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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — When voters hit the polls on May 24, they’ll find one statewide amendment on the ballot. The state parks amendment, as it is referred to, would amend the state constitution and create an $85 million dollar bond.
That funding would go towards the improvement and maintenance of state parks.
According to text included in a sample ballot from the Alabama Secretary of State, the measure is a result of the passing of House Bill 565 during the 2021 Alabama Legislative Session.
The proposed amendment included on the sample ballot reads as follows:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds of the State of Alabama of up to $85,000,000 for the purposes of the improvement, renovation, equipping, acquisition, provision, construction, and maintenance of Alabama state parks under the jurisdiction of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and public historical sites and public historical parks under the jurisdiction of the Alabama Historical Commission (Proposed by Act
2021-326).
The amendment is sponsored by State Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter and Wes Kitchens.
News 19 reached out to both to learn more about the amendment. At this time, we’ve only heard back from Rep. Wes Kitchens.
“I have three state parks in my district, so I see first hand some of the needs we have,” Kitchens told News 19. “Anything that we can do to get people outside, outdoors, is just going to be great for our state.”
Rep. Kitchens said through funding from the bond, projects can be done to “give our citizens really some of the conveiniences they expect when they go to our state parks.”
Any of the 21 state parks in Alabama would be eligible for the funding. Kitchens said it would be done on a “needs-based assessment.” The funding would be used for infrastructure improvements, facilities and anything “along those lines that our state parks need directly,” Kitchens said.
Amendments and ballot measures are typically seen during general elections, and not during the primaries. However, Kitchens said the he thinks the amendment would stand out better on a less crowded ballot.
He said it can “help keep this focused, so people know what they are voting on”.
Commissioner of the Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Chris Blankenship agreed with that sentiment.
“It was very important for us to get this started, and it was important for me to have this on the primary ballot where it would really be front and center so that people can see that and vote for it,” Blankenship stated.
Blankenship said Alabama’s parks need to be able to keep up with what today’s park visitors are looking for.
He said, “you know, a lot of our campgrounds were built when camping was a pop-up camper and a tent.”
“Now, that we have these half a million-dollar motor homes that have three air conditioners and need the 50 amp service, you know it’s important for us to upgrade our campgrounds to be able to provide for the people to be able to bring those types of equipment to our parks” he continued.
The amendment will be on both the Democrat and Republican primary ballots.
In the sample ballot given by the Secretary of State’s office, it offers a further explanation of what the $85,000,000 would be used for.
- The total amount the State may borrow will not exceed $85,000,000.00.
Of this total amount: - $80,000,000.00 shall be used to improve, renovate, equip, acquire, provide,
construct and maintain state parks under the Alabama Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources. - $5,000,000.00 shall be used to improve, renovate, equip, acquire, provide,
construct and maintain public historical sites and public historical parks under the
Alabama Historical Commission. The Alabama Historical Commission cannot use
any part of the borrowed money at the Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury,
Alabama.
Any additional funds will be given to the Alabama Forestry Commission for it to
improve, renovate, acquire, provide, construct, equip and maintain state forests.
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Why this facial recognition firm is controversial
Clearview AI is arguably the best known and most controversial facial recognition company in the world.
It's been at the centre of battles over privacy, personal data and freedom.
BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton spoke to Hoan Ton-That, co-founder of Clearview AI.
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SOUTH POINT, Ohio -- That a bulldozer sat behind the Ironton dugout at the South Point High School softball field was fitting as the Fighting Tigers ran over the Pointers 13-1 on Tuesday.
Bella Sorbilli drove the on-field machine, smashing a two-run home run, a three-run triple and a two-run single in going 3 for 4 with seven runs batted in.
"Just confidence," Sorbilli said. "I was in a little bit of a slump early in the season. I got out of this weekend and it carried through to today. I relaxed and saw pitches I wanted to hit."
After a weekend of facing hard-throwing hurlers from St. Albans, Raceland and Bath County in the Tri-State Showcase in Kentucky, Ironton had to adjust to the finesse approach of South Point's Sadie Perkins. The Tigers took a 1-0 lead when Aubrey Ferguson scored on a passed ball in the second inning, but plated 10 in the third to blow open the contest.
"Sometimes it takes us awhile to warm up with different pitchers, but we usually get it down by the second time (through the lineup)," Sorbilli said.
Ironton (8-2 overall, 5-1 Ohio Valley Conference) sent 14 batters to the plate in the third. Emily Weber, Gracie Brammer, Keegan Moore and Sorbilli all reached base twice in the inning. Weber, Brammer, Moore, Ferguson and Kylie Miller knocked in runs.
Jaidyn Malone scored on an error in the fourth to pull the Pointers within 11-1, but Sorbilli slugged a two-run homer to right in the fifth to set the score.
Braylin Wallace earned the win. She allowed two hits, struck out six and walked five.
Ironton benefited from 10 walks, with Moore leading with three. She also doubled.
The Tigers return to action at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Fairland. South Point (3-8, 1-3) visits Gallia Academy at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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News Analysis: U.S. recession fear mounts, but downturn not inevitable
WASHINGTON, April 19 (Xinhua) -- As the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates higher, fear of a U.S. recession is mounting, but there remains no consensus among economists and analysts, with some maintaining that the U.S. economy can avoid a downturn.
"My expectation is that we will see a U.S. economic recession by the end of this year or the beginning of next year," Desmond Lachman, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told Xinhua, adding that this will occur as the Fed shifts to a more hawkish monetary policy stance to fight inflation.
There is no recent precedent of the Federal Reserve having had to reduce inflation by as much as 4 percentage points without precipitating an economic recession, Lachman said.
One factor that makes a recession likely is that Fed tightening will occur at a time of bubble-like conditions in the U.S. stock market and housing market, Lachman said.
Consumer prices soared 8.5 percent in the 12 months through March, according to the U.S. Labor Department, and many economists believe the Fed's coming rate hikes - to avoid more inflation - will spark an economic downturn.
Economists at Deutsche Bank expressed concerns of inflation over the next two years, and a recent Bloomberg survey of economists tagged the odds of recession at 27.5 percent - up over 7 percentage points from just a month earlier. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the odds of recession were about 35 percent over the next two years.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has in recent months warned of an impending recession, with the odds of a hard landing in the next two years "better than half, and quite possibly two-thirds or more," according to a recent Bloomberg interview.
But other analysts expressed optimism.
James Paulsen, chief investment strategist of The Leuthold Group, a U.S. investment research firm, told Xinhua: "Inflation is up, and there's this narrative that the Fed is woefully behind the curve and the only way they can shut it down is over-tightening and killing off the economy."
"But if you just step back from the emotion, I don't see the list of things that generally produce recession," Paulsen said.
"We've got some of the greatest job creation we've ever had going," Paulsen said.
Recession generally occurs when there are bad balance sheets, "but we don't have bad balance sheets," Paulsen said.
Household debt-to-income ratios are the best they've been in the past 25 years, Paulsen noted.
"Liquidity's never been this high" in the household sector, he said, noting there are around 18 trillion U.S. dollars in deposit assets.
Corporations made record profits in 2021 and banks are also in good shape.
"Inflation is high - there's no doubt about that - but it's special circumstances where you deal with supply shortages as a result of restricting the labor supply due to COVID," he said.
"But I don't see where that alone necessarily is a cause of recession," he said.
Tightening is occurring, no doubt, and with about a one-year lag that will certainly slow the growth of the economy, but "we tighten in every recovery. And I don't think that means we recess," he said.
"Typically, once the Fed starts to tighten, it takes several more years before we have recession," he said.
One of the Fed's main challenges is to get inflation back down to its 2 percent mandate, via rate hikes, without going too fast and furious, which could sharply boost unemployment.
"Taken at face value ... historical patterns suggest the Fed faces a hard path to a soft landing," Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a research report on Sunday, as quoted by Bloomberg Quint - a joint venture involving Bloomberg.
Indeed, out of 14 post-WWII U.S. tightening cycles, 11 were followed by a downturn within two years, Hatzius noted.
However, only eight of them can be even partially attributed to Fed tightening -- and soft or "softish" landings have been more common more recently, Hatzius said.
Hatzius projected the odds of a recession in the next 12 months were around 15 percent, as quoted by Bloomberg Quint.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s baseline forecast shows a softening of U.S. economic activity, but at the moment "we don't forecast a recession," Tobias Adrian, director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said Tuesday.
"Having said that, there are risks around that baseline," Adrian said at a virtual press conference during the 2022 spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.
"If further adverse shocks are hitting, further supply shocks or further adverse shocks to real activity, certainly we could see worse outcomes than what is forecasted in the baseline," he added.
The U.S. economy is on track to grow 3.7 percent in 2022, 0.3 percentage point lower than the January projection, before growth moderating to 2.3 percent in 2023, according to the IMF's newly released World Economic Outlook report.
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Prime Minister's apology should lay Partygate to rest
The country had demanded genuine contrition, humility and an apology for his failings over Partygate.
And, in the Commons after being fined for attending a lockdown-busting bash in Downing Street, that's what Boris Johnson delivered, saying he 'bitterly regretted' the episode. And so he should.
While millions stuck fastidiously to the draconian Covid rules he introduced, he broke them.
Boris Johnson delivered, saying he 'bitterly regretted' the episode. And so he should.
But let's retain a sense of perspective. Does anyone seriously believe he knew he was doing wrong when people he worked with all day sang Happy Birthday? Scotland Yard's decision to penalise him seems disproportionate and authoritarian.
Why, just look elsewhere. Did Nicola Sturgeon get fined for not wearing a mask? No. Sir Keir Starmer for enjoying a beer and pizza with work chums? No.
The blunt truth is, some of the confected outrage by his political opponents (invariably Remainers) verges on deranged.
Britain faces plenty of problems, and they dwarf whether or not someone had a slice of cake in No 10: Energy security, the cost of living and war in Ukraine.
We must escape from the tangle of low political chicanery and let Boris turn his attention to what really matters.
Axe the green taxes
For one compelling reason why Mr Johnson must be allowed to focus on running the country, not trivialities such as cake, look no further than the Commons business committee.
Energy bosses warned yesterday that when the cold, dark nights of autumn hit, the cost of heating and lighting homes will be 'truly horrific'. Indeed, four in ten families face fuel poverty – including many in Middle England.
Of course, it sticks in the craw that the energy giants suggest wealthier households subsidise those struggling with bills. Funnily, these fat cats usually recoil at socialism.
But with such hardship on the horizon, the Government must soften the blow.
For a start, ministers could consider axing green levies, which add £153 to fuel bills.
Yes, these fund a range of initiatives – from renewables to household insulation. But many of these taxes, introduced by Labour, have been running for years. A review of their effectiveness is overdue. They were hard to justify even in boom times.
Today, when families are suffering the biggest price shock for decades – and many face the choice of eating or heating this winter – they are wholly indefensible.
Back the lionhearts
Humiliated by his thwarted attempt to conquer all of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is now trying to take control of the country's eastern region.
With customary disregard for human life, the war criminal launched a long-awaited Blitzkrieg of the Donbas by land and air.
Yet it's not likely to be a pushover. Compared to Ukraine's lionhearts, Russia's troops are an inept, poorly equipped, cowardly rabble of rapists and murderers.
The conflict is entering a grislier, attritional phase. After giving President Zelensky so much military, humanitarian and moral support, the West cannot step back.
Mr Johnson deserves plaudits for – once again – leading the democratic world and supplying Ukraine with more weapons to defend its homeland. Our allies must match that courage and commitment.
At the same time, they must face the cold truth. No matter how many arms shipments are delivered, Russia will stagger on as long as the EU keeps purchasing one billion euros of gas a day from the Kremlin.
Yes, Germany and others want to keep their lights on. But it finances a madman's war. They must turn off the taps – or risk the forces of darkness triumphing.
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Netflix is planning to incorporate ads into a lower-tier subscription service, the streaming giant finally admitted in an earnings call on Tuesday, after it had a subscriber loss.
“It’s pretty clear that it’s working for Hulu,” said Reed Hastings, co-CEO of Netflix, referring to the ad-supported video on demand. “Disney’s doing it. HBO did it. I don’t think we have a lot of doubt that it works.”
Netflix’s advertising plans came to light after the company announced its first-quarter earnings, during which it lost 200,000 subscribers, its first such drop in more than a decade. Netflix took a stock hit of about 25% of its value in after-hours trading. The notoriously ad-averse streaming player conceded that it is time to start testing ads as one way to boost its fortunes. All of Netflix’s top execs, in the quarterly video interview around earnings, touched on why Netflix will explore serving ads. Hastings, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Chief Financial Officer Spence Neumann were part of the discussion.
“Those who have followed Netflix, know that I’ve been against the complexity of advertising, and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription,” Hasting said. “But as much as I’m a fan of that, I’m a bigger fan of consumer choice and allowing consumers, who would like to have a lower price and are advertising tolerant, get what they want, makes a lot of sense.”
“Think of us as quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising,” Hastings said.
“Ads is an exciting opportunity for us that we want to explore more,” Neumann added.
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HONOLULU (KHON) – Actor Ezra Miller, who’s known for playing “The Flash” in “Justice League” films, has been arrested for an assault at a private residence in the Leilani Estates subdivision in lower Puna, Hawaii.
The Hawaii Police Department reported that the incident happened on Tuesday, April 19, shortly after 1 a.m.
According to police, Miller became irate after being asked to leave the home and reportedly threw a chair that hit a 26-year-old woman on the forehead. Police said she refused treatment for a cut.
Miller was arrested at approximately 1:30 a.m. for second-degree assault after police located Miller on the road during a traffic stop in Kea‘au.
Miller was released on Tuesday, April 19, pending further investigation.
This incident is the latest of the 29-year-old visitor from Vermont’s legal troubles in Hawaii that began in March. Before this, Miller was arrested at a Hilo bar for disorderly conduct and harassment.
Police said “The Flash” actor grabbed a microphone from a 23-year-old woman singing karaoke mid-song, then lunged at a 32-year-old man. The bar owner tried to calm Miller several times. A Hilo man who wished to remain anonymous described Miller acting out at the bar. Click here to hear his story.
Miller’s arraignment for this incident is scheduled for April 26.
Hawaii Police Assistant Chief Kenneth Quiocho told the Associated Press that Miller has been the source of police calls in Hilo 10 times since March 7. However, it’s not clear how long Miller has been on the island.
Last week, a Hawaii couple dropped their petition for a temporary restraining order against Miller after a judge dismissed it on April 11. The couple accused Miller of bursting into their bedroom and threatening them. They also accused Miller of stealing some of their belongings, including a passport and wallet.
In addition to last month’s karaoke bar incident, Miller is scheduled to be arraigned in a traffic case that occurred in downtown Hilo. The Associated Press reported that Miller’s attorney requested the court hearing be moved up, citing that his client “has various time sensitive work obligations in California and/or New York,” and needs an earlier hearing “to resolve this matter.”
Miller has a key role in the Harry Potter-universe film “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” which was released on April 15. The film got off to a less than magical start in its first weekend, reports said.
Miller is also set to play DC comic book hero “The Flash” in a movie to be released next year.
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FRANKLIN FURNACE — The Clay Panthers earned a 17-0 road win over Green in Southern Ohio Conference Division I play on Monday.
The Panthers (6-4, 6-3 SOC I) earned their sixth-win against SOC I competition as they reside in fourth-place in the league standings behind Symmes Valley, Notre Dame, and Ironton St. Joe.
Three different Panthers starters had perfect days at the plate as freshman Malachi Loper, senior Mitchell King, and sophomore Carson Holschuh each went 3-of-3 with at-least one RBI.
Junior Drew Zuefle earned the win on the hill over Green (2-9, 2-5 SOC I) — pitching three innings while allowing one hit, walking three, and striking out four.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 3 11 2 1 0 — 17 12 0
Green 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 2 2
Clay hitting
Carson Porginski 1-3, 3R, RBI, BB
Malachi Loper 3-3, 2R, RBI, BB
Charlie Swartz 0-1
Evan Balestra 0-3, 2R, RBI, BB
Mitchell King 3-3, 3R, 2RBI
Gaige Shorter 0-3, 2RBI, R, BB
Brandon Malone 0-1
Drew Zuefle 1-4, R, 2RBI
Dawson James 0-1, 2R, 2BB
Derrick Hammond 1-1
Hayden Moore 0-2, R
Isaiah Whitt 0-0, BB
Carson Holschuh 3-3, 2R, RBI
Green hitting
Nathaniel Brannigan 1-3
Landon Lewis 1-2
Pitching
Drew Zuefle (C) 3IP, 1H, 0ER, 3BB, 4K (W)
Evan Balestra (C) 2IP, 1H, 0ER, 0BB, 5K
Ace Thompson (G) 1.1IP, 3H, 4ER, 2BB, 2K (L)
Landon Lewis (G) 0.0IP, 1H, 7ER, 4BB
Austin Ray (G) 1.2IP, 4H, 3ER, 1K
Landon Kimbler (G) 1.2IP, 4H, 1ER, 1K
Nathaniel Brannigan (G) 0.1IP, 0H, 1K
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America's weed legalization: five things to know
An activist smokes out of a glass pipe during the annual New York City Cannabis Parade and Rally in May 2021
As pot smokers prepare to light up for "4/20" -- the annual counter-cultural celebration of cannabis held on April 20 -- the United States' legalization experiment blazes ahead.
Here are five things to know about marijuana in America:
- Where is it legal? -
Eighteen of the 50 US states, plus the capital Washington, have so far legalized recreational weed use for adults.
Most states allow at least some medical use -- ranging from oils with low levels of the active ingredient THC to near-legalization.
Just a few conservative states such as Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska have held off.
Oddly, marijuana remains illegal under federal law -- in fact, it is technically a "schedule one" controlled substance, on par with heroin.
So in theory, a cannabis user is still breaking the nation's laws.
But in practice, federal prosecutors do not pursue people or businesses that are complying with their state's marijuana laws, nor have they challenged those laws in court.
- Where could be next? -
While New Jersey has already legalized recreational weed, legal sales will only begin this Thursday.
Rhode Island, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Louisiana and Oklahoma are the states considered most likely to allow cannabis use next.
But that could soon be moot, if efforts to decriminalize marijuana nationwide work out.
A Democrat-led bill to eliminate punishments for possessing or selling the drug was approved by House lawmakers this month.
It faces a sterner test in the Senate, where the Democratic majority is as thin as a rolling paper. It would also need President Joe Biden's signature.
- How much is legal weed worth? -
Legal weed is already big business -- worth around $25 billion in the United States last year -- and is only expected to grow faster.
Efforts are under way to clear financial red tape for legal cannabis operators, who often struggle to secure basic services such bank accounts, loans and even credit card machines at checkouts due to the sector's "grey zone" legal status.
States reported $3.7 billion in cannabis tax revenue from sales last year.
And the recent House bill projected that annual legal sales will pass $40 billion by 2025.
- What about the illegal industry? -
As big as the legal sector has grown, it is still dwarfed by illegal marijuana sales.
Illicit cannabis was estimated to be worth $65 billion in 2020 across the nation.
This is not just confined to states where weed remains illegal.
Even in California, the first US state to approve medical marijuana use back in 1996, as much as 80 percent of cannabis sales remains outside the law.
These range from loyal customers sticking with their original dealers -- either from preference for the product, or lower prices thanks to the lack of taxes -- to counterfeit operations that consumers may assume are legitimate.
- Who supports it? -
Overall, the US public is strongly behind legalization.
A Pew Research poll found last year that 91 percent of adults think marijuana should be legal, either medically, recreationally or both.
Roughly half of US adults last year told Gallup they had tried cannabis, up from one-third in 1999.
Legal cannabis companies have drawn celebrity funding or endorsements, from musicians Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa to actor Seth Rogen and former boxing champ Mike Tyson.
Billionaire Elon Musk is also a fan, controversially lighting up a joint during a "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast livestream, and tweeting his outrage about prisoners who are still behind bars for the historical offence of selling weed.
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NEW MILFORD, Pa. — The lights are still out for several people in Susquehanna County.
Heavy snowfall knocked out power to thousands.
Repairs are underway as a cold, windy night begins.
April snowfall covered New Milford in a wintery blanket.
Trees bent and broke under the weight of the wet snow, some knocked out power to thousands.
Almost every building in New Milford is dark.
Businesses in the borough shut down.
Uncle Charlie's Pizza is keeping freezers and fridges closed to keep the food fresh.
Employee Shawn Bryden was cleaning up.
"You know, typical Pennsylvania winter; you never know when it started, you never know when it ends," he said.
Bryden says people in the area are used to widespread outages.
"Up here in this area, the power goes out quite a bit. Pretty much every time we get a good wet snow or a good wind," he added.
"It's incredible how many people were impacted in this," New Milford resident Ronald Duffy said.
Duffy says he lost electricity overnight.
"We heard a lot of trees coming down and then all of the sudden, the power went out," he said.
Duffy spent his afternoon inside a dimly lit Parkview Hotel Restaurant, helping them power up the generators and fire up the stove.
He says the storm came as a surprise to some residents.
I've heard a few people say that it hasn't happened in a long time, this late in the year," Duffy said.
Down the road in Great Bend, customers at Rob's Market prepared for a long night.
"This morning started off pretty slow because no one could get out. They were all shoveling to try to get here. But by lunchtime, it's been crazy," said Melanie Major, office manager. "Everyone wants their water, their bread, lunch meat, whatever they can do because nobody has power."
Major is among them, having lost power early Tuesday.
The store lost power too, but it's running on generators.
Major says everyone is stocking up.
"They're definitely coming in looking for canned stuff, whatever they can do to survive for the next couple days, because nobody knows what's going to happen," she said.
Penelec says this storm caused more than 12,000 outages.
Claverack reports another 10,000 or more.
A Susquehanna County commissioner tells Newswatch 16, that it could be several days before streets and homes are lit once again.
For the most up-to-date information on the outage, check out these outage maps:
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A new report says that Iowa leads the nation in Federal violations for puppy mills.
The non-profit organization, Bailing Out Benji recently released a detailed report about violations from the United States Department of Agriculture. According to the report, 19 of Iowa’s breeders and brokers received violations from January 1, 2022, to March 31, 2022.
According to the report, the violations included breeders lacking veterinary care for their animals, housing, and sanitization.
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa believes the state should enforce its current Animal Welfare laws.
“The Animal Welfare Act has some powerful provisions in it, and it’s the USDA that’s responsible for enforcement of that Act,” said Animal Rescue League of Iowa Director of Animal Services Joe Stafford.
“People can voice their opinion to their elected officials at the state level, voice their opinion to elected officials in Washington, DC and let them know that this is an important issue for them.”
Other states included in the report were Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
In the meantime, the ARL said people could help put puppy mills out of business by vetting locations before buying a pet, reporting the conditions, and asking potential owners to meet the puppies’ parents.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Dede Robertson, the wife of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Tuesday at her home in Virginia Beach, the network said in a statement.
Robertson was 94. The statement did not provide her cause of death.
Robertson became a born-again Christian several months after her husband found his faith. The couple, who met at Yale University in 1952, embarked on a journey that included living in a roach-infested commune in New York before Pat Robertson bought a tiny television station in Virginia that would become the Christian Broadcasting Network.
He later ran for president of the United States in 1988, with his wife campaigning by his side.
“Mom was the glue that held the Robertson family together," said Gordon Robertson, one of her four children, and the president and CEO of CBN. “She was always working behind the scenes. If it weren’t for Mom, there wouldn’t be a CBN.”
Adelia “Dede” Elmer was born in Columbus, Ohio, to middle-class Catholic Republicans. She got her bachelor's degree from Ohio State and a master's in nursing from Yale.
Robertson's future husband was the son of a Southern Baptist, Democratic U.S. senator. Eighteen months after meeting, they ran off to be married by a justice of the peace, knowing that neither family would approve.
Robertson's husband was interested in politics until he found religion, she told The Associated Press in 1987. He stunned her by pouring out their liquor, tearing a nude print off the wall and declaring he had found the Lord.
They moved into the commune in Bedford-Stuyvesant because Robertson said God had told him to sell all his possessions and minister to the poor. Robertson told The AP she was tempted to go back to Ohio, "but I realized that was not what the Lord would have me do ... I had promised to stay, so I did.”
Pat Robertson later heard God tell him to buy the small TV station in Portsmouth, Virginia, which would become a global religious broadcasting network. He ran the network's flagship program, the “700 Club,” for half a century before stepping down last fall.
In her autobiography, Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
“I was a Northerner, and Northern men just generally help around the house a little more,” she said. “I noticed the further south we moved, the less he did.”
Her attitude changed after she had her own born-again experience at a church service, she told The AP. “I began to see how important what he was doing really was.”
Robertson said that women should not work outside the home while their children are young unless they must. She reared her kids and worked as a nursing professor after they went to school.
She had represented the U.S. on the Inter-American Commission of Women, which was established to ensure recognition of women’s human rights. She also served on the board of Regent University, which her husband founded.
Pat Robertson said in a statement that his wife “was a woman of great faith, a champion of the gospel, and a remarkable servant of Christ who has left an indelible print on all that she set her hand to during her extraordinary life.”
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Prince Harry: I'm making sure the Queen is protected
Prince Harry says the Queen was "on great form" when he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of the Sussex visited her recently.
Speaking in an interview with NBC's Today show, the Duke of Sussex expressed how he is looking out for his 95-year-old grandmother, saying: "I'm making sure that she's protected and got the right people around her".
The duke also used the interview in The Hague, in the Netherlands, to describe the United States as his home "for the time being" where he has been "welcomed with open arms".
The full interview will air on NBC News’ TODAY Wednesday, April 20.
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ATLANTA — National Pretzel Day is April 26!
To celebrate the day, Auntie Anne's is giving away free "Original" and "Cinnamon Sugar" pretzels to Pretzel Perks members.
For people to redeem their free pretzel, they do need to download the "Auntie Anne's Pretzel Perks" app. Then, you can redeem the free pretzel offer in store or online on National Pretzel Day. The offer is limited to one per person.
While Auntie Anne's is currently based out of Atlanta, the company's original home is in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, where it was founded in 1988.
For more information, click here.
Here are some National Pretzel Day facts, courtesy of Auntie Anne's:
- In 2021, pretzel fans purchased more than 76.9 million pretzel items at Auntie Anne's!
- Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Nuggets are the #1 menu item sold at Auntie Anne's followed by Original Pretzel Nuggets in second and Mini Pretzel Dogs in third.
- Auntie Anne's was founded in Pennsylvania in 1988 and today, the Original Pretzel is still the number one item purchased by local residents.
- Fans in Texas, New York, Florida, and California prefer their pretzels to be sweet, not salty, with Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Nuggets reigning as the top pretzel choice.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged world finance leaders Tuesday to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia’s war in Ukraine has made even worse.
“This threat touches the most vulnerable people the hardest — families that are already spending disproportionate amounts of their income on food,” Yellen told fellow finance leaders during a food security meeting convened with members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. “Moreover, the interconnectedness of the global food system means that people on every continent are impacted.”
Among the proposed solutions under discussion: reducing export restrictions, relieving price controls across countries and subsidizing small farmers globally. Failure to feed the world’s population risks not only starvation, but also social unrest and cross-border political upheaval.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Treasury Department issued a carve-out to the sanctions that have already been imposed to allow agricultural transactions and trade related to humanitarian aid and access to communications.
Russia and Ukraine produce a third of the world’s wheat supply and the loss of commodities due to the war has resulted in soaring food prices and uncertainty about the future of food security globally, especially in impoverished countries.
The costs of fertilizer and natural gas have exploded and leaders expressed concern that countries could turn inward and restrict trade to protect their populations, indirectly hurting more vulnerable countries that face even worse food problems.
“We know that we must avoid export restrictions that could further increase prices,” Yellen said. “We must quickly support the most vulnerable populations with social safety nets and targeted support for smallholder farmers so they can continue to produce.”
David Malpass, president of the World Bank, said his organization will provide $17 billion per year to strengthen food security. “We think food insecurity is rising fastest in middle-income countries and responding appropriately is mission critical,” he said. The organization is also developing a 15-month crisis response package of $170 billion, that will address the pandemic, refugee resettlement and other issues alongside food supply.
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index has made its biggest jump since its inception in 1990, reflecting an all-time high in the cost of vegetable oils, cereals and meat, according to the organization.
A late March report from the organization stated that the global number of undernourished people could increase by 8 million to 13 million people into 2023, “with the most pronounced increases taking place in Asia-Pacific, followed by sub-Saharan Africa, and the Near East and North Africa. If the war lasts, impacts will go well beyond 2022/23.”
Gilbert Houngbo, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said international banks should look not just at food production but also “providing food on the table, it’s a matter of ensuring minimum social protection for the most vulnerable communities.”
“Those small-scale producers should have their fair share in what they produce,” he said.
Yellen said international financial institutions need to work with affected countries to develop solutions.
“They can help mitigate the global fertilizer shortage and smooth supply chain disruptions for food and critical supplies,” she said, adding that they also can offer “targeted assistance and strengthen social safety nets to protect vulnerable people in the short term and build their resilience over the longer term.”
Anna Nagurney, a crisis management specialist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said Tuesday’s meeting of global leaders was significant and “speaks to the growing fear and the increasing understanding that the world may be on the verge of a hunger catastrophe.”
Nagurney predicted that countries that have not yet provided clear support for Ukraine — such as China and India — will come to realize that the food insecurity from a prolonged war in Ukraine will affect their own national stability and the welfare of their citizens.
“This may help to further isolate Russia both morally and economically,” she said.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said Monday that the international coalition of countries imposing sanctions on Russia and its allies takes the food security threat seriously.
“One of the things we have to do is take practical steps to demonstrate that this system is helping the people who need it the most,” he said, which includes a “focus on those countries that are struggling to pay for things like bread for their people in light of the increase in commodities prices.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Beth Paretta’s ultimate goal is to run a full-time IndyCar program.
So she made a deal to run three races on this season’s schedule, and perhaps more, in lieu of the Indianapolis 500.
Paretta made the announcement Tuesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the same venue she announced the formation of her all-female team and the same venue it became such a compelling story last May while working with series powerhouse Team Penske.
Swiss driver Simona de Silvestro will again pilot the No. 16 Chevrolet but this time Paretta Autosport will be working with Ed Carpenter Racing on June 12 at Road America in Wisconsin, July 3 at Mid-Ohio and Aug. 7 on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee.
“We had to figure out what would be the best fit for us and if Ed was running three cars at the 500, we didn’t really want to be the fourth car,” Paretta said. “The decision was, ‘OK, they’re going to do three cars for 500 and that allows us to do these three races later in the year.’ This is growth for my team. It’s getting our team to new places, it’s getting Simona to new places and as far as becoming a full-time team, this is a good investment for us.”
It comes with a cost — bypassing a chance to become the 33rd entry for the series’ biggest race next month. But skipping the 500 could make Paretta’s team more competitive in the long run.
Last May, de Silvestro struggled during qualifying week and sweated out an anxious Bump Day to hold onto the final starting spot on the traditional 33-car grid. She finished 31st.
This year, De Silvestro plans to arrive before the scheduled May 29 race date and will work with Carpenter’s team during the following week’s stop in Detroit before making her season debut.
“We were really hoping to grow and now joining Ed Carpenter Racing I think is definitely the way to go,” de Silvestro said. “It’s amazing. The places we’re going to are tracks where I’ve been quite fast in the past, so I’m super motivated.”
In the meantime, Paretta’s all-female crew will continue refining their pit-stop skills as they adapt to cars coming into the pit stalls from a different direction than they did last year in Indy.
A potential pairing of de Silvestro and Colombian rookie Tatiana Calderon, who competes on road and street courses for A.J. Foyt Racing, also could be another step forward for women in the series. Road America could mark the first time two female drivers compete in the same IndyCar race since 2013.
“We have research that shows IndyCar is growing overall but one of the fastest growing segments is women. That’s true for races generally as well as television audiences,” said Mark Miles, president and CEO of the series’ parent company, Penske Entertainment. “We’re just really pleased you’re taking this next step.”
Paretta did not provide any hints about what other races could be added.
The red, white and blue car will be sponsored by KiwiCo, which bills itself as a company that specializes in creating STEM and STEAM building kits for people ages four to 104. The University of South Carolina also agreed to return as an associate sponsor this year and Paretta said she will retain most of the crew members who worked with de Silvestro last season.
Skipping the 500 leaves a hole for that 33rd car on the entry list. With 32 car-driver combinations already on board, many thought Paretta and de Silvestro would fill the void.
Instead, Miles expressed confidence there will be enough cars to fill the field and perhaps even enough to create some Bump Day intrigue.
“A lot has been written about that and I think we can pretty much guarantee there will be 33 cars in the field and possibly one more,” Miles said.
But getting Paretta back on the track with two more starts than the team made in its inaugural season has everyone eager to see the results and what’s next for Paretta Autosport.
“Beth and I have have discussed different ways to help her dreams, and it took us a little while to find the fit but we’re finally there,” said Carpenter, the three-time Indy pole winner and 2018 runner-up. “It’s going to be fun.”
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The NDLSD planning process is an opportunity to create a better future. Will IDOT do so?
Take the North DuSable Lake Shore Drive Access and Experience at the Lakefront survey here through April 22.
On March 24, the Illinois Department of Transportation hosted the thirteenth task force meeting of the agency’s Redefine the Drive planning project. The purpose of the project is “to improve the North [DuSable] Lake Shore Drive multi-modal transportation facility,” because the infrastructure is beyond its structural life. The meeting, broadcast live on Zoom, outlined next steps and major announcements. This included urban design firm Gehl, famous for its focus on centering people in urban space, joining the planning team. The team also announced a goal of choosing a preferred alternative by the end of the year.
The task force meetings raised many questions about the planning process, public engagement, and public influence on the project’s outcome. Despite being open for public viewing, the task force meeting did not provide the public opportunities to ask questions nor participate in any sort of chat. In fact, since the project was initiated in 2013, there have been only four public meetings and a handful of resident surveys. Overall, the Redefine the Drive team’s planning process could be described as opaque. If that lack of transparency is by design, that’s even more concerning.
Molly Fleck, a resident of Lincoln Park who primarily uses transit to get around, expressed frustration about the public engagement process. “Communication with the public is very poor,” she said, noting that the March task force meeting wasn’t publicized. Many public witnesses (members of the public who could view the meetings but are not task force members) learned about it after a slide for the meeting was shared on Twitter by Kate Lowe, a University of Illinois at Chicago urban planning and policy professor.
Given transportation/engineering history, worried about the complexities of lakefill, even for greenspace. Environmentalists, water specialists, perspectives? Also, worried an additional lane (“the addition”) & supporting vehicle speed (+VMT, + traffic danger) seriously pursued. pic.twitter.com/8iSX9givi2
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“Once I managed to find out about [the task force meetings], the two scheduled meetings were at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., which interfered with my work schedule,” Fleck said. “I was able to join the 9 a.m. meeting, but the Zoom chat was disabled for members of the public, so we couldn’t ask any questions during the meeting. The transparency and openness to public opinion have been severely lacking.”
This is a sentiment shared by Cheryl Zalenski, a Northwest Side resident who previously lived in Roscoe Village. Zalenski also used the word “opaque” to describe the process. She pointed out that most of her information about the project also comes from friends on social media and not project leadership.
“The process has not been very open at all,” Zalesnki said. “It is very hit-or-miss when I find out there are engagement opportunities.” On top of that, Zalenski feels that even when the project team is engaging with the public they’re herding the public towards predetermined outcomes rather than attempting to gather real input and making decisions based on that.
The behind-closed-doors nature of the planning process has not just frustrated members of the public, it has raised concerns that it is preventing better outcomes from being considered and pursued. Zalenski mentioned that when her friends and family learn about this process they’re “pretty shocked and horrified when they hear about how little input is being gathered and how focused on creating more accessibility for [vehicle] traffic there appears to be.”
Fleck likewise expressed frustration at the lack of vision on the part of IDOT, the lead agency for the planning project. She pointed out the irony of quoting famed Chicago urban planner Daniel Burnham on the project website: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood,” noting on Twitter, “The vision is essentially just reallocating a couple lanes on a highway. Is this really the best we can do in Chicago? I don’t think it is.”
The rapidly worsening climate crisis has added an additional stress point for individuals and organizations concerned about the project and the current redesign proposals for the northern segment of the drive, all of which include maintaining a highway-grade road. Only one of the recommended alternative, “The Flex,” involves converting existing mixed-traffic lanes transit-only lanes.
Michelle Stenzel, a Lincoln Park resident and long-time sustainable transportation advocate, has been a member of the Redefine the Drive task force since it was established. The task force, which is composed of members of the public and representatives of stakeholder organizations, advises and provides feedback to the planning team.
Stenzel wrote a letter to the planning team and several local elected officials, which she shared with Streetsblog Chicago. It opens by asking where is the discussion about climate change. She writes:
The public-facing portion of this project began in 2013, including formulation of its Purpose and Need Statement in 2014, which makes no mention of climate change, an existential crisis we are now facing globally and locally. In recent years climate change has contributed to increasingly severe and widespread weather events causing harm to humans and all life forms. It will likely be at least 15 years before the entire DLSD project is approved, designed and built, by which time climate change will only worsen, without steps being taken to mitigate it.
Stenzel adds: “The importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing better access to public transit are major themes. In fact, the city has stated an explicit goal of increasing ridership of the CTA by 20 percent by the year 2030.”
Reducing vehicle miles traveled and reducing vehicle dependency (regardless of the fuel source) must be a major component of all attempts at reducing climate change inducing greenhouse gas emissions. The easiest way to accomplish this is by providing more alternative transportation choices to the public and designing infrastructure that makes such choices convenient and safe. IDOT’s plans for the drive would do the exact opposite. They would lock in a dangerous degree of car dependency in one of the few areas of the entire country where people can actually have viable alternatives to driving.
And this is without mentioning the impacts of a highway-grade road on our park and lakefront. Both Fleck and Zalenski view the drive as a barrier to accessing the lakefront. It also disrupts people’s experience of the lakefront, which ideally would offer a green respite from urban living, access to which is widely accepted as being vital for residents’ physical and mental well-being.
Furthermore, the need to cross an eight-lane highway not only disrupts the public’s enjoyment of the lakefront, it also makes accessing it dangerous. For pedestrians and cyclists, the drive is a dangerous barrier. For transit riders, their buses get held up in traffic diminishing transit’s viability as a transportation option. This is only exacerbated by the road’s highway grade design standards. This is an issue Stenzel calls out in her letter.
The posted speed limit on north DLSD is 40 or 45 MPH, but few drivers adhere to that limit…a past vehicle speed study done over the course of two days showed that 78 percent to 95 percent of drivers exceeded the speed limit at all times.” She goes on to say that “the geometry of DLSD is not compatible with these driving speeds. Unfortunately, the current design of the DLSD roadway… looks like an interstate highway to the average driver, and so they are “told” by the design that it’s OK to travel at highway speeds of 55, 60, or 65 MPH. As a result of the current design, crashes occur and people die. This is not acceptable.
Indeed.
All this is a serious indictment of the planning process, the planning team’s public engagement, and IDOT’s worldview, especially when applied to dense urban spaces with a high degree of multimodal living. Fleck did not hold back in her criticism of the planning team’s leadership. “Government agencies are not rewarded for good ideas ([although] that’s their job!); but they are heavily penalized when projects fail, so the incentive structure is inherently conservative.”
Fleck does not believe it has to be this way. “I think IDOT could make a case to the public for a bold, visionary plan, but it would require them to stick their necks out and spend political capital. Making NDLSD a true boulevard with transit priority would be a huge risk, and the incentive structure does not support risk-taking. Every piece of the project from public approval to funding would be more challenging, because they’d have to make their case and convince stakeholders at every stage. That’s a lot harder than presenting the kinds of plans they’re presenting now, which essentially preserve the status quo with a few small adjustments.”
Despite the work IDOT would need to put into presenting a bold, visionary plan for the drive and by extension the north lakefront, the times demand it. “Given this opportunity and given the climate crisis we’re experiencing as a world and a city, it’s really disappointing we’re not being more creative about our thinking,” Zalenski said. She closed by saying, “we’re really at a crucial point in the history of humanity when we can make a real bold decision to have a better future. We should seize the moment.” The question remains whether IDOT and other decision-makers are willing to do so.
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The last time Orlando City and the Tampa Bay Rowdies played each other in an official competition was in 2014 in the U.S. Open Cup. Now they are set to face off again in that same competition Wednesday night.
“It was just an organic rivalry,” former Orlando defender Bryan Burke told the Orlando Sentinel. “It felt like this was a real game that we needed to win, even though it was preseason.”
The two sides began their rivalry on the field in 2013, when they played each other in a preseason tournament at Disney’s Wide World of Sports, won 2-0 by the Lions.
That led to the inception of the “I-4 Derby,” played just weeks later that year, as the teams play home-and-away matches against each other before their own seasons started.
Orlando would play the Rowdies six times in 2013 and 2014, winning every matchup. They’re 7-0-2 overall. Though the results were almost always in the Lions’ favor, the games still were hard-fought.
“The games were always chippy,” former Lions goalkeeper Miguel Gallardo said. “We’d walk on the pitch, and we saw them, and we knew this is the bad guy. We wanted to beat them really bad.”
Gallardo, who now works as a broadcaster for Orlando City, played for the team from 2011-14, captain of most matches throughout his tenure. He’s passed on the history of the original rivalry to the 2022 Lions squad.
“This is important for the fans,” Gallardo said. “Anything that is important to our fans should be important to our players.”
Former Orlando City winger Jamie Watson, an integral part of the Lions organization and a fan favorite from 2011-13, still vividly remembers how it felt to be on the field for those matches.
“In my 12-year career, the trash talk from the fans was the worst when it was in that match,” he said. “It meant more for us because of the rivalry with the fan base.”
For the matches against Tampa, Watson recalled that then-manager Adrian Heath would not talk about tactics before matches. He always wanted to make sure his players knew the game’s significance to the fans.
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“[Adrian] always challenged us with this one saying that resonated with me a lot,” Watson said. “‘Go out there and play as if you were one of the supporters who got a chance to put on the jersey for one night.’”
While that was the mentality eight years ago, a lot has changed within the club. The Lions now are managed by Oscar Pareja, who has yet to coach a U.S. Open Cup game with Orlando. Despite that, his history with the tournament runs deep, winning the trophy with FC Dallas in 2016.
He’s never coached Orlando in the tournament, but Pareja did coach against them in 2013, when he served as the manager of the Colorado Rapids. The USL-Pro Lions took down his MLS side 3-1 at the Citrus Bowl, giving Pareja a glimpse into what could come for the Lions franchise.
“It was a very well-played game by Orlando,” Pareja said. “It has been a long time since then. I could remember players that had played in my teams and played for Orlando also, like Dom Dwyer, Dillon Powers, Shane O’Neill, Jamie Watson, and my coworker, now here in Orlando, Miguel Gallardo. It is great to see how much the club has grown since.”
The Lions will host the match at Exploria Stadium, with kickoff set for 7. The match will be broadcast on ESPN+.
EPL powers come to Orlando
Arsenal and Chelsea, English Premier League rivals, will meet at Camping World Stadium on July 23 for the Florida Cup, it was announced Tuesday. It will be the finale of a weeklong “FC Series” expansion featuring international matches across the United States.
Before that exhibition, Arsenal will play Orlando City at Exploria Stadium on July 20, a first-time meeting between the two clubs.
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Le-Vel Welcomes New Chief Legal Officer
Carmen Wasserman joins company bringing 27 years of experience to the position
FRISCO, Texas, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading innovator in nutrition and skincare, Le-Vel, is pleased to announce the appointment of Carmen Wasserman to the position of Chief Legal Officer, effective immediately.
Wasserman's 27 years of experience are characterized by advising start-ups to multi-billion dollar companies on how to navigate the myriad of laws and regulations in the global arena.
"Carmen is an excellent addition to our executive team," says Le-Vel CEO and Co-Founder Jason Camper. "Her strong business acumen and experience as a key strategic partner to Executives and Board Members of global brands in the direct selling industry is a tremendous asset to our organization, and we are confident that she will lead and guide us in our compliance and legal program."
Before joining Le-Vel, Wasserman served as Associate General Counsel and Data Privacy Officer for Arbonne International LLC, as CEO of Compliance Legal and Strategic Solutions and as Vice President Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Corporate Counsel at Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc.and legal endeavors.
"I'm excited to join Le-vel, where innovation from a product and customer experience perspective is a key part of the corporate culture," Wasserman says. "I look forward to partnering with the team to deliver a legal and compliance program designed for the ever-evolving needs of our industry."
Wasserman holds a Juris Doctor degree in International Law and Business Law from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Government from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
About Le-Vel
Founded in 2012 by Jason Camper and Paul Gravette, Le-Vel formulates and sells health and wellness products and skincare. Le-Vel products include the THRIVE Experience (consisting of the three core products, THRIVE Premium Lifestyle DFT, THRIVE Premium Lifestyle Capsules and THRIVE Premium Lifestyle Mix), and THRIVE SKIN (a CBD skincare system). All of Le-Vel's products contain premium vitamins and nutrients made with the highest quality ingredients.
In 2019, less than seven years after the company's inception, Le-Vel reached a milestone of $2 billion in lifetime orders. Le-Vel has over 10 million Customer and Brand Promoter accounts and currently ships within the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A task force created in 2021 to research the most effective ways to keep concertgoers safe released its final report Tuesday, according to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.
The Texas Task Force on Concert Safety was created in November after the Astroworld Festival in Houston left 10 people dead and over 300 injured when a crowd surge crushed concert goers. It’s estimated 50,000 people attended the event at NRG Park Stadium to watch rapper Travis Scott perform.
Additionally, just this month, one person was killed and several others were hurt after a shooting at an outdoor concert in southeast Dallas.
The task force is made up of safety experts, law enforcement, firefighters, state agencies as well as music industry leaders who looked at “ways to enhance security at live music events in Texas,” according to Abbott’s office. Within their report, the group reviewed the events at Astroworld and offered suggestions for holding safer events.
For example, the task force recommended a “centralized on-site command and control group” to oversee the event and determine “clearly outlined triggers” for when and how to halt or cancel a show if safety is threatened. The triggers should be outlined in event permit applications, the report read, and agreed upon by the on-site control and command group ahead of time.
By mid-concert at Astroworld, the task force wrote, while on-site medical staff was dealing with a number of injuries, the Houston Fire Department “self-initiated a response,” which let to the department declaring the show a “mass-casualty incident.” Even though this declaration was made, “the concert continued for another half hour,” the report read.
If a show needs to be stopped, local 911 response officials and a designated production team member with the power to shut it down are required to be on-site during the event to make the call. A clear chain of command should be established, and members of involved emergency response agencies should be included.
According to the report, “no permits were obtained” for Astroworld Fest and there was confusion over the permitting process for Astroworld and whether event organizers should have answered to the city or county.
“Highlighted in the discussion of the Astroworld event was the fact that the County had jurisdiction over the permitting requirements, but City 911 was responsible for responding to event incidents. Additionally, there was no Occupancy Load issued for the event, which is typically determined by the Fire Department,” the report read.
The task force said large-scale events should be permitted before they happen and follow permit guidelines. If an event lacks or violates its permit, the report said local officials can shut it down. Permitting was found to be inconsistent across Texas, prompting a recommendation that a universal permitting template be created.
Astroworld Fest’s setup differed from typical venues because it was held in a parking lot. If an event is set up in a non-traditional way, the task force said it requires “unique contingency plans,” especially if there is a breach, and people gain entry without a ticket.
At Astroworld, the report said, “hours before the performance began, the perimeter was breached by unticketed attendees. This rush of people overwhelmed available resources, leading to a variety of reported injuries throughout the day.”
The task force said event organizers can also utilize public service announcements to alert attendees to any dangerous situations that might occur, as well as encourage them to think about the safety of others. The report even recommended a “Concert Attendee Code of Conduct” be used in the ticketing process to “make clear what behaviors will lead to ejection.”
The group also suggested event organizers monitor social media and artist accounts to learn what is happening in the crowd in real time, as well as researching the artist and talking with venues that have hosted the artist before to gauge crowd culture and safety.
“Some artists have a documented history of encouraging attendees to disregard public safety. When an artist does this, it could be considered a breach of contract and come with responsibility for any damage to property and people. Event promoters should partner with artists to encourage safety, since messaging from the artist can be uniquely persuasive for fans,” the report read.
In addition to its final report, the task force created an all-in-one Event Production Guide for event organizers and promoters, which can be found on the Texas Music Office website. Within it, training resources for event and security staff can be found. The task force said these team members need adequate training for each event.
“A series of preshow steps, such as tabletop exercises, site walkthrough drills, security briefings before and after shifts, establishment of a clear and well-disseminated communication tree, and agreed-upon show-stop triggers and responses are some of the elements of successful event protocol,” the report read.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against Travis Scott and Astroworld for the deadly incident.
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Aussie swimmers to take on arch-rivals USA
World swimming superpowers Australia and the United States will square off at a Duel in the Pool competition in Sydney this August.
The nations, who collected 50 swimming medals between them at last year's Tokyo Olympics, are revisiting a made for television concept last held in 2007.
Australia and the US will send 30 swimmers each to compete at Sydney's Olympic aquatic centre and Bondi Beach for open-water events.
Swimming Australia (SA) says new race and relay formats will be among fresh bells and whistles at the meet as the sport seeks to broaden its audience.
The original Duel in the Pool in 2003 was held after Sydney's successful Olympics, with the last event held in 2007.
SA's chief executive Eugenie Buckley says the fresh format will blend a traditional points system with "unprecedented" broadcast and pool deck concepts.
"Reigniting the Duel in the Pool will enable us to showcase the best athletes ... through a format that will bring fans closer to the action and engage the viewing audience like never before," Buckley said in a statement on Wednesday.
The NSW government has backed the event while USA Swimming president Tim Hinchey III said the meet will help swimmers from both nations.
"The world's best thrive when competing against one another, and our teams have established an exciting history," he said in a statement.
"We're proud to partner with Swimming Australia to provide our athletes with another world-class competitive meet and an incredibly unique and exciting event for the fans."
The Duel in the Pool will be staged on August 19-21.
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-09-33-47-53, Mega Ball: 24, Megaplier: 3
(two, nine, thirty-three, forty-seven, fifty-three; Mega Ball: twenty-four; Megaplier: three)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-09-33-47-53, Mega Ball: 24, Megaplier: 3
(two, nine, thirty-three, forty-seven, fifty-three; Mega Ball: twenty-four; Megaplier: three)
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New York, April 19, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") today upgraded the corporate family rating of Sally Holdings LLC ("Sally") to Ba1 from Ba2 and its probability of default rating to Ba1-PD from Ba2-PD. Concurrently, Moody's upgraded the rating of the company's senior secured term loan to Baa3 from Ba1, upgraded the rating of its senior secured notes to Ba1 from Ba2 and upgraded the rating of its senior unsecured notes to Ba2 from Ba3. The outlook is stable and the company's speculative grade liquidity rating remains SGL-1.
"Governance is a key driver of the upgrade as the company's financial strategies have been prudent reflected by its meaningful debt repayment and very good liquidity", Moody's Vice President Mickey Chadha stated. "Although we expect some volatility in earnings due to unprecedented macro and inflationary pressures putting stress on the company's core customer, Sally's overall operating performance has been quite steady through past economic cycles and credit metrics are expected to remain strong as concentration in somewhat less discretionary hair products is a positive in the long run", Chadha added.
Upgrades:
..Issuer: Sally Holdings LLC
.... Corporate Family Rating, Upgraded to Ba1 from Ba2
.... Probability of Default Rating, Upgraded to Ba1-PD from Ba2-PD
....Gtd Senior Secured Bank Credit Facility, Upgraded to Baa3 (LGD2) from Ba1 (LGD2)
....Gtd Senior Secured 2nd Lien Regular Bond/Debenture, Upgraded to Ba1 (LGD3) from Ba2 (LGD3)
....Gtd Senior Unsecured Regular Bond/Debenture, Upgraded to Ba2 (LGD5) from Ba3 (LGD5)
Outlook Actions:
..Issuer: Sally Holdings LLC
....Outlook, Remains Stable
RATINGS RATIONALE
Sally Holdings LLC's Ba1 corporate family rating reflects its good market position in the professional beauty supply market, typically steady performance through economic cycles, geographic diversity, and strong merchandising focus which has historically benefitted the company's margins. The rating also reflects Sally Holding's improved credit metrics. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic Sally had a history of maintaining high debt levels but during the pandemic it shifted its focus to debt reduction. The company repaid the $395 million it had drawn down under its revolver as an abundance of caution during the peak of the pandemic and also repaid over $400 million in additional debt including its $200 million 2023 senior notes and about $213 million of its outstanding fixed rate term loan using its significant cash balances in fiscal 2021. Sally Holding's lower debt burden coupled with good operating performance has resulted in debt/EBITDA improving to 2.7 times at December 31, 2021 from 4.0 times at December 31, 2020. Moody's expects leverage to increase modestly as inflationary and supply chain issues could pressure topline and operating margins, but still remain moderate at around 3.0 times in 2022. The rating is constrained by a highly challenging business environment, the company's relatively small scale and continued need to execute its business transformation plans.
The stable outlook reflects Moody's expectation that credit metrics will not deteriorate meaningfully from current levels and company will continue to implement strategies to improve top line results. The outlook takes into account that the company will maintain a disciplined approach to shareholder returns and acquisitions.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATINGS
A ratings upgrade will require well articulated and clear financial policies that support credit metrics and a capital structure consistent with an investment grade rating, including a largely unsecured capital structure. A higher rating would also require very good liquidity with strong free cash flow generation, consistent revenue growth and margin expansion, improving position of its e-commerce business, and adjusted debt to EBITDA sustained below 2.5 times and EBIT/interest sustained above 5.5 times.
Ratings could be downgraded if operating performance were to sustainably weaken, financial policies were to become more aggressive, or the company is unable to maintain at least good liquidity. Specific metrics that could lead to a downgrade include adjusted debt to EBITDA sustained above 3.5 times, or EBIT/interest sustained below 3.5 times.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Retail published in November 2021 and available at https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1296095. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is an international specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of approximately $3.9 billion for the LTM period ended 12/31/21. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through 4,893 stores, including 133 franchised units, and has operations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions in the disclosure form. Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions can be found at: https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_79004.
For ratings issued on a program, series, category/class of debt or security this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series, category/class of debt, security or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular credit rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit support from the primary entity(ies) of this credit rating action, and whose ratings may change as a result of this credit rating action, the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity. Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures, if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
The ratings have been disclosed to the rated entity or its designated agent(s) and issued with no amendment resulting from that disclosure.
These ratings are solicited. Please refer to Moody's Policy for Designating and Assigning Unsolicited Credit Ratings available on its website www.moodys.com.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating review.
Moody's general principles for assessing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in our credit analysis can be found at http://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1288235.
At least one ESG consideration was material to the credit rating action(s) announced and described above.
The Global Scale Credit Rating on this Credit Rating Announcement was issued by one of Moody's affiliates outside the EU and is endorsed by Moody's Deutschland GmbH, An der Welle 5, Frankfurt am Main 60322, Germany, in accordance with Art.4 paragraph 3 of the Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on Credit Rating Agencies. Further information on the EU endorsement status and on the Moody's office that issued the credit rating is available on www.moodys.com.
The Global Scale Credit Rating on this Credit Rating Announcement was issued by one of Moody's affiliates outside the UK and is endorsed by Moody's Investors Service Limited, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5FA under the law applicable to credit rating agencies in the UK. Further information on the UK endorsement status and on the Moody's office that issued the credit rating is available on www.moodys.com.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued the rating.
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Manoj Chadha
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Corporate Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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Rays second. Yandy Diaz doubles to deep right field. Brandon Lowe flies out to deep center field to Jason Heyward. Yandy Diaz to third. Manuel Margot grounds out to shallow infield, Nico Hoerner to Frank Schwindel. Yandy Diaz scores. Mike Zunino lines out to deep right field to Seiya Suzuki.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rays 1, Cubs 0.
Rays third. Josh Lowe flies out to left field to Ian Happ. Taylor Walls walks. Randy Arozarena reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Taylor Walls out at second. Wander Franco homers to center field. Randy Arozarena scores. Harold Ramirez walks. Yandy Diaz walks. Brandon Lowe singles to shallow center field. Yandy Diaz to second. Harold Ramirez scores. Manuel Margot reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Brandon Lowe out at second.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Rays 4, Cubs 0.
Cubs fourth. Willson Contreras grounds out to second base, Taylor Walls to Harold Ramirez. Ian Happ singles to center field. Frank Schwindel doubles to shallow left field. Ian Happ scores. Nick Madrigal grounds out to second base, Taylor Walls to Harold Ramirez. Frank Schwindel to third. Patrick Wisdom pinch-hitting for Jason Heyward. Patrick Wisdom homers to center field. Frank Schwindel scores. Clint Frazier flies out to left field to Randy Arozarena.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rays 4, Cubs 3.
Rays seventh. Josh Lowe flies out to left field to Ian Happ. Taylor Walls triples to deep left field. Randy Arozarena doubles to shallow right field. Taylor Walls scores. Wander Franco grounds out to shallow right field, Nico Hoerner to Frank Schwindel. Randy Arozarena to third. Harold Ramirez singles to shallow center field. Randy Arozarena scores. Yandy Diaz strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 6, Cubs 3.
Cubs seventh. Patrick Wisdom strikes out swinging. Clint Frazier hit by pitch. Nico Hoerner triples to left field. Clint Frazier scores. Jonathan Villar strikes out swinging. Seiya Suzuki walks. Seiya Suzuki to second. Nico Hoerner scores. Willson Contreras walks. Ian Happ grounds out to shallow right field, Taylor Walls to Harold Ramirez.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rays 6, Cubs 5.
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HUNTINGTON — An Ohio woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to theft of federal funds after embezzling nearly $49,500 from the Huntington Tri-State Airport while employed as its finance director, according to U.S. Attorney Will Thompson.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Melissa Sue Hall, 46, of South Point, Ohio, was the airport’s finance director from September 2017 until Jan. 8, 2021. As finance director, Hall was responsible for accounting, depositing and withdrawing funds from multiple revenue sources including ATMs and vending machines.
According to information from Thompson, Hall admitted that between May 2020 and Jan. 8, 2021, she stopped depositing the full amounts she collected from these machines into the airport’s bank accounts and also took money from those accounts intended for deposit in the ATMs. During this time period, Tri-State Airport received at least $10,000 per year in federal funding, which was deposited in its bank accounts. Hall admitted to diverting nearly $49,500.
Hall pleaded guilty to theft from programs receiving federal funds. She is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 15, and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. She also agreed to pay restitution in the case.
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Fans Create Memorial To Dwayne Haskins Outside Heinz Field
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Fans are creating a makeshift memorial to late Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Dwayne Haskins outside of Heinz Field.
Pictures, flowers and candles have been placed outside of the gates to the stadium.
The Steelers will hold a celebration in honor of Haskins’ life on Friday, April 22.
Anyone who wants to pay their respects can attend the visitation from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and then a full service will follow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Allegheny Center Alliance Church.
Flowers are being accepted at the church.
Haskins’ widow sent this message to fans, “I want to thank everyone for their continuous outpouring of kindness and love for my husband during this extremely difficult time.”
Haskins died earlier this month after being struck by a vehicle in South Florida.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
5-6-2, FIREBALL: 6
(five, six, two; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
5-6-2, FIREBALL: 6
(five, six, two; FIREBALL: six)
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Thalapathy Vijay's Beast had a fantastic opening weekend at the box office, but now, it shows signs of slowing down. The film is facing stiff competition from Yash's KGF: Chapter 2. While KGF 2 has been receiving overwhelming reviews, more screens are being allocated for the film across the globe. Beast, on the other hand, received mixed reviews from critics and audience alike.
THALAPATHY VIJAY'S BEAST SHOWS SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN
Thalapathy Vijay's beast was released in theatres on April 13, one day ahead of Tamil New Year. The film, directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, took a monstrous opening on April 13 and ran packed houses for the next few days.
The real test for Beast began during the weekdays. With KGF: Chapter 2 receiving positive reviews, theatres have been facing crazy demand for the tickets for Yash's film. Hence, Beast has slowed down a bit during the weekdays.
According to the official Twitter handle of Ahimsa Entertaiment, Beast collected a whopping Rs 9.9 crore in the US. Their tweet read, "#VeeraRaghavan continues the #Beast magic at the USA box office as the collections cross $1.3M (Rs 9.9cr), despite being a Monday. #ThalapathyVijay has gained a new market (sic)."
#VeeraRaghavan continues the #Beast magic at the USA box office as the collections cross $1.3M (9.9cr), despite being a Monday #ThalapathyVijay has gained a new market
Book your tickets https://t.co/KYkytsIx6l
USA release by @Hamsinient & #AhimsaEntertainment pic.twitter.com/PqPfZPwHQe— Ahimsa Entertainment (@ahimsafilms) April 19, 2022
According to Ram Muthuram Cinemas, Beast is the highest opener of 2022. Their tweet read, "#BeastInRamCinemas Opening Weekend Emerges as the Highest Opening Grosser of 2022. That too with Clash Release and Split shows still made possible only because of One Man #ThalapathyVijay (sic)."
#BeastInRamCinemas Opening Weekend Emerges as the Highest Opening Grosser of 2022
— Ram Muthuram Cinemas (@RamCinemas) April 18, 2022
That too with Clash Release and Split shows still made possible only because of One Man #ThalapathyVijay #Beast @sunpictures @RedGiantMovies_ @sembian_ pic.twitter.com/IlbwMln0L2
ALL ABOUT BEAST
Beast is written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar and produced by Sun Pictures. The hostage thriller features Thalapathy Vijay, Selvaraghavan, Pooja Hegde and Shine Tom Chacko in important roles. The film has music scored by Anirudh Ravichander.
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DETROIT (AP) — Gerrit Cole lasted a career-low 1 2/3 innings, and Clarke Schmidt combined with four relievers to pitch three-hit shutout ball and lead the New York Yankees over the Detroit Tigers 4-2 Tuesday night in a series opener.
On a frigid April night in Detroit, Coleneeded 46 pitches to get two outs in the second before leaving with a 3-2 lead.
“I'm pretty disappointed,” he said. “I was trying to be too perfect, but I still had enough in there to get the job done.”
Cole, who came out of the dugout to throw long toss during the second-inning delay, matched his career high of five walks and allowed two runs and one hit, throwing just 37 of 68 pitches for strikes.
“I’ve certainly never had anything like that in my career before,” he said. “But it’s not something we can’t get through.”
Starting the third season of a $324 million, nine-year contract, the 31-year-old right-hander has a 6.35 ERA in three starts and has pitched into the sixth inning just once.
“I think he's poised for a big year for us,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He's going to carry us for a long stretch. It hasn't gone his way thus far, but he's close.”
Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera singled off Cole leading off the second, his 2,996th hit.
New York’s bullpen got 22 outs without allowing a run. Schmidt (1-2) led the way, allowing two hits in 3 1/3 innings for his first major league win.
“That was huge,” Boone said. “Even with an off day yesterday, there were still some guys we were staying away from, so we really needed that length from him.”
Wandy Peralta got five outs, Clay Holmes two and Miguel Castro and Aroldis Chapman three each, with Chapman pitching a perfect ninth for his second save and ending a game that dragged for 3 hours, 59 minutes o a cold night.
Tigers starter Tyler Alexander (0-1) gave up two unearned runs, one hit and two walks in one inning, throwing 42 pitches for three outs.
“That was a brutal night for everyone who had to pitch,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “Tyler would have gone back out there for the second, but we've only stretched him out to 60 or 70 pitches, so we weren't going to ask him to do that.”
New York loaded the bases with two out in the first, then scored a pair of runs when catcher Tucker Barnhart couldn't find Donaldson's popup in front of the plate and Alexander dropped it.
“I misplayed that, and the wind isn't an excuse,” Barnhart said. “I thought it was going to come down closer to home plate and I was obviously wrong.”
New York was 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position before DJ LeMahieu lined an opposite-field RBI single to right in the ninth off Joe Jiménez. The Yankees are hitting .174 (16 for 92) RISP this season.
In the second, Isiah Kiner-Falefa walked, stole second and took third when Rony Garcia spiked a pitch into the grass in front of the mound. Garcia left with a cracked fingernail and Will Vest allowed a sacrifice fly to Aaron Hicks to make it 3-0.
After Cabrera's lead-off single in the second, Spencer Torkelson lined out before Cole walked three straight batters, forcing in a run, and Robbie Grossman followed with a sacrifice fly. Cole's 46 pitches were his career high for an inning, before Schmidt relieved.
“I probably shouldn't have left him out there as long as I did,” Boone said. “He was at two outs and I was just wanting him to get through it and he couldn't make that final pitch to end it.”
New York stole a season-high four bases. The Yankees struck out 13 times, including four by Joey Gallo, who is batting .121 with 15 strikeouts in 33 at-bats,
TRAINER'S ROOM
Yankees: Boone said he anticipates having all his players available when New York travels to Toronto for three games starting on May 2. “My understanding is that we're going to be OK,” he said before Tuesday's game. “I'm not sure about the timelines on everything, but my understanding is we're going to be okay.”
Tigers: Tests on RHP Casey Mize's sprained elbow showed no major damage, but the Tigers don't have a timeline for him to resume throwing, ... RHP Matt Manning (shoulder discomfort) is not going on the disabled list, but is expected to miss his scheduled start on Saturday.
OOPS
Schmidt buried his face in his hands after hitting Cabrera with a 91-mph sinker in the third inning. He struck Cabrera out in the fifth.
“Obviously, that one slipped - I told him when he got to second base that I didn't mean to hit him and he made a funny face and laughed,” he said. “He's such a prolific character in this sport - it was cool to be able to face him and have his name on the lineup card for my first career win.”
PLAYING DEEP
The Yankees played four outfielders against Austin Meadows and Akil Baddoo in their first at-bats of the game, and the Tigers used four against Joey Gallo for multiple at-bats.
UP NEXT
The teams play the second of a three-game series on Wednesday evening, with New York's Luis Severino (1-0, 2.25) facing Detroit's Eduardo Rodriguez (0-1, 5.87).
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MONTREAL (AP) — Cam Talbot had his third shutout of the season to help the Minnesota Wild to a 2-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.
Talbot made 26 saves as Minnesota (48-21-7) swept the season series between the teams. Kevin Fiala scored and assisted on Matt Boldy’s goal in the third period.
In his second start of the season, Carey Price made 28 saves.
The Wild opened the scoring on the power play at 6:57 of the first period. Fiala one-timed Mats Zuccarello’s pass in the slot to net his 30th goal of the season and seventh in his last six games.
The Canadiens (20-46-11) threatened in the second period but couldn’t find the back of the net. Rem Pitlick had a great chance on a breakaway but was denied by Talbot.
Tyler Pitlick thought he scored his first goal in a Habs uniform by shooting a loose puck in an open net. However, Minnesota used its coach’s challenge for goaltender interference and the goal was called off.
Minnesota padded its lead at 2:29 of the third period when Boldy tucked the puck between his legs and scored from a tight angle.
Notes: Nicolas Deslauriers played his 500th career game. The Lasalle, Que., native had several friends and family members in attendance. ... Canadiens forward Paul Byron suffered a lower-body injury in the first period and did not return to the game.
UP NEXT
Wild: Host Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.
Canadiens: Host Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
17-21-22-31-39
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-one, thirty-nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
17-21-22-31-39
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-one, thirty-nine)
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NASA's next moon rocket gets final repairs ahead of mission launch
The Artemis I mega moon rocket will undergo some tweaks before NASA's next attempt at a crucial prelaunch test.
The NASA team is preparing to roll the 322-foot-tall Artemis I rocket stack, including the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 26.
The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket leaving the launchpad. This process includes loading propellant, going through a full countdown simulating launch, resetting the countdown clock and draining the rocket tanks.
Engineers encountered a hydrogen leak issue during the third attempt at this test on April 14.
Rolling the rocket stack back indoors will allow them to assess the leak, located on the tail service mast umbilical of the rocket, and replace a faulty upper stage helium check valve that also created an issue.
Upgrades are "required at an off-site supplier of gaseous nitrogen used for the test," providing this window of opportunity to make some fixes before the giant rocket rolls back out to the launchpad for more testing, according to the agency.
Preparing a brand-new rocket and spacecraft for launch is "a really complicated thing to do," said Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for common exploration systems development at NASA Headquarters, during a news conference Monday.
"We're putting the pieces of the puzzle together," he said. "I think we figured out a few more pieces on Thursday, but we've got a few more pieces in front of us."
The team is currently assessing what the next steps will be after making fixes to the rocket, but Whitmeyer assured that "we will absolutely go back out and do a dress rehearsal" to demonstrate loading supercold propellant and going through the launch countdown. "It's just a matter of what's the right time and right way to do that."
The team has several options once the rocket is back inside the building. The engineers can do a quick option, which is taking care of the minimal amount of things immediately, and then look at how soon they can make another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal test.
Another option is to take more time to work on the rocket while it's in the building and get it closer to rollout in the configurations actually needed for flight.
The third option considers doing both a wet dress rehearsal and a launch all in one campaign after rolling out to the launchpad, said Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director at the NASA Exploration Ground Systems program, during the news conference.
"Our team has been working really hard, and I think that they're doing a great job working through all of these first-time operations, and I am constantly impressed and proud of the problem-solving skills that I see demonstrated within the team," she said.
This latest decision "challenges" the earliest launch window, originally slated for June 6 to June 16, but later launch windows of June 29 to July 12 and July 26 through Aug. 9 remain possible.
"We have had a number of challenges to overcome and those challenges require perseverance," said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager at NASA Headquarters, during the conference. "And that perseverance in turn is building character within the team and character necessary to have optimism and in when we are going to be ready to fly."
The point of the wet dress rehearsal is to learn about issues that can be corrected before being forced to abort a launch attempt, and it's something that the Apollo and shuttle programs faced as well, Blackwell-Thompson said.
The results of the wet dress rehearsal will determine when the uncrewed Artemis I will launch on a mission that goes beyond the moon and returns to Earth. This mission will kick off NASA's Artemis program, which is expected to return humans to the moon and land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
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Megan Fortner slugged a home run for Jacksonville State to account for Jacksonville State's only run in a 9-1 softball loss at No. 18 Auburn on Tuesday.
Fortner's solo homer in the top of the second inning gave JSU an early 1-0 lead. Auburn came back with three runs in the bottom half of the inning and six in the fourth. The game ended after 4½ innings because of the eight-run mercy rule.
Fortner also had a double in the fourth inning. The junior first baseman leads the team in doubles (15), home runs (five) and RBIs (26). She is now hitting .322 for the year.
She had both of JSU's hits in the game.
What to know
—Sarah Currie got the start in the circle and allowed eight hits and nine runs (eight earned) in 3⅔ innings of work. She struck out two.
—Kat Carter finished with one-third of an inning without allowing a run.
—The only JSU batters to reach base besides Fortner were Camryn McLemore (hit by a pitch in the fourth inning) and Hannah Buffington (reached on an error in the fifth).
Next up
—JSU (25-17) will play again this weekend when North Alabama visits for a three-game series. They'll play a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. and a single game Sunday at 1 p.m.
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MARINETTE, Wis. (WFRV) – The City of Marinette Police Department are asking the public to avoid the area of Ogden Street and Russell Street as they are currently dealing with an active situation.
The incident began around 9:00 p.m. and Police Chief Jon LaCombe says they are focused on a single residence. He also says they have Ogden Street and Russel Street closed to traffic indefinitely.
Officers are considering this as an isolated incident and will release more information as soon as they can.
Local 5 will update this story when more details are available.
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Six leaders of Telangana's ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly abetting the suicide of a real estate businessman and his mother in Kamareddy, police said today.
Gangam Santosh and his mother Gangam Padma set themselves ablaze at a lodge in Kamareddy on April 16, accusing TRS leaders and a circle inspector of harassment.
In a video posted by him on social media before taking the extreme step, Mr Santosh had named and put up photos of seven people, including Ramayampet Municipal chairperson Palle Jitender Goud, five other TRS leaders and Circle Inspector Nagarjuna Reddy, for tormenting him.
Mr Santosh had also posted a suicide note on social media, in which he said these people "had harmed his business and made life difficult for him".
"I was financially ruined by them," he wrote in the note, hoping that justice would be done at least after they were dead.
Subsequently, a case of abetment of suicide was registered against them and a senior police officer was ordered to probe the allegations.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
5-6-2, FIREBALL: 6
(five, six, two; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
5-6-2, FIREBALL: 6
(five, six, two; FIREBALL: six)
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-09-33-47-53, Mega Ball: 24, Megaplier: 3
(two, nine, thirty-three, forty-seven, fifty-three; Mega Ball: twenty-four; Megaplier: three)
ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
02-09-33-47-53, Mega Ball: 24, Megaplier: 3
(two, nine, thirty-three, forty-seven, fifty-three; Mega Ball: twenty-four; Megaplier: three)
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Russia pours in more troops and presses attack in the east
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is attacking cities and towns in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and pouring more forces into the country. It intensified assaults along a front hundreds of miles long Tuesday in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to overrun the capital failed, the Kremlin declared that its main goal was the capture of the eastern Donbas region. Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces there for eight years. If successful, that offensive would give President Vladimir Putin a vital piece of Ukraine and a badly needed victory in the now 7-week-old war.
EXPLAINER: How Russia's eastern push in Ukraine may unfold
Russia’s new offensive in eastern Ukraine reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. Russian forces have intensified artillery barrages and airstrikes on Ukrainian positions in the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. Ukrainian officials said the push began Monday, with Russia trying to press the offensive along an arc-shaped front line for more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) from the northeast to the southeast. In what appeared to be a sharp increase in bombardment Tuesday, Russia said that in the last 24 hours, it struck 60 Ukrainian military facilities with its warplanes and 1,260 with its artillery, while attacking 1,214 troop concentrations. The claims could not be independently confirmed.
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Shanghai allows 4 million out of homes as virus rules ease
BEIJING (AP) — A health official says 4 million more people in Shanghai have been allowed to leave their homes as coronavirus quarantine rules ease. The official, Wu Ganyu, said a total of almost 12 million people have been allowed to leave their homes as China’s largest tries to contain virus outbreaks. Authorities confined most of Shanghai’s 25 million people to their homes starting March 28 following a surge in infections. China’s case numbers in its latest infection surge are relatively low, but the ruling Communist Party is enforcing a “zero-COVID” strategy that has shut down major cities to isolate every case.
Feds will appeal mask ruling only if mandate still needed
The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary. A judge in Florida on Monday ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs. Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Tuesday that officials believe the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” The CDC continues to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determines a mandate is necessary, the Justice Department will file an appeal.
Moving beyond masks: Biden toils to put pandemic behind him
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has been working for months to prepare people to rethink their personal risk calculations as the nation gets used to the idea of living with an endemic COVID-19. That measured approach disappeared abruptly after a federal judge threw out a federal requirement to mask up when using mass transit. The ruling adds to the administration’s messaging challenges as it tries to move past the virus in the leadup to midterm elections. The Biden administration is accelerating its efforts to provide the best advice for millions making their own personal safety decisions on the still-dangerous pandemic. It’s both a public health imperative and an important shift in emphasis for Biden’s political future.
For Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job
Governments and social media companies have moved to restrict the ability of Russia's state media to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine. That has prompted the Kremlin's diplomats to step up to do the dirty work. Russian embassies around the world control hundreds of accounts on platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Those two companies have added labels to their posts and tried to limit their reach. But research shows these diplomatic accounts are still disseminating pro-Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories, including ones suggesting Russia has been framed for recent attacks that killed civilians. The Russian Embassy in the U.S. hasn't returned a message seeking comment.
Energy shift creates opening for 'world's largest batteries'
LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A question is hovering over the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy such as wind and solar: What happens when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine? The hydropower industry says the answer is developing more pumped storage plants. They function like giant batteries, pumping water from a lower reservoir to an upper one. When power is needed, the water is released downhill through turbines. The U.S. has 43 pumped storage plants but only one has been built since the 1990s. Cost, regulatory and logistical problems have hampered new construction. The industry is lobbying for tax breaks and streamlined permitting. But some say pumped storage causes environmental problems and better technologies may emerge.
Johnny Depp on stand: Ex-wife Heard's allegations 'heinous'
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp told jurors that he felt compelled to sue his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel out of an obsession for the truth after she accused him of physical and sexual assault. Depp on Tuesday flatly denied ever hitting Heard, calling the allegations against him disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth.” Depp says Heard falsely accused him of domestic abuse when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post. The trial in Fairfax, Virginia, began last week but, prior to Tuesday afternoon, the jury had only seen Depp sitting silently with his lawyers. Heard is scheduled to take the stand later in the six-week trial.
Netflix shares drop 25% after service loses 200K subscribers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares to plunge 25% in extended trading amid concerns that the pioneering streaming service may have already seen its best days. The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, and it now expects to lose another 2 million subscribers during the April-June period. Netflix is hoping to reverse the tide by taking steps it has previously resisted, including blocking the sharing of accounts and introducing a lower-priced — and ad-supported — version of its service.
Massive flames force evacuation of hundreds of Arizona homes
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Winds kicked up a towering wall of flames in rural northern Arizona on Tuesday, tearing through two-dozen structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 700 homes. Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll said during a news conference that the county declared an emergency Tuesday as the fast-moving wildfire outside of Flagstaff ballooned to over 9 square miles. Forest Service officials say flame lengths are as high as 100 feet. County officials said 766 homes and 1,000 animals have been evacuated. A couple of hundred homes are still threatened as smoke billowed into the air in an all-too-familiar scene. Elsewhere in Arizona, firefighters battled a wildfire in a sparsely populated area of the Prescott National Forest south of Prescott.
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Judge enters not guilty plea for mom charged in kids’ deaths
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) - A mother charged with conspiring to kill her children, her estranged husband and a lover’s wife refused to enter a plea to murder and other charges on Tuesday, prompting an Idaho judge to enter a not guilty plea on her behalf.
Lori Vallow Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell, were both at the courthouse in the eastern Idaho town of St. Anthony for separate court proceedings: Lori Daybell for an afternoon arraignment that was delayed for months while she underwent treatment at a mental health facility, and Chad Daybell for a morning hearing over the trial venue.
The couple face numerous charges in the bizarre case, including conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Lori Daybell’s children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Chad Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. Lori Daybell is also charged in Arizona with conspiring to kill her former estranged husband, Charles Vallow, with the help of her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox.
Chad Daybell pleaded not guilty to the charges months ago and is being held in the Fremont County Jail. The case against Lori Daybell was stalled after a judge found her mentally incompetent to aid in her own defense and ordered her to undergo treatment at a mental health facility. Last week, the judge said Daybell had been made competent and the case could go forward, and she was transferred to the Madison County Jail.
Lori Daybell kept her head down as she entered the courtroom and spoke quietly during her arraignment on Tuesday. The courtroom was mostly full, with JJ Vallow’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, seated in one of the front rows. The Woodcocks wiped away tears as 7th District Judge Steven Boyce read the murder charge related to the young boy’s death.
Lori Daybell, wearing a light blue blouse and glasses, opted to stand silent when she was asked to enter a plea to the charges. Boyce, who told her she could face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted, entered a not guilty plea on her behalf.
Investigators say Chad and Lori Daybell began espousing an unusual, doomsday-focused system of religious belief involving “zombies,” teleportation and communication with other spiritual realms starting in 2018, when both were still married to other people. The Idaho prosecutors say they used their religious beliefs to justify or encourage the murders.
Lori Daybell’s brother Alex Cox shot and killed her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in suburban Phoenix, according to an indictment in Arizona. At the time, Charles Vallow was seeking a divorce, and wrote in court filings that his wife believed she had become a god-like figure responsible for ushering in the biblical apocalypse.
Cox told police the shooting was in self-defense, and he was never charged. He later died of an apparent blood clot in his lung.
Shortly after Charles Vallow’s death, Lori Daybell — who then had the last name Vallow — and her children moved to the rural eastern Idaho community of Rexburg, near where Chad Daybell lived. At the time, Chad Daybell was married to Tammy Daybell. She died in October 2019.
Though Tammy Daybell’s obituary said her death was from natural causes, authorities grew suspicious when Chad and Lori Daybell married just two weeks later. Investigators had Tammy Daybell’s body exhumed for an autopsy, though authorities have not formally released her cause of death.
Police began searching for Lori Daybell’s youngest two children a few weeks later in November 2019 after relatives raised concerns. The Daybells quickly left town, and they were found months later in Hawaii without the children.
The children’s bodies were eventually found buried in Chad Daybell’s yard back in Idaho.
During a news conference after the arraignment, Larry Woodcock said he was happy that the case is moving forward, saying Lori Daybell’s “day will come.”
“She’s going to have a miserable life, and that’s all I ask for. I know that justice will be served,” Larry Woodcock said.
The arraignment was held about an hour after a motion hearing where prosecutors and Chad Daybell’s attorney, John Prior, argued over whether the entire trial should be moved to a more populated region or whether jurors from Ada County should be brought across the state to Fremont County for the trial, which is expected to last about 10 weeks.
The judge had originally ruled that the trial would be moved to Ada County, which includes the city of Boise, but Prosecutor Rachel Smith contended that would substantially raise trial-related costs for taxpayers and potentially witnesses.
Prior said ensuring a fair trial is more important than any financial burden faced by Fremont County. He also said sequestering a jury in Fremont County would essentially turn jurors into prisoners, with no phones, television or ability to move around town.
The judge said he would issue a written ruling on the matter.
The judge has previously ordered that Chad and Lori Daybell will be tried together. But though Chad Daybell has waived his right to a speedy trial — with the trial tentatively set for January 2023 — Lori Daybell did not.
Her attorney, Jim Archibald, told the judge on Tuesday that Lori Daybell would not waive her right to a speedy trial, which means the case has to be tried within six months. It’s not yet clear if that means the Daybells will be tried separately or if the date previously set for trial in Chad Daybell’s case will be moved up.
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LAS VEGAS, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXES.ai ("AXES" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has formed a strategic alliance with Cyprus-based Fintech Blueberry Payment Solutions to offer the AXES European client base an integrated Open Loop cashless eWallet. The Blueberry Payment Solutions eVoucher, eWallet, Card, and IBAN Cloud Account is already integrated with the AXES Butler Closed Loop eWallet, Loyalty, Rewards and Engagement APP, for Merchants and Clients.
"AXES has the most advanced, secure and complete closed loop cashless platform in the global land-based gaming industry," stated Rhyan Bridle, Founder & CTO of Blueberry Payment Solutions. "The Blueberry Payment Solutions platform, technology, licenses, IP and certifications will empower AXES European Clients to instantly transfer funds to their AXES closed loop wallet and to AXES Casino Float Accounts. This powerful partnership will rapidly evolve the fintech performance and possibilities of the land-based gaming industry, and we are very excited to offer the power of the Blueberry Payment Solutions to the AXES client base."
"Blueberry Payment Solutions is a perfect fit for AXES," stated Earle G. Hall, President & CEO of AXES.ai. "Blueberry Payment Solutions truly understands that a casino eWallet is a personal player to casino relationship based on loyalty, engagement and rewards. We are grateful to Blueberry Payment Solutions for having customized their product offering to align with our strategy to support our European AXES clientele to ensure they have the most powerful engagement strategy in the global land-based casino gaming market. We look forward to evolving our product base with Blueberry Payment Solutions as we integrate multiple forms of payment, funding and financial instruments"
ABOUT Blueberry Payment Solutions
Blueberry Payment Solutions is an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorized for the distribution of e-Money. Offering an alternative banking platform, Blueberry Payment Solutions, allows the community a safe place to send, receive, hold and invest, with absolute confidence and reliability. The all-encompassing platform empowers merchants, corporations, and end-user clients to perform their day-to-day payments and banking operations. Blueberry Payment Solutions draws on the adroitness of cloud technology to guarantee the highest security and availability of its solution. Currently, in 11 countries, Blueberry Payment Solutions has an offering for both land-based and online merchant services, ensuring the power of personalized banking is not compromised.
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AXES is the Global Gaming Industry's land-based cashless pioneer and FinTech disruptor. AXES empowers governments, casinos and route/street with highly secure, real-time data collection to fuel alerts, events, analytics, cashless and infinite other apps in the AXES APP Store. AXES harnesses the power of blockchain cloud technology to ensure the highest security, speed and availability of any platform in the Global Gaming Industry. With offices in seven countries and clients in more than 40 countries, AXES is the only 100% independent system provider in the land-based gaming industry, providing quantitative actionable intelligence and applications. AXES is the future of casino information management TODAY.
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WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: H. E. ANATOLE COLLINET MAKOSSO, Prime Minister, The Republic of the Congo
WHAT: Press Conference. The National Press Club.
WHERE: The Holman Lounge, National Press Club, 13th floor, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045
WHEN: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 – 9:30am-11:00am.
WHY: Official visit to the United States for meetings with the Administration and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
PURPOSE OF VISIT:
In the wake of successful meetings in London and Paris, including meetings in The Republic of the Congo's capital Brazzaville, where His Excellency Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso hosted Rwandan head-of-state Paul Kagame. The Prime Minister, who heads the Republic of the Congo's government, arrived in Washington, DC this week, and will be available to the news media in the United States to answer questions and share information at a press conference at the National Press Club focusing on The Republic of Congo's new National Development Plan! Prime Minister Collinet Makosso will share important information regarding the purpose of the new National Development Plan (PND from 2022 to 2026) – an initiative designed to move the Republic of the Congo from an "oil rent economy" - to a strong, diversified and robust national economy.
PND has an economic agenda that focuses on agriculture, digital technology, tourism, real estate, industry and the creation of Special Economic Zones. The choice of these six economic development sectors will help diversify the Congolese economy.
In order to finance the five-year program, the Executive Committee relies on the support of development partners, the private sector -and foreign investors. Investments from the worldwide digital sector are highly and enthusiastically anticipated.
H. E Prime Minister Collinet Makosso has served as prime minister of the Republic of the Congo since 2021. Prior to his appointment as head-of-government, PM Collinet Makosso was an Adviser to President Denis Sassou Nguesso, while simultaneously serving as Director of First Lady, Antoinette Sassou Nguesso's Cabinet.
The Republic of the Congo is one of Africa's major oil producers, with significant potential for offshore petroleum development.
Please Note: The National Press Club observes and strictly adheres to Covid-19 protocols. These include proof of vaccination and personal ID to attend this event.
There will be breakfast amenities and multi-box outlets for electronic media.
News Media Contact: Coumba DIOUKHANE | +33 611 427 078 | coumba.dioukhane@globalview-fr.com
Carol PINEAU | 202 321 0570 | capineau@gmail.com
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. ("South Atlantic" or the "Company") (OTCQX: SABK), parent of South Atlantic Bank (the "Bank"), reported consolidated net income of $2.0 million, or $0.26 per diluted common share, for the three months ended March 31, 2022, a decrease of $1.5 million, or $0.20 per diluted common share, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2021.
"We are very pleased with our financial performance during the first quarter of 2022. We achieved 7.5 percent loan growth during the quarter, net of Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loans, which continue to be forgiven by the Small Business Administration ("SBA"). We continue to see a strong loan pipeline developing for 2022. We believe our investments in hiring seasoned lenders are making an immediate impact in all of our markets. Our core earnings, defined as net of mortgage and PPP fees, continue to improve, even though we are reflecting lower earnings per share during the first quarter of 2022 due to an expected reduction in PPP fees and reduced secondary mortgage fees. We are encouraged by the activity in our loan pipeline and believe we are well-positioned for the remainder of 2022 in all of our markets," said K. Wayne Wicker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of South Atlantic
Net interest income was $9.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to $8.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of $466 thousand, or 5.3 percent, primarily due to an increase of $1.1 million in interest income on securities due to increased securities holdings, partially offset by a reduction in interest and fee income on loans of $453 thousand, as a large portion of PPP-related SBA fee income was realized in the first quarter of 2021 as PPP loans were forgiven by the SBA, and an increase in interest expense driven by a larger deposit portfolio.
Discount accretion included in the net interest income was $60 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to $75 thousand for the same period in 2021.
Noninterest income declined $2.3 million, or 66.5 percent, to $1.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to $3.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. This decline in noninterest income during the three months ended March 31, 2022 is primarily due to a $1.5 million decrease in gains on the sale of securities and a $951 thousand decrease in secondary mortgage fees.
Noninterest expense increased $445 thousand, or 5.9 percent, to $8.0 million for the three months ending March 31, 2022 compared to $7.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. This increase in noninterest expense during the three months ended March 31, 2022 is primarily due to salary and benefits expenses increasing by $364 thousand due to the hiring of seasoned commercial lenders and overhead costs to support our operations.
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Total assets increased $64.2 million to $1.3 billion as of March 31, 2022, compared to $1.2 billion as of December 31, 2021. This increase in total assets during the three months ended March 31, 2022 was driven primarily by an increase in net loans of $39.0 million and an increase in investment securities of $13.6 million, offset by a reduction in mortgage loans held for sale of $5.9 million. Total loans, net of $14.2 million in paydowns and payoffs of PPP loans, grew 5.3 percent over the quarter ended March 31, 2022 compared to 1 percent for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Total deposits increased $74.1 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2022, of which $9.8 million was noninterest bearing, compared to an increase of $86.6 million in the three months ended March 31, 2021.
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The Company processed 1,013 PPP loans, totaling $91.7 million, during phase one of the PPP, which began in April 2020 and ended in August 2020. We have received forgiveness payments of $91.7 million from the SBA for all 1,013 phase one PPP loans, leaving no outstanding loans from phase one of the PPP as of December 31, 2021. The Company processed an additional 519 PPP loans, totaling $54.6 million, during phase two of the PPP, which began in January 2021 and ended in May 2021. We have received forgiveness payments of $44.4 million from the SBA for phase two PPP loans as of March 31, 2022. We anticipate that the remaining phase two PPP loans will be forgiven by the SBA or otherwise repaid by mid-year 2022.
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Net interest margin, on a tax equivalent basis ("net interest margin"), declined by 3 basis points to 3.29 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to 3.32 percent for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The decline is attributable primarily to the 7 basis point increase in overall cost of funds, offset by the increase in yield on earning assets by 2 basis points and decrease in rates on interest-bearing deposits by 2 basis points.
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We continue to see strong credit quality throughout our markets through March 31, 2022. As of March 31, 2022, there are no loans classified as non-accrual and no loans past due greater than 90 days. Provision expense during the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $75 thousand compared to $575 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
As previously disclosed, the Bank worked closely with borrowers who were unable to meet their contractual obligations due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by offering loan modifications or payment deferrals to certain borrowers on a short-term basis. As of March 31, 2022, there are no loans with short-term modifications or payment deferrals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shareholders' equity totaled $94.5 million as of March 31, 2022, a decrease of $11.0 million from December 31, 2021, driven by a $13.5 million adjustment for unrealized losses in the Bank's available-for-sale securities portfolio since December 31, 2021, partially offset by $2.0 million in year-to-date earnings. The $13.5 million adjustment for unrealized losses during the period resulted from a decrease in the market value of securities in the Bank's available-for-sale securities portfolio, which is attributed to a significant increase in market interest rates during the period. Generally, the Bank classifies its debt securities held in the Bank's securities portfolio as available-for-sale. During the period, the Bank reclassified a portion of its securities portfolio to held to maturity in order to help mitigate the effects of the rising interest rate environment and the Bank anticipates they will mature at par. The Bank's capital position remains above the minimum regulatory thresholds required to be considered "well-capitalized," with a total risk-based capital ratio of 12.73 percent as of March 31, 2022. The Company reported 7,591,915 total shares outstanding as of March 31, 2022. This increase of 14,110 shares is due to exercise of options granted.
South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. (OTCQX: SABK) is a registered bank holding company based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with approximately $1.3 billion in total assets. The Company's banking subsidiary, South Atlantic Bank, is a full-service financial institution spanning the entire coastal area of South Carolina, and is locally owned, controlled and operated. The Bank operates eleven offices in Myrtle Beach, Carolina Forest, North Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The Bank specializes in providing personalized community banking services to individuals, small businesses and corporations. Services include a full range of consumer and commercial banking products, including mortgage, and treasury management, including South Atlantic Bank goMobile, the Bank's mobile banking app. The Bank also offers internet banking, no-fee ATM access, checking, certificates of deposit and money market accounts, merchant services, mortgage loans, remote deposit capture, and more. For more information, visit www.SouthAtlantic.bank.
This press release contains, among other things, certain statements about future events that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, statements regarding the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (or any current or future variant thereof), statements with references to a future period or statements preceded by, followed by, or that include the words "may," "could," "should," "would," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "outlook" or similar terms or expressions. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the Company's management team and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on various factors (many of which are beyond the Company's control). These risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause the actual results, performance, and achievements of the Company to be materially different from the anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Therefore, the Company can give no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. The inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be construed as a representation by the Company or any person that the future events, plans, or expectations contemplated by the Company will be achieved and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made, except as required by law.
Information contained herein, other than information as of December 31, 2021, is unaudited. All financial data should be read in conjunction with the notes to the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the Bank as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as contained in the Company's 2021 Annual Report located on the Company's website.
The Company maintains an Internet web site at www.southatlantic.bank/about-us/investor-relations. The Company makes available, free of charge, on its web site the Company's annual meeting materials, annual reports, and quarterly earnings reports. In addition, the OTC Markets Group maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding the Company (at www.otcmarkets.com/SABK).
The Company routinely posts important information for investors on its web site (under www.southatlantic.bank and, more specifically, under the Investor Relations tab at www.southatlantic.bank/about-us/investor-relations/). The Company intends to use its web site as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under the OTC Markets Group OTCQX Rules for U.S. Banks. Accordingly, investors should monitor the Company's web site, in addition to following the Company's press releases, OTC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts.
The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, the Company's web site is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this press release.
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Chief Financial Officer to take over management responsibilities of the agency that oversees the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner intercity passenger rail service
ORANGE, Calif., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles–San Diego–San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency Board of Directors unanimously appointed Jason Jewell as the Interim Managing Director of the LOSSAN Agency, effective April 18, 2022.
Jewell has been with the LOSSAN Agency for seven years serving as the Agency's Chief Financial Officer. He has a longstanding career in transportation, acting in accounting and finance management roles at the Orange County Transportation Authority for more than 10 years before joining the LOSSAN Agency.
Jewell will take over management and operations of the Agency and continue his current responsibilities as the Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Donna DeMartino, who served as the LOSSAN Agency Managing Director since January 2020.
"I am honored for the opportunity to serve the LOSSAN Agency as the Interim Managing Director," said Jewell. "I am committed to working closely with the LOSSAN board and staff to advance the Agency's goals, including the further restoration of the Pacific Surfliner service as travel demands increase while also advancing projects that will benefit the LOSSAN rail corridor both now and in the future."
The LOSSAN rail corridor spans 351 miles and covers a six-county coastal region in Southern California, from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. It is the second busiest intercity passenger rail corridor in the United States, hosting intercity, commuter, long-distance, and freight rail services.
The LOSSAN Agency, which works to improve passenger rail service along the rail corridor and also oversees the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner service, is governed by an 11-member Board composed of officials representing rail owners, operators, and planning agencies.
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The Pacific Surfliner travels along a 351-mile coastal rail route through San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, serving 27 stations. It is the busiest state-supported intercity passenger rail route in the United States. To learn more and plan a trip, visit pacificsurfliner.com.
The Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency is a joint powers authority composed of rail owners, operators and planning agencies along the entire LOSSAN rail corridor. In addition to working to improve passenger rail ridership, revenue, on- time performance, operational flexibility, and safety, the LOSSAN Agency assumed management responsibility for the Pacific Surfliner service in July 2015, following the execution of an interagency transfer agreement with the state of California. For more information, visit Lossan.org.
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) was named the Managing Agency of the LOSSAN Agency in November 2013 and provides all necessary administrative support for the LOSSAN Agency and its Board. For more information visit octa.net.
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A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mandate that called for passengers to be masked on all forms of public transportation, including on airplanes and trains. So does that mean masks are gone everywhere? Not exactly.
The federal mandate is suspended
First of all: Yes, this court decision means that the federal rule is not being enforced at the federal level.
The Biden administration has said the rule is not in effect right now, although they are exploring “next steps,” which could possibly involve new regulations or court challenges—so consider this temporary. The Transportation Safety Authority (TSA) has also said they are not enforcing the mandate.
Masks are still required in some places
Just because the federal rule is not being enforced, doesn’t mean it’s automatically a free-for-all.
First of all, it’s still a good idea to wear a mask on trains, planes, buses, and other places where you’re in a confined space with others. The CDC still recommends that people choose to wear a mask even if they are not required by a rule or law.
The Association of Flight Attendants urged its members to “look for communication from your airline on what the new policy is,” which is good advice for passengers, too. They point out that it can take 24 to 48 hours for new policies to roll out and be implemented, so if you’re flying today and you’re told you must wear a mask, they would like you to please chill and not give the crew a hard time about it. (Reading between the lines, they seem a bit relieved. Flight attendants have been assaulted in incidents relating to enforcing the policy.)
Policies are now up to the agencies and companies that operate transit
Uber, Lyft, and Amtrak all announced they will not be enforcing their mask rules, as did several airlines.
On the other hand, Chicago’s CTA and Metra have announced that they are still enforcing their mask mandates. New York City’s MTA is enforcing theirs, too. But several transportation authorities, including New Jersey Transit, at first announced they were keeping the mandate and then changed course.
This situation is evolving by the minute, so bring a mask with you (or, better yet, wear it anyway), and don’t be surprised if policies change on you.
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DES MOINES – Snow, high winds, and continued cold conditions limited Iowa farmers to 2.8 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Sunday, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Farmers have been applying anhydrous and fertilizer, spreading manure, tilling fields, and planting oats where possible while preparing to plant row crops.
“Iowa saw a mix of winter and spring weather last week. While severe storms swept through parts of the state leaving behind isolated damage, rain and Easter snowfall provided additional subsoil moisture,” said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig. “Soil temperatures are still hovering in the upper 30s and low 40s, but outlooks point to warmer temperatures for the week ahead.”
Topsoil moisture condition rated 7% very short, 22% short, 66% adequate and 5% surplus. Subsoil moisture condition rated 11% very short, 33% short, 54% adequate and 2% surplus.
As of Monday, no corn or soybeans were planted, the report stated. Twenty-nine percent of the expected oat crop has been planted, 8 days behind last year and 3 days behind the 5-year average. Oats are beginning to emerge across the state.
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Pastures were still mostly dormant although there were reports of some starting to turn green. Livestock conditions were generally good, with many new calves arriving.
Severe weather returned early last week with eight tornadoes reported across northern Iowa, the strongest having winds of up to 135 mph, according to Justin Glisan, state climatologist with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
While rainfall accompanied the disturbance that produced these strong thunderstorms, much of eastern and northwestern Iowa observed drier than normal conditions. Overall temperatures were also warmer than the previous reporting period, though up to eight degrees below normal in the northwest; the statewide average temperature was 42.1 degrees, 6.2 degrees below normal.
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Weekly precipitation totals ranged from no accumulation at several northwest Iowa stations to 4.50 inches at St. Ansgar. The statewide weekly average precipitation was 0.41 inch while the normal is 0.79 inch. Little Sioux (Harrison County) reported the week’s high temperature of 90 degrees on April 12, 29 degrees above average. Primghar (O’Brien County) and Sioux City (Woodbury County) reported the week’s low temperature of 16 degrees on April 16, 20 degrees below normal.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California jury on Tuesday awarded $1.5 million to the family of a man who was mistakenly declared dead by authorities, resulting in a stranger being buried in the family plot.
A Superior Court jury found the Orange County coroner's office committed negligence and intentional misrepresentation when it declared Frankie Kerrigan dead in 2017.
The office said that Kerrigan, who was 57 at the time, had schizophrenia and frequently lived on the streets, had died that May outside a store in Fountain Valley.
A police officer told the coroner's office that he believed the body was Kerrigan's based on previous contacts and a deputy coroner misidentified him based on Kerrigan's 11-year-old driver's license photo.
Fingerprints from the dead man were sent to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and turned out to belong to another man, John Dean Dickens, 54. However, the identification code for the prints wasn't checked due to an employee lack of training on a new digital system, a coroner's official testified at the trial.
Authorities handed over a body to the family, who held a Catholic Mass and a burial with an open-casket viewing.
“I touched his hair, and I said goodbye,” Kerrigan's father, Francis Kerrigan, testified at the trial in Santa Ana.
But a little over two weeks after the family was notified of Kerrigan’s death, a friend who had been a pallbearer at the funeral called the father to say Kerrigan had shown up at his house.
Kerrigan said he was “overjoyed for about a minute" before thinking: “Oh my God, there's a stranger in Frankie's grave."
The jury awarded $1.1 million to Francis Kerrigan and $400,000 to his daughter, Carole Meikle.
“This is a wake-up call for the county and every single county out there,” Kerrigan's father said. “It can happen to anybody.”
Norm Watkins, who represented the county, said there wasn't any intention to deceive the family and the county will decide whether to appeal the jury verdict.
Dickens, a Kansas native who died of heart disease, was exhumed from the family gravesite and his body returned to his relatives.
Kerrigan is currently living in a hotel and hasn't been told about the verdict, his family said.
James DeSimone, an attorney who represented Kerrigan and Meikle, said Kerrigan hasn't been taking his medication but he is “relatively stable, with a roof over his head."
“If he has some inclination there’s a court case going on, they’re afraid he’ll just bolt,” the attorney said.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
17-21-22-31-39
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-one, thirty-nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
17-21-22-31-39
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-one, thirty-nine)
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to reunite for a film on Nike executive who cracked the Michael Jordan deal
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are all set to team up again after The Last Duel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actors will be co-starring in a film based on Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro who landed the Michael Jordan deal. The sports marketing film will be directed by Affleck and will also star him alongside his longtime friend Damon.
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Damon will play Vaccarro while Affleck will essay the role of Nike co-founder Phil Knight. The film will revolve around Nike’s efforts of cracking a deal to sign rising superstar basketball player Michael Jordan to its shoe company in the mid-eighties. Following Vaccaro's historic deal, the endorsement between Jordan and Nike has been considered to be the most significant ever for an athletic brand and an athlete.
It has been reported that Jordan himself won't be seen in the film as the story's focus will remain on Sonny Vaccaro's efforts and hard work in making the deal happen during which he will be seen interacting closely with those in Jordan's circle including the athlete's mother as well as his coaches and more.
Previously, Vaccaro's story has also been portrayed in the documentary titled Sole Man. As for the upcoming film, Affleck and Damon are currently reworking the script for the project. After their Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting, the duo last worked together on the script of Ridley Scott's The Last Duel which also starred them alongside Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer among others.
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The George licensee Vinod Parihar faces jail term after pleading guilty to COVID-breaching 'secret' NYE party
By Joanna MenaghThe owner of a Perth bar is facing a possible jail term after pleading guilty to breaching strict COVID laws during a "secret" New Year's Eve party where revellers danced and were drinking standing up.
Key points:
- Vinod Parihar has pleaded guilty to charges laid against him
- Police had already warned him once before shutting down the event
- He now faces a $50,000 fine or a maximum jail term of 12 months
Vinod Parihar, 41, is the licensee and owner of The George in the CBD which hosted the party amid the backpacker Delta COVID outbreak over Christmas last year, when dancing was banned, and only seated service was allowed.
He was charged after police said they were confronted by locked doors and blacked-out windows when they tried to get into the venue to check on a noise complaint.
The Perth Magistrates Court was told today police had already attended the venue a couple of hours earlier and had warned Parihar of his obligations after seeing patrons standing up drinking and not wearing face masks.
Police scale gate and shut down event
The second time they attended was around 11.00pm, and despite knocking loudly on doors to obtain entry, they had to climb a locked gate to get in.
The police prosecutor said the officers saw around 150 patrons inside, some of whom were seated in a "haphazard manner" on people's laps and against walls.
The court was told the party was then shut down.
Parihar's lawyer, Michael Perrella, said the event took place after his client accepted a booking for what was described as a "private function" for around 150 people.
Mr Perrella said Parihar believed the invited guests were all known to each other, and he was expecting a group of people that would not be difficult to handle.
Parihar also believed that the partygoers had been sent an email beforehand reminding them of their obligations under the COVID laws that were in place at the time.
Mr Perrella submitted that during the night, around 11 announcements were made asking people to not dance and sit down, and he said vision that had emerged of a woman dancing on a tabletop at the end of the night had lasted only 10 seconds.
Parihar also shut down the service of alcohol for 51 minutes, which Mr Perrella said was to remind people to be seated and not dance.
"He did not organise the event. He did not profit from the event. He did make attempts to get people to comply."
Black curtains an 'attempt to keep people out'
Mr Perrella said his client denied that the locked doors and black curtains covering the windows were an attempt to stop the police getting in, saying instead they were aimed at keeping the public out.
"This was a private event, and he was concerned about people wanting to come in … it was not an attempt to exclude the police."
The court was told Parihar had co-operated with the police, including taking part in a 90-minute interview as well as handing over all CCTV footage from the night.
"He is not likely to commit any offence again. These circumstances are unique … it's a combination of being asked to host the party and crowd he was not familiar with."
A hefty fine or even jail awaits licensee
The two charges Parihar admitted carry a maximum jail term of 12 months or a fine of up to $50,0000.
Mr Perrella submitted a fine was the appropriate penalty and he also made an application for a spent conviction, meaning Parihar would not have a criminal record.
The court was told police had applied to suspend his manager's licence and Mr Perrella said if a conviction was recorded it could have an impact on those proceedings.
Chief Magistrate Steven Heath released Parihar on bail until his sentencing next week.
Parihar's co-accused, Farooq Latief, who the court heard was the organiser of the event, had his case adjourned until next month.
The corporate entity which owns the bar, of which Parihar is the sole director, pleaded not guilty to the two charges it is facing, and will face trial in August.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper who fired seven gunshots into a car and killed a man in 2020 after a high-speed chase was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the shooting, state police said.
Trooper Brian North turned himself in to the state inspector general at the state police barracks in Bethany at about 7:30 p.m., state police said in a statement. The charges were not immediately announced. Officials said North was placed on paid administrative leave and his police powers were suspended.
North fatally shot Mubarak Soulemane in January 2020 as Soulemane sat in the driver's seat of a car in West Haven, where the chase ended and police boxed in the car.
Soulemane’s family, the NAACP and other groups said North, who is white, should not have shot Soulemane, who was Black, because police surrounded him and he could not get away. Soulemane had a knife, but police should have attempted to de-escalate the situation, they say.
"The family of Mubarak Soulemane is very happy that, after 2+ years, Trooper Brian North, who murdered Mubarak in West Haven in January 2020, may be brought to justice," Mark Arons, a lawyer for Soulemane's family, said in a statement Tuesday night. "It’s a long road ahead. But this is a good day.”
North did not immediately return an email seeking comment, and it was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer who could respond to the arrest.
The Connecticut State Police Union said it was disappointed that the inspector general's office, which investigates police use of deadly force, decided to prosecute North.
“Trooper North was risking his own life while trying to fulfill his oath of office to protect the lives of others,” the union said in a statement obtained by WTNH-TV. “Regardless of the Inspector General’s decision, we will respect the judicial process while we vigorously defend Trooper North and his actions. It is our obligation to protect Trooper North’s constitutional right to due process of law and a fair trial.”
State police said Soulemane carjacked a vehicle in Norwalk on Jan. 15, 2020, before leading troopers on a chase on Interstate 95 into West Haven. Officials said Soulemane struck two state police cruisers and a civilian’s vehicle before troopers stopped his vehicle by boxing it in. West Haven police also responded to the scene.
State police body camera videos show a West Haven officer smashing out the passenger door window of the stolen car before another trooper shoots Soulemane with a stun gun, which didn’t work. North then fired his handgun seven times through the driver’s door window when Soulemane displayed the knife, state police said.
Soulemane’s family has said he was a community college student who had schizophrenia.
The NAACP and other groups have protested the shooting. At a memorial service for Soulemane days after his death, the Rev. Al Sharpton said something about the killing didn’t “smell right” and he vowed to fight for answers for the family.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Native American tribe in Oregon said Tuesday it is assessing its legal options after learning the U.S. government plans to release water from a federally operated reservoir to downstream farmers along the Oregon-California border amid a historic drought.
Even limited irrigation for the farmers who use Klamath River water on about 300 square miles of crops puts two critically endangered fish species in peril of extinction because the water withdrawals come at the height of spawning season, The Klamath Tribes said. This summer’s water allocation plan, released by the Bureau of Reclamation last week, will send about 50,000 acre-feet of water to farmers in the Klamath Reclamation Project — less than 15% of what they would get in a normal year.
An acre-foot is the amount needed to cover one acre of land with water one foot deep.
It’s the third year in a row that extreme drought has affected the farmers, fish and tribes that rely on the 257-mile-long Klamath River in a region where, even in a good year, there’s not enough water to satisfy competing demands. Last year, no water at all flowed through the Klamath reclamation project’s main irrigation canal, and the water crisis briefly became a political flashpoint for anti-government activists.
At the same time, critically endangered sucker fish central to the Klamath Tribes culture and religion didn’t have enough water to spawn and thousands of downstream juvenile salmon died without reservoir releases to support the Klamath River’s health.
The Klamath Tribes said in a statement that the decision to release any water to about 1,000 farmers in the massive, federal agricultural project was “perhaps the saddest chapter yet in a long history of treaty violations” and placed the blame for the current water crisis on “120 years of ecosystem mismanagement at the hands of settler society.”
The inland tribes, based in Chiloquin, Oregon, include the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin peoples of southern Oregon and northern California. The Klamath have fought to keep enough water in the reservoir and surrounding rivers for two distinct species of sucker fish to survive and breed, with limited success.
The fish are important to the tribes’ cultural and religious practices and were once a dietary staple. The Klamath stopped fishing for the sucker fish in the 1980s as numbers dwindled. The Klamath Tribes now run a captive breeding program to ensure the species’ survival and note that no juvenile sucker fish have survived in the wild in recent years.
“We have nothing left with which to ‘compromise,’ ” the Klamath Tribes said in a statement. “Global warming is certainly a global problem, but thus far its local consequences appear to be exacerbating existing and systematic inequalities between ourselves and the larger society.”
A spokeswoman from the Bureau of Reclamation declined to comment Tuesday, citing the possibility of litigation.
The Klamath Tribes believe this year’s plan violates a biological opinion under the Endangered Species Act, which says that the bureau must maintain the reservoir, which is called Upper Klamath Lake, at a minimum depth for the sucker fish. The opinion acknowledges that in some cases — such as this year — maintaining even that minimum depth may be impossible, but in those cases the bureau must do everything it can to comply.
“We feel like Reclamation has pushed us into a corner by making this allocation decision that is so directly contrary to the requirements of the Endangered Species Act,” said Jay Weiner, a water rights attorney representing The Klamath Tribes. “For them to pull additional water out … is a risk to the very existence of the species that the tribes can’t live with.”
Last weekend, federal regulators also released a three-day pulse of water from the reservoir down the Klamath River to bolster the health of salmon populations in northern California that have been decimated by a parasite that thrives in slow-moving, warm water.
The amount was half of what would be released in a normal year, and the Yurok Tribe, which is trying to keep the salmon populations afloat, said it was also deeply disappointed by this season’s water allocations.
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Free universal Pre-K is something Toledo has heard about for years.
And while there have been proposals and talk about it, the time could be closer to reality.
Toledo City Council heard a detailed proposal Tuesday night.
Reverend John C. Jones, from HOPE Toledo, asked for more than a million dollars to pay for it.
He says the time is right because the money is there thanks to the American Rescue Plan.
"I think this is the biggest thing we should be concerned about right now," said Jones.
It's not a new idea, but it's something he says we need to make sure young people have the foundation for success.
"Education is crucial for us to ensure our children are getting off to a strong start," said Jones.
Jones sat down in front of Toledo City Council to push for that education, to the tune of one and a quarter-million dollars.
He proposes the city uses some of its American Rescue Plan money to pay for it.
"So that we ensure all of our children get access, families know that they are prepared," said Jones.
His presentation showed there are about 4,000 4-year-old kids in Toledo, with as many as 1,000 not having access to early education, because of money, transportation or other issues.
Councilman John Hobbs III says he's on board with the idea, after seeing those less fortunate left behind.
"The violence that we are seeing in our city. The violence that we are seeing across the nation. Look at where it's occurring. And it is in areas of poverty and lack of education," said Hobbs.
The question now is how does the city maintain such a program after the funds run out?
"My concerns aren't for the needs for this, it's demonstrated it's needed. My concerns are the sustainability of it," said councilwoman Katie Moline.
Jones says ProMedica is on board and the idea will go to the Lucas County commissioners.
He says he'll also take it to state and federal lawmakers.
City council is just one step in the process, but he admits there are still questions.
"On a long-term basis, we would want to continue building these types of partnerships so we can increase the funding, we don't have the answer for the long term," said Jones.
With nothing set in stone, it's still a gray area.
But to Hobbs, Toledo's generations to come, deserve a fair fight in their future.
"Don't wait until it runs out - let's start planning now. Community leaders, pastors, organizations, non-profits - let's carry on this work," said Hobbs.
The 38-page proposal will go in front of the education committee next week on May 5 at 3:30 P.M.
If all questions are answered, then it can go back to the city council for a vote.
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Updated: April 19, 2022 10:11 PM
Created: April 19, 2022 09:54 PM
SANTA FE, N.M. – Around 4,000 patients battling cancer in New Mexico may have to find new doctors and treatment options after a major medical group in Santa Fe terminated a contract with an independent cancer practice.
Doctors with New Mexico Cancer Care Associates says Christus St. Vincent gave notice to those patients that at the end of May, they are terminating their contract with NMCCA months before the contract was set to expire. Those patients traveling from all over the northern part of the state to the facility located in Santa Fe.
One of those patients is John Urbanowski. In 2017, he was diagnosed with Metastatic cancer, a disease he knows he’ll never beat.
"A cure is not likely so this is what we are doing," said Urbanowski.
For the past two years he has been receiving treatment at the Christus St. Vincent Cancer Center to prolong his life. The center is operated by NMCCA. Then a few weeks ago, he and thousands of others received a letter from the President and CEO of Christus St. Vincent, letting him know they are terminating the contract with NMCCA on May 27. While they told him he would still have care, he doesn’t believe it.
"What a mess,” Urbanowski said. “Don't they see what they are doing to their patients?"
Now, Urbanowski and other patients have to find new oncologists and treatment options on short notice. While still undergoing current treatment with NMCCA.
"I don't know if I can find someone," said Urbanowski.
That’s a concern for New Mexico Cancer Care Associates as well.
"It's quite shocking that they would compromise patient care to the point of catastrophe," said Dr. Kathryn Chan president of NMCAA.
Dr. Scott Herbert who is also with NMCCA agrees.
"We are worried they are going to fall through the cracks during this transition,” said Herbert.
They say the contract was supposed to last through 2022, giving patients plenty of time to find other options. However, they claim that changed when the group turned down an offer to work exclusively for Christus.
"It seems like it was done purposefully to put us at a disadvantage and unfortunately it's the patients that pay for it," Herbert said.
Now, many believe the disease they’re fighting isn’t the only threat to the time they have left.
"Unfortunately, we don't know any more than they do,” Dr. Herbert said. “Right now Christus does not have the resources to take these patients over."
There is also a massive need for oncologists across the country. Finding doctors to fill all those positions will be difficult.
KOB reached out to Chrisus St. Vincent President and CEO Lillian Montoya, she sent us the following statement:
“There are two issues that we hope to finalize at mediation. Currently, CHRISTUS St. Vincent conducts all the billing for NMCCA and the services they are contracted to provide and would be supportive of continuing this practice, or a similar practice, until they have secured their own contracts with insurance companies.
We’ve offered proposals to NMCCA to address these issues and they have not responded. Nor have they agreed to our requests for mediation.
Mediating these serious issues through the media is not appropriate nor fair to patients.”
The statement also addressed why the contract was being terminated early.
“From the time they decided to move in a new direction, they have not been meeting the requirements of their current contractual arrangements for which they are being paid. Because of NMCCA’s contractual breaches, we had to plan for termination earlier than anticipated in order to ensure continuity of patient care.”
Mediations are expected to take place between the two groups before May 27.
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Which type of log splitter is best?
Using tools to break down wood for heat and cooking is one of civilization’s oldest tasks, and there are a variety of tools available to make it easier. Depending on how much wood you have, how thick and dense it is and how much work you’re willing to do, either a manual or electric log splitter might be best for you.
Electric log splitters
Electric log splitters are perfect for landowners or landscapers who regularly deal with large amounts of timber and don’t want to engage in backbreaking labor. They use an electric motor that plugs into a standard 110-volt outlet and drives a powerful hydraulic pump. You simply place the log in the splitter, turn it on and let the machine do the work.
Electric log splitter pros
- Straightforward operation: Electric log splitters are pretty simple to use. They don’t have much of a learning curve and there aren’t any complicated controls to worry about.
- They’ll save your back: If you’ve recently cleared your land of any trees and have plenty of timber, an electric log splitter can help you process it without overexerting yourself.
- They can split dense logs: Electric log splitters can typically accommodate logs up to 10 inches wide and 12 inches long, although some larger models can handle even larger pieces.
- They don’t make much noise: They’re not silent, but they’re exponentially quieter than their gas-powered counterparts.
Electric log splitter cons
- Power tools can be dangerous: Always exercise extreme caution when using an electric log splitter. Never allow an untrained user to operate it and always wear appropriate protective equipment.
- They’re not cheap: Electric log splitters start around $300 and go up to around $600.
- They take up a decent amount of space: You’ll need to make sure you have somewhere to store one. They’re also heavy.
- You might still need manual splitting tools: Electric log splitters can only handle logs up to a certain size. If you’re dealing with trees more than 10 inches in diameter, you’ll have to break down the timber before you can fit it in the splitter.
Best electric log splitters
Ryobi RYAC490 5-Ton 15-Amp Log Splitter
It delivers 5 tons of force and is big enough for logs up to 10 inches wide and 20 inches long. It’s an especially good choice because it comes from a popular and reliable manufacturer.
Sold by Home Depot
Southland SELS60 6-Ton 15-Amp Log Splitter
This one’s about as affordable as they get, but it still doesn’t make any sacrifices in terms of power. It’s equipped with rugged wheels and a textured handle so it’s easy to move around your property.
Sold by Home Depot
Powerhouse XM-380 7-Ton Log Splitter
There aren’t many as powerful as this one, which boasts 7 tons of force and can accommodate logs up to 12 inches wide. At about $500 and over 100 pounds, though, it’s both large and expensive.
Sold by Amazon
Manual log splitters
Unlike electric log splitters, manual log splitters come in a few different types. The most traditional manual log splitter is the combination of a maul or sledgehammer and a wedge. There are also hydraulic splitters that work similarly to electric models but use long handles and your own elbow grease for power. Finally, there’s also a large number of fixed vertical wedges to choose from. These are mostly used for turning previously split logs into tinder and kindling using a small mallet or mini sledgehammer.
Manual log splitter pros
- Splitting wood by hand can be satisfying: There’s nothing like warming yourself up by splitting wood outdoors on a cold winter’s day.
- They don’t require electricity: If you’re working deep in the woods or anywhere else off-grid, a manual wood splitter might be your best bet.
- They can be affordable: You can get your hands on a good maul and splitting wedge for well under $100.
- Some designs offer increased leverage: There aren’t many, but a few of the top manual splitters work a lot like electric models, except they’re powered by hand.
- The right tools can tackle the biggest logs: A few well-placed swings of a maul can make short work of some of the biggest logs.
Manual log splitter cons
- Splitting wood by hand is a lot of work: Don’t let anyone romanticize it too much; splitting wood with a sledgehammer and wedge will make you sweat and deliver a solid dose of exercise. For a lot of people, manual wood splitting without any mechanical advantage is just not feasible.
- Manual log splitting can also be dangerous: An errant ax-head or sprained shoulder can put a stop to your work and ruin your day or worse. Always use caution when splitting wood.
- Hydraulic models work slowly: It takes a decent amount of time to split a log with a manual hydraulic splitter. The trade-off is that you don’t have to swing around any heavy tools.
Best manual log splitters
Central Machinery Hydraulic Log Splitter
It uses the same principle as an electric log splitter, but it’s powered by the user.
Sold by Amazon
This thoughtfully designed maul weighs 8 pounds and sports a textured grip as well as a durable 34-inch fiberglass handle.
Sold by Home Depot
The superplastic face and advanced blade geometry make this one of the finest mauls available. However, it’s not cheap.
Sold by Home Depot
This design has long been considered one of the most efficient at splitting logs. Plus, it doesn’t cost much.
Sold by Amazon
An impressive amount of engineering went into designing this wedge, which may be the most effective one on the market.
Sold by Amazon
Simply place an already split log on top of this fixed wedge, strike it with a mallet and gather the kindling that results. There’s also an extra-large version.
Sold by Amazon
It’s simple, it’s effective and if you plan on using a wedge, you’ll probably need a good sledgehammer.
Sold by Amazon
Should you get a manual or electric log splitter?
If you’ll be splitting a lot of wood, you’ll probably need a maul or sledgehammer and wedge no matter what. Even with electric log splitters, you’ll need to do some manual work at times.
As far as mechanical log splitters go, an electric log splitter is highly effective once the logs are prepped and ready for splitting. If you’re considering a mechanical log splitter, an electric one is probably your best bet. There are few manual hydraulic log splitters and the ones that do exist don’t work very quickly. The best situation for a manual hydraulic log splitter is if you’ll only use it occasionally and aren’t willing or able to swing an ax.
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Internet threats have evolved as a global problem and have spread across various geographies. The main objective of Internet security solutions is to protect the systems and networks against cyber-attacks. Increasing number of advanced network threats, such as virus, spam, malware, and others, have led the Internet security solution providers to develop advanced products.
Increasing usage of Internet across every sector has increased the vulnerability of virus attacks, spams and others, which could severely impact system functionality and business operations. Several sectors, such as finance, infrastructure, transportation, telecommunication, and defense and research institutes, have become the prime targets of the cyber-attacks. Internet security solutions protect computing systems to ensure flawless execution of operations and prevent damage and loss that might arise from any kind of cyber-attack.
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Microsoft Corporation
CISCO Systems, Inc.
Google Incorporation
Intel Corporation (McAfee, Inc.)
Symantec Corporation
Trend Micro
Kaspersky Lab
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Think of pasta carbonara as the Italian version of chicken soup. It's humble and comforting and requires the simplest of ingredients.
Carbonara consists of pasta and cured pork (guanciale) or bacon, whisked in a slick sauce of eggs and a shower of grated pecorino cheese. The method is quick. It relies on the heat from the just-cooked pasta to cook the eggs and melt the cheese, while the sauce is constantly stirred to prevent the eggs from scrambling. It's a one-dish meal -- or in this case, a one-skillet meal. From start to finish, this dish can be whipped up in less than 30 minutes.
It's easy to add a vegetable to carbonara, so you can confidently call this dish a complete meal. Peas and chopped cauliflower florets are great contenders. This springtime dish includes asparagus, which pairs exceptionally well with bacon and eggs.
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Asparagus Carbonara
Active Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Yield: Serves 4
8 ounces thick-cut bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup finely grated pecorino Romano cheese, plus more for sprinkling
12 ounces orecchiette, or preferred pasta
8 ounces thin asparagus, ends trimmed, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste
Freshly ground black pepper
In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the bacon in batches until the fat renders and the bacon is crispy. Transfer the bacon to a plate lined with a paper towel to drain. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from the skillet.
Whisk the eggs and cheese in a bowl until blended and set aside.
Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a rolling boil. Add the pasta and cook according to the package instructions until al dente; drain.
While the pasta is cooking, add the asparagus to the skillet with the bacon fat. Saute over medium heat until the asparagus is bright in color, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes and saute until fragrant and the asparagus is crisp-tender, about 1 minute more.
Add the drained pasta to the skillet and stir to combine. Remove the pan from the heat and quickly add the eggs and cheese, stirring constantly to coat the pasta and to prevent the eggs from scrambling. Stir in the reserved bacon.
Serve immediately with additional grated cheese and freshly ground black pepper for sprinkling.
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N. BETHESDA, Md., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) will announce first quarter 2022 earnings in a press release to be issued before market open on Thursday, May 5, 2022. The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, May 5th, at 11:00 AM ET.
Event: Federal Realty Investment Trust's First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call
When: 11:00 AM ET, Thursday, May 5, 2022
Live Webcast: FRT First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call or www.federalrealty.com
Dial #: 877.407.9208; Passcode: 13729384
A replay of the webcast will be available 30 minutes after the conclusion of the call on Federal Realty's website at www.federalrealty.com. A telephonic replay of the conference call will also be available through May 19, 2022 by dialing 844.512.2921; Passcode: 13729384.
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Federal Realty is a recognized leader in the ownership, operation and redevelopment of high-quality retail-based properties located primarily in major coastal markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles. Founded in 1962, Federal Realty's mission is to deliver long-term, sustainable growth through investing in communities where retail demand exceeds supply. Its expertise includes creating urban, mixed-use neighborhoods like Santana Row in San Jose, California, Pike & Rose in North Bethesda, Maryland and Assembly Row in Somerville, Massachusetts. These unique and vibrant environments that combine shopping, dining, living and working provide a destination experience valued by their respective communities. Federal Realty's 104 properties include approximately 3,100 tenants, in 25 million square feet, and approximately 3,400 residential units.
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With 2,067 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,47,594 while the active cases increased to 12,340, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The death toll climbed to 5,22,006 with 40 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
An increase of 480 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.49 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 0.38 per cent, according to the health ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,25,13,248, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.21 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 186.90 crore.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.
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Russia hits Ukrainian cities, pours more troops into war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is hurling its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and pouring more troops into the war. The fighting in the east seeks to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of Ukraine's industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. The boomerang-shaped front stretched for hundreds of miles in what is known as the Donbas. If successful, the battle would give President Vladimir Putin a victory following the failed attempt by Moscow’s forces to storm the capital, Kyiv, and heavier-than-expected casualties. Meanwhile in the devastated southern port city of Mariupol, Russian bombs reportedly flattened what was left of a sprawling steel plant and hit a hospital.
EXPLAINER: How Russia's eastern push in Ukraine may unfold
Russia’s new offensive in eastern Ukraine reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. Russian forces have intensified artillery barrages and airstrikes on Ukrainian positions in the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. Ukrainian officials said the push began Monday, with Russia trying to press the offensive along an arc-shaped front line for more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) from the northeast to the southeast. In what appeared to be a sharp increase in bombardment Tuesday, Russia said that in the last 24 hours, it struck 60 Ukrainian military facilities with its warplanes and 1,260 with its artillery, while attacking 1,214 troop concentrations. The claims could not be independently confirmed.
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BEIJING (AP) — A health official says 4 million more people in Shanghai have been allowed to leave their homes as coronavirus quarantine rules ease. The official, Wu Ganyu, said a total of almost 12 million people have been allowed to leave their homes as China’s largest tries to contain virus outbreaks. Authorities confined most of Shanghai’s 25 million people to their homes starting March 28 following a surge in infections. China’s case numbers in its latest infection surge are relatively low, but the ruling Communist Party is enforcing a “zero-COVID” strategy that has shut down major cities to isolate every case.
Feds will appeal mask ruling only if mandate still needed
The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary. A judge in Florida on Monday ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs. Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Tuesday that officials believe the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” The CDC continues to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determines a mandate is necessary, the Justice Department will file an appeal.
China looks to learn from Russian failures in Ukraine
BANGKOK (AP) — With its ground troops forced to pull back in Ukraine and regroup, and its Black Sea flagship sunk, Russia’s military failings are mounting. No country is paying closer attention than China to how a smaller and outgunned force has battled what was thought to be one of the world’s most powerful armies. China, like Russia, has been ambitiously reforming its Soviet-style military and experts say leader Xi Jinping will be carefully parsing the weaknesses exposed by the invasion of Ukraine as they might apply to his own People’s Liberation Army and his designs on the self-governed island of Taiwan.
'Wall of fire' forces evacuations near Arizona tourist town
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Winds kicked up a towering wall of flames in rural northern Arizona on Tuesday, tearing through two-dozen structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 700 homes. Coconino County declared an emergency as the fast-moving wildfire on the outskirts of Flagstaff ballooned to over 9 square miles. Forest Service officials say flames as high as 100 feet quickly scorched dry grass, shrubs and Ponderosa pine trees. More than 750 homes and 1,000 animals have been evacuated. Smoke billowed into the air Tuesday in a scene reminiscent of a dozen years ago when a much-larger fire burned in the area. Elsewhere in Arizona, firefighters battled a wildfire in a sparsely populated area of national forest south of Prescott.
Energy shift creates opening for 'world's largest batteries'
LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A question is hovering over the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy such as wind and solar: What happens when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine? The hydropower industry says the answer is developing more pumped storage plants. They function like giant batteries, pumping water from a lower reservoir to an upper one. When power is needed, the water is released downhill through turbines. The U.S. has 43 pumped storage plants but only one has been built since the 1990s. Cost, regulatory and logistical problems have hampered new construction. The industry is lobbying for tax breaks and streamlined permitting. But some say pumped storage causes environmental problems and better technologies may emerge.
Palin on serving in Congress: 'It would be all about Alaska'
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin says she’s serious about her campaign for the U.S. House, telling The Associated Press that her unique place in American politics would put her in a stronger position representing Alaska in Washington. Still, she says that if Donald Trump runs for president in 2024 and asks her to be his running mate, she’ll consider it. Trump has endorsed Palin in her bid for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat. She is one of 48 candidates running for the seat following the death of Republican congressman Don Young. Palin was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
Johnny Depp on stand: Ex-wife Heard's allegations 'heinous'
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp told jurors that he felt compelled to sue his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel out of an obsession for the truth after she accused him of physical and sexual assault. Depp on Tuesday flatly denied ever hitting Heard, calling the allegations against him disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth.” Depp says Heard falsely accused him of domestic abuse when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post. The trial in Fairfax, Virginia, began last week but, prior to Tuesday afternoon, the jury had only seen Depp sitting silently with his lawyers. Heard is scheduled to take the stand later in the six-week trial.
Netflix aims to curtail password sharing - and bring in ads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An unexpectedly sharp drop in subscribers has Netflix considering changes to its service that it has long resisted: minimizing password sharing and creating a low-cost subscription supported by advertising. The looming changes announced late Tuesday are aimed at helping Netflix regain the momentum it's lost during the past year as pandemic-driven lockdowns that kept people at home lifted and other services run by deep-pocketed rivals such as Apple and Walt Disney began to chip away at its vast audience. On Tuesday, Netflix suffered its first losses in subscribers in years, an unwelcome surprise that drove its stock down by 25%.
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LARRY ALLEN OXLEY, 77, of Scott Depot, passed away on April 16, 2022. He was born on February 1, 1945, to the late Roy and Etta Oxley in South Charleston. He was also preceded in death by his sister, Louise McCallister; brother, Shelby Oxley; and stepdaughter, Mary “Darlene” Schupska. He was a 1962 graduate of Hurricane High School and entered the Navy shortly after high school. He went on to retire from Special Metals Corporation. He loved spending time with family and especially his grandchildren. He also enjoyed motorcycles, boating, gun collecting, camping and watching sports, especially his beloved WVU Mountaineers. Larry is survived by his loving wife, Sharon Groff Oxley of Scott Depot; son, Eric Oxley (Jessica) of Hebron, Ky.; sisters, Peggy Bush (Dwane) of Hurricane and Joyce Grass of Hermon, Maine; grandchildren, Hayden, Ethan and Lincoln Oxley, Rikki Ashley (Travis) and Christopher Schupska; great-grandchildren, Bentley, Jackson and Luke; and many other extended family and friends. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 21, 2022, at Chapman Funeral Home, Hurricane, with Pastor James Dennis officiating. Burial will follow services in Valley View Memorial Park, Hurricane. Friends may visit with the family Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Anyone wishing to leave an online memory or condolence may do so by visiting his tribute page at www.chapmanfuneralhomes.com. Chapman Funeral Home, 3941 Teays Valley Road, Hurricane, WV 25526, is honored to handle the Oxley family.
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WA Current Conditions as of 11:00 PM PDT Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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Arlington;Clear;40;N;5;85%
Bellingham;Partly cloudy;41;Calm;0;88%
Bremerton;Partly cloudy;42;NW;1;89%
Chehalis;Mostly cloudy;39;Calm;0;100%
Deer Park;Cloudy;40;NNE;5;64%
Eastsound;Partly cloudy;39;Calm;0;100%
Ellensburg;Mostly clear;39;NNW;9;66%
Ephrata;Partly cloudy;41;SW;9;62%
Everett;Mostly clear;42;N;1;85%
Fort Lewis;Mostly cloudy;42;ESE;5;73%
Friday Harbor;Partly cloudy;38;Calm;0;89%
Hoquiam;Partly cloudy;46;Calm;0;79%
Kelso-Longview;Partly cloudy;42;Calm;0;88%
Moses Lake;Mostly clear;37;SW;4;83%
Olympia;Mostly clear;39;Calm;0;85%
Omak;Clear;39;WNW;8;66%
Pasco;Mostly clear;49;S;7;65%
Port Angeles;Mostly clear;39;Calm;0;82%
Pullman;Cloudy;37;SSW;6;88%
Puyallup;Mostly cloudy;45;SSE;1;80%
Quillayute;Partly cloudy;40;E;6;96%
Renton;Partly cloudy;47;Calm;0;63%
Seattle;Mostly clear;44;NNW;1;81%
Seattle Boeing;Partly cloudy;46;Calm;0;79%
Shelton;Mostly cloudy;40;NE;3;92%
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Info sought over Sydney pub brawl death
Police are seeking information from multiple people after a 23-year-old man was fatally bashed during a brawl outside a Sydney pub.
The Sydney man was involved in the fight between two groups on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst in the early hours of April 9.
The 23-year-old was found unconscious with serious injuries when emergency services arrived at the scene.
Police believe he sustained critical head injuries after being punched.
He was taken to nearby St Vincent's Hospital where he died two days later.
Detectives from Surry Hills Police formed Strike Force Nadzah to investigate the death.
They are now appealing for assistance to identify a man they believe can help with the investigation.
At the time of the brawl he was wearing three-quarter length khaki pants, white shoes and had no shirt on, NSW Police say.
The man has dark hair and is not believed to have assaulted the 23-year-old, but police believe he was with the group involved in the fatal attack and may be able to assist investigators.
Police have also renewed their calls for any witnesses to the fight, including a group seen walking across a pedestrian crossing, and a man and woman who were seated on a bench across from the incident.
Three men arrested and charged with affray over the incident remain before the courts.
No one has been charged over the assault.
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On this day in 2018: Arsene Wenger announces end of 21-year reign at Arsenal
Arsene Wenger announced the end of his near 22-year reign as Arsenal manager on April 20, 2018.
The 68-year-old’s position had come under intense scrutiny over the previous 18 months due to repeated failings in the Premier League and Champions League.
The Frenchman had lifted the FA Cup in three of the previous four seasons but that was not enough to appease some supporters and Wenger revealed his decision to step down at the end of the season.
He said: “After careful consideration and following discussions with the club, I feel it is the right time for me to step down at the end of the season.
“I am grateful for having had the privilege to serve the club for so many memorable years.
“I managed the club with full commitment and integrity.
“I want to thank the staff, the players, the directors and the fans who make this club so special.
“I urge our fans to stand behind the team to finish on a high. To all the Arsenal lovers, take care of the values of the club.
“My love and support for ever.”
Wenger won three Premier League titles, the last of which came as a result of the unbeaten ‘Invincibles’ season in 2003/04, while he holds the record for the most FA Cup victories as a manager with seven.
Wenger received a standing ovation before his final home game – a 5-0 win against Burnley – while his last match in charge was a 1-0 victory away to Huddersfield.
The Frenchman is currently FIFA’s chief of global football development.
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Padres hand Reds 8th straight setback
For the second straight night, Manny Machado answered a Tommy Pham solo homer in the top of the first with a two-run shot in the bottom of the inning and starting pitcher Joe Musgrove held Cincinnati to two runs and four hits over 6 1/3 innings as the Padres defeated the Reds 6-2 in San Diego.
The loss was the eighth straight for Cincinnati.
Just like he did Monday, Pham gave the Reds a quick 1-0 lead over his former team with his second homer of the season as well as the series.
And just as they did Monday night, Austin Nola led off the bottom of the first with a single and Machado followed with a two-run shot to left off left-handed Reds starter Reiver Sanmartin. The Padres added a third run in an inning that saw the Reds lose catcher and cleanup hitter Tyler Stephenson.
Luke Voit drew a one-out walk then tried to score on Jurickson Profar's double into the left-field corner. But the relay beat Voit to the plate, leading to the collision. Stephenson departed after going through an on-the-field test for concussion symptoms. When play resumed, Eric Hosmer drove home Profar with a single.
The Padres added two more runs in the fourth off Sanmartin on a single by Hosmer followed by RBI doubles by Wil Myers and Jose Azocar. Their final run came in the bottom of the eighth, Jake Cronenworth scoring from third on a Hosmer groundout after being hit by a Ryan Hendrix pitch to open the inning.
The Reds' second run came in the sixth. Aramis Garcia doubled with one out -- ending a streak of 14 straight hitters retired by Musgrove -- and scored on a two-out single by Kyle Farmer.
Musgrove (2-0) picked up the win. He retired after issuing his first walk of the season in the seventh. He had seven strikeouts. Sanmartin (0-2) gave up five runs on eight hits and a walk with four strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
When Stephenson had to leave the game in the bottom of the first after the home-plate collision with Voit, it created a strange situation for the already short-handed Reds. Cincinnati's other catcher, Garcia, was already in the game as the designated hitter. When he took over the catching duties, Sanmartin was forced to go into the lineup hitting in the No. 4 spot and went 0-for-2 as the first actual pitcher to hit in the major leagues this season.
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Macron, Le Pen face off in crucial election debate
By Michel Rose, Elizabeth Pineau and Ingrid Melander
PARIS, April 20 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen will face off on Wednesday in a debate which could be decisive in the tight race to decide who will run the country for the next five years.
For Le Pen, who is behind Macron in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's vote, it is all about showing that she has the stature to be president and convincing more voters that they should not fear seeing the far-right in power.
"Fear is the only argument that the current president has to try and stay in power at all cost," Le Pen said in a new campaign clip on Tuesday, accusing Macron of doom-mongering over what a far-right presidency would mean for France.
For Macron, possibly the biggest challenge will be not to sound arrogant, something many voters have criticised in him, while poking at the holes he sees in Le Pen's policy plans and playing up his five years of experience in power.
"The French now see her as a possible president, unlike in 2017. It's now up to us to prove she will be a bad president," a source close to Macron said, adding that he would "counter her project and prove that it is inconsistent and unrealistic."
The debate, which starts at 1900 GMT, will be the only one between the two candidates.
When Macron and Le Pen first competed against each other for the president's job, in 2017, the debate was catastrophic for the anti-immigration, eurosceptic candidate.
She mixed up her notes and lost her footing, while the debate allowed a then-largely untested Macron to convince voters he was fit to be president.
Much has changed since.
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For one, although the line-up is the same, the outcome of the election is more open, with the centrist, pro-European president's lead in opinion polls much narrower gap than in 2017.
And Macron has now been in power for five years, meaning Le Pen can attack him on his track record.
She can also only do better than in the 2017 debate, which she herself called a failure, while it could be hard for Macron to repeat such a knock-out performance.
But Macron is not without assets for this debate, which will be the only direct confrontation between the two of the whole campaign.
With far-right pundit Eric Zemmour now out of the game, Le Pen lost a rival that made her look less radical, by comparison, and that has hit her in opinion polls.
Then, unemployment is at a 13-year low and the French economy has outperformed other big European countries - even if inflation is biting into that.
And while she has largely managed so far to brush it aside, Le Pen has her past admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin working against her.
For both, trying to win over leftwing voters will be key.
While Le Pen's camp has been scrambling over the past days to explain her plan to ban the hijab in all public places, for Macron, a proposal to push back retirement age is leaving him exposed.
Both have eased up on campaigning ahead of the debate. But while Le Pen is said to be focusing on preparing for it, sources in Macron's team are keen to point out the president is still at work and hasn't taken a whole day off to prepare for the debate.
"Being president is not a part time job," a campaign aide told Reuters.
(Reporting by Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau Writing by Ingrid Melander Editing by Alistair Bell)
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RECENTLY, our Republican Senate colleagues have rolled out their plan for the state’s surplus under the heading of “property tax relief.” It’s a fantastic headline; what Republican running for higher office wouldn’t want to try and claim actions that lower New Hampshire’s prohibitively high property taxes? However, there are three major problems with their claim of lowering property taxes.
First, it isn’t true. Actions taken by Republicans last session during the budget process and this year during the legislative session have done absolutely nothing to lower property taxes. In fact, Republicans slashed the budget for property tax drivers like public school funding, putting an increased burden on our cities and towns to make up the funding gap. Democrats have consistently tried to require cities and towns to use state aid to lower property tax rates, but Republicans have refused.
Second, many proposals noted in their “package” that will lower property taxes were introduced by Democrats. For example, SB 412, highlighted in the Republican property tax relief package, is sponsored by Senate Deputy Democratic Leader Cindy Rosenwald. SB 412 represents $5 million in property tax relief that, unlike one-time political stunts passed in last year’s budget, will continue to decrease the property tax burden.
Finally, Democrats have continued to propose legislation that specifically aims to lower property taxes over the long term. For example, last year Democrats proposed restoring a portion of the state’s contribution to retirement costs, but Senate Republicans turned down this proposal that would significantly cut local costs paid by property taxpayers. This year, a similar proposal, HB 1417, has been sponsored by the late Democratic Leader Renny Cushing. Once again, Democrats are seeking to ensure the state makes good on its promise to share the burden of employer costs for municipal employees. We remain hopeful that the bipartisan support HB 1417 received in the House shows some level of recognition from our Republican colleagues of their previous mistake.
Another example of recent Democratic proposals to lower property taxes was SB 426, Senator Jay Kahn’s bill to temporarily adjust the formula for calculating adequate education grants. Republicans rejected SB 426 which in turn, meant the rejection of $34 million in property tax relief that will now have to be shouldered by local property taxpayers. While our Republican colleagues continue to argue that their budget increased public school funding, the fact of the matter is that there is now a gap of nearly $100 million dollars that will need to be made up by local property taxpayers. Not only that, but the “relief” provided in the last budget through the reduction of the statewide education property tax (SWEPT) was a one-time political stunt that does nothing to lower property taxes in the long term.
The list goes on.
It comes as no surprise that Republicans looking ahead to political campaigns would want to start putting together a platform to run on — particularly after nearly two years of legislation seeking to undermine the rights of so many Granite Staters. However, when compiling a platform, it is critical to make sure the legs are sturdy. Between claiming credit for Democratic ideas, actively rejecting legislation that would lower property taxes, and hiding behind one-time changes that will negatively impact taxpayers in the long run, the platform Republicans are attempting to build simply has no legs to stand on.
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A Lincoln retirement village which has been in the same family for 50 years has been sold to one of the UK's largest caravan park operators. The Elms in Lincoln was originally a holiday park but was then transformed into a residential site for the over 50s by John Kinch and his son Stuart.
The 339-home site is situated across 65 acres of countryside and it has now been bought for an undisclosed sum by Cove Communities, an international resort operator. Stuart Kinch, the owner of The Elms, said: "The Elms has been in the Kinch family for 50 years, so who we entrusted to sell the park to was very important.
"We had a lot of interest, but in the end we decided to sell to Cove Communities because of their outstanding reputation in the industry and the family friendly approach we received from their team. We are incredibly proud of our family's achievements. We are sad to end our time with The Elms Retirement Village, which is a truly outstanding development. We are assured that Cove will continue on with our good work."
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Cove Communities is now the fifth largest caravan park operator in the UK, having also recently acquired land in locations ranging from Scotland to Cornwall. Mark Seaton, the Managing Director of the business, said: "The Elms is a fantastic site that has been lovingly developed by the owners and team members.
"At Cove, we have a desire to add stunning properties in beautiful locations and this residential site fits that profile. It is a natural fit for our portfolio and will be retained as a residential site. Cove is constantly looking for new opportunities to acquire resorts but will only do so if it fits with the quality of our existing parks."
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden went to Portsmouth Harbor in New Hampshire on Tuesday to highlight how last year’s infrastructure bill can improve shipping and help resolve the country’s supply chain debacles that have contributed to inflation at a 40-year high.
The president used the trip to say that America is healthier than ever as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and a severe but short recession. It’s a crucial message as polling suggests many voters are uncomfortable about the future and Biden’s own economic leadership as high inflation has overwhelmed the job gains during his watch.
“We’re the only country in the world that I believe has come out of every crisis we faced stronger than when we went in,” Biden said. “Literally, stronger than we went in. That’s the history of the journey of this country.”
Biden’s destination was the state’s only deep water harbor, making it a critical way station for home heating oil, fiberoptic cables and rock gypsum, which is used to produce drywall. Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan faces New Hampshire voters this year as she seeks a second term. Her seat is a Democratic bulwark in the evenly split Senate, one that the administration seeks to protect.
Under the $1 trillion infrastructure law, $1.7 million will be used to dredge the harbor’s shipping channel and basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers already spent $18.2 million to make it easier for larger ships to access the harbor, a project intended to reduce delays that cause higher prices for consumers.
Overall, the law includes $17 billion for upgrading port facilities at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc on international supply chains. The president rattled off the other infrastructure investments from the law, including the replacement of lead water pipes, the build-out of broadband internet, projects to protect against climate change and repairs to roads and bridges.
“There’s so much more in this law. I’m not going to bore you with the rest of it, but it’s significant,” said Biden, whose speech then touched on inflation coming out of the pandemic, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, taxes, prescription drug prices and lowering the budget deficit.
Biden’s trip is his second to New Hampshire as president. The state was his first stop after he signed the infrastructure legislation in November, and he spoke in front of an old bridge that’s overdue for repairs.
The president has repeatedly focused on these kinds of initiatives as his more ambitious agenda to boost education, social services and climate change initiatives remains stalled.
With the midterm elections approaching later this year, Biden is eager to convince voters that one of his administration’s top accomplishments is creating concrete progress after years of unfulfilled promises from his predecessor, President Donald Trump, who never cut a deal on infrastructure spending.
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Mr. Adriel Chan, Vice Chair & Chair of Sustainability Steering Committee, Hang Lung Properties, said, "Hang Lung Properties is proud to be the first real estate company in Hong Kong and among the first such companies in Asia to join ULI Greenprint's global initiative in support of a low carbon future. Climate resilience is our sustainability priority. We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint in line with climate science, setting ambitious and concrete 2025 and 2030 carbon reduction targets. In January this year, we took a step further by committing to set both near- and long-term targets to reach net-zero value chain greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050. We look forward to exchanging best practices on this journey with other Greenprint members, and call on all real estate companies to step up to the challenge and create a net-zero carbon world together."
By joining both ULI Greenprint's net zero carbon operations goal and the Science-Based Targets initiative's Net Zero Standard , we hope to actively contribute to the reduction of the built environment's impact on climate change in collaboration with industry peers, while accelerating our decarbonization efforts across all aspects of our business in line with climate science.
ULI Greenprint is a global membership consortium of top real estate owners, developers, investors, and strategic partners committed to improving the environmental performance of the real estate industry. Through measurement and benchmarking, knowledge sharing, and implementation of best practices, ULI Greenprint and its members strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 and achieve net zero carbon operations by 2050.
The ULI Greenprint's net zero carbon operations goal is a way for existing ULI Greenprint members to lead the way in reducing their impact on climate change beyond their carbon reduction commitments. The goal encourages portfolio-wide carbon reductions via energy-efficiency improvements, on-site renewable energy, green utility power and building electrification, off-site renewables, renewable energy credits and offsets.
About Hang Lung Properties
Hang Lung Properties Limited (SEHK Stock Code: 00101) creates compelling spaces that enrich lives. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Hang Lung Properties develops and manages a diversified portfolio of world-class properties in Hong Kong and the nine Mainland cities of Shanghai, Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, Kunming, Wuhan and Hangzhou. With its luxury positioning under the "66" brand, the company's Mainland portfolio has established its leading position as the "Pulse of the City." Hang Lung Properties is recognized for leading the way through enhanced sustainability initiatives in real estate as it pursues sustainable growth by connecting customers and communities.
At Hang Lung Properties – We Do It Well .
For more information, please visit www.hanglung.com .
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The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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April 20, 2022
Revision of Business and Dividend Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ended March 2022
Based on its recent business performance, ACOM CO., LTD. ("ACOM") announces to revise its earnings and year-end dividend forecasts for the Fiscal Year ended March 2022 (From April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022), previously released on May 13, 2021.
1. Revision of the Earnings Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ended March 2022
(From April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022)
(1) Consolidated
(Millions of yen, %)
(2) Non-consolidated
(Millions of yen, %)
2. Reasons for the Revision
(1) Consolidated Earnings Forecast
ACOM revises its forecast on operating revenue to 262.1 billion yen (1.4 billion yen above the previous forecast) as revenue on credit card business landed above what we have planned. With respect to operating expenses, although provision for a bad debt and other operating expenses were within our plan, it is expected to be 227.3 billion yen (46.5 billion yen above the previous forecast) due to an unscheduled addition of 58.9 billion yen (7.6 billion yen in 3Q and 51.2 billion yen in 4Q) to provision for loss on interest repayment.
Regarding the request for interest repayment, we have added the shortfall for required allowance for loss on interest repayments (86.2 billion yen), as a result of recalculation of amounts of requests for interest repayment, taking into account the situation where the numbers of requests for FY Ended March 2022 has exceeded the forecast and the current trend of interest repayment.
Owing to factors mentioned above, operating profit and ordinary profit are expected to be 34.8 billion yen (down by 45.1 billion yen from the previous forecast) and 35.4 billion yen (down by 44.7 billion yen from the previous forecast), respectively.
On the other hand, in accordance with the "Implementation Guidance on Recoverability of Deferred Tax Assets," we carefully examined the recoverability of deferred tax assets, taking into consideration of the outlook for the fiscal year ended March 2022 and future business performance.
As a result, we expect the profit attributable to owners of parent to be 55.7 billion yen (down by 5.3 billion yen from the previous forecast), affected from additional recognition of deferred tax assets which pushed income taxes-deferred to -44.3 billion yen, ending up the profit to increase.
(2) Non-consolidated Earnings Forecast
ACOM revises its forecast on operating revenue to 194.6 billion yen (0.8 billion yen above the previous forecast) as revenue on credit card business landed above what we have planned. With respect to operating expenses, although financial expenses, provision for a bad debt and other operating expenses were within our plan, it is expected to be 183.0 billion yen (48.0 billion yen above the previous forecast) due to an unscheduled addition of 58.9 billion yen (7.6 billion yen in 3Q and 51.2 billion yen in 4Q) to provision for loss on interest repayment.
Regarding the request for interest repayment, we have added the shortfall for required allowance for loss on interest repayments (86.2 billion yen), as a result of recalculation of amounts of requests for interest repayment, taking into account the situation where the numbers of requests for FY Ended March 2022 has exceeded the forecast and the current trend of interest repayment.
Owing to factors mentioned above, operating profit and ordinary profit are expected to be 11.6 billion yen (down by 47.2 billion yen from the previous forecast) and 17.9 billion yen (down by 46.9 billion yen from the previous forecast), respectively.
On the other hand, in accordance with the "Implementation Guidance on Recoverability of Deferred
Tax Assets," we carefully examined the recoverability of deferred tax assets, taking into consideration of the outlook for the fiscal year ended March 2022 and future business performance.
As a result, we expect the profit to be 48.1 billion yen (down by 7.3 billion yen from the previous forecast), affected from additional recognition of deferred tax assets which pushed income taxes-deferred to -44.7 billion yen, ending the profit to increase.
3. Revision of Year-end Dividend Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ended March 2022 (1) Details of the Revision
(2) Reasons for the Revision
Placing the profit distribution to our shareholders as one of the most important management issues, our basic policy is to "aim to enhance shareholder returns by providing stable and continuous returns of profits, taking into consideration of our business performance, equity, and the business environment surrounding our company."
As for year-end dividend forecasts for the FY ended March 2022, we plan to revise and increase the dividend to 4 yen per share (up 1yen from the previous forecast), after comprehensively taking into account the current financial situation and the full-year business performance excluding interest repayment expenses.
* The forecasts are based on information available as of the date of publication of this document, and final results may differ from the forecasts due to various factors in the future.
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Woolworths urgently recalls two popular milk products containing an 'undeclared allergen'
- Supermarket recalls its Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk and Sweet Rice Milk
- Undeclared allergen of milk found in popular products on shelves April 6-19
- Consumers with milk allergy may suffer reaction if they drink the products
An urgent recall has been urged for two popular Woolworths milk products.
One litre Woolworths Macro Certified Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk and Woolworths Macro Certified Organic Naturally Sweet Rice Milk have been pulled from shelves due to the presence of an undeclared allergen.
Food Standards Australia warned the products could cause a reaction to consumers who are lactose or daily intolerant when the recall was issued on Wednesday.
'The recall is due to the presence of an undeclared allergen (milk),' the alert read.
'Any consumers who have a milk allergy or intolerance may have a reaction if the product is consumed.'
'Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice.'
The products were on sale in selected Woolworths stores April 6-19.
The Macro Certified Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk is only sold in Woolworths store in Victoria while the Macro Certified Organic Naturally Sweet Rice Milk is available in NSW and Queensland.
The unsweetened coconut milk has a best before date of April 3 2023 while the rice milk had a best before date of March 29 2023.
Consumers can return the products to Woolworths for a full refund.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
The fighting on Tuesday unfolded along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long in what is known as the Donbas. If successful, it would give President Vladimir Putin a victory following the failed attempt by Moscow's forces to storm the capital, Kyiv, and heavier-than-expected casualties.
In Mariupol, the now-devastated port city in the Donbas, Ukrainian troops said the Russian military dropped heavy bombs to flatten what was left of a sprawling steel plant and hit a hospital where hundreds were staying.
The eastern cities of Kharkiv and Kramatorsk came under deadly attack. Russia also said it struck areas around Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro west of the Donbas with missiles.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Moscow's forces bombarded numerous Ukrainian military sites, including troop concentrations and missile-warhead storage depots, in or near several cities or villages. Those claims could not be independently verified.
Both sides have described the assault that began Monday as a new phase of the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian military was throwing everything it has into the battle, with most of its combat-ready forces now concentrated in Ukraine and just across the border in Russia.
“They have driven almost everyone and everything that is capable of fighting us against Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation.
Despite claims that they are hitting only military sites, the Russians continue to target residential areas and kill civilians, he said.
“The Russian army in this war is writing itself into world history forever as the most barbaric and inhuman army in the world,” Zelenskyy said.
Weeks ago, after the abortive Russian push to take Kyiv, the Kremlin declared that its main goal was the capture of the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years.
A Russian victory in the Donbas would deprive Ukraine of the industrial assets concentrated there, including mines, metals plants and heavy-equipment factories.
A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the Pentagon’s assessments of the war, said the Russians had added two more combat units, known as battalion tactical groups, in Ukraine over the preceding 24 hours. That brought the total number of units in the country to 78, all of them in the south and the east, up from 65 last week, the official said.
That would translate to 55,000 to 62,000 troops, based on what the Pentagon said at the start of the war was the typical unit strength of 700 to 800 soldiers. But accurately determining Russia's fighting capacity at this stage is difficult.
A European official, likewise speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military assessments, said Russia also has 10,000 to 20,000 foreign fighters in the Donbas. They are a mix of mercenaries from Russia's private Wagner Group and Russian proxy fighters from Syria and Libya, according to the official.
While Ukraine portrayed the attacks on Monday as the start of the long-feared offensive in the east, some observers noted that an escalation has been underway there for some time and questioned whether this was truly the start of a new offensive.
The U.S. official said the offensive in the Donbas has begun in a limited way, mainly in an area southwest of the city of Donetsk and south of Izyum.
Justin Crump, a former British tank commander now with the strategic advisory company Sibylline, said the Ukrainian comments could, in part, be an attempt to persuade allies to send more weapons.
“What they’re trying to do by positioning this, I think, is ... focus people’s minds and effort by saying, ‘Look, the conflict has begun in the Donbas,’” Crump said. “That partly puts pressure on NATO and EU suppliers to say, ‘Guys, we’re starting to fight now. We need this now.’”
President Joe Biden is expected to announce a new weapons package in the coming days that will include additional artillery and ammunition, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Canada and the Netherlands also planned to send more heavy weapons, their prime ministers said.
Associated Press journalists in Kharkiv said at least four people were killed and three wounded in a Russian attack on a residential area of the city.
An explosion also rocked Kramatorsk, killing at least one person and wounding three, according to AP journalists at the scene.
In the southern city of Bashtanka, an unspecified number of people were wounded when Russian forces shelled the hospital, destroying the reception area and the dialysis unit, the head of the regional council, Hanna Zamazeeva, said on Facebook.
Eyewitness accounts and reports from officials have given a broad picture of the extent of the Russian advance. But independent reporting in the parts of the Donbas held by Russian forces and separatists is severely limited, making it difficult to know what is happening in many places on the ground.
Military experts said the Russians' goal is to encircle Ukrainian troops from the north, south and east.
Key to the campaign is the capture of Mariupol, which would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, seized from Ukraine in 2014. It would also free up Russian troops to move elsewhere in the Donbas.
A few thousand Ukrainian troops, by the Russians’ estimate, remained holed up in a sprawling Mariupol steel plant, representing what was believed to be the last major pocket of resistance in the city.
Russia issued a new ultimatum to the Ukrainian defenders to surrender Wednesday after a previous ultimatum was ignored. The Russian Defense Ministry said those who surrender will be allowed to live and given medical treatment. There was no immediate response from the Ukrainian troops, but they have repeatedly vowed not to give up.
The deputy commander of the Azov regiment, who was among the troops remaining in Mariupol, said the Russian military dropped heavy bombs on the steel plant and hit an “improvised” hospital.
Serhiy Taruta, the former governor of the Donetsk region and a Mariupol native, also reported the bombing of the hospital, where he said 300 people, including wounded troops and civilians with children, were sheltered.
The reports could not be independently confirmed.
Zelenskyy said the Kremlin has not responded to a proposal to exchange Viktor Medvedchuk, the jailed leader of a pro-Russia party, for the Mariupol defenders.
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Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Felipe Dana in Kharkiv, Ukraine; Danica Kirka in London; and Robert Burns and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report, as did other AP staff members around the world.
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DeSantis Escalates War with Disney by Announcing FL Legislature Is Making a Move That Will Have Conservatives Cheering
If Disney executives want a fight, Ron DeSantis is going to give them one.
The headline-generating Florida governor, a boogeyman of liberals when they don’t have Donald Trump to kick around, staked out a new battleground Tuesday when he announced that a special session of the Florida legislature would be taking a close look at the entertainment giant’s special place in the heart of the Sunshine State.
And conservative Americans should be cheering it on.
At a news conference in The Villages, the massive retirement community in central Florida about an hour’s drive north of Disney World, DeSantis made it official that lawmakers gathering to determine new redistricting maps would also reconsider an arrangement that has let Disney function as a de facto city government covering 25,000 acres (almost 40 square miles) in Orange and Osceola counties.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District, created by the Florida legislature in 1967, is a virtual fiefdom the California-based Disney has maintained for more than 55 years in a cooperative relationship with the Florida state government.
But now, thanks to Disney’s modern corporate leadership and its craven caving to militant leftists among its own employees, that relationship has become badly frayed. And DeSantis is making it clear who’s actually in charge.
Florida lawmakers are already in the state capital of Tallahassee to hammer out redistricting that will shape political power in the state for the next decade, but DeSantis just added a new power play. And it’s one Disney isn’t going to like, no matter how it ends.
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) April 19, 2022
“I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week,” DeSantis said at the news conference.
“So, yes, [the legislature] will be considering the congressional map, but they also will be considering termination of all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.”
Considering DeSantis and other lawmakers have been hinting recently that the move was possible, given Disney’s behavior, it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. But it sets up a fight between giants.
What exactly that will lead to in the long run is impossible to say, but one thing it undoubtedly means right now is that DeSantis, and by extension the Republican-dominated state government, just served notice to Disney that it has had it with the corporate giant’s leftist politics — and its presumption that it’s powerful enough to inflict those politics on Americans.
Disney has gone on the offensive against DeSantis and the state legislature over the passage of the Parents Rights in Education Bill, which forbids classroom instruction about “sexual orientation and gender identity” in kindergarten through third grads and limits sexual education after that to age-appropriate levels.
In a sane America, it’s the kind of law no state should ever have to pass in the first place since teaching other people’s kids about sex when they’re that young is not something normal people even think of.
But in the United States of 2022, where woke ideologies penetrate every level of the education establishment and the mental illness of “gender dysphoria” is being treated like a normal mode of human existence, some things need to be said.
Disney was largely quiet about the bill before it became a matter of national controversy. Then, of course, it came down hard on the side of weirdos who think talking to little kids about sex is the province of public school teachers.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek publicly apologized to his company’s gay and lesbian employees (and the transgender, transexual, questioning, wondering, dabbling, oddly intrigued ones to boot) for not being a better “ally” and fighting against the law, according to Variety.
Then, his company issued a statement announcing its goal is for “this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.”
Well, as it turns out, what might get repealed is Disney’s favored — should we even say privileged? — place in Florida, where it has operated a thriving theme park for more than half a century, acting as its own form of government.
According to the WFSU, lawmakers wasted no time introducing bills to end the Reedy Creek Improvement District. They are HB 3C in the House, sponsored by Rep. Randy Fine, a Brevard County Republican, and the identical SB 4-C in the Senate, sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Bradley, a Clay County Republican.
American liberals, of course, are lining up to support the megalithic corporation that has taken a public stand against parents’ rights to raise their own children. (Some Americans are old enough to remember when liberals used to dislike major corporations, but that was when corporations just made vast amounts of money from the capitalist economy, instead of signaling their leftist virtues while still making vast amounts of money from the capitalist economy.)
But Florida Republicans and conservatives understood the moment.
BREAKING: Disney is a guest in Florida. Today, we remind them. @GovDeSantis just expanded the Special Session so I could file HB3C which eliminates Reedy Creek Improvement District, a 50 yr-old special statute that makes Disney to exempt from laws faced by regular Floridians.
— Rep. Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) April 19, 2022
Everything Woke returns to crap. Way to go, @Disney.
— 🇺🇸 JoannieB 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JoannieBeeGood) April 19, 2022
When private business starts making uninformed or deliberately untrue statements about public policy then the government needs to evaluate the relationship with that company.
— Mat Beckmann (@mtbeckmann) April 19, 2022
Good luck Disney. Sorry that you will die from Wokeness.
— Pattonator (@Pattonator2) April 19, 2022
At this point, there’s no way to predict where this is going. While it’s almost guaranteed to mean a major court fight, it’s unlikely DeSantis would have even brought the issue into the special session if he didn’t have the votes lined up to pass it — or at least a very good chance that it would pass.
And there is probably not much more he would enjoy than a public signing ceremony — making it clear once and for all, to the modern disgrace of Disney, to other major corporations and to the liberal establishment that the real power in this country rests with the people, who elect their leaders.
They’ve elected a Republican majority in the state legislature since the late-1990s. Florida voters know what they’re looking for, and they have it.
They elected DeSantis in Florida, as they’ve elected Republican governors in every election since Jeb Bush took office in 1999. (Regardless of the blood-letting in the 2016 GOP primary, Jeb was a great governor in Florida. Anyone who lived in Florida for his years there knew it.)
Considering how popular the actual provisions of the Parental Rights in Education law are — as opposed to the “Don’t Say Gay” caricature that’s been drawn in the mainstream media — he’s picked solid ground to pick this fight.
Decisions like this — with his national leadership on the COVID-19 pandemic, among others — are the reason DeSantis is a rock star in the Republican Party. And if former President Donald Trump declines a run for the party’s presidential nomination, DeSantis is likely to be a frontrunner for the nomination if he chooses to seek it.
Considering the avalanche of bad PR this fight has started for a company that’s supposed to be an icon of children’s entertainment — like having a high-ranking employee literally brag about inserting “queerness” into the company’s content — Disney has to know it.
In short, Disney has already lost this fight in the public eye, and that’s the only place that really matters.
But beyond Disney, every preening, woke corporate executive is going to be watching how this fight turns out, knowing stockholders are going to be watching, too. Every liberal is going to be damning DeSantis on every platform possible.
And every conservative should be cheering him on.
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Hammer: NYC Subway Shooting Should Set Off Alarm Bells for Every American
The long and disturbing rap sheet of Frank James, the black nationalist New York City subway shooter arrested on Wednesday and charged by federal prosecutors with one count of committing a terrorist act, ought to serve as a national wake-up call.
The 24-hour-plus nerve-wracking manhunt ended in anticlimactic fashion, with James apparently calling the NYPD to report his own location. But the Brooklyn shooting, which left 10 people with gunshot wounds and 19 others injured in the resulting fracas, stands as the bloodiest act of carnage in the history of the New York City subway system.
It also should never have happened.
James’ rap sheet includes nine previous arrests in New York alone. Those arrests were for such wide-ranging offenses as a criminal sex act, possession of burglary tools and theft of service. His rap sheet also includes three arrests in New Jersey for the equally wide-ranging offenses of trespass, larceny and disorderly conduct. Most damning, one of the Garden State arrests entailed a resultant charge for a terroristic threat.
James, an avowed anti-white racist, had also frequently talked about violence and committing mass shootings on his personal YouTube page — even doing so as recently as Monday, the day before the shooting.
There is no world in which James should have been out on the street, living a normal life. That he appears to be heading for a jail cell for the rest of his miserable life is just, but long overdue: It comes at least 10 gunshot victims and 29 total victims too late.
That he was not already incarcerated is yet another data point evincing the woeful state of the American criminal justice system. But our criminal justice system is not failing for the reasons “criminal justice reform” proponents on the left and the libertarian faux-right claim it is failing.
America in the year 2022 does not suffer from an over-incarceration problem. On the contrary, we suffer from an under-incarceration problem.
The sooner we awake from this collective slumber and seize the moral high ground back from the Soros/Koch-funded forces of “anti-prosecution” local district attorneys, “bail reform,” the jailbreak of slashed sentences and the broader civilizational suicide of the “criminal justice reform” movement, the safer and more secure we will be.
Consider some data.
According to a 2018 Department of Justice report that tracked prisoner recidivism from 2005 to 2014, a shockingly high 83 percent of state prisoners released in 2005 across 30 states were rearrested at least once over the course of the next nine years. In fact, 44 percent were rearrested in their first year post-release. Overall, the 401,288 prisoners who were released from state prison and subsequently tracked by the DOJ were rearrested an estimated 2 million times in nine years.
Perhaps even worse, the crimes committed by released prisoners tend to be deeply troubling. Consider the much-ballyhooed “problem” of so-called low-level drug offenders allegedly filling up the state prison system (in actuality, drug offenders only constituted 14 percent of the total state prison population in 2018). Seventy-seven percent of released drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within nine years, and 34 percent were arrested for a violent crime.
Our prisons may not be very effective at rehabilitating offenders, but they are extremely effective at preventing criminals from reoffending. It shouldn’t take a Ph.D. in criminology to figure that out.
It is true that the total population of incarcerated Americans is higher than any other incarcerated population across the world, but this oft-heard statement is facile. America also has much higher rates of serious or violent crime than most other Western-style democracies, and that discrepancy has only widened since 2020’s urban conflagrations. Yet despite Americans’ more violent nature, the majority of serious crimes go unprosecuted.
Sadly, men like James are hardly an exception; they more often represent the overarching rule.
Consider another high-profile recent data point: The two men, likely planted Iranian assets, who were recently arrested in Washington, D.C., for pretending to be federal agents and buying off Secret Service officers were unconscionably granted bail. It was a sordid episode that should nonetheless be a familiar one for New Yorkers who recently lived through the horrific experiment of New York’s “bail reform,” which saw countless robbers and gangbangers capriciously let go — only to promptly reoffend.
For at least a decade, opportunistic “criminal justice reform” ideologues on both the progressive left and the libertarian “right” have pushed pro-jailbreak policies from “bail reform” to back-end sentencing reductions to hamstringing police tactics to reining in qualified immunity doctrine. The all-too-predictable result of this Soros/Koch-funded anarchic push has been more bloodshed and more violent crime.
God willing, the Frank James episode will serve as an impetus to reclaim our safety and security from the forces of civilizational suicide.
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Is America Reaching a Tipping Point? Another Brazen Attack Stuns Onlookers
Another kiddie league official has been attacked by an enraged adult in the type of episode that seems to be happening in youth sports all too often these days.
An umpire in a baseball game for 10-year-olds in The Colony, Texas, suffered a concussion at the hands of a coach who went wild after the ump threw him out of the game.
The altercation came after a close play at the plate in which umpire Sam Phelps called a player safe at home, according to KDFW-TV. The coach, who was not named in the report, angrily approached Phelps. The confrontation caused Phelps to throw the coach out of the game.
Video of the incident, which is now part of a police investigation, shows the coach shoving Phelps violently to the ground in an assault that snapped the ump’s head back sharply.
Last night, we spoke to an umpire from Denton, TX who said he’s pressing charges against a boy’s baseball coach after he was assaulted on Saturday.
This morning, @FOX4 obtained video of the incident.
The umpire was released from the hospital and is at home recovering.@FOX4 pic.twitter.com/fUN5cAjE0q
— Peyton Yager (@peytonyager) April 12, 2022
Phelps was treated and released from a hospital after the attack and now says he has nagging neck pain. He is pressing charges against the coach, who left the park before police arrived.
L’Erin Hampton, president of the organization that put on the baseball tournament last weekend, lamented that too many of us seem to be missing the point of youth sports.
“The why we do it is everything. We have lost that,” Hampton said. “We are so focused on the score and winning the game, but the real win is the kids having fun.”
Indeed, this incident is far from unusual. Referees are being attacked all across the country.
Only days ago, a youth basketball referee in Georgia was brutally assaulted by a group of players and fans. Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that the game was being played in a church.
Y’all these bad ahh kids got off on the referee 😐 Why the other refs ain’t help tho pic.twitter.com/FGXhxqFDer
— NoPauseTv (@NoPauseTv) April 4, 2022
Also this month, an umpire in a kids’ softball game in Mississippi was allegedly punched after a parent took issue with a call. The parent was arrested and charged with assault.
This isn’t just happening in youth sports.
In January, Dallas Cowboys fans showered the field with garbage in their pique after a playoff game ended with a controversial call. When Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was told that the fans who threw the garbage were upset at the officials, he told the media, “Credit to them, then.”
Prescott went on to praise the unruly fans, saying, “I guess that’s why the refs took off and got out of there so fast. So I mean, yeah, I think everybody’s upset with the way that this thing played out.”
.@dak follow up on the plastic bottles being thrown at refs. pic.twitter.com/NXO5Mp2wjA
— Mark Lane (@therealmarklane) January 17, 2022
Such terrible behavior being applauded like that is turning sports into a battleground, and not just metaphorically. People are allowing their anger to lead.
This assault on sportsmanship is undermining honest competition all over the country and taking the fun right out of sports for kids and adults alike. Is this where we are headed as a society?
Let’s hope it isn’t.
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Breaking: Musk Twitter Takeover Officially Underway as New 'Complex' Plan Revealed After Cryptic Tweet
Elon Musk’s counteroffensive against Twitter may launch in less than two weeks’ time according to recent reports.
The self-made billionaire’s bid to buy the social media giant in an attempt to create a true free-speech platform was complicated when Twitter’s board, which has been known to take the opposite stance on many free-speech issues, adopted a “poison pill” policy, diluting his share of the company and, therefore, his leverage.
On Monday, a yet-to-be-confirmed report indicated that Musk was looking to circumvent this effort by teaming up with additional investors. Another report on Tuesday revealed that, according to the New York Post’s sources, Musk and his potential co-investors will be planning to launch a tender offer for Twitter in 10 days or so.
This investor team-up will be “a complex deal that raises debt against both the company and possibly [Musk’s] own stock, as well as a giant cash equity infusion from co-investors,” the Post reported.
“The co-investors will combined have more equity than Musk, but he will be the biggest single holder,” one of the Post’s sources said.
A Sunday report from Bloomberg also indicated such a deal could soon be on the way.
“Musk may try to partner with investors including Oracle Corp., given that its chief executive officer, Larry Ellison, is on [Tesla]’s board, along with a group of private equity firms including Thoma Bravo, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Ashley Kim wrote Friday,” the report noted.
“That partnership could raise the bid to $50 billion, they wrote.”
🎶 Love Me Tender 🎶
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2022
In typical Musk-fashion, the billionaire playfully hinted he could soon be offering a tender offer directly to shareholders on Saturday with a tweet.
According to Investopedia, a “tender offer” invites “shareholders to sell their shares for a specified price and within a particular window of time. The price offered is usually at a premium to the market price and is often contingent upon a minimum or a maximum number of shares sold.”
Musk directly offering a deal to shareholders would constitute a “hostile takeover” of the company.
According to a recent report from The Western Journal, one expert who has correctly predicted many of Musk’s moves thus far believes the billionaire will be reaching his endgame in a matter of days.
Aron Solomon, the chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, told The Western Journal that Musk is well-aware of how the constant news coverage of his acquisition has given him an advantage. Musk is not going to let that advantage go away.
“We’re going to forget about Elon Musk and Twitter three, four or five days from now if he allows it to go out of the news spotlight. So, I think that he’s got to make some really interesting, quick moves if he has an ultimate endgame here,” Solomon told The Western Journal.
“And if that endgame is to acquire more than 50 percent of Twitter, I think it makes more sense to get those things in motion now.”
“Like Elon Musk or not, one thing that we know is that he’s able to take things from zero to 60 very quickly, whether it’s SpaceX or Tesla or anything that he wants to do.”
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Hammer: NYC Subway Shooting Should Set Off Alarm Bells for Every American
The long and disturbing rap sheet of Frank James, the black nationalist New York City subway shooter arrested on Wednesday and charged by federal prosecutors with one count of committing a terrorist act, ought to serve as a national wake-up call.
The 24-hour-plus nerve-wracking manhunt ended in anticlimactic fashion, with James apparently calling the NYPD to report his own location. But the Brooklyn shooting, which left 10 people with gunshot wounds and 19 others injured in the resulting fracas, stands as the bloodiest act of carnage in the history of the New York City subway system.
It also should never have happened.
James’ rap sheet includes nine previous arrests in New York alone. Those arrests were for such wide-ranging offenses as a criminal sex act, possession of burglary tools and theft of service. His rap sheet also includes three arrests in New Jersey for the equally wide-ranging offenses of trespass, larceny and disorderly conduct. Most damning, one of the Garden State arrests entailed a resultant charge for a terroristic threat.
James, an avowed anti-white racist, had also frequently talked about violence and committing mass shootings on his personal YouTube page — even doing so as recently as Monday, the day before the shooting.
There is no world in which James should have been out on the street, living a normal life. That he appears to be heading for a jail cell for the rest of his miserable life is just, but long overdue: It comes at least 10 gunshot victims and 29 total victims too late.
That he was not already incarcerated is yet another data point evincing the woeful state of the American criminal justice system. But our criminal justice system is not failing for the reasons “criminal justice reform” proponents on the left and the libertarian faux-right claim it is failing.
America in the year 2022 does not suffer from an over-incarceration problem. On the contrary, we suffer from an under-incarceration problem.
The sooner we awake from this collective slumber and seize the moral high ground back from the Soros/Koch-funded forces of “anti-prosecution” local district attorneys, “bail reform,” the jailbreak of slashed sentences and the broader civilizational suicide of the “criminal justice reform” movement, the safer and more secure we will be.
Consider some data.
According to a 2018 Department of Justice report that tracked prisoner recidivism from 2005 to 2014, a shockingly high 83 percent of state prisoners released in 2005 across 30 states were rearrested at least once over the course of the next nine years. In fact, 44 percent were rearrested in their first year post-release. Overall, the 401,288 prisoners who were released from state prison and subsequently tracked by the DOJ were rearrested an estimated 2 million times in nine years.
Perhaps even worse, the crimes committed by released prisoners tend to be deeply troubling. Consider the much-ballyhooed “problem” of so-called low-level drug offenders allegedly filling up the state prison system (in actuality, drug offenders only constituted 14 percent of the total state prison population in 2018). Seventy-seven percent of released drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within nine years, and 34 percent were arrested for a violent crime.
Our prisons may not be very effective at rehabilitating offenders, but they are extremely effective at preventing criminals from reoffending. It shouldn’t take a Ph.D. in criminology to figure that out.
It is true that the total population of incarcerated Americans is higher than any other incarcerated population across the world, but this oft-heard statement is facile. America also has much higher rates of serious or violent crime than most other Western-style democracies, and that discrepancy has only widened since 2020’s urban conflagrations. Yet despite Americans’ more violent nature, the majority of serious crimes go unprosecuted.
Sadly, men like James are hardly an exception; they more often represent the overarching rule.
Consider another high-profile recent data point: The two men, likely planted Iranian assets, who were recently arrested in Washington, D.C., for pretending to be federal agents and buying off Secret Service officers were unconscionably granted bail. It was a sordid episode that should nonetheless be a familiar one for New Yorkers who recently lived through the horrific experiment of New York’s “bail reform,” which saw countless robbers and gangbangers capriciously let go — only to promptly reoffend.
For at least a decade, opportunistic “criminal justice reform” ideologues on both the progressive left and the libertarian “right” have pushed pro-jailbreak policies from “bail reform” to back-end sentencing reductions to hamstringing police tactics to reining in qualified immunity doctrine. The all-too-predictable result of this Soros/Koch-funded anarchic push has been more bloodshed and more violent crime.
God willing, the Frank James episode will serve as an impetus to reclaim our safety and security from the forces of civilizational suicide.
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By WVUA 23 Sports Reporter Javon Williams
This summer, some of the top athletes from more than 100 of the world’s countries will gather in Birmingham for the 2022 World Games.
The event, which will span 11 days, is expected to welcome 3,600 athletes to compete in 34 sports.
The World Games offers opportunities for the public to volunteer to be part of the event as well. And one University of Alabama professor, Dr. Chandra Clark created a curriculum to help promote the World Games.
“We really wanted to get our students involved in an international sporting event,” Clark said. “The best way to do that, because of the timing, was to do the preparation before.”
For the Spring 2022 semester, Clark created the class, ‘Covering the World Games’, which allows students to receive hands-on experience in covering large scale events.
The course is in large part based on social media. Clark’s students will create multimedia projects through the use of pictures and videos, including ‘360 videos’.
The location and the experience has the students in her class excited for this once in a lifetime opportunity.
“This class has been extremely hands-on,” senior Kennedy Chase said. “It’s honestly like a once in a lifetime opportunity since the World Games is going to be here in Birmingham.”
Another senior, Jacyn Abbott, agrees that this has been a great experience.
“It’s been very exciting and very cool to be [a]part of the big international games,” Abbott said, “especially now that it’s in Birmingham. It’s not only good for me but good for everyone else.”
The Games will be held from July 7-17 and is expected to generate nearly $256 million for the city of Birmingham.
This is the 40th anniversary of the World Games, and the first time the event has held in the United States since 1981, when Santa Clara, Calif. hosted the inaugural World Games competition.
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Breaking: Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Biden CDC's Mask Mandate for Travel
Former President Donald Trump just won another victory over his successor.
Thanks to a Trump-appointed judge, Americans may no longer be forced to wear mask coverings on airplanes and other forms of public transportation.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle from Tampa, Florida, voided the national mask mandate on Monday.
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge in Florida has OVERTURNED the CDC mask mandate for public transportation.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 18, 2022
JUST IN – U.S. federal judge declares CDC’s mask mandate for planes and trains unlawful.https://t.co/E6fHnsSHAu pic.twitter.com/gfJP9dEGMY
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 18, 2022
“Because our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends, the court declares unlawful and vacates the mask mandate,” she wrote according to AP News.
The mandate was originally set to expire on Monday but had been recently extended by the CDC until May 3 “to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus.”
Airlines have lobbied to have the mandate killed for months now.
Congressional Republicans have also fought to kill the rule for some time, to no avail.
It was only when the Trump-nominated Judge Mizelle got involved that any substantial, effective action was taken.
The court’s ruling affirmed a notion that has been forwarded by conservatives and libertarians for months now — that the CDC lacks the authority to enforce such a rule.
Digital Strategist and active conservative commentator on Twitter Greg Price posted a portion of Mizelle’s ruling on Twitter following the announcement.
“The mask mandate exceeds the CDC’s statutory authority and violates the procedures required for agency rulemaking.” pic.twitter.com/vx4j9eRWxQ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 18, 2022
“As travelers have been reminded for more than a year, federal law requires wearing a mask in airports, train stations and other transportation hubs, as well as on airplanes, buses, trains and most other public conveyances in the United States,” Mizelle wrote.
“Failure to comply may result in civil and criminal penalties, including removal from the conveyance.”
“The Court concludes that the Mask Mandate exceeds the CDC’s statutory authority and violates the procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA.”
“Accordingly, the Court vacates the Mandate and remands it to the CDC.”
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Struggling Dons won't stray from AFL plan
Dyson Heppell is adamant the AFL finals are still within Essendon's reach despite fierce criticism over their performances in a horror start to the season.
The Bombers are under the microscope leading into their annual Anzac Day blockbuster against Collingwood, having slumped to a 1-4 record with a disappointing home loss to Fremantle last week.
But Heppell says coach Ben Rutten won't resort to any drastic measures in order to address the team's clear shortcomings around team defence, pressure and stoppages.
"You've got to keep things consistent," Heppell said.
"You've got to review it properly, like we have, and we'll continue to do that over the coming days, and train with real intent and purpose.
"That's the way we've been approaching it and we've put in a body of work but it just hasn't shown up on game days with results.
"I have full trust and belief that we'll get that back on track."
Former Essendon captains Matthew Lloyd and Brendon Goddard have both joined a wave of expert commentators slamming their old club this week.
Lloyd labelled the defeat to Fremantle "as poor a loss as you'll see", while Goddard called the Bombers' team defence "lazy" and their pressure around the ball "terrible".
Heppell said Essendon still intend to be known as a "blue-collar" team and tipped his teammates will quickly reclaim their preferred game style.
"(Last year) we had a real identity around our pressure and our speed and ability to hunt ground balls and hunt the opposition and build momentum and win the ball back in our forward half," Heppell said.
"They're a lot of the key pillars that have stood up in our game and we've just been a bit patchy and inconsistent so far this year.
"I've got full confidence and belief in the group and I have no doubt it won't take a month or six-week period, we can turn it around really quickly.
"I have no doubt we can (still play finals). We were in a pretty similar position last year leading into Anzac Day and managed to make the top eight."
Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury expects Essendon's best at the MCG as the teams do battle in front of more than 90,000 fans for the first time since 2019, before the global pandemic affected crowds and fixtures.
"One thing I do know about this day is it doesn't matter your form leading into the game because everyone finds (another level)," Pendlebury said.
"But for us our focus will be on what we can do really well, and bringing our strengths and game style to the table.
"If we can do that for long enough it should stack up."
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Which men’s golf club set is best?
Golf is known as a “gentleman’s game,” but that doesn’t mean you don’t play to win. You always want to be at your best on the course, but your confidence might waver if you don’t have a reliable set of clubs.
A good set of clubs will let you develop your skills and stand strong against your opponents. The TaylorMade RBZ SpeedLite Graphite 13-Piece Set, for example, is a solid set for players of any skill level. Its high-quality clubs let you generate more speed on your swing and execute shots with precision.
What to know before you buy a men’s golf club set
Clubs
Before buying a men’s golf club set, you should be familiar with the types of clubs that are included in most of them:
- Woods: These clubs are for hitting long balls and consist of drivers and fairways. Drivers are used off the tee, and although they deliver the most distance, they’re not as easy to control as fairways, which can also be used off the ground.
- Irons: Irons have angled faces for hitting precision shots off the ground. They’re usually numbered from three to nine, with a lower number indicating a shallower angle. Lower-numbered irons are for longer-distance shots, while higher-numbered irons are for precise and accurate shots.
- Hybrids: Hybrids have the shaft of an iron but the head of a wood, making them easier to hold than woods but delivering the same performance.
- Wedge: A wedge is an unnumbered iron and delivers the highest trajectory of any club.
- Putter: This club is meant for short-distance ground shots on the green, which is the area where the hole is.
Testing
Most sports equipment fits or suits people differently depending on several factors, and golf clubs are no different. There’s no one-size-fits-all for clubs, so many people get their clubs tailored at sporting goods stores. Many sporting goods stores also have driving ranges where you can swing several clubs to see if they’re a good fit.
Skill level
Experienced golfers are more particular about their clubs, but a half set with six to eight clubs containing just a few irons can be adequate if you’re a beginner. However, an inexpensive complete set is a good option if you want the option to use more irons if you wish.
What to look for in a quality men’s golf club set
Material
The best golf clubs have shafts made of graphite, which is sturdier than standard steel. Even though it’s more durable, it’s also more lightweight, making it easier to control during a swing and get off shots with greater precision.
Bag
Almost every golf club set comes with a carrying bag, but some are more durable than others. If you have lots of golf gear or personal items, some bags have several pockets and compartments for storing them securely as you play.
Headcovers
Any club set with over 14 clubs usually comes with headcovers. They’re used to protect the club heads from dings and scratches that could compromise their integrity and, therefore, negatively affect your performance on the course.
How much you can expect to spend on a men’s golf club set
You can find a solid starter set for $250-$750, but a mid-tier set for casual and experienced golfers can cost $750-$1,500. More comprehensive sets can cost up to $2,000.
Men’s golf club set FAQ
How many clubs do I need in a set?
A. If you’re a beginner, you don’t need a set with a wedge or an iron lower than a five. Once you become comfortable using the most basic clubs, you can purchase others to diversify and sharpen your game.
Can I put together my own set?
A. Yes, you can buy clubs individually to put together your own set. However, it’s much more expensive than buying a set since many individually-sold clubs are advance-engineered for elite performance, whereas sets are geared mostly toward beginners.
What’s the best men’s golf club set to buy?
Top men’s golf club set
TaylorMade RBZ SpeedLite Graphite 13-Piece Set
What you need to know: This is an excellent men’s golf club set for beginners and serious players who want an edge over their opponents on the course.
What you’ll love: The woods are made of sturdy titanium but are lightweight and aerodynamic, so you generate more speed during your swing. The irons and wedge are durable and are advanced engineered to allow for a greater margin of error on swings.
What you should consider: Some find the bag’s material too thin. Additionally, the bag doesn’t stay upright.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top men’s golf club set for the money
Strata Men’s 2019 Ultimate 16-Piece Complete Set
What you need to know: This set features high-quality clubs and headcovers. It is an excellent bargain pick for golfers of any skill level.
What you’ll love: You’ll get a titanium driver, a forgiving 3-wood and several hybrids for hitting difficult shots with more accuracy and power. The irons use high flight technology to provide superior control and more distance.
What you should consider: Most users report that the driver isn’t as durable as the other clubs.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Top Flite 2020 XL Graphite 13-Piece Complete Set
What you need to know: It’s not as comprehensive or durable as some other sets, but you won’t find better clubs for casual play
What you’ll love: This set comes with a titanium composite driver, a low-profile 3-wood for straighter shots and a couple of hybrids for high accuracy and superior performance. The stand bag has several pockets and compartments to store your personal belongings while on the course.
What you should consider: More experienced golfers might find that they don’t provide a significant boost in control on swings.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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One killed in IED blast in northwest Turkey -governor
ISTANBUL, April 20 (Reuters) - A prison guard was killed in an explosion that hit a bus in Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa on Wednesday, Governor Yakup Canbolat said, adding that it was believed to be caused by an improvised explosive device.
It was not apparent who carried out the bombing, Canbolat said, adding that the bomb was planted next to an electric pole and was detonated by remote control when the bus carrying prison guard personnel went past it.
One person was seriously injured in the explosion, while two or three others were injured but have been discharged from hospital, the governor added.
"All our security units are working on the issue from all sides. Hopefully, we'll try to solve the issue and capture the perpetrators as soon as possible," Canbolat said, adding that the Justice and Interior Ministers would travel to Bursa.
Although attacks have declined sharply in recent years, similar attacks have been carried out in the past by Kurdish, leftist and Islamist militants. (Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen Editing by Daren Butler and Toby Chopra)
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Even Twitter's Former CEO Is Lashing Out at Twitter's Board as Elon Musk Attempts to Buy Big Tech Company
Elon Musk continues to rattle Twitter’s board, but last weekend he found an unlikely ally when former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey slammed his own company over its internal dysfunction.
Musk has, of course, been making overtures about buying Twitter out, so he can reinstitute a policy of true free speech at the social media giant. But the board has been working overtime to shut him down and eliminate any possibility that he might have influence over the company.
On Saturday, though, Musk got a smidgen of moral support from former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey who admitted that the company has some big problems with internal intrigue and infighting.
Dorsey responded to a Tweet which alleged that Twitter’s board has a history of being “mired in plots and coups.”
The former Twitter CEO responded, saying, “it’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company.”
it’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
big facts
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
But that wasn’t the end of Dorsey’s comments on the Twitter controversy. When someone quoted venture capitalist Fred Destin noting “Good boards don’t create good companies, but a bad board will kill a company every time,” Dorsey replied, “Big facts” — a comment that is easy to see as a jab at Twitter.
Amusingly, he even admitted that he probably shouldn’t be saying these things. When a Twitter user asked if he is “allowed to say this” since Dorsey is still actually on Twitter’s board, he replied with a simple, “no.”
no
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
Certainly, Jack Dorsey is no free speech hero, and Twitter is a mess right now due to things he did when he had more control over the company. But the fact that he has just proven that Musk is right, even to this degree, is telling indeed.
Twitter’s current board has been desperate to prevent the SpaceX and Tesla chief from moving in and restoring free speech on the platform. So much so that they recently enacted a “poison pill” rule that would allow cheap shares of the company to flood the market to prevent Musk from amassing a larger, controlling interest.
However, Musk already signaled that he has other avenues to gaining control of Twitter despite the poison pill move the company’s board made last week.
In his TED Talk last week, Musk admitted that he has a plan B in case the board makes serious moves to block him.
He also explained that he feels that Twitter serves an important role in our society, but Twitter needs its ship to be righted to serve that function.
“I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk said last week, according to the Daily Wire. “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”
Q: “If in this case you are not successful, you know, the board does not accept your offer, you’ve said you won’t go higher. Is there a plan B?”
.@elonmusk: “There is.” pic.twitter.com/ax2Kcb8GEi
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 14, 2022
“It’s important to the function of democracy, it’s important to the function of the United States as a free country and many other countries, and to help freedom in the world more broadly than in the U.S.,” Musk insisted. “Civilizational risk is decreased the more we can increase the trust of Twitter as a public platform, and so I do think this will be somewhat painful.”
Freedom and democracy are messy. Musk knows this. In fact, U.S. history proves this. When the country was young and newspapers and pamphlets were the “public square,” the sniping and personal attacks even the founders committed against each other were vicious. And their one experiment with censorship, the Alien and Sedition Act, was an unpopular disaster that was quickly repealed.
America has already found that Twitter’s desire to destroy political free speech in favor of pushing the ideology of a single political party is a failure for democracy.
Unless we have the freedom to say something other people don’t like, we don’t have freedom at all. The founders knew this. And so does Elon Musk. So, how anti-American does that make Twitter’s board?
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
TXZ211-202100-
Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ237-202100-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ196-202100-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight, then a chance of showers with isolated thunderstorms.
Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ195-202100-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight, then a slight chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms this morning. Breezy and not as cool with highs in
the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ214-202100-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ210-202100-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ227-202100-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ238-202100-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Breezy with highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ198-202100-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ213-202100-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming southeast around 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ163-202100-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ235-202100-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Windy with
highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph, becoming south 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, diminishing
to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny and windy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Breezy with lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ200-202100-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ176-202100-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ236-202100-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ199-202100-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ179-202100-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ178-202100-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ164-202100-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ177-202100-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ212-202100-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ197-202100-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ226-202100-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to south 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Breezy
with lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A chance
of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ300-202100-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds around 10 mph,
becoming south 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ313-202100-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ338-202100-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ337-202100-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Breezy with
highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Including the city of Palacios
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny and windy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. A slight chance of showers this afternoon. Breezy. Near
steady temperature in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Near steady temperature in
the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Near steady
temperature in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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258 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
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This Video of Dr. Oz on COVID Should Have Trump Rethinking His Endorsement
Many conservatives were taken aback by former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz, best known as the host of TV’s “Dr. Oz Show,” in Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary.
The celebrity heart surgeon has flip-flopped on abortion, and although he claims to be pro-Second Amendment, he has expressed support for “red flag” laws and other gun control measures.
In short, a large number of Republican voters don’t consider Oz to be truly conservative.
Early Monday afternoon, he said in a tweet, “Mask mandates have not made us any safer. Why does the federal government keep ignoring the science and extending the mandates?”
Mask mandates have not made us any safer. Why does the federal government keep ignoring the science and extending the mandates?
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) April 18, 2022
The majority of Republicans and a large swath of independents would agree with that sentiment.
Unfortunately for Oz, two hours later, the frontrunner in the race, former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick, posted a devastating collection of clips of the Turkish-American doctor urging Americans to wear masks.
The video features over a dozen snippets of Oz telling Americans to mask up and even recommending that people wear two masks. He sounds a lot like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser whom many Americans have come to distrust.
Mehmet Oz will read whatever script is put in front of him. There was no greater supporter of mask mandates than Oz. https://t.co/zBxZ0VXfTR pic.twitter.com/5fwKz1Blcz
— Dave McCormick (@DaveMcCormickPA) April 18, 2022
The optics for a conservative candidate could hardly be worse.
I am one of Trump’s most rabid supporters, but frankly, his support of this candidate baffles me.
Two sources familiar with deliberations inside Trump’s inner circle told Reuters the Oz endorsement has “divided local Republican Party officials and stunned close advisers who thought he had decided to stay out of the contest.”
According to the report, Trump’s closest advisers strongest have recommended he steer clear of making endorsements in the Republican primaries — particularly in this race.
Advisers pointed out that both Oz and McCormick have “enthusiastically adopted the former president’s America First agenda” and McCormick has many of Trump’s former aides working on his campaign.
At a March meeting, Trump told the group he had put the decision on hold.
“It’s not like he was knocking out a never-Trumper,” one source said, according to Reuters.
But, in the end, Trump “went with his gut.”
A third source told Reuters that former first lady Melania Trump had been behind the Oz endorsement.
Whatever the case, Trump offered strong support for Oz in his April 9 endorsement statement.
“This is all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our Country,” the former president said.
“The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to Save America by electing the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate,” he said.
“Dr. Oz is Pro-Life, very strong on Crime, the Border, Election Fraud, our Great Military, and our Vets, Tax Cuts, and will always fight for and support our under-siege Second Amendment. He will ensure America will become Energy Independent again,” Trump said.
He concluded by saying Oz “will do very well in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where other candidates will just not be accepted. He knows his job is to serve every single Pennsylvanian. Dr. Oz is smart, tough, and will never let you down, therefore, he has my Complete and Total Endorsement.”
I am honored to receive President Trump’s full support and endorsement, and I thank him for that. President Trump knows how critical it is to change the kinds of people we send to Washington. I’m ready to bring an America First agenda to the Senate for Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/7gmhZupinr
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) April 10, 2022
Reuters reported that the endorsement has left Pennsylvania Republicans “confused and riled.”
Mark Hrutkay, vice chairman of the Republican Party in Washington County in western Pennsylvania, told the outlet he has been inundated with calls from unhappy voters.
“I have not had one call from a voter who supported the endorsement. They are pissed off,” Hrutkay said. “This doesn’t mean they are abandoning Trump, because they’re not. They just don’t understand the endorsement.”
Sam DeMarco, chairman of the Republican Caucus of the Allegheny County Council, told Reuters he was surprised by the news but doesn’t believe it will have a significant influence on the race.
“Voters have a lot of questions about Oz’s conservative credentials on issues like guns and abortion,” DeMarco said. “I am not quite sure why [Trump] decided to endorse at this point in the race. He’s putting his credibility on the line.”
Muhlenberg University political science professor Chris Borick sees the decision to back Oz as risky and said Trump’s “goal in the end is to look good and there’s a good chance he won’t when the race is over.”
Meanwhile, Lee Snover, the Republican Party chairman of Northampton County, said the uproar is much ado about nothing.
“People are becoming unhinged. Oz is a great candidate,” he told Reuters. “I got the same treatment when I backed Trump and people criticized me. They were wrong then and they are wrong about Oz.”
McCormick has held onto single-digit leads over the famed TV doctor since polling began in this primary in December. The latest Real Clear Politics average of polls shows McCormick up by 4.2 percent.
The single poll taken since Trump’s endorsement showed Oz with a 3-point lead over McCormick. Although this survey was conducted by the Trafalgar Group, a Republican pollster with a strong record, it should be noted that some results from this polling group have been outliers. In mid-December and again in early February, Trafalgar had Oz up 11 points while all other pollsters showed McCormick leading the pack.
We’ll get a better idea of the impact of Trump’s endorsement as more pollsters weigh in — and a final answer when the results of the May 17 primary are tallied.
The importance of this race cannot be overstated. Each Senate race in November’s general election will be critical as Republicans fight to win back the majority. With a current 50-50 split, the result of just one race could determine which party controls the upper chamber.
In the end, Snover’s assessment is probably right. Trump’s endorsement of Oz won’t make much of a difference in the primary.
It’s more a reflection of Trump’s judgment, which, as much as we love him, is not infallible. The Oz endorsement was a huge demonstration of that.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty announced that they would be the first team in WNBA history to drop non-fungible tokens in the form of digital art.
The release of the NFT will be on May 7 to coincide with the Liberty's season opener against the Connecticut Sun.
“I think we’re always aiming to be innovative. We like to lead and feel we should be leading here in New York," Liberty CEO Keia Clarke said after practice earlier this week. "We have the support of ownership and a really unique idea to continue what our schedule release was.”
There will be 400 NFTs with similar designs, but each having its own unique serial number when they are released. The Liberty hope to do more of them throughout the season.
“This is the first in the collection, not sure what the rest will look like yet," Clarke said. "There will be some surprises that come from this drop. The NFTs are serialized, you could be gifted on the number of the NFT you purchase.”
Fans can get one of the the NFTs by pre-ordering a ticket to the opening game through a special website.
The design was created by the Liberty's in-house marketing team and plays off the nail art that was teased in the franchise's schedule release.
“NFTs are the future of one-of-a-kind collectibles, and this exclusive drop celebrates the intersection of nail art culture and sports through the lens of the New York Liberty. A lot of our players get their nails done,” Clarke said. “We saw Betnijah (Laney) had her nails done in New York Liberty colors.”
The WNBA offered its first NFT's last fall and the packs the league made available all sold out.
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Ilhan Omar Mocked for Attacking Easter Worship on Plane: 'Stop with the Christianphobia, Congresswoman'
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota is being criticized for anti-Christian bigotry after expressing outrage over a video of Christians singing on an airplane.
In a tweet on April 16, the day before Easter, Omar posted a video of a worship leader with a guitar singing Christian songs on a plane.
Omar’s tweet read, “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?”
I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 17, 2022
This comment was met with a wave of criticism.
Some tweeted that Omar was being religiously bigoted while others pointed out the basic fact of religious freedom in the U.S.
Why do you hate Christians, Ilhan?
If the freedom of religion we enjoy here in America disturbs you, feel free to pack your bags and head back to Somalia, Sudan, or wherever you’re from.
Take your brother with you. https://t.co/f2FZhWruz0
— Vernon Jones For Congress (@VernonForGA) April 17, 2022
Vernon Jones, a black pro-Trump Republican who is running for a Georgia House seat tweeted, “Why do you hate Christians, Ilhan?”
Omar’s comment seemed to indicate that she does not have the religious freedom, as a Muslim, to pray in public. But Jose Castillo, a Republican candidate running for Congress in Florida’s 9th Congressional District tweeted that Omar is free, as a Muslim, to pray in public.
“In America, Muslims can & do pray in public,” Castillo’s tweet said. “If she wants a country where Christians aren’t allowed to do the same [Omar] should go back to her own country.”
Omar is originally from Somalia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Somalia is a country that is known for brutal religious oppression and strife, with large sections of the country being subjected to Islamic law.
“Somaliland’s constitution declares Islam the state religion, prohibits Muslims from converting to another religion, bars the propagation of any religion other than Islam and requires all laws to comply with the general principles of sharia,” the U.S. Department of State reported.
Omar and her family had to flee Mogadishu, Somalia, after militias invaded, she told MSNBC News.
Once she entered Congress, Omar actually fought for more religious freedom, Voice of America News reported.
As a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, or head covering, when Omar first became a Representative, she sought to change the Congressional rule that stated that “every member shall remain uncovered during the sessions of the House.”
She stated at the time that she was exercising her first Amendment right of religious freedom.
No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It’s my choice—one protected by the first amendment.
And this is not the last ban I’m going to work to lift. https://t.co/7U3ZLTaWur
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 17, 2018
Omar has also been behind other actions to promote freedom of religion, such as the Freedom of Religion Act in 2021, which is meant to “prohibit religious discrimination in our immigration system,” her website reported.
As a congresswoman who has been a proponent of religious freedom and outspoken about Muslims’ rights to religion, Omar’s comments about the Christians singing on the plane seemed out of place, as many critics pointed out on Twitter.
Some simply accused her of hating Christians and Jews, and even some Muslims.
Cicely Davis, who is running in Minnesota’s 5th District to “Defeat Ilhan Omar and Save Minneapolis,” tweeted, “The issue is you hate Christians & Jews & lots of Muslims.”
Qatar – a country you’re very familiar with – plays Islamic prayers on the intercom before takeoff on their planes. They have a designated prayer area & coordinates for Mecca are posted on the screens.
It’s no problem. The issue is you hate Christians & Jews & lots of Muslims. https://t.co/wBX1ycl5nv
— Cicely Davis (@CicelyDavisMN) April 18, 2022
Neither Omar herself or her office have responded to any of the comments and criticisms arising from her comments.
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Quarterback Who Compared NFL to Slave Trade Doesn't Understand Why His Views Don't Align with the NFL
It has been more than five years since Colin Kaepernick played in his last NFL game, and he has spent that time making outlandish claims about the league. Yet he seemingly does not understand how his own actions have kept him on the outs.
According to Fox News, Kaepernick did an interview with the “I AM ATHLETE” podcast, which is hosted by former NFL players Brandon Marshall, Chad Johnson and Pacman Jones.
The interview aired Monday, and Kaepernick once again made his plea for an NFL team to sign him.
“I know I have to find my way back in,” Kaepernick said. “So yeah. If I have to come in as a backup, that’s fine.”
“But that’s not where I’m staying. And when I prove that I’m a starter, I want to be able to step on the field as such. I just need that opportunity to walk through the door.”
In a column for Yahoo! Sports, notorious leftist Shalise Manza Young attempted to argue Kaepernick’s willingness to be a backup “dismantles” one of the arguments for keeping him out of the league.
“First and foremost, he said without hesitation that he’s willing to sign with a team as a backup quarterback, debunking one of the most-repeated untruths about what he would or wouldn’t do to get another chance,” Young wrote.
Young’s point purposely ignores a very important piece of this argument against signing Kaepernick. He can be willing to come on as a backup quarterback, but teams also have to be willing to bring him on as a backup quarterback.
Kaepernick would be a public relations disaster for any team due to his extremely radical views, and that would be a huge factor in the decision to sign him.
If Kaepernick was a once-in-a-generation talent, a team might be willing to take the PR hit in exchange for his talent on the field. But for a backup quarterback, it would hardly be worth it.
There are plenty of available quarterbacks who have just as much skill as Kaepernick and none of the PR baggage. Teams would be much better off signing any of those players instead.
Kaepernick also attempted to address his history of radical and nonsensical statements, but he refused to apologize for them. Instead, he blamed the NFL for not standing behind his extremism.
“You have ‘End Racism’ in the back of your end zone,” Kaepernick said according to Fox News. “You have ‘Black Lives Matter’ on your helmet. Everything I’ve said should be in alignment with what you’re saying publicly.”
This suggestion is absurd on its face, and a simple examination of Kaepernick’s last five years proves why.
The most glaring example of a statement that would not align with the NFL’s views came in Kaepernick’s Netflix series, “Colin in Black and White,” which premiered last year.
Kaepernick said the NFL establishes a “power dynamic” by evaluating players during the NFL Combine before drafting them. The series then displayed imagery comparing NFL owners to slave traders who were purchasing black men in chains.
Colin Kaepernick compare the NFL scouting combine to the slave trade in his new documentary pic.twitter.com/YcPJLM1cWv
— Drake Bentley 🦌 (@DrakeBentleyMJS) November 1, 2021
Of course, Kaepernick failed to mention the owners are evaluating the players so they can decide whether or not to pay them millions of dollars to play football for their team. Furthermore, if the players do not want to be evaluated, they can leave at any time.
This process is clearly nothing like the slave trade, and the NFL has very good reason not to “align” itself with imagery suggesting it is akin to slavery.
In addition, Kaepernick has issued numerous calls to completely abolish the police in the United States.
“The central intent of policing is to surveil, terrorize, capture, and kill marginalized populations, specifically Black folks,” he wrote in an October 2020 opinion article for LEVEL.
In the same article, he said he believed police reform was no longer a viable option. Instead, he argued the only way to end racism was to completely abolish all police forces and prisons.
“By abolishing policing and prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments, but we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness, access to education, and job creation as well as community-based methods of accountability,” Kaepernick wrote.
The NFL is relatively woke, which is why it has no problem plastering “End Racism” all over the field. But that is not the same as suggesting all police forces are full of murderous white supremacists and need to be eliminated.
Every team understands the repercussions of promoting a man who spouts these dangerous lies. The potential damage this would cause is not worth the minimal benefit of adding a backup quarterback.
Kaepernick’s views are misaligned not only with the NFL’s views, but also the views of any reasonable person. The NFL doesn’t owe him anything, and it is a better league without his extremist rhetoric in it.
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Video: Packed Plane Erupts the Moment Passengers Learn Masks Are No Longer Required
For at least a moment Monday night, air travel was fun again.
Passengers on flight after flight erupted in joy as they learned that after a federal judge put the kibosh on the Biden administration’s attempt to extend mask mandates on air travel, airline after airline ended the mandates many had been begging to end.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida ruled that the mandate goes beyond the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Delta pilot announces end of the mask mandate just before takeoff, passengers cheer. pic.twitter.com/MUkRIHAtO4
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 19, 2022
The government had claimed the rule was vital to sanitation on mass transit. Mizelle rejected that idea.
“Wearing a mask cleans nothing. At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ‘sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ‘sanitizes’ the conveyance,” Mizelle wrote, according to The Washington Post.
And the skies echoed with cheers.
😷MASK MANDATE LIFTED😷
Myself, and a couple hundred others, just learned mid-flight that the mask mandate is over?!
The @Delta Airlines staff just got on the intercom to announce the mandate is lifted and now optional!
Cheers followed the announcement!@cbsdenver @cbsnews pic.twitter.com/j5tLM01c9g
— Dillon Thomas (@DillonMThomas) April 19, 2022
But not so much along Pennsylvania Avenue.
“This is obviously a disappointing decision,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, according to the Post.
But for travelers, it was a day of freedom.
“Just take them off,” Simon Rojas, 29, of Laurel, Maryland, told the Post. “In the news, they’ve been saying the death rate is going down, right? Also, I think if you’re in such a closed space like a plane, that mask isn’t doing anything.”
One flight attendant almost cried at going mask-free after two years.
Plane applauded as the stewardess announced the end of the mandate. She broke into tears as she got to take off her mask for the first time in 2 years 😭 pic.twitter.com/WlCpZk30QM
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) April 19, 2022
But some people do not agree.
“I still don’t understand a Florida judge reversing a federal mandate when the mandate is backed by as much science as it is,” Phil Delin, 67, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, said, told the Post, adding he would continue to wear his mask.
Major U.S. airlines announced almost immediately that masks would now be optional, NBC News reported.
However, Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, an infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, wrote a commentary published by CNN Tuesday declaring, in essence, that “science” is giving way to appeasement. Its headline: “Opinion: Air passengers, keep your masks on.”
“Though the facts clearly demonstrate the prudence of delaying the end of the mask mandate, a choice echoed by the ongoing airline chaos in Europe, I continue to worry that the CDC ultimately will be cornered into doing the wrong thing — or forced to comply with the federal judge’s latest ruling on the matter before the Biden administration can appeal,” he wrote.
🚨#BREAKING: Masks No Longer Required on Planes or trains
Today TSA said it will no longer enforce mask mandate on planes/trains As Travelers can take off the masks for now. As Delta, Alaska, and United Airlines will no longer require masks on flights pic.twitter.com/G9zPHEQBly
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 19, 2022
Sepkowitz wrote that wishing the virus to go away will not make it so.
“The country has slid into ‘move on from Covid-19’ mode, embracing the magical thinking that, by ignoring the virus, it will go away, misconstruing our collective fatigue as an indication of finality. And the airplane tantrum reports, however despicable, are demoralizing somehow — clear-cut evidence of a tattered social fabric. The path to a quieter summer — at least in newspaper headlines — is to look the other way and hope nothing disastrous happens,” he wrote, noting that regardless of what the final outcome of the case should be, he will still wear a mask on an airplane.
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Bitcoin's price crossed $41,000 on Wednesday and most other cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, were in green, according to data on CoinDesk.
The world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, rebounded after remaining in the red for a week. The world's second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, also made strong gains to surge over the $3,000-mark.
BITCOIN PRICE TODAY
Bitcoin's price was up by 1.62 per cent to $41,423. Ethereum gained 1.72 per cent to $3,100.
"Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most cryptocurrencies have recovered after a week-long downward trend. BTC and ETH are trading above US$41,000 and US$3,000 on Tuesday. The current support price of BTC holds at US$37,000, while the initial resistance lies at US$3,000, which can stall an upside trend," Edul Patel, CEO and Co-founder of Mudrex, said.
CRYPTOCURRENCY PRICES LATEST
XRP was down by 0.13 per cent, Terra gained 6.12 per cent, Solana was up by 5.53 per cent, Avalanche gained 1.72 per cent, Cardano was up by 1.80 per cent, and Polkadot gained by 4.24 per cent.
Other alt coins such as Dogecoin and Shiba Inu were up by 3.05 per cent and 1.33 per cent respectively.
"ApeCoin has increased by nearly 24% as whales continuously accumulate after a four-day downtrend. While on the other side, The SandBox gains about 11% ahead of raising $400 million at a $4B valuation," Patel said.
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- Roman Abramovich is Russia's most recognizable oligarch.
- He's come to the forefront in recent weeks for his role in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
- Here Insider charts his rise from college dropout to billionaire oligarch and wartime peace envoy.
Roman Abramovich's career in business had inauspicious beginnings. The college dropout and former Red Army conscript started out trading rubber ducks, car tires, and dolls, having moved on from a short stint working as a mechanic.
But Abramovich soon found himself in the right place at the right time. It was the late 1980s, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was seeking to transfer power from the dusty state-run corporations of old to the private sector, through the "perestroika" reforms that would transform the country's economy and political machinery.
Abramovich pounced on the opportunity and ultimately became one of Russia's richest oligarchs, worth an estimated $14 billion today.
He once told The Guardian that money "cannot buy you happiness," though he noted that it can get you "some independence."
Abramovich is Russia's most recognizable oligarch, in large part because he's owned Chelsea Football Club, a top-flight London soccer team, for nearly two decades.
He's also recognised for his extravagance. He amassed a UK property portfolio, including vast mansions in the exclusive London neighborhood of Kensington, worth an estimated 250 million pounds, or about $325 million. He owns two of the world's most expensive superyachts: the $600 million Solaris and the $700 million Eclipse. He has several private jets, including a Gulfstream, as well as a helicopter and a number of luxury cars.
Abramovich has contended that his story is "uniquely Russian."
Of late, Abramovich's public profile has been enhanced further by two occurrences. First, he was sanctioned by the European Union and the UK in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Second, he acted as something of an envoy in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine — which brought him some positive press while Western officials were seizing his trophy assets.
These occurrences encapsulated the confused thinking around Abramovich. Is he one of the good guys — a regular Russian who made it big? Or is he one of the bad guys — a run-of-the-mill businessman who got lucky with perestroika and was then only too happy to cozy up to Vladimir Putin?
Beginnings
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born in Saratov, a port on the Volga River in southwest Russia, on October 24, 1966. He was orphaned at the age of 2 when his mother died of blood poisoning and his father was killed in a construction-crane accident. Abramovich spent much of his childhood living with his uncle in Komi, in northern Russia.
"To tell the truth, I cannot call my childhood bad," Abramovich told The Guardian in 2006. "In your childhood you can't compare things: One eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child, you cannot tell the difference."
He is of Russian-Jewish origin, and the UK says he's a citizen of Russia, Portugal, and Israel. He's thought to have married and divorced three times and have fathered seven children. He doesn't give many interviews.
Outside of business, in the 2000s, he served as governor of Chukotka, a deprived area in eastern Russia. He spent eight years there bankrolling schools and hospitals with his own money and set up a charity that took Chukotka's children on annual vacations. He made a $30 million donation to Tel Aviv University, which it used to build the Roman Abramovich Building for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He's the second-largest donor to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.
His big break in business came in 1995, when he bought Sibneft, a Russian state-owned energy company, for about $250 million. The auction for Sibneft was almost certainly rigged in Abramovich's favor. Ten years later, he sold Sibneft to Gazprom, another Russian state-owned energy group, for nearly $13 billion — an investment gain of about 5,000%.
This triggered an acrimonious court battle with his former business partner, Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian oligarch. Berezovsky sued Abramovich in the UK for intimidating him into selling his Sibneft stock in 2001 for a "fraction" of its true value. But the court ruled in favor of Abramovich in 2012, with the judge saying she found Abramovich "a truthful, and on the whole reliable, witness."
Abramovich's lawyers have described claims that he amassed his wealth through crime as baseless. Yet in 2012, Abramovich admitted to a UK court that he made some corrupt payments in the run-up to the Sibneft deal.
Berezovsky was found dead at his home in Ascot, England, in March 2013. Amid claims of foul play, possibly by the Kremlin, a UK coroner ultimately concluded he was unable to say whether the oligarch had killed himself.
With the Sibneft meg-deal done, Abramovich went on to found multiple petroleum-trading companies and acquired holdings in Norilsk Nickel and Evraz, an industrial conglomerate. Trading in both companies was suspended by the London Stock Exchange after Russia invaded Ukraine.
In 2003, Abramovich sold a 25% stake in the aluminum company Rusal to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska for $1.9 billion. That year Abramovich also bought Chelsea FC, for about $190 million.
"I don't look at this as a financial investment," he told the Financial Times at the time. "I look at it as a hobby."
In a later interview with Forbes, he said: "In hindsight, especially with the public profile it would bring me, maybe I would have thought differently about owning a club."
War
In early March, shortly after the start of the Ukraine war, Abramovich announced plans to sell Chelsea FC for a rumored $2.5 billion.
Western officials say Abramovich has long enjoyed close ties to Putin, who in 2000 succeeded Boris Yeltsin as Russia's president.
Indeed, EU officials say Abramovich has "privileged access to the president, and has maintained very good relations with him." British officials describe Abramovich as a "pro-Kremlin oligarch" who's had "a close relationship for decades" with Putin. They say Abramovich and his businesses have received "preferential treatment and concessions" from Putin, including tax breaks, favorable rates when buying and selling shares in state-owned companies, and grants linked to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Russia.
Abramovich has repeatedly denied being financially linked with Putin or having close personal ties with the Russian president.
In recent weeks, Abramovich was photographed at peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and has reportedly traveled across Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Israel, and Turkey to meet with officials, sometimes in hotel rooms. Abramovich reportedly met with Putin in late March, where he is said to have delivered a note from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeking peace.
Yet Abramovich's remit as peace envoy — if that indeed is what he is — hasn't been precisely determined. Both Russia and Ukraine have said Abramovich isn't an official member of their negotiation teams, and he's appeared to have sat with observers at talks.
But his role as middleman appears to have bought him time with the US. Washington officials told The Wall Street Journal that the US dropped plans to sanction Abramovich after Zelenskyy told Joe Biden that Abramovich could be useful in Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
"Roman Abramovich is involved in enabling certain contacts between the Russian and Ukrainian sides," the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in late March. Zelenskyy has said that Abramovich has tried to assist Ukraine with peace talks.
Whatever his role, the former rubber-duck trader has enjoyed quite the rise. What remains to be seen is whether the West will strip him of his great wealth, however earned, and bring about his downfall.
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Megyn Kelly Hammers Jen Psaki Over Peter Doocy Attack: 'It's Literally Your Job'
Journalist Megyn Kelly pointed out the obvious with regard to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s recent comment that the questions provided to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy make him “sound like a stupid son of a b****.”
“I know it’s annoying to be asked tough questions, but it’s literally your job to answer them in that role, and you’d do better to be honest,” Kelly told her audience on the April 15 edition of her talk show/podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
The comments by Kelly were a reference to Psaki’s April 14 comments during her on-stage interview with “Pod Save America,” when podcast co-host Dan Pfeiffer asked a question about Doocy, who often tangles with Psaki during press conferences at the White House.
“Is he a stupid son of a b****, or does he just play a stupid son of b**** on TV?” Pfeiffer asked, according to Politico.
Psaki responded by saying, “Well, he works for a network that provides people with questions that — nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Doocy — but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a b****.”
Fox News denied it feeds its reporters questions.
“In his role as White House correspondent, Peter Doocy’s job is to elicit truth from power for the American public,” a Fox News spokesperson told Newsweek in a statement. “His questions are his own. He is a terrific reporter, and we are extremely proud of his work.”
That same point was made by Kelly, herself a former Fox News reporter, who noted the different approaches between the cable news network and NBC, where she also worked.
“I laugh, when I went over to NBC, and they were like ‘Here, the producer’s writing all the questions for you.’ I’m like, ‘Why would I take the producer’s questions? Why would I do that? Like, I’m the anchor, it’s literally my one job is to come up with my own questions.’”
She went on to say, “At Fox News, nobody ever wrote a question for me, ever. Not in a presidential debate, not on a big night, not on my nightly show, and I guarantee you, nobody’s writing Peter Doocy’s questions for him.”
This most-recent dust up between Psaki and Doocy has its roots in a January hot mic moment where President Joe Biden called Doocy a “stupid son of a b****” after the Fox News correspondent asked him if inflation would be a “political liability” in November’s midterms.
Biden later called Doocy to apologize for his intemperate remarks.
Kelly speculated the motivation behind Psaki’s harsh remarks about Doocy are linked to the fact “he’s the only one willing to ask her tough questions.”
In the near future, Psaki may find herself on the other end of the situation — that is, asking the tough political questions, instead of answering them.
Psaki is reportedly expected to leave the White House and join MSNBC this spring.
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Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes has attempted to explain the difference between his side and Liverpool.
The Reds thrashed United 4-0 at Anfield to move two points ahead of Manchester City in the title race having played a game more. A brace from Mohamed Salah combined with goals from Luis Diaz and Sadio Mane secured all three points for the Reds.
Jurgen Klopp’s side are now two points ahead of title rivals Man City, who play their game in hand against Brighton tonight. In contrast, Man United are three points adrift of the top four having played one game more than Tottenham and two more than Arsenal.
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Speaking at full-time, Fernandes was asked what he thinks are the main differences between Man United and Liverpool at his moment in time. The Portugal international went on to provide a message to the club’s fans.
"The fans don't deserve us to play this way,” Fernandes told Sky Sports. “They deserve more from us
“The way they stay and applaud us, they deserve more. We have to raise our level higher. It is what it is.
"I think everyone runs. I think there is effort from everyone. I don't think someone does not give 100%. We have to do it for ourselves, the clubs, the fans and everyone.
"We have to say things but that is kept in the dressing room. Now it is over we have to think of the next game.
"Liverpool is ready for the title. We are not. I don't need to be here saying about the difference of the level. We have to look at ourselves, from top to bottom and understand what is going wrong.
“We are competing until the end. Nobody can put down and think it is over. We have something to fight for."
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After a wintry start to the week, some lingering chilly air will mean another morning in the 30s and a lingering light brisk breeze leading to below freezing wind chills. Abundant sunshine should be welcomed back on Wednesday, with less chilly highs in the upper 50s. Granted, that's still a little cool for this time of year. We'll step back up into the more seasonable low to mid 60s on Thursday, with partly sunny skies and just the slight chance of a passing shower. Friday gets the nod as the pick day of the week with sunny skies and 70-degree temperatures and Sunday should be similar, with a brief and modest hiccup in between on Saturday with more clouds, some sun, and cooler but seasonable low 60s to start the weekend.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
Wednesday and Friday look to be a pair of partly to mostly sunny spring days, with Wednesday still a bit brisk and cool for this time of year, but better than the last few days, with highs in the upper 50s. Friday we'll surge back up to around 70 degrees. In between on Thursday, there will be some cloudier periods and maybe a passing shower or two, but much of the time looks dry with seasonable highs in the low to mid 60s.
THE WEEKEND
Some question marks remain surrounding the weekend. An area of high pressure to our north will try to push offshore from New England and build southward while a frontal boundary gets hung up somewhere near or south and west of the region. Forecast guidance has big differences on the strength of the high to the north as well as its exact positioning. This in turn will be a key player in what exactly happens to our front to the south and west. At this point we’ll go with mainly dry conditions and high temperatures in the low and mid 60s Saturday with mostly cloudy skies, some sun, and perhaps a stray shower. Then Sunday we think things get a bit warmer to around or just above 70 degrees under a mix of sun and clouds. But much of this part of the forecast is still very much up in the air at this point. It’s always tough this time of the year to forecast back door frontal positions way out in the extended, and this can often mean drastic changes to temperature forecasts as you progress closer to the days. Stay tuned!
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Take a trip to King's Cross
To celebrate Earth Day weekend, the classic car boot sale will be back at King's Cross from April 23-24. Join us in Granary Square and Coal Drops Yard from 10am-6pm.
The jam-packed spring weekend brings exceptional second-hand fashion, retro homewares and craft beer to keep the party going all day long.
The soundtrack to the weekend will be provided by an eclectic line-up of DJs. This includes Jo Wallace & Ashley Beedle with dance classics, Wag Club Supremo Chris Sulivan, Owen Thompson and more.
To coincide with Saturday’s ‘Record Store Day‘, visitors can hunt out rare editions from a selection of vinyl sellers. You can also find music and film memorabilia.
Over in Coal Drops Yard, Honest Jon’s Records will be celebrating the joys of vinyl offering hot off the press, limited edition releases throughout the day.
Kids go free and tickets can be booked here at £5. Check out kingscross.co.uk to book.
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COVID-19 hospitalization rates in younger kids twice higher among unvaccinated than vaccinated: CDC
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (Xinhua) -- During the period of Omicron predominance in the United States, COVID-19 associated hospitalization rates in children aged 5 to 11 years were approximately twice as high among unvaccinated as among vaccinated children, a new study of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.
Non-Hispanic Black children represented the largest group of unvaccinated children, said the study released on Tuesday.
Thirty percent of hospitalized children had no underlying medical conditions, and 19 percent were admitted to an intensive care unit. Children with diabetes and obesity were more likely to experience severe COVID-19, according to the study.
"Increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage among children aged 5 to 11 years, particularly among racial and ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, can prevent COVID-19-associated hospitalization and severe outcomes," said the CDC.
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Jack R. Hudson
July 30, 1945 - March 20, 2021
Jack R. Hudson, 75, of Bryan, TX went from his earthly home to his heavenly home on March 20, 2021.
Jack was a hard-working man who graduated from Du Quoin, IL, then married and eventually moved with his young family to Texas. Although he had a broad range of interests and work experience (including coal mines, chemical plants, investments and computers), most of his career was spent utilizing his love of all things technical and he officially retired as an Electrician. He could usually be found with little dog Dexter taking drives, watching the stock market or on his porch swing, and was enjoying his tenth year of well-deserved retirement at the time of death.
He is preceded in death by his parents, John R. and Sylvia M. Hudson of Du Quoin, Illinois, and one grandson and great-grandson, Phillip and Lincoln Garcia, of Burleson, Texas.
He is survived by 4 children and their spouses, Wade and Noga Hudson, Jamie Hudson, Paige and Raul Garcia Jr., and John and Sallye Hudson; by treasured grandchildren including lookalike grandson Jesse; and by 1 great-grandson plus 2 on the way.
A private family memorial service will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes the remembrance of Jack by a charitable donation to
a favorite charity in his name. One of Jack's supported charities was the Twin City Mission in Bryan, TX.
Published by The Bryan-College Station Eagle on Mar. 28, 2021.
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The Highway Code is to be updated this year with rules for “self-driving” cars that will allow drivers to watch TV and check emails on the move.
The changes to the code will set out where and when “self-driving” can be used as well as drivers’ responsibility for taking back control.
They also set out who is legally responsible if a car using such technology is involved in a crash.
Despite there currently being no cars on sale capable of autonomous driving, the Government claims the changes will move Britain “closer to a self-driving revolution”.
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The new guidance will allow “drivers to view content that is not related to driving on built-in display screens, while the self-driving vehicle is in control”. However, using a mobile phone while at the wheel of a “self-driving” vehicle will still be illegal.
The rules will also clarify when a driver has to take back control of the car, such as approaching exit ramps, and confirm that drivers will not be viewed as responsible for crashes while the technology is in use. Instead, insurance companies will be expected to handle claims for damages and injuries.
The Department for Transport says that self-driving cars could be on Britain’s roads this year in the form of vehicles equipped with Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS).
It says these systems differ from current “assistive technologies” by fully taking over the task of controlling the car from the driver and allowing them to focus on non-driving activities. However, the human operator still has to be able to take back control within 10 seconds when requested by the car.
Initially, use of such systems would be limited to use on motorways and at speeds of up to 37mph.
Transport Minister Trudy Harrison said: “This is a major milestone in our safe introduction of self-driving vehicles, which will revolutionise the way we travel, making our future journeys greener, safer and more reliable.”
The Government says it is working to finalise legal and regulatory frameworks to allow the widespread use of autonomous vehicles by 2025.
Matthew Avery, chief research strategy officer at Thatcham Research said guidance on responsibilities was welcome. He commented: “Education is a key enabler of safe adoption [of automated driving], and as such we welcome the announcement’s focus on ensuring that drivers understand their legal obligations behind the wheel of any vehicle described as having ‘self-driving capability’.
“As a clear communication to the consumer, the announcement’s focus on the driver’s legal responsibilities is important, especially when it comes to taking back control from the system. This is an area of risk and it’s important that drivers are aware that they must remain engaged and be ready to resume the driving task at any time.”
However, David Ward, president of the Global New Car Assessment Programme safety body, said the announcement highlighted “strange priorities” at the DfT as it put enabling “severe distractions in yet-to-exist autonomous vehicles” ahead of legislating for existing systems such as intelligent speed assistance.
Steve Gooding, director of motoring research charity the RAC Foundation, said driverless cars “promise a future where death and injury on our roads are cut significantly” but there is likely to be a “long period of transition” while drivers retain “much of the responsibility for what happens”.
He stressed the importance of changes to regulations being communicated to drivers.
“Vehicle manufacturers and sellers will have a vital role to play in ensuring their customers fully appreciate the capabilities of the cars they buy and the rules that govern them,” he said.
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