additionally, race is not always a reliable element on a death certificate, as studies have shown that thousands of Americans' race is misclassified on their certificates. And clinical guidance on what constitutes long COVID-19 has changed over the course of the pandemic, so death certificates may not fully capture the condition.
The many effects of long COVID-19
The study is a good start, but it takes a "fairly myopic view" of death from long COVID-19, said Dr. David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for Mount Sinai Health System.
"This is very clearly data from folks who got very sick, ended up at the hospital with sustained organ damage," said Putrino, who works closely with long COVID-19 patients but was not involved in the new report.
He says the research misses a sizable number of people who may get long COVID-19 and die as a result.
For instance, some people who are not hospitalized for an initial infection but get long COVID-19 go on to develop heart problems, studies show. Long COVID-19 would not necessarily be captured on those death certificates, Putrino said.
"We read every single day about people who have previously been healthy, get COVID, recover and then have a heart attack or stroke or pulmonary embolism," Putrino said.
This research may also miss people with long COVID-19 who died by suicide; the condition probably wouldn't be listed on their death certificates.
"We currently know that suicidal thoughts, suicidal acts, suicidal ideation and completed suicides are occurring all around the country with folks who were previously healthy, had a less severe acute COVID infection but then went on to develop very severe post-acute sequelae," Putrino said.
He is encouraged that the CDC is looking at the issue of death from long COVID-19.
"But again, we're just going to continue to get these sorts of skewed records unless we educate physicians that there are many ways that long COVID-19 can cause death, just like there are many ways long COVID-19 can cause permanent disability," Putrino said.
"People have had their lives completely ruined by COVID, and so this incomplete data point really only captures a small part of the long COVID-19 experience," he said. "There are more than one way to have your life taken away from you with long Covid. Death is only one of those ways." | 2022-12-14T20:15:14+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/long-covid-deaths/42236641 |
Man accused in fatal DUI crash was out on bail from previous DUI crash, records show
An impaired driver who swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a parked SUV and killing the driver, police said, was out on bail from a previous DUI, records show.
It was the second time since June that Prentiss Bates, 50, has been accused of DUI, according to court records. He was out on $50,000 bail from a June crash. When he was released, he was ordered to not drive.
And that wasn’t even his first DUI. Records show Bates also had been charged with DUI in 2012, and court records also show he has faced numerous drug charges in the past.
But Bates’ most recent crash happened Sept. 22 at about 2:28 a.m. on North Rancho Drive north of West Red Coach Avenue, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police said a Jeep Grand Cherokee was heading north on Rancho at Red Coach when the Jeep hit the median and veered into the southbound lanes at a high speed.
The Jeep then crashed into a Chevrolet Avalanche that was parked in a coned-off construction zone, police said. Both vehicles were heavily damaged in the collision.
The 40-year-old man who was in the parked Avalanche was rushed to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries but was pronounced dead at the hospital.
His name hadn’t yet been released on Thursday afternoon.
“The Jeep driver remained at the collision scene and showed signs of impairment,” the Metro statement said. “The Jeep driver was transported to UMC Trauma for claimed injuries. After being cleared by hospital staff, he was arrested for DUI-related charges.”
The fatality is the 105th traffic-related death in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2022. The crash remained under investigation.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Heavy snowfall and high winds on Tuesday kept searchers away from a remote, jagged peak in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, where an avalanche killed three climbers from the northeastern U.S. over the weekend.
The slide struck Sunday as a group of six climbers were ascending a steep, snow-packed gulley on the 8,705-foot (2,653 meters) Colchuck Peak, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Seattle in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Chelan County sheriff's Sgt. Jason Reinfeld said Tuesday.
Four of the climbers were swept about 500 feet (152 meters) down the slope. One of the four survived, a 56-year-old man from New York, and despite some injuries he was able to confirm that the other three were killed before working his way back to their base camp at Colchuck Lake, Reinfeld said.
The two members of the climbing party who were not swept away did not immediately descend to base camp, but remained about two-thirds of the way up the gulley — called a couloir — and saw three additional avalanches come down, burying two of the deceased climbers.
A seventh member of the group, one who remained at base camp rather than participate in Sunday's climb, hiked out to get help — an arduous overnight journey that included a descent of about 4,000 vertical feet (1,219 meters) over 8 miles (12.9 kilometers). He was able to contact the sheriff's office by 8 a.m. Monday to relay what had happened, Reinfeld said.
A mountain rescue team reached the base camp early that afternoon but decided against venturing above the lake due to the avalanche risk.
The searchers returned with the surviving climbers on Monday and declined to even attempt to reach the area on Tuesday amid a heavy snowstorm and wind gusts of up to 60 mph (96.6 kmh).
Members of the Northwest Avalanche Center and mountain rescue crews planned to head back on Wednesday to assess the hazards at the scene, Reinfeld said.
Those killed were identified as a 53-year-old man from Connecticut, a 60-year-old woman from New York and a 66-year-old man from New Jersey. Reinfeld said the group had some mountaineering experience, but he did not know the extent of it.
The avalanche was the the deadliest in the U.S. since four backcountry skiers were killed in an avalanche in Utah two years ago. | 2023-02-22T00:58:08+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/avalanche-in-washington-s-cascade-mountains-kills-17797746.php |
BOSTON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapphiros has today completed the acquisition of Flexotronix Limited. Flexotronix have developed a high speed printed electronics manufacturing line using in-house proprietary conductive inks and printed components, including batteries connectivity capability- and other diagnostic test control mechanisms. These technologies will be rapidly deployed across the Sapphiros portfolio of companies to dramatically lower consumable costs and ultimately fully automate diagnostic testing and data management for products such as the SatioDx blood draw patches and next generation Biocrucible molecular diagnostics rapid diagnostic test devices.
Flexotronix has designed and developed an Extreme Volume Manufacturing process to manufacture innovative and proprietary lateral flow formats. The manufacturing line is close to final validation and has a measured capacity of up to 5 billion tests per year. The process incorporates new reel to reel assembly methods, including the capability for rapid tool change over to rapidly and seamlessly provide changeover between different diagnostic test formats. It is anticipated that a broad range of infectious disease diagnostic tests will be validated using this novel manufacturing process. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded the establishment of the Extreme Volume Manufacturing process in accordance with its charitable mission, specifically to secure access of low-cost diagnostic device manufacturing capacity for global health priorities that disproportionately impact low- and middle-income countries.
Namal Nawana, Founder and Chairman of Sapphiros commented, "High speed printed electronics will be deployed on multiple technology platforms within Sapphiros including Satio and Biocrucible as well as to launch new digital lateral flow formats enabling new diagnostics products to reach consumers globally."
"The combined resources of Flexotronix and Sapphiros will ensure we are at the forefront of developing low-cost, high-performance diagnostics globally as well as preparation to rapidly respond to future biosecurity threats. We are pleased to welcome the talented Flexotronix team to Sapphiros," said Mark Gladwell, COO of Sapphiros.
"We are extremely excited to be part of Sapphiros and have an aligned vision to deliver transformative consumer diagnostics," said Jeremy Burbidge, CEO of Flexotronix.
About Sapphiros
Sapphiros is a privately held Consumer Diagnostic portfolio company backed by global private equity firm KKR and Neoenta. We believe that "Knowing Now Moves Us™," with solutions that provide real-time definitive results; at Sapphiros we work together to help global communities act on these important insights and move forward with confidence.
About Flexotronix
Flexotronix is a privately held Innovation and manufacturing company focused on developing high volume manufacturing technologies and flexoprinted electronics, founded by Jeremey Burbidge and Dr. Bob Stevens.
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The 2023 John Deere Classic Odds & Preview: Chris Kirk
The field for the 2023 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois features Chris Kirk. The par-71 course spans 7,289 yards and the purse is $7,400,000.00 for the tournament, running from July 6- 9.
Looking to place a bet on Kirk at the John Deere Classic this week? Keep reading for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Chris Kirk Insights
- Over his last 14 rounds, Kirk has shot better than par on five occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and seven rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded a top-five score once in his last 14 rounds.
- Kirk has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 14 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day five times.
- In his past five appearances, Kirk has finished in the top 20 once.
- He has made the cut in two of his past five events.
- In his past five events, Kirk has posted a score better than average in two of them.
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John Deere Classic Insights and Stats
- In his past five appearances at this event, Kirk has had an average finishing position of 34th.
- Kirk has four made cuts in his past five appearances at this tournament.
- This course is set up to play at 7,289 yards, 263 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Golfers at TPC Deere Run have averaged a score of -10 per tournament, lower than the Tour-wide scoring average of -5 in the past year.
- Courses that Kirk has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,315 yards, 26 yards longer than the 7,289-yard TPC Deere Run this week.
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -5. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -10.
Kirk's Last Time Out
- Kirk finished in the 42nd percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with an average of par.
- He shot well to finish in the 90th percentile on par 4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, averaging 3.83 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Kirk shot better than 74% of the field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on par-5 holes, averaging 4.38 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.51.
- Kirk recorded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic (the other golfers averaged 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Kirk recorded less bogeys or worse (one) than the tournament average (1.9).
- Kirk recorded more birdies or better (10) than the field average of 5.9 on the 40 par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
- In that last tournament, Kirk's performance on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse three times (the field's average was worse, at 4.4).
- Kirk ended the Rocket Mortgage Classic with a birdie or better on 10 par-5 holes, while the field averaged 6.2 on the 16 par-5s.
- The field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic averaged 0.8 bogeys or worse on the 16 par-5s, but Kirk finished without one.
John Deere Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: TPC Deere Run
- Location: Silvis, Illinois
- Par: 71 / 7,289 yards
- Kirk Odds to Win: +3300 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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PHOENIX (AP) — A southern Arizona judge heard from a parade of witnesses Friday in a case brought by opponents of an unusual plan driven by local officials who question the accuracy of ballot-counting machines and want to hand-count all the ballots in the election that concludes next week.
Among those taking the stand was an elected Republican official in rural Cochise County who has agreed to take over the county election director’s normal job of conducting a post-election audit of the vote count by hand — this time expanding it from a small effort using a sample of ballots to a massive one covering four races on about 40,000 ballots.
The elections director testified that she faces a potential felony if implementing the plan ends up violating the law.
Cochise County Recorder David Stevens was grilled in court by lawyers representing a retiree group suing to block the effort. He defended the plan, which is highly unusual and stands as nearly unprecedented in the state.
Stevens said he plans to start the hand-count after voting ends Tuesday and use more than 250 volunteers he’s recruited from three political parties, although the group is heavily tilted towards registered Republicans. He vowed to follow the law that lays out rules for the much-smaller hand-count audits done to check machine vote-counting equipment. But he acknowledged he’s bypassing the county elections director, who by law oversees the process and is responsible for securely holding the ballots.
And responding to questions from the lawyer for the Arizona Alliance of Retired Americans, Lalitha Madduri, Stevens said he planned to count an estimated 30,000 early ballots despite provisions in the law that limit early ballot hand-count audits to 1% or 5,000 ballots, whatever is less, and that they be randomly selected. That bars a full hand-count of the early votes, she said.
Stevens said the Cochise County board of supervisors had voted on the plan and authorized him to conduct the count.
“The court will decide if it’s legal or not,” he said. “But they did vote — it was a two-to-one vote — they voted for me to do this and a 100% count.”
The two Republican supervisors who voted to do the 100% hand-count rather than the small sample done in every other election were pushed to do so by people who believe former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that fraud or counting problems with voting machines led to his loss in 2020. The lone Democrat on the board opposed the hand-count.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey F. McGinley, who is hearing the case in Bisbee after the local county court declared a conflict, is charged with deciding whether the detailed state law on hand-count audits allows the county board of supervisors to expand it to all early ballots. Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who is running for governor, contends only a sample of early ballots can be counted under state law.
Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich, however, issued an informal opinion last week that said all the ballots can be hand-counted. A Nevada county is also pushing a full hand-count to mollify Trump supporters, while leaders of another GOP-led Arizona county rejected a similar effort this week.
McGinley said after a day-long hearing that the lawyers representing the county supervisors and Stevens on one side and Elections Director Lisa Marra and the retiree group on the other had provided so much information there was no way he would rule from the bench.
Instead, he promised a ruling first thing Monday morning and said he fully expected whoever lost would immediately appeal.
“There’s far too much information that’s been presented today,” McGinley said. “Far too much important testimony, far too much important argument, and quite honestly, far too important a question for this court to rush to an answer in an effort to get it done by 5 o’clock today.”
Marra is charged with performing the post-election audits, and testified that she faces a potential felony charge for breaking election law if rules Stevens devises stray outside the law. She also said handing the ballots over to Stevens would break the secure chain of custody for ballots and that expanding the count jeopardizes meeting a Nov. 18 certification deadline.
Attorneys for the retiree group Arizona Alliance of Retired Americans argued that the law does not allow a full hand-count of early ballots, although it does for those ballots cast in-person on Election Day.
And Stephani Stephenson, who lives in the small Cochise County community of St. David and is the named plaintiff in the case, testified that she feared a rushed and abnormal process would potentially jeopardize her vote. She said she has faith in the current system.
“I know that people have worked years to come up with a process,” Stephenson said. “And then suddenly if my county is going down this other road, at this point, no, I do not trust that.”
McGinley questioned Stevens about the normal recount rules and focused on a section of the election rules written by the secretary of state that allows counties to expand the hand-count at their discretion, which appears nowhere in the law. And he wondered how rules on the acceptable margins of error between hand-count audits would apply to a full recount.
Stevens said his view was that a full hand-count needs no margin and that whatever that count turned out to be would be the one that was officially certified. That runs counter to what the board discussed when it decided to do a full hand-count as a test of the official machine count.
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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. | 2022-11-05T15:33:55+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-arizona-county-official-grilled-on-hand-count-plan-in-court/ |
Nate McMurray, the former Grand Island supervisor who narrowly lost a congressional bid to Republican Chris Collins in 2018, has ended his Democratic candidacy for Erie County executive less than a month after announcing it.
McMurray said Feb. 1 that he would challenge County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz in the June Democratic primary.
Nate McMurray, the former Grand Island supervisor who narrowly lost a congressional bid to Republican Chris Collins in 2018, will challenge County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz in the June Democratic primary.
However, the Erie County Democratic Committee last week snubbed McMurray and endorsed Poloncarz for an unprecedented fourth term. That didn't sit well with McMurray, who this weekend released a video that included secretly recorded audio of the endorsement meeting.
Well, there has been a lot of talk about what I said at the Erie County Democratic Committee meeting, Thank heavens I made a tape! It was a kangaroo court. Totally mismanaged. They sadly (wantonly) exposed their disregard for democracy itself. Some lowlights below: pic.twitter.com/7yEYL4pTSO
— Nate McMurray (@Nate_McMurray) February 24, 2023
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McMurray spent much of the weekend bashing Poloncarz and Erie County Democrats on Twitter. Then on Monday afternoon, McMurray penned a 25-tweet thread with the headline, "WILL NOT CONTINUE CAMPAIGN; WILL FIGHT OTHER FIGHTS."
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"Dear friends, I have decided not to continue running for Erie County Executive," McMurray wrote.
Efforts by The News to reach McMurray by phone after he sent the tweets were unsuccessful.
OPEN LETTER: WILL NOT CONTINUE CAMPAIGN; WILL FIGHT OTHER FIGHTS Dear friends, I have decided not to continue running for Erie County Executive. Please let me explain why.1. I ran because I believe in Erie County and Western New York1
— Nate McMurray (@Nate_McMurray) February 27, 2023
Nate McMurray is thinking about his future, and the future of the Democratic Party, and he's deeply uncertain about both.
McMurray is widely viewed as a credible force in the Democratic Party, especially among left-leaning progressives attracted by his views throughout his campaigns.
A lawyer in private practice, he previously worked for Delaware North Cos. and has also worked internationally. Still, he remains unwelcome in many establishment sectors of the party.
Poloncarz will face Republican businesswoman Chrissy Casilio of Clarence in November's general election. | 2023-02-27T22:21:47+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/nate-mcmurray-ends-democratic-candidacy-for-county-executive/article_c1ea8baa-b6e0-11ed-a9b8-c7d4f2ca449d.html |
FOXBORO — In the spring of 2018, the Patriots were coming off a second straight Super Bowl appearance and rostered the reigning league MVP in Tom Brady. But that didn’t stop them from heavily scouting quarterbacks ahead of the draft, like future Ravens star Lamar Jackson.
The Patriots hosted Jackson on one of their 30 pre-draft visits in Foxboro, where the future MVP met with Bill Belichick among other key staffers. Days ahead of Sunday’s showdown with Baltimore, Belichick was asked what he remembered about that visit.
“Great visit, spent a lot of time with him,” Belichick said Wednesday. “Really interesting guy.”
Former director of player personnel Nick Caserio attended Jackson’s Pro Day workout at Louisville. It was reported that Jackson intrigued the Patriots, who also had interest in future No. 1 overall pick Baker Mayfield, but they were reluctant to redesign their entire offense around him. So, the front office passed over Jackson twice in the first round to draft offensive tackle Isaiah Wynn at 23rd overall and running back Sony Michel at No. 31, then Brady led the Pats to their sixth Super Bowl title the following February.
In his second season, and first as a starter, Jackson won MVP after passing for more than 3,100 yards, rushing for more than 1,200 and scoring 43 total touchdowns in the regular season. Through two weeks this year, he’s completed 64.1% of his passes for 531 yards, six touchdowns and one interception. Asked if Jackson has answered pre-draft questions about his ability to win and throw from the pocket, Belichick gave a resounding yes on Wednesday.
“Without a doubt. That’s the type of player that’s an MVP-type of candidate,” Belichick said. “I think he’s more than answered them.”
In two career games against the Patriots, Jackson has completed 72% of his passes for 412 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. He’s also rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns on 27 carries. His Ravens beat Brady and the Patriots 37-20 midway through the 2019 season, then the Pats pulled a 23-17 home upset against Baltimore amid heavy rains in Oct. 2020.
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NEW YORK (AP) — UPS has reached a tentative contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.
The agreement was announced after UPS and the Teamsters came back to the negotiating table Tuesday to talk over remaining sticking points in the largest private-sector contract in North America. Both sides had already reached tentative agreement on a host of issues but remained at odds on things like pay for part-time workers who make up more than half of the UPS employees represented by the union.
The Teamsters called the tentative agreement “historic” and “overwhelmingly lucrative” in a prepared statement. It includes, among other benefits, higher wages and air conditioning in delivery trucks.
“Together we reached a win-win-win agreement on the issues that are important to Teamsters leadership, our employees and to UPS and our customers,” Carol Tomé, UPS chief executive officer, said in a written statement. “This agreement continues to reward UPS’s full- and part-time employees with industry-leading pay and benefits while retaining the flexibility we need to stay competitive, serve our customers and keep our business strong.”
The company said the five-year agreement covers U.S. Teamsters-represented employees in small-package roles and is subject to voting and ratification by union members.
The union, which had long threatened a strike, boasted about the “historic wage increases” for its members, saying existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
It said the agreement includes provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers to $21 per hour, up from $16.20 today. It also reiterated prior concessions it got from the company, such as making Martin Luther King Day a full holiday for the first time and ending forced overtime on drivers’ days off.
Members of the Teamsters, angered by a contract they say was forced on them five years ago by union leadership, clashed with UPS over pay as profits for the delivery company soared in recent years. Union leadership was upended last year with the election of Sean O’Brien, a vocal critic of the union president who signed off on that contract, James Hoffa, the son of the famous Teamsters firebrand.
The two side had reached a tentative agreement early on safety issues, including equipping more trucks with air conditioning equipment. Under the agreement, UPS said it would add air conditioning to U.S. small delivery vehicles purchased after January 1, 2024.
Profits at UPS have grown more than 140% since the last contract was signed as the arrival of a deadly pandemic drastically transformed the manner in which households get what they need.
Unionized workers argued that were the ones shouldering growth at the Atlanta company and appeared dead set on righting what they saw as a bad contract.
The 24 million packages UPS ships on an average day amounts to about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. As UPS puts it, that’s the equivalent of about 6% of nation’s gross domestic product.
Member voting begins Aug. 3 and concludes Aug. 22.
UPS has the largest private-sector contract with workers in North America and the last breakdown in labor talks a quarter century ago led to a 15-day walkout by 185,000 workers that crippled the company.
If a strike occurred, logistics experts had warned that other shipping companies wouldn’t have had the capacity to handle all the packages that would flow their way. Customers who shop online could have faced more shipping fees and longer waits.
The deal averts a big crisis in shipping just as merchants were in the throes of the back-to-school shopping season, the second largest sales period behind the winter holidays.
The Retail Industry Leaders Association, a national retail trade group that counts retailers like Best Buy, CVS Health and Kohl’s as members, called the tentative pact “an enormous relief to retailers, who have been navigating the possibility of a strike and the associated uncertainty for weeks.”
“We’ve learned all too well over the last several years the impact supply chain disruptions can have,” the group said in a statement. ”We’re grateful that this challenge, which would have had a price tag in the billions of dollars and a long runway for recovery, was avoided.”
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Matt Ott contributed to this report from Washington, D.C. and Anne D’Innocenzio contributed from New York City. | 2023-07-25T17:32:55+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ups-reaches-contract-with-340000-unionized-workers-averting-potentially-calamitous-strike/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Stagwell Celebrates a Successful Year Post-Merger Driven by Digital Services, Top Talent, Strategic Investments and Global Expansion
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One year ago today, Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) launched as the challenger network built to transform marketing. Led by longtime pollster, political strategist, businessman, and author Mark Penn, who serves as chairman and CEO, Stagwell has grown exponentially in the last year, outpacing global advertising giants in full-year 2021 performance.
"On Stagwell's first birthday, I can point to a year of spectacular results and incredible collaboration," said Stagwell Chairman and CEO Mark Penn. "Our combination of talent and technology is working. Thanks to our clients, talent, and partners who share in this philosophy, we've had a great first year, and we're ideally poised for another year of transformative work. We can't wait for year two."
A key component of Stagwell's first year has been focusing on a high-growth mix of digital services that align the company to the fastest-growing segments of the digital marketing economy, including digital transformation, global performance media, connected commerce, augmented reality, and more. Fifty-six percent of Stagwell's revenue by the end of Q1 2022 came from digital capabilities. As outlined in Stagwell's 2022 Annual Report, four pillars are driving the network's performance:
- Strategic M&A is fundamentally growing Stagwell's portfolio to evolve alongside the fastest growing segments of the new economy. To date, acquisitions include digital brand and experience innovation company Instrument; London-based media agency Goodstuff; Warsaw-based e-commerce solutions provider Brand New Galaxy; and Kyiv-based omnichannel content production company PEP Group, which joined Locaria, Stagwell's multilingual content agency.
- SaaS and DaaS product development investments are providing new revenue from organizations doubling down on in-house marketing - once seen as a threat to global marketing networks. The Stagwell Marketing Cloud (SMC) arms the in-house marketer with tools that assist campaigns from ideation to activation. To date, these tools include solutions spanning augmented reality, influencer marketing, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted press outreach, and more. The SMC's first acquisition, Apollo Program, an AI-powered SaaS platform for uncovering consumer, creative and contextual insights, further enhances Stagwell's first-party data infrastructure.
- The Global Affiliate Network of over 50 partners is enabling Stagwell to capture footprint across key growth regions. With agencies in the UK, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM complementing existing media and scaled content capabilities, Stagwell has been able to deliver the full spectrum of marketing services to global brands and capture business from legacy giants regardless of region.
- Integrated Services and cross-network collaboration are fueling more "transformative" $10M+ assignments, including Stagwell global performance agency Assembly's win of Lenovo's North American, EMEA, and Latin America media AOR.
Join Stagwell in celebrating its first birthday by visiting the company's LinkedIn.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 12,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
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SOURCE Stagwell Inc. | 2022-08-02T17:42:56+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/02/stagwell-stgw-challenger-network-built-transform-marketing-turns-1/ |
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A representative of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday handed a set of diamond jewelry he received during his presidency over to a state bank, as ordered by a government watchdog amid an investigation into the gifts.
Federal police and prosecutors are investigating whether the goods brought into the country from Saudi Arabia were public gifts that Bolsonaro improperly tried to prevent from being incorporated into the presidency’s public collection, or private gifts that Bolsonaro tried sneak into Brazil without paying taxes.
The Senate’s transparency commission also is investigating whether the sale of a refinery by Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant was related to the jewels.
The state bank Caixa Economica Federal received the box of precious stones Friday at one of its branches in capital Brasilia, the bank’s press office told The Associated Press. A representative also turned in firearms Bolsonaro received as a gift from authorities in the United Arab Emirates, according to the federal police’s press office.
A federal watchdog on Wednesday had given Bolsonaro five days to hand over the precious stones and guns that he had received while president.
Brazilian media started reporting on the set of jewels earlier this month, along with another set that was seized earlier at the international airport in Sao Paulo. The confiscated set, composed of earrings, a necklace, a ring and a watch by Swiss brand Chopard, is estimated to be worth several million dollars. Neither set was declared to tax authorities.
Documents and video footage published by local press appear to show supposed emissaries of Bolsonaro making multiple unsuccessful attempts to retrieve the seized jewelry, up until just days before the end of his presidency.
Bolsonaro, who denies any wrongdoing connected to the gifts, has been in the United States since late-December, just days before the end of his presidential term.
The gifts add to the legal jeopardy already surrounding the right-wing populist politician. He is also under investigation for any involvement in a rampage by his supporters through the national capital after he left office and for numerous actions during the presidential election campaign he lost last fall. | 2023-03-25T11:02:36+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/brazils-bolsonaro-turns-in-undeclared-jewels-to-authorities/ |
From Chief Meteorologist Matt Schaefer:
Eau Claire was only a degree or two above today's record coldest high temperature through early afternoon. Temps later this afternoon did manage to climb further away from that record as the sunshine finally returned between the clouds.
However, today's high was still about 20 degrees below Eau Claire's average high of 62° and nowhere near as warm as it could be for this time of year. The record high for April 26 is 87° set sixty years ago back in 1962. Still, with the clear sky after sunset, temps will fall quickly.
Eau Claire is again on record watch with a forecast low in the low 20s, which will be close to the record low of 23° set in 1996. The wind that has kept us cooler in addition to the clouds continues out of the northwest, but it will get lighter overnight and may even be calm at times. Clouds return tomorrow ahead of our next precipitation chances, though tomorrow and Thursday's chances look mainly to be a nuisance with not a lot of precipitation expected.
Expect a slight chance for... READ MORE | 2022-04-27T01:47:50+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/weather/forecast/temps-stayed-just-above-record-cold-territory-as-eau-claire-remains-on-record-watch-tonight/article_09cbd8d2-c5a8-11ec-8e20-1fe9c712d085.html |
PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. (WKRN) — A father of a 7-year-old boy detained an alleged “peeping Tom” in a bathroom until law enforcement officers arrived.
Body camera video from the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Department shows the moment when deputies raced into the restroom of a Pleasant View, Tennessee, convenience store Friday.
The call initially came into police dispatch as an armed man preventing another man from leaving a convenience store restroom. When deputies arrived, they found a man blocking the exit, accusing another man of watching his son use the bathroom.
Standing beside the far wall was the suspect, Brian Nicklas.
The 7-year-old’s father told deputies, “I made sure he stood in that corner where he was at. I told him he wasn’t leaving. He tried to leave, and I said, ‘No, you ain’t going nowhere but to jail.'”
According to the child’s father, he and his son were using the restroom when Nicklas came to a urinal next to the boy and blatantly peeked over the partition between the urinals to watch the little boy urinate.
When questioned about this by deputies, the 42-year-old Nicklas admitted it happened.
Nicklas: “He’s right, I was. I did actually peek at his, his boy.”
Deputy: “You peeked at him?”
Nicklas: Yeah, is that actually illegal?”
The boy’s father told investigators he was armed but he never pulled his pistol.
Father: “I told him, I said, ‘Look I got a weapon. This guy’s not leaving.’ I said, ‘I have not unholstered it yet, but if he tries to leave, I will.'”
Deputies asked Nicklas why he did it.
Deputy: “Like why?”
Nicklas: “I don’t think any reason would cut it anyway.”
Deputies asked the father if he wanted to prosecute, to which he responded, “Yeah, I want his a** in jail.”
With that, the deputies handcuffed Nicklas and escorted him to a waiting squad car.
Nicklas was charged with observation without consent, which is a misdemeanor.
Nicklas has no prior arrest history in the county.
He is out of jail on a $50,000 bond and due back in court on May 24. | 2023-04-12T12:13:48+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/father-detains-peeping-tom-suspect-in-tennessee-bathroom-until-authorities-arrive/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Tutition at the University of New Mexico may not be going up after all. The administration had suggested a 3% tuition increase to cover costs like campus improvements and health initiatives.
However, a budget approved by the regents on Monday did not include that increase. The regents did sign off on a 3% increase in student fees, along with an additional $22 fee per semester for student health and counseling. The regents will consider a final version of the budget on May 11. | 2023-04-11T01:52:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/education/budget-scenario-approved-by-unm-regents-does-not-include-tuition-hike/ |
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tephra Digital LLC ("Tephra Digital"), a privately held investment firm that focuses on Digital Assets, today announced the appointment of Kadian Tinto as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Tinto joins June 1st, 2022 and brings over a decade of experience in global fund operations at leading asset management firms, with a track record of leadership, execution and process excellence.
Previously, Ms. Tinto was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where she was instrumental in the launch of their Private Capital division, within Alternatives. Prior to that, she held leadership roles at BlackRock and Goldman, Sachs & Co. across a range of traditional and alternatives markets and products.
Tinto holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Howard University and hails from the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
"Kadian brings deep and broad experience in asset management, business operations, trading and accounting systems and relationship management. We are excited to welcome her as Tephra Digital formally launches. Kadian will be essential in defining and managing Tephra Digital's operations, and in allowing us to efficiently scale the business," said Ryan Price and Raghav Chopra, founding Managing Partners of Tephra Digital.
Tinto said, "I am excited to join Tephra Digital and engage in the dynamic and evolving Digital Assets landscape. I look forward to working with the entire team and the firm's industry-leading service providers to best serve the firm's clients."
Tephra Digital LLC ("Tephra Digital") is a privately held investment firm that focuses on Digital Assets. The firm employs a long-term investing philosophy and has partnered with best-in-class service providers.
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Static colors, decorations and accessories around the house can make any room feel stale. Fortunately, it doesn’t take a lot of money or effort to revitalize a space. A home makeover can make you feel more comfortable, inspired or creative in every room.
From small decorations and changing textures to new lighting and colors, there are myriad ways to invigorate your home without spending a lot.
In this article: Bedsure Throw Blanket, Urban Shop Knit Pouf and La Jolie Muse Hanging Planter.
Best Amazon living room decor
A gallery wall can turn empty space into an eye-catching focal point. This set has a gold border and includes five picture frames that can be arranged to your liking.
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DII Decorative Throw Pillow Covers
An easy way to create a new look in the living room every season is with pillow covers. This set of four patterned covers is offered in 18 colors and designs to complement or accent your space.
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Homemory Flameless Pillar Candles
A room’s ambiance drastically changes with a soft light and warm glow in lieu of bright lamps and fixtures. Flameless candles offer a long-lasting, safe alternative to traditional wax candles; the embedded string lights in this set also create a more magical feel.
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A new throw blanket is another way to add a pop of color and texture to a space. This pink throw with tassels and ridges serves an aesthetic purpose while also being made of breathable material that can keep you warm and cozy. Plus, if pink isn’t your thing, there are eight other color choices.
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Swapping out an old coffee table changes a living room’s focus, significantly altering its feel and look. This minimalist coffee table provides functionality in a modern space for those on a budget. It comes in three colors, including Espresso, French Oak Grey and Marble White
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This cute, cozy pouf adds color, texture and additional seating. The versatile floor accessory is soft and lightweight, letting you move it around your home for either practical or aesthetic purposes.
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Best Amazon kitchen decor
Lily’s Home Retro Kitchen Wall Clock
Retro styles are trending this year, and this eye-catching wall clock perfectly fits the theme. Adding a vintage touch to the kitchen, it also features a thermometer and timer to assist when cooking.
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Brighter Barns Salt and Pepper Set
For a low price, these teal salt and pepper shakers provide some color and a farmhouse style at the dinner table. The set can stand on its own or be incorporated into a rustic revival in the kitchen, pairing it with an inexpensive napkin holder and storage containers for a complete look.
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A Galileo thermometer adds some sophistication to the home and even a bit of calm. The floating glass cylinder is colorful and elegant, while a matching glass barometer complements with its spherical shape.
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MDesign Bathroom Accessory Set
A new accessory set is an easy way to change the style of a bathroom, especially in a smaller space. This toothbrush holder, soap dispenser and tumbler are durable, inexpensive and colorful.
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Madison Park Waffle Shower Curtain
A simple shower curtain can set the tone in the bathroom with its color and patterns. This affordable, water-repellent curtain features trendy stripes and color choices for a refined look.
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In lieu of a regular lamp by the couch or bed, invest in a warm Himalayan crystal. It provides practical light as well as a soft glow, ideal for the winter. Some believe it to boast therapeutic properties, relieving stress and improving mood, though the Cleveland Clinic says there is little scientific research to back up these claims.
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Amazon Basics Blackout Curtains
Bedroom curtains are another way to significantly change a room’s feel without spending too much money. Amazon Basics offers elegant blackout curtains for a low price, with colors and patterns to fit your new style; they’ll also help you sleep well by keeping out the unwanted morning light.
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Stone and Beam Artificial Olive Tree
Artificial plants are increasingly popular around the home, particularly in spaces that tend to be dry and do not receive adequate light. This stunningly realistic olive tree can be placed anywhere to add some beauty.
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A hanging planter uses empty ceiling space to make a room feel cozier and livelier. These bright white planters have a clean look and nicely contrast a lush plant in a modern home.
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Posters and wall art are another simple, inexpensive way to overhaul a room. Consider this clever world map, which adds an elevated aesthetic to a space. It’s also interactive, letting you scratch off countries to reveal a splash of color.
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The brightness, warmth and color of any light in a room set the space’s tone. With these innovative smart lights, you don’t have to decide on a static look. They allow optimal personalization, with settings that pulse to the music and others that fit a specific mood or event.
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Sometimes changing a space can be done with just a simple ornament. Funko Pop toys are sought-after collectibles for kids and adults alike, and while they offer little in the way of interaction, they do add some personality, as with this John Waters vinyl from the Icons collection.
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- This artificial monstera offers some lush greenery.
- These clever vinyl coasters in the guise of vinyl records provide a retro feel.
- This minimalist wall mirror opens up a space.
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Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-16T17:37:21+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/reviews/br/home-br/decor-br/time-for-a-home-makeover-check-out-this-affordable-amazon-home-decor/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance on the island of Aruba, walked shackled into an Alabama courtroom on Friday as her parents looked on.
He pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to extort money from the missing teen’s mother in exchange for revealing where to find her daughter’s remains.
Although he's not on trial for harming Holloway, the extortion and wire fraud charges are the only alleged crimes that link the Dutch citizen to her disappearance on the final night of high school graduation trip with classmates. The 18-year-old was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school on the island where he grew up.
Van der Sloot, now 35, was extradited Thursday from Peru where he’s serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman in 2010 — five years to the day after Holloway went missing.
Natalee’s mother, father and brother were in the courtroom Friday. Beth Holloway stared occasionally at van der Sloot but otherwise showed no obvious emotion.
“The wheels of justice have finally begun to turn for our family,” she wrote in a statement. “It has been a very long and painful journey.”
Van der Sloot, wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, declined to use a Dutch interpreter offered to him at Friday’s arraignment, saying “I don’t think it’s necessary.” During the brief court preceding, he entered a not guilty plea through his attorney and answered “Yes” when asked if he understood his rights.
Afterward, Beth Holloway hugged friends who had come to offer their support. She declined to comment outside the courthouse.
Her spokesperson, George Seymore, told reporters that seeing van der Sloot in court “was chilling but at the same time gratifying.”
The mysterious disappearance sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts. Van der Sloot was identified as a main suspect and detained for questioning along with two Surinamese brothers, weeks after Holloway went missing. No charges were filed in the case.
A judge declared Holloway dead, but her body has never been found.
U.S. prosecutors say that in 2010, van der Sloot sought money from Beth Holloway to lead her to the young woman's body. A grand jury indicted him that year.
In 2012, van der Sloot pleaded guilty in Peru to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent family, in 2010.
Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman in July 2014 in a ceremony at a maximum-security prison. He was shuffled between prisons in response to reports he enjoyed privileges like television, internet access and a cellphone, and accusations he threatened to kill a warden.
Peru has agreed to let van der Sloot remain in U.S. custody until the Alabama case is concluded, including any appeal if he is convicted, according to a resolution published in Peru’s federal register. U.S. authorities agreed to return him to Peru's custody after that, the resolution states.
Cindy Rysedorph, a friend of the Holloway family, said they’re doing as well as could be expected.
“It’s progress,” she said. “I’m so grateful that he’s here.” | 2023-06-09T23:10:07+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/natalee-holloway-suspect-joran-van-der-sloot-court/507-5816267f-53ed-481f-840f-7542cf13de12 |
Raiders offense: 5 games in, it’s a work in progress
The Raiders entered the bye week with the eighth-most productive offense in the NFL, averaging 25 points per game.
Interestingly, they have done so while ranking only 22nd in red zone touchdown scoring percentage, with an offensive line that continues to be a work in progress and without big contributions from normally productive veterans Darren Waller and Hunter Renfrow.
If the Raiders can address those issues, they have a chance to become one of the best offenses in the NFL.
Here are three observations:
Adams the real deal
In spite of an early season adjustment to a new offense and a new quarterback, Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams has been as advertised through his first five games. And there is reason to believe he could be on the verge of an even bigger breakout.
Adams ranks eighth in the NFL with 414 receiving yards and second with five touchdowns. He has done so while amassing only the 13th- most catches at 29. His targets, meanwhile, are the fourth most at 54.
Given how he has produced 12 catches for 225 yards and two touchdowns on 20 targets over the last two games, it appears as if he and Derek Carr are becoming more comfortable working together again. That could and should mean his production will be more in line with the number of times he’s being targeted.
Run game emerges
The Raiders tinkered with their offensive line through the first five games, trying to come up with an effective combination. That included their last game before the bye week, when Alex Bars and Dylan Parham switched spots. Parham moved from right guard to left guard and Bars went from left to right.
The Raiders might still have one more move up their sleeve, with rookie Thayer Munford taking over for Jermaine Eluemunor at right tackle. That would make the Bars and Parham flip-flop more understandable, as it breaks up an all-rookie right side and allows Munford and Parham to be flanked by veterans.
In any case, as the Raiders have succeeded in establishing a physical identity that marries up perfectly with veteran running back Josh Jacobs, who is off to the best start of his career.
Jacobs has 490 yards and three touchdowns and is averaging career highs in yards per carry (5.4) and yards per game at 98. He’s also added 17 catches for 129 yards, which puts him on pace for career highs in catches and receiving yards as well.
Between the physical scheme Josh McDaniels has cooked up, and the developing synergy between Jacobs and the offensive line, the Raiders seem to have come up with a run game they can rely on.
Renfrow, Waller struggle
Between injuries and an obvious transition to a new offense — and a new top target in Adams — the Raiders have yet to get Renfrow and Waller rolling. This leads to either hope or resignation.
The hope rests in McDaniels being too good of an offensive mind and Waller and Renfrow being too talented to not believe the Raiders will find a way to tap deeper into two major weapons.
If so, an already potent Raiders offense has a chance to be even more productive.
Resignation is the possibility that Waller and Renfrow have become merely second fiddles to Adams and that their production to this point is what can be expected.
The former seems more likely, and if the Raiders can get their two veterans more acclimated and involved, it will open things up even more for the offense.
Contact Vincent Bonsignore at vbonsignore@reviewjournal.com. Follow @VinnyBonsignore on Twitter. | 2022-10-14T23:42:36+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-offense-5-games-in-its-a-work-in-progress-2657995/ |
KENDLETON, Texas (AP) — Three empty tank cars derailed but remained upright in a Southeast Texas rail yard on Monday, the train's owner said, and no one was hurt.
A locomotive leaked fuel but it was contained, Kansas City Southern spokesperson C. Doniele Carlson said in a statement.
The derailment took place at around 7 a.m. in Kendleton, Texas, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Houston, Carlson said.
“No injuries were reported and there is no track damage,” she said. The impacted rail line was expected to reopen later Monday morning.
Officials with the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said they did not respond to the incident because it was contained to the rail yard.
The cause of the derailment is under investigation, Carlson said.
Federal regulators and members of Congress are urging railroads to do more to prevent derailments after recent fiery wrecks involving hazardous chemicals in Ohio and Minnesota prompted evacuations. | 2023-04-10T18:02:21+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/empty-tank-cars-derail-in-texas-rail-yard-no-17888761.php |
Actor Marlee Matlin, director Jason Reitman and producer Jason Blum are joining the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The organization that puts on the Oscars said Wednesday that they are among the 12 Hollywood professionals who have been elected to the board for the first time. Others joining include cinematographer Dion Beebe, casting director Richard Hicks and marketing and public relations executive Megan Colligan.
Each of the academy’s 17 branches are represented by three governors who help set and guide the strategy for the academy and manage its financial health. Other governors currently serving include Whoopi Goldberg, Ava DuVernay and Rita Wilson. With this election, a majority of the board is female and 28 percent of members belong to an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
The academy, and the board, have been under more scrutiny than usual following the incident in which Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars ceremony earlier this year. Several days later, the board banned Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years. | 2022-06-23T04:18:30+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/oscars-org-adds-marlee-matlin-jason-reitman-to-board/ |
Sir Richard Roberts joins 120 new members elected to the academy in 2023
IPSWICH, Mass., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, New England Biolabs (NEB®) announced that Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize winner and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at NEB, has been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scientific scholars committed to furthering science and scientific research in the USA. Scientists elected to NAS are selected by their peers based on their exceptional contributions in research.
"I've been very fortunate to witness my research contribute to our evolving understanding of the life sciences over the course of my career," said Roberts. "I continue to be humbled and motivated by the impact scientists can have – particularly when we work collectively and choose to help others."
Roberts was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his contribution to the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene splicing, which allows a gene to code for multiple proteins. Roberts was also instrumental in isolating most of the world's first known restriction enzymes. He served as a consultant and chairman of NEB's scientific advisory board from 1975 and joined the company as CSO in 1992.
"We're proud to see Rich recognized for his profound impact on the study and applications of molecular biology, and we're thankful for the integral role he has played at the company as a visionary scientist, leader and mentor," said Salvatore Russello, NEB's CEO "NEB's investment in basic research ensures we stay connected to our customers and drives scientific breakthroughs. Rich has been instrumental in the success of our program."
At NEB, Roberts works alongside Tom Evans, NEB's Executive Director of Research, to guide the company's research program. Roberts' current research focus is on using bioinformatics to drive enzyme discovery, combined with the experimental testing of enzyme function. Collectively, NEB scientists have authored over 1,450 publications to date, on topics that include understanding DNA enzyme structure and function, protein expression and modification, chemical biology, parasitology, and genome and RNA biology.
A full list of newly elected NAS members can be seen here.
About New England Biolabs
Established in the mid 1970s, New England Biolabs, Inc. is the industry leader in the discovery and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications and now offers the largest selection of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research. NEB continues to expand its product offerings into areas related to PCR, gene expression, sample preparation for next generation sequencing, synthetic biology, glycobiology, epigenetics, and RNA analysis. Additionally, NEB is focused on strengthening alliances that enable new technologies to reach key market sectors, including molecular diagnostics, clinical sequencing, and nucleic acid-based therapeutics and vaccines, and also offers a series of product customization services, including lyophilization. New England Biolabs is a privately held company, headquartered in Ipswich, MA, USA, and has extensive worldwide distribution through a network of exclusive distributors, agents and subsidiaries located in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the UK. For more information about New England Biolabs visit www.neb.com.
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HONOLULU – USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor even though his battleship exploded and sank after being pierced by aerial bombs.
That makes the now 101-year-old somewhat of a celebrity, especially on the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 assault. Many call him and others in the nation's dwindling pool of Pearl Harbor survivors heroes.
Conter rejects the characterization.
“The 2,403 men that died are the heroes. And we’ve got to honor them ahead of everybody else. And I’ve said that every time, and I think it should be stressed,” Conter said in a recent interview at his Grass Valley, California, home north of Sacramento.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service will host a remembrance ceremony at Pearl Harbor in honor of those killed.
Last year about 30 survivors and some 100 other veterans of the war made the pilgrimage to the annual event. But the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service anticipate only one or two survivors will likely attend in person this year. Another 20 to 30 veterans of World War II are also expected to be there.
Conter won't be among them. He attended for many years, most recently in 2019. But his doctor has told him the five-hour flight, plus hours of waiting at airports, is too strenuous for him now.
“I’m going on 102 now. It’s kind of hard to mess around,” Conter said.
Instead he plans to watch a video feed of this year’s 81st anniversary observance from home. He's also recorded a message that will be played for those attending.
Conter's autobiography “The Lou Conter Story” recounts how one of the Japanese bombs penetrated five steel decks on the Arizona and ignited over 1 million pounds of gunpowder and thousands of pounds of ammunition.
“The ship was consumed in a giant fireball that looked as if it engulfed everything from the mainmast forward,” he wrote.
He joined other survivors in tending to the injured, many of whom were blinded and badly burned. The sailors only abandoned ship when their senior surviving officer was sure they had rescued all those still alive.
The Arizona’s 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the bombing. The battleship today sits where it sank 81 years ago, with more than 900 of its dead still entombed inside.
Conter wasn't injured at Pearl Harbor, during World War II or the Korean War.
This year's remembrance ceremony is the first to be open to the public since the 2019. The pandemic forced the adoption of strict public health measures for the last two years.
David Kilton, the National Park Service's chief of interpretation for Pearl Harbor, said he's not sure how many people will attend but they're anticipating between 2,000 to 3,000 people.
It will be held at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial visitors center which overlooks the water and the white structure built to honor those killed on the Arizona.
Organizers have set a theme of “Everlasting Legacy” for this year's ceremony, highlighting how fewer and fewer survivors remain.
“We honestly have to know and be prepared that eventually we won’t have the ability to connect with their stories and have them with us anymore,” Kilton said. “And it’s hard to to come to grips with that reality.”
Conter went to flight school after Pearl Harbor, earning his wings to fly PBY patrol bombers, which the Navy used to look for submarines and bomb enemy targets. He flew 200 combat missions in the Pacific with a “Black Cats” squadron, which conducted dive bombing at night in planes painted black.
One night in 1943 he and his crew had to avoid a dozen or so nearby sharks after they were shot down near New Guinea.
When one sailor expressed doubt they would survive, Conter responded “baloney.”
“Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he said. They were quiet and treaded water until another plane came and dropped them a lifeboat hours later.
In the late 1950s, he was made the Navy’s first SERE officer — which is an acronym for survival, evasion, resistance and escape. He spent the next decade training Navy pilots and crew on how to survive if they’re shot down in the jungle and captured as a prisoner of war. Some of his pupils used his instruction to live through years as POWs in Vietnam.
These days, he spends his time going to his favorite breakfast spot twice a week and going out for Mexican food every Friday night. He enjoys visiting with friends and watching TV.
Conter hasn't forgotten his shipmates. He said he'd like the military to try to identify 85 Arizona sailors who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery after the war.
“They should never give up on that issue. If they’re ever identified, I’m sure their families would want to bury them at home or wherever, but they should never give up on trying to identify them,” he said.
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Daley reported from Grass Valley, California. | 2022-12-05T18:38:37+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2022/12/05/uss-arizona-survivor-honor-those-killed-at-pearl-harbor/ |
Feds spend $2.4 million on cloud seeding for Colorado River
BRITTANY PETERSON
Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed the parched desert region.
The weather modification method uses planes and ground-based cannons to shoot silver iodide crystals into clouds, attracting moisture to the particles that falls as additional snow and rain.
The funding comes as key reservoirs on the Colorado River hit record lows and booming Western cities and industries fail to adjust their water use to increasingly shrinking supplies.
“This money from Reclamation is wonderful, we just have to decide how exactly it’s going to benefit us,” said Andrew Rickert, who coordinates Colorado’s cloud seeding for the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
The federal funding will go toward upgrading manual generators to ones that can be remotely operated, and using planes to seed clouds in key parts of the Upper Colorado River Basin, according to Southern Nevada Water Authority documents for its board meeting.
Securing enough generators could be a challenge, Rickert said. “There’s not a lot of makers of cloud seeding generators,” he said. “Not only do we have to make sure we can find that, but that they could make as many as we need.”
The Bureau of Reclamation declined to comment about the funding decision.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority said the grant, while administered by Nevada, is not exclusively for the state’s benefit. “It will all be used to do cloud seeding in the Upper Basin for the benefit of all the river’s users,” wrote public outreach officer Corey Enus over email.
In the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah and Colorado have been seeding clouds for decades. Wyoming has nearly a decade of experience, and New Mexico recently began approving permits for warm weather seeding in the eastern part of the state.
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming each spend between about $1 million and $1.5 million a year for cloud seeding. Utah’s legislature recently expanded their investment in cloud seeding programs in next year’s state budget, allocating more than $14 million.
Numerous studies indicate cloud seeding can add 5% to 15% more precipitation from storm clouds. Contractors work with states to estimate how much ends up in water supplies.
Since 2007, various groups have contributed to the overall cloud seeding budgets in those states. In 2018, several entities, including the Southern Nevada Water Authority, committed to long-term funding for those efforts, collectively contributing about $1.5 million annually.
The reclamation bureau regularly funded cloud seeding operations toward the end of the 20th century, but has largely backed off in recent years, according to Frank McDonough a scientist at the nonprofit Desert Research Institute.
“The research that’s come out over the last 10 years or so really seems to have convinced them that cloud seeding is a legitimate way to increase snowpack and subsequent water resources,” McDonough said.
The grant from the bureau will be spread out over two years, temporarily doubling financial support for the Upper Basin cloud seeding from outside parties.
The seven Colorado River basin states are still negotiating with the Bureau of Reclamation on how they will conserve 2 million to 4 million acre-feet of water — or up to roughly one-third. The Bureau is expected to release a draft proposal this month and expects to finalize plans by mid-August, when it typically announces the amount of water available from the Colorado River for the following year.
With such an over-allocated river, everyone will have to use less, particularly the agricultural sector, said Kathryn Sorensen of the Kyl Center for Water Policy think tank.
“I think a lot the allure of this type of program is it’s easier to talk about how do we get more than to talk about who has to use less,” she said.
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This story was first published on March 16, 2023. It was updated on March 17, 2023 to correct the surname of a source from the Kyle Center on Water Policy. She is Kathryn Sorensen, not Sorenson. | 2023-03-17T18:21:28+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/17/feds-spend-2-4-million-on-cloud-seeding-for-colorado-river-3/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Tyler Perry has directed his first screenplay, 27 years after writing it.
“A Jazzman’s Blues,” which is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, was Perry’s first stab at screenwriting long before Madea made him a media mogul, back when he was pouring what little money he had into less successful Atlanta stage shows.
After directing numerous films, dozens of TV episodes and expanding his 330-acre Tyler Perry Studios empire in Atlanta, Perry has returned to that old script, without hardly changing a word, for his first film for Netflix. (“A Jazzman’s Blues” begins streaming Sept. 23.)
“The timing seemed to be right,” Perry said in an interview ahead of the film’s premiere Sunday.
Set in mid-century Georgia, the movie stars Joshua Boon as Bayou, a juke joint-sensation who, before leaving to make it big in Chicago, falls in love with Leanne (Solea Pfieffer). Years later, she returns to their hometown married and passing for white. It’s a romance sketched against the backdrop of the segregated South and the era’s flourishing music scene, with songs by Terence Blanchard and choreography by Debbie Allen.
Remarks have been edited for brevity.
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AP: What was going on in your life when you wrote this?
PERRY: I was really struggling and poor. It was a really difficult time. I got a chance to see an August Wilson play. If I’m not mistaken, I think it was “Seven Guitars.” I would have to sneak it an intermission and go in when people came out for a smoke. I couldn’t afford a ticket. There was an afterparty at a little cafe and I ran into him. I told him what kind of shows I was doing and how there was so much more I wanted to do. He encouraged me to not be ashamed of what I was doing but also to do whatever else I wanted to. I went home and started writing and “Jazzman” showed up.
AP: Where did the story come from?
PERRY: I grew up New Orleans and I have family in rural Louisiana. That’s where I spent summers with my grandmother. So I knew this world very well. When I was a young kid working on Bourbon Street, I’d hear all kind of music. As I was writing, all this music was in my head. I wasn’t trying to write a period piece about someone passing in the South. A couple years ago, I remember seeing a picture of my grandmother and great grandmother who looked like white women. My grandmother married my grandfather, who was clearly a Black man. According to my aunt — I’m fact checking this now — there are people in my family who passed for white.
AP: Was that something your family talked about?
PERRY: No. It’s the strangest thing from the generations before me. I find this true with my Jewish friends who have grandparents who survived the Holocaust. It’s just not talked about. It’s not spoken of. I feel that it’s a horrible disservice to the future children and people who are benefitting from the atrocities that our families endured. If you don’t know the facts of what happened and how it happened, I think you do a disservice to your family.
AP: This might be your most ambitious film yet. Did you feel you had to build up to it?
PERRY: One hundred percent. “Diary of a Mad Woman,” my first film, I didn’t direct because I didn’t know how. It took all of these films and all of these television episodes to really understand filmmaking. I really credit David Fincher and (Ben) Affleck when I was on “Gone Girl” where I really started to understand it and get it. For me, it had always been that the camera was just there to tell the story. I didn’t take in the fullness of all the things that the camera can represent.
AP: So why tackle it now?
PERRY: I’ve been strategic. I’ve had to make sure that I super-serve my niche, my audience. I needed those successes to be able to get it here. It’s all been part of the plan. The reason that it came up now is that I’ve been watching so many politicians and powers that be trying to downplay and whitewash the experience of Black people in America. I think it’s up to us as storytellers to bring those real stories to the forefront because of this assault on history.
AP: Georgia has been at the center of some of the battles over voting rights, abortion rights and school curriculum. How do you feel about having your studio there?
PERRY: I have two views to that. One is: Being on the very ground and home of Dr. Martin Luther King and seeing their fight, seeing the vigor that it took to get things done. There’s a richness there that I thrive on, that I plug into, that I appreciate. On the other side, we’re dealing with all this gerrymandering, voting-rights issues, abortion issues. All these moments are happening but I have to focus on the fighters so that I’m able to function in a state that I love.
AP: Some in Hollywood have previously called for boycotting productions in Georgia. Last year, the Will Smith film “Emancipation” withdrew from shooting in the state. What do you think about those kind of measures?
PERRY: Some of them I think are extreme. We have this cancel culture now that if someone does something you don’t like or says something you don’t like, they’re canceled. If the state makes a law you don’t like, you don’t go there. The reason I take issue with all of it is every four years there’s an election, or every two years with the midterms. We get an opportunity to try to change it. So I think drastic, immediate shutdowns can be harmful to people who work here. At this moment, I have over $400 million in the ground at Tyler Perry Studios. And there are many people who come to work there who would have never gotten a chance to be in this business. I know Hollywood is really big on diversity now. Well, you don’t get more diverse than Tyler Perry Studios. If you’re trying to boycott the state, you’re boycotting those people, too.
AP: You’ve had a content deal with Viacom for years. This is your first film with Netflix. Are you looking for a bigger platform?
PERRY: I’ve built this machine and it’s ready to produce tons and tons and tons of content. So I want to be in a place where that content can be created and a place where I can express things like “Jazzman” or whatever I want to do next. I have a zombie movie that I’ve worked on for a while that I want to do. I just want to be in a place where I can cultivate all those things. | 2022-09-11T11:49:17+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/entertainment-news/ap-qa-tyler-perry-on-directing-his-1st-script-26-years-later/ |
As the sun goes down in Baja's Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico's wine country, members of the Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia, their close friends and a few special guests gather around a bonfire. The band is playing and singing Mexican rancheras, some ballads and boleros or love songs. Lead singer La Marisoul says many of the songs on their new album are part of their personal history, growing up in downtown LA, surrounded by Mexican musicians who taught them how to sing and play.
"I didn't really learn this music from recordings; I learned it from live musicians playing on the street," she says. "Some of these songs are songs we'd love to interpret from way back, before La Santa Cecilia, when we were Marisol y Los Hermanos Carlos, singing on the weekends at Placita, singing at weddings, at quinceañeras and things like that."
This is the band's quinceañera, a festive and joyous celebration of their 15 years together, playing the music they love. The band wanted to do a live recording in a country estate in Baja California for the celebration. Under the music, you can hear the sound of crickets, birds and a light breeze. The vibe here at the Finca Altozano can best be described as a bohemian night filled with music, conversation and some imbibing. Hence the album's title, Cuatro Copas, Bohemia en la Finca Altozano – Four Drinks, Bohemia at the Altozano Estate.
Guitarist and accordionist Pepe Carlos says the album includes songs from their families.
"Songs that were inherited by our parents while they were listening to at home," he says. "Songs like 'Pescadores de Ensenada' de Los Cadetes de Linares. We were listening to all this music at home. So, I think it's also a bridge between our parents, our roots musically."
As a band, La Santa Cecilia has been an ideal vehicle for them to experiment with all kinds of American and Latin music. They've played everything from rock to cumbia, pop tunes and ballads. And they've recorded albums in English, Spanish and Spanglish. La Marisoul says there's nothing like singing songs with friends around the fire.
"I love being on the stage, I love being on tour, I love being on the road, I love playing festivals, like Vive Latino and all that stuff," she says. "But there's just something about getting together with your friends and just singing music and just enjoying music in its simplest form, you know, with the guitar, con un Mezcalito, and sin mas, no?"
This album opens a window into the band's personal lives. It's a glimpse of how the group thrives and creates community, says percussionist Miguel Ramírez. "And it's so cool to be able to just be like, 'this is who we are, this is how we live, this is what we do for fun, this is what we do for enjoyment,' and we hope that you get to be a part of it through this record."
The band invited a few guest singers to join them in the recording for this special anniversary celebration. One of the guests was Patricio Hidalgo, a "Son Jarocho" artist from Mexico's Gulf state of Veracruz. The Grammy-winning musician says he's impressed by the band's natural ability to play and record music at the "spur of the moment."
"It's astonishing how the band can be so laid back and play so relaxed," he says. "Everything you will hear in this recording was done right here, live. There was no such thing as reaching an agreement, previous rehearsal or music arrangement."
Bass player Alex Bendaña says this album is a testament to the band's resilience, being together as a family, and making music for 15 years. "I think it's very rare for bands to start off in LA and end up with an amazing career," he says. "Every year was a different experience of evolution in the band or our individual person. We were always growing together."
La Santa Cecilia recently performed in front of thousands of adoring fans at Mexico City's Vive Latino, the country's biggest music festival. Speaking emotionally and tearing up, singer La Marisoul says that after 15 years of trying to connect to audiences in Mexico with their music, they're finally getting it. "Feeling that love and feeling that appreciation, and that connection with our brothers and sisters with our motherland, con México, that makes me feel very proud, very grateful, to be able to live this moment and share our story with people, now."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-10T06:17:11+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-04-15/la-santa-cecilia-celebrates-its-quinceanera-with-a-new-album |
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (WJRT) – Mother Nature delivered a fresh blanket of snow just in time for thousands of visitors to Zehnder’s Snowfest in Frankenmuth.
The downtown area of Frankenmuth was packed with people who were taking in the fun throughout the weekend. An estimated 100,000 people attend the event each year.
Unseasonably warm weather conditions throughout January forced some events to be canceled, but the festival still went on with views of sculptures and even fireworks.
The event has become an annual tradition to many. Winter weather conditions over the weekend brought fun to Snowfest-goers.
Jake Perkins was pleased with the event.
"Snow came just in time," he said. "It’s a great time." | 2023-01-30T22:06:34+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/fresh-blanket-of-snow-greets-zehnder-s-snowfest-in-frankenmuth/article_bcb13cce-a0c9-11ed-9a6d-9362a8502a16.html |
Texas freight train collision injures 2, no hazmat onboard
CHICO, Texas (AP) — A train collision and subsequent derailment injured two rail employees in Texas, according to a company official.
A Union Pacific freight train collided with an unoccupied train that was parked on a siding around 7 p.m. Sunday in Chico, Texas, Union Pacific spokesperson Kristen South said in an email to The Associated Press.
A locomotive engineer and conductor were being treated for injuries after the southbound train derailed following the accident. No one else was on board the freight train, South said.
One was transported to a hospital by helicopter and the other was transported by ambulance to Wise Health System in Decatur, Texas, the Wise County Emergency Operations Center said in a statement.
Three locomotives and about 15 grain cars derailed, but the train was not carrying any hazardous materials, South said.
The accident comes amid heightened attention to rail safety nationwide following a fiery derailment in February in Ohio and a string of derailments since then that have been grabbing headlines. The U.S. averages about three train derailments per day, according to federal data, but relatively few create disasters.
In Texas, asked about the speed of the train when Sunday’s collision occurred, South said Union Pacific was investigating the cause of the accident and no other information was available at the time.
The Wise County Office of Emergency Management, Wise County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety and fire departments from Chico, Bridgeport, Lake Bridgeport and Sand Flat, Texas, responded to the crash scene.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-17T12:42:28+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/04/17/texas-freight-train-collision-injures-2-no-hazmat-onboard/ |
A Department of Public Works employee was foiled in his attempt to make a clean getaway, when police were able to stop his street sweeper after he threatened a supervisor with a handgun.
Tyrone Spencer, 63, 514 27th St., was charged with second-degree menacing. He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in City Court, and reportedly has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated.
Police said the incident unfolded just before 1 a.m. June 20. A DPW supervisor told officers that he became involved in an argument with Spencer, during a phone call before he arrived at work at the City Corporation Yard on the 1700 block of New Road.
The supervisor said the argument stemmed from Spencer “failing to perform his job duties in the street sweeper.” When Spencer arrived at the Corporation Yard to begin his shift, the supervisor said Spencer pointed a handgun at him and said, “Quit (expletive) with me or I’ll blow your head off. I will put a bullet in your head and bury you.”
Spencer then reportedly got into a street sweeper and headed south on New Road.
Patrol officers said they were able to pull Spencer over, in the street sweeper, and take him into custody. Officers said Spencer has a valid New York State Concealed Carry Permit.
Police said DPW supervisors told them that Spencer had “verbal disagreements” with them prior to the June 20 incident. | 2023-06-27T03:06:10+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/falls-dpw-worker-flees-in-street-sweeper-after-threatening-supervisor-with-a-handgun/article_b14d97dc-1474-11ee-b3c5-d321cf31de76.html |
SAGINAW, MI — May’s arrival meant the launch of several road projects in Saginaw.
Now city officials are providing motorists an online resource to help navigate the traffic cones in advance of their commutes.
The interactive map — available by clicking here — shows where and when crews will work on the projects within Saginaw’s boundaries, including detour routes. The online dashboard does not include roadwork outside of the city.
“We understand these projects will affect quite a few people who live and work in the city,” said Travis Hare, Saginaw City Hall’s city engineer. “We hope this new webpage with the interactive map and project information will help keep citizens informed as they plan their routes, and make this construction season a little easier on everyone.”
For questions about road projects, residents also can call Saginaw City Hall’s Engineering Division at (989) 759-1410.
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From Elvis to Greta Van Fleet: Saginaw’s Dow Event Center turns 50 | 2022-05-11T15:31:19+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2022/05/road-closures-will-make-saginaw-commutes-complex-heres-a-website-navigating-the-detours.html |
Strategic partnership will further streamline processes, improve patient access and enhance quality of care
HOBOKEN, N.J., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epion Health and Hansen Family Hospital announced today the implementation of HITRUST-certified, digital engagement and check-in solutions for Hansen Family Hospital, Ackley Medical Center, Iowa Falls Clinic, and NESCO Family Medical Clinic. This partnership further solidifies Hansen Family Hospital's commitment to providing its patient community with robust, secure technology to improve access to healthcare services.
Hansen Family Hospital, an affiliate of the MercyOne health system, engaged Epion Health to help standardize and streamline its registration and check-in processes while providing its patients with an easy-to-use and secure way to share their health information. Epion Health's technology, designed to maximize patient engagement, was uniquely qualified to help achieve these goals.
"At Hansen Family Hospital, we are continuously searching for ways to improve the health and quality of life of the patients we serve, and we believe that the technologies we use play a critical role in that pursuit," said George Von Mock, CEO at Hansen Family Hospital. "Offering mobile patient check-in through Epion Health helps us deliver on our commitment to improve access and provide a secure, intuitive patient experience. We have already seen an immediate impact on the quality of data collected from patients and a reduction in time our staff has needed for administrative tasks."
With patient access and standardization at the forefront, it was imperative that the Epion Health technology could easily integrate with Hansen Family Hospital's existing EHR, Cerner. Epion Health, a member of the Cerner Code Developer Program, leveraged the latest FHIR API-based standards to easily integrate with Cerner, resulting in accelerated implementation schedules and real-time data exchange.
"Building customizable, scalable and automated patient access tools has always been a part of our mission, so we were excited to extend our capabilities with Hansen Family Hospital's EHR provider, Cerner," said Max Tyroler, EVP of product and analytics at Epion Health. "Through our SMART on FHIR-powered Practice ToolKit, we offer a fully-integrated interface that streamlines staff workflows, enabling them to easily use Epion's tools within their familiar EHR environment—without the need for additional login credentials or outside dashboards."
In the one month since its implementation, the Epion Health platform has helped Hansen Family Hospital and clinics increase accuracy of data collection, enhance data security, improve access to insurance information, reduce staff burden and boost patient satisfaction. It has also provided greater efficiency to the registration and check-in processes across all sites. For more information about Epion Health, please visit www.epionhealth.com.
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Texas lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton after Republican investigation
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton teetered on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusations that the state’s Republican majority had largely met with silence for years until now.
In an unanimous decision, a Republican-led investigative committee that spent months quietly looking into Paxton recommended impeaching the state’s top lawyer. The state House of Representatives could vote on the recommendation as soon as Friday. If the House impeaches Paxton, he would be forced to leave office immediately.
The move sets set up a remarkably sudden downfall for one of the GOP’s most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory. Only two other officials in Texas’ nearly 200-year history have been impeached.
Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor and was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, but has yet to stand trial.
Unlike in Congress, impeachment in Texas requires immediate removal from office until a trial is held in the Senate. That means Paxton faces ouster at the hands of GOP lawmakers just seven months after easily winning a third term over challengers — among them George P. Bush — who had urged voters to reject a compromised incumbent but discovered that many didn’t know about Paxton’s litany of alleged misdeeds or dismissed the accusations as political attacks. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott could appoint an interim replacement.
Paxton has suggested that the investigation that came to light to week is a politically motivated attack and said the Republican House leadership is too “liberal” for the state.
Chris Hilton, a senior lawyer in the attorney general’s office, told reporters before Thursday’s committee vote that what investigators said about Paxton was “false,” “misleading,” and “full of errors big and small.” He said all of the allegations were known to voters when they reelected him in November.
Impeachment requires a two-thirds vote of the state’s 150-member House chamber, where Republicans hold a commanding 85-64 majority.
In one sense, Paxton’s political peril arrived with dizzying speed: House Republicans did not reveal they had been investigating him until Tuesday, followed the next day by an extraordinary public airing of alleged criminal acts he committed as one of Texas’ most powerful figures.
But to Paxton’s detractors, who now include a widening share of his own party in the Texas Capitol, the rebuke was seen as years in the making.
In 2014, he admitted to violating Texas securities law over not registering as an investment advisor while soliciting clients. A year later, Paxton was indicted on felony securities charges by a grand jury in his hometown near Dallas, where he was accused of defrauding investors in a tech startup. He has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts that carry a potential sentence of five to 99 years in prison.
He opened a legal defense fund and accepted $100,000 from an executive whose company was under investigation by Paxton’s office for Medicaid fraud. An additional $50,000 was donated by an Arizona retiree whose son Paxton later hired to a high-ranking job but was soon fired after trying to make a point by displaying child pornography in a meeting.
What has unleashed the most serious risk to Paxton is his relationship with another wealthy donor, Austin real estate developer Nate Paul.
Several of Paxton’s top aides in 2020 said they became concerned the attorney general was misusing the powers of his office to help Paul over unproven claims that an elaborate conspiracy to steal $200 million of his properties was afoot. The FBI searched Paul’s home in 2019 but he has not been charged and his attorneys have denied wrongdoing. Paxton also told staff members that he had an affair with a woman who, it later emerged, worked for Paul.
Paxton’s aides accused him of corruption and were all fired or quit after reporting him to the FBI. Four sued under Texas’ whistleblower laws, accusing Paxton of wrongful retaliation, and in February agreed to settle the case for $3.3 million. But the Texas House must approve the payout and Phelan has said he doesn’t think taxpayers should foot the bill.
Shortly after the settlement was reached, the House investigation into Paxton began. The probe amounted to rare scrutiny of Paxton in the state Capitol, where many Republicans have long taken a muted posture about the accusations that have followed the attorney general.
That includes Abbott, who in January swore in Paxton for a third term and said the way he approached the job was “the right way to run the attorney’s general’s office.”
Only twice has the Texas House impeached a sitting official: Gov. James Ferguson in 1917 and state Judge O.P. Carrillo in 1975.
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas. Associated Press reporter Paul J. Weber contributed to this report from Austin.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-25T22:20:50+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/05/25/texas-lawmakers-recommend-impeaching-attorney-general-ken-paxton-after-republican-investigation/ |
Three Kenosha County siblings face federal explosive charges after agents reportedly found hundreds of explosive devices, chemicals and dozens of guns at residences in Wheatland and Paddock Lake in March.
Federal prosecutors charged Erik Rukstales, James Rukstales and Melissa Simmons with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by manufacturing, distributing, possessing and storing explosives without ATF licenses, and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunitions.
Both James Rukstales and Simmons are charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
James Rukstales is also charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a machine gun.
Erik Rukstales and James Rukstales made their initial appearances in Milwaukee at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in March. Simmons made her initial appearance last week. They have been released on their own recognizance with prohibitions against consuming alcohol, possessing weapons or committing other crimes.
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The three allegedly committed their crimes from July 2022 through March 2023. The explosives, according to federal court, are "flame sensitive" and are relatively easy for person nots specifically trained in the use of explosives to initiate.
In summer 2022, a Kenosha Police Department confidential informant met with Simmons at her residence in the 40400 block of 45th Street in the Town of Wheatland, according to court documents.
The confidential informant reportedly saw explosive devices there and reported Simmons said that she manufactures and sells such devices and has been doing so for years.
The confidential informant told investigators Simmons sold marijuana and consumed drugs and had previously observed her use one of the explosive devices at a party causing an extremely loud boom and debris to fly in the air, according to court documents.
Simmons also reportedly told the confidential informant that explosives were manufactured at her residence and James Rukstales’s residence in the 7000 block of 247th Avenue in Village of Paddock Lake.
On Sept. 30, 2022, case agents used the confidential informant to purchase explosive devices and a quarter-pound of marijuana from her Wheatland residence, according to court documents.
The explosive devices reportedly contained a perchlorate mixture labeled as “Flash Powder.”
The confidential informant also purchased explosive devices on Oct. 13, 2022, in Wheatland.
On Dec. 13, 2022, the confidential informant reportedly purchased more explosive devices from Simmons in Wheatland and a quarter-pound of marijuana.
On Jan. 20 law enforcement conducted a controlled purchase of explosive devices and cocaine using an undercover agent and confidential informant. This purchase reportedly occurred at James Rukstales’s residence.
Simmons was reportedly recorded stating that her brothers are the “technical guys” and that she does the business.
On March 7, law enforcement obtained federal search warrants for the residences in Paddock Lake and Wheatland and for Simmons’s phone. The warrants were executed March 8.
Numerous firearms, ammunition, chemicals, a machine gun, explosive devices, drugs and drug paraphernalia were reportedly recovered. The explosives recovered were reportedly made in a clandestine manner with disregard to the safety of persons who may be residing nearby.
Simmons is reportedly on tape telling the confidential informant that flash bangs make everyone “really (expletive) nervous” because federal agents go after people selling them.
“[B]ecause why else would you want them unless you’re trying to break into someone’s else’s house,” Simmons reportedly said, adding they can get you into some “serious (expletive).”
In another recording, Simmons reportedly told the informant that they currently have two men in jail so they are being “super careful” and selling to “middleman guys” and the informant.
Simmons also reportedly told the confidential informant her brothers were involved in a militia group. | 2023-04-11T23:07:40+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/three-kenosha-county-residents-face-federal-explosives-charges/article_85177698-d882-11ed-8ef8-97ed7753a1a8.html |
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There will be something missing from what should have been a festive occasion Monday night at Kansas, when the No. 5 Jayhawks celebrate their latest national championship before opening the new season against Omaha.
Namely, their head coach Bill Self.
Rather than following his team to the court for pregame introductions, Self will probably be sitting at home, forced to watch on TV while beginning a four-game suspension. Kansas officials imposed the punishment on its coach and assistant Kurtis Townsend as part of the fallout of a lengthy FBI investigation into college basketball corruption.
Norm Roberts, who spent six seasons as the head coach at St. John’s, will serve as the acting coach.
“Norm and I have been together off-and-on since ‘95,” Self said, “and he’ll probably be a voice that the players probably enjoy and respect hearing far more than they have been hearing.
“I think it’s something (where) hopefully we can become more mature,” he added, “and if that’s the case, it’s still not good by any stretch. But I have to own it, though, and our players have to make the most of it, and I believe they will.”
Self was allowed to coach the Jayhawks in their lone exhibition, when they overcame a sluggish start against Division II Pittsburg State in a 94-63 win. And the terms of the school-administered suspension allow him to coach the Jayhawks any day but game day, which means the Hall of Fame coach will still largely determine the game plan.
He just won’t be on the sidelines against Omaha, North Dakota State and Southern Utah or a showdown against seventh-ranked Duke in the Champions Classic next week in Indianapolis.
Self and Townsend will be back on the bench to face North Carolina State at the Battle 4 Atlantis on Nov. 23.
“Norm will go into the game knowing who the first big off the bench is, who the first guard off the bench is. He knows what plays we’ll script,” Self said, “but he’ll be in charge. He will be in charge. I’ll be at practice, but everything that happens after 12 a.m., that’s going to be Norm’s call. And as a coach, you really hope nothing happens after 12 a.m.”
Jeremy Case, who helped the Jayhawks win the 2008 national title, will be alongside Roberts on the bench. The Jayhawks also can use Joe Dooley, a longtime assistant and now director of student-athlete development, and Brady Morningstar, a former player who usually serves as the video coordinator, as fill-in coaches on game day.
Still, it’s hard to substitute for a two-time national champion coach who’s won more than 81% of his games at Kansas.
“Norm will do a great job. The guy has been a head coach in the Big East,” Self said. “We’ve been together a long time, and there’s a correlation in us being successful and who your coaches are, and we’ve had the best staff. I don’t know anybody can compare the staff we’ve had over time, and Norm has been a huge part of that.”
The suspensions, along with a series of recruiting penalties, were punishment for an infractions case that stems from a federal investigation in 2017 that led to the conviction of a shoe company executive, a middleman who worked with them and several assistant coaches. It involved Kansas along with Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State.
When it came to the Jayhawks, the issue was whether representatives of apparel company Adidas were acting as boosters — the school contends they were not — when they arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas never disputed that the payments were made, only that it had any knowledge the inducements were happening.
The school asked that the case be decided by the Independent Accountability Resolution Process, which was created to handle particularly complex cases and acts outside the purview of the NCAA. But the soon-to-be disbanded panel has been painfully slow in its work, and it remains unclear when — or even if — there will ever be a conclusion.
“I don’t understand all the nuances that go on,” Self said, “and to be real candid with you, if I don’t understand it, it’s hard for anyone else to understand it, because I’m right in the middle of it.”
Rather than wait out the process, Kansas imposed penalties last week in a gesture it hopes will mitigate any additional punishment. Self will sit out the next four games — an important developmental period for his young team — and put his trust in Roberts, who hasn’t been a head coach since he was fired by St. John’s in 2010.
“We have a culture that’s been built here,” Roberts said. “I’ve been with Bill a long time. We kind of end each others’ sentences. And we talk about how faces change but expectations don’t. Our players know our expectations are what they are at Kansas, and what we do on the court doesn’t change.”
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – In what’s become a holiday tradition, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has announced its 2022 winter tour, which will stop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse at the end of December.
TSO will play two back-to-back shows at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 30. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16 with a limited number of specially priced, $29 tickets available for one week while supplies last.
Save for 2020 (due to the pandemic), TSO has made its way to Cleveland since the late 1990s. The 2022 tour is billed as “a completely updated presentation of the unforgettable, multi-generational holiday tradition, ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.’”
“It was so special to be back playing live last year,” said TSO’s music director and lead guitarist Al Pitrelli, in a statement. “When you love something as much as we do and it’s taken away, it made us super thankful to be back. I look forward to seeing all our ‘repeat offenders’ and all our new friends when we hit the road.” | 2022-09-12T15:22:23+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/09/trans-siberian-orchestra-announces-2022-winter-tour.html |
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A catch or not a catch? That's still a good question.
And it was asked a few more times during the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
By the players and coaches — and millions more on social media and in front of their TVs at home.
According to Rule 3, Article 7 of the NFL Rulebook: “A catch is made when a player inbounds secures possession of a pass, kick, or fumble that is in flight.”
But it was a bit more complicated than that on the NFL's biggest stage.
In the second half Sunday, Philadelphia faced third-and-14 when Jalen Hurts found Dallas Goedert along the right sideline and the Eagles tight end caught the ball, bobbled it and caught it again while going out of bounds.
The play was ruled a completion on the field and the Eagles raced to the line of scrimmage. But because the play ended on the sideline, play was ruled ruled dead because Kansas City needed to have time to match Philadelphia's player substitutions.
That gave the Chiefs time to challenge the catch. But a video review confirmed Goedert had secured the ball before going out of bounds.
The Eagles were on the opposite end of that near the end of the first half when Hurts' deep pass to DeVonta Smith was ruled incomplete because he didn't control the ball as he made contact with the ground.
Smith had made an acrobatic grab, securing the ball against his helmet — but the ball moved slightly as he hit the ground. It was initially ruled a catch, but overturned on the review.
“It is a catch, or an interception, if, in the process of attempting to possess the ball, a player secures control of the ball prior to it touching the ground,” the NFL Rulebook says, “and that control is maintained during and after the ball has touched the ground.”
The whole catch-or-not debate came up again on Philadelphia's opening drive of the second half when Hurts threw a short pass to Miles Sanders — who was immediately walloped by L’Jarius Sneed. The ball came loose and Nick Bolton — who already returned a fumble for a touchdown earlier — picked up the ball and headed to the end zone again.
The call on the field by officials was a touchdown by Bolton, but a review overturned the call with the play ruled an incomplete pass because Sanders never completed the reception.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, May 6, 2023
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Therefore, the warning has been allowed to expire.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Thursday aiming to showcase the strength of their alliance ahead of a Group of Seven summit where leading democracies will tackle the challenges of Russia’s war in Ukraine, North Korea’s ballistic nuclear threats and an increasingly forceful China.
Biden recalled that Kishida said during a January Washington visit that the world faced one of the “most complex” security environments in recent history.
“I couldn’t agree with you more,” Biden told the Japanese prime minister as they sat with their aides at a conference table. “When our countries stand together, we stand stronger and I believe the whole world is safer when we do.”
Kishida noted that the global tensions had brought the U.S. and Japan closer together, that “the cooperation has evolved in leaps and bounds.”
The Kishida family’s home city of Hiroshima will host the gathering of major industrialized nations known at the G-7. The setting of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb in 1945 during World War II, carries newfound resonance. Members of the G-7, which also includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the European Union, are grappling with the territorial ambitions of Russia and China, two nuclear powers.
Biden is also appearing on the world stage while trying to manage a divide back in the U.S. on how to raise the government’s debt limit. He opted to cut short what was supposed to be an eight-day trip to Asia, so he can return to Washington to try to avoid a potentially catastrophic default in June that could ripple across the global economy. It’s a drama that reveals how internal U.S. politics can spill over into global forums.
While aboard Air Force One, Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, told reporters that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looms large as a G-7 topic. He added leaders would discuss the state of play on the battlefield and sealing loopholes to strengthen sanctions that have been levied against Moscow.
Last year, Biden came to Tokyo to discuss Indo-Pacific strategy and launch a new trade framework for the region, with the U.S. president and Kishida engaging in an 85-minute tea ceremony and seafood dinner. The president’s first stop in Japan on Thursday was to greet U.S. troops at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, before he headed to Hiroshima for talks with the Japanese prime minister.
Kishida was quick to call out the risks of Russian aggression in 2022, saying then, “Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow.”
China has declared a limitless friendship with Russia, increasing trade in ways that blunted the ability of financial sanctions to constrain the war. But the U.S. and its allies say China has yet to ship military equipment to Russia, a sign that the friendship might have some boundaries.
Biden and Kishida also discussed economic matters. They addressed efforts to bolster supply chains for critical minerals, new partnerships between U.S. and Japanese companies and universities and efforts to promote renewable energy, according to a White House readout of the meeting.
Kishida had planned to discuss further strengthening of deterrence and response capability with Biden in the face of China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as confirming the importance of the Taiwan Strait for global peace and stability. China has said that self-governing Taiwan should come under its rule.
The U.S. and Japanese leaders also talked about ways to reinforce their three-way partnership with South Korea, which signed an agreement in April with the U.S. to strengthen their tools for deterring a nuclear attack by North Korea.
Kishida and Biden will hold a trilateral summit with South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol on the sidelines of the G-7 summit. But Kishida is in a complicated position by discussing efforts to respond to nuclear threats by North Korea with Japan’s history of also calling for a world free from nuclear arms, said Kan Kimura, a Kobe University professor and an expert on South Korea.
In the wake of World War II, Japan embraced pacifism. The atomic bomb scorched Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people and destroying most of the river delta city’s buildings. But current conditions are testing Japan’s pacifism and anti-nuclear weapon tradition.
“Of course, Kishida is walking a fine line,” said Christopher Johnstone, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “He recognizes the need for the nuclear umbrella, Japan’s dependence on U.S. extended deterrence — that that’s more vital than ever, frankly, in the current security environment.”
There are outstanding issues between the U.S. and Japan. During his January meeting with Kishida, Biden brought up the case of Lt. Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy officer deployed to Japan who last year was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of two Japanese citizens in May 2021, according to a senior administration official. Alkonis also agreed to pay the victims $1.65 million in restitution. His family is seeking his release, saying he was detained until he confessed.
The early return to Washington to deal with the debt limit means Biden will skip planned stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia, where he was to take part in a meeting of the so-called Quad partnership with leaders of Australia, India and Japan. The Papua New Guinea visit would have been the first to the Pacific Island country by a sitting U.S. president.
The White House said that Biden phoned the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, while traveling on Air Force One to “personally” convey the need to return to Washington. Biden invited Marape and other Pacific leaders to Washington later this year. | 2023-05-19T12:59:03+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-biden-japans-kishida-meet-ahead-of-g-7-summit-vowing-to-stand-strong-against-global-threats/ |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — On March 8, nearly two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taisiia Mokrozub took her infant son, parted from her husband and joined an exodus to safety in Poland. She believed the war would end quickly and she would be home by May.
But a half-year later, with shelling near a nuclear power plant in her hometown of Zaporizhzhia, and the front line so close, the 36-year-old’s husband is telling her to stay in Poland with their now-11-month-old baby. She now dreams of being home by winter, hoping Ukraine will have prevailed by then against Russia’s onslaught.
As the war reaches the sixth-month mark Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of refugees have returned to Ukraine already. But others are facing the sad realization that they will not be going home soon, if they have homes to return to at all. With missiles falling even far from the front line, many wouldn’t feel safe yet, even in areas under Ukrainian control.
So they are biding their time, waiting for the end of a war that shows no signs of ending soon, longing for home and refusing to think too far into the future.
With a new academic year starting, some are reluctantly enrolling their children in schools abroad, worried they will fall behind. Others take jobs below their skill levels. With most refugees being women, those with very young children, like Mokrozub, are often unable to work.
“It seems to me that not only for me but for all Ukrainians, time has stopped,” Mokrozub said. “We all live in some kind of limbo.”
Russia’s invasion has created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The UN refugee agency says a third of Ukrainians have fled their homes, with more than 6.6 million displaced within the country and over 6.6 million more across the continent.
European countries have welcomed them without the political backlash that met influxes of refugees from the Middle East and Africa in past years, however.
Poland has taken in the most Ukrainians, with an estimated 1.5 million having registered for national ID numbers that allow them social benefits. Germany, which doesn’t require visas for Ukrainians, has registered more than 900,000, though it isn’t clear how many of those may have gone home or headed elsewhere.
Warsaw now has 180,000 Ukrainian refugees — representing a tenth of the Polish capital’s population of 1.8 million — the largest single grouping anywhere.
Though Ukrainian and Russian — which is also commonly spoken back home — are heard on the city’s streets and grocery stores now carry some Ukrainian foods, the newcomers have integrated with little trouble and seem almost invisible.
For many of the refugees, Poland’s Slavic language and culture offer something familiar and reassuring. The country’s proximity to Ukraine makes it possible to travel back for short visits with husbands and fathers who are banned from leaving due to the war effort.
“We didn’t want to go farther,” said Galina Inyutina, 42, who arrived in Poland in early March from Dnipro with her 11-year-old son. They long terribly for their forests and fields and food.
“Mom, if we go farther away then it will take us longer to get home,” he told her.
The arrival of so many people has exacerbated a preexisting housing crisis in Warsaw, where rental prices have surged 30% over the last year, as well as other cities that have attracted large numbers of refugees.
In the early days of the war, hundreds of thousands of Polish families took Ukrainians, often total strangers, into their homes. Thanks to that hospitality, there was never a need for refugee camps, said Oksana Pestrykova, who administers a consultation center at the Ukrainian House in Warsaw, a social center for immigrants.
But what were expected to be short stays have turned into long ones, and some Poles are now calling the center’s hotline to ask for help from Ukrainian speakers to tell their guests it’s time to move on.
“The hospitality is getting weaker,” Pestrykova said. “We understand it and we were expecting it.”
Some corporations are stepping in to help.
The global tech company Siemens transformed office space at its Polish headquarters to create hotel-style accommodations for nearly 160 people, administered by the Warsaw city government. The facility is clean, with food and laundry facilities provided for free.
Among those living there now is Ludmila Fedotova, a 52-year-old shop assistant from Zaporizhzhia. She is terrified about what is happening back home but can at least relax knowing she has housing and food as she looks for work.
While there might not be enough housing for all the newcomers, there are more than enough jobs in an economy that has boomed in the post-communist era. Ukrainian immigrants who came to Poland in recent years are sometimes the ones helping the new arrivals with work and a place to live.
Oleh Yarovyi, from Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine, arrived six years ago and has built up a coffee shop franchise with his wife. As they expand, he has lost some Ukrainian men helping with construction who returned to fight in the war, but he has been able to hire Ukrainian women who can use their language in a job they hope is temporary.
“Half of them plan to go back, so they don’t even try to learn Polish,” Yarovyi said. “They just look for a simple job without any additional challenges.”
Tetiana Bilous, 46, who ran a short-term apartment rental business in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, is among those working in one of Yarovyi’s kitchens. She fled two days into the war, joining a grown daughter already in Warsaw. She missed her husband and returned home for a two-week visit, but was terrified by the bombardments and air raid sirens.
Bilous remains torn over what her next steps should be, saying, “Everything is uncertain.”
Farther west, in Schwerin, Germany, Marina Galla, a computer science teacher who left Mariupol with her 13-year-old son in late March, has found relief and stability. Last month they moved into a small rooftop apartment after a long escape that took them through Poland and Berlin.
She is free from the horrors and the deprivation from which she fled: the bodies in the streets, drinking melted snow because there was no running water. Yet she feels crushed with sadness thinking of family left behind.
In a black backpack she has carried every day since leaving Mariupol, Galla keeps a handwritten note in a side pocket listing contact information for her mother, father and grandmother. She originally wrote it in case she was killed in the war, and even in the safety of Schwerin, she doesn’t leave home without it.
Her son messaged a lot with his friends from back home during their first months in Germany, but he barely talks to them anymore and has stopped asking her when they will return to Ukraine.
“He probably understands,” Galla said, “that we will not be able to go back there.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Walls hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the fifth inning, Jose Siri caught Aaron Judge’s fly in front of the center-field wall for the final out and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 8-7 on Sunday for a four-game series split.
Walls fell a double shy of the cycle after going 3 for 15 in his first five games against New York. Major league-leading Tampa Bay is 4-3 against the Yankees, with six of the games decided by one run. The teams don’t meet again until July 31.
“They were tough,” Walls said. “I feel like every time we got a lead, they would respond and either take it back or put some runs up and match whatever we did that inning before.”
Down 3-0, the Yankees went ahead in the third on two-run homers by Oswaldo Cabrera and Anthony Rizzo off Zach Eflin (5-1).
“Disappointing to not finish it off today, but I feel very pleased with where this group is at,” New York manager Aaron Boone said.
Randy Arozarena hit a tying sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in a five-run inning off Clarke Schmidt (1-4), with centerfielder Harrison Bader running 91 feet at a speed of 28.7 feet per second for a sprawling, backhand catch in front of the 399-foot sign that saved two runs.
Josh Lowe walked and Albert Abreu relieved. He threw four straight changeups to Walls, who hit the last into the first row of the right-center field seats near the Yankee bullpen for an 8-4 lead. Tampa Bay has four grand slams this season after hitting one for the second straight day.
“The last at-bat I saw against him, I think five out of the six pitches were sinkers that were 98, 99 (mph), so I had to respect it,” Walls said. “I think honestly just seeing that many pitches off-speed in a row, my eyes just kind of adjusted. I was just looking for a pitch up in the zone that I could handle, saw it and put a good swing on it.”
Walls’ slam highlighted his third three-hit game in 31 games this year. He had two such games in his first 196 career games.
“That was a big one,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “We lost the game yesterday with a grand slam in our favor. We didn’t want to lose another one.”
Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake was ejected by plate umpire Mike Muchlinski for arguing from the dugout after the home run.
Judge hit an RBI single in the seventh and rookie Anthony Volpe had a two-run homer in the eighth off Trevor Kelley, his sixth home run this season and third in five games.
Judge ended the game with a 399-foot flyout, giving Adam his fifth save. When Siri caught the ball, the reliever tapped a glove over his heart.
“I thought that was like 30 rows deep,” Adam said. “But thankfully he missed more than I thought.”
Judge hit the ball into a 10 mph wind.
“I hit it good but off the bat I hit it too high, especially you know how deep it is out there,” Judge said. “I’m kind of praying for a miracle once it got up there.”
Tampa Bay built its 3-0 lead on Brandon Lowe’s groundout in the first and sacrifice fly in the third along with Issac Paredes’ RBI single. Lowe’s groundout scored Yandy Díaz, who left with left groin tightness and will get an MRI on Monday’s off day.
Elfin allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings and struck out nine. He allowed both homers after taking a comebacker from Volpe off a thigh.
Schmidt, coming off his first career win as a starter, allowed a career-high seven runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings.
EXCUSE ME
Schmidt collided with Tampa Bay third base coach Brady Williams in the fourth. Walls hit a triple that Judge could not make a running catch on and when Schmidt raced over to back up the play, he bowled over Williams.
“No fault by anybody,” Cash said. “It looked like Schmidt was running and the umpire got out of the way and didn’t realize that Brady was standing right there. I’m glad both of them are ok. That was two big guys that collided pretty good.”
In the sixth, Siri collided with Volpe racing back to second base on Abreu’s pickoff toss.
OUCH
Paredes was hit near the elbow in consecutive plate appearances in the sixth and eighth. The Rays have been hit seven times by the Yankees this season.
MINOR LEAGUE NO-HITTER
New York’s Class A Tampa Tarpons were no-hit by Fort Myers RHP Cory Lewis and three relievers. Lewis, who taught himself to throw a knuckleball at age 10, struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: RHP Pete Fairbanks (right forearm inflammation), who struck out two in a rehab appearance for Triple-A Durham Friday, is expected to be activated for Tuesday’s series opener at the Mets. Fairbanks has been on the injured list since May 3. … RHP Zack Littell was added to the active roster and RHP Javy Guerra was designated for assignment.
Yankees: LHP Carlos Rodón (strained left forearm) played catch for the second straight day and threw from a distance of 60 to 75 feet. He will increase his distance Monday, six days after an injection of a painkiller to his back. … RHP Luis Severino (right lat strain) could start next Sunday in Cincinnati if his rehab start on Tuesday goes well. … INF Oswald Peraza (sprained right ankle) began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre and went 1 for 4.
UP NEXT
Rays: Face Justin Verlander (1-1, 2.25) on Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series at the Mets.
Yankees: Open a four-game series on Monday at Toronto and face Alek Manoah (1-3, 4.83).
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BAODING, China, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IT Tech Packaging, Inc. (NYSE American: ITP) ("IT Tech Packaging" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
Mr. Zhenyong Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, "Due to the sporadic situation of COVID-19 in China, the operation of our factory facilities is highly restricted during the three months ended September 30, 2022. However, we still achieved a positive profit year-on-year growth rate of 53% despite facing a volatile commodity price environment impacting our operating costs and the COVID-19 pandemic lockout policies limiting our factory facilities operations. On the strategic front, we continued to deliver high-quality products to our customers, strengthen our business operation, optimize the product portfolio, and seek significant economic benefits. Consistent with our stated strategy, we continued to utilize excess cash flow in a balanced way to make investments in our long-term strategic growth initiatives and to further strengthen the balance sheet. Looking forward, we are committed to creating value for its customers, employees, shareholders, partners, industry, and society by seizing new opportunities and diversifying businesses."
Third Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
- Revenue decreased by 29.7% to approximately $31.71 million, mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
- Gross profit increased by 52.8% to approximately $2.78 million. Total gross margin increased by 4.8 percentage point to 8.8%.
- Loss from operations was approximately $0.59 million, compared to loss from operations of approximately $0.20 million for the same period of last year.
- Net loss was approximately $1.89 million, or loss per share of $0.03, compared to net income of approximately $1.54 million, or earnings per share of $0.03, for the same period of last year.
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") was approximately $2.43 million, compared to$5.32 million for the same period of last year.
Revenue
For the third quarter of 2022, total revenue decreased by 29.7%, to approximately $31.71 million from approximately $45.09 million for the same period of last year. This was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of regular CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
The following table summarizes revenue, volume and ASP by product for the third quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively:
Revenue from CMP, including both regular CMP and light-Weight CMP, decreased by 16.0%, to approximately $31.36 million and accounted for 98.9% of total revenue for the third quarter of 2022, compared to approximately $37.33million, or 82.8% of total revenue for the same period of last year. The Company sold 72,355 tonnes of CMP at an ASP of $433/tonne in the third quarter of 2022, compared to 74,444 tonnes at an ASP of $501/tonne in the same period of last year.
Of the total CMP sales, revenue from regular CMP decreased by 16.5%, to approximately $26.06 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $31.20 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 59,848 tonnesof regular CMP at an ASP of $435/tonne during the third quarter of 2022, compared to 61,947 tonnes at an ASP of $504/tonne for the same period of last year. Revenue from light-weight CMP decreased by 13.6%, to approximately $5.30 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $6.13 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 12,507 tonnes of light-weight CMP at an ASP of $423/tonne for the third quarter of 2022, compared to 12,497 tonnes at an ASP of $490/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from offset printing paper was $nil for the third quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $4.80 million for the same period of last year.
Revenue from tissue paper products decreased by 89.6%, to approximately $0.29 million for the third quarter of 2022, from approximately $2.81 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 260tonnesof tissue paper products at an ASP of $1,128/tonne for the third quarter of 2022, compared to 2,646 tonnes at an ASP of $1,063/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from face masks decreased by 62.6%, to approximately $0.06 million for the third quarter of 2022, from $0.15 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 1,282 thousand pieces of face masks for the third quarter of 2022, compared to3,180 thousand pieces of face masks for the same period of last year.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Total cost of sales decreased by 33.1%, to approximately $28.93 million for the third quarter of 2022 from approximately $43.27 million for the same period of last year. This was mainly due to the decrease in sales quantity of regular CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products, and the decrease in material costs of CMP. Costs of sales per tonne for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, and tissue paper products were $388, $369,$nil and $4,042, respectively, for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $489, $463, $570 and $1,155, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Total gross profit was approximately $2.78 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to the gross profit of approximately $1.82 million for the same period of last year as a result of factors described above. Overall gross margin was 8.8% for the third quarter of 2022, compared to 4.0% for the same period of last year. Gross profit(loss) margins for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, tissue paper products and face mask products were 10.9%, 12.8%, nil%, -258.5% and 29.6%, respectively, for the third quarter of 2022, compared to 2.9%, 5.6%, 16.2%, -8.7% and 20.4%, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") increased by 66.9%, to approximately $3.37 million for the third quarter of 2022 from approximately $2.02million for the same period of last year.
Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was approximately $0.59 million for the third quarter of 2022, a decrease of 197.3%, from loss from operations of approximately $0.20 million for the same period of last year. Operating loss margin was 1.9% for the third quarter of 2022, compared to operating loss margin of 0.4% for the same period of last year.
Net Loss
Net loss was approximately $1.89 million, or loss per share of $0.03, for the third quarter of 2022, compared to net income of approximately $1.54 million, or earnings per share of $0.03, for the same period of last year.
EBITDA
EBITDA was approximately $2.43 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to approximately $5.32 million for the same period of last year.
Note 1: Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our U.S. GAAP results, this press release includes a discussion of EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Company defines EBITDA as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a key measure used by management to evaluate our results and make strategic decisions. Management believes this measure is useful to investors because it is an indicator of operational performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the Company's presentation of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, and should not be viewed as an alternative to measures of financial performance or changes in cash flows calculated in accordance with the U.S. GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA
(Amounts expressed in US$)
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
Revenue
For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, total revenue decreased by 31.8%, to approximately $78.98million from approximately $115.83 million for the same period of last year. This was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of corrugating medium paper ("CMP") and offset printing paper and tissue paper products. The following table summarizes revenue, volume and ASP by product for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively:
Revenue from CMP, including both regular CMP and light-Weight CMP, decreased by 18.1%, to approximately $77.68 million and accounted for 98.3% of total revenue for nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to approximately $94.85 million, or 81.9% of total revenue for the same period of last year. The Company sold 167,026tonnes of CMP at an ASP of $465/tonne in nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 189,738 tonnes at an ASP of $500/tonne in the same period of last year.
Of the total CMP sales, revenue from regular CMP decreased by 17.1%, to approximately $65.02 million for nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $78.42million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 139,036tonnesof regular CMP at an ASP of $468/tonne during the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 156,080 tonnes at an ASP of $502/tonne for the same period of last year. Revenue from light-weight CMP decreased by 23.0%, to approximately $12.66 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $16.44 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 27,990 tonnes of light-weight CMP at an ASP of $452/tonne for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 33,658 tonnes at an ASP of $488/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from offset printing paper was $nil for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $14.10 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 20,602 tonnes of offset printing paper at an ASP of $684/tonne in the nine months ended September 30, 2021.
Revenue from tissue paper products decreased by 83.0%, to approximately $1.10million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, from approximately $6.49 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 1,040 tonnes of tissue paper products at an ASP of $1,061/tonne for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 5,963 tonnes at an ASP of $1,089/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from face masks decreased by 48.7%, to approximately $0.20 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, from $0.39 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 4,295 thousand pieces of face masks for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 9,650 thousand pieces of face masks for the same period of last year.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Total cost of sales decreased by 31.1%, to approximately $75.25 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 from approximately $109.15 million for the same period of last year. This was mainly a result of the decrease in sales volume of CMP and offset printing paper and decrease of material costs of CMP. Costs of sales per tonne for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products were $434, $411,$nil and$3,114, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $477, $453, $565 and $1,245, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Total gross profit was approximately $3.73million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to the gross profit of approximately $6.68 million for the same period of last year as a result of factors described above. Overall gross margin was 4.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 5.8% for the same period of last year. Gross profit(loss) margins for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, tissue paper products and face mask products were 7.2%, 9.2%, nil%, -193.6%, and25.7%, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to 5.0%, 7.3%, 17.5%, -14.4% and 17.0%, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") increased by 19.1%, to approximately $8.54 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 from approximately $7.17million for the same period of last year.
Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was approximately $4.78 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, a decrease of 874.2%, from loss from operations of approximately $0.49 million for the same period of last year. Operating loss margin was 6.1% for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to operating loss margin of 0.4% for the same period of last year.
Net Loss
Net loss was approximately $4.66 million, or loss per share of $0.07, for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to net loss of approximately $3.25 million, or loss per share of $0.06, for the same period of last year.
EBITDA
EBITDA was approximately $7.18 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to approximately $2.69 million for the same period of last year.
Note 1: Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our U.S. GAAP results, this press release includes a discussion of EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Company defines EBITDA as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a key measure used by management to evaluate our results and make strategic decisions. Management believes this measure is useful to investors because it is an indicator of operational performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the Company's presentation of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, and should not be viewed as an alternative to measures of financial performance or changes in cash flows calculated in accordance with the U.S. GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA
(Amounts expressed in US$)
Cash, Liquidity and Financial Position
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had cash and bank balances, short-term debt (including bank loans, current portion of long-term loans from credit union and related party loans), and long-term debt (including related party loans) of approximately $16.02million, $10.54 million and $4.69 million, respectively, compared to approximately$11.20 million, $13.52 million and $2.98 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2021.
Net accounts receivable was approximately $4.24 million as of September 30, 2022, compared to approximately $4.87 million as of December 31, 2021. Net inventory was approximately $4.44 million as of September 30, 2022, compared to approximately$5.84 million as of December 31, 2021. As of September 30, 2022, the Company had current assets of approximately$48.43 million and current liabilities of approximately$17.59million, resulting in a working capital of approximately$30.84 million. This was compared to current assets of approximately $55.52 million and current liabilities of approximately $20.43 million, resulting in a working capital of approximately $35.09 million as of December 31, 2021.
Net cash provided by operating activities was approximately$7.43 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to net cash used in operating activities of approximately $6.44 million for the same period of last year. Net cash used in investing activities was approximately$8.19 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to approximately$12.78 million for the same period of last year. Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately$6.84million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to approximately$41.55 million for the same period of last year.
About IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
Founded in 1996, IT Tech Packaging, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China. Using recycled paper as its primary raw material (with the exception of its tissue paper products), ITP produces and distributes three categories of paper products: corrugating medium paper, offset printing paper and tissue paper products. With production based in Baoding and Xingtai in North China's Hebei Province, ITP is located strategically close to the Beijing and Tianjin region, home to a growing base of industrial and manufacturing activities and one of the largest markets for paper products consumption in the country. ITP has been listed on the NYSE American since December 2009. For more information, please visit: http://www.itpackaging.cn/.
Forward-looking Statement
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinion, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including "will," "may," "expects," "projects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimate," "should," and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including market and other conditions. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date hereof to conform to actual results or changes in expectations, except as required by law.
For more information, please contact:
At the Company
Email: ir@itpackaging.cn
Tel: +86 312 8698215
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FBI: Naval reservist said he stormed Capitol with Proud Boys
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Naval reservist who was assigned to an agency that operates spy satellites told an undercover FBI agent that he stormed the U.S. Capitol with members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and has espoused anti-government and antisemitic ideologies, federal authorities said in court records unsealed on Thursday.
Hatchet Speed was arrested on Wednesday in McLean, Virginia, on misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, court records show. Video captured Speed entering the Capitol through the Senate Wing Doors and exiting the building through a window more than 40 minutes later, according to the FBI.
The FBI says Speed, whose birth name was Daniel Abraham Speed, is a petty officer first class in the U.S. Naval Reserves and was assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office. Authorities believe Speed is currently unemployed, a prosecutor said in a court filing. Court records don’t list a defense attorney for Speed, who’s scheduled to make his initial court appearance in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates U.S. spy satellites used by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. The secretive agency has an important role in the U.S. intelligence community, which relies heavily on satellite imagery to monitor global hot spots like Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Speed recently worked in Vienna, Virginia, as a software developer for Novetta Solutions LLC, a defense contractor that conducts advanced analytics for the Defense Department and other federal agencies, the FBI said.
In March, Speed met with with an FBI undercover employee who “presented to Speed as a like-minded individual,” an FBI agent said in a court filing. Speed told the undercover agent that going to the Capitol on Jan. 6 “was always the plan” and said he went there with friends who were Proud Boys members, the filing says.
“We would listen to Donald Trump then all of us would go to the Capitol. Now the reason we were going to the Capitol was to protest what was going on in the Capitol … what they were doing was counting the ballots,” Speed said, according to the FBI.
Speed also said a larger crowd could have compelled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign “out of fear for her life,” an FBI agent wrote.
“He also observed that ‘there are too many Americans that have this idea that we have to be peaceful at all costs,’” the agent added.
Prosecutors are seeking a court order requiring home detention with location monitoring for Speed after his release from custody. They say his statements and conduct show that he poses a threat of violence to the community.
After the Capitol riot, Speed bought at least 12 firearms over the span of a few months and spent more than $50,000 at firearm and firearm-part retailers, a prosecutor said in a court filing.
“This firearm-buying spree is alarming in light of statements that Speed has made in which he has espoused the use of violence to further his anti-government and anti-Semitic ideologies,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb wrote.
In April, Speed told an FBI undercover employee that he has contemplated using violence to further his antisemitic beliefs and discussed using violence against members of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization.
Speed described Adolf Hitler as “one of the best people that’s ever been on this earth,” an FBI agent wrote. Speed also praised the writings of serial bombers Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph and lauded tactics employed by “jihadists,” suggesting that their approach would be an effective way to “wipe out” Jewish people, according to Loeb.
Speed criticized militias “for not having what it takes to actually use violence,” the prosecutor said.
“He described trying to figure out how to identify potential targets and using a ‘mock trial’ to identify targets he could justify to himself acting against,” Loeb wrote.
Federal agents said they seized eight firearms and seven silencers when they searched Speed’s home, vehicles and a storage unit. They also said they found approximately 25 other firearms belonging to Speed’s housemates.
Approximately 40 Proud Boys leaders, members or associates have been charged in the deadly Jan. 6 siege. Former Proud Boys national chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four other men are charged with seditious conspiracy for what authorities say was a plot to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
The charges against Speed come months after an intelligence contractor alleged he was fired for reporting the circulation of racist and misogynistic comments on classified intelligence community chatrooms. The fired contractor, Dan Gilmore, wrote in a blog post that “many employees” across the community have posted that they believed the Jan. 6 attack was “justified.”
A spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined last month to comment on Gilmore’s allegations but said that people “who engage in inappropriate conduct are subject to a variety of accountability mechanisms, including disciplinary action.”
The NRO and Novetta Solutions did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Speed’s arrest.
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Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md.
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Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions of young people are counting on will run short of money to pay full benefits within the next decade, the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Friday warns.
Medicare, the government-sponsored health insurance that covers 65 million older and disabled people, will be unable to pay full benefits for inpatient hospital visits and nursing home stays by 2031, the report forecast. And just two years later, Social Security won’t have enough cash on hand to pay out full benefits to its 66 million retirees.
The report is another prod for politicians to address the fragile financial state of the social programs, which are only expected to get more expensive in the coming years as more Americans age into eligibility for them.
“The Trustees continue to recommend that Congress address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely fashion to phase in necessary changes gradually,” said Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of Social Security.
Friday’s report is a mix of good and bad news: The forecasted go-broke date for Medicare was moved back three years — last year’s report predicted the government wouldn’t have enough money to start paying those benefits in 2028. But the date for Social Security’s trust was moved up one year earlier.
On its current track, Medicare would be able to cover only 89% of costs for patients’ hospital visits, nursing home stays and home health care starting in 2031. Social Security, meanwhile, will be able to cover only 77% of benefits starting in 2033.
Social Security’s disability trust fund is in much better shape — it’s not expected to be depleted within the next 75 years.
The future of Social Security and Medicare has become a top political talking point as President Joe Biden heads into his expected 2024 reelection campaign. Biden, a Democrat, has vowed to rebuff any Republican-led efforts to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits to brace for the shortfall. Instead, he’s pitched raising taxes on some of the country’s wealthiest people, those making $400,000 or more a year, to shore up Medicare.
Republican leaders, meanwhile, say they don’t intend to ax benefits either, but they’ve yet to coalesce behind a plan to keep the programs solvent. Last year, however, members of the House Republican Study Committee proposed raising the age at which someone could qualify for Social Security and Medicare.
Peterson Foundation CEO Michael Peterson said ahead of the report’s release that “if lawmakers do nothing, in less than a decade more than 70 million beneficiaries would face an automatic 23% cut, reducing the average benefit by several thousand dollars per year. We simply can’t let that happen.”
“The sooner we act, the easier it will be to ensure the future of Social Security,” he said. “Lawmakers shouldn’t take anything off the table, and the good news is there are plenty of reasonable options on both the revenue and spending side of the ledger to implement fair, gradual and common sense reforms.”
Lawmakers have for years kicked Social Security and Medicare’s troubling math to the next generation. Social Security benefits were last reformed 40 years ago, when the federal government raised the eligibility age for the program to 67. The eligibility age has never changed for Medicare, with people accessing the medical coverage when they turn 65.
The funds’ future should be a top priority for Congressional leaders, AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said in a statement, calling on elected officials to hammer out a plan.
“Today’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports reinforce that while they are financially strong today, both programs face long-term funding needs, and Congress must act to find solutions to ensure Social Security and Medicare will be there for the next generation and into the future,” Jenkins said.
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On Father’s Day, 1964, Philadelphia Phillies’ right-hander Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets in Shea Stadium.
Bunning’s two-hour, 10-minute masterpiece – 90 pitches, 10 strike outs – during a double-header’s first game had special significance. At the time, Bunning and his wife, Mary Theis, had seven children. Eventually, the Bunnings, married 60 years, would have nine children, 35 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Few in baseball history have lived as rewarding a life as Bunning, who represented Kentucky as a U.S. representative from 1987 to 1999, and then as a two-term U.S. senator from 1999 until 2011. Bunning’s baseball achievements put him in the Hall of Fame. Along the way, Bunning racked up 224 wins, 2,855 strike outs and was chosen to participate in nine All-Star Games. The fire-balling righty led the league in strike outs three times, and when he retired Bunning ranked second among all-time strikeout leaders behind Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators.
In 1955, Bunning debuted with the Detroit Tigers, and in 1958, he threw a 3-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. Bunning was then traded to the Phillies, his second stop in a career that also included brief stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Long after Bunning hung up his glove, he recalled in detail how he set down 27 consecutive Mets, the first National League perfect game since 1880. After attending Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and eating a hearty sausage and egg breakfast, Bunning headed out to Shea Stadium, where the temperature and humidity would hit 90 by game time.
Although Bunning said that he felt no better or no worse than usual as he warmed up, Phillies’ manager Gene Mauch disagreed. Mauch told Sport Magazine’s Larry Merchant, “We knew when he was warming up that this was something special. The way he was throwing so live and as high as he was. Not high with his pitches. High himself.”
For nine innings, Bunning was so relaxed that he rejected the long-standing baseball tradition which forbade pitchers to talk to teammates about no hitters in progress – considered a jinx. “Dive for the ball,” Bunning laughingly told his infielders. “Don’t let anything fall in.”
With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Bunning called catcher Gus Triandos to the mound and asked him to tell him a joke. Triandos shook his head in dismay and went back behind the plate. Bunning then struck out the last two Mets and pounded his glove as his teammates rushed to share his joy in his 6-0 win.
Bunning’s was the fifth perfect game in major-league history and the first in the regular season since the Chicago White Sox Charlie Robertson blanked the Detroit Tigers, 2-0.
Later, Bunning said about his flawless performance: “Everything has to come together, good control, outstanding plays from your teammates, a whole lot of good fortune on your side and a lot of bad luck for the other guys. A million things could go wrong, but on this one particular day of your life none of them do.”
But when Bunning looked back at his 1964 season, disappointment superseded his perfect game’s thrills. By September 20, the Phillies led by 6½-games with 12 to play. But then the wheels fell off. The Phils lost 10 in a row; Bunning, overworked by Mauch, was charged with three losses. The St. Louis Cardinals eked out the pennant by a game over the Phils and the Cincinnati Reds.
Before he died at age 85, Bunning said, “I am most proud of the fact I went through nearly 11 years without missing a start. They wrote my name down, and I went to the post.”
In today’s era, Bunning’s consistency would be a marvel.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Police Department is investigating a deadly shooting that occurred early Wednesday morning.
Officers responded to the corner of Genesee and Fox streets around 6 a.m.
On the scene, detectives saw that a man was shot outside during a dispute with another person.
The victim was declared dead at the scene.
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Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston has removed artwork from a new exhibit at its Center for Arts and History, citing a state law that prohibits public funds be used to pay for or promote abortions.
The exhibit, called "Unconditional Care: Listening to People’s Health Needs," opened Friday and was set to include four pieces from Brooklyn-based artist Lydia Nobles. A few days before the opening, she was told her series of audio and video interviews featuring four women talking about their own experiences around abortion violated Idaho law. Her work was then pulled from the gallery.
Nobles said she’s troubled by the censorship.
“I think of a college as really this place where you get to see all these different perspectives and then you get to choose what makes sense for you and who you are and who your family is and what type of culture you come from,” she said.
Nobles said she feels her voice and the voices of the women featured in her art are being silenced. Many of them had never shared their stories publicly. Nobles said artists have a responsibility to share the stories they collect with integrity and her art does not promote abortion but presents information about the realities of women’s experiences.
“The way the college handled the situation was not appropriate at all,” she added.
In a brief statement, the college confirmed it removed items from the exhibit, citing Idaho Code Section 18-8705, but did not provide further clarification on its interpretation of the statute.
“No person, agency, organization, or any other party that receives funds authorized by the state, a county, a city, a public health district, a public school district, or any local political subdivision or agency thereof may use those funds to perform or promote abortion, provide counseling in favor of abortion, make referral for abortion, or provide facilities for abortion or for training to provide or perform abortion,” the law reads.
Speaking from New York, Nobles said she submitted the work earlier this year after she was selected.
"It's basically saying, 'You can’t make your own decisions. So I'm going to make one for you and I'm going to also limit the information that's available to you,'" she said.
Other exhibitors who mentioned abortion also saw their work censored. Chicago-based artist Michelle Hartney showcased a transcribed version of a historical letter from a woman in the 1920s asking reproductive rights activist Margaret Sanger for help getting birth control.
In it, the woman writes that doctors refused to help her and says, “I just came back from the hospital and am too weak to write [...] I have three living children now and in 1918, I had a serious operation. Since that, I lost one child at birth and had two abortions, the last I was five and one-half months.”
At the time, Sanger received hundreds of thousands of letters from women trying to circumvent the Comstock Act of 1873 which made it illegal to possess, sell or distribute “obscene” materials, including information related to contraception or abortions.
“I am getting weaker and losing weight and color, but with all my pleas with doctors, they won’t do anything for me,” the letter repurposed by Hartney says.
Lewis-Clark State College removed Hartney's piece hours before the exhibit was set to open and did not give Hartney an explanation why.
“I'm worried about birth control access now and really wanted to highlight the voices of these folks from the past,” she said speaking from Chicago, adding that her other pieces dealing with maternal mortality that do not mention the word “abortion” were kept up.
“It's scary to know that we're now living in a country where art is being censored for speaking about the existence of abortion,” Hartney said.
In a letter sent Friday to the school, the ACLU of Idaho and the National Coalition Against Censorship condemned the college’s action.
In a released statement, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project attorney Scarlet Kim said the college’s decision “deprives the public of a critical opportunity to engage in a broader conversation” and “jeopardizes a bedrock First Amendment principle that the state refrain from interfering with expressive activity because it disagrees with a particular point of view.”
The statute referenced by the college does not define what constitutes promotion of abortion, causing confusion at public institutions since it went into effect last year. In September, the University of Idaho received national attention when it cited the same law warning its employees they could face termination if they didn’t remain neutral in discussions about abortion.
A Lewis-Clark State College representative declined to answer questions asking for clarification.
“The silver lining of the situation is that people are talking about how free speech is also being infringed upon with these laws that are supporting abortion bans,” Nobles said.
Abortions in Idaho are banned except in the case of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is endangered.
The art exhibit "Unconditional Care: Listening to People's Health Needs" opened to the public March 3 and will be up until April 23.
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Three-Day Conference Welcomes Attendees from Around the World for the Latest Research and Community Building
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CureDuchenne, a global nonprofit committed to finding and funding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, announced its FUTURES National Conference will be held from April 20-23, 2023 in San Diego, California. FUTURES is a three-day event focused on bringing education, connection and hope to the Duchenne community. The annual event will take place as a hybrid event, offering attendees a chance to participate both online and in-person, at the Marriott Marquis & Marina.
This year's event theme is Bright Futures, placing importance on the acceleration of critical research, improvement of care and quality of life for all, and fostering a community that supports one another and takes on the future together. CureDuchenne will offer insightful and interactive presentations on a variety of relevant topics, including the latest research and therapies for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, insight from industry thought leaders, social events for the whole family, a gaming lounge, and more.
"As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we can't wait to connect with families and our healthcare community to share important research, have thoughtful discussions on emerging approaches to care, and spend quality time together," said Debra Miller, founder and CEO of CureDuchenne. "We are at a critical time with potentially transformative therapeutic treatments coming over the horizon and we have much to share."
Returning keynote speakers Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray will share new insights and inspiration from their latest accessible journey through the Camino de Santiago. "Our experience during last year's FUTURES conference connecting with families, parents, caregivers and individuals with Duchenne was hugely impactful," said Justin Skeesuck. "We're excited to share new stories this year that will hopefully help encourage others to find and foster purpose no matter the circumstances." Skeesuck and Gray's inspiring story of their 500-mile trek through the rugged terrain of northern Spain, with Patrick and others pushing Justin in a custom-made wheelchair, was told in an extraordinary documentary titled I'll Push You.
The event will kick off on Friday, April 20, with a "CURE" theme, featuring an engaging keynote panel with industry leaders, including Kevin Flanigan, MD, director of the Center for Gene Therapy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Carsten G. Bönnemann, MD, senior investigator with the National Institutes of Health, Emil Kakkis, MD, PhD, Founder, president and CEO of Ultragenyx, and more. They will discuss the successes, learnings, challenges, and future of Duchenne research. Research sessions will highlight gene therapy and gene editing, RNA-targeted therapeutics, and muscle preservation and anti-inflammatory treatment approaches. Saturday will highlight "CARE," with healthcare providers discussing the most critical advancements and recommendations in their specialties, as well as breakout sessions for caregivers of individuals with Duchenne of all ages, including sessions for adults with Duchenne. Sunday will close the three-day conference with a "COMMUNITY" focus, highlighting family support, overcoming everyday challenges, and clinical care, research and mental health for female Duchenne carriers.
Throughout the weekend, CureDuchenne will offer on-site childcare and activities for the whole family, including a gaming lounge for kids and a hangout lounge for adults with Duchenne. In-person registration fee is $100 per adult, with $50 early-bird pricing available until March 13, 2023. Virtual attendance is free of charge. There is also no charge for adult individuals with Duchenne and children under 16 years of age.
For registration information, full agenda and details, please visit cureduchenne.org/futures.
About CureDuchenne
Twenty years ago, CureDuchenne was created with one goal: to find and fund a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the leading genetic killer of young boys. Today, CureDuchenne is recognized as a global leader in research, patient care, and innovation for improving and extending the lives of those with Duchenne. CureDuchenne's innovative venture philanthropy model has advanced transformative treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including 17 projects that advanced to human clinical trials and multiple projects to overcome the limitations of exon-skipping and gene therapy. In addition, CureDuchenne contributed early funding to the first FDA-approved Duchenne drug, pioneered the first and only Duchenne physical and occupational therapist certification program and created an innovative biobank and data registry, accelerating research toward a cure. For more information on how to help raise awareness and funds needed for research, please visit cureduchenne.org.
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BILLINGS — A one – two punch of rain/snow showers Sunday night it again Tuesday don't bring much snow. But they do signal a cool down from Sunday.
High temperatures reach mainly the 40s to even some low 50s Sunday afternoon. But as rain/snow showers move in Sunday evening, they will switch to all snow overnight.
Accumulations will generally be less than an inch in the lower elevations, but could cause roads to become slick as they freeze overnight. Expect slick spots on the roads, especially bridges and overpasses, through mid-morning Monday.
Slow down, expect icy conditions, and turn off the cruise control. Use care on sidewalks as well.
Across the area, high temperatures throughout the week will be mainly into the 20s to 30s with overnight temperatures in the single digits and teens with a few mornings making it the low 20s. .The 30 year average by late February is low 40s for highs and upper teens to low 20s for lows.
A few scattered showers will develop during the week, with mainly higher elevation snow. A few snow showers will develop Tuesday and early Wednesday with only light accumulation expected.
The overall long term Outlook shows signs of March being somewhat wetter than usual. But the strongest signals are for colder than average temperatures. Specifics are unclear at this point, but expect more wintry weather as we move into the new month. | 2023-02-27T00:26:23+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/weather/todays-forecast/q2-billings-area-weather-scattered-showers-highlight-the-early-work-week |
WASHINGTON — Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again heading into a weekend where President Joe Biden and world leaders watched from afar, hoping high-stakes negotiations would make progress on avoiding a potentially catastrophic federal default.
In a sign of a renewed bargaining session, food was brought to the negotiating room at the Capitol on Saturday morning, only to be carted away hours later. No meeting was likely Saturday, according to a person familiar with the state of the talks who was not authorized to publicly discuss the situation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Biden's administration is reaching for a deal with Republicans led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. The sides are up against a deadline as soon as June 1 to raise its borrowing limit, now at $31 trillion, so the government can keep paying the nation’s bills. Republicans are demanding steep spending cuts the Democrats oppose.
Negotiations had came to an abrupt standstill Friday morning when McCarthy said it was time to “pause” talks. Then the teams convened again in the evening, only to quickly call it quits for the night.
Biden, attending a meeting of global leaders in Japan, tried to reassure them on Saturday that the United States would not default, a scenario that would rattle the world economy. He said he felt there was headway in the talks.
“The first meetings weren’t all that progressive, the second ones were, the third one was,” he said. The president said he believes "we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done.”
Negotiators for McCarthy said after the Friday evening session that they were uncertain on next steps.
“We reengaged, had a very, very candid discussion, talking about where we are, talking about where things need to be, what’s reasonably acceptable," said Rep. Garret Graves, R-La.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. was asked if he was confident an agreement over budget issues could be reached with the White House. He replied, “No.”
As the White House team left the nighttime session, Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti, who is leading talks for the Democrats, said he was hopeful. “We're going to keep working,” he said.
McCarthy had said resolution to the standoff is “easy,” if only Biden's team would agree to some spending cuts Republicans are demanding. The biggest impasse was over the fiscal 2024 top-line budget amount, according to a person briefed on the talks and granted anonymity to discuss them. Democrats contend the steep reductions Republicans have put on the table would be potentially harmful to Americans, and they are insisting that Republicans agree to tax increases on the wealthy, in addition to spending cuts, to close the deficit.
Wall Street turned lower Friday as negotiations came to a sudden halt. Experts have warned that even the threat of a debt default would could spark a recession.
Republicans argue the nation's deficit spending needs to get under control, aiming to roll back spending to fiscal 2022 levels and restrict future growth. But Biden's team is countering that the caps Republicans proposed in their House-passed bill would amount to 30% reductions in some programs if Defense and veterans are spared, according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.
Any deal would need the support of both Republicans and Democrats to find approval in a divided Congress and be passed into law. Negotiators are eyeing a more narrow budget cap deal of a few years, rather than the decade-long caps Republicans initially wanted, and clawing back some $30 billion of unspent COVID-19 funds.
Still up for debate are policy changes, including a framework for permitting reforms to speed the development of energy projects, as well as the Republican push to impose work requirements on government aid recipients that Biden has been open to but the House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York has said was a "nonstarter."
McCarthy faces pressures from his hard-right flank to cut the strongest deal possible for Republicans, and he risks a threat to his leadership as speaker if he fails to deliver. Many House Republicans are unlikely to accept any deal with the White House.
Biden is facing increased pushback from Democrats, particularly progressives, who argue the reductions will fall too heavily on domestic programs that Americans rely on. | 2023-05-20T23:20:00+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nation-world/debt-limit-biden-mccarthy-negotiations/507-383b9f40-be62-493a-97dd-925002cfedd6 |
Jets vs. Golden Knights Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NHL Playoffs First Round Game 4
The Winnipeg Jets take their home ice at Canada Life Centre Monday against the Vegas Golden Knights for Game 4 of the NHL Playoffs First Round, starting at 9:30 PM ET on ESPN, SNW, TVAS, and SportsNet RM. The Golden Knights lead the series 2-1. The Jets are the favorite (-110) in this matchup with the Golden Knights (-110).
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Jets vs. Golden Knights Predictions for Monday
Our computer model for this game expects a final score of Jets 4, Golden Knights 3.
- Moneyline Pick: Jets (-110)
- Computer Predicted Total: 6
- Computer Predicted Spread: Jets (-0.4)
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Jets Splits and Trends
- The Jets (46-33-3 overall) have a 10-4-14 record in matchups that have needed overtime.
- Winnipeg has 35 points (16-7-3) in the 26 games it has played that were decided by one goal.
- In the 15 games this season the Jets recorded only one goal, they finished 0-14-1.
- Winnipeg has scored exactly two goals in 17 games this season (6-10-1 record, 13 points).
- The Jets are 41-4-2 in the 47 games when they have scored three or more goals (to record 84 points).
- In the 32 games when Winnipeg has recorded a single power-play goal, it has an 18-13-1 record (37 points).
- In games when it has outshot its opponent, Winnipeg is 25-13-1 (51 points).
- The Jets have been outshot by opponents 44 times, and went 22-19-3 (47 points).
Golden Knights Splits and Trends
- The Golden Knights have posted a record of 14-9-23 in overtime games on their way to an overall mark of 51-22-9.
- Vegas has earned 47 points (21-8-5) in its 34 games that finished with a one-goal margin.
- In 11 games this season when the Golden Knights finished a game with just one goal, they earned a total of four points (1-8-2).
- Vegas has 13 points (4-10-5) when scoring exactly two goals this season.
- The Golden Knights have scored more than two goals in 53 games, earning 98 points from those contests.
- This season, Vegas has recorded a lone power-play goal in 26 games and picked up 37 points with a record of 18-7-1.
- When outshooting its opponent this season, Vegas is 29-7-5 (63 points).
- The Golden Knights have been outshot by opponents 38 times this season, and earned 43 points in those games.
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Jets vs. Golden Knights Game Time and TV Channel
- When: Monday, April 24, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SNW, TVAS, and SportsNet RM
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- Where: Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — When the Los Angeles Angels set a new franchise record for futility, Nickelback provided the soundtrack.
In a bid to break the tension of their epic losing streak Wednesday night, the Halos sent all nine batters up to the plate to songs by the much-maligned Canadian rock band.
These Angels can only wish they had as many big hits as Nickelback, however.
Los Angeles' losing streak reached a team-record 14 games when Bobby Dalbec drove in the only run with a double in the sixth inning for the Boston Red Sox in a 1-0 victory.
“It's a broken record,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “We keep saying it. The effort is good. These guys really want to win a game right now, and we know what it will mean for us when we do.”
Nathan Eovaldi (4-2) pitched five innings of six-hit ball with five strikeouts in Boston’s season-high seventh consecutive victory. With their second 1-0 win in three days at the Big A, the Red Sox remained perfect in June and on their 10-game West Coast trip (6-0).
With another lifeless offensive performance and pitching that was just good enough to lose, the Angels dropped to 0-2 under Nevin, who replaced Joe Maddon on Tuesday. The Halos' baffling skid is now longer than the previous team record set across the final 12 games of 1988 and the 1989 season opener.
“Every loss is the same,” said rookie Reid Detmers, who pitched three-hit ball into the fifth inning. “Obviously closer losses, they can be a little bit tougher, but they all hurt. We're moving in the right direction. Clubhouse is good.”
Los Angeles was 24-13 and in first place in the AL West on May 15, but the Angels have gone 3-18 since with a simultaneous collapse of their injury-plagued lineup and their perpetually poor pitching staff.
The Halos got seven singles but were shut out for the third time in six games despite their imaginative accompaniment to the plate. The mild night was no surprise with a lineup featuring six backups, largely due to injuries. Shohei Ohtani went 1 for 4 with two strikeouts as Los Angeles’ leadoff hitter.
“Had some great pitching performances,” Nevin said. “Offensively, we just didn't get enough guys on early.”
Matt Strahm got the final two outs for his third save, completing a stellar performance by five pitchers who didn't walk a batter in Boston's third shutout victory in five games.
“Another good one for them," Boston manager Alex Cora said of his bullpen. “They've been throwing the ball well for a while.”
Boston didn't have to face Mike Trout, who didn't play after straining his groin Tuesday night. The Angels aren't concerned about a long-term absence for their three-time AL MVP, who worked out extensively before the game.
But the Halos' lineup is depleted with the simultaneous absences of Trout, Taylor Ward, Anthony Rendon and David Fletcher due to injuries. Luis Rengifo also went on the paternity list before the game.
Detmers had his second straight start without allowing a run. The rookie exited after Christian Arroyo's one-out double in the fifth sent Jackie Bradley Jr. to third, but reliever Archie Bradley escaped the jam.
Boston rallied in the sixth when Alex Verdugo drew a two-out walk from Jimmy Herget (1-1) and promptly scored on a double into the right field corner by Dalbec, who also drove in two runs Tuesday night.
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
Nevin said the Nickelback serenade wasn’t his idea, but he wasn't mad.
“I like it,” Nevin said. “I like Nickelback. The entire game, I’ve got songs in my head I can’t stop singing.”
Detmers said the scheme “definitely threw us off a little bit, but that's just to keep us loose, have some fun.”
TRAINER'S ROOM
Red Sox: Leadoff hitter and center fielder Kiké Hernández went on the 10-day injured list with a right hip flexor strain. ... SS Xander Bogaerts started and batted cleanup after after leaving Tuesday's game late with left shoulder tightness.
Angels: Rendon (right wrist inflammation) has “made some good progress lately,” according to athletic trainer Mike Frostad. Rendon took ground balls and hit in the cage. The $245 million third baseman hasn't played since May 26. ... Ward's strained hamstring is “healing up pretty nicely for us,” Frostad said. The Angels hope their starting right fielder will play Tuesday against the Dodgers when he's eligible to come off the injured list.
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Ohtani (3-4, 3.99 ERA) makes his 10th mound start of the season in the series finale, facing Boston's Nick Pivetta (5-4, 3.50). Ohtani threw seven scoreless innings at Fenway Park on May 5, allowing six hits and striking out 11.
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Illinois State Redbirds (10-14, 5-8 MVC) at Belmont Bruins (16-8, 9-4 MVC)
The Bruins are 8-2 in home games. Belmont ranks fifth in college basketball shooting 39.7% from downtown, led by Drew Friberg shooting 46.2% from 3-point range.
The Redbirds are 5-8 in conference games. Illinois State allows 68.3 points to opponents while being outscored by 2.0 points per game.
TOP PERFORMERS: Sheppard is averaging 19.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Bruins. Friberg is averaging 12.0 points over the last 10 games for Belmont.
Malachi Poindexter is averaging 9.6 points for the Redbirds. Seneca Knight is averaging 12.8 points over the last 10 games for Illinois State.
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 7-3, averaging 72.0 points, 30.7 rebounds, 15.3 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.3 points per game.
Redbirds: 4-6, averaging 65.8 points, 30.1 rebounds, 10.1 assists, 5.8 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 68.1 points.
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CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Monday, February 6, 2023
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823 FPUS56 KMTR 071101
ZFPMTR
San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographic areas. For a more site specific
forecast...please visit weather.gov/sanfrancisco
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CAZ505-080200-
Coastal North Bay...Including Point Reyes National Seashore-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around
5 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 39 58 40 59 /
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CAZ503-080200-
Sonoma Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs around 60. Northwest winds around 5 mph increasing
to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ502-080200-
Marin Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds
around 5 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West
winds around 5 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ506-080200-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. East winds up to
5 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy dense fog in the morning. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s. North winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy dense fog. Highs in the 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to
lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
30s to upper 40s. Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
in the 50s to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 33 62 35 66 /
San Rafael 40 58 41 60 /
Napa 37 59 39 63 /
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CAZ504-080200-
North Bay Interior Mountains-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming
southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to
lower 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
to mid 40s. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 40 58 42 63 /
$$
CAZ006-080200-
San Francisco-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. North winds
around 5 mph...becoming northeast up to 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 42 58 43 60 /
Ocean Beach 43 58 43 60 /
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CAZ509-080200-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 60. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ508-080200-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds around 5 mph...becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 44 58 45 61 /
Oakland 40 60 41 62 /
Fremont 38 61 39 64 /
Redwood City 40 60 41 63 /
Mountain View 40 59 42 63 /
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CAZ510-080200-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph...becoming northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph...becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 36 58 38 63 /
Livermore 35 59 37 64 /
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CAZ513-080200-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 39 61 41 65 /
Morgan Hill 36 62 38 66 /
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CAZ512-080200-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. Lows
around 40.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ515-080200-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ514-080200-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ529-080200-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph...becoming
southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds
around 5 mph...becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 38 60 40 64 /
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CAZ530-080200-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. East
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph...
becoming east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 40 59 42 62 /
Big Sur 41 61 48 64 /
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CAZ528-080200-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows near 40. West winds around 5 mph...becoming
east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around
5 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 36 62 38 66 /
Carmel Valley 39 61 43 66 /
Hollister 35 61 38 66 /
$$
CAZ516-080200-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost and patchy fog. Lows in
the mid 30s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower
60s. East winds around 5 mph...becoming northwest in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy dense fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph...
becoming north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear except patchy fog after midnight. Lows
in the upper 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening...
becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 35 64 38 69 /
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CAZ517-080200-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s. North
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow.
Highs in the lower 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
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Jim Friedrich never trained to be a car mechanic.
Friedrich, who grew up on a farm in Lake Elmo, learned how to fix machines by watching and doing. “He was always one to just dive in,” said his daughter, Laura Sobiech. “He just loved taking things apart and putting them back together and making them work.”
Friedrich, who owned and operated Lake Elmo Repair until he retired in 2008, was the co-founder of St. Croix Valley Christians in Action, a nondenominational Christian fellowship organization that until last year ran a car-care ministry program in Lake Elmo. For almost 30 years, Friedrich and other volunteers gathered at the garage on the second Saturday of every month and offered free car repairs and distributed food and clothing to people in need.
Friedrich died Friday at his house in Stillwater from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 77.
Friedrich, a lifetime member of St. Lucas Community Church in Lake Elmo, lived a life of faith and integrity, Sobiech said.
“His faith drove everything that he did,” she said. “He would drop everything to help anyone in need.”
Friedrich once invited a refugee family from Lebanon to live with his family for five months after he discovered that they were living in their van, Sobiech said. “They brought their van in to be fixed,” she said. “He converted a basement garage into a room for them.”
The volunteers who gathered on the appointed Saturdays for the car-care clinic helped mostly single mothers and those on financial assistance.
“If you can do anything to stabilize somebody’s life, that’s a blessing in itself. It’s a big deal,” Friedrich told the Pioneer Press in 1999.
St. Croix Valley Christians in Action volunteers also gave donated cars away to people in need, said Don Slinger, who co-founded the organization with Friedrich.
Organizers didn’t keep statistics on how many cars were repaired or given away, Slinger said. “We weren’t in it for numbers, we were in it for people,” said Slinger, who lives in Lake Elmo. “Jim was a guiding light on taking the focus off of us and onto others.”
Friedrich was driven by “his love of the Lord,” he said. “I think all of us can relate to times when we were stuck in a hard place, and to be helped like that, you can’t even put a value to that. Jim was doing that all the time for all kinds of people.
It was Friedrich who insisted that financial planning and budgeting seminars be a part of the car-repair clinic, Slinger said.
“We saw it was just repeat need after repeat need,” he said. “That’s what it was all about: You’re given this one opportunity in life to get ahead, and if you’ve been given the tools or the training to be a better steward of your money or a better caretaker of what you have, then you can plan and take the steps you need to. We tried to help them change their habits.”
FIXER-UPPERS
After retiring, Friedrich opened Rust in Peace Tractor Resurrections out of a garage at his house in Lake Elmo, Sobiech said.
“He wanted to continue working on things he loved working on, and tractors were his thing,” he said.
He especially love Allis-Chalmers tractors, she said.
“He would completely restore them, get them mechanically up and running, and he would do the paint,” she said. “He would meticulously restore them to their original state.”
When Sobiech and her siblings were younger, Friedrich kept a stream of fixer-uppers on hand for the teens to drive. Once he brought home a mauve-pink – “of all colors” — Cadillac, “the kind with the slanted back hood with the tire on it, totally not my dad,” she said. “We were just like, that’s weird, but he thought he would give it a try, so that’s what he drove for a while.”
After a few months, he had to give it away because it was “stealing his peace,” she said. “He was too worried about it getting scratched or something. He had to get rid of it. He was such a peaceful man.”
RURAL PHILOSOPHER
Friedrich loved studying scripture and reading history books. “My sister called him ‘the rural philosopher,’” she said. “He loved to create places where people could gather and connect and enjoy each other. Every year, for several years, we would have a booya at our house. I remember him standing off at the edge looking in at the people. … He’d say, ‘Look at all these people enjoying themselves.’ That’s what he loved to do, and he did it really well even up to the end.”
Friedrich grew up in Lake Elmo and graduated from Stillwater High School in 1963. He attended the University of Minnesota for one year, studying engineering, but then had to return home when his father, Raymond, became ill. “His dad had an enlarged heart and couldn’t work anymore,” Sobiech said. “He stopped school and went to work.”
Friedrich drove a school bus, worked at Schroeder Dairy and was a mechanic at Donovan Construction before starting Lake Elmo Repair in 1980.
In 1968, he met Nancy Adam on a blind date set up by Adam’s sister and Friedrich’s cousin. “They went on a picnic,” Sobiech said. “It was St. Patrick’s Day, and it was unseasonably warm that day.”
On the couple’s “second or third date, my mom actually said, ‘Why don’t we get married?’ and he said ‘OK,’” she said. They were married five months later at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in North St. Paul.
The couple lived in North St. Paul until 1971 when they moved to the house where Friedrich grew up in Lake Elmo.
“He started his own shop at the house, and he tried doing that, but he was too nice, and he couldn’t make people pay,” Sobiech said. “He would let people put it on credit or pay later, and you know how that goes.”
The couple moved to Stillwater in 2020.
Friedrich is survived by his wife of 54 years; his children, Laura Sobiech, Adam Friedrich, Lee Schimnowski, Andrea Friedrich, Amy Anderson, Maria Garbe, Luke Friedrich; 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was the grandfather of Zach Sobiech, the Stillwater Area High School student whose song “Clouds” became an Internet sensation shortly before he died of cancer in May 2013.
His funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Sept.10 at St. Lucas Community Church in Lake Elmo, with visitation one hour prior.
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Last minute shopping impacting local retailers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - This past week there seemed to be an increase in shoppers checking items off their last-minute shopping lists.
With Christmas just around the corner and the chilly temperatures this week, one local business I spoke with started preparing for the increase in customers weeks ago.
The holidays always bring in more customers, which is why Soca Clothing in Homewood has been anticipating a busy schedule. So much so that they planned ahead with a full staff of 6-7 employees every day this week just in case.
Store owner Jeff Tenner said both of his stores are doing much better than last year and it’s been a very positive week for them.
“This week has been really fantastic at both of our stores, we were really busy earlier in the week,” Tenner said. “I think people were anticipating that the weather was going to be bad these last couple of days but even today with the cold, we’ve had good days at both stores.”
Tenner said this time of the year has been huge for local retailers.
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The man accused of grabbing Weymouth Police Officer Michael Chesna’s gun and fatally shooting the officer and killing a bystander in 2018 is set to stand trial starting Thursday.
Emanuel Lopes faces two counts of murder, possession of a firearm without a license, destruction of property, and negligent driving of a motor vehicle, according to officials.
Norfolk County District Attorney Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor said police responded to a call for an erratic driver in the area of the South Shore Hospital at 7:32 a.m. on July 15, 2018.
- Read more: Emanuel Lopes stood over Weymouth Police Officer Michael Chesna’s body and shot him, neighbors said
There was a single-car crash and the driver ran from the scene.
The driver, identified as Lopes, was then spotted vandalizing a home on Burton Terrace. Chesna, one of the officers searching for the suspect, saw Lopes.
Chesna got out of his cruiser, drew his firearm and demanded Lopes to stop, Connor said.
“Lopes then attacked Officer Chesna, it is believed with a large stone, striking him in the head,” the prosecutor said. “Officer Chesna fell to the ground. Lopes then retrieved Officer Chesna’s firearm and discharged it several times in his head and chest.”
Officers on scene returned fire. Lopes was struck in the leg.
Lopes ran through the neighborhoods around Burton Terrace. He still had the officer’s gun and fired three more times, authorities said.
A woman inside her home was fatally struck by a bullet Lopes fired. Lopes was then caught.
Attorney Larry Tipton claimed that the day before officials say Lopes shot Chesna and Adams, Lopes’ mother sought to involuntarily hospitalize him at South Shore Hospital. Tipton told the judge that South Shore Hospital decided against it.
“He was talking nonsense,” Tipton said at Lopes’ arraignment in Norfolk Superior Court. “He was videotaping himself talking nonsense.”
The defense attorney also said Lopes told friends “Martians had landed” and that he’d seen Jesus Christ.
The judge cited the seriousness of the charges and ordered Lopes be held without bail.
This was not his first encounter with Weymouth police. He was arrested on charges of selling cocaine to minors in October.
- Read more: A history of violence: Accused Mass. cop and child killers had long records, so why were they out?
“We have fought with him before,” Weymouth police wrote in their report of taking Lopes into custody. | 2023-06-08T12:52:16+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/06/trial-to-begin-for-emanuel-lopes-accused-of-killing-weymouth-police-officer-bystander.html |
Keith Frome, who has served as acting president of the Park School of Buffalo, has been named permanent president, the school's Board of Trustees announced.
Dr. Frome will serve a three-year term through June 30, 2025. He had been acting president since July 1, 2021, and helped develop the school's five-year strategic plan adopted by the Board of Trustees in June.
A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Columbia University Teachers College, he served as head of the Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo from 1996 to 2006 and returned as interim head in 2020-2021. From 2010 to 2015, he led the expansion of Buffalo's King Center Charter School.
The author and editor of four books, Dr. Frome was a co-founder of College Summit, a peer-to-peer organization which guides low-income youth to colleges and careers, and restructured it in 2015 as PeerForward. It was awarded the Lumina Prize in 2019 for innovation in higher education. | 2022-09-11T03:21:47+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/education/park-school-of-buffalo-names-keith-frome-permanent-president/article_c903f9ba-3172-11ed-b683-2b0dbd8a19fa.html |
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Red Sox vs. Rays Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 3
Saturday's game that pits the Tampa Bay Rays (40-18) versus the Boston Red Sox (29-27) at Fenway Park has a good chance to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-3 in favor of the Rays. Game time is at 1:10 PM ET on June 3.
The probable starters are Garrett Whitlock (2-2) for the Red Sox and Trevor Kelley (0-1) for the Rays.
Red Sox vs. Rays Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 1:10 PM ET
- Where: Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
- How to Watch on TV: NESN
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Red Sox vs. Rays Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Rays 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Rays
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- The Red Sox have played as the favorite in five of their past 10 games and have gone 2-3 in those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Boston and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times.
- The Red Sox have a record of 2-4-0 ATS over their last 10 games.
- The Red Sox have entered the game as favorites 22 times this season and won 12, or 54.5%, of those games.
- Boston is 11-8 this season when entering a game favored by -120 or more on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Red Sox, based on the moneyline, is 54.5%.
- Boston is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking fourth with 293 total runs this season.
- The Red Sox have a 4.65 team ERA that ranks 24th among all MLB pitching staffs.
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North Dakota's Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill into law that restricts transgender health care in the state, immediately making it a crime to give gender-affirming care to people younger than 18.
Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations, but it has increasingly come under attack in many conservative legislatures, including North Dakota's, where lawmakers have passed at least three anti-trans bills this year.
The measure that Burgum signed Wednesday received veto-proof support from GOP lawmakers — though some Republicans did vote against it, alongside all Democrats.
In a statement released Thursday morning, Burgum said the law is "aimed at protecting children from the life-altering ramifications of gender reassignment surgeries" but he added that medical professionals have testified these surgeries have not been and are not being performed on minors in North Dakota.
He said the law still allows medication treatment for early onset puberty and other rare circumstances with parental consent, and minors currently receiving gender-affirming care will still be able to receive treatment.
"Going forward, thoughtful debate around these complex medical policies should demonstrate compassion and understanding for all North Dakota youth and their families," he said.
The new law takes immediate effect and allows prosecutors to charge a health care provider with a felony — up to 10 years in prison and $20,000 in fines — for performing sex reassignment surgery on a minor.
It also enables prosecutors to charge a provider with a misdemeanor — up to 360 days in prison and $3,000 in fines — for giving gender-affirming medication, like puberty blockers, to a trans child.
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota denounced the new law as "a vast government overreach that undermines the fundamental rights of parents" and that violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process by singling out gender-affirming care for prohibition.
"By signing this bill into law, Gov. Burgum has put the government in charge of making vital decisions traditionally reserved for parents in North Dakota," Cody Schuler, the group's advocacy manager, said in a statement. "This ban won't stop North Dakotans from being trans, but it will deny them critical support that helps struggling transgender youth grow up to become thriving transgender adults."
Earlier this month, Burgum also signed a transgender athlete ban into law after it similarly passed the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities. In 2021, Burgum vetoed a bill that would have imposed a transgender athlete ban at that time, but House and Senate lawmakers did not have enough votes back then to override his veto.
North Dakota joins at least 13 other states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Republican lawmakers across the country have advanced hundreds of measures aimed at nearly every facet of trans existence this year.
That includes bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors, restrictions on the types of restrooms transgender people can use, measures restricting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, and bills that would out transgender students who want teachers to address them by the pronouns they use.
The Food and Drug Administration approved puberty blockers 30 years ago to treat children with precocious puberty — a condition that causes sexual development to begin much earlier than usual. Sex hormones — synthetic forms of estrogen and testosterone — were approved decades ago to treat hormone disorders or as birth control pills.
The FDA has not approved the medications specifically to treat gender-questioning youth, but they have been used for many years for that purpose "off label," a common and accepted practice for many medical conditions. Doctors who treat transgender patients say those decades of use are proof the treatments are not experimental.
Research has shown that transgender youths and adults can be prone to suicidal behavior when forced to live as the sex they were assigned at birth. And critics of legislation to restrict gender-affirming care for children say it's an attempt by conservatives to motivate their voting base.
Proponents of the measure have raised concerns about children changing their minds. Yet the evidence suggests detransitioning is not as common as opponents of transgender medical treatment for youth contend, though few studies exist and they have their weaknesses.
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Flurries and patchy blowing snow in evening hours, bitterly cold wind chills tonight and the rest of the weekend
**Winter Storm Warning for western and central Siouxland until 6 pm, eastern Siouxland until 9pm**
**Winter Weather Advisory for western & central Siouxland until 6 pm, eastern Siouxland until 9 pm**
**Wind Chill Advisory for all of Siouxland from midnight until noon Sunday**
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The snowstorm that is making its way through our area has dropped several inches of snow across Siouxland.
Patchy blowing snow is a possibility in the evening hours tonight. Light snow showers and flurries will linger off throughout the night. Skies will be mostly cloudy. It will feel much colder tonight. Lows will sit around 7 below with wind chills of 25 below or colder possible. Due to these wind chill values, a Wind Chill Advisory will take effect for all of Siouxland at midnight tonight.
The Wind Chill Advisory will continue until noon Sunday. Highs for tomorrow will be around 4 above. Wind chill values will drop as low as 20 below.
Sunday night we could see a few flurries across the area. Lows will sit around 9 below. Wind chill values could be as low as 21 below.
Flurries will linger into the early morning hours Monday. Highs for the day will sit around 7 above, but the wind chill values could be as low as 23 below. Winds will become lighter and will shift from the northwest to the southwest Monday afternoon.
Monday night will be another cold night. Skies will be mostly clear. Lows will drop to around 8 below.
On Tuesday, we warm up a little bit. Highs will sit in the mid to upper teens. We will also see quite a bit of sunshine.
Will we continue to warm up as the week goes along? I’ll have that and much more coming up tonight on News 4 at 6 & 10.
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The stars are officially out at T-Mobile Park.
And it’s time for baseball’s top players to take the field in the MLB All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park.
We’ve got you covered with writers, photographers and videographers ready to capture the sights and sounds of MLB All-Star Week across Sodo. Follow along throughout the day here.
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Like opening day, but busier
Outside T-Mobile Park it’s been a busy but manageable few days for vendors.
Gavin Chung, owner of Korn Star, sells snacks and sundries half a block from the park.
Clear plastic bags and backpacks — the only kind allowed in the stadium, because of security restrictions — have been his best seller, with storage lockers and kettle korn popular too.
“They’re buying everything,” Chung said. “It feels like opening day but a little bit busier.”
Intermittent days — Friday with the HBCU Swingman Classic and Sunday with the MLB draft — have been slower, “which is great because it gives us a chance to catch up,” Chung said.
Not everyone seeing All-Star business
The city is quick to tout the estimated $50 million in economic activity the All-Star Game could bring to Seattle.
But a boon for some is a bust for others.
Just a few blocks from the stadium, the Foster / White Gallery is staid, quiet, all but abandoned.
Have they seen an increase in foot traffic, browsers or buyers from the game?
“You mean decrease?” Said gallerist Phen Huang. “Why would anyone want to compete with the traffic?”
Economists say the economic impact of mega events can be overblown, in part because of this “crowding out” effect, where people uninterested in the event amid the area entirely.
Huang did say they’re looking forward to the Seattle Art Fair at Lumen Field at the end of the month.
Julio Rodriguez gives T-Mobile Park fans a Home Run Derby performance they’ll never forget
From virtually the minute last year’s All-Star Game ended at Dodger Stadium, with Julio Rodriguez emerging as the new breakout star of baseball, visions of a Seattle showcase for Rodriguez in 2023 inevitably rose to the forefront.
With the All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park, and Rodriguez on the doorstep of true superstardom, it seemed a match made in baseball heaven. Surely, this year’s Midsummer Classic was set up to be The JRod Show, to borrow Rodriguez’s social media handle — a hometown coronation of baseball’s newest royalty.
And then the season started, and Rodriguez didn’t soar anywhere close to the heights foreseen for him. His numbers aren’t bad by any means, just not in the stratosphere. It took an injury replacement to even get him on the All-Star squad, and some even grumbled that Rodriguez’s earlier placement in the Home Run Derby was mere pandering to the home crowd.
But on Monday, none of that seemed relevant. What mattered was Rodriguez somehow finding a way to top his spectacular 2022 spectacle — at least for one transcendent round — and turn the ballpark into a roaring, chanting mass of hero worship.
Diamondbacks rookie sensation Corbin Carroll embraces Seattle homecoming at All-Star Game
A one-of-a-kind kid sat at a table behind the center-field fence, alongside Major League Baseball’s other all-stars. Rows of reporters faced him with phones and cameras and recorders, peppering Corbin Carroll with predictable questions.
It’s no surprise, of course, that Carroll was among the most popular draws at Monday’s media day. After all, the 22-year-old outfielder was once merely a wide-eyed Mariners fan.
On Saturday, Carroll’s mother — Pey-Lin Carroll — even tweeted a photo of baby Corbin crawling inside the bronze baseball glove statue by the left-field gate at T-Mobile Park. Roughly two decades later, Carroll’s poster looms over the very same gate.
“It’s a full circle moment, definitely a wild moment,” Carroll said Monday afternoon. “That poster [in left field] was Jamie Moyer when I was a little kid sitting there. To be up there for this week is really special.”
MLB All-Star Game may be lacking in established stars, but it’s full of future stars
An All-Star Game lacking All-Star names? Or an All-Star Game filled with future All-Star fame?
This likely comes down to one’s interpretation of the glass’s fluid levels, but it’s hard to deny the following: The 2023 Midsummer Classic has an established-superstar problem. As in … there just aren’t many of them.
The operative word here, of course, is established. Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr., for instance, is putting together one of the better offensive seasons we’ve seen in years and has a wins-above-replacement mark of 5. But is he someone a casual sports fans would list if you asked them to name 10 active MLB players?
Rays shortstop Wander Franco would likely finish second in the American League MVP voting if the season ended today given his defensive wizardry and base-stealing prowess. But would anybody stop and ask to take a picture with him if he walked into Ray’s Boathouse?
No doubt the star of all stars — Angels pitcher/slugger/once-in-a-century talent Shohei Ohtani — would play Tuesday night in T-Mobile Park. But the game’s other preeminent names? Aaron Judge, Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander? The surefire Hall of Famers that have been mainstays in this event? They’ll contribute no more to the box score than Ken Griffey Jr. or Ichiro.
Julio Rodriguez steals the show, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. wins Home Run Derby
When his last swing of the bat was finished, one of the handful that didn’t produce a home run, an exhausted Julio Rodriguez flung his black and yellow custom bat into the air and looked at the T-Mobile Park crowd, all standing, all cheering and all in awe of what they’d just seen.
In his first-round matchup against two-time champion Pete Alonso, he’d just set a new Home Run Derby record with 41 dingers in one round, eclipsing the previous record of 40, in front of a multitude of Mariners fans.
The adrenaline from his accomplishment and the roaring ovation from a crowd of 46,952 surged through him, producing a genuine reaction of emotion. Rodriguez screamed and flexed.
His house. His city.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t his event to win.
Listen to MLB All-Star players answer how well they know Seattle
It’s once a generation, at most, that the best baseball players in the world are all in your backyard.
But they’re here, right now, in Seattle. And we had some questions for them:
What do they think of Seattle?
Will Shohei Ohtani ever be a Seattle Mariner?
Does Mookie Betts have hard feelings about that Red Sox trade?
What does the second half have in store for Julio Rodriguez?
We didn’t get to ask every question — Shohei and Julio were popular guys — but we got some.
Come with us as we take you inside All Star media day and get answers on the most pressing baseball issues of the day.
2023 MLB All-Star Game starting pitchers, lineups announced
Before it gets filled with imbibing fans, standing shoulder to shoulder while baseballs from the afternoon workout and Home Run Derby rain down upon them, the T-Mobile Pen hosted the managers and starting pitchers news conference for the 2023 MLB All-Star Game on Monday morning.
American League manager Dusty Baker of the Astros and National League manager Rob Thomson of the Phillies announced their starting lineups for Tuesday’s game and brought along their starting pitchers for the event — Gerrit Cole of the Yankees and Zac Gallen of the Diamondbacks.
In a bit of symmetry, the last time the All-Star Game featured starting pitchers from the Yankees and D’Backs was the 2001 game at then-Safeco Field with Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson starting the game.
Shohei Ohtani mum on future but ‘really liked’ time spent in Seattle
Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game will mark the 32nd time Shohei Ohtani has played at T-Mobile Park.
But Monday, when he arrived for Workout Day and a required meeting with the media, Ohtani turned toward the first-base side and the home clubhouse being used by the host American League instead of the visitor’s side down the third-base line.
The first thing he did, he said, was try to figure out where the locker of Ichiro — one of his childhood idols growing up in Japan — might have been.
“I was kind of wondering where Ichiro was sitting,” he said through interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. “It was kind of cool to see the home side.”
So could Ohtani someday make that “home side” his permanent address?
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FORT WORTH, Texas – A Texas city has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Black mother after she and her daughter were wrestled to the ground and arrested by a white police officer following a dispute with a neighbor.
Jacqueline Craig and one of her daughters were wrestled to the ground and had a stun gun pointed at them by Fort Worth officer William Martin in December 2016. Another of Craig’s daughters, who filmed the incident on her cellphone, was also arrested.
Charges against all three were later dropped. Martin served a 10-day suspension for violating departmental policies.
The city agreed to settle the lawsuit for $150,000, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday. The settlement is pending City Council approval.
As part of the settlement, the city admits no other fault and there are no other requirements, a Fort Worth spokesperson said.
Craig has alleged the neighbor grabbed and choked her young son after seeing him litter. Craig and the neighbor both called police.
Video of the arrests, which was posted on Facebook and viewed more than a million times, raised accusations of racism.
Mayor Pro Tem Gyna Bivens told the newspaper she was glad the lawsuit was settled.
“This put a big weight on her. It put a big weight on the city, and I hope the settlement is enough for everyone to feel refreshed and ready to move forward,” Bivens said. | 2022-09-24T02:13:46+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2022/09/23/mother-settles-lawsuit-over-texas-arrest-captured-on-video/ |
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Italian president Sergio Mattarella on Friday joined a long list of officials voicing support for North Macedonia joining the European Union together with other Western Balkan countries.
“Without the entry of the countries from the Western Balkans ... unification of the continent will not be completed,” Mattarella said at a press conference in Skopje with North Macedonia’s President Stevo Pendarovski.
Six Western Balkan nations are at different stages on their paths toward membership of the 27-member EU. North Macedonia and Albania started membership negotiations in July, while Serbia and Montenegro have made the greatest progress.
For all, the process — seen as important in diminishing Russian influence in the region — is expected to take years.
Mattarella paid an official visit to North Macedonia Friday for talks with the country’s leadership, and addressed lawmakers in Parliament. | 2022-09-09T17:53:33+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Italian-president-backs-North-Macedonia-s-EU-17430559.php |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Adam Klasfeld, managing editor of Law & Crime, joined PIX on Politics on Sunday to discuss former President Donald Trump’s historic arraignment in the hush money case earlier this week.
Watch the full interview in the video player. | 2023-04-09T14:15:24+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/politics/pixonpolitics/inside-the-courtroom-donald-trumps-nyc-arraignment/ |
NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Limited Duration Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: LDP) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on May 31, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. — The momentum Joshua Palmer built up last season with the Los Angeles Chargers has continued through the first two weeks of training camp.
“I feel like I’ve learned a lot more, just at the receiver position,” Palmer said. “Within the offense, it’s slowing down because I know where players have to be. Now, it’s just the little things of where you have to end up.”
Offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi said Palmer’s development late last season opened many eyes. Palmer’s confidence improved once it seemed like the offense had become second nature to him.
“Your first year, as the offense gets installed, there’s a volume aspect that can overwhelm a rookie. I think that part, he’s through that hurdle so that he can really go out and play fast,” Lombardi said. “He’s another guy we keep saying I think we can get involved more.”
It also doesn’t hurt that Palmer frequently worked out with Keenan Allen during the offseason and watched plenty of video of Allen’s first nine seasons in the league.
Before Tuesday’s practice, Palmer showed Allen a play from 2018 and asked him what he was thinking when making a particular release off the line.
“I’m looking for how he gets off the ball, how he releases, his top of the route, his in-between the route. It’s pretty much unmatchable,” Palmer said. “If I could get as close as possible, I’ll be good. Just add it to my game and what I have.”
Palmer also said he watches film of Tampa Bay’s Julio Jones to see how he comes off the ball and how fast he comes to a complete stop. He has also studied tape of Antonio Brown to refine his technique on over-the-shoulder catches.
Allen, who is in his 10th season, said Palmer showed plenty of potential last season but that he has noticed him making more moves on releases and finding different ways to get open.
“It’s slowing down a lot. Now, it’s the little things like alignments or exact spots on the field that I’m supposed to end up at,” Palmer said. “For the most part, I know what everyone has, which is one less thing to worry about.”
With opposing secondaries keying in on Allen and Mike Williams, Palmer should become a more consistent threat. The Chargers will also be counting on Jalen Guyton and DeAndre Carter to expand the passing attack.
Palmer may also have a role on special teams. He has been taking snaps at the gunner position on punt coverage.
Palmer could see limited action in Saturday’s preseason opener against the Los Angeles Rams. The Chargers have 10 receivers on the roster, so most of his snaps could come on special teams.
“He’s playing with a lot more confidence and physicality. I think you can feel him more on the routes,” coach Brandon Staley said. “His route set-up, and then that physicality on the catches, is showing up. He can line up at different places and beat press coverage. Our quarterbacks trust him.
“We feel like he’s a complete receiver. He needs to continue to improve. He has to earn it. He’s off to a good start. He’s also much improved on special teams, which we need because he has the perfect body to be good at it.”
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-08-10T19:48:34+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/joshua-palmer-emerging-as-bigger-threat-in-chargers-offense/2022/08/10/f9585204-18e1-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html |
LONDON (AP) — Ten weeks after conquering Europe, England women proclaimed themselves ready for even more after beating the world champion United States 2-1 in a friendly at Wembley Stadium on Friday.
Lauren Hemp and Georgia Stanway scored to help England beat the U.S. for the first time since 2017 and less than 10 months before the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Stanway’s penalty in the 33rd minute put the hosts in front for good before 76,893 fans. The victory extended England’s unbeaten run to 23 games under coach Sarina Wiegman. England stopped the Americans’ 13-game winning streak and 21-match unbeaten streak dating to a 1-0 defeat to Canada in a 2021 Olympics semifinal.
“It was a great result,” Hemp told broadcaster ITV. “There’s a lot of preparation now for the World Cup. It’s important that we stay grounded.”
England, which won the European championship in late July, took the lead in the 10th when Beth Mead sent a low cross into the box. Defender Alana Cook tried to make a sliding block but the ball wiggled through to Hemp, who finished from close range.
The Americans equalized just before the half-hour mark. Millie Bright tried to pass out of the back to a tightly covered Stanway, and Lindsey Horan poked the ball forward to Sophia Smith, who turned and fired low to the left corner past a diving Mary Earps.
Stanway made amends from the spot, though, shooting the ball into the right corner as goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher went the wrong way.
Minutes later, the visitors thought they tied the game again but Trinity Rodman’s strike was ruled out for offside after a video review.
England and the U.S. wore teal armbands in solidarity with sexual abuse victims and together held a banner that read “Protect the Players” just before kickoff. A report this week into the scandals that erupted in the National Women’s Soccer League last season found emotional abuse and sexual misconduct were systemic in the league.
There was also a moment of silence for the victims of the deadly crush of fans at a soccer match in Indonesia.
Forward Alyssa Thompson entered in the 84th minute and at 17 years, 334 days became the youngest to debut for the U.S. since Mallory Pugh in January 2016. Thompson was the 70th teenager to appear for the Americans.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and wide receiver Allen Lazard were among the stars in attendance. The Packers play the New York Giants on Sunday in an NFL game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. “Ted Lasso” actor Jason Sudeikis was also on hand.
U.S. wing Crystal Dunn went on as a second-half substitute — less than five months after giving birth to her son. It was her 124th international appearance and first in nearly 13 months.
The draw for the World Cup will be in Auckland on Oct. 22.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-09T03:04:24+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-england-women-beat-us-2-1-in-statement-victory-at-wembley/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide, according to a new poll that finds over half say they feel at least somewhat “sad” or “angry” about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The high court’s decision asserted that abortion is not a constitutional right and handed states the authority to severely restrict or ban abortion. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows many Americans back some restrictions on abortion, especially after the first trimester, but the most extreme measures introduced in some Republican-led states are at odds with the public — and with many of the people who live in them.
Faith Murphy, a 41-year-old in Coshocton, Ohio, said she was “quite upset” that the court overruled Roe and wants to see abortion access federally protected. While she’s voted across the aisle, Murphy considers herself a Republican and doesn’t want to see Republican leaders in her state and others push for restrictions.
“I don’t trust who we have in government here in Ohio … to keep women’s rights or the right to an abortion for any reason whatsoever intact,” Murphy said.
Polling ahead of the June 24 decision suggested that overturning Roe would be unpopular with a majority of Americans who wanted to see the court uphold the 50-year precedent. The new poll, roughly three weeks after the decision, finds 53% of U.S. adults say they disapprove of the court’s decision, while 30% say they approve. An additional 16% say they neither approve nor disapprove.
Sixty percent think Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide. The House last Friday voted to restore abortion rights in the U.S., though the bill will likely stall in the Senate.
Overwhelming majorities also think their state should generally allow abortion in specific cases, including if the health of the pregnant person is endangered or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Few think abortion should always be illegal, and most Americans support their state generally allowing abortion six weeks into the pregnancy.
Those patterns persist even in the 23 states in which laws banning or tightening access to abortion have taken effect, will soon take effect or are being debated in court.
Blake Jones thinks six weeks “is far too early to be able to make a decision like that,” and while he personally doesn’t approve of abortion, the 28-year-old Democrat in Athens, Georgia, said he’s pro-choice because he doesn’t believe “that my views should affect other people.”
Jones said he thinks the point of viability is more appropriate for restrictions on abortion, but even then, there should be exceptions if the pregnant person’s health is at risk or the baby would be born with a severe health issue.
Views about abortion at the 15-week mark are muddled. The poll shows Americans in states that have deepened restrictions on abortion are closely divided over abortion at 15 weeks into a pregnancy. That compares with about 6 in 10 Americans in other states saying abortion should be allowed at that point. That gap is similar on allowing abortion for “any reason.”
Support dwindles across the board at 24 weeks into the pregnancy, with only about a third saying their state should generally allow for that.
While only about a third approve of the Supreme Court’s decision, the poll finds about half of Americans think states should be responsible for establishing abortion laws.
Jeffrey Bouchelle agreed with the court because “it should’ve been a states’ rights issue in the first place.” The 57-year-old Republican in Farmers Branch, Texas, believes abortion is wrong, but as a state issue. Bouchelle accepted some states may allow abortion if that’s what the majority prefers.
“There should be access to abortion,” he said. “I just don’t think it should be in Texas.”
Overall, about a third of U.S. adults say they feel at least somewhat proud, relieved or excited about the court’s decision, a reflection that the decades-long effort to overturn Roe resonates with a sizable segment of the population.
“I’m happy with it,” Tammy Rardain said about the court’s decision. The 54-year-old Republican in Logan, Ohio, said her views on abortion are defined by her Christian faith. She wants to see a ban on abortion in Ohio at any point in the pregnancy.
More Americans — 55% — say they feel at least somewhat angry or sad about the decision, including about 4 in 10 who feel so strongly. Half say they feel at least somewhat anxious or hopeless — a sign that Democrats may struggle to turn feelings of anger into motivation to turn out to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
“I was really disappointed, and I felt as though our judicial system had failed us all,” said 41-year-old Democrat Candice Lampkin. “I truly believe that they’re infringing upon our civil rights and liberties.”
The Chicago resident said she wants abortion to be a federally protected right and is concerned about what health care, like birth control, might be targeted next. She hopes the issue will be top of mind for voters this fall.
“We have to do more during election season and make sure we hold our politicians accountable,” she said.
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The poll of 1,085 adults was conducted July 14-17 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. | 2022-07-21T16:05:34+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-norc-poll-majority-want-congress-to-keep-abortion-legal/ |
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