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MANILA – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday defended his decision to allow a larger United States military presence in the country as vital to territorial defense despite China's fierce opposition and warning that it would “drag the Philippines into the abyss of geopolitical strife.”
The Marcos administration announced in early February that it would allow rotating batches of American forces to indefinitely stay in four more Philippine military camps in addition to five local bases earlier designated under a 2014 defense pact of the longtime treaty allies.
Marcos said the four new sites would be announced soon and they include areas in the northern Philippines. That location has infuriated Chinese officials because it would provide U.S. forces a staging ground close to southern China and Taiwan.
The Biden administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to better counter China, including in any future confrontation over Taiwan. America's moves dovetail with Philippine efforts to shore up its territorial defense amid a long-seething dispute mainly with China in the South China Sea.
Aside from the northern and southern Philippines, Marcos told a news conference that under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, U.S. forces would also be allowed to stay in western Palawan province, which faces the South China Sea. He underscored the moves were meant to boost the country's coastal defense and added in reply to a question that opposition to the U.S. military presence by some local Filipino officials had been overcome.
“We explained to them why it was important that we have that and why it will actually be good for their province,” Marcos said, adding most of those who had objections had come around “to support the idea of an EDCA site in their province.”
Governor Manuel Mamba of northern Cagayan province, where American forces may be allowed to stay with their weapons in up to two Philippine military areas, said Marcos has the prerogative to make the decision. But added he remained opposed to allowing the Americans to base in Cagayan, which lies across a sea border from southern China and Taiwan, because that could turn his province into a key target of the Chinese military if an armed conflict involving the U.S. military breaks out over Taiwan.
“It is the president's call, not mine,” Mamba told The Associated Press. “But I maintain my stand against any foreign forces stationed in my province. Still, I am against EDCA sites in my province."
Marcos spoke to reporters after delivering a speech at an army anniversary ceremony where he asked troops to prepare to face potential external threats after a half-century battle against communist rebels that he said “is coming to an end.”
“The army must always be fully prepared and capable for any contingencies, especially considering you are the country's last line of defense against any external security threat," he said.
U.S. and Philippine officials have said that American-funded construction of barracks, warehouses and other structures to be used by U.S. forces would generate much-needed local jobs and boost the economy. The U.S. presence would help the Philippines respond to natural disasters, enhance combat-readiness and help deter Chinese aggression in Asia.
China, however, has repeatedly accused Washington of taking steps to contain it militarily and of driving a wedge between Beijing and its Asian neighbors like the Philippines.
“Creating economic opportunities and jobs through military cooperation is tantamount to quenching thirst with poison and gouging flesh to heal wounds,” the Chinese embassy in Manila said in a recent statement. “Such cooperation will seriously endanger regional peace and stability and drag the Philippines into the abyss of geopolitical strife and damage its economic development at the end of the day.”
U.S. forces have intensified and broadened joint training, focusing on combat readiness and disaster response with Filipino troops on the nation’s western coast, which faces the disputed South China Sea, and in its northern Luzon region across the sea from the Taiwan Strait.
Next month, the allied forces are to hold their largest combat exercise, called Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — which will include live-fire drills. One planned maneuver involves U.S. and Philippine forces firing rockets to sink a mock enemy ship in waters facing the South China Sea, the Philippine military said.
If the ship-sinking exercise proceeds as planned, it would likely draw an angry reaction from China, which claims the strategic waterway virtually in its entirety and has repeatedly warned Washington to stop meddling in what Beijing says is a purely Asian dispute.
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Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila contributed to this report. | 2023-03-22T07:29:21+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/03/22/marcos-defends-us-military-presence-which-china-opposes/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Tampa International Airport in Florida after it lost part of its wing in the air.
Officials at Tampa International Airport said a Cessna Citation was flying at 27,000 feet near St. Petersburg when the aircraft lost its left winglet (the part which vertically extends near the tip of the wing) as well as part of the wing.
Airport officials said the jet had departed from Arkansas.
WFLA’s helicopter was flying by when it managed to capture footage of the jet’s landing.
The pilot was the only one on board, and landed the aircraft safely. When the jet stopped, emergency services responded to the plane. | 2023-03-31T13:16:15+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/watch-jet-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-after-losing-part-of-wing-in-air/ |
Some who were in Washington, D.C., in 2013 are mourning the loss of Rusty the red panda, who captivated the city when he escaped from the Smithsonian's National Zoo almost a decade ago. He was 10 years old.
He died on Oct. 14. Pueblo Zoo, where he was living, currently does not know the cause of death, Sandy Morrison, marketing and communications manager at Pueblo Zoo, told NPR in an email.
The panda made headlines when he was just 11 months old, in June of 2013. Officials said they think rainfall weighed down some branches in his exhibit, which allowed him to drop to the other side of the enclosure. He was later spotted in D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood by a resident.
"I was walking home from lunch with my family when Rusty sauntered out from some bushes onto the sidewalk ahead of us," performing artist Ashley Wagner explained in an email to NPR. "He trotted along for a couple of blocks before taking refuge in a fenced-in yard."
Red panda in our neighborhood! 20th NW and Biltmore. Please come save him! @nationalzoo1 pic.twitter.com/llQF7P9QH5
— Ashley Wagner (@AshleyWagARTS) June 24, 2013
Wagner was able to take some photos of him, and said Twitter seemed like the fastest way to alert the zoo to Rusty's location. The tweet allowed the zoo to find him and return him to his home.
"In a time of intense headlines (and sometimes overwhelming connection to technology), I think Rusty's story brought a sense of hope, whimsy, and adventure to all of our lives – and it highlighted the best of what social media can achieve," Wagner said.
In 2019, he was transferred from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute — where he and another red panda had been relocated for reproductive purposes — to Colorado's Pueblo Zoo. They successfully mated while there.
The twin cubs, a female named Momo and a male named Mogwai, were born in Aug. 2021. They're still at Pueblo Zoo, but their mother, Priya, now lives at the Utah Hogle Zoo.
"He was a wonderful ambassador for the species and was a fun, independent panda who formed strong bonds with our Keepers. He will be sorely missed," Morrison wrote.
The National Zoo has not made a public comment.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-10-21T10:57:46+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-10-20/rusty-the-red-panda-who-briefly-ran-free-in-d-c-in-2013-has-unexpectedly-died |
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A vigil will be held Friday for a man shot and killed by his neighbor.
Deputies are still investigating the shooting that left one man dead.
The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said a man shot and killed another man after an argument on Corrine Street, Wednesday morning.
They said the suspected shooter is cooperating with the investigation. So far, that person is not in custody.
Deputies have not released the names of those involved. | 2023-07-07T18:27:19+00:00 | winknews.com | https://winknews.com/2023/07/07/port-charlotte-vigil-for-shooting-victim/ |
14-year-old rescue cat becomes first feline to join airport program for therapy animals
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Gray News/TMX) – A 14-year-old rescue cat has become the first feline to qualify for the San Francisco International Airport’s Wag Brigade of therapy animals.
The cat, named Duke Ellington Morris, was found starving in a feral cat colony in 2010 and brought to San Francisco Animal Care and Control, the airport said.
Duke was adopted by a 5-year-old girl and her family.
Duke’s bond with the little girl prompted the Morris family to have him certified as a therapy animal through the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
“Duke immediately took to his new family, and it quickly became clear to his new guardians that this was a special cat,” the SFO Wag Brigade wrote alongside a photo on Facebook. “Since then, Duke has been certified as an animal therapist, helping humans of all ages deal with stress, illness, hardship, and putting smiles on their faces when they need it most.”
As part of the Wag Brigade, Duke will get to make passenger travel more enjoyable by wearing a vest that reads “pet me” in the airport’s terminals.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. TMX contributed to this report. | 2023-06-14T21:49:31+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/06/14/14-year-old-rescue-cat-becomes-first-feline-join-airport-program-therapy-animals/ |
6 arrested in alleged scheme to fraudulently collect millions in COVID aid meant for renters
SEATTLE (AP) — Six people from Washington, Arizona and Texas have been arrested and accused of fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars of COVID-19 aid from an assistance program meant for renters, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. Attorney Nick Brown, Western District of Washington, on Wednesday announced the arrests and charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
The six people are accused of filing hundreds of fraudulent applications seeking more than $6.8 million in government aid and receiving more than $3.3 million, The Seattle Times reported. Most of the alleged fraud was in Seattle’s King County, and focused on federal emergency rental assistance money available to prevent evictions, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors allege the scheme also targeted unemployment systems in Washington, California, South Carolina, and Nevada.
They are accused of spending the money on luxury cars, vacations, designer clothes, jewelry and plastic surgery.
“The participants in this fraud were relentless in exploiting pandemic relief programs that were intended to assist small businesses and people who were vulnerable to eviction,” Brown said in a statement.
Paradise Williams, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, allegedly led the scheme, creating fake documents and telling her friends how to pose as landlords and tenants needing rental help, prosecutors said. Williams is charged with 19 counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering.
Others facing wire fraud and money laundering charges are: Rayvon Peterson, 32, of Seattle; Tia Rovinson, 28, of Fife, Washington; Jahari Cunningham, 45, of Houston, Texas; D’arius Jackson, 37, of Bonney Lake, Washington; and David Martinez, 32, of Pacific, Washington.
Martinez, Peterson and Jackson pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday. The others do not appear to have had initial court appearances and arraignments yet and attempts to locate attorneys for them were not successful. Martinez’s lawyer didn’t respond to a request from the newspaper for comment Wednesday. Lawyers for Jackson and Peterson declined to comment to the newspaper.
Wire fraud in connection with a declared major disaster or emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Money laundering is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Fraud was rampant in pandemic relief programs, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s inspector general. President Joe Biden’s administration asked Congress in March to approve more than $1.6 billion to continue prosecuting people who committed fraud, to create new ways to prevent identity theft and to help people whose identities were stolen. | 2023-06-08T04:15:26+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/06/07/6-arrested-in-alleged-scheme-to-fraudulently-collect-millions-in-covid-aid-meant-for-renters/ |
(NEXSTAR) – If you struggle to slip easily into a restful night’s sleep you may want to reevaluate what you do before bedtime – including what you eat, experts say.
Cleveland Clinic sleep specialist Dr. Michelle Drerup told Nexstar that about 30% of American adults report symptoms of insomnia.
You may have even developed sleeping troubles in the past few years – an international study performed across 14 countries from May to July 2020 found a link between the COVID-19 pandemic and nightmares. The researchers determined that nightmares increased by 50% in people who caught the virus in the early months of the pandemic.
“Most people, if they don’t have any sleep difficulties, probably fall asleep within 10 to 20 minutes,” Drerup said. “It varies as well. If it takes someone 45 minutes to fall asleep and that’s normal for them and they allow enough time, it’s not necessarily a problem.”
A 2023 poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that over 90% of Americans with very good overall sleep health say the have no significant depressive symptoms.
For millions of Americans, however, this desperately needed REM cycle can feel elusive. While the root issue may vary from person to person, avoiding these five types of food before bedtime can help, Drerup says:
- Alcohol: All “liquid bread” jokes aside, booze is admittedly not food but still makes the list, Drerup says, because it is “the absolute worst” for sleep. “We think of it as something that relaxes us, but it actually disrupts the way we go into different stages of sleep through the night and causes more un-restorative sleep,” she added. “People may wake up after a few hours and have difficulty falling back asleep.”
- Dark chocolate: Due to its caffeine content, dark chocolate can disrupt deep sleep. “The half-life of caffeine is about five to seven hours,” Drerup said. “So if their typical bedtime is around 10 o’clock, we usually say, you know, by noon, one o’clock, that’s an ideal time to cut it out.”
- Heavy, fatty foods: That double bacon cheeseburger may not be worth the pleasure if your body ends up struggling to digest it as you sleep, causing you to wake up.
- Spicy foods: Replacing those late-night ghost pepper chips with something lower on the Scoville scale is another way of easing digestion and staying asleep.
- Acidic Foods: Passing on highly acidic foods, such as tomato-based dishes, can improve sleep by minimizing causes of acid reflux, that heartburn feeling that especially tortures people when they are lying down.
While a large meal right before bedtime — especially one involving the foods listed above — is not the best formula for peaceful sleep, it doesn’t mean that you have to fast after a certain hour in the evening. Drerup encourages people to be thoughtful about what they might eat, and a snack like a few carrots, a piece of turkey or a small handful of pretzels could stave off hunger that might otherwise wake you in the middle of the night.
What if I wake up in the middle of the night?
If something you consumed or a jarring nightmare has you wide awake at 3 a.m., it can feel more difficult to go back to sleep than it was to fall asleep in the first place.
“When you’re wide awake, the worst thing to do is lay in bed and try to sleep, so we recommend getting out of bed, doing something to kind of relax, distract,” Drerup said, “For some people, it’s turning on the TV and watching some dumb sitcom to kind of take their mind off things. So give yourself a little bit of time to distance yourself from the content and the emotional response that you had with that nightmare.”
Once you start to feel drowsy again, you can get back in bed.
How to improve my sleep?
Along with diet and other lifestyle changes, such as getting more exercise, there are other methods of improving sleep.
Another technique is to stick to a consistent, repeatable wind-down schedule, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Your bedroom should be quiet, cool and dark.
If noise is an issue, you can try white noise to block out background sounds such as a partner snoring, cars passing or a barking dog. Drerup says some people prefer the lower pitch of pink noise, which is essentially white noise with the bass turned up.
Mindfulness meditation has also been shown to increase the quality of one’s sleep, Drerup says.
When it comes to sleep aids, they can be effective for short-term use if taken as prescribed or directed, but Drerup warns that they may come with side effects or cause a dependency.
“Really no sleep aid is the magic bullet and there’s not one best sleep aid for everyone,” Drerup told the Health Essentials podcast.
The National Sleep Foundation encourages anyone unable to improve their sleeping habits with the recommended steps to seek professional help from a clinician. | 2023-03-17T13:25:27+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/want-better-sleep-avoid-these-5-foods-before-bedtime/ |
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Dresser Winn threw three touchdown passes, Zak Wallace rushed for three scores and UT Martin beat Western Illinois 42-25 Thursday night in a season opener.
Winn was 22-of-37 passing for 317 yards. Wallace rushed 20 times for 139 yards. Colton Dowell added 100 yards on seven catches with a score and Elijah Smoot made two TD grabs. Shaun Lewis had a pair of interceptions in his UT Martin debut.
The Skyhawks, ranked in the FCS and the preseason favorite in the Ohio Valley Conference after winning the league title last season, led 21-7 at halftime and 35-13 after three quarters.
Nick Davenport threw three touchdown passes and Henry Ogala added another for Western Illinois. Naseim Brantley had a career-high 171 yards on six catches with three scores.
Myers Hendrickson was denied a victory in his first game as head coach at his alma mater.
The Skyhawks play at Missouri State on Sept. 8 while the Leathernecks are at Minnesota on Sept. 10
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MARTIN, Michael T. "Crash"
Michael T. "Crash" Martin, 75, beloved father, grandfather, brother, and uncle, passed away on Friday, December 2, 2022, at Dayton VA Medical Center. Michael was born in Middletown on March 7, 1947, to parents, James E. and Agnes (Beatty) Martin. Michael proudly served his country as a Seabee in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and was a member of the VFW 3809 and American Legion Post 218. Michael began his employment in the garage at Armco and worked in the coke plant and weld shop for many years before retiring from AK Steel in 2002. He was a devoted father and proud grandfather. While many saw a more stoic side of Michael, his family will remember the way his smile lit up the room at any sight or mention of his granddaughter. Michael was an avid sports fan and loyal supporter of the Bengals and Buckeyes. He was a former coach of PeeWee Football in Middletown and T-Ball in Madison. Michael was also an active member of the Loyal Order of the Moose #501. Michael is survived by his daughter, Michelle (Eddie) Harris; two grandchildren, Raegan Harris and Kennedy Harris; brothers, Dick (Kathy) Martin and Jim Martin; sisters, Gail (Richard) Manning, Pam Burton, Sue (Lee) Dunham and Debbie (Joe) Hemsath; as well as many loving nieces, nephews, friends and other loving family members. He was preceded in death by his parents and beloved cocker spaniels Bates and Ginger. A Prayer Service will be held Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at 7:00 pm at Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding Funeral Home, 3805 Roosevelt Blvd (at Bonita Dr.), Middletown, with Father John Civille officiating. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at the funeral home. Inurnment will be at Dayton National Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dayton VAMC Fisher House Building 425, 4100 W. Third St., Dayton, Ohio 45428; ATTN: Betsey Striebel (make the check out to DVAMC Fisher House and list "in memory of Michael Martin" on the memo line) or online at donate.fisherhouse.org/dayton. Please sign the guestbook at WilsonSchrammSpaulding.com.
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45044 | 2022-12-10T07:35:58+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/martin-michael/Y7R6OKYUOFCIPADGFGCMN5EJWE/ |
GUIYANG, China, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Xingyi finds itself in the southwest region of Guizhou Province, China, has always been a commercial distribution center, pivoting point and fortress in the intersection area of provinces Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi. It is known as "pivoting point of three provinces" and an important node city on the great sea route in southwest China.
Located in the world-recognized golden climate ecological zone, Xingyi has beautiful mountains and rivers, a pleasant climate and deep cultural heritage. The ethnic customs are rich and the ethnic culture is colorful. The "Eight-Tone Sitting Singing" of the Bouyei music enjoys the reputation of "Sound of Nature" and "Living Fossil of Sound" both at home and abroad. It has been included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage along with the Twelve Compositions with Bouyei Bronze Drums, the Bouyei Opera and the Leyou of the Bouyei people.
The short video series "Be My Guest" produced by Guizhou Satellite TV invites foreigners to visit Guizhou in the form of a reality show to record their real life on the spot. In this episode, Yelshibek Botakoz and Yelshibek Tomiris, sisters from Kazakhstan were full of yearning for Guizhou's scenery and culture. They came to Xingyi and followed the Bouyei sisters Hani and Xiduo to see the distant mountains, taste specialties, and listen to the ethnic music. They winessed Guizhou's unique karst topography, tasted the unique food made from glutinous rice of the Bouyei people and heard the "Living fossil of Sound" of the Bouyei people - "Eight-Tone Sitting Singing" lingering, so that they have experienced of the various ethnic cultures of the Bouyei people in an immersive way.
"The Bouyei people are truly one with nature." The sisters Yelshibek Botakoz and Yelshibek Tomiris are deeply touched by the life state of the Bouyei people that is closely related to nature. The sisters hope that they could bring their family members come and experience the unique customs of Guizhou next time.
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Ukraine’s emotion-filled quest to qualify for the World Cup amid an ongoing war moved a step closer with a 3-1 win over Scotland in a pulsating playoff semifinal on Wednesday.
Veteran captain Andriy Yarmolenko lifted his nation by scoring a deft lobbed goal in the 33rd minute and then helped set up Roman Yaremchuk’s header in the 49th.
Ukraine dominated for much of a deserved win though had to resist a Scotland revival as risk-filled attacks brought a goal in the 79th by Callum McGregor, before Ukraine substitute Artem Dovbyk broke clear to score with the last kick of the game.
Dovbyk led teammates toward the corner of the stadium to share the celebration with 3,000 Ukraine fans in the 51,000 crowd, applauding each other with hands raised high above their heads.
Now Ukraine moves on to face Wales on Sunday with a place at the World Cup at stake.
The winner in Cardiff will go to Qatar in November to play in a group against England, the United States and Iran.
Ukraine put in a slick display despite using six starters who had not played a competitive game of any kind since December.
Most of Ukraine’s squad play for home-based clubs whose league was shut down after Russia’s invasion, and the playoff in Glasgow was postponed in March. FIFA and Scotland agreed to give the Ukrainian team a fair chance to prepare for games that have become a focus of national identity and pride.
Scotland lacked the class needed and its wait for World Cup soccer now extends beyond the 24 years since it went to the 1998 tournament.
Ukraine’s win could have been sealed earlier but for saves early and often by 39-year-old Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon. When the Scots chased a way back into the game, John McGinn placed a 67th-minute header inexplicably wide from close range.
Ukraine is riding a wave of global goodwill as the victim of Russian aggression and its players’ intense motivation to reward the nation with a place on soccer’s biggest stage was clear.
The Ukrainian players all walked onto the field with a blue and yellow national flag draped on their shoulders.
The warm welcome saw Ukraine’s national anthem “Shche ne vmerla Ukrainas” applauded loudly by Scotland fans. Many of those same fans stayed after the game to salute their victorious opponents off the field.
Some of the Ukrainian fans had traveled far and had made plans to stay in Britain for the decisive playoff Sunday.
George Butromeyev told The Associated Press before the game he came from Toronto with friends to support the players who “need to show the people of Ukraine that we are warriors.”
“It’s not only about football,” said Yaroslav Grygorenko, who traveled from Amsterdam. “It’s important to be on the top of the discussions here in Europe, to not let (people) forget what is happening in Ukraine.”
Scotland-born Alex Demianczuk wore a kilt in Ukrainian yellow and blue colors and wanted his parents’ nation to advance. Ukraine playing at the World Cup, he said, would be “something that’s really going to get on (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s nerves.”
In Kyiv, fans determined to get together to see the match had the war-time night-time curfew to contend with, which kicked in at 11 p.m. local time, before the start of the second half.
The Beer & Meet bar in downtown Kyiv got around the restriction on movement by offering fans the possibility to stay there until 5 a.m., when the curfew ends.
Police swung by the bar in a patrol car a few minutes before kickoff, asking fans who had gathered outside to go down into the drinking hole’s basement rooms, because of an air-raid warning.
Oleksii Safin, 40, who works as a voice actor, stood with his right hand over his heart as he belted out the national anthem. He and other supporters erupted in celebration when Ukraine scored first. But the war raging in the east of the country wasn’t forgotten.
“It looks like we are having lots of fun but, actually, we are not,” Safin said. “We are trying to look normal, as far as we can, but we still remember what is going on out in the east.
“It’s a good fight, just like the fight that we have right now with the Russians,” Safin said. “We can show that we can do it.”
___ Associated Press writer John Leicester in Kyiv contributed to this report
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-02T17:21:45+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ukraine-beats-scotland-3-1-in-world-cup-qualifying-playoff/ |
Broncos general manager George Paton said Thursday that he still believes in embattled rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett and expressed faith that scuffling quarterback Russell Wilson will start to resemble his old self soon.
Paton defended Hackett, who’s been hammered nationally over his persistent game management mistakes, and his $245 million quarterback who looks nothing so far like the nine-time Pro Bowler he was in Seattle.
“I believe in Nathaniel. I support Nathaniel 100%,” Paton said ahead of the Broncos’ game Sunday against Jacksonville in London, where Wilson is expected to return from a strained hamstring that sidelined him last week.
“He’s been in this for seven games as a head coach. The scrutiny he’s faced is unprecedented. We’ve had four prime-time games, so he’s kind of had to learn in front of the entire world,” Paton said. “But I really like how he’s kept the team together.”
The Broncos (2-5) have lost four in a row despite a defense that’s allowed just 16.4 points a game. Their offense is averaging 14.3 points, worse than at any time during their six-year playoff drought under 11 other QBs and three other head coaches.
Complicating a quick fix are season-ending injuries to three key veterans in Javonte Williams, Garett Bolles and Tim Patrick.
Paton acknowledged the offense’s struggles with Hackett calling plays and said overall the franchise needs to “learn how to win.”
As for Wilson, Paton insisted he doesn’t see a diminished player in Wilson, who turns 34 next month. Wilson has just five touchdown passes and has been sacked 20 times. He’s consistently missed open receivers either with his eyes or his passes and has been particularly ineffective out of the shotgun, where his footwork and mechanics aren’t as crisp.
“We’re in for the long haul with Russ, not the first seven games,” Paton said. “We believe in Russ and I believe in Russ.”
Paton acquired Wilson from the Seahawks for three players and five draft picks, including their first-rounder this year and next, and signed him to a $245 million extension before the season.
“We just wanted to get ahead of the contract cycle,” Paton said. “We saw how Russ was in the offseason, in training camp, felt really good about Russ and we feel really good about Russ. We wanted to get ahead of it and we didn’t want any distractions. We feel really good about it.
“I feel good about that deal. I feel like it will hold up. I feel good about Russ.”
The Broncos’ early season blunders have led not only to national scrutiny of Wilson and Hackett, but have led to fans streaming toward the exits early in close games.
Paton opened his remarks to reporters in Harrow, England, saying, “I think it’s a really good time to get out of town and come here and come together and I think that it’ll galvanize our football team.”
Even with his endorsements for his coach and quarterback, Paton made clear that the team must turn things around.
“Obviously, not good enough at 2-5. And we all need to get better and it starts with me,” he said. “But I do believe in this football team. I do believe in the people in the building, our coaching staff that we can turn it around. It’s only seven games. Obviously we’ve been in every game and that’s not what it’s all about. It’s about winning games and we need to learn how to win football games. We haven’t done that.”
Although insisting there are no excuses, Paton said the early season offensive hiccups aren’t surprising given all the newness.
“It doesn’t all come together” right away, Paton said. “And I knew it wasn’t going to be a well-oiled machine. I thought it would take time. And obviously it has, but there’s a lot we have to work on.”
NOTES: Paton dismissed the notion that another loss Sunday would result in a fire sale of talent ahead of the NFL’s Tuesday trade deadline: “Really, we’re just trying to win this game. It shouldn’t have any impact on what we’re trying to do.”
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AP Sports Writer Ken Maguire contributed from Harrow, England.
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A 24-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend during an acid trip.
An Adams County District Court judge announced the sentence Wednesday after Marcos Gutierrez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Adams County District Court on June 24.
“This was a horrific and gruesome crime,” said Brian Mason, the 17th Judicial District Attorney, in a news release. “Our hearts go out to the victim and her family. I hope this sentence today will give them some measure of closure and peace.”
In April 2020, Gutierrez was tripping LSD – a hallucinogen – in an Aurora apartment when he started looking for weapons, according to witnesses. After finding a knife in the kitchen, he slit his girlfriend’s throat when she left the bathroom.
A witness reports that she asked him, “Why did you do that? What did you do?” She fell to the ground, then died later at a hospital.
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Cohen to testify before grand jury in Trump hush money probe
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is poised to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he arranged and made on the former president’s behalf.
Cohen’s impending grand jury appearance was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about grand jury proceedings and did so on condition of anonymity.
Cohen’s closed-door testimony is coming at a critical time as the Manhattan district attorney’s office closes in on a decision on whether to seek charges against Trump.
A Trump loyalist turned adversary, Cohen is likely to provide critical details about whatever involvement the Republican presidential candidate may have had in the payments, made in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, to two women who alleged affairs with him.
Cohen has given prosecutors evidence, including voice recordings of conversations he had with a lawyer for one of the women, as well as emails and text messages. He also has recordings of a conversation in which he and Trump spoke about an arrangement to pay the other woman through the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer.
Prosecutors appear to be looking at whether Trump committed crimes in how the payments were made or how they were accounted for internally at Trump’s company, the Trump Organization.
One possible charge would be falsifying business records, a misdemeanor unless prosecutors could prove it was done to conceal another crime. No former U.S. president has ever been charged with a crime.
Trump has denied the affairs and has said he did nothing wrong. Prosecutors have invited him to testify before the grand jury, and he has the right to testify under New York law. However, legal experts say he is unlikely to do so because it wouldn’t benefit his defense and he’d have to give up a cloak of immunity that’s automatically granted to grand jury witnesses under state law.
Cohen served prison time after pleading guilty in 2018 to federal charges, including campaign finance violations, for arranging the payouts to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them from going public. He has also been disbarred.
Trump’s lawyers could point to those factors in an attempt to undermine Cohen’s credibility, if the former president is charged and Cohen ends up testifying at trial.
Cohen has been meeting regularly with Manhattan prosecutors in recent weeks, including a daylong session Friday to prepare for his grand jury appearance.
The panel has been hearing evidence since January in what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has called the “next chapter” of his office’s yearslong Trump investigation. But the hush money payments — perhaps the most salacious of the avenues of inquiry into Trump — are well-trodded ground.
Federal prosecutors and Bragg’s predecessor in the D.A.’s office, Cyrus Vance Jr., each scrutinized the payments but didn’t charge Trump.
Cohen declined to comment to reporters as he left the meeting, saying he’d be “taking a little bit of time now to stay silent and allow the D.A. build their case.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office also declined to comment.
Trump continued to lash out at the probe on social media Friday, calling the case a “Scam, Injustice, Mockery, and Complete and Total Weaponization of Law Enforcement in order to affect a Presidential Election!”
Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was then reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as “legal expenses.”
McDougal’s $150,000 payment was made through the publisher of the National Enquirer, which squelched her story in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
According to federal prosecutors who charged Cohen, the Trump Organization then “grossed up” Cohen’s reimbursement for the Daniels payment for “tax purposes,” giving him $360,000 plus a $60,000 bonus, for a total of $420,000.
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Latest inflation data could show further gradual improvement
Apr 11, 2023, 7:01 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The persistence of high inflation will likely be on display — again — in Wednesday’s latest government report on consumer price increases.
Yet there may also be some signs of improvement in the March inflation data, with the prices of some key items, such as gasoline, furniture and new cars, potentially rising more slowly or falling outright. Compared with 12 months earlier, economists predict that inflation slowed sharply, from 6% in February to 5.2% in March, according to a survey by the data provider FactSet.
But excluding volatile food and gas costs, so-called core prices are thought to have ticked up to 5.6% from a year ago, compared with a 5.5% rise in February. That figure has changed little since December. The Federal Reserve and many private economists regard core prices as a better measure of underlying inflation.
Rapid price increases in the economy’s vast service sector — ranging from rents and restaurant meals to haircuts and auto insurance — are keeping core inflation high, at least for now. From February to March, core prices are expected to have risen a substantial 0.4% for the third time in the past four months.
That stubbornness will likely lead the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate for a 10th straight time when it meets in May. Fed officials have projected that after one additional quarter-point increase — which would raise their benchmark rate to about 5.1%, its highest level in 16 years — they will pause their hikes but leave their rate elevated through this year.
When the Fed tightens credit with the goal of cooling the economy and inflation, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit card borrowing and many business loans. The risk is that ever-higher borrowing rates can weaken the economy so much as to cause a recession.
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund, a 190-nation lending organization, warned that persistently high inflation around the world — and efforts by central banks, including the Fed, to fight it — would likely slow global growth this year and next.
“Inflation is much stickier than anticipated even a few months ago,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, wrote in its latest World Economic Outlook.
Even so, there are signs that inflation pressures are easing, which could mean lower core price increases in the months ahead. One unfortunate reason inflation could decline is that economists expect growth to slow in the United States later this year, in part because turmoil in the banking sector may cause banks to restrict lending.
The Fed’s year-long streak of rate hikes are also starting to cool a hot labor market, with recent data showing that companies are advertising fewer openings and that wage growth has been slowing from historically elevated levels.
“Should inflation come in as we expect, the Fed is unlikely to take much comfort,” economists at Bank of America wrote in a research note. “However, the slowdown in other (economic) data should translate into downward pressure on inflation over time.”
The biggest driver of core inflation is probably the cost of housing, including rents. They are rising at an annual pace of about 9%, according to the government’s figures.
Still, Apartment List, which tracks real-time changes in new leases, shows rents rising at a 2.6% pace compared with a year ago. As more apartments reset with those smaller increases, the government’s inflation data should show milder increases in coming months.
The Fed is also laser-focused on the cost of services, which are rising at historically rapid rates. Officials at the central bank have said they believe that raising wages, while good for workers, are contributing to those price increases.
Last week’s March jobs report, though, showed that wage growth has slowed steadily in the past year. Businesses are posting fewer open positions, and the number of Americans quitting their jobs to take new, mostly higher-paying work — a driver of higher pay — is falling.
A more worrisome trend is the possibility that banks will pull sharply back on lending to conserve funds, after two large banks collapsed last month, igniting turmoil in the United States and overseas. Many smaller banks have lost customer deposits to huge global banks that are perceived to be too big to fail. The loss of those deposits will likely mean that those banks will extend fewer loans to companies and individuals.
Some small businesses say they are already having trouble getting loans, according to a survey by the National Federation for Independent Business. The IMF said Tuesday that pullbacks in lending could slow growth by nearly a half-percentage point over the next 12 months.
A slowdown in the economy could cool inflation and as a result would help the Fed achieve its objectives. But the blow to the economy might prove larger than expected. Under the worst-case scenario, it could mean a full-blown recession with the loss of millions of jobs. | 2023-04-12T07:08:34+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3873632/latest-inflation-data-could-show-further-gradual-improvement/ |
The amount of time between planes landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport might seem prosaic to the untrained eye, but there’s a lot more going on than a pilot negotiating the gentle return to earth of hundreds of tons of metal. Every millisecond that passes is tied to a new technology touted as a partial solution to two intractable problems (albeit of wildly divergent importance).
We’re of course talking about airport delays and global warming.
A technology called Intelligent Approach, or IA, is constantly working to tighten the space between incoming aircraft as they approach Pearson. It’s one of a number of new systems aimed at chipping away at the carbon footprint of an inherently dirty industry: commercial aviation.
Aircraft that rely on jet fuel aren’t going away anytime soon. While biofuels are slowly growing in use, scaling them to make a major dent in airplane emissions is arguably a long way off. And the battery technology necessary to even consider electric airliners is much more elusive. So commercial aviation says it’s looking to lop off emissions where it can — from the routes aircraft take to the time they spend circling airports, sitting on the tarmac or idling at the gate. All of that time wastes fuel and spews carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
It may seem like any cut in emissions is a good thing, but that may not be the case. Critics worry such technologies are a kind of airline greenwashing, inviting consumers to feel less guilty about air travel when they still should. Worse, there are fears these efforts might distract from the real solution.
“For the longest time, aviation as a sector has managed emissions by spreading discourses that, at some point in the future, the issues will be resolved,” says Stefan Gössling, a professor of tourism research at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. “[But] we have not come any closer to a break in emissions.” Airlines “all know that if they engage with the real issue, which is new fuels, they simply couldn’t afford it.”
Carbon emissions from aviation make up more than 2% of the global total. And because passengers, flights and distances are all increasing, it’s one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases. All of this has put more pressure on airlines and airports to decarbonize.
Which brings us back to chipping away at the margins.
IA began as a collaborative effort between airports, air navigation service providers and airlines. When in 2014 researchers showed runway capacity could be increased by using flexible, time-based separations of approaching aircraft as opposed to fixed distances, the idea was born. In 2015, air navigation service provider NATS and technology provider Leidos teamed up to develop the software, first testing it at London Heathrow Airport.
The makers of IA say its mission is to land planes with more frequency and minimize delays, thus reducing fuel burn. It addresses part of a complex aviation puzzle made up of hundreds of operations across arrivals, departures and surface traffic, all of which can cause delays and thus more fuel to be burned.
Since many problems arise when filling an aircraft with fuel, food, luggage and people, or taxiing to and from the runway, there’s always uncertainty in flight schedules; something as simple as a passenger with a dog too big for its carrier can have knock-on effects. While airlines factor this in by adding buffers to flight times, it doesn’t always help: Around 20% of flights are delayed or canceled each year. The financial impact spreads through the economy as lost time, money and opportunity — for airlines, passengers and companies. But its effect on the environment is worse: Backlogs force aircraft to stack up overhead or linger in the taxiways — with their engines on.
For its part, IA’s methodology is pretty straightforward. It takes into account the aircraft type and current weather conditions to calculate the minimum separation between two incoming aircraft. This involves predicting the “compression” that occurs between each pair of aircraft as the lead plane decelerates to its landing speed.
At most airports, the distance between aircraft A, as it makes its final approach, and aircraft B, next in line, is determined by aircraft size. The larger A is, the more turbulence it creates; the larger B is, the more turbulence it can handle. If you have an Airbus A380 with four jet engines followed by a small Beechcraft King Air, the separation needs to be large.
But this fails to account for variables such as wind speed and direction. It doesn’t acknowledge, for instance, that in a headwind the wake behind aircraft A dissipates faster, allowing for a smaller separation. Using radar and aircraft flight data, IA monitors aircraft as they begin their approach. On a calm day, A and B might need to be kept apart by 3 nautical miles (3.45 statute miles), but in a headwind that can be reduced to around 2.7 nautical miles.
Now in active use at Heathrow, IA enables up to two additional landings per hour in calm conditions and reduces circling time by around 4,784 hours each year, airport officials say. In doing so, it’s saving an estimated 14,442 tons of fuel consumption, or 46,000 tons of CO2.
“If we can deliver close to the same landing rate on a windy day as we can on a calm day, then we can ensure that each aircraft lands as close as possible to its arrival time,” explains Ben Sandford, one of IA’s product managers.
There is a dirty irony here. Using IA, airlines and airports can maximize their capacity for a fraction of the cost of building another runway. This means more planes can fly, burning more fuel and adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Pearson joined Heathrow as a user of IA this year, and Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is to join them in 2023.
At four other airports in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, officials have turned to IntellAct, an Israeli startup that uses CCTV to detect delays caused by cleaning, refueling and restocking of airplanes. Should IntellAct detect any one of these processes is taking too long, it suggests a workaround. If the fuel truck is behind schedule, for instance, IntellAct will recommend refueling take place while boarding passengers.
“A lot of delays can be mitigated with better planning and better communications,” says founder Udi Segall. “If airlines are reacting in real time, then it’s already too slow.”
But it’s not just private enterprise that’s getting into the act. The Federal Aviation Administration is installing software developed by NASA that coordinates schedules of all airport departures.
When a plane is ready to leave, pilots use its engines to taxi toward the runway. Because jet engines aren’t optimized for ground use, the fuel used on the ground is substantial. During a standard 15-minute taxi, a Boeing 747 can burn more than a ton of it. So rather than have planes line up in a physical queue, NASA’s Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 software, or ATD-2, creates a virtual line, such that time normally spent burning fuel on the taxiway is spent at the gate, engines off.
ATD-2 was first tested at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. Over four years there, NASA says the software saved almost 6,000 hours of engine run time, and as much or more than 1 million gallons of fuel. These savings were compounded by a reduction in engine maintenance costs. It also reduced flight delays by 933.6 hours and saved an estimated $4.5 million in value of time.
The system went live at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport last month, with the FAA saying it “will continue activations at dozens more airports in the coming months and years.”
More than 25 airlines have also turned to WheelTug, a device built into the nose-wheel to allow aircraft to push away from the gate without the need for a traditional tug powered by fossil fuels. Not only does it save between six and nine minutes of time per flight, but it can add around two extra flights per gate, according to tests performed at Mumbai International Airport.
But the biggest savings in commercial aviation emissions come from flight. There, too, companies are nibbling around the edges.
Last year, Alaska Airlines signed up with Airspace Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup whose Flyways platform enables dispatchers to optimize routes between origin and destination. Controllers can use the software to more accurately incorporate weather, traffic volume and airspace constraints into their decisions.
Traditionally, a controller files the proposed route with a regulator around 45 minutes before take off, basing it on what the airspace is like at that particular moment. In some territories, flight paths are tightly prescribed, but U.S. airspace is generally open. The goal is normally to get the flight there as quickly as possible.
What Flyways does is evaluate a trajectory based on what the airspace is going to be like when the aircraft is flying through it. If, for example, a storm is forecast over New York when the aircraft will be there, the platform might avoid it. It will also optimize the route according to the wind direction, saving fuel.
The recommendation also takes into account surrounding air traffic, seeking to ensure not that the flight arrives early, but that it arrives at a time likely to cause the fewest delays in the wider aviation network.
“What is most valuable to an airline is not how fast a flight arrives, but that it arrives in a reliable way,” says Phillip Buckendorf, co-founder of Airspace Intelligence. In 12 months with Flyways, Alaska Airlines says it has saved an average of 2.7 minutes per flight and more than 6,500 tons of CO2 compared to flights not using the technology. That’s the equivalent of more than 17 million miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle.
But Gössling urges caution about relying on these technologies to meaningfully erode aviation’s ballooning environmental impact. They address the least harmful phases of the flight: taxiing, takeoff, approach and landing. At best, he estimates, efficient routing will reduce total emissions by 10%, and eradicating holding patterns will remove around 1%.
Indeed, he says their purported benefits extend no further than local air pollution because any wider gains are erased by growing passenger numbers, which are forecast to double before 2037. Instead of focusing on reducing the taxi times and separation between incoming flights, the focus should be on minimizing emissions when aircraft are in full flight, Gössling says.
As admirable as they may be in a vacuum, these new platforms will promote a net increase in aviation emissions because they make flying more efficient and attractive, he warns. “We are talking about the most energy-intensive form of consumption.” Gössling says. “None of these technologies, even in combination, will cut emissions from aviation to the necessary amount if the sector continues to grow.” | 2022-11-24T07:36:30+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/commercial-aviation-built-on-pollution-is-getting-a-tiny-bit-greener/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — For President Joe Biden, an international trip scheduled for just days after the midterm election looked like it would offer an escape hatch, allowing him to jet far away as he faced what many thought would be a crushing verdict from voters.
Instead his journey, which included stops in Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia, turned into an around-the-world victory lap. Biden spent the trip making congratulatory calls to Democrats who fared better than expected in the midterms, emboldening him during three global summits where he pushed for stronger action on climate change, closer economic ties in Asia and greater condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
After facing doubts at home and abroad over his insistence that the United States is turning the page on his chaotic predecessor, Donald Trump, Biden’s contention that “America is back” appeared more durable than ever.
“At this critical moment,” Biden said at a press conference in front of a Balinese temple in Indonesia, “no nation is better positioned to help build the future we want than the United States of America.”
As Biden returns from his trip, though, he faces daunting challenges to his presidency, including worries about a potential recession and questions over whether he should run for a second term. Because of inflation and other factors, Americans will sit down to more expensive Thanksgiving dinners next week.
And although Democrats will keep control of the Senate, Republicans are on track to win a narrow majority in the House, likely giving them a chance to block Biden’s legislative agenda and launch investigations of his administration.
Those concerns receded from view, at least temporarily, with Biden overseas and as Republicans plunged into recriminations over who was responsible for their party’s weak performance in the midterms. Some pointed fingers at Trump, whose chosen candidates largely fell short across the country.
When Trump officially launched another presidential campaign on Tuesday night, Biden was at the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, the last stop on his trip. He brushed off the news as he gathered with world leaders to plant mangrove trees, a symbol of strength and resilience.
Biden exchanged looks with French President Emmanuel Macron — a faint smirk, perhaps — as reporters asked if he had any response to the announcement,
“No, not really,” he said.
The carefully choreographed trip was interrupted by a missile that landed in Poland as the G-20 summit was underway. Two people died, raising fears that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread beyond its borders, and speculation quickly spread that Russia was responsible.
Several time zones away, Biden was awakened by staff with the news. Dressed in a gray T-shirt and khakis, he worked the phones at dawn, then suited up for a hastily arranged meeting with allied leaders.
Biden said afterward that it was unlikely the missile came from Russia and pledged to “make sure we figure out exactly what happened.” Officials in Poland and at NATO later said the strike did not appear to be intentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine, and the U.S. concurred.
Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland, said Biden made the right moves in a dangerous situation by expressing solidarity with Poland but not rushing to conclusions.
The administration, he said, “played it right.”
For the White House, it was another opportunity for Biden to demonstrate a steady hand on the international stage during his trip.
“Joe Biden doesn’t just talk about America leading the world – he has rebuilt America’s world leadership, and over the past week the American people saw this,” said Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to the president.
Still, the Poland incident was a reminder of how precarious the situation in Europe remains, months after the war began. Kyiv has retaken some territory seized by Moscow, but progress remains uncertain as winter approaches. There’s also pressure to seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict even though Russian troops remain on Ukrainian soil.
Biden’s efforts to marginalize Moscow at the G-20 summit appeared successful.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend, and his emissary, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, played a minimal role at the gathering. The U.S. also secured a declaration of firm condemnation of the war in the summit’s final communique, plus a warning that the conflict is worsening an already delicate world economy.
It was a notably strong denunciation in spite of divisions within the group, which includes not only Russia but also countries such as China and India that have significant trade ties with Moscow and have stopped short of outright criticism of the war.
The centerpiece of Biden’s visit to Indonesia was not the summit itself, but his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Although the two leaders have spoken multiple times, they had not met in person since Biden took office two years ago.
While there were no watershed breakthroughs, Biden secured from Xi a condemnation of Russian nuclear threats in Ukraine and the resumption of lower-level cooperation from China on a range of shared global challenges, from climate to economic policy. Meanwhile, he delivered a public rebuke of China’s human rights violations and its threats against Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing considers part of its own territory.
Andrew Yeo, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies, said Biden arrived in Indonesia “more empowered” and “politically energized.”
Earlier this year, there were more worries about America’s political trajectory as Trump plotted a comeback. Asian countries wondered, Yeo said, “when you have these deals with the United States, how stable are they?”
Now those concerns have lessened.
“Democrats have a stronger hand and they can be a little more confident,” he said.
Before visiting Indonesia, Biden attended a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia, part of his effort to demonstrate U.S. commitment to the region. He met with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, two allies who have occasionally been at odds with each other, to talk about North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
Biden’s shortest stop on his trip was in Egypt, where he spent only three hours at an annual United Nations conference on climate change, but it was perhaps where his reversal of fortunes was on clearest display.
During last year’s climate summit, which took place in Scotland, Biden’s environmental agenda was stalled in Congress. This time, Biden could point to a new law that he signed to invest in clean energy initiatives.
“The United States government is putting our money where our mouth is,” he said.
Even as the White House girds for a period of divided government in Washington, administration officials see plenty of opportunity for their critics to make missteps along the way.
Dunn said Biden was willing to work with Republicans, but “the real question is whether Republicans are ready to work with him for the priorities of the people, or just use the next two years on political vendettas.”
Now Biden, who turns 80 on Sunday, has to decide whether to run for a second term. He has said he intends to do so but wants to talk it over with his family. An announcement could come early next year.
A recent AP-NORC poll, conducted before the midterms, showed that just 5 in 10 Democrats want Biden to seek a second term.
Cedric Richmond, who worked in the White House before becoming a senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee, said the midterms were a demonstration of Biden’s political strength and validation of a record that gives the president a good foundation for another term.
“This president has done an extremely effective job,” he said. “He’s accomplished things that other Democratic presidents and leaders have not been able to accomplish.”
Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, said it would be tough to deny Biden the nomination if he sought it again.
“Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what advice the president is getting,” he said. “If he wants to run, he’s going to run.”
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Megerian reported from Washington. | 2022-11-16T20:41:42+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/ap-foreign-trip-becomes-victory-lap-for-strengthened-biden/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 61% of available tickets this season after returning from a 1½ year absence, managing 196 staged performances without a cancellation. Sales were down from 75% in last pre-pandemic season of 2018-19, but it is considered a success.
“We consider it to be a triumph in that we started and we ended and we never missed a performance along the way,” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said.
When discounted tickets are taken into account, the Met sold 56% of ticket dollar capacity this season, down from 69% from 2018-19.
Gelb addressed the audience before Saturday night’s finale to praise the company and audience for making it through the season with no COVID-19 cancellations.
Prior to the pandemic, the 2019-20 season was on track to finish with 72% of dollar capacity and 76% of tickets sold. The pandemic forced the cancellation of the final 58 performances from March 12 on, leaving that season’s dollar capacity at 70%.
Ticket sales dropped during the peak of the omicrom variant to as low as 44% during the second half of January, then approached 70% during May and June. As part of a schedule change planned ahead of the canceled 2020-21 season, the Met went dark during most of February and extended the season by a month.
“It was an unqualified success, even if even if the box office was below levels that it’s been, because of the loss of foreign tourists,” Gelb said. “Typically 20% of our ticket sales are foreign tourists, and we sold 8% of our tickets to foreign tourists, and 30% of our tickets typically are sold to domestic tourists, and those sales were down, as well.”
The company budgeted for an attendance shortfall during the next four years and made up for the loss of revenue by raising $130 million in supplemental funding in addition to its annual funding. Gelb said the Met will finish its fiscal year ending July 31 with a balanced budget.
Schedules for future seasons are being reconfigured to include more contemporary works.
The Met’s 2021-22 season included Brett Dean’s “Hamlet” (2017), Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” (2019) and Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” (2020). Blanchard’s composition was the first by a Black composer at the company, which launched in 1883.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who succeeded James Levine as music director in 2018-19, conducted “Fire” and “Eurydice” and is set to lead the staged premiere next season of Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” and Blanchard’s “Champion” (2013), on boxer Emile Griffith.
“There are many more younger faces in the audience, and there’s greater diversity in the audience,” Gelb said. “My hope and expectation is that when the local audience who has been afraid to come feels comfortable about returning, and when the foreign tourism and domestic tourism reach their pre-pandemic levels, that we will have an even larger audience than we had before the pandemic.” | 2022-06-14T03:21:22+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/met-opera-season-had-no-covid-cancellations-but-sales-down/ |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and WBA heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and won popularity with Nelson Mandela and both Black and white fans, has died. He was 67.
Coetzee died on Thursday in Cape Town just over a week after being diagnosed with lung cancer, his former manager, Thinus Strydom, said Friday.
Coetzee, who was white, was the first African boxer to win a world heavyweight title. He knocked out American rival Michael Dokes in the 10th round in Richfield, Ohio, in 1983 to win the WBA belt, a big upset that was celebrated throughout South Africa despite it being fragmented at the time by the apartheid laws of racial segregation.
Coetzee’s victory also made him the first white boxer to win a world heavyweight title in more than 20 years but he made clear after the fight against Dokes how much he disliked being labeled “the great white hope.”
“I feel I am fighting for everybody, Black and white,” Coetzee said. “What makes me happy is for Black, brown and white people to accept me as their fighter.”
They did in South Africa and Coetzee was awarded the The Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze in 2003 by South Africa’s democratically-elected post-apartheid government for his boxing success and for his contribution to “nation-building through sport.”
The government said millions of Black South Africans rooted for Coetzee during his career, “thereby confounding the false logic of apartheid.”
Coetzee said one of his most treasured moments came when Mandela, a big boxing fan, asked to meet him in the early 1990s. Mandela, who would become South Africa’s first democratically-elected president in 1994, had just been released from prison after 27 years for fighting against apartheid.
“It was overwhelming because the country was preparing for democracy and Mr. Mandela was leading the way,” Coetzee said. “It was a surreal moment and he awarded me a medal. I was surprised to hear that he had listened to radio commentaries of a few of my fights while he was in prison.”
At a later meeting with Mandela, Coetzee wanted to give the Nobel Peace Prize winner a gift in return and chose a medal that he had previously been awarded by the apartheid government. Mandela didn’t even flinch when he learned where the medal came from, Coetzee said, and graciously accepted the gift.
“It didn’t seem to bother Mr. Mandela … He saw it as a gift from me and I was grateful for that,” Coetzee said.
Coetzee finally won the heavyweight title on his third attempt after losing to John Tate in 1979 in a fight for the WBA belt made vacant by Muhammad Ali’s retirement. Coetzee also lost a second WBA title shot when he challenged Mike Weaver in 1980 and was stopped in the 13th round.
Coetzee had stopped former undisputed heavyweight champion Leon Spinks in the first round in Monaco in 1979 in his first fight outside South Africa, making the world aware of his ability. But it took him another four years to win a title.
Coetzee’s victory over Dokes for the WBA title came at a price. He broke his right hand earlier in the fight but still managed to knock out Dokes with a series of rights, his manager said. He needed surgery soon after.
Coetzee had persistent injury problems with that potent right hand and it was operated on numerous times throughout his career, leading South African heavyweight rival Kallie Knoetze to give Coetzee the nickname “Sore Little Hands.” Coetzee was also sometimes called “The Bionic Hand.”
His main nickname, though, was the “Boksburg Bomber” in reference to his working-class home town near Johannesburg. Coetzee’s first professional fight was in 1974, and he often fought against Black fighters in South Africa in front of racially-mixed crowds. He appointed a South African man of Indian heritage to be his media spokesman, which also angered the apartheid government.
In the 1980s, Coetzee agreed to train a young Black fighter and invited him to stay with him in his home in defiance of strict apartheid laws at the time that outlawed Blacks living in the same neighborhoods as whites. Police searched Coetzee’s home and issued him with a court summons because of it. Coetzee said he ignored the summons and legally adopted the boy, whose parents had died.
Coetzee fought 40 times, with 33 wins (21 by knockout), six losses and a draw.
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Bell County – (FOX 44) A string of dangerous storms and tornadoes hit Central Texas Tuesday afternoon and evening, leaving a path of destruction and pain behind.
Bell County Judge David Blackburn says at least 23 people were injured as the storms moved through the area. Many of the injured are from the Salado area. 12 people went to the hospital, but Blackburn says all but one has been released. That last person is in critical condition.
While darkness shrouds most of the damage, we know the storms destroyed a church in Bell County. There are several homes damage, trees uprooted, and powerlines and power poles that are down.
As of Tuesday evening, there is no word on how much it will cost to repair all that has been broken.
We will have more on the destructive storms as it becomes available. | 2022-04-13T06:35:04+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/numerous-people-injured-by-severe-storms-in-central-texas/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. said Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on a group of people and organizations connected to Myanmar’s military regime as the two-year anniversary nears for the coup that removed the country’s civilian government.
Six people and three organizations were designed for sanctions, including the country’s elections commission, several mining firms and their executives, and current and former military officials, according to the Treasury Department. The sanctions block access to money and resources under U.S. control.
The sanctions come as Myanmar’s military has conducted aerial bombings and other attacks against pro-democracy forces, killing and displacing civilians. The military relies on fighter jets and helicopter gunships supplied by its allies Russia and China, according to the organization Myanmar Witness and other experts.
Myanmar’s military-controlled government has also enacted a new law on registration of political parties that will make it difficult for opposition groups to mount a serious challenge to army-backed candidates in a general election set to take place later this year.
The administration uses a February 2021 executive order signed by President Joe Biden as its authority to impose the sanctions.
“The U.S. Department of the Treasury, along with partner nations like the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia continue to stand with the people of Burma as they seek freedom and democracy,” Brian Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
“The United States will continue to promote accountability for those who provide financial and material support to, and directly enable, the violent suppression of democracy in Burma.”
A February 2021 military coup removed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Officials arrested her and top members of her governing National League for Democracy party, which had won a landslide victory for a second term in a November 2020 general election.
The military crackdown triggered armed resistance in much of the country, plunging Myanmar into a prolonged civil war.
A human rights monitoring group said in a report Tuesday that Myanmar’s military is increasingly turning to airstrikes with deadly results to try to crush stiff armed resistance two years after it seized power.
According to the independent Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a watchdog group that tracks killings and arrests in Myanmar, 2,940 civilians have been killed and 17,572 have been arrested by authorities since the army takeover.
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Associated Press writer Grant Peck in Bangkok contributed to this report | 2023-01-31T21:21:09+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/ap-us-sanctions-myanmar-groups-ahead-of-coup-anniversary/ |
Best Places to Work Award Winner by the Milwaukee Business Journal & Announces Two New Hires
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectrum Investment Advisors, located in Mequon, Wisconsin, is one of 15 Wisconsin businesses that are being named 2022's Best Places to Work in the Micro category (10-24 employees) by the Milwaukee Business Journal.
"Being recognized as one of Milwaukee's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For is a testament to the wonderful people that are part of our team," said Manuel Rosado, president of Spectrum Investment Advisors. "At Spectrum, we celebrate success both corporately and individually, while encouraging our employees to find a balance between working hard and enjoying their lives and families."
On top of that Spectrum celebrates the addition of two new employees. Manuel Rosado, President of Spectrum Investment Advisors said, "We're very excited to have Jon and Angelica as part of our team. Their expertise and background will complement our team of seasoned executives very well."
Spectrum is excited to welcome Jon to the firm as a Financial Education Advisor to support and strengthen the organizations commitment to one-on-one investment consultation to plan participants. Jon holds the Investment Adviser Representative license (Series 65). Prior to joining Spectrum, Jon's career provided him with a broad range of business, management, and leadership experience. Jon earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.
Spectrum welcomes Angelica to the team as their Marketing Manager. She is responsible for marketing activities and initiatives such as communications, event planning, social media platforms, and community outreach. She is also responsible for managing meetings, corporate events, and conferences such as the annual "Retirement Plan Investment Seminar," "Spectrum Investor® Coffee House Educational Series," and the client appreciation golf outing at Trappers Turn. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, attaining a Bachelor of Science in Communications and a minor in Public Relations.
Incorporated in 1995, Spectrum is a Registered Investment Adviser built on the premise that achieving one's financial goals depends on independent financial advice, timely research, and easy access to the investments and services that best fit an investor's specific needs. For more information about Spectrum Investment Advisors, visit www.spectruminvestor.com. Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
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The 2023 Masters Tournament Odds & Preview: Jon Rahm
The field for the 2023 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia at Augusta National Golf Club includes Jon Rahm. The competition takes place from April 6 - 9.
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Jon Rahm Insights
- Over his last 17 rounds, Rahm has finished better than par on 12 occasions, while also posting one bogey-free round and 13 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has posted the best score of the day twice while finishing in the top-five six times and with a top-10 score in nine of his last 17 rounds played.
- Rahm has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in eight of his last 17 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 11 times.
- In his past five appearances, Rahm has one win, two top-five finishes and three top-10 finishes.
- Looking at the past five tournaments he has entered, he made the cut four times.
- Rahm has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five tournaments. In that span, he finished within five shots of the winner three times and with a better-than-average score three times.
Over the last year
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Masters Tournament Insights and Stats
- Rahm has four top-10 finishes, with two of them being top-five finishes, in his past six appearances at this tournament. His average finishing position has been 13th.
- Rahm has made the cut in each of his last six trips to this event.
- The most recent time Rahm played this event was in 2022, and he finished 27th.
- In the past year, the Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,294 yards, 251 yards shorter than the 7,545-yard par 72 for this week's tournament.
- Golfers at Augusta National Golf Club have averaged a score of +1 per tournament, higher than the Tour-wide scoring average of -5 during the past year.
- Augusta National Golf Club checks in at 7,545 yards, 144 yards longer than the average course Rahm has played in the past year (7,401 yards).
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -3 among finishers, lower than the +1 average at this course.
Rahm's Last Time Out
- Rahm was good on the eight par-3 holes at THE PLAYERS Championship, averaging 1.63 strokes to finish in the 100th percentile of the field.
- He finished in the 100th percentile on par 4s at THE PLAYERS Championship, averaging 1.95 strokes on those 20 holes.
- Rahm shot better than 100% of the field at THE PLAYERS Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 2.38 strokes per hole, in comparison to the field average of 4.67.
- Rahm fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, carding a birdie or better on four of eight par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship (the other participants averaged 1.5).
- On the eight par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship, Rahm carded one bogey or worse (less than the field average of 2.7).
- Rahm carded more birdies or better (11) than the tournament average of 5.1 on the 20 par-4s at THE PLAYERS Championship.
- In that most recent outing, Rahm did not card a bogey or worse on any of the 20 par-4s (the field averaged 7.1).
- Rahm finished THE PLAYERS Championship with a birdie or better on five of eight par-5s, fewer than the field's average, 5.1.
- The field at THE PLAYERS Championship averaged 1.3 bogeys or worse on the eight par-5s, but Rahm finished without one.
Masters Tournament Time and Date Info
- Date: April 6 - 9, 2023
- Course: Augusta National Golf Club
- Location: Augusta, Georgia
- Par: 72 / 7,545 yards
- Rahm Odds to Win: +900 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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WACO, Texas (AP) — Fourth-ranked TCU had players shuffling on and off the field as the final seconds were ticking off the clock. Kicker Griffin Kell was the last one to get into place.
“That looked like chaos, but we practice it every Thursday exactly like that,” Frogs coach Sonny Dykes said.
And the Horned Frogs executed it perfectly to stay undefeated in what was no practice situation.
Kell kicked a 40-yard field goal on the game’s final play, and TCU beat Baylor 29-28 on Saturday, scoring nine points in the final 2:07 to avoid another potential playoff-busting loss on the banks of the Brazos River.
Emari Demercardo scored on a 3-yard TD run to cap a 90-yard drive with 2:07 left to get the Frogs (11-0, 8-0 Big 12, No. 4 CFP) within 28-26, but he was unable to pull in a pass on the 2-point conversion attempt.
After kicking deep, TCU used all three of its timeouts while forcing a three-and-out, and it got the ball back at its 31 with 1:34 left. Max Duggan had two completions before converting one third down with a 12-yard run on a quarterback draw.
Demercardo was short of a clock-stopping first down on a run to the Baylor 23, going down in the center of the field with about 16 seconds left before the offensive and special teams units ran by each other. The ball was snapped at 3 seconds, and the kick by Kell, who earlier had an extra-point attempt clank off the upright, went through as time ran out.
“The great thing about that last drive, we were throwing all of our day one concepts,” Duggan said. “We were throwing easy stuff that we practice and we can do with our eyes closed, and stuff that you believe in. … So just going out there, being confident, believing it was going to happen, and Griff makes a huge kick for us.”
TCU, which already had clinched a spot in the Big 12 championship game, hasn’t been undefeated this deep in a season since 2010, when it finished 13-0 with a Rose Bowl victory and No. 2 national ranking.
When the Frogs played at McLane Stadium for the first time in 2014, after it first opened, they lost 61-58. That was their only loss that season, and they went on to share the Big 12 title with Baylor. They were the first two teams left out of the inaugural four-team College Football Playoff.
Baylor (6-5, 4-4) was coming off a 31-3 home loss to Kansas State a week earlier, but last year’s Big 12 champions took a 28-20 lead after a pair of true freshmen scored TDs early in the fourth quarter: tight end Kelsey Johnson’s 12-yard catch and Richard Reese’s 1-yard run.
“It’s a tough locker room,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda said. “I told them that I wish that we, that I, could take the pain away.”
Duggan was 24-of-35 passing for 327 yards and a touchdown, and he also ran for a score while leading the Frogs with 50 yards rushing on eight carries. Kendre Miller had a rushing TD in his 12th consecutive game, a 2-yarder early in the second quarter that tied it at 14 before he got hurt early in the second half.
TCU didn’t lead until Duggan hit a wide-open Gunnar Henderson for a 26-yard touchdown with 5 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter, one play after the two had connected for 20 yards. It was 20-14 after Kell’s missed PAT.
Baylor’s Blake Shapen was 21-of-30 passing for 269 yards and a score, while Craig “Sqwirl” Williams ran for 112 yards. Monaray Baldwin had six catches for 123 yards, including a 74-yard gain on third-and-11 that set up Reese’s TD with 9:47 left.
“For it to end that way really hurt,” Williams said.
THE TAKEAWAY
TCU: Another comeback for the Frogs, who last month overcame double-digit deficits in the second half against Oklahoma State and Kansas State. They never faltered after several players dealt with flu-like symptoms during the week, and they finished the game without leading receiver Quentin Johnston and Miller.
Baylor: The Bears never really had much trouble moving the ball, piling up 501 total yards, 232 on the ground. On their opening drive, they had 56 yards rushing — twice as much Texas had the whole game against TCU a week earlier. But they missed a chance to take a halftime lead when Shapen’s pass was intercepted in the end zone by Bud Clark with 4 seconds left.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
TCU will stay in the top four of the AP poll on Sunday, and should still be in the all-important top four of the new CFP rankings on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
TCU ends the regular season at home against Iowa State next Saturday.
Baylor is at Texas on Friday.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The sportsbooks still say the odds favor the White Sox winning the AL Central. The last time they were in first place was April 20, and they’ve been residing in third place since June 7.
Despite those forecasts the Guardians awoke Saturday morning trailing the first-place Twins by one game, 52-47 to 51-48. The White Sox were three games back at 49-50.
A long time ago when the Guardians were still the Indians, a young baseball writer gushed about the team being in contention after a mid-season series in Boston. Andre Thornton, a respected elder on the team, took the writer aside and told him that he may have been premature in his enthusiasm because the stretch run was still a couple months away.
Despite the chance of repeating that same mistake, the Guardians are one game out of first place on the last turn of a difficult three-city, 11-game trip against the White Sox, Red Sox and Rays. Granted it’s only July 30, which means after Saturday’s game at Tropicana Field there will still be 62 left to play. But as of Saturday morning, the standings don’t lie.
Here’s the most tantalizing part. The Guardians, with Tuesday’s 6 p.m. trade deadline approaching, have a chance to get better.
The sportsbooks base their predictions on a team’s ceiling or overall talent. They say the White Sox have a 45.5% chance of winning the division compared to a 40.8% by the Twins and 20.2% chance by the Guardians. So far, head-to-head, the Guardians are 8-5 against the White Sox and 6-5 against the Twins. They have six games left against the White Sox (three in August, three in September) and eight against the Twins (all in September).
It’s easy to say the Guardians didn’t expect to be where they are today. But the players, from the start of the year, never felt that way. Early in the season Shane Bieber, who went seven innings in Friday’s 4-1 win over the Rays, said the players in the locker room knew what kind of team they had regardless of what people on the outside said.
Now it becomes a question of degrees. How much does the front office push to get better this year, and how much does it approach Tuesday’s deadline with the idea of looking beyond 2022?
In 2016, they made the Andrew Miller trade because they felt they were one big reliever away from a deep run into the postseason. The calculation was proved correct.
They’re not in the same place with this team. When they acquired Miller on July 31, they were 60-43 with a 4 1/2 game lead in the AL Central. This season they’ve been chasing first place for the better part of four months.
Chris Antonetti and Mike Chernoff used four prospects to get Miller. They are loaded with prospects again.
In MLB.com’s list of the top 100 prospects in the game, the Guards placed eight players: RHP Daniel Espino (No. 10), OF George Valera (No. 31), RHP Gavin Williams (No. 77), INF Gabriel Arias (No. 79), INF Brayan Rocchio (No 84), INF Tyler Freeman (No. 85), LHP Logan Allen (No. 97) and OF Nolan Jones (No. 98), who is already playing in the big leagues with Cleveland.
They will not use a big part of that stockpile to rent a free-agent-to-be for the last two months of this season.
Yes, they need help offensively, especially at catcher. The Cubs’ Willson Contreras is an offensive-minded catcher, who is also a free agent at the end of the year. Washington first baseman Josh Bell, another free agent in waiting, could help as well. But the Guardians aren’t going to pay a lot for short-term help.
Oakland catcher Sean Murphy represents a different course of action. Like Contreras he’s a good hitter -- .241, 24 doubles, 11 homers, 40 RBI -- but he won’t be a free agent until 2026. The cost would be high, but a deal like that would be more in line with the way the Guards do business.
This year the wild-card field has been expanded from two to three teams in the AL and NL. As of Saturday morning the Guardians trailed Tampa Bay by 1 1/2 games for the third spot.
The third team eliminates the drama of the one-and-done wild-card game. To get to the division series, the three wild card teams and the division winner with the third-best record will play two three-game series. There’s a bit more leeway than the previous sudden-death wild card matchup, but it can still end quickly as Cleveland found out in 2020 when the Yankees swept the first two games in the best-of-three format used because of the pandemic.
The expanded playoff field offers another path to the postseason for a team like the Guards. It offers a challenge as well. How much do they try to improve at the deadline to gain access to what is the slipperiest of slopes?
Names to remember
* OF Daniel Johnson, who started the year with the Guardians before being traded to the Mets, has re-signed with Washington, the team that drafted him.
* RHP Brad Peacock, who pitched at Triple-A Columbus last year, has signed a minor league deal with the Twins.
* OF Abraham Almonte, who played with Cleveland from 2015 through 2017, was traded from Milwaukee to Boston in a minor league deal.
* Mets first base coach Wayne Kirby, who played for Cleveland from 1991 through 1996, recently rejoined the Mets after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer.
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HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) _ John Wiley & Sons Inc. (WLY) on Wednesday reported net income of $38.2 million in its fiscal second quarter.
The Hoboken, New Jersey-based company said it had profit of 68 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and restructuring costs, came to $1.20 per share.
The publisher posted revenue of $514.8 million in the period.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An enormous anti-government march took place in Poland's capital Sunday, with citizens traveling from across the country to voice their anger at a right-wing administration that has eroded democratic norms and created fears the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy.
The local government in Warsaw estimated that 500,000 people joined the march, which was led by the opposition party to which the city's mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, belongs. It was not possible to verify that figure.
Large crowds gathered in Krakow and other cities across the nation of 38 million, showing frustration with a government that critics accuse of violating the constitution and eroding fundamental rights in Poland, a country long hailed as model of peaceful and democratic change.
Former President Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that played a historic role in toppling communism in Poland, stood on a stage with the leader of the opposition Civic Platform party, former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The crowd cheered on the two men, both of whom are reviled by the ruling Law and Justice party led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and at times chanted “Democracy!” and “Constitution!”
Tusk had called on Poles to march with him for the sake of the nation’s future — a message that resonated for Radek Tusinski, 49, who rallied with his wife and two young children. A handmade sign reading “I cannot give up freedom” was attached to their baby stroller.
Tuskinski said he worries about the creeping return of an authoritarian system similar to what he remembers from his childhood.
“We want a free country for our children,” he said.
Supporters of the march have warned that the election might be the nation's last chance to stop the erosion of democracy under the ruling party, Law and Justice, amid growing fears that the fall election might not be fair.
In power since 2015, Law and Justice has found a popular formula, combining higher social spending with socially conservative policies and support for the church in the mostly Catholic nation.
However, critics have warned for years that the party is reversing many of the achievements made since Poland emerged from communist rule in 1989.
Even the United States government has intervened at times when it felt the government was eroding press freedom and academic freedom in the area of Holocaust research.
Critics point mainly to the party's step-by-step takeover of the judiciary and media. It uses state media for heavy-handed propaganda to tarnish opponents. Law and Justice also tapped into animosity against minorities, particularly LGBTQ+ people, whose struggle for rights the party depicts as a threat to families and national identity. A clampdown on abortion rights has triggered mass protests.
Critics fear that party could eventually force the country to leave the European Union, a 27-member union founded on democratic ideals.
March participants carried EU and Polish flags, with some also holding up rainbow flags.
Some also voiced anger at the double-digit inflation in the county. The government blames Russia's war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, but economists say its spending policies have accelerated spiraling prices.
Barbara Dec, 26, and her grandmother left their hometown of Zielona Gora at 4:30 a.m. and traveled seven hours on a bus organized by Civic Platform to protest. They planned to return home immediately after the Warsaw event.
Dec held up a cardboard sign that read, “I am afraid to have children in Poland.”
“Women have lost the right to have an abortion even when the fetus is terminally ill, and some women have died,” she explained. “And I am also afraid I couldn't manage financially.”
The march was held on the 34th anniversary of the first partly free elections, a democratic breakthrough in the toppling of communism across Eastern Europe. It was seen as a test for Tusk’s Civic Platform, a centrist and pro-European party which has trailed behind Law and Justice in polls.
However, the passage of a controversial law last month appeared to mobilize greater support for Tusk. Poland is expected to hold a general election in October, though a date has not yet been set.
The law allows for the creation of a commission to investigate Russian influence in Poland. Critics argue that the commission would have unconstitutional powers, including the capacity to exclude officials from public life for a decade. They fear it will be used by the ruling party to remove Tusk and other opponents from public life.
Amid uproar in Poland and criticism from the U.S. and the EU, President Andrzej Duda, who signed the law on May 29, proposed amendments to it on Friday. In the meantime, the law will take effect with no guarantees lawmakers in parliament will weaken the commission's powers.
Some Poles say it could come to resemble the investigations of Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. senator whose anti-communist campaign in the early 1950s led to hysteria and political persecution.
That fear was underlined last weekend when the Kaczynski, the ruling party leader, was asked by a reporter if he still had trust in the defense minister in connection with a Russian missile that fell in Poland in December.
"I am forced ... to view you as a representative of the Kremlin," he replied. “Because only the Kremlin wants this man to stop being the minister of national defense.”
The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders expressed concerns that the commission might be used to “wage a witch-hunt against journalists” and “could serve as a new weapon for this type of attack, in which doubt is cast on journalists’ probity in an attempt to smear their reputation.”
Tusk, who is also a former EU council president, had called for the march weeks ago, urging people to demonstrate “against high prices, theft and lies, for free elections and a democratic, European Poland.”
Initially some opposition figures planned to stay away. But after Duda signed the law, other opposition leaders announced they would join in.
Law and Justice sought to discourage participation in the march with a video spot using Auschwitz as a theme — drawing criticism from the state museum that preserves the site of the Nazi German death camp.
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Led by women's health activist Chelsea Leyland and former healthcare investment banker Tatiana Steel
NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Looni, the new women's health company, is pleased to announce the launch of its first menstrual-health product, Balance Beam Mood Complex, available online at looni.co.
With presence in New York and Los Angeles Looni is founded by Chelsea Leyland, acclaimed DJ, epilepsy, endometriosis and plant medicine activist, and Tatiana Steel, who formerly worked across Goldman Sachs' consumer, retail, and healthcare investment banking groups.
"We identified a strong need for research-backed solutions and education in the menstrual wellness space, alongside a team that was not afraid to tackle outdated taboos," says Looni co-founder Chelsea Leyland.
When your hormones are balanced, you experience fewer mood swings, cravings and overall irritability—so, Looni is launching with a daily supplement, Balance Beam Mood Complex, that supports hormone and neurotransmitter balance with a select blend of concentrated bioavailable vitamins, minerals, nootropics and adaptogens to help stabilize mood. Looni's Balance Beam Mood Complex retails for $39.99 and includes a 30-day supply.
"Looni is needed now more than ever," says Looni co-founder Tatiana Steel. "After more than 70 years of pharmaceutical solutions that do not address the root causes of menstrual discomforts, today's women deserve better, more thoughtful solutions. It is time for the products and research being done within the category to be led by those actually experiencing these issues—those who menstruate. At Looni, we aim to help every woman looking to garner body literacy and unlock their full potential. We wake up excited to fight for this mission every day."
With both a conventional and holistic approach to product development, all Looni products are formulated alongside their world-renowned medical advisory team that includes Dr. Stephanie Colantonio, Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino, Dr. Lauren Schultz, Dr. Felice Gersh, and Associate Professor Susan Evans.
"People who menstruate deserve better healthcare," says board-certified physician, Dr. Stepanie Colantonio. "Our monthly rhythm makes life possible, yet this gift causes many of us real discomfort. Historically, treatments have been limited to hormonal contraception, pain relievers, or surgeries. When I learned that Chelsea and Tatiana were birthing Looni, I was thrilled to support their mission to nurture the menstrual cycle - a deeply shared goal of my own."
"Society has normalized discomfort for women when it comes to their periods," says Chelsea. "Periods shouldn't be painful—if you're experiencing intense lows, cravings or pain it's likely worth exploring and that's where Looni can help. The cycle itself isn't the problem, instead, it's a doorway to revealing a problem."
Alongside their products, Looni also aims to act as a platform for more accessible conversation around body literacy and the things that women experience—topics include pregnancy loss, endometriosis, vaginal discharge, sex on your period, and more. Looni welcomes all to join their community and to take part in the conversation through the group based messaging app, Geneva, and by following them on their Instagram channel @my.looni.
About Looni
Looni believes in menstrual literacy and autonomy—the menstrual cycle is a valuable guide to our overall health and wellbeing and Looni provides the tools and knowledge for people to become intimate with their natural rhythms. Looni has created a suite of products targeting menstrual discomfort, such as mood instability and breast tenderness. Looni's products are formulated and researched with a female team of specialized medical advisors—bring together conventional and holistic perspectives for products that work in sync with our menstrual cycles.
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Matt Olson Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 9:29 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
After going 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI in his most recent game, Matt Olson and the Atlanta Braves take on the Milwaukee Brewers (who will start Julio Teheran) at 7:20 PM ET on Saturday.
He hit a home run while going 2-for-4 in his most recent game against the Brewers.
Matt Olson Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Julio Teheran
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +195)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +175)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: -111)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -167)
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Matt Olson At The Plate
- Olson leads Atlanta with 99 hits, batting .256 this season with 54 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualified batters in MLB, he ranks 73rd in batting average, 27th in on-base percentage, and third in slugging.
- Olson has picked up a hit in 65.3% of his 101 games this year, with multiple hits in 25.7% of them.
- He has hit a long ball in 28 games this year (27.7%), homering in 7.3% of his plate appearances.
- Olson has an RBI in 44 of 101 games this year, with multiple RBI in 22 of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in 11 contests.
- He has scored in 54.5% of his games this year (55 of 101), with two or more runs 19 times (18.8%).
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Matt Olson Home/Away Batting Splits
Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Brewers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Brewers have a 3.96 team ERA that ranks 10th among all league pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to rank 21st in baseball in home runs surrendered (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- Teheran (2-4 with a 3.75 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 57 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Brewers, his 11th of the season.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Atlanta Braves, the righty tossed six innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering three hits.
- The 32-year-old has amassed an ERA of 3.75, with 6.2 strikeouts per nine innings, in 10 games this season. Opponents are batting .230 against him.
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With Cinco de Mayo coming up rapidamente, margaritas are on a lot of minds right now. (More than usual, anyway.) If you’re bringing the drinks to a party, consider toting along a jar of pickle brine to liven things up.
No! Wait! Come back!
It sounds bizarre, but hear me out. A little twist of pickle could be the perk your margarita needs — and it makes sense when you think about it.
Consider a chocolate chip cookie with grains of coarse salt on top: The salt serves to amplify the sweetness.
Really, a little extra salt enriches and deepens all of the flavors, making for a more satisfying sweet.
The same is true for a margarita. Remember that salt-dusted rim on the glass? It’s there to add deliciousness. So, why not see what happens with a zap of salty pickle brine?
There’s no set recipe for how to add brine to the cocktail. There’s also no one particular brine to use — saving some extra brine from an empty jar works just as well as homemade pickle juice.
One version, from the Washington Post, mixes 1 ounce of pickle brine with tequila, simple syrup, lime juice, Cointreau and orange bitters. Imagine the bright, citrus-y goodness!
A recent rendition featured in Southern Living suggests simply adding a splash of brine to your current favorite margarita recipe. You can garnish your glass with lime zest and salt, too, and throw in a little pickle spear while you’re at it.
After all, experimentation can yield some surprisingly tasty results. Just remember you can always add more of something, but you can’t take it out, so start small with the brine if you’re feeling timid.
Light, bright and not too sweet — if this is how you like your margs, that pop of pickle brine might be just what you need at this year’s fiesta.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-05-03T21:14:05+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/how-use-pickle-juice-margaritas |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies will start right-hander Aaron Nola in Game 1 of the World Series against the Houston Astros and last season’s NL Cy Young Award runner-up Zack Wheeler in Game 2.
Game 1 of the World Series is Friday in Houston. Game 2 is Saturday.
Nola is 2-1 with a 3.12 ERA and has struck out 18 batters in three starts this postseason. Nola took a perfect game into the seventh inning in the Phillies’ 3-0 win over the Astros on Oct. 4 that clinched an NL wild-card spot. Nola, who went 11-13 with a 3.25 ERA this season, struck out nine and didn’t allow a baserunner until Yordan Alvarez singled with two outs in the seventh.
The Astros have not lost a game since that date, going 7-0 in the playoffs.
Wheeler is 1-1 with a 1.78 ERA and has struck out 25 and walked three in four postseason starts. He had a no-decision in Philadelphia’s National League Championship Series-clinching 4-3 win over San Diego in Game 5.
Wheeler gets an extra day of rest.
“Any time we give those guys an extra day, we do it,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Wednesday.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-26T15:59:16+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Nola-to-start-World-Series-Game-1-for-Phils-17535790.php |
PHOENIX (AP) — Kawhi Leonard had a great shooting night while Russell Westbrook had a horrible one.
Both players nonetheless had a huge impact for the Los Angeles Clippers in their 115-110 win over the Phoenix Suns in the teams’ Western Conference playoff series opener on Sunday.
Leonard poured in 38 points, including two late 3-pointers, while Westbrook was a menace everywhere except the scoring column. The veteran guard shot just 3 of 19 from the field, but finished with nine points, 10 rebounds, eight assists, three blocks and two steals.
“My whole career, I pride myself every season on doing everything,” Westbrook said. “Whatever is needed of me to win the game, I’ll do it.”
That’s exactly what happened in the final 30 seconds. Westbrook made a pair of free throws with 17.7 seconds left for a three-point lead, then blocked Devin Booker’s layup attempt at the other end and swatted the ball off Booker to give the Clippers the ball with 10.1 seconds remaining.
Eric Gordon added 19 points and hit a late 3 that kept the Clippers ahead.
Kevin Durant scored 27 points for the Suns, who lost for the first time with him on the floor. Phoenix acquired the two-time NBA Finals MVP from Brooklyn in February, and injuries limited him to eight games — all Suns wins.
Devin Booker added 26 points for Phoenix, which will try to avoid falling into a 2-0 hole at home on Tuesday.
The Suns trailed 109-103 with 1:33 remaining but scored the next five points. The Clippers grabbed multiple offensive rebounds on the ensuing possession before Westbrook made his critical free throws.
“Making winning plays, getting deflections on balls, offensive rebounding, getting us into our sets — that is playoff basketball,” Leonard said. “You might not have the best night shooting, but you’ve got to impact the game some type of way and he did that tonight.”
Los Angeles led for much of the game until midway through the third quarter. Torrey Craig made back-to-back buckets, including one on a powerful fast-break dunk, to push Phoenix ahead 70-68, part of a 15-0 run that concluded with a 77-68 Suns lead.
The Clippers, led by Leonard’s 12 points in the third, recovered to tie the game at 81-all heading into the fourth.
“They’re going to make a run at home, we understood that,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “We built a lead, they made a run, and now we’ve got to keep our composure and be ready to fight back. I thought everyone who played tonight was great.”
Leonard — a two-time Finals MVP playing his first playoff game since June 14, 2021 — did much of his damage from the mid-range, but moved behind the 3-point arc in the game’s late moments. He hit a 3 with 2:36 left and another at the 2-minute mark, finishing 13 of 24 shooting from the field.
The Clippers were missing one of their best players in eight-time All-Star Paul George. He sprained his right knee last month and it’s unclear if he’ll be able to play in this series.
Gordon scored 12 points as the Clippers jumped to a 30-18 lead after one quarter. The Suns shot just 31.8% from the field in the first quarter and Durant was held scoreless.
“We definitely would like to have better starts but sometimes that happens,” Durant said. “It is all about how you bounce back from it.”
Durant missed his first five shots from the field before finally connecting on a mid-range jumper early in the second quarter. That seemed to shake the nerves and the 34-year-old poured in 17 points before the break, helping cut the Clippers’ lead to 59-54.
The Suns had their six-game winning streak in playoff Game 1s snapped.
“We understand it is not going to be easy,” Booker said. “It gets harder from here. Thinking back to my first (playoffs), every loss is the worst thing ever and every win you are going to win the rest of them. That’s just how the playoffs go.”
TIP-INS
Clippers: George hasn’t played since March 21. … Ivica Zubac had 10 points and 11 rebounds in the first half.
Suns: G Cam Payne (low back soreness) was not available. He was hurt in the next-to-last game of the regular season. … Were playing their first home playoff game since a 33-point loss to the Dallas Mavericks in Game 7 of last year’s Western Conference semifinals.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-17T05:25:10+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/leonard-scores-38-to-lead-clippers-past-durant-suns-115-110/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cybercriminal was holding for ransom an Australian health insurer’s customer data including diagnoses and treatments, in the nation’s second major privacy breach in a month, officials said on Thursday.
Trade in Medibank shares has been halted on the Australian Securities Exchange since Wednesday when police were alerted that the company had been contacted by what it described as a “criminal” who wanted to negotiate over the stolen personal data of customers.
Medibank, which has 3.7 million customers, said on Thursday the criminal had provided a sample of 100 customer policies from a purported haul of 200 gigabytes of stolen data.
Details included customer names, addresses, birth dates, national health care identification numbers and phone numbers.
Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil said most concerning was that records of medical diagnoses and procedures had also been stolen.
“Financial crime is a terrible thing. But ultimately, a credit card can be replaced,” O’Neil told reporters.
“The threat that is being made here to make the private, personal health information of Australians made available to the public is a dog act,” she added.
The thief had threatened to sell Medibank data to third parties and singled out records of 1,000 politicians, media personalities, actors, LGBTQ activists and drug addicts for exposure, Nine Network News reported.
“We found people with very interesting diagnoses,” the thief reportedly wrote to Medibank.
Medibank declined to comment on the reported threats and would not release details beyond its statement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
The Medibank breach came a month after a cyberattack stole from telecommunications company Optus the personal data of 9.8 million customers.
The Optus breach, which compromised the personal data of more than one-third of Australia’s population, prompted the government to propose urgent reforms to privacy laws that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ data and limit the quantity of data that can be retained.
O’Neil said cybercrime was a growing problem around the world and that Australia needed to be better prepared.
“We are going to be under relentless cyberattack essentially from here on in, and what it means is that we need to do a lot better as a country to make sure that we are doing everything we can within organizations to protect customer data and also for citizens to be doing everything that they can,” O’Neil said.
“Combined with Optus, this is a huge wake-up call for the country and certainly gives the government a really clear mandate to do some things that frankly probably should have been done five years ago, but I think are still very crucially important,” she added, referring to privacy law reforms that the government hopes to pass through Parliament this year.
O’Neil described the Medibank breach as a “ransomware attack,” which the government defines as an attack with malware that locks or encrypts files so that the owner can no longer access them.
O’Neil’s office later said she misspoke and meant that the culprit had demanded ransom.
Medibank said its systems had not been encrypted by ransomware and its usual customer activities continued.
Medibank chief executive David Koczkar said his company was working with specialized cybersecurity firms as well as police and government experts in response to the breach.
“I unreservedly apologise for this crime which has been perpetrated against our customers, our people and the broader community,” Koczkar said in a statement.
“I know that many will be disappointed with Medibank and I acknowledge that disappointment,” he added. | 2022-10-21T02:58:51+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-hacker-holds-australian-health-insurers-data-for-ransom/ |
Hawks place Jarred Tinordi on IR, recall Isaak Phillips originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
The Blackhawks have placed defenseman Jarred Tinordi on injured reserve with a facial fracture, the team announced Monday morning. The move is retroactive to Dec. 18.
Tinordi left in the second period of Sunday's 7-1 loss to the New York Rangers after taking a puck to the face. He immediately threw off his helmet, went straight to the locker room and did not return, leaving a trail of blood on the ice as he left.
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Sunday was the first game Tinordi played without the protective cage, too, after he took a skate to the chin less than two weeks ago that required between 50-100 stitches. Such brutal luck.
In a corresponding move, the Blackhawks recalled defenseman Isaak Phillips from the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League. He has 17 points (three goals, 14 assists) in 25 games with the IceHogs this season and ranks No. 1 among all AHL skaters with a +17 rating.
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Florida girl, 11, arrested for fake 911 text that her friend was kidnapped: deputies
PORT ORANGE, Fla. - An 11-year-old girl from Florida was arrested Wednesday for a fake 911 text that said her friend was kidnapped, according to the Volusia Sheriff's Office.
The girl, who said she thought the prank text "would be funny," was arrested and charged with making a false police report concerning the use of a firearm in a violent manner – a felony – and misuse of 911 – a misdemeanor – according to deputies.
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TIMELINE: Girl alleged her friend was kidnapped by an armed man
The Port Orange girl told authorities her friend was kidnapped by an armed male driving a white van on South Interstate-95 in Oak Hill. Volusia Sheriff's Office deputies responded, and so did officers from Edgewater, New Smyrna Beach and Port Orange. No van was found, though.
It all started at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday when a dispatcher at the Sheriff's Communications Center received word about a "suspicious incident reported by text message." The girl told authorities her 14-year-old friend was abducted and she was following in a blue Jeep, according to deputies.
The girl went on to text updates to the dispatcher for an hour and a half. Some of those updates included a description of the alleged kidnapper and that he had a gun.
Deputies were directed to a home in Port Orange after tracking the cell phone used to contact 911, according to a press release. At 10:23 a.m., deputies arrived at the home and made contact with the girl's father.
When deputies approached the girl, she was holding her cell phone, which was ringing as she made her way to meet the deputies, according to the report. Volusia Sheriff's dispatch was on the line and deputies verified they were on the scene.
‘You're gonna enjoy those cuffs'
Bodycam video of the arrest from the Volusia Sheriff's Office shows a conversation between the girl and deputies.
"Stay calm. You can talk to your parents. We can open the window and let you talk to them," one deputy said. "Nothing's gonna happen to you, do you understand that?"
Another deputy told the girl she should use this as a lesson.
"If you do something stupid in the future, you're gonna enjoy those cuffs," the deputy is heard saying.
The girl replied, "I'm not gonna do this again."
Another deputy chimed in.
"You know, this is gonna be an opportunity for you to turn this into a learning experience," the deputy said. "This is not something you're gonna carry with you for the rest of your life."
Girl was inspired by YouTube challenge, deputies say
Photo: Volusia Sheriff's Office
The girl told deputies she got the idea for the prank call from a YouTube challenge and thought it "would be funny," according to officials.
"This kind of prank activity is dangerous – we’re going to investigate every incident but today it wasted valuable resources that might have helped someone else who legitimately needed our help," Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said in a press release.
The girl was transported to the Family Resource Center for processing, then transferred to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
Can you text 911?
Yes, you can send a text message to 911.
All but four counties in Florida – Holmes, Washington, Hendry and Miami-Dade – have implemented the ability to text 911 in emergencies, according to the Florida Department of Management Services website. However, the four remaining counties are in the progress of implementing that technology, the website said.
Orange County said on its website that during life-threatening emergencies, calling 911 is the "best and fastest way" to relay information and get police, firefighters or an ambulance to you. Text messages may take longer.
When texting 911, people should provide an exact location and nature of the emergency, silence your phone if in a dangerous situation, avoid slang, abbreviations or social media jargon, and do not send photos, emojis, or videos. People should also not include 911 in a group text. | 2023-07-27T03:30:33+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/florida-girl-11-pranks-911-with-false-kidnapping-call-because-she-thought-it-would-be-funny-deputies |
Gary Harris Player Prop Bets: Magic vs. Bucks - March 1
Gary Harris and the rest of the Orlando Magic will be facing off versus the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday at 8:00 PM ET.
Let's dive into the prop bets available for Harris, using stats and trends to make good predictions.
Gary Harris Prop Bets vs. the Bucks
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Gary Harris Insights vs. the Bucks
- Harris has taken 6.3 shots per game this season and made 3.0 per game, which account for 3.9% and 4.0%, respectively, of his team's total.
- Harris is averaging 4.2 three-point field goal attempts per game this season, which is 7.3% of his team's attempts from beyond the arc.
- Harris' opponents, the Bucks, have one of the slowest offensive tempos, ranking 25th, averaging 102 possessions per game, while his Magic average 101.6 per game, which ranks 20th among NBA teams.
- The Bucks concede 111.1 points per game, fourth-ranked in the league.
- Allowing 44.2 rebounds per contest, the Bucks are the 20th-ranked team in the NBA.
- Allowing 22.8 assists per game, the Bucks are the best squad in the league.
- In terms of 3-pointers, the Bucks are ranked fourth in the NBA, allowing 11.5 makes per contest.
Gary Harris vs. the Bucks
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Whataburger employees credited with saving 13-year-old girl: ‘Something didn’t seem right’
TEXARKANA, Texas (Gray News) – A 13-year-old Texas girl is now safe, thanks to Whataburger employees who felt that something was off about seeing the girl with a much older man, according to police.
The Texarkana Police Department said workers at the Whataburger called 911 on Tuesday to report a young girl eating with an older man in a situation that “didn’t seem right.”
Police said the employees’ instincts were “spot on.”
Responding officers found that the 79-year-old man, identified as Michael Clark, had offered the girl money in exchange for sexual favors. Clark had picked up the girl in his truck as she walked down the street just before they went to Whataburger, police said.
The girl told police that Clark had inappropriately touched her during a previous encounter a few weeks ago.
Police said after interviewing everyone involved, Clark was arrested for indecency with a child and solicitation of prostitution. He is currently being held in the Bi-State Jail with a bond of $225,000.
No further immediate information was made available.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-16T21:32:14+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2023/03/16/whataburger-employees-credited-with-saving-13-year-old-girl-something-didnt-seem-right/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid peak summer travel, thousands of air travelers faced flight cancellations and delays this weekend and Monday as thunderstorms rolled in across the U.S. East Coast and Midwest.
In addition to bad weather, a technology failing also contributed to to airline disruptions. The Federal Avaiation Adminstration briefly paused operations at Washington, D.C.-area airports Sunday evening due to a problem with the communications system at a major air traffic control facility. Departures resumed after repairs were completed.
Beyond D.C., a chain of flights were also delayed or halted at other major travel hubs — including New York, Chicago and Atlanta — as thunderstorms moved across the country.
Nearly 2,000 U.S. flights were canceled on Saturday and Sunday combined, according to flight tracking service FlightAware, and more than 1,100 U.S. flights had been canceled as of noon ET Monday. Thousands of additional travelers experienced delays.
Staying calm — and knowing your rights — can go a long way if your flight is canceled, experts say. Here’s some of their advice for dealing with a flight cancellation:
MY FLIGHT WAS CANCELED. WHAT NEXT?
If you still want to get to your destination, most airlines will rebook you for free on the next available flight as long as it has seats, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
If you want to cancel the trip, you are entitled to a full refund, even if you bought non-refundable tickets. You’re also entitled to a refund of any bag fees, seat upgrades or other extras.
Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, has stressed that travelers are eligible for a refund, not just vouchers for future travel. If you do take a voucher, make sure you inquire about blackout dates and other restrictions on its use.
CAN I ASK TO BE BOOKED ON ANOTHER AIRLINE’S FLIGHT?
Yes. Airlines aren’t required to put you on another airline’s flight, but they can, and sometimes do, according to the DOT. Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir.com, previously recommended researching alternate flights while you’re waiting to talk to an agent. Agents are typically under a lot of pressure when a flight is canceled, so giving them some options helps.
Ebenhoch also suggested looking for alternative airports that are close to your original destination.
IS THE AIRLINE REQUIRED TO GIVE ME A HOTEL ROOM, OR OTHER COMPENSATION?
No. As announced last month, the Biden adminstration is seeking to require that airlines compensate travelers and cover their meals and hotel rooms if they are stranded for reasons within the carrier’s control — but, as of now, each airline still has its own policies about providing for customers whose flights are canceled, according to the DOT.
Many airlines do offer accommodations, so you should check with their staff. The DOT also has an online dashboard that allows travelers to compare cancelation and delay policies of major carriers.
I’M FACING A LONG WAIT TO REBOOK. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
If someone in your traveling party is at a higher level in a frequent flier program, use the number reserved for that level to call the airline, Ebenhoch said. You can also try calling an international help desk for the airline, since those agents have the ability to make changes.
HOW CAN I AVOID THIS IN THE FUTURE?
Ebenhoch said nonstop flights and morning flights are generally the most reliable if you can book them. If you’re worried about making it to the airport in time for a morning flight, he said, consider staying at a hotel connected to the airport the night before. And consider flying outside of busy dates.
Klee recommended comparing airlines’ policies on the DOT’s service dashboard. He also suggests reserving multiple flights and then canceling the ones you don’t use, as long as the airline will refund your money or convert it into a credit for a future flight.
ARE FLIGHT CANCELATIONS TRENDING LOWER IN 2023?
Flight cancellations trended lower throughout the spring of 2023 than last year, according to data from the FAA.
Industry officials argue that carriers have fixed problems that contributed to a surge in flight cancellations and delays last summer, when 52,000 flights were nixed from June through August. Airlines have hired about 30,000 workers since then, including thousands of pilots, and they are using bigger planes to reduce flights but not the number of seats.
Still, officials warn of lingering staffing shortages, notably among key air traffic controllers. The FAA is training about 3,000 more controllers, but they won’t be ready for this summer’s travel. The agency resorted to nudging airlines to reduce flights in the New York City area this summer, and it opened 169 new flight paths over the East Coast to reduce bottlenecks.
In a government audit published last week, the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General found that the FAA has made “limited efforts” to have adequate staffing at critical air traffic control facilities, noting that the agency “continues to face staffing challenges and lacks a plan to address them, which in turn poses a risk to the continuity of air traffic operations.” | 2023-06-26T18:18:18+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/flight-canceled-amid-bad-weather-what-you-need-to-know-about-rebooking-refunds-and-more/ |
More than three-quarters (77%) of consumers globally continue to believe marketplaces are the most convenient way to shop online, a 10% increase year-over-year
In second annual survey, Consumer Preferences in the Digital-First Economy, a clear majority of consumers globally are prioritizing value over brand loyalty — putting pressure on retailers to adapt
BOSTON, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirakl, the industry's first and most advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, today released its annual consumer data report, Consumer Preferences in the Digital-First Economy. This second edition of the report surveyed 9,600 global consumers regarding their preferences and habits when shopping both in-person and online. According to the findings, a clear majority (86%) of U.S. consumers say inflation has made them look for better value when shopping. As a result, 71% expect to move more of their spending online in the next 12 months to find better value. The data reveals the urgent need for consumer-facing businesses to focus on providing more products at competitive price points to maintain customer loyalty.
Value shoppers prioritize the best deal over brand loyalty
New economic pressures are causing brands' most loyal customers to reconsider their alliances in favor of finding better prices. According to the Mirakl survey, more than four in 10 (43%) survey respondents globally stopped shopping with a specific retailer as a result of rising prices. Fewer than 1 in 5 respondents (17%) continue to shop with the brands they trust regardless of price, putting pressure on brands that rely on loyalty from high-value customers to take agile approaches to product and pricing strategy in order to ensure growth.
"Consumer expectations are increasing even as the game becomes harder for retailers," said Adrien Nussenbaum, co-founder and co-CEO of Mirakl. "The data clearly shows that shoppers have a renewed focus on price and convenience, and only a small fraction of customers are unconditionally loyal to their favorite brands as prices skyrocket. In this economic environment, consumers are relying more than ever on marketplaces to provide the experience that they expect, intensifying pressure for every retailer to develop a clear marketplace strategy. There is a clear mandate for retailers to offer everything from expanded assortments and more affordable price points to better shipping options – without compromising on a strong brand experience. Business leaders must make shrewd strategic decisions today in order to come out ahead."
Consumers turn to eCommerce for value, reliability and convenience
While consumers continue to shop in-store, they are also increasing eCommerce spending due to lower prices and a better customer experience. Nearly three-quarters (71%) of U.S. respondents expect to increase their eCommerce spending over the next 12 months as a result of finding better value online, pushing omnichannel businesses to double down on eCommerce investments to protect the bottom line.
Globally, consumers are also finding eCommerce channels to be more reliable in terms of product availability. More than half (53%) of U.S. consumers agree that the products they need have been out of stock more frequently in stores in the last six months. These short-term out-of-stock challenges are yet another contributor to long-term behavioral shifts in favor of eCommerce. When a product they normally purchase in store is out of stock, half (52%) of shoppers try to find it online often or very often. If they find what they're looking for, nearly three-quarters (71%) shop for it online the next time they need it.
Other key findings of the report include:
- Online shopping becomes a defining habit for today's consumer: Roughly half (51%) of global respondents are likely or very likely to do the majority of their shopping online in 2023;
- Spending on online marketplaces continues to rise: U.S. consumers conducted 46% of their online shopping through marketplaces, a 10% year-over-year increase from 2021;
- Online shoppers find marketplaces to be more convenient than the competition: More than three-quarters (77%) of consumers globally continue to believe marketplaces are the most convenient way to shop online, a 10% increase year-over-year. Three in five (60%) wish more of their favorite retailers had online marketplaces; and,
- Consumers seek new features in the "marketplaces of the future": Global survey respondents cited loyalty and membership programs (41%); in-store pop-ups that show marketplace products in person (28%); purchasing integration with the latest social media apps (20%); and a handpicked selection from influencers they follow (19%) as the features they'd most like to see in future online marketplaces.
Consumer Preferences in the Digital-First Economy, the newest iteration of The State of Online Marketplace Adoption by Mirakl, is available for download at: https://info.mirakl.com/us-consumer-survey-january-2023.
Methodology
Mirakl surveyed 9,600 global consumers on their shopping habits and preferences, with respondents from Australia, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The survey was conducted in October 2022 by Schlesinger Group, an independent research company.
The latest marketplace insight and viewpoints can be found on the Mirakl blog. For more business developments and updates, follow Mirakl on LinkedIn, and Twitter. To learn why the world's most trusted brands choose Mirakl visit www.mirakl.com.
About Mirakl
Mirakl offers the industry's first and most advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform. With Mirakl, organizations across B2B and B2C industries can launch marketplaces faster, grow bigger, and operate with confidence as they exceed rising customer expectations. Platforms are the new competitive advantage in eCommerce, and the world's most trusted brands choose Mirakl for its comprehensive solution of technology, expertise, and ecosystem to unlock the power of the platform business model for them.
As a result, companies like ABB, Astore by AccorHotels, Best Buy Canada, Carrefour, Catch Group, CCH, Changi Airport, Darty, The Kroger Co., Leroy Merlin, Maisons du Monde, and Toyota Material Handling gain the speed, scale and agility to win in the changing eCommerce landscape. For more information: www.mirakl.com.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 11, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service San Diego CA
155 PM PDT Thu Sep 8 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of Southwest California, including the following
areas, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland
Empire and San Diego County Valleys.
* WHEN...From Friday morning through Saturday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Moisture associated with what is currently Hurricane Kay will
bring periods of rain and thunderstorms, heavy at times, in
the valleys. The heaviest rain will likely be Friday night.
Total rainfall of 1 to 3 inches will occur, with highest
amounts near the foothills of the mountains.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
areas, Apple and Lucerne Valleys, Coachella Valley, Riverside
County Mountains, San Bernardino County Mountains, San Diego
County Deserts, San Diego County Mountains and San Gorgonio Pass
Near Banning.
the mountains and deserts. The heaviest rain will likely be
Friday afternoon and night along the east slopes of the
mountains and adjacent deserts. Rainfall will be 2 to 4
inches with local amounts to 8 inches on the east mountain
slopes.
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WASHINGTON, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has finished the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual design phase. During this phase, the program team evaluated and refined the architecture to return the scientifically selected samples, which are currently in the collection process by NASA's Perseverance rover in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater.
The architecture for the campaign, which includes contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), is expected to reduce the complexity of future missions and increase probability of success.
"The conceptual design phase is when every facet of a mission plan gets put under a microscope," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "There are some significant and advantageous changes to the plan, which can be directly attributed to Perseverance's recent successes at Jezero and the amazing performance of our Mars helicopter."
This advanced mission architecture takes into consideration a recently updated analysis of Perseverance's expected longevity. Perseverance will be the primary means of transporting samples to NASA's Sample Retrieval Lander carrying the Mars Ascent Vehicle and ESA's Sample Transfer Arm.
As such, the Mars Sample Return campaign will no longer include the Sample Fetch Rover or its associated second lander. The Sample Retrieval Lander will include two sample recovery helicopters, based on the design of the Ingenuity helicopter, which has performed 29 flights at Mars and survived over a year beyond its original planned lifetime. The helicopters will provide a secondary capability to retrieve samples cached on the surface of Mars.
The ESA Earth Return Orbiter and its NASA-provided Capture, Containment, and Return System remain vital elements of the program architecture.
With planned launch dates for the Earth Return Orbiter and Sample Retrieval Lander in fall 2027 and summer 2028, respectively, the samples are expected to arrive on Earth in 2033.
With its architecture solidified during this conceptual design phase, the program is expected to move into its preliminary design phase this October. In this phase, expected to last about 12 months, the program will complete technology development and create engineering prototypes of the major mission components.
This refined concept for the Mars Sample Return campaign was presented to the delegates from the 22 participating states of Europe's space exploration program, Terrae Novae, in May. At their next meeting in September, the states will consider the discontinuation of the development of the Sample Fetch Rover.
"ESA is continuing at full speed the development of both the Earth Return Orbiter that will make the historic round-trip from Earth to Mars and back again; and the Sample Transfer Arm that will robotically place the sample tubes aboard the Orbiting Sample Container before its launch from the surface of the Red Planet," said David Parker, ESA director of Human and Robotic Exploration.
The respective contributions to the campaign are contingent upon available funding from the U.S. and ESA participating states. More formalized agreements between the two agencies will be established in the next year.
"Working together on historic endeavors like Mars Sample Return not only provides invaluable data about our place in the universe but brings us closer together right here on Earth," said Zurbuchen.
The first step in the Mars Sample Return Campaign is already in progress. Since it landed at Jezero Crater Feb. 18, 2021, the Perseverance rover has collected 11 scientifically-compelling rock core samples and one atmospheric sample.
Bringing Mars samples to Earth would allow scientists across the world to examine the specimens using sophisticated instruments too large and too complex to send to Mars and would enable future generations to study them. Curating the samples on Earth would also allow the science community to test new theories and models as they are developed, much as the Apollo samples returned from the Moon have done for decades. This strategic NASA and ESA partnership will fulfill a solar system exploration goal, a high priority since the 1970s and in the last three National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Surveys.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The American front door is a place where the welcome mat offers friendly greetings, where affable neighbors knock or ring, where boxes brimming with possibility are delivered. It is where home meets a world full of potentially good things.
The American front door is a place where signs trumpet words of warning, where cameras monitor visitors in high definition, where intruders find an entry point. It is where only a hunk of wood or metal separates the innermost spaces of home from a world full of chaos.
Both conceptions are real. They can and do exist together — usually peacefully but sometimes, particularly of late, contentiously.
In a land where private property is venerated and “get off my lawn” has become a mantra of jokey crankiness, the American front door is the landscape’s most intimate and personal of borders, the place where the public sphere encounters private space — occasionally with disastrous results.
Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot April 13 at Andrew Lester’s front door in Kansas City, Missouri. The 84-year-old man, without a word, opened fire at the teenager who stood outside the door of what he believed was the house where he was picking up his two younger brothers. Lester, who has pleaded not guilty, said he was terrified when he opened the door.
It was one of several recent shootings, many of which took place near that threshold — in a driveway, on a front lawn and, of course, right at a front door.
“There is so much division in American society, so much polarization, so much animosity and so much fear,” says Bill Yousman, an associate professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. “The front door does in some ways embody all of that — as that last place that separates your internal domestic life with the life of the public.”
PRIORITIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY
The United States, more than many countries, has made private property a priority — a fetish, some would say.
And while American landowners often view all of their property as private, the front door — be it on a single-family home or an apartment unit — is that final boundary that controls access to the inner sanctum. It is the place to assess threats, but at the same time it retains the sensibility of a less coiled nation — one where traveling salesmen, cookie-selling Girl Scouts and local political canvassers can come amicably calling.
That decision — to welcome or rebuff — has only become more fraught in the past two decades as political polarization surges, racial tensions spike and “stand your ground” laws multiply. The stakes were exacerbated further by the height of the pandemic, a time of “no-contact” doorstep deliveries when even loved ones and friendly figures could bring potential doom.
“This is a space where we have to kind of choose whether we’re literally going to throw open the door or bar the door,” says Nicole Rudolph, an associate professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, who teaches a class called Domestic Politics: The Public Life of the Private Sphere.
“I think we want to show our better selves to the world much of the time, so we open the door — cautiously,” Rudolph says. “But we are also sensitive to the risk that opening the door entails.”
Consider the phrase “direct to your door,” used these days in connection with everything from DoorDash and GrubHub deliveries to the ubiquitous blue trucks of Amazon. It implies convenience, speed and the ultimate 21st-century American consumer value — frictionlessness. Yet as any Amazon user who checks delivery status knows, many drivers are required to take — and post — photos of the delivery right at the front door to prove they left it there in case “ porch pirates ” strike.
Or dip into Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network in which neighborhoods’ residents exchange information. It is also a clearinghouse for people noticing what they consider suspicious activity around their front doors — some of which might not have been considered menacing a generation or two ago. A recent sampling: “Yesterday afternoon, someone pounded on my front door.” “I just had two people knocking on my door handing out pamphlets.” “Just a heads up, we caught this guy on our ring camera last night.”
“We’ve made our homes prisons. Who are we keeping out? We’re keeping ourselves locked in. There’s so much focus on who’s coming to get you,” says Lori Brown, a professor of sociology, criminology and criminal justice at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Because we’re very object-oriented, everything is about protecting my car, my packages, my front door, my yard,” Brown says. “Everything is very private, and I need to keep you away from my stuff. And guns are the ultimate way to protect my stuff.”
LOOKING INWARD
At the same time, the messages from invisible sources already in our homes — the internet, gadgets like Alexa, streaming television — can encourage us to turn inward more than we did when only newspapers and telephones brought the outside world in. You can sit and watch TV news stations or doomscroll on your phone and become ever more convinced that peril — or “the other” — lies immediately outside.
If that wasn’t already entrenched, the pandemic made it so at an entirely new level.
Zein Murib, a political scientist at Fordham University in New York, suggests that examining the front door as an American borderland might also mean “taking the border metaphor one step further” to the notion of borders writ large, and who is allowed to approach and cross them.
Stand-your-ground laws and the “castle doctrine,” which says residents don’t have to retreat when threatened in their homes, are based on the notion that “certain people have the right to occupy space while others don’t,” Murib says.
“Those who are perceived as not belonging in that space are targeted,” Murib says. “People are afforded rights based on how close they come to that standard.” And the front door, they say, can act as a concentrated litmus test for that decision.
Let’s leave the final word on front doors to comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who weighed in on the American front door a few years ago in a standup routine that, like so many, was about far more than laughs.
“Twenty years ago, the doorbell rang, that was a happy moment in your house. It was called ‘company’,” he said. “You can’t stop by anybody’s house anymore. If you do, you have to call from the driveway. You’re like, ‘I’m here — can I approach?'”
He was joking, and it was funny. But only because it wasn’t.
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at The Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted | 2023-04-23T17:55:55+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/the-front-door-threshold-of-welcome-and-perilous-border/ |
BATH, Maine — Bath built is best built. That's what shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works said of the U.S. Navy destroyers they build right in our backyard.
On Monday, Chief Naval Officer Adm. Mike Gilday got to see that work firsthand.
"I couldn't be more proud, the Navy couldn't be more proud of the work that's done here," Adm. Gilday said.
He was joined by Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King.
Something they all agree on? America needs more naval ships.
"Right now, the U.S. has fewer than 300 ships. In just two years, China will exceed 400 ships," Collins said.
Navy leaders estimate we need 353 ships to have a competitive fleet. The U.S. is at 296 now with about one a year being made at BIW and other ships being built at other shipyards across the country.
King said the DDG Destroyers made here are some of the most complex and important things made in the country.
"This is the workhorse of the Navy and these ships are some of the most important that we build," King said.
King went on to say that the goal of these ships is not to fight wars but instead to deter wars, and the hope is for the future USS Carl M. Levin to do just that.
By this summer, the ship will go to Maryland before being stationed in Hawaii.
"She'll find herself on the western Pacific doing the nation's business," Gilday said.
After the press conference Monday, Collins told reporters that BIW used to make 1.5 boats a year and that she wants to get the shipyard back to that quota soon. | 2023-04-25T02:01:52+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/chief-naval-officer-visits-bath-iron-works-in-bath-maine/97-c2279b95-680e-44a7-a49f-0a7f809633f1 |
LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s Royal Navy said he is “deeply disturbed” by allegations that female submariners were bullied and sexually harassed and has ordered an investigation.
The Daily Mail newspaper carried claims Saturday by former Navy Lt. Sophie Brook that she faced “a constant campaign of sexual bullying” as well as physical assaults. She said male crew members on submarines were “like vultures whenever a new female would come in.”
Brook alleged the men kept a “crush depth rape list” ranking female colleagues in the order they should be raped in the case of a catastrophic event.
Brook, 30, left the Royal Navy earlier this year and was later given a suspended jail sentence for sharing in an email sensitive information about her submarine’s movement.
The newspaper quoted another, anonymous, navy whistleblower as saying women were constantly pestered for sex aboard submarines.
Women make up about 10% of full-time Royal Navy personnel and have been eligible to serve on submarines since 2011.
The head of the navy, Adm. Ben Key, said “these allegations are abhorrent.”
“Sexual assault and harassment has no place in the Royal Navy and will not be tolerated,” he said in a statement.
“I have directed my senior team to investigate these allegations thoroughly. Anyone who is found culpable will be held accountable for their actions regardless of their rank or status,” Key said.
The Ministry of Defense did not comment on specific allegations but said it accepted that more needs to be done about inappropriate behavior. It said it is improving reporting mechanisms for sexual offenses. | 2022-10-30T01:43:38+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-royal-navy-investigating-claims-women-harassed-on-submarines/ |
Fractured rail found after fiery Minnesota derailment
(AP) - Federal investigators say BNSF railroad is analyzing a section of fractured rail after last month’s fiery derailment that prompted evacuations in southwest Minnesota, but they didn’t say definitively that the broken rail caused the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board issued its preliminary report Tuesday on the March 30 derailment that forced about 800 people from their homes in Raymond, Minnesota, after 10 ethanol cars derailed and several of them caught fire from the fuel additive leak. Those ethanol cars were among 23 cars that came off the tracks shortly before 1 a.m. that day.
The fire burned into the following day before firefighters could extinguish it, but no one was hurt and everyone who evacuated was able to return home within 12 hours of the derailment. Investigators estimated that the derailment caused $1.9 million of damage to railroad equipment and the tracks.
This Minnesota derailment only added to the growing concerns about railroad safety in the wake of the fiery Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment outside East Palestine, Ohio. Roughly half the town of about 5,000 had to evacuate in the days after that derailment, when hazardous chemicals were released and burned, leaving many residents with questions about the potential for long-term health problems.
People who live around the derailment that happened near the Pennsylvania border are demanding more answers as the railroad works to clean up contaminated soil and water. Norfolk Southern’s CEO testified in Ohio’s legislature Tuesday after previously appearing at two Congressional hearings focused on possible railroad safety reforms.
The NTSB said that two of the ethanol cars were punctured during the Minnesota derailment even though they were the upgraded models of tank cars that were designed to resist leaks after a string of fiery crude oil and ethanol derailments a decade ago. The fire from those leaking ethanol cars damaged the gaskets on three other ethanol cars nearby, causing them to leak as well, even though the gaskets were rated to withstand temperatures up to 225 degrees Fahrenheit (107.2 degrees Celsius).
The Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad didn’t immediately respond to the NTSB’s report. But BNSF’s CEO was quick to apologize for the derailment and promise a thorough cleanup on the day that it happened.
Investigators said that at the time of the derailment, the train was going 43 mph — which is below the 49 mph speed limit for the area.
The Minnesota derailment happened about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of Minneapolis. The full NTSB report on the derailment, which will identify the cause, may take more than a year to complete.
The crew of the 40-car train included an engineer, a conductor, a brakeman and a conductor trainee. None of them were hurt.
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OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Replica Analytics Ltd, an Aetion® company, has announced a series of new training courses, titled Practical De-identification Methods for Health Data, intended to help healthcare and other organizations overcome the data access and sharing challenges they may face.
"We saw a need for more knowledge and skills development in modern de-identification methodologies, so we developed this highly practical course to help organizations understand and apply new solutions to their data access and sharing challenges," said Dr. Khaled El Emam, course co-instructor and SVP and GM of Replica Analytics, who has more than 20 years of practical experience developing and applying privacy enhancing technologies. "We focus primarily on the health sector, where we have a great deal of experience and where data is arguably the most sensitive; however, our course is highly applicable for other sectors."
To innovate, organizations need to leverage data, but they face many problems obtaining access to realistic datasets while preserving privacy. Modern methods to de-identify and anonymize datasets, so that they can be more easily used, are part of the solution. The new course helps organizations preserve privacy in a manner consistent with contemporary regulations such as the HIPAA Expert Determination method and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It covers structured data, including clinical trial datasets and real-world datasets as well as multiple data transformation techniques, such as risk-based methods and synthetic data generation. There is significant focus on developing participants' expertise in privacy risk assessment and management methods as well as safeguards for processing data for secondary purposes. Hands-on exercises complement the instruction from world-leading experts in the field.
The training course was designed to appeal to a broad audience, including chief privacy and data officers, information officers and data analysts, among others. Participants in the inaugural course held in New York City in October 2022 recommend the course highly to others. The concepts are made clear "even for someone less familiar with this field," according to one Senior Data Scientist from the pharmaceutical industry, who also noted that "the practical, real-world examples woven into each explanation make it plain that the instructors have years of experience."
Upcoming training courses for Practical De-identification Methods for Health Data in 2023 include:
- Dubai (January 28-29)
- San Francisco (February 6-7)
- Toronto (March 7-8)
- Washington DC (April 6)
- Barcelona (April 24-25)
Those interested can find more information and register at this link: https://replica-analytics.com/news-events/
About Replica Analytics, an Aetion company
Replica Analytics Ltd. is the premier science-based SDG technology provider to the healthcare industry. The company is a pioneer in the development of unique technologies for generating privacy-protective synthetic data that maintain the statistical properties of real-world data (RWD). The company was acquired in late 2021 by Aetion, the leading regulatory-grade real-world evidence (RWE) technology provider. Replica Synthesis software provides a full suite of synthetic data generation and evaluation capabilities that can solve multiple grand challenges facing the life sciences industry, and health research in general. For more information, visit: https://replica-analytics.com/.
About Aetion
Aetion Inc. is a healthcare analytics company that delivers real-world evidence for the manufacturers, purchasers, and regulators of medical treatments and technologies. The Aetion Evidence Platform® analyzes data from the real world to produce transparent, rapid, and scientifically validated answers on safety, effectiveness, and value. Founded by Harvard Medical School faculty members with decades of experience in epidemiology and health outcomes research, Aetion informs healthcare's most critical decisions—what works best, for whom, and when—to guide product development, commercialization, and payment innovation. Learn more at aetion.com and follow us at @aetioninc.
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Partners John B. Thomas and Stewart Hoffer Mark 20th Year on Prestigious Legal Listing
HOUSTON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven lawyers with Hicks Thomas LLP have earned recognition in the 2022 list of Texas Super Lawyers, a highly regarded legal listing that honors the top attorneys in the state. The 2022 honors also mark the 20th consecutive year partners John B. Thomas and Stewart Hoffer have been named Texas Super Lawyers.
This year, 10 partners have been recognized for their work in Business Litigation, including Robin Harrison, who is also named among the top 100 lawyers in Houston. Other honorees include John B. Thomas, Stephen M. Loftin, Courtney E. Ervin, Stewart Hoffer, John J. Deis, Gregg C. Laswell, Paul L. Mitchell, and Jay R. Old. Additionally, partner Stephen Barrick is recognized for his appellate practice.
The annual Super Lawyers listing recognizes only the top 5 percent of practicing attorneys in Texas. Selections are based on a patented multiphase process that includes peer nominations and evaluations, along with independent research.
Established in 2003, Texas Super Lawyers is marking its 20th year along with Mr. Thomas and Mr. Hoffer, partners who have been recognized every year since its inception. The milestone come as Hicks Thomas celebrates its own anniversary.
"This is certainly a special year for our firm as we mark our 25th anniversary," said Mr. Thomas. "To receive these nice honors – especially given that it is recognition by our peers – makes this year even more special."
The 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list will be published in the October issues of Super Lawyers and Texas Monthly magazines. For a full list visit www.superlawyers.com.
Founded in 1997, Texas-based Hicks Thomas LLP is a premier litigation firm representing plaintiffs and defendants across the nation. With offices in Houston, Austin, Beaumont, Amarillo, and Sacramento, California, the firm provides in-depth experience in cases involving oil and gas, environmental, complex commercial, toxic tort, construction, products liability, corporate governance, securities, banking, insurance coverage, transportation, trade secrets and business litigation. Visit the firm at http://www.hicks-thomas.com.
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SOURCE Hicks Thomas LLP | 2022-09-21T21:53:54+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/21/eleven-hicks-thomas-attorneys-named-2022-list-texas-super-lawyers/ |
Liberty and tacos for all: Taco Bell prevails as Taco John’s abandons trademark to ‘Taco Tuesday’
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Taco Bell rang up a win Tuesday in its quest to make “Taco Tuesday” free of trademark restrictions, with Taco John’s formally abandoning its decades-old claim to own the phrase amid a challenge from its bigger rival.
In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Cheyenne-based Taco John’s gave up any further claim to “Taco Tuesday” in 49 states, ending a high-profile spat with Taco Bell.
But the dispute looks to keep simmering on the Jersey Shore, where Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar in Somers Point promised to keep fighting Taco Bell over the exclusive right to hold “Taco Tuesday” promotions in New Jersey.
“We’re hanging in there. We’re sticking by our guns,” Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar attorney Stephen Altamuro said.
While “Taco Tuesday” has become a well-known phrase often used at restaurants and elsewhere, Taco John’s has worked hard to defend its more than 40-year-old trademark of the term in the 49 states besides New Jersey. The fast food chain sent many cease-and-desist orders over the years to anyone besides Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar daring to have a “Taco Tuesday” promotion.
In 2019, the company went so far as to send a letter to a small brewery just five blocks from its corporate headquarters, warning it to stop using “Taco Tuesday” to promote a taco truck parked outside on Tuesdays.
Even NBA star LeBron James got in on the action that year, filing unsuccessfully for his own “Taco Tuesday” trademark.
The disputes culminated with Taco Bell filing with U.S. trademark regulators this May to get Taco John’s and Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar abandon their trademarks, saying the term had become too widely used to belong to any one person or business.
Depriving people of free use of “Taco Tuesday” would be like depriving them “of sunshine itself,” Taco Bell attorneys wrote in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing. Taco John’s, in response, said in part that it didn’t seek to bar anyone from selling tacos on Tuesdays.
The company’s two-page trademark office filing Tuesday didn’t give a reason for abandoning the trademark but CEO Jim Creel said in a statement the cost to keep defending it would be better used otherwise.
“We’ve always prided ourselves on being the home of Taco Tuesday, but paying millions of dollars to lawyers to defend our mark just doesn’t feel like the right thing to do,” Creel said. “As we’ve said before, we’re lovers, not fighters, at Taco John’s.”
Taco Bell will still have a fight on its hands over “Taco Tuesday” in New Jersey, where the Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar attorney said his client laid claim to the trademark even before Taco John’s did in the 1970s. Taco John’s and Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar agreed to divvy up the trademark between New Jersey and the rest of the U.S. in the 1990s, Altamuro said.
“Clearly it’s David and Goliath. I mean, certainly they bring a lot more resources to the table than we do,” Altamuro said of defending the New Jersey trademark against Taco Bell. “But we’re willing to scrap as much as we need to.”
Taco Bell spokeswoman Richa Anand didn’t immediately return a social media message seeking comment Tuesday.
Cheyenne-based Taco John’s got its start as a food truck over 50 years ago. “Taco Tuesday,” according to Taco John’s, began with a franchisee in Minnesota coming up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week.
With more than 7,200 locations in the U.S. and internationally, Taco Bell — a Yum! Brands chain along with Pizza Hut, KFC and The Habit Burger Grill — remains much bigger than Taco John’s, which has about 370 locations in 23 mainly Western and Midwestern states.
A trademark attorney, Michael Atkins, of Seattle, said the Taco John’s decision to not “throw good money after bad” and to finally abandon “Taco Tuesday” was wise because it has become too commonplace.
“It was silly for them to try to claim monopoly rights over an ordinary phrase,” Atkins said. “They would’ve lost.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-18T21:01:24+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/07/18/liberty-tacos-all-taco-bell-prevails-taco-johns-abandons-trademark-taco-tuesday/ |
Senate Republicans aired concerns Tuesday about former President Trump’s viability in a 2024 presidential election after a civil jury found he had sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters that he does not believe Trump stands a chance in a November setting but added he didn’t think the verdict would move voters.
“I don’t think it changes anybody’s minds, one way or the other. … I think people who support President Trump, support President Trump. People who don’t support President Trump, don’t support him, and I don’t think this will have any impact,” Cornyn said.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has long been one of Trump’s foremost antagonists in the GOP, argued the verdict is further proof the 45th president has no business being the party’s standard bearer once again.
“I hope the American people, the jury of the American people, reach the same conclusion as the jury of his peers, which is that Donald Trump should not be our nominee and he certainly shouldn’t be president of the United States,” Romney said. “We have other people who are highly qualified that could lead our party to victory, and someone who’s been found to have committed sexual assault should not be the face of the Republican Party.”
“I think that there will be some people, surely, who say, ‘You know, I don’t think it’s a good idea to have someone who’s been convicted of sexual assault to be the face for my children and my grandchildren and the world,’” Romney added.
A number of other Senate Republicans questioned Trump’s ability to win a second, non-consecutive term if he is the GOP presidential nominee next year.
“Of course it creates a concern. How could it not create a concern? If what the woman says … he’s been found to be civilly liable, how could it do anything else but create a concern?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters when asked about the verdict.
When questioned if the decision should disqualify him from office, Cassidy said: “That’s up to voters, I’ll just say that — but think about it.”
“If she were your sister, what would you think?” added Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump over his role in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “It kind of speaks for itself. You feel for Miss. Carroll, a woman should not be assaulted, period, end of story, period.”
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who has said in recent months that he plans to support Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) if he announces a presidential bid, called for a “unity” candidate in the party.
“The jury has spoken. And I know there’s a concern about, ‘what about our ticket,’” Rounds said. “I’m just looking for someone who will unite the party, and I think we’ll have several members who will unite the party and that’s what I’m waiting on.”
Trump maintained his innocence in an all-caps post on Truth Social shortly after the verdict was handed down.
“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!,” Trump wrote.
A number of Senate Republicans, however, declined to wade into whether the latest development will hurt him in the looming 2024 contest.
“I think it’s clearly up to the voters. They’ll figure out what’s important to them,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is up for reelection next year, told reporters.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that he still believes the ex-president will be the GOP presidential nominee and added that Trump being found liable for sexual abuse will make the general election “interesting.” He said voters will have to weigh that against the “continuing pileup of scandals from the Biden White House.”
“That’s a choice that the voters make. … I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t [the nominee]” Hawley said.
Trump’s team has already said that they plan to appeal the ruling. Some Republicans leaned on that plan when asked about the Tuesday decision by the jury.
“We have the verdict and he’s going to appeal. I’m sure [there’s] more to follow,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said. “We’ll see what the appeals process brings.” | 2023-05-10T00:40:51+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/senate-republicans-question-trumps-2024-viability-after-sexual-abuse-verdict/ |
SEATTLE, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Maude's Award Recipients were announced today, honoring three organizations with $25,000 and five Individuals with $5,000 each. Maude's Awards was created in 2019 by Richard Ferry (Cofounder: Korn-Ferry) in honor of his beloved wife of 65 years. In 2013, Maude was diagnosed with dementia. Richard continues the journey to discover and share innovations addressing challenges of persons living with dementia and their care partners. More information here: The Awards – Maude's Awards (maudesawards.org)
I'm Still Here (ISH) – Winchester, MA - ISH redefines what it means to live with dementia, replacing the predominant "despair" narrative with "hope" – soliciting, identifying, and supporting programs that, through engagement, promote the inherent dignity of people living with dementia. The focus is Nonpharmacological approaches that inform and educate individuals and communities, and thus reduce the stigma so often associated with dementia.
Elderwise – Seattle, WA – The Elderwise® mission is to enrich the lives of caregivers and adults living with dementia through teaching and demonstrating the philosophy and practice of Spirit-Centered Care®. Our adult day program models this way of thinking and our education program teaches this approach. We highlight working from one's own essence and recognizing the essence of others, regardless of cognitive changes.
Jewish Family & Children's Service (JF&CS) Waltham, MA; Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) -Charlottesville, VA - The JF&CS Memory Café Percolator and Dementia Action Alliance together lead "Living Well with Dementia at the Café", to help memory cafés foster leadership and empower participants living with dementia. Achievements include a written café coordinators' guide, and "Café Chats: Living Well with Dementia," featuring trained advocates presenting at a memory café.
Dana Territo – Baton Rouge, LA - The Memory Whisperer® is Dana's byline for her weekly column she's written since 2013 in Louisiana's The Advocate Newspaper. It answers reader's questions on all things Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. "I feel the information I provide assists caregivers and affected individuals in navigating the journey of dementia. Moreover, I am supporting and advocating for this population."
Bonnie Erickson – Billings, MT - "I, along with several others with a dementia diagnosis, co-founded the non-profit National Council of Dementia Minds. We are the first national organization completely governed by people living with a dementia diagnosis. Our presentations are shared free of charge to medical students, medical professionals, policy makers, researchers, care facilities, families and our beloved care partners."
Pam Nolte – Seattle, WA – "The facilitator of a respected memory loss program in Seattle contacted me in 2010 to ask whether Taproot Theatre would create an improv class for individuals with memory loss. I developed, guided and, along with other professional actors, have taught those improv classes for Taproot since then, adding brain science to the training of teachers in this program."
Hailey Richman – Plainview, NY - "Kid Caregivers is a nonprofit organization which supports children who are acting as caregivers. Our mission is to help young people learn coping skills and improve the lives of adults living with Alzheimer's disease. Our Puzzle Time program pairs young people with seniors. Together, they solve jigsaw puzzles which stimulates the brain, and provides a sense of accomplishment."
Mary Crescenzo –Topanga, CA - Mary's innovation includes her pioneer work in arts engagement and dementia through her multidisciplinary approach to "Care Through the Artssm". As author of The Planet Alzheimer's Guide: 8 Ways the Arts Can Transform the Life of Your Loved One and Your Own, Mary's advocacy continues as public speaker, playwright of Planet A, and in creative writing work with care partners.
For more information, visit: https://maudesawards.org/2022-awardees/
Contact: Julie Furlong, juliefurlong@comcast.net
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SOURCE Maude's Awards | 2022-09-16T21:27:36+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/09/16/3rd-annual-maudes-awards-winners-innovations-alzheimers-care-announced/ |
The fourth fatal motor vehicle crash of 2023 in Athens-Clarke County occurred on March 15 at approximately 9:27 p.m., according to a press release from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.
The two-vehicle crash occurred at Lexington Road and Oak Drive. According to the release, a Chevrolet vehicle was traveling west on Lexington Road in an eastbound lane and collided head-on with a Nissan. The driver of the Chevrolet, Jesse Garner, 67, of Athens, died at the scene due to injuries sustained in the crash, according to the press release. The Nissan Rogue had five occupants, all of whom are expected to survive.
According to the release, the investigation into the crash is still ongoing. | 2023-03-16T22:42:30+00:00 | redandblack.com | https://www.redandblack.com/athensnews/accpd-reports-fourth-fatal-motor-vehicle-crash-of-2023/article_d838c8ae-c40a-11ed-826c-3b7ade7c5e02.html |
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) – The baby formula shortage can affect any family, no matter who they are or what they look like, but adoptive families are some of the most impacted by this shortage.
Emilee Walbrun-Lenertz, a Grand Chute mother said, “I tend to run kinda anxious as it is and then you throw adoption into the mix, which is, it’s expensive, it’s stressful. You’re worried about forging new relationships with her biological family which is just super important to us and then on top of this it’s another stressor.”
Most adoptive parents do not have the choice to breastfeed, so they are at the mercy of the formula supply.
Tiana Vanseth, an Adoption Choice case worker said, “So many of our adoptive moms are not breastfeeding and unable to breastfeed so they are, unfortunately, or fortunately, having to use formula.
She said this is an issue for most of her families and parents have to get creative to feed their babies.
“If there is an opportunity for our adoptive families to use breastmilk, either through a donor or some other way we are encouraging that as well, obviously with the recommendation of your pediatrician,” said Vanseth.
Walbrun-Lenertz said this is an added stress to being a first-time parent, “It’s a stressful process to begin with and then adding something else, like wondering how I’m going to feed my daughter on top of that? It’s extremely stressful.”
She said her daughter needs gentle tummy formula and this shortage means she can not always get that.
“We had to switch over a couple of times in a pinch which did not do great things for her belly. And that was kinda intimidating and I was like ‘ok how bad are we messing her up right now?,'” said Walbrun-Lenertz.
She said she is thankful her seven-month-old recently started solids but is still heavily dependent on formula at this stage, so the shortage is a continued cause for concern. | 2022-07-19T04:54:33+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/baby-formula-shortage-affects-adoptive-families-in-northeast-wisconsin/ |
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KVEO) — A Brownsville resident with a lengthy criminal history has been identified by police as the driver accused of smashing into a crowd at a bus stop in the Texas border town Sunday. Eighteen people were hit, eight of whom were killed.
At a Monday press conference, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda identified the suspect as 34-year-old George Alvarez. Sauceda said he attempted to flee the scene after the crash, but was held down by people on the scene.
Alvarez was charged with eight counts of manslaughter, 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond is set at $3.6 million.
The crash happened at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in front of the Ozanam Center, which is a shelter for migrants and homeless people in Brownsville. The SUV ran a red light, lost control, flipped on its side and hit the 18 victims, Sauceda said.
When police arrived on scene, officers found multiple bodies and several injured.
Six people died on the scene and 12 people were critically injured, he said. Officials have said the death toll later rose to eight.
Officials are awaiting toxicology reports to determine whether Alvarez was intoxicated, Sauceda said, adding that there was no motive that he could discuss. Investigators were still working to determine if the collision was intentional, as police suggested Sunday.
Sauceda said the Brownsville Police Department is also working with the Venezuelan government to identify those killed in the SUV strike. As of Monday morning, police said at least several of the victims were Venezuelan men. Their names were not released.
Victims struck by the vehicle were waiting for the bus to return to downtown Brownsville after spending the night at the overnight shelter, said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
Brownsville has seen a surge of Venezuelan migrants over the last two weeks for unclear reasons, authorities said. On Thursday, 4,000 of about 6,000 migrants in Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley were Venezuelan.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-05-08T19:14:52+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/police-name-suspect-accused-of-hitting-18-at-texas-bus-stop-killing-8/ |
The Denver Broncos have hired Vance Joseph as their new defensive coordinator, FOX Sports’ Peter Schrager reports.
Former New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan had been a candidate for the position, and interviewed with the team on Saturday.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday that Matt Patricia was in Denver, also speaking with the team about the job.
Joseph also had been interviewing with the Philadelphia Eagles to replace former defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, who became the Arizona Cardinals head coach. Jospeh had two remote interviews with Philadelphia.
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Bridget Hyland may be reached at bhyland@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-02-23T18:34:51+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/02/ex-jets-coach-rex-ryan-misses-out-on-defensive-coordinator-job.html |
ROME (AP) — Elena Rybakina is discovering that her big serve and heavy groundstrokes can do damage on clay courts, too.
The Wimbledon champion was dominating 21-9 with winners when Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina retired due to a left thigh injury early in the second set of the rain-delayed Italian Open final on Saturday.
“I can play good on all the surfaces,” Rybakina said. “It’s just maybe for clay I need to be ready more physically and maybe have a lot of preparation.”
It’s been quite a year for Rybakina, who reached the final of the Australian Open, also won an elite title in Indian Wells and was the runner-up in Miami.
“I’m proud that I can maintain this level,” she said. “I can see improvements on the court, physically also. … I think there is still a lot of room to improve.”
On Monday, Rybakina will move up to a career-high No. 4 in the rankings and will be a contender at the French Open, which starts next weekend.
“She’s serving 200 kph (125 mph). She’s also making winners like no one on tour,” Kalinina said. “Anyone can win in Paris, but she has good chances.
“I am sure if she’s going to do like this, maybe new world No. 1 for sure.”
Rybakina was leading 6-4, 1-0, 15-0 when Kalinina called for a trainer and grasped her left leg as she teared up. She then decided she couldn’t continue.
The final began at almost 11 p.m. on Saturday and Rybakina lifted the trophy after midnight on Sunday.
“I’m really sorry that I couldn’t play,” Kalinina said during the awards ceremony as the crowd — which had waited under the rain for hours before the night session started — whistled.
Holger Rune will face Daniil Medvedev in the men’s final on Sunday.
The 20-year-old Rune rallied past Casper Ruud 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-2 and Medvedev performed a little celebratory dance after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5, 7-5 in a semifinal that was suspended twice in the first set for a total of nearly 4½ hours due to rain.
Rybakina earned her biggest title on clay. Her only other trophy on the surface came in Bucharest in 2019.
The 47th-ranked Kalinina was playing in the biggest final of her career, and has been dedicating her performances to her war-torn country.
Kalinina’s family home was destroyed in a Russian attack last year. Also, her elderly grandparents have had to relocate from the southern city of Nova Kakhovka — which is held by Russian forces — to Kyiv. Kalinina’s parents work as tennis coaches in Kyiv and she said on Friday there was a “huge, huge bomb near them, near their academy” a few days ago.
Rybakina was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered funding to support her tennis career.
Kalinina spent more than four hours longer on court than Rybakina entering the final, having won the longest match on the women’s circuit this season — 3 hours, 41 minutes against Beatriz Haddad Maia in the quarterfinals. She also required three sets to beat Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova in an emotionally charged semifinal.
“I feel like I am at my physical limit today,” Kalinina said.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek also retired in the third set against Rybakina in the quarterfinals due to a right thigh injury.
Rune, who eliminated six-time Rome champion Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals, improved to 7-1 in his career against players ranked in the top five.
“I play some of my best tennis when I play the top guys of the world,” Rune said. “You need it against those players.”
Making the final marked quite a turnaround for Medvedev, who lost his opening match in Rome in his three previous appearances. If he beats Rune, Medvedev will return to No. 2 in the rankings and thus be seeded second for the French Open, which starts next weekend.
It will be just the second clay-court final for Medvedev, and first since 2019.
He celebrated with a little dance after converting his first match point more than six hours after the match started.
“It’s like being in the club completely drunk,” Medvedev said. “When you are dancing — and I have a lot of friends like this — you feel like you are the god of the dance floor. But then when they show you the video it was not the thing.”
Medvedev embraced the challenge of the delays: “Sometimes it can throw you off, you can be a little bit angry. Today, I don’t know why, I was just kind of laughing.”
The seventh-ranked Rune was down a set and a break before he overcame Ruud, who had won all four of their previous meetings.
“It’s crazy. I really played some of my best tennis, especially the last two matches, first against Novak and then against Casper,” Rune said.
It will be Rune’s third clay-court final this season after losing to Andrey Rublev in Monte Carlo and beating Botic van de Zandschulp in Munich.
“He plays very fearless, takes the ball early, which is really impressive to do on clay,” Ruud said.
The semifinal was filled with memorable points as both players routinely ran down drop shots and rushed back and forth across the baseline.
“There were some great rallies,” Ruud said. “It was a fun match to play.”
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AP Tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-21T14:59:13+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-wimbledon-champion-rybakina-wins-italian-open-rune-medvedev-in-mens-final/ |
LIVE: Police give update after gunman kills 4 in mass shooting at Tulsa medical building
(AP) - A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.
Wednesday’s shooting on the campus of Saint Francis Health System happened the same week that families in Uvalde, Texas, began burying the dead from the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.
The victims and gunman in Tulsa were found on the second floor of a medical office where an orthopedic clinic is located, police said. The shooter, whose name has not been released, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said.
Officials scheduled a news conference Thursday morning with police and hospital officials to release more information. All appointments at the orthopedic clinic were canceled through Friday.
The spate of recent gun violence across the country, including the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde by an 18-year-old gunman carrying an AR-style semi-automatic rifle, has led to Democratic leaders amplifying their calls for greater restrictions on guns, while Republicans are emphasizing more security at schools.
The divide mirrors a partisan split that has stymied action in Congress and many state capitols over how best to respond to a record-high number of gun-related deaths in the U.S.
It was unclear what prompted the deadly assault in Tulsa, Dalgleish said. Authorities later executed a search warrant at a home in Muskogee, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa, in connection with the investigation, police said.
“It appears both weapons at one point or another were fired on the scene,” Dalgleish said. “The officers who arrived were hearing shots in the building, and that’s what led them to the second floor.”
Police responded to the call about three minutes after dispatchers received the report at 4:52 p.m. and made contact with the gunman roughly five minutes later, at 5:01 p.m. Dalgleish said.
“I was very happy with what we know so far regarding the response of our officers,” Dalgleish said.
The length of time it took police officers in Uvalde to engage the gunman during last week’s deadly school shooting in Texas has become a key focus of that investigation. Officers waited over an hour to breach the classroom where the gunman attacked.
Tulsa Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg also said multiple people were wounded and that the medical complex was a “catastrophic scene.” The exact number of wounded was not immediately available.
Police and hospital officials said they were not ready to identify the dead.
St. Francis Health System locked down its campus Wednesday afternoon because of the situation at the Natalie Medical Building, which houses outpatient clinics and other medical offices.
“This campus is sacred ground for our community,” said Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum. “For decades, this campus has been a place where heroes come to work every day to save the lives of people in our community.”
Bynum added: “Right now, my thoughts are with the victims. If we want to have a policy discussion, that is something to be had in the future, but not tonight.”
Philip Tankersley, 27, was leaving his father’s room at nearby Saint Francis Hospital around 5 p.m., when hospital staff said there was an active shooter in the building across the street, locked the doors and warned them to stay away from the windows.
Tankersley said he and his mother sheltered in his father’s hospital room for more than an hour, trying to learn scraps of information from the TV news and passing nurses. He said they heard “code silver” and “level 1 trauma” announced on the hospital speakers and wondered if they were safe in the room.
“I wasn’t particularly worried because the two people that I need to look out for were in that same room as me,” he said. “But it was definitely a ‘this is happening here’ moment.”
The shooting Wednesday also comes just more than two weeks after shooting at a Buffalo supermarket by a white man who is accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack. The recent Memorial Day weekend saw multiple mass shootings nationwide, including at an outdoor festival in Taft, Oklahoma, 45 miles from Tulsa, even as single-death incidents accounted for most gun fatalities.
Since January, there have been 12 shootings where four or more people have been killed, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University mass killing database. Those shootings have left 76 dead, including 31 adults and children in Buffalo and Texas, the database says. The death toll does not include the suspects in the shootings.
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Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas, Jake Bleiberg in Dallas and Mike Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-02T15:19:15+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/06/02/gunman-kills-4-mass-shooting-tulsa-medical-building/ |
Year in review: Take a look at 2022’s craziest trending stories
(CNN) - Everyone’s favorite hippo got her spotlight stolen, a mom had to pay up on a social media-stifling deal, and a mobile word puzzle gave a much-needed distraction. These stories and more help recap some of the wildest viral and trending highlights.
Let’s take a look at 2022!
The world’s most famous pachyderm, Fiona the hippo, is no stranger to stardom, but she had to learn to share her viral spotlight in 2022 when she became a big sister! Fiona’s mother, Bibi, had another baby at the Cincinnati Zoo, a bouncing bulbous boy named “Fritz,” a name that was crowdsourced from the zoo’s vast menagerie of fans. The slick n’ slippery siblings took some time to bond and now the pair are thick as thieves!
And motherly love was on display in the cutest possible way, caught on camera in a Costa Rican jungle when a baby sloth that had fallen from a tree was reunited with its mother. She may move like molasses, but she was quick to dole out some cuddles. Yeah, it may not be news, but it sure got a lot of views - over 30 million on Facebook alone.
Sometimes parents need to use tough love, like a Minnesota mother who went viral with her unique “18 for 18″ challenge with her teen. Years ago, she offered her son $1,800 cash to stay off social media entirely until he was 18. Well, the kid turned 18 this year, cashed in on his promise kept, and started wading into social media waters $1,800 richer.
A pair of family fishing trips became viral whales of a tale.
The first story caught the moment when a grandpa-grandson duo hooked a mako shark and the fighting fish suddenly took flight.
The other fish out of water story makes liberal use of the “bleep button,” but for good reason. A fishing father and son were scared witless when a whale suddenly crested and went airborne, touching down right on their boat. The pair let fly a hilariously obscene reaction that’s still hanging somewhere over the Atlantic.
The year 2022 also brought us a treasure trove of interstellar images captured by the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.
It also brought many bizarre and freaky foodstuff like Kraft Mac n’ Cheese ice cream, the Velveeta martini, Oreo flavored wine, and a temperature-testing fingernail polish for your beer.
And who could forget the limited edition Oscar Mayer beauty mask and a frozen hot dog popsicle.
Plus, an out-of-this-world pet project turned into a personal crusade for a Georgia man from eastern Europe. Star Wars superfan Akaki Lekiachvili spent six years and at least $50,000 building a life-sized X-wing replica, which he used to raise money to benefit war-torn Ukraine. The ship was featured at a Major League Baseball game and its Twitter account was even liked by Luke Skywalker himself, actor Mark Hamill!
Finally, if 2022 was summed up in a word, it would be Wordle! The New York Times took the popular puzzle on mobile globally where it became a worldwide daily brain-teasing phenomenon! In fact, Google says Wordle was its top searched term for 2022.
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US shipments to see stronger gains amid pandemic recovery
CLEVELAND, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US rubber demand is forecast to increase 1.0% per year in nominal terms through 2026 from a high 2021 base, according to Rubber: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Suppliers are expected to benefit from projected increases in US production of rubber products, such as tires, hoses, and belts, amid increasing output of transportation equipment and machinery. Demand in nominal terms will also be supported by elevated oil prices, resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent international sanctions.
US shipments of synthetic rubber are forecast to expand 1.7% annually to 2026. Increasing demand for rubber as the economy continues to recover from the negative effects of COVID-19 will boost shipments. Competition from foreign suppliers, as well as alternatives to synthetic rubber, will prevent faster gains. Higher crude oil prices – and subsequently higher prices for petroleum-based rubber products, which may benefit domestic shipments in nominal terms in the short run – will lead manufacturers toward alternatives to synthetic rubber, particularly ones that are more environmentally sustainable.
These and other key insights are featured in Rubber: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US rubber demand and synthetic rubber shipments in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. Total demand is segmented by type in terms of:
- styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR)
- polybutadiene (BR)
- natural rubber
- chloroprene rubber (CR); isobutylene isoprene, or butyl, rubber (IIR); isoprene rubber (IR); and nitrile rubber (NBR)
- ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM)
- other synthetic rubbers such as acrylic and fluoroelastomers
To illustrate historical trends, total demand, total shipments, the various segments, and trade are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
The scope of this report is defined as thermoset elastomers and excludes thermoplastic elastomers (e.g., thermoplastic polyurethanes) as well as silicone elastomers. Reclaimed rubber is also excluded. Rubber demand represents the raw elastomers, before the compounding stage. Re-exports of rubber are excluded from demand and trade figures.
More information about the report is available at:
https://www.freedoniafocusreports.com/Rubber-United-States-FF50017/?progid=91541
About Freedonia Focus Reports
Each month, The Freedonia Group – a division of MarketResearch.com – publishes over 20 new or updated Freedonia Focus Reports, providing fresh, unbiased analysis on a wide variety of markets and industries. Published in 20-30 pages, Focus Report coverage ranges from raw materials to finished manufactured goods and related services such as freight and construction. Additional Materials & Chemicals reports can be purchased at Freedonia Focus Reports or MarketResearch.com.
Analysis is intended to guide the busy reader through pertinent topics in rapid succession, including:
- total historical market size and industry output
- segmentation by products and markets
- identification of market drivers, constraints, and key indicators
- segment-by-segment outlook in five-year forecasts
- a survey of the supply base
- suggested resources for further study
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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden celebrate Friendsgiving and serve up dinner to troops and military families at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina.
Copyright 2022 NPR
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden celebrate Friendsgiving and serve up dinner to troops and military families at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-11-23T02:44:10+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2022-11-22/biden-celebrates-friendsgiving-serving-up-dinner-to-troops-and-military-families |
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Elizabeth Tsurkov of the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Foreign Policy about Russia's new top commander in Ukraine, Gen. Dvornikov, who is notoriously ruthless.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Elizabeth Tsurkov of the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Foreign Policy about Russia's new top commander in Ukraine, Gen. Dvornikov, who is notoriously ruthless.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-04-14T21:58:34+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-04-14/what-the-ruthless-new-commander-of-russias-military-signals-for-war-in-ukraine |
WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, January 26, 2023
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National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
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140 AM MST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 PM PST
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 to 45 mph
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expected.
* WHERE...Chuckwalla Mountains, Southeastern Imperial County and
Chiriaco Summit.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 4 PM PST Thursday.
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* IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions, especially for larger
vehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,
unsecured objects may become airborne.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and
58 mph. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially
for high profile vehicles. In addition, strong winds over desert
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areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under
a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand. Use extra
caution.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM PST
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* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 to 50 mph
* WHERE...Western portion of Joshua Tree National Park.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 7 PM PST Thursday.
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Friday, November 25, 2022
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National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
TXZ211-271000-
Austin-
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Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
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thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
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becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature around 60. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
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rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ237-271000-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the
lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
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in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
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TXZ196-271000-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the
upper 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
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becoming south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
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rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower
60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower
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40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows around 50.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
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becoming south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the upper
50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower
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60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower
40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ214-271000-
Chambers-
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Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
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rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ210-271000-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ227-271000-
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Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Temperature rising into the lower
60s after midnight. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
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30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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TXZ238-271000-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the
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lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
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mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ198-271000-
Grimes-
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Including the city of Navasota
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 50.
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Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
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with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower
40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ213-271000-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
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gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
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becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature around 60. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
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rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ163-271000-
Houston-
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Including the city of Crockett
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the
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upper 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
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cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
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with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower
60s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ235-271000-
Inland Jackson-
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Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
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thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
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Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy, cooler with highs around
70.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with
a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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TXZ200-271000-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
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Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
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40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ176-271000-
Madison-
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Including the city of Madisonville
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the
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upper 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds
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around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid
50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
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with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower
60s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
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TXZ236-271000-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower
50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance
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of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
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winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
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midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
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Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ199-271000-
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Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
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becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
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30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower
50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
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5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
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30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the
mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ178-271000-
San Jacinto-
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Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
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40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower
50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
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becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
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partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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$$
TXZ177-271000-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower
50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance
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of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph,
becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
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the mid 50s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
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40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ197-271000-
Washington-
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool with lows in
the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid
40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
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100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
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around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
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midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s.
Temperature rising into the mid 60s after midnight. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs around 70.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
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possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
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gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
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becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the upper 50s. Temperature rising to around
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60 after midnight. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
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70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
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in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 40s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
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Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as cool with
highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
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mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Coastal Galveston-
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Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
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heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the
lower 50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
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gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
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10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady temperature
in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
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40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
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mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ337-271000-
Coastal Brazoria-
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Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
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heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the
lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
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with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
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becoming east in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
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mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
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TXZ335-271000-
Coastal Jackson-
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower
50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance
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of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
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5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
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midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Breezy with highs
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around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Matagorda Islands-
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
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...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Breezy with highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the upper
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50s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
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Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
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Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Near steady temperature in
the mid 60s.
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Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Locally
heavy rainfall possible. Breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Lows
in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
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temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Chance of
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rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
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Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
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chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around 70. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
60s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 70.
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Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
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...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the upper
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50s. West winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
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5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
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with a chance of showers after midnight. Near steady temperature
in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
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in the morning. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
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Highs in the upper 60s.
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Bolivar Peninsula-
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157 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Showers with thunderstorms likely. Some
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thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall
possible. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Not as cool. Near steady
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temperature in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Chance of
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rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
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Mysterious figure caught on camera outside zoo baffles officials
Mysterious figure caught on camera outside zoo baffles officials
stranger things are afoot in texas, specifically in Amarillo, where officials want the public's help in figuring out what the heck this is. It's *** security camera photo of *** bizarre figure walking around outside the Amarillo Zoo. City authorities say the image is real and they are baffled and now asking for the public's input via social media and as you'd expect, it's been super helpful. Shared suggestions include the wolfman Chester, cheetah Crash, bandicoot and other fictional beasts that wear slacks. Some suggested it could be the chupacabra, *** mythical beast like predator that has become Southwestern urban legend but has never really been proven to actually exist. Hey, I know we should ask zoo residents what they think. Alright guys guys, you know, I'd expect this from the hyenas, but not from you. City officials say they're hoping if nothing else, residents can have fun trying to identify this. U ***. O an unidentified Amarillo object. Think that's bananas. Check this out. *** grocery store in Illinois broke the Guinness world record for the largest fruit display ever, Which took three days to set up and consisted of more than £70,000 of bananas, customers were able to split with handfuls of free samples and leftovers were donated to *** local food bank. Finally, hey gamers Nasa has *** mission for you. The agency dropped *** retro style video game online where players control *** prototype of the nancy grace roman space telescope. Players try to catch objects in space like supernovas and rogue exoplanets and the highest score wins for take *** look at this. I'm jeremy Roth
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Mysterious figure caught on camera outside zoo baffles officials
In Amarillo, Texas, officials want the public's help in figuring out what in the world this creature caught on camera is.The image in the video above is a security camera photo of a bizarre figure walking outside the Amarillo Zoo.City authorities said the image is real and they are baffled. They are now asking for public input via social media.
AMARILLO, Texas —
In Amarillo, Texas, officials want the public's help in figuring out what in the world this creature caught on camera is.
The image in the video above is a security camera photo of a bizarre figure walking outside the Amarillo Zoo.
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City authorities said the image is real and they are baffled. They are now asking for public input via social media. | 2022-06-10T18:01:06+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/amarillo-zoo-wolfman/40255342 |
CUSTOMERS ARE PROVING TO MAKE STILLY THE SIGNATURE COCKTAIL OF SUMMER 2022
STILLWATER, Minn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STILLY, the new brand of ready-to-drink cocktails in a can that was released to liquor stores across Minnesota earlier this month, is already making a big splash among consumers.
STILLY beverages are NOT seltzers, and they're not your ordinary cocktails in a can; they're an all-new category of unique adult beverages called a "stilly." A "stilly" is a light and refreshing cocktail made with premium vodka or other distilled spirits, fine bubbles, a squeeze of natural juices, and natural flavors. The exact ingredients and processes used to make a "stilly" are a closely guarded secret, but consumers are proving to love the taste of this unique and naturally refreshing beverage.
STILLY branded beverages hit liquor stores throughout Minnesota days before the 4th of July holiday. A little over two weeks later, consumers can find them in over 300 liquor stores across Minnesota. New stores are being added daily.
"We have been overwhelmed by the demand and could not be more excited for what's ahead," said Nick Barthelemy, CEO and Co-founder of STILLY SPIRITS, LLC., based out of Stillwater, MN. "We are already selling through supply into late summer and fall. We are thrilled people love our product as much as we do."
The company introduced three distinctly delicious flavors of the "vodka stilly" in a variety pack (6 cans/3 flavors) of 12 oz slim cans for $14.99. The three varieties available now include "Partymaker+" (cranberry lime), "Vibe Machine" (grapefruit), and "The Fuzz" (peach). More flavors will hit the market soon.
"We rarely see a launch this successful. Customers are buying out the product within days of it reaching stores," said Keith Donovan, general sales manager for Bellboy Corporation, the distributor of STILLY branded beverages. "We pre-sold the entire first run before it even hit the production line, and the demand from our customers continues to grow with every person who tastes it."
What started as an idea less than a year ago, with the support of family and friends, has turned into not only a new product line but a lifestyle brand. "We all live for the enjoyable moments in life. So we want to inspire people to take a moment, crack a STILLY and a smile, relax, have fun, and enjoy the STILLY Life, all while making memories together," said Barthelemy.
Later this summer, the company will launch a line of merchandise, including hats, T-shirts, coolers, golf accessories, boat flags, etc., to be sold on Stilly.com.
About STILLY™:
STILLY™ beverages are NOT seltzers, and they're not your ordinary cocktails in a can; they're an all-new category of unique adult beverages called a "stilly." A "stilly" is a light and refreshing cocktail made with premium vodka or other distilled spirits, fine bubbles, a squeeze of natural juices, and natural flavors. The exact ingredients and processes used to make a "stilly" are a closely guarded secret, but consumers are proving to love the taste of this unique and naturally refreshing beverage.
The company introduced three distinctly delicious flavors of the "vodka stilly" in a variety pack (6 cans/3 flavors) of 12 oz slim cans for $14.99, with more to be launched in the fall. The three varieties available now include "Partymaker+" (cranberry lime), "Vibe Machine" (grapefruit), and "The Fuzz" (peach). STILLY branded beverages can be found at more than 300 liquor stores throughout Minnesota.
STILLY™ is owned by STILLY SPIRITS LLC, based out of Stillwater, MN. For more information, go to Stilly.com and follow on social media @drinkstilly.
Distribution contact:
Keith Donovan
General Sales Manager
Bellboy Corporation
Kdonovan@bellboycorp.com
(612) 615-1412
Media contact:
Bridget Nelson Monroe
bridget@bellmontpartners.com
612-255-1110
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A female former San Antonio Spurs employee has alleged that now-former Spurs guard Josh Primo exposed himself in her presence, a person with knowledge of the matter said Saturday night.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no details had been revealed publicly by the Spurs, Primo or the accuser.
Attorney Tony Buzbee confirmed to AP that he has been hired by “a former contractor” with the Spurs. He is the attorney who represented 24 women who sued Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, then of the Houston Texans, accusing him of sexual assault or harassment.
Watson is serving an 11-game unpaid suspension and was fined $5 million by the NFL.
Primo was waived by the Spurs on Friday in a surprising move, given that the 19-year-old was considered to be an important part of the team’s future. ESPN, citing sources, reported Saturday that the Spurs parted ways with Primo after “multiple alleged instances of him exposing himself to women.” The San Antonio Express-News also confirmed that the Spurs’ decision followed multiple allegations made against Primo.
There are no active court cases against Primo in Bexar County, Texas, according to online records.
On Friday, Primo released a statement to ESPN saying that he has “been seeking help to deal with previous trauma I suffered and will now take this time to focus on my mental health treatment more fully. I hope to be able to discuss these issues in the future so I can help others who have suffered in a similar way. I appreciate privacy at this time.”
The Spurs took Primo with the No. 12 pick in the 2021 NBA draft after he spent one year of college at Alabama.
Primo averaged 5.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists in his rookie season with the Spurs, and 7.0 points, 4.5 assists and 3.3 rebounds in four games with the Spurs this season.
The team had even recently picked up his third-year option, a largely procedural move that locked in a $4.3 million salary for next season and showed that he was expected to remain in the Spurs’ plans. He was making $4.1 million this season.
“It is our hope that, in the long run, this decision will serve the best interest of both the organization and Joshua,” Spurs CEO R.C. Buford said when the team waived Primo on Friday. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich did not add details, referring reporters to Buford’s statement and saying “we’re going to stick by what we told you.”
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-30T21:59:15+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/ap-ap-source-spurs-waived-primo-after-allegation-of-exposure/ |
Freedom Bank was founded two decades ago in Montana's Flathead Valley, an area well known for fly fishing and whitewater rafting that is a world away from Silicon Valley.
The community lender has built its business by catering to locals, offering a mix of mortgages, car loans and commercial loans from its home base in the tiny town of Columbia Falls.
It's a business model far different than Silicon Valley Bank's, which grew aggressively by focusing on tech entrepreneurs. Freedom's balance sheet is measured in millions, not billions of dollars.
Yet Freedom Bank and other community banks are growing worried they will now have to help pay for the rescue of Silicon Valley, as well as New York-based Signature Bank, after regulators last month took the unprecedented step of backstopping all deposits at both lenders.
It was a move that helped stabilize the banking sector, but it was one that came with a hefty price tag: $22 billion.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) now needs to recover that cost. It plans to impose a "special assessment" on banks but has yet to decide which lenders will need to pay that fee.
Don Bennett, Freedom Bank's CEO, believes strongly his bank should not be on the hook.
"I don't think that community banks should pay the price of, you know, the disaster that took place," Bennett argues. "Because we had nothing to do with it."
A conservative business model
Bennett started Freedom Bank in 2005, in his basement. Soon after, he moved it into a trailer, then, into a big building downtown — not too far from the Flathead River.
Freedom Bank has grown, but its business model hasn't changed much. Bennett says decisions are driven by "common sense."
"We're a vital part of our community, and we're doing very well," he says. "I just want to stay safe and liquid."
Unlike many other lenders, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, Freedom Bank didn't load up on U.S. government bonds when interest rates were low. Those investments have lost value as interest rates have gone up, and it's a big reason why those two banks failed.
"We don't have any losses in our portfolio whatsoever," Bennett says.
Other small lenders oppose paying for a rescue
Community banks see this as a basic issue of fairness.
Under the country's current system, banks pay into the FDIC's deposit fund, which is meant to insure all deposits up to $250,000.
But regulators decided to tap into that fund when rescuing Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, even though the bulk of deposits at both lenders were above that cap and hence should not have been insured by the FDIC scheme.
Take Three Rivers Bank of Montana, which is about 20 miles away from Columbia Falls, in Kalispell.
The community bank forks over $130,000 to the FDIC every year for deposit insurance, and CEO A.J. King says he's not keen to pay the regulator any more money.
"For the size of our bank, that's a big expense," he says. "That's a commercial lender's salary."
Like Bennett, King says his bank has been run responsibly. It has about $300 million in assets, with a strong portfolio of loans to local businesses, including loggers and concessionaires in nearby Glacier National Park.
"We're totally innocent in this, and now they're saying, 'Okay, banks. You're going to have to pay for this,'" he says. "I don't think we should be responsible for paying for what other banks did."
Exempting community banks from any special fee
Lawmakers also say they are hearing complaints from community banks.
Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana – where both Freedom Bank and Three Rivers Bank are located – expressed his concerns at a recent Senate hearing with top regulators including FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg.
"We're facing a situation where responsible banks in my home state of Montana, and elsewhere, will be on the hook for providing tens of billions of dollars, potentially more, to bail out irresponsible, coastal banks," Daines said during the hearing.
Gruenberg made no firm commitment, but he seemed sympathetic.
"Let me just say, without forecasting what our board is going to vote, we're going to be keenly sensitive to the impact on community banks," the FDIC chair told lawmakers.
The White House has said it backs an exemption for small, community banks, though it will ultimately be a decision taken the FDIC. The regulator has said it will release its proposal for the special assessment in May.
More regulations could be coming
Even if the FDIC decides to exempt community banks from paying the fee, there's another way that smaller lenders like Freedom Bank and Three Rivers Bank could be impacted for a long time to come by the banking turmoil last month.
Many small banks have seen customers move money to larger lenders, and they are also bracing for increased regulations on their businesses.
The Federal Reserve, for example, is considering increasing the number of banks that undergo stress tests, though it would still likely exempt small lenders.
Meanwhile, the White House is asking Congress to give regulators the power to claw back compensation from executives of banks that fail because of "mismanagement and excessive risk taking."
King says Three Rivers Bank has more than 50 employees, many of them hired only to deal with complying with current rules.
"About half of them never talk to a customer," he says. "And it's all because of regulation."
King has been a banker now for 37 years, and he says it's not as much fun as it used to be.
Now, he worries it will become even less fun, all because of events that happened hundreds of miles away.
"I'm telling you," he says. "It's so difficult to be a small, independent community bank these days."
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With its pretty pink hue and delicate flavor, rose can feel as if the essence of summer has been bottled. Recently, a frozen rose drink dubbed “frose” emerged and made rose even more popular.
There are different variations of frose. Some concoctions pour rose over sherbet while others mix the wine with various liqueurs before freezing. This “Best Frose Recipe,” from husband and wife home cooking experts Sonja and Alex Overhiser, is frose at its most basic – without skimping on flavor. Keep in mind that this mixture takes six hours to freeze, so prepare accordingly if you will be serving guests.
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Best Frose Recipe
INGREDIENTS
1 750 ml bottle of favorite rose wine
8 large strawberries (about 1 1/2 cups ripe strawberries, halved), plus more for garnish
1 tablespoon honey (or maple syrup for vegan)
DIRECTIONS
Open the rose and pour 2/3 cup into a glass measuring cup; set aside for when serving. Remove the tops of the strawberries and cut them in half.
In a blender, blend the remaining rose, strawberries and honey until smooth and fully combined. Then pour the mixture through a strainer and into a covered baking dish. Transfer the baking dish to the freezer and freeze at least 6 hours, or overnight. The alcohol in the mixture will keep it a slushy texture instead of freezing solid.
Blend the mixture again until it comes to a fluffy texture. To serve, place the blended mixture into a glass. Then pour a splash of rose into each glass (this step is important: it gives the final texture and brings in the character of the rose). If desired, garnish with strawberries and serve. Serves 6 | 2023-05-10T06:01:21+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/10/enjoy-seasonal-supping-with-frose-cocktail/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — You don't have to be an NBA basketball player or celebrity to be a part of the fun and action at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Pacers Sports & Entertainment is looking for employees to join the “Team Behind The Team." Open part-time event positions include:
- Box Office
- Camera & Production Crew
- Campus Security Officers
- Conversion Crew
- Fan Ambassador
- Guest Services
- Premium Experience Ambassador
- Retail Associate and Usher.
Applications are open now online and there will be four job fairs with in-person applications and interviews:
- July 20, 4:30-7 p.m. – Perry Township Trustee Office, 4925 Shelby St # 400, Indianapolis
- July 21, 4:30-7 p.m. – Flanner House Indianapolis, 2424 Doctor M.L.K. Jr St, Indianapolis
- July 26, 4:30-7 p.m. – John Boner Community Center, 2236 E 10th St, Indianapolis
- July 27, 4:30-7 p.m. – Finish Line Boys & Girls Club, 3870 N Post Rd, Indianapolis
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CALGARY, AB, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta Corporation ("TransAlta") (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) will release its third quarter 2022 results before markets open on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. A conference call and webcast to discuss the results will be held for investors, analysts, members of the media and other interested parties the same day beginning at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time (11:00 a.m. ET). The media will be invited to ask questions following analysts.
TransAlta Renewables Inc. ("TransAlta Renewables") (TSX: RNW) will release its third quarter 2022 results before markets on Friday, November 4, 2022. Any questions regarding TransAlta Renewables may be asked on the TransAlta conference call.
Third Quarter 2022 Conference Call:
Toll-free North American participants call: 1-888-664-6392
Webcast link: https://app.webinar.net/nr859wn1RkL
Related materials will be available on the Investor Centre section of TransAlta's website at https://transalta.com/investors/presentations-and-events/. If you are unable to participate in the call, the instant replay is accessible at 1-888-390-0541 (Canada and USA toll free) with TransAlta pass code 828706 followed by the # sign. A transcript of the broadcast will be posted on TransAlta's website once it becomes available.
About TransAlta:
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers with clean, affordable, energy efficient and reliable power. Today, TransAlta is one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydro-electric power. For over 111 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud member of the communities where we operate and where our employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and its climate change strategy with CDP (formerly Climate Disclosure Project) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. TransAlta has achieved a 61 per cent reduction in GHG emissions since 2015.
For more information about TransAlta, visit its website at transalta.com.
About TransAlta Renewables Inc.:
TransAlta Renewables is among the largest of any publicly traded renewable independent power producers ("IPP") in Canada. Our asset platform and economic interests are diversified in terms of geography, generation and counterparties and consist of interests in 26 wind facilities, 13 hydroelectric facilities, eight natural gas generation facilities, two solar facilities, one natural gas pipeline, and one battery storage project, representing an ownership interest of 2,968 megawatts of owned generating capacity, located in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, the States of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Washington and the State of Western Australia.
For more information about TransAlta Renewables, visit its web site at transaltarenewables.com.
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(The Conversation) – One in three people in need of abortion will consider doing something on their own to end the pregnancy if they are unable to get an abortion at a clinic. These are the findings of a study I recently published after surveying over 700 people seeking abortions in three states across the U.S.: Illinois, California and New Mexico.
The one-in-three figure is even higher among those who have a difficult time affording the cost of their abortion, have no health insurance or are seeking an abortion because of concerns about their own physical or mental health.
These findings offer a clear snapshot of what lies ahead as states move to ban abortion outright or severely restrict access.
Why it matters
Research over the past two decades has shown that pregnant people who face obstacles to getting to an abortion clinic or who have a desire for a more natural or private abortion experience will try to end a pregnancy on their own. This might include turning to self-sourced abortion pills, alcohol or drugs, herbs or physical methods.
My own research in 2017 found that 7% of U.S. women of reproductive age will use one of these methods in their lifetime to try to end a pregnancy outside of the formal health care system.
What has changed recently – and dramatically – is access to clinic-based abortion. With the Supreme Court’s decision overturning federal protections on abortion access, as of Aug. 30, 2022, 14 states have already implemented bans on abortion; an additional 12 are projected to do so in the coming months.
These restricted-abortion states are home to just over one-half of U.S. women of reproductive age. Putting these numbers together with data on who seeks abortion in the U.S., researchers estimate that over 100,000 pregnant people per year will soon face insurmountable travel distances to their nearest abortion provider and be unable to get an abortion at a clinic.
If people do as they project in our study, around 33,000 pregnant people per year will consider doing something on their own to end a pregnancy.
What still isn’t known
One yet unanswered question is how many of those in need of abortion and unable to get to a clinic will be able to end a pregnancy on their own with a safe and effective method such as the FDA-approved medications mifepristone and misoprostol, or misoprostol alone – versus how many will turn to other, likely less effective, methods with potentially harmful outcomes.
Researchers now have clear evidence that telehealth and mail-order models enabling access to medication abortion without the need for an in-person visit with a health care provider – models accelerated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic – are safe, effective and satisfactory to patients.
However, these models will remain out of reach for some. This is especially true for those who are further along in their pregnancy, cannot afford the cost, live in one of the 19 states that ban telehealth provision of medication abortion or don’t have a safe place to receive and use the pills.
What is also unknown is how many pregnant people will face legal repercussions for doing something to try to end a pregnancy. Although public support for criminalizing a pregnant person for self-managing an abortion is low, state legislators are actively proposing such policies. Between 2000 and 2020, more than 61 people were investigated or arrested for such attempts.
What’s next
In the coming months, my colleagues and I will document the magnitude of any increase in self-managed abortion by repeating a nationally representative survey that we fielded in 2017 and 2021.
Our research underscores that even when abortion is restricted, people will move forward with abortion on their own. Having access to abortion pills is critical so that when people need to self-manage an abortion, the health, medical and advocacy community is supporting them to do so safely and effectively. | 2022-09-03T23:33:44+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/when-abortion-at-a-clinic-is-not-available-1-in-3-pregnant-people-say-they-will-do-something-on-their-own-to-end-the-pregnancy/ |
No charges after maintenance worker shoots, kills 8-month-old puppy during service call, police say
ROSWELL, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) – A family in Georgia said their 8-month-old German shepherd was wrongfully shot and killed during a maintenance service call, but police said the alleged shooter won’t face any charges.
Yordania Mejia and her family, along with their dog Luna, just moved into the Enclave at Roswell apartments a month ago. The family says the puppy was “big, but gentle.”
“[Luna] was raised with kids, and everybody knows dogs raised with kids are friendly,” Mejia said.
But a report from the Roswell Police Department tells a different story. According to the report, on May 2, a maintenance worker for the apartment complex told officers he asked the dog to be secured before he entered the unit. But he claims Luna then chased him down the stairs.
According to police, the maintenance worker used his handgun to shoot Luna “in fear for his safety.”
Police said there are no pending charges and that nothing criminal took place.
“He was doing self-defense?” Mejia questioned. “[But] he had not been [bitten], he wasn’t scratched, his clothes were not torn apart.”
Mejia argues she should have gotten a heads up about what time maintenance would service her home, that way she could have been there.
“They have somebody walking around with a gun, that shot my dog twice,” she said. “He left her there to die.”
Mejia’s children are scarred, and the family is devastated, maintaining that Luna was just playful, not dangerous.
“You can go around and ask anybody in that neighborhood that has seen us for the month I’ve been here, how [Luna] is,” Mejia said.
Tenants claim the maintenance worker has since been fired, but property management neither confirmed to WGCL his employment status nor its policies on staff entering units armed.
“They told me they were sorry, and they had fired him. But if he was right on killing my dog, why did they fire him? That’s what I don’t understand,” Mejia said.
Property management directed WGCL to their corporate owner, First Communities. WGCL is still awaiting a statement from the company. WGCL has also attempted to contact the maintenance worker and have not heard back.
Copyright 2022 WGCL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-09T17:53:11+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/05/09/no-charges-after-maintenance-worker-shoots-kills-8-month-old-puppy-during-service-call-police-say/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-5
(three, eight, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-5
(three, eight, five) | 2022-07-14T05:20:55+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17304000.php |
Here are the winners of the 2023 Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards
Beloved late Milwaukee-area musician Keith Pulvermacher received one of the highest honors at the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards Sunday night.
Pulvermacher, who died after a battle with cancer last year at the age of 49, posthumously received the award for the singer-songwriter of the year at Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee.
Other big winners at the 41st annual awards, which recognize musicians and music-related institutions across the state, included Green Bay artist Amelia Ford, who won album of the year for "Wide Wide Open"; Milwaukee-based blues band Altered Five, winner of song of the year for "Great Minds Drink Alike"; and local country band the Whiskeybelles, winning artist of the year.
Four artists also were inducted into the WAMI Hall of Fame Sunday: the late Hildegarde and Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers, and Milwaukee-area musicians Greg Koch and Willy Porter.
More:The 50 Wisconsin musicians with the biggest impact over the past 100 years
Winners of the 2023 WAMI Awards
- Acoustic bass (String): Andy Mertens
- Acoustic guitar: Myles Wangerin
- Album of the year: "Wide Wide Open," Amelia Ford
- Alternative rock artist of the year: Blame It On Cain
- Artist of the year: The WhiskeyBelles
- Banjo & mandolin: Beau Janke (Banjo)
- Bass guitar: Eric Hervey
- Best club: Paulie's Pub & Eatery
- Best festival: Mile of Music Festival
- Best live engineer sound/lights: Trevor Powers
- Best overall venue: Paulie's Pub & Eatery
- Best recording studio: Axis Recording Studio
- Best studio engineer/producer: Marc Golde
- Best theater: The Sylvee
- Bluegrass/Americana artist of the year: Copper Box
- Blues artist of the year: Altered Five Blues Band
- Blues, country & folk album of the year: "Shine" — Mr. Blink
- Christian/gospel aytist of the year: King's Conquest
- Club/DJ/dance/electronic artist of the year: Area-715
- Country artist of the year: The WhiskeyBelles
- Country song of the year: "Whiskey Morning" — Genesee Depot
- Cover artist of the year: The Glam Band
- Drummer: Junior Gamez
- Electric guitar: Tallan Noble Latz
- Female vocalist of the year: Donna Woodall
- Folk & blues song of the year: "Great Minds Drink Alike (With Horns)" — Altered Five Blues Band
- Folk/Celtic artist of the year: Frogwater
- Free reed & wind: Melissa Weishaar (Harmonica)
- Hard rock artist of the year: Sacred
- Hip-hop/rap artist of the year: Cujo
- Horn/big band artist of the year: The Hot & Dirty Brass Band
- Instrumentalist of the year: Kris Crow (piano)
- Jazz artist of the year: Erin Krebs
- Male vocalist of the year: Rich Hoffman
- Metal artist of the year: Thrasher
- New artist of the year: Driving Miss Crazy
- Northeast artist: Trash Pandas
- Northeast fan: Rachel Sebstead
- Northeast music teacher: Erin Krebs
- Northeast music venue: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
- Northeast radio station: WAPL Home Brewed
- Northwest artist: Rising Phoenix
- Northwest music venue: Tiki Beach Bar & Grill
- Orchestral strings: Thea Vorass (cello)
- Percussion: James "Pie" Cowan (hand percussion)
- Piano: Dave Adler
- Polka artist of the year: The Squeezettes
- Pop rock artist of the year: Big Spoon
- Pop, R&B, rap & electronic song of the year: "Nobody Else Like You" — Alaria Taylor
- Punk artist of the year: Ratbatspider
- R&B/soul artist of the year: The Pocket Kings
- Rising star of the year: Smart Mouth
- Rock album of the year: "Lake Effect" — Lake Effect
- Rock song of the year: "Blood in the Water" — Would You Kindly?
- Saxophone: Tom Washatka
- Singer-songwriter of the year: Keith Pulvermacher
- Song of the year: "Great Minds Drink Alike (With Horns)" — Altered Five Blues Band
- Southeast artist: The WhiskeyBelles
- Southeast fan: Travis Steffen
- Southeast music teacher: Dave Schoepke
- Southeast music venue: Paulie's Pub & Eatery
- Southwest artist: The Jimmys
- Southwest fan: Kristin Shafel
- Southwest music venue: The Majestic Theater
- Southwest radio station: WORT-FM
- Specialty — keyboards & electronics: Kevin Schultz (organ)
- Specialty — strings: Leroy Deuster (pedal steel guitar)
- Specialty — wind: Erin Krebs (flute)
- Synthesizer: Marcell Guyton
- Tribute artist of the year: The Rush Tribute Project
- Trombone: Mike Clobes
- Trumpet: Eric Sperry
- Turntables & decks: DJ Trans Am
- Unique album of the year: "Firebird" — Cullah
- Unique song of the year: "My Hometown Milwaukee" — Jerry Grillo
- Video of the year: "Great Minds Drink Alike (With Horns)" — Altered Five Blues Band
- Violin: Chris Wagoner
- World/reggae/ska/Latin artist of the year: Natty Nation
Contact Piet at (414) 223-5162 or plevy@journalsentinel.com. Follow him on Twitter at @pietlevy or Facebook at facebook.com/PietLevyMJS. | 2023-05-22T19:22:37+00:00 | jsonline.com | https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/05/22/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2023-wisconsin-area-music-industry-awards/70244383007/ |
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she is pardoning an estimated 45,000 people convicted of simple possession of marijuana, a month after President Joe Biden did the same under federal law.
“No one deserves to be forever saddled with the impacts of a conviction for simple possession of marijuana — a crime that is no longer on the books in Oregon,” said Brown, who is also forgiving more than $14 million in unpaid fines and fees.
Biden has been calling on governors to issue pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses, which reflect the vast majority of marijuana possession cases. Biden’s pardon applies to those convicted under federal law and thousands convicted in the District of Columbia.
In recent months, the governors of Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington state have taken steps to grant pardons to those with low-level marijuana convictions, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML.
Several states, including California, Illinois, and New Jersey automatically review criminal cannabis convictions and expunge past records. In other jurisdictions, eligible persons must petition the courts for a review.
As a result of these laws, an estimated 2 million Americans had their cannabis-related convictions set aside in recent years, said Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML.
“Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that public officials and the courts move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization,” Armentano said.
In 2019, Oregon lawmakers passed legislation establishing procedures for people found guilty of low-level marijuana possession offenses to file a motion with the court to have the convictions set aside. Yet, to date, relatively few Oregonians have done so.
In Oregon, the pardon will remove 47,144 convictions for possession of a small amount of marijuana from individual records. Brown noted that removing these criminal records eliminates barriers for employment, housing and educational opportunities.
The pardon applies to convictions for possession of 1 ounce (28 grams) or less of marijuana when the person was 21 or older, where it was the only charge where there were no victims.
“Oregonians should never face housing insecurity, employment barriers, and educational obstacles as a result of doing something that is now completely legal, and has been for years,” Brown said. She said people of color have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.
The Oregon Judicial Department will ensure that all court records associated with these pardoned offenses are sealed, Brown said.
Oregonians passed a ballot measure legalizing recreational use of marijuana in 2014, becoming one of the first states to do so. In November, Maryland and Missouri voters also legalized cannabis but voters in Arkansas, South Dakota and North Dakota rejected it.
Maryland’s initiative came with a mechanism to erase convictions. By July 1, 2024, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services must expunge all cases in which the possession of cannabis was the only charge in the case, and the charge was issued before July 1, 2023.
Maryland and Missouri joined 19 other states and the District of Columbia in making recreational marijuana legal. | 2022-11-22T16:31:14+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-oregons-governor-pardons-thousands-for-pot-convictions/ |
(KRON) — Trader Joe’s Instant Cold Brew Coffee has been recalled due to potential glass inside the container, the company said in an email Wednesday. Trader Joe’s says all products have been removed from its shelves.
Those who have the product with expiration date codes 6/13/2024, 11/26/2024 and 12/30/2024 are asked not to use them. Instant Cold Brew Coffee with those expiration dates “may contain glass.”
As of Wednesday, no injuries have been reported in connection to the consumption of this product, Trader Joe’s said. The company urges its customers to throw the product away or return it to any Trader Joe’s location for a full refund.
The Instant Cold Brew Coffee product has SKU #67436.
In March, a Trader Joe’s frozen tropical fruit product was recalled due to a potential Hepatitis A risk. The only other recall since then was a recall of its Genova Pesto product earlier this month, which may have contained undeclared milk and walnuts. | 2023-05-25T02:44:17+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/trader-joes-coffee-product-recalled-due-to-potential-glass/ |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has a hamstring strain and is likely to miss the “clasico” against Real Madrid in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey on Thursday.
Lewandowski picked up the left-leg injury in Barcelona’s 1-0 loss at Almeria in the Spanish league on Sunday, a result that allowed Madrid to cut the Catalan club’s lead to seven points.
Barcelona did not give a timetable for Lewandowski’s recovery, but he is not expected to be fit for the first leg of the Copa semifinals at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
Barcelona will face Madrid two more times in the next few weeks, in the second leg of the Copa semifinals and in the Spanish league. Madrid won their last league meeting 3-1 in October, while Barcelona beat its rival by the same score in the Spanish Super Cup final in January.
Madrid is coming off a 1-1 home draw against city rival Atletico Madrid in the Spanish league.
Lewandowski is the league’s leading scorer with 15 goals. He had scored two goals in the last three games in all competitions.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-27T15:24:10+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/news/lewandowski-set-to-miss-copa-clasico-because-of-strain/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Human brain cells in a dish have learned to play Pong, a simple video game created in the 1970s. This novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.
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Human brain cells in a dish have learned to play Pong, a simple video game created in the 1970s. This novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-10-13T09:52:04+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2022-10-13/a-dish-full-of-brain-cells-has-learned-to-play-the-computer-game-pong |
The last time we saw erstwhile Globe and Bush boss Dominic Dromgoole, it looked like the classics were now firmly his bag: he followed his decade of boisterous Shakespeare plays with a West End season of Wilde comedies, and had announced plans for stage versions of ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dracula’ at Hackney Empire (though they never actually materialised).
He’s been off writing books and making films since then. But he now makes a low-key, somewhat confounding return with the UK premiere of Jordan Harrison’s 2014 play ‘Marjorie Prime’. It’s an aggressively austere and in many ways astoundingly prescient drama about a near future in which people recreate their deceased loved ones as AI avatars called ‘Primes’.
Okay, I’m not sure about the avatars bit (it’s vaguely intimated that they’re holograms of some sort, though are obviously played by human actors). But as ChatGPT enjoys its moment in the sun, there is undeniably something to Anne Reid’s elderly, dementia-suffering Marjorie talking to a youthful replica of her late husband Walter. The conversation is a disconcerting mix of nostalgic reminiscence, therapy session and confessional, with Richard Fleeshman giving great uncanny valley as Walter: perma smiling and friendly, but ultimately disconcertingly lacking in emotion. He often hits the walls of his programmed knowledge, and demands more.
Also in the mix is Marjorie’s fragile middle-aged daughter Tess (Nancy Carroll) and her amiable husband Jon (Tony Jayawardena). Initially they seem only to be there to act as another form of support to Marjorie. But as Harrison’s terse play proceeds, they end up taking centre stage, their use of Primes more troublesome than Marjorie’s.
There are great moments. On the lighter side of things, there are a couple of amusing gags about the future setting and Reid’s elderly Marjorie having cultural reference points (Beyoncé, for instance) that go over the heads of the younger characters. But there’s certainly something compelling about both the notion AI might be used to make a simulacrum of the dead, and also the idea of them ending up as strange half-people, independent in their way but defined by the information they have been fed. The concluding, stilted conversation between a trio of abandoned Primes is deeply troubling.
It’s also well-acted, particularly Reid, who gives a smartly dissembling performance as Marjorie, who is, in many ways, far less fragile than her daughter.
In the end, though, I don’t think compelling ideas are enough to see it through. It feels both too short and too static, a lack of meat on the characters’ bones running up against the glacial stillness of the scenes. For a sad play about people in mourning, it never really feels moving. It feels overshadowed in this respect by its most obvious comparisons, like ‘Solaris’ or Caryl Churchill’s ‘A Number’. Thought-provoking and full of ideas, but it’s lacking in heart and Dromgoole’s austere production doesn’t exactly help the medicine go down. If this is the future, it’s a cold place. | 2023-03-17T19:54:06+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/marjorie-primereview |
Rossen Reports: This is the No. 1 most annoying behavior on airplanes
Getting ready to fly for the holidays? You might want to read this.
A new survey is out, showing what the most annoying airplane behavior is. The Vacationer asked hundreds of people this question: “When flying, what behaviors from other passengers annoy you the most?” The people in the survey were allowed to pick more than one answer. Here are the results:
15. Requesting too much from flight attendants.
14. Overly affectionate couples.
13. Using the overhead bin space too many rows away from the seat.
12. Getting up to use the bathroom or to stretch too much.
11. Flirting with passengers or flight attendants.
10. Taking off shoes.
9. Listening to music or movies too loudly.
8. Boarding or deplaning out of turn.
7. Talking too much.
6. Reclining the seat back all the way.
5. Hogging the armrest.
4. Eating smelly or pungent foods.
3. Poor parenting/inattentive parents.
2. Smells from bad hygiene or too much cologne/perfume.
1. (Two answers tied.) Kicking the back of your seat and drunk or disruptive behavior.
Click here to read more on the survey.
The debates on whether to recline or not recline or whether to take off your shoes on an airplane are controversial ones.
The Vacationer went even deeper into those debates, asking if people do recline and if they ask the person behind them first. Do people take their shoes off if they don’t have socks on?
Click here to get deeper into those questions and more and to find out what people think on a more in-depth level. | 2022-10-06T20:48:13+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/rossen-reports-this-is-the-no-1-most-annoying-behavior-on-airplanes/41547917 |
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Kyle Larson was looking for a jolt of momentum. He got it for the second straight time at Watkins Glen International.
The reigning NASCAR Cup champion, winless since his only victory of the season at Auto Club Speedway in February, beat Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott on a restart with five laps to go and won the weather-delayed NASCAR Cup race Sunday.
Elliott was seeking his eighth career road course victory and had control of the race late, but a caution gave Larson a chance and he took advantage, moving Elliott to the left coming out of the first turn, then pulling away for a weekend Xfinity-Cup sweep. It was the 11th straight road course win for Chevrolet.
“I did what I felt I needed to do to get the win. I knew that was my only opportunity to get by him, I'm not proud of it,” said Larson, who won 10 races last season "The restarts kept me in it. It's good to get another win. Hopefully, it will build some momentum."
AJ Allmendinger was second, Joey Logano third, Elliott fourth and Daniel Suárez fifth.
Elliott declined to criticize his teammate when interviewed postrace, but the disappointment was palpable.
“Just a huge congratulations to Kyle and everybody on the 5 team. He did a great job,” said Elliott, who wrapped up the regular-season title. "Seriously, they deserve it.”
The race began on rain tires with a single-file start, the only one of the day, and pole-sitter Elliott was passed early by Michael McDowell, who started third. But strategy played out as the race wore on with Elliott, Larson, and McDowell, all on a two-stop strategy around the 2.45-mile natural terrain layout, holding the upper hand.
Elliott regained the lead with 18 laps to go in the 90-lap race and when the final pit stops were complete he was just over 2 seconds ahead of his teammate. McDowell was more than 10 seconds behind, but a spin by Joey Hand in the first turn brought out a caution and bunched up the field for a restart with eight laps to go.
Elliott picked the outside lane for the restart and held off Larson when the green flag waved, quickly building a half-second lead. But a spin by Loris Hezemans brought out the caution that changed the outcome.
Larson won the Xfinity race on Saturday when teammate William Byron and Ty Gibbs spun out vying for first on the last lap.
Early in the second stage, Logano passed Todd Gilliland for the lead and Kyle Busch moved in behind him, but as the laps in the stage began to dwindle Elliott was lurking in fourth, backing off near the end of the segment to save fuel. Logano held off Busch for his fourth stage win of the season.
RAIN MAN
Lightning strikes and rain delayed the start two hours. It was the first time the Next Gen car raced in wet conditions on the grooved tires and Chase Briscoe took advantage. As the track began to dry he was one of the first drivers to pit to put on the faster slicks and the strategy worked as he held on to win the opening 20-lap stage, his fourth stage win of the season.
POINTS BATTLE
Fifteen drivers are locked into 16-driver field for the playoffs, with Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. still battling for points. They entered the race separated by 26 and started side-by-side on Row 13. Truex picked up only one point — finishing one spot ahead of his rival.
NO THREE-PEAT
Kevin Harvick entered the day fresh off consecutive wins at Michigan and Richmond, but he qualfiied outside the top 20 and never was a factor, finishing 12th.
KIMI’S DAY
Former Formula One champ Kimi Raikkonen drove the No. 91 Chevrolet for TrackHouse Racing in his Cup debut. Raikkonen, who qualifed 27th, had veteran crew chief Darian Grubb atop the pit box for guidance. The Finn made it into the top 10 in the second stage but was taken out in the final stage at about the midpont of the the race when he was slammed hard on the right side going through the bus stop, ending his day.
“I had a good line there. Unfortunately, I had no time to react,” Raikkonen said. “That's how it goes.”
He was one of the record seven drivers from foreign countries competing in a series race and came out of retirement to compete for TrackHouse owner Justin Marks, whose goal is to expand the NASCAR’s international reach by fielding a Cup entry for international racers.
UP NEXT
The Cup regular season concludes Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. | 2022-08-22T04:45:58+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/larson-wins-rain-delayed-nascar-cup-race-at-watkins-glen/article_40695932-21ba-11ed-a710-1b158a152587.html |
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Professor Nahid Siamdoust of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Middle Eastern Studies about large popular protests in Iran.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Professor Nahid Siamdoust of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Middle Eastern Studies about large popular protests in Iran.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-09-23T10:20:51+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-09-23/why-authorities-cant-quell-the-protests-in-iran |
OSAKA, Japan — The U.S. will unveil a “substantial” sanctions package against Russia on Friday at the Group of 7 (G-7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan, as the global meeting puts international support for Ukraine at the forefront of the agenda.
But the expected U.S. sanctions package will be announced in the shadow of the debt ceiling standoff between President Biden and Republicans in Congress, with a senior administration official saying GOP “brinkmanship” risks undermining the effectiveness of American financial penalties.
“I do think that it’ll be an opportunity to highlight just how essential it is that the Republicans work to get this done expeditiously with the president because a lot is riding on ensuring that the United States continues to lead, and lead alongside the G-7,” the official said.
Sanctions being issued by the U.S. will include blacklisting 300 individuals, entities, vessels and aircraft across Europe, the Middle East and Asia — the penalties aimed at targeting streams of Russian sanctions evasion.
The U.S. will also announce an expanded sanctions authority to target sectors of the Russian economy “key to its military-industrial complex,” the senior official said, “and impose new bans to prevent Russia from benefiting from our services.”
And the U.S. will add roughly 70 entities from Russia and third-world countries to the Commerce Department’s blacklist, cutting them off from receiving U.S. exports.
The Commerce blacklist is an effort to target Moscow’s sanctions evasion strategies, with analysis highlighting Russia’s increase in imports of common electronics from third-world countries in an effort to access semiconductor chips blocked by the U.S. sanctions and those of partner countries.
“This is going to be a significant effort that will extensively restrict Russia’s access to goods that matter for its battlefield capabilities,” the official said.
It’s not yet clear how member nations of the G-7 — the grouping of the world’s most advanced economies — will match the U.S. penalties, but the group is expected to put forth a joint statement in support of Ukraine that will stand apart from the traditional communique published at the end of such meetings.
“All G-7 members are preparing to implement new sanctions and export controls. I won’t get into the specifics of what partners are doing but the United States will be rolling out a substantial package of our own,” a senior administration official told reporters on a briefing call late Thursday evening in Japan.
Among the principles to be included in the Ukraine statement, the senior official said, will be a commitment by G-7 nations — U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom — “to squeeze Russia’s access to the international financial system” and “an ongoing commitment to keep precious sovereign assets immobilized until the end of the war.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also expected to participate in the summit in some form, with his appearance likely to be virtual.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Wednesday teased that the U.S. would announce a package of new sanctions to align with the summit. He said they would be centered on enforcement, like closing loopholes and shutting down Russian evasion networks.
The focus on Ukraine will be a major part of the summit but will take place alongside another priority focus of threats posed by the People’s Republic of China, as Chinese President Xi Jinping seeks to exercise influence globally and provide Russian President Vladimir Putin international legitimacy. | 2023-05-19T00:01:07+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/us-to-unveil-substantial-sanctions-package-against-russia-at-g-7-summit-in-hiroshima/ |
All-electric racing series Formula E has launched a new net carbon zero car ahead of its 2022-23 season.
The triangle-shaped 'gen 3' car will increase the top speed of Formula E's racers to 200 m/ph (320 km/h).
It will feature two different powertrains, one at the front and one at the rear, which will more than double the regenerative potential from FE's 'gen 2' car to 600 kW.
The car will be introduced after the current season, which runs until August, is complete.
"With every generation of race car we push the boundaries of possibility in EV technology further," series founder Alejandro Agag said.
"We are proud to reveal a car that has been two years in the making, in the historic home of motorsport."
Mohammed Ben Sulayem, president of racing's governing body the FIA, said: "Both technologically and environmentally, gen 3 sets new standards in the sport.
"The FIA and Formula E development teams have done a superb job." | 2022-04-29T11:50:08+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/33825197/formula-e-unveils-gen-3-car-22-23-season |
Just three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmark declaration: A "novel coronavirus" that had first been identified in China had spread to a degree where it was now a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)."
The virus now known as SARS-CoV-2 — which causes the disease COVID-19 — is still spreading. But for those who study infectious diseases, talking about possible next pandemics is a necessity.
That's why the World Health Organization keeps a list of viruses and bacteria with pandemic potential. Jill Weatherhead of Baylor College of Medicine says prioritizing diseases is generally based on two factors: their ability to spread and the ability of humans to treat them.
The list helps guide scientists, governments and organizations in investing energy and funds to study the pathogens most likely to cause the greatest devastation to humans. The WHO develops "blueprints" with strategic goals and research priorities for each disease on the list.
Here are the diseases on the current list. A revised list is expected in the coming months: In late 2022, the World Health Organization convened more than 300 scientists to assess and update the list.
Note: The infrastructure to detect diseases in different parts of the world varies, as does the fact that mild cases of an illness may not be known or reported. Fatality rates are based on the best available data.
Nipah virus
What animals carry it: fruit bats, including those called flying foxes, and domestic animals such as pigs, horses, cats and dogs
How it spreads: Nipah virus can be transmitted to humans from animals or contaminated foods. It can also be transmitted directly from human to human.
Its toll: 40% to 75% fatality rate. The virus can also cause encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
Medical toolbox: There is no vaccine available for either people or animals. Monoclonal antibody therapies are in development.
Pandemic potential: Outbreaks occur almost every year in parts of Asia, but there are known ways to prevent spread of the virus. Prevention efforts include avoiding exposure to bats and sick animals, avoiding consumption of fruits that bats may have nibbled on and not drinking certain raw juices from fruits that bats feed on. The risk of international transmission can be lowered by washing those fruits and fruit products thoroughly and peeling them before eating.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
What animals carry it: ticks, livestock
How it spreads: Humans usually get the virus from contact with ticks or infected livestock. To get the virus from another person requires close contact with blood or other bodily fluids from an infected person.
Its toll: 10% to 40% fatality rate. The disease is endemic, meaning it occurs regularly, in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia. The virus causes severe outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fever, a condition that can damage the body's organ systems and cardiovascular system and that often includes severe bleeding.
Medical toolbox: Although a vaccine is in use in Bulgaria, no research has been published on how well it works, and it's not licensed anywhere else. Other vaccines are in development, and an antiviral drug called ribavirin appears to help treat infections.
Pandemic potential: It's difficult to tell when an animal is infected and should be avoided, and the WHO says the ticks that carry the virus are numerous and widespread. The threat could be reduced by trying to avoid tick bites and wearing gloves and other protective clothing when around livestock.
Lassa fever
What animals carry it: rats and other rodents
How it spreads: The virus is endemic in parts of West Africa. Rats excrete the virus, and humans pick it up when exposed to the rodents' urine and feces, either through direct contact or eating contaminated food. It can also spread between humans through direct contact with an infected person's secretions (blood, urine, feces), through sexual contact and in medical settings via contaminated equipment.
Its toll: 1%, but up to 15% in severe hospitalized cases. It can be deadly for people and fetuses in the third trimester of pregnancy. Besides death, a common complication is deafness, which can be permanent.
Medical toolbox: There is no vaccine, but ribavirin seems to help treat infections.
Pandemic potential: Because the primary method of transmission is exposure to a certain type of rat, potential for the spread of the disease is most likely limited to the countries where the rat lives.
Rift Valley fever
What animals carry it: mosquitoes. The insects can transmit the virus to both humans and their own offspring. Livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and camels can also get infected.
How it spreads: It spreads to people through contact with blood, other body fluids or tissues of infected animals.
Its toll: Although the fatality level is less than 1% and the disease is mild for most people, about 8% to 10% of people infected develop severe symptoms, including eye lesions, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever.
Medical toolbox: Although a vaccine has been developed, it is not yet licensed or available.
Pandemic potential: Rift Valley fever has spread from Africa to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Flooding seems to contribute to more Rift Valley fever because more virus-infected mosquitoes buzz about after heavy rainfalls. Rapid case detection, including prompt laboratory testing of people with symptoms, has limited recent outbreaks.
Zika
What animals carry it: mosquitoes
How it spreads: In addition to mosquito bites, the virus can spread from a pregnant person to a fetus. The disease can also be transmitted through sex and probably through blood transfusions.
Its toll: It's rarely fatal, but Zika can cause severe brain defects in fetuses, including microcephaly. It has also been linked to miscarriage, stillbirth and other birth defects.
Medical toolbox: No treatment or vaccine
Pandemic potential: So far, it's largely limited to areas where Zika-carrying mosquitoes live.
Ebola and Marburg virus disease
What animals carry them: Bats and nonhuman primates are believed to carry the viruses, from the filovirus family, that cause these hemorrhagic fevers.
How they spread: Both viruses are believed to spread in the same way. After the initial spillover from an animal, humans spread the viruses to other humans through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of a person who is symptomatic or who has died from the disease. The viruses can also spread through objects or surfaces contaminated with bodily fluids and through semen from people who have recovered from the disease.
Their toll: The average fatality rate is about 50%, though rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
Medical toolbox: Vaccines have been used for Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Monoclonal antibodies approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 can also help with treatment of Ebola. Vaccines for Marburg virus are in development.
Pandemic potential: These viruses can spread quickly in health care settings, especially when proper sterilization isn't used. However, the disease spreads only when a person is symptomatic, making it easier to control.
MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome)
What animals carry it: camels
How it spreads: After the initial spillover event from camels to humans, this coronavirus can spread from person to person through close contact with an infected person.
Its toll: The reported fatality rate, according to the WHO, is 35%.
Medical toolbox: Several vaccines are in development, but none has been approved.
Pandemic potential: 27 countries have reported infections since 2012. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes MERS grows deep in the respiratory tract, making it much less likely to be transmitted through sneezing and coughing.
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
What animals carry it: Palm civets were largely blamed for the 2003 outbreak. Bats and possibly other wildlife also carry it.
How it spreads: After the initial spillover event from animal to human, SARS can spread from person to person through close contact with an infected person. It's believed to usually spread through droplets from coughs and sneezes and sometimes through surfaces touched by infectious people.
Its toll: less than a 1% fatality rate
Medical toolbox: No treatment or vaccine has been approved.
Pandemic potential: Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which can spread before people know they're infectious, this SARS virus is usually spread only by those with known symptoms, making it much easier to contain through public health measures such as quarantining. The 2003 outbreak was contained after causing about 8,000 cases and 700 deaths in 29 countries.
Disease X
The WHO says it does not rank diseases in any order of potential threat, but it acknowledges the possibility that an as-yet-unknown disease could cause a serious pandemic.
In her work with bat viruses, for example, Raina Plowright of Cornell University says that even in the small proportion of bat species that have been studied, the animals carry thousands of viruses, "and we have no clue how many present risk," she says. "We don't have the technology to take a sequence and say with certainty whether it can infect humans or can transmit from human to human. We're blind, really."
Not to mention that variants pose threats, she says. "Just the tiniest genetic change can have a profound effect. What if we had [a pathogen] with a 50% fatality rate that transmitted efficiently?"
Sheila Mulrooney Eldred is a freelance health journalist in Minneapolis. She has written about COVID-19 for many publications, including The New York Times, Kaiser Health News, Medscape and The Washington Post. More at sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com. On Twitter: @milepostmedia.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-29T14:30:33+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-01-29/9-diseases-that-keep-epidemiologists-up-at-night |
Editors and Panel of Judges Selected 32 Innovative Apps, Tools, and Services that Simplify the Money Management Process and Boost Your Bottom Line
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dotdash Meredith's REAL SIMPLE revealed the winners of its fourth annual Smart Money Awards, spotlighting 32 of the best products and services to help readers maximize their money, investments, and time. Selected by editors and a panel of judges, the winners span eight categories, such as travel, kids and family finances, home and real estate, and more. The 2022 Smart Money Awards are featured in the September issue, on sale August 12 and the full list of winners is available now on RealSimple.com/moneyawards.
"Whether you're looking to cut big purchases into bite-size payments or get accounting support for your small business, this year's Smart Money Awards deliver more innovative solutions to your personal finance concerns than ever before. We're here to help you get your money house in order with this smartly-curated review of the best new tools and services. I especially love the ones that extend banking access to underserved communities, and reward you for earth-friendly purchases," said REAL SIMPLE Editor in Chief Lauren Iannotti.
The Smart Money Awards is REAL SIMPLE'S annual spotlight on the best financial innovations that make life easier. To curate the 2022 Smart Money Awards, REAL SIMPLE editors compiled a list of products across eight categories that debuted, or were updated between January 2021 and June 2022. A panel of financial professionals rated them and selected 32 winners based on innovation and relevance to REAL SIMPLE readers.
REAL SIMPLE's 2022 Smart Money Awards Winners
Banking
Save Up for Big Purchases: Accrue Savings
Score Impressive Debit Card Rewards: American Express Rewards Checking
Build "Set It and Forget It" Savings: Digit
Access Traditional Banking if You've Been Shut Out: Majority
Share Expenses Simply: WellPaid
Credit Cards
Take the Guesswork out of Points and Rewards: Card Curator (Premium)
Cut Big Purchases into Bite-Size Payment Chunks: Chase My Chase Plan
Earn Cash for What You Need: Citi Custom Cash Card
Get Rewarded for Earth-Friendly Purchases: FutureCard Visa Card
Investment & Retirement
Reflect Your Values with Your Stock Choices: Alinea
Try a Nontraditional Retirement Plan: Alto Solutions Inc's IRA Account
Learn How to Invest: Schwab Starter Kit
Embrace Risk and Excitement: SoFI IPO Investing
Kids & Family Finances
Help Your Teen Grow Their Allowance: Fidelity Youth Account
Drill Down on Saving for College: Personal Capital Education Planner
Teach Kids How to Spend and Save Wisely: Till App/Debit Card Combo
Travel
Get Big Payoffs for Globe-Trotting: Capital One Venture X Card
Vacation on a Budget: Elude
Turn a Random Mix of Points into an Actual Trip: NerdWallet Airline Point Transfers and Partner Award Bookings Tool
Keep All Your Points in One Place—and Maximize Them: The Points Guy App
Career & Taxes
Have the Benefits of an Employer While Working for Yourself: Catch
Get Accounting Help for Your Business: Collective
Organize Invoices for Freelance Work: Lili Pro
Home & Real Estate
Rent with Perks: Bilt Mastercard
Be Your Neighbor's Self-Storage: Neighbor
Speed Up the Home-Buying Business: Opendoor Complete
Own a Vacation Home Without the Responsibility: Pacaso
Get Rewarded for Paying Rent on Time: Piñata
Insurance
Protect Yourself from Catastrophe: Avibra
Get Essential Disability Coverage: Breeze
Buy Life Insurance Without Feeling Judged and Depressed: Haven Life
Free Yourself from the Weight of Medical Debt: PayZen
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Grichuk’s 2-run double in 10th lifts Rockies over Red Sox 7-6
By DOUG ALDEN
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Randal Grichuk lined a two-run double in a three-run 10th inning and Colorado held on to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-6, giving the Rockies their second straight win at Fenway Park. Jurickson Profar added an RBI sacrifice fly in the 10th and as the Rockies improved to 13-21 on the road. They had lost eight of 10 road games before arriving in Boston. Boston, extended to extra innings in three straight games for the first time since June 25-28, 2000, dropped to 33-35, last in the AL East. | 2023-06-14T09:47:33+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-colorado/2023/06/14/grichuks-2-run-double-in-10th-lifts-rockies-over-red-sox-7-6/ |
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Officials in Madagascar have recovered 34 bodies from the Indian Ocean after the sinking of a boat that was carrying migrants hoping to get to Mayotte.
The boat carrying 58 passengers sailed clandestinely without going through official immigration or customs controls and sank late Saturday night off the northwest coast of Madagascar, according to Malagasy maritime authorities. Customs and Navy patrol boats recovered the bodies near the island of Nosy Faly, Director General of the Port, Maritime and Fluvial Agency Jean Edmond Randrianantenaina said. The victims mainly come from Ambilobe and also Tamatave, Majunga and Nosy Be, according to preliminary investigations, he said. “The entire state apparatus is angry at this tragedy. Also, we are implementing all possible means to speed up the investigations,” Randrianantenaina said. On the night of the sinking local fishermen in canoes rescued 24 survivors, he said. All but one of the survivors “fled as soon as they arrived on the bank, before the arrival of the authorities, no doubt for fear of being arrested,” said Lt. Col. Jules Tovoson Andriatsiriniaina, commander of the Diana region gendarmerie group. “Only a young woman, pregnant, was found,” he said. She was treated at Ambilobe hospital and is being interviewed as a key witness, he said.
Officials are looking for two people, a man and a woman, suspected of being the smugglers or accomplices in illegally transporting migrants. They are wanted for “illegal boarding and clandestine transport, involuntary homicide of passengers to Mayotte,” he said.
“It’s yet another shipwreck,” said Roger Charles Evina, representative of the International Organization for Migration for Madagascar and the Comoros.
“Unfortunately, there are no official national statistics on these tragedies at sea. But we see that these are really recurring departures, carried out clandestinely and the final destination is very often Mayotte,” he said.
Although Mayotte is a poor archipelago of small islands, it is a French territory which may make it an attractive destination for migrants from Madagascar. The IOM has been developing a program for several months to fight against this illegal immigration from Madagascar, he said.
“One of the actions of our project is to offer income-generating activities to potential migrants, in order to stabilize them in the communities of origin,” said Evina. “Because we know, for the most part, that people migrate for economic reasons.” | 2023-03-16T00:48:45+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/boat-carrying-migrants-from-madagascar-sinks-34-drown/ |
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023, 3:31 am
Heads up for drivers in Tulsa, road work could impact your morning commute.
Starting on Tuesday, Interstate 44 will narrow near the Arkansas River for the next 10 days. The left lane of eastbound I-44 will close between the river and Lewis from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for city lighting maintenance.
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MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Marc Leishman holed a series of long birdie putts and even a few big putts for par to post a 6-under 65 for a one-shot lead Friday in the LIV Golf League in the high desert of Arizona.
The second LIV Golf event of the season is at The Gallery north of Tucson, where the former Match Play Championship was held for two years.
For stroke play, the undulated greens and pins tucked on crowns made it difficult in spots to find birdies. That wasn’t an issue for Leishman. The Australian made from 20 feet on the 14th, from the same range on the 16th and then rolled in a 40-foot putt on No. 3.
He also made a 12-footer for par on No. 4. With only one bogey on his card, he led by one shot over Abraham Ancer, Louis Oosthuizen and Matthew Wolff.
Charles Howell III, who opened LIV’s second season with a win at Mayakoba three weeks ago, had one of the best turnarounds. He opened with a double bogey and was 3 over after four holes, only to answer with four straight birdies. He finished with a 69.
“I hung in there nicely,” Howell said. “You’re in altitude, the pins are on the edges of slopes, it’s hard to get the ball close. Birdies aren’t easy.”
Howell is among eight players who previously played The Gallery when it was a World Golf Championship event in 2007 and 2008. Henrik Stenson won in 2007 and lost in semifinals to Tiger Woods the following year before it moved to a different course on Dove Mountain.
Stroke play wasn’t as kind to Stenson. He was 4 over after seven holes and had to rally with four birdies the rest of the way for a 73.
Dustin Johnson also got off to a rough start with a tee shot into the desert for double bogey on No. 2, his starting hole in the shotgun start, and another double bogey on No. 7. He finished with three straight birdies from short range for a 73.
Joaquin Niemann, Peter Uihlein and David Puig, who signed with LIV Golf out of Arizona State, each were at 67. The group at 68 included Sergio Garcia and Pat Perez.
Niemann and Puig each play for Torque, which had a one-shot lead in the team competition over Smash and Iron Heads.
Cameron Smith, at No. 5 in the world the highest-ranked player with LIV Golf, struggled with his tee shots in the high desert. He rallied with three straight birdies late in his round, only to hit another wild drive on the 18th hole for bogey and a 71.
Thirty of the 48 players in the field broke par. That included Phil Mickelson (70) and Laurie Canter (70), who again filled in for Martin Kaymer as the German recovers from injury.
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Saskatoon 3 Prince Albert 1
Red Deer 7 Edmonton 1
Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 2
Vancouver 3 Victoria 2
Tri-City 5 Everett 2
Seattle 7 Spokane 5
Kamloops 6 Kelowna 4
Wednesday's results
Brandon 4 Regina 0
Moose Jaw 3 Winnipeg 1
Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary 8 Edmonton 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 3 (OT)
Kamloops 6 Kelowna 2
Victoria 3 Vancouver 0
Seattle 6 Spokane 5
Thursday's results
Red Deer 4 Calgary 1
Friday's results
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Brandon, 5 p.m.
Saskatoon at Winnipeg, 5:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 5 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Red Deer at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Lethbridge at Edmonton, 2 p.m.
Prince Albert at Regina, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Calgary at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
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CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who acknowledged killing another man and hanging the mutilated body from a ceiling will face life in prison without parole after a judge said Wednesday that it was premeditated murder.
Mark Latunski pleaded guilty in September. But it was up to a judge to determine whether the death of Kevin Bacon in 2019 was first-degree murder or another type of homicide.
“The court finds that this is a crime of cold calculation,” Shiawassee County Judge Matthew Stewart said. “Kevin Bacon’s death was Mark Latunski’s design.”
First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. The next hearing is Dec. 15.
Police said Latunski admitted to killing Bacon, 25, whom he had met through the dating app Grindr, and eating parts of the body in Bennington Township, 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
Latunski initially was found incompetent to stand trial, but that status changed after mental health treatment.
Defense attorney Mary Chartier said first-degree murder didn't fit the case. She noted that Latunski allowed police inside the home knowing that Bacon's body was hanging from the ceiling.
“He did not measure the consequences at all," Chartier said. | 2022-10-19T21:39:50+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Michigan-man-to-get-life-sentence-in-killing-17520497.php |
NEW YORK, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Color Star Technology Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ADD) ("Color Star" or the "Company"), an entertainment technology company with a global network that focuses on the application of technology and artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry, announces that its subsidiary, Color Metaverse Pte. Ltd. ("Color Metaverse"), and Three Angles Production ("Three Angles") have entered into a framework strategic cooperation agreement with plans to increase development efforts within the live events industry around the world and specifically in Southeast Asia, which is planned to become one of the key areas for Color Star's business development.
Three Angles is an international media and entertainment company with offices in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Korea. It has an experienced production team and access to an impressive network of top international celebrities. The company has been involved in the production of shows for Britney Spears, Chungha, THE BOYZ, amongst others. Three Angles has a wide range of performance resources specifically in Singapore and Malaysia. The partnership which is planned to be set forth in a definitive agreement aims to improve Color Star's live performance business in Southeast Asia. This year has seen Color Star quickly developing its live events segment, laying out a planned events production matrix, entering into new strategic partnerships, continuously signing top talents and events, and presenting exciting entertainment projects in response to the changing market environment.
Recently, the world has witnessed the resurgence of live performances, with large international events and performances taking place one after another. Color Star has been actively working on organizing music festivals, music concerts and sporting events. It is currently involved in many collaborations and partnerships in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In order to maximize the quality of the events, increase ticket revenue and improve all kinds of commercial cooperation, Color Star has set up an international team to prepare and carry out these live events. Meanwhile, Color Star also plans to make use of its artificial intelligence technology and metaverse software application by introducing online functionalities such as electronic ticket vending, online live streaming, online variety shows, and other digital content.
The Company believes that the recovery of the performance industry has most directly driven ticket revenue and commercial sponsorship revenue. Furthermore, e-commerce has to be properly integrated to efficiently maximize profits in the current digital age.
About Color Star Technology Co., Ltd.
Color Star Technology Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ADD) is an entertainment and education company that provides online entertainment performances and online music education services. Its business operations are conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Color Metaverse Pte. Ltd. and CACM Group NY, Inc. The Company's online education is provided through its Color World music and entertainment education platform. More information about the Company can be found at www.colorstarinternational.com and www.colorstar.investorroom.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantee of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development, including the development of the metaverse project; product and service demand and acceptance; changes in technology; economic conditions; the growth of the educational and training services market internationally where ADD conducts its business; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward–looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof unless required by applicable laws, regulations or rules.
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Maserati is on the move. It now has the MC220 supercar in its fleet and the beautifully rendered 2024 GranTurismo coupe in gas and electric forms. A GranCabrio convertible comes soon, and so does a new Levante SUV and a new Quattroporte flagship.
In advance of all of these, Maserati has launched the Grecale crossover SUV. A five-seat rival for the likes of the Porsche Macan, the 2023 Grecale shares some of its logic and likability with the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, buffing its body and interfaces where it makes sense, letting the compact SUV’s stellar road manners translate over through it all.
In case you’re wondering, the Grecale name comes from a cool wind that blows across Malta from Greece. Esoteric? Sure, but Maserati has named its cars after winds since 1963 when it introduced the Mistral and followed with the Ghibli, Bora, Khamsin and Levante. Ironically, Maserati now is part of the same Stellantis corporation as Chrysler, which named a set of its cars for clouds: Cirrus, Stratus, and the Breeze for good measure.
The Grecale (“Greek wind”) is distantly related to the crisp-handling Alfa Stelvio—Maserati’s SUV gets bolted together at the same Stellantis assembly plant in Cassino, Italy, as the junior crossover—but the Maserati gets a longer body, better interior space and execution, and exclusive powertrains.
Grecale: Maserati’s own stiletto heel
The Grecale has a snub-nosed stance, but sticks its styling statement like a stiletto heel. It wears a big trident affixed to the Trofeo’s vertically ribbed grille, and to be certain you received the message, an enamel badge sits above the grille in the Giallo Corse yellow paint, which is splendid. Carbon-fiber ribbons frame the lower air intakes, LED hockey sticks flick the headlights into the fenders.
It’s all lovely, but we wonder: why the nonfunctional portholes? In side view, they’re the lone details that mar the chunky, spunky Grecale shape, which studs the rear pillar with another trident logo and an upturned window that splits it from the Stelvio’s cat-eyed vibe. Big 21-inch wheels have more spokes and slats, the sport exhaust juts out from more carbon-fiber apron, and the rear end wears a big Maserati logo over an architectural beam of chrome. If you forget which company makes this car, it’s time for an optician.
Inside, digital displays dominated a discreetly tailored interior. One depicts the Grecale’s gauges, while a pair of touchscreens cascade down the center stack—under, you guessed it, a digital version of the Maserati trident that turns into a clock. It’s heavy on gloss black inside, on the steering wheel even, with pushbutton transmission controls that prep for the EV era. Tthe Grecale Trofeo’s touchscreens lose some visibility because their virtual buttons for cruise and infotainment aren’t clear enough in strong sunlight. In addition, the head-up display cuts into the forward view with glare. But look at the material: the interior wins with carbon-fiber trim and yellow twin-stitched seats and leather trim panels, all contrasted with laser-cut metal grilles for the high-end audio system.
The unified look, inside and out, of the Grecale mark this new generation of Maseratis. At long last, they look all of a piece, and as part of a family.
Maserati Grecale meets the Nettuno V-6
Maserati has a plan for more Grecales, and it includes a forthcoming battery-electric version, the Grecale Folgore. Folgore, which is Italian for “lightning,” is Maserati’s branding for electric vehicles. But for now, our drive involves only the most powerful gas model, the Grecale Trofeo.
The base option is a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 in mild-hybrid configuration. It’s rated at 296 hp and 332 lb-ft of torque in GT guise and 325 hp and 332 lb-ft in Modena guise. The GT hits 60 mph in 5.3 seconds and reaches a top speed of 149 mph—as does the Grecale Modena, which scoots to 60 mph in only 5.0 seconds.
Above these versions soars the Trofeo, powered by a detuned version of the 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 found in the MC20 supercar. Here rated at 523 hp and 457 lb-ft, it scalds the road with 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 177 mph. It can be softened or sharpened through a drive mode selector with Comfort, GT, Sport, Corsa (Trofeo only), and Off-Road modes; the steering wheel brandishes one button to fire the car to life and another to toggle between those modes.
Press the left button to key up the whuffling turbo V-6 and the right button to dial in the best-case Sport mode—trust us. So set, you don’t have to work very hard to induce the kind of joy that comes from piloting a Maserati on virtually empty Italian back roads, punting Puntos into the rearview mirror as the Trofeo drills out volumes of exuberant exhaust. The Trofeo issues its trademark rorty flapping noise under full throttle with considerable thrust, and its long, silvery shift paddles chill the back of my fingers while I look for the standard-issue Stellantis audio controls on the back of the wheel, where they belong. I paddle down, down, down, into a steep corner then up, up, up from full stop to full throttle, and cackle as the Grecale scrabbles for traction. Too-clever Clios think they can get close enough to pass—then, just, braaaaaap, the exhaust poots at them with disdain and rockets off like the Scooby gang in hot pursuit of a ghost.
I’m driving a Trofeo shod with snow tires, because the weather in Italy’s been just as weird as (gestures at everything in classic Italian hand-waving form). Adaptive damping and air springs come standard on the Trofeo, and they establish some conflicting messages about body control. Very firm damping pairs with more relaxed springing, so the Grecale moves with capable confidence, if not the rigorous regimented control of a Porsche Macan Turbo. Some of that is due to weight—it’s between 4,431 and 4,629 pounds—but some undoubtedly gets chalked up to the winter tires. Minus some nonlinear feedback from its Brembo 6-piston front and 4-piston rear brake calipers, the Maserati mid-size crossover SUV feels worthy of comparison with the truly unflappable Macan.
Maserati Grecale utility: getting the SUV goods
At 191.3 inches long (190.8 inches on lesser models), and riding on a 114.2-inch wheelbase, the Grecale is about five inches longer overall and three inches longer in wheelbase than the related Stelvio. It shows. The Grecale cures the Stelvio’s sore point in packaging: while the Alfa crossover has a disappointing 31.9 inches of rear-seat legroom and can’t fit two adults well, the Grecale expands legroom to the point where its back seat is easy to get into and has plenty of space to get comfortable. In front, the Grecale’s seats are firm and hip-grabbing, with good range of adjustment and good mid-body grip for high-g cornering.
At 20.1 cubic feet behind rear seats, the Trofeo also tops the Stelvio’s 18.5 cubic feet of cargo space, though lesser Grecales have 18.9 cubic feet of room.
A clear victory comes in the Grecale’s user interface, referred to as the Maserati Intelligent Assistant (MIA). Powered by Google’s Android operating system, the setup listens for voice commands; it can hear when you query out loud, “Hey Maserati.” Other features include a 21-speaker (14-speaker standard) Sonus Faber sound system and automatic emergency braking; blind-spot monitors and adaptive cruise control come with the Trofeo, and are available on other versions.
The Grecale is on sale now, but only as a gas-powered SUV. The battery-powered Grecale Folgore comes later this year, with a battery pack that lies flat under its floor, skateboard-style—unlike that in the GranTurismo, where the Folgore’s batteries take up space left behind by its gas powertrain.
As for prices, the $64,995 Grecale GT can be upgraded to the $74,395 Modena; the Trofeo scales the Grecale heights at $103,995. For that kind of money, the one thing we’d change is the very loud pinging for automatic emergency braking. It cues like some kind of machine that signals imminent death in an emergency room or….oh, oh dear, that’s actually for the speed camera warning.
Ah well. Live and learn.
—with additional reporting by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Maserati brought us to Rome to drive the Grecale Trofeo and the glorious 2024 Granturismo Trofeo and Folgore—and got us hooked on the maritozzo in the process.
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When a new friend of mine suggested we hike a loop that visits six peaks in Acadia National Park, my first thought was: “Oh, she must think I’m in much better shape than I actually am.”
Then she explained that the hike was only about 6 miles long. That’s a peak per mile. Not bad. I didn’t know that type of route existed in Acadia, even though I’ve been exploring the park for several years.
For me, 6 miles is a fairly long hike, but it’s not an insurmountable challenge. So, confident that I wouldn’t sputter to a stop midtrek, I met my adventurous friend, Julianne, at the trailhead at 8 in the morning.
The “Six Summits” route visits the following summits, in order: Cedar Swamp Mountain (elevation: 942 feet above sea level), Penobscot Mountain (1,194 feet), Sargent Mountain (1,373 feet), Gilmore Peak (1,036 feet), Parkman Mountain (941 feet) and Bald Peak (974 feet). Each summit offers open views of the area.
Our adventure began at a trailhead on Route 3 in the town of Mount Desert, just north of Upper Hadlock Pond. In a shaded forest filled with twisting tree roots, we hiked to the haunting trill of a hermit thrush. The cool morning air was quickly warming as we took a tiny detour to hike underneath Waterfall Bridge, one of the several scenic stone bridges on Acadia’s carriage roads. With it being so dry lately, the waterfall was but a trickle.
Cedar Swamp Mountain, the first peak on our trek, is a lesser-known destination in the park. However, from its summit, we enjoyed nice views of the region. I’m surprised that I’ve never heard anyone suggest it or talk about hiking it.
Following the route involved navigating many trail intersections. We often referred to the trail map to make sure we didn’t veer off in the wrong direction. It’s easy to get turned around in the vast network of Acadia trails, even if you’re familiar with the park.
Left to right: Rock piles called cairns mark the South Ridge Trail up Sargent Mountain on July 31 in Acadia National Park. A rock pile called a cairn marks the trail descending from Bald Peak on July 31 in Acadia National Park. The view includes the Cranberry Isles and the hump of nearby Norumbega Mountain. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki
The route was made a bit more complicated because it featured two side trips, where we left the loop to bag a summit. The first side trip was Cedar Swamp Mountain, which was just two-tenths of a mile out and back. And the second side trip was the second peak, Penobscot Mountain. That was an 0.6-mile out-and-back trip.
From that point on, the summits were all located on the loop, but we still had to stay vigilant about directions to avoid heading down the wrong side of a mountain.
Along the way, we stopped a few times to pick and snack on wild blueberries, both lowbush and highbush. I also sampled a few black huckleberries, which are sweet with a milder taste than blueberries, plus a bit of a crunch due to the larger seeds inside.
Water lilies and lilypads floated on the surface of Sargent Pond, which is thought to be Maine’s oldest lake. Sitting in a granite bowl between Penobscot and Sargent mountains, it’s a small body of water. Our route led to viewpoints along its shore, where a group of fellow hikers were marveling at “huge tadpoles.”
The long south ridge of Sargent Mountain was my favorite stretch of the hike. The Alpine terrain reminded me a bit of Katahdin’s Tableland, with an abundance of low lying plants. It was there that Julianne noticed that wood lilies were in bloom. Their spotted, orange petals stood out against the mostly green flora.
Left to right: The bright petals of a wood lily stand out against the greenery atop Sargent Mountain on July 31 in Acadia National Park. A mountain holly bush is filled with red berries on Penobscot Mountain on July 31 in Acadia National Park. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki
We also noticed a few mountain holly bushes throughout the trek. This time of year, they display bright, velvety red berries, which aren’t edible but sure are pretty.
From one of the peaks, we spotted a bald eagle wheeling over Somes Sound. Its white head and tail flashed in the sun. Beyond, we identified the lone hump of Blue Hill Mountain, and at the horizon, the Camden Hills, painted blue by the atmosphere.
A red squirrel entertained us in the forest. Sitting on a tree root, it nibbled the seeds out of a pine cone, seemingly unbothered by our presence.
At the last summit, Bald Peak, I noticed a small jumping spider crouched in the carved letters of the summit sign. I spent a few minutes photographing the spider as it darted around on the weathered wood, all the while explaining to Julianne why I think jumping spiders are actually quite cute. I’m not sure she was convinced.
We completed our hike around 1 p.m., which means the loop took us about five hours, with a few snack breaks. I would absolutely hike it again. It was a great workout and each summit provided new and awesome views of the island and beyond.
Correction: A previous version of this story contained the incorrect distance of this part of the hike. | 2022-08-06T00:38:39+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/05/outdoors/summit-6-mountains-in-6-miles-xoasq1i29i/ |
Celebrate National Tattoo Day with Tattoo Trivia from Ezra Speaking
July 17 is National Tattoo Day, and Ezra Speaking joined us with some recent learnings about tattoos! He brought temporary tattoos for everyone to enjoy. Here are some of his facts:
A flash tattoo is a premade design that you can pick from a catalog of pictures.
On average, a tattoo takes about two weeks to heal with proper aftercare.
The most popular tattoos are said to be angels and hearts.
To connect with Ezra, subscribe to his channel on YouTube. | 2023-07-18T06:55:09+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/lifestylelive/celebrate-national-tattoo-day-with-tattoo-trivia-from-ezra-speaking/ |
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