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After an attack on Salman Rushdie, the Chautauqua Institution says its mission won’t change
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile place for the freedom of expression that has been its hallmark for 150 years: As Salman Rushdie was about to speak, an audience member leapt onto the stage and stabbed the celebrated author more than a dozen times.
By the next day, Chautauqua Institution President Michael Hill recently recounted, the decision had been made not only to resume programming, but to “double down on what Mr. Rushdie stands for, what our speakers and preachers and artists stand for — which is the free exchange of ideas and the belief that society is stronger when we do that.”
A year later, Rushdie, blinded in one eye by the assault, is recovering from the attack. The Chautauqua Institution is recovering, too.
Programming and revenue for the arts and intellectual retreat in the rural southwest corner of New York was disrupted for two seasons by COVID-19. Then the attack further shattered the return to normal that regular visitors had so craved.
With a new nine-week summer season now under way, well-tended gardens are in bloom and rocking chairs are back out on the porches of Victorian- and cottage-style homes.
Security has been strengthened, though the gated compound remains open to anyone who buys a pass to enter.
“We look at the work that we do under a different lens since” the stabbing, Hill said during an interview in his office, which overlooks Bestor Plaza, a lush expanse of greenery anchoring the 750-acre (303-hectare) grounds. “The attack was an attempt at silencing, which underscores the need for institutions like ours to not stay silent.”
As an institution, Chautauqua defies easy explanation.
“NPR camp for grown-ups” is the description preferred by Erica Higbie, who owns a house on the grounds.
Located on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, the institution is a self-contained community with lecture halls, houses of worship, cafes, shops, a library, post office and bookstore, along with private homes, rentals and the Athenaeum Hotel, which served as former President Bill Clinton’s executive mansion for a week in 1996 as he prepared for his debate with Republican challenger Bob Dole.
Aside from boating and golf, the 4,400-seat, open-air amphitheater is a main draw, with a summer entertainment lineup this year offering concerts by Diana Ross and Bonnie Raitt, ballet and theater productions and performances by the house Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
But for Higbie and many others, the primary appeal exists in the institution’s 19th Century beginnings as a summer educational experiment in which daily lectures are curated around weekly explorations of anything from politics to infrastructure and faith to friendship.
“I am a lecture junkie,” Higbie said from her porch as people navigated the grounds on foot, bikes and scooters. The speed limit for the rare vehicle traffic is 12 mph. The retired teacher takes in a daily morning lecture and may hear two more in the afternoon at the amphitheater and the Hall of Philosophy.
Through the decades, Susan B. Anthony advocated for women’s rights at the institution and President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his 1936 “I Hate War” speech in the amphitheater. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke about the climate crisis and Supreme Court Judges Robert H. Jackson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are among countless others who have offered insights.
Rushdie’s appearance came during a week last year exploring home as “a place for human thriving.”
Henry Reese, co-founder of the City of Asylum Pittsburgh, was about to interview “The Satanic Verses” author about violence against writers when Rushdie was attacked as the men sat in armchairs on the amphitheater’s sunken stage.
Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death, was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye. Reese suffered bruises and a gash to his forehead.
With alleged assailant Hadi Matar awaiting trial in a nearby courthouse, Reese is scheduled to return to the institution on the anniversary of the attack, Aug. 12. His appearance is expected to kick off a week exploring freedom of expression, imagination and the resilience of democracy. Republican strategist Karl Rove and Democratic strategist David Axelrod are among other invited guests.
It would have been out of character for the institution to do anything but pick up where it left off after the assault, regular guest lecturer Eboo Patel said.
“Not a single artist or speaker canceled,” Patel, founder of Interfaith America in Chicago, said by phone.
“Chautauqua recognizes that it has a responsibility to its own community, honestly to American civilization and the human spirit, and it’s back up in 24 to 48 hours. That’s stunning,” he said.
Property owners differed on how far the institution should go to ensure personal safety, said Higbie, the president of the Chautauqua Property Owners Association.
“Everybody was in shock for a long time,“ Higbie said.
Visitors say they notice more security and protocols at events. Amphitheater patrons can bring only clear bags inside, for example, and may be scanned or asked to walk through a weapons detector.
Even so, “I never hesitated for a minute” to return, said Michael Crawford of Washington, D.C., as he chatted with Mary Pat McFarland of Philadelphia. The two sat on one of the red benches placed around the grounds to invite discussion.
A handful of musicians with violins, guitars and a small harp played an impromptu jam session beneath a tree nearby.
Hill said he sees his role as “teeing up” issues for engagement, so shying away from difficult ones would be a disservice at a time when civic discourse is in short supply.
“It’s about bringing divergent viewpoints for people to digest,” Hill said. “For us to have made the decision to stop bringing speakers who may be controversial in any way would have been for us to stop doing our mission.”
“It would have been,” he said, “to literally stop the reason this place was created.”
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians on Saturday in an exchange of fire that erupted during a military raid in the West Bank, according to Israeli and Palestinian accounts, in the latest confrontation that has made 2022 the deadliest year of violence in the occupied territory since 2015.
The raid occurred in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, the site of repeated clashes between Israeli forces and local gunmen and residents. The camp is known as a stronghold of Palestinian militants and the army often operates there.
Palestinian officials said soldiers entered the camp early Saturday and surrounded a house. In videos circulated on social media, exchanges of fire could be heard. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported two dead and 11 wounded, three of them critically. The official Wafa news agency said both of the dead were 17-year-old boys.
The Israeli military said it had arrested a 25-year-old operative from the Islamic Jihad militant group who has previously been imprisoned by Israel. It said the man had recently been involved in shooting attacks on Israeli soldiers.
It said soldiers opened fire during the raid when dozens of Palestinians hurled explosives and opened fire. “Hits were identified,” the statement said, giving no further details.
Just before noontime, the Israeli forces appeared to withdraw from the area.
The killing occurred a day after two Palestinian teenagers, ages 14 and 17, were killed by Israeli fire in separate incidents elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. Rights groups accuse Israeli forces of using excessive force in their dealings with the Palestinians, without being held accountable. The Israeli military says it opens fire only in life-threatening situations.
Israel has been operating throughout the territory, especially in the northern West Bank, since a spate of deadly attacks in Israel last spring. Some of the attacks were carried out by Palestinian assailants from the area.
Israel says it is forced to take action because Palestinian security forces, who coordinate with the military in a tense alliance against Islamic militants, is unable or unwilling to crack down. Palestinian security forces say the military raids have undermined their credibility and public support, especially in the absence of any political process. The last round of substantive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended in 2009.
Most of those killed are said by Israel to have been militants. But local youths protesting the incursions as well as some civilians have also been killed in the violence. Hundreds have been rounded up, with many placed in so-called administrative detention, which allows Israel to hold them without trial or charge. Over 100 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting this year.
The violence is also fueled by deepening disillusionment and anger among young Palestinians over the tight security coordination between Israel and the internationally backed Palestinian Authority, which work together to apprehend militants.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in some 130 settlements and other outposts among nearly 3 million Palestinians. The Palestinians want that territory, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for their future state. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-palestinians-2-killed-in-israeli-military-raid-in-west-bank/ | 2022-10-08 12:06:52 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-palestinians-2-killed-in-israeli-military-raid-in-west-bank/ |
“Biography: WWE Legends” season 2 debuts Sunday, July 10. It will be live streamed on Philo, which offers a free trial.
Each episode tells the intimate, personal stories behind the success of some of WWE’s most memorable legends and events. Through rare archival footage and in-depth interviews, each episode explores a different legend and their immense impact in the WWE universe and on pop culture.
In the season premier, it is all about The Undertaker.
Exclusive insights shed light on Mark Calaway, the wrestler who became known as the Undertaker, who played a major role in the WWE for three decades as he accumulated ttles and records while frightening his competitors
Legends featured this season include Goldberg, The Bella Twins, Lex Luger, Edge, Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, D-Generation X and a look at the iconic first-ever “WrestleMania.”
When is Biography: WWE Legends?
“Biography: WWE Legends” season 2 premiers Sunday, July 10, from 7 to 9 p.m. (8 to 10 p.m. ET).
Will it be live streamed?
Philo
Philo is a 64-channel option and an entertainment-only streaming service. Philo costs $25 a month and also offers a 7-day free trial. For an additional $6 per month, customers get access to three Epix channels. Viewers will be able to watch hit movies, original series and more.
Will it be televised?
“Biography: WWE Legends” will be televised on A&E.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday celebrated the milestone birth anniversary of its late founder with a mass dance, fireworks and calls for stronger loyalty to his grandson and current leader Kim Jong Un, but there was no word on an expected military parade amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program.
The 110th birthday of Kim Il Sung comes after North Korea conducted a spate of weapons tests in recent months, including its first full-range intercontinental ballistic missile launch since 2017. Experts say North Korea aims to expand its arsenal and ramp up pressure on the United States while nuclear diplomacy is stalled.
“Let’s work harder in devotion to our respected comrade Kim Jong Un and on that path ultimately realize the dreams of our great president (Kim Il Sung) to build a powerful socialist state,” the North’s state-run website Uriminzokkiri said in a commentary.
Kim Il Sung’s birthday is the most important national holiday in North Korea, where the Kim family has ruled under a strong personality cult since the nation’s founding in 1948. Kim Jong Un became a third-generation leader after his father Kim Jong Il died in late 2011.
Kim Jong Un has pushed to advance his nuclear weapons while simultaneously reviving the economy. But a mix of pandemic border closures, U.S.-led sanctions and his own mismanagement have caused a massive economic blow in what’s become the toughest moment of his decade in power.
On Friday, residents of Pyongyang, the capital, bowed and laid bouquets of flowers near the bronze statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
State TV later showed thousands of young people — men dressed in Western-style white shirts and women in colorful traditional Korean garb — dancing in a Pyongyang plaza as fireworks launched from a nearby river bank lit up the night sky. The dancers circled a group of performers who held up yellow flowers to form the symbol of the Workers’ Party of Korea -– a hammer, brush and sickle.
North Korea often marks key state anniversaries with huge military parades featuring newly built missiles, especially during anniversaries that end in zero and five. Commercial satellites earlier indicated an apparent rehearsal for a military parade, such as people assembled in formation at the Pyongyang plaza, where such events were held in the past.
After North Korea’s ICBM test last month, South Korean and U.S. officials said Pyongyang could soon launch fresh provocations like an additional ICBM test, a rocket to put a spy satellite into orbit, or even a nuclear bomb test that would be the seventh of its kind.
South Korea’s military said recently it detected signs that North Korea is rebuilding tunnels at a nuclear testing ground that it partially dismantled before it entered now-dormant nuclear talks with the United States in 2018.
“I think they’ll carry out a nuclear test once it finishes restoring its nuclear testing facility,” said analyst Moon Seong Mook with the Seoul-based Korea Research Institute for National Strategy. “There is no reason for them to bring back its testing ground if they don’t plan to use them for a bomb test.”
Sung Kim, the top U.S. official on North Korea, is to visit South Korea next week for talks on the international community’s response to the North’s recent missile tests.
North Korea has recently resumed its trademark harsh rhetoric against its rivals. One of its international affairs commentators labeled President Joe Biden as “an old man in senility,” while Kim’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, called South Korea’s defense minister “a scum-like guy” and threatened to annihilate South Korea with nuclear strikes. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/n-korea-marks-key-anniversary-but-no-word-on-army-parade/ | 2022-04-15 18:57:33 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/n-korea-marks-key-anniversary-but-no-word-on-army-parade/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia has been invited to participate in the inaugural Central Asian Football Association Championships in June along with seven other national teams.
Russian teams have been barred from European and FIFA competitions since the invasion of Ukraine in February of last year. But the Tajikistan Football Association announced Monday that a Russian team could join the new regional tournament along with former Soviet republics Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Afghanistan, Iran and another country, yet to be confirmed, will complete the lineup for the games expected to be hosted in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
According to the Tajikistan Football Association, Russia has already accepted the invitation. But the Russian Football Union told state media: “We are currently in discussions about the possibility and conditions of the Russian national team’s participation in this tournament,”
The move will rekindle debate about a possible Russian entry into the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as the country seeks to return to international soccer competition.
In January, Russian Football Union president Alexander Dyukov drew back from a December threat to join the AFC after meeting with European football officials.
No resolution has yet been found. Dyukov last month attended the AFC Congress in Bahrain, holding talks with AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
“We have a good relationship with the Russian federation and with the rest of the European federations, and we are always in contact with the federations on all occasions,” Salman said after the meeting. “We want the best interests of the game as we seek to keep politics away from football.”
Russia's national men's team played just three international friendlies in 2022, against Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The team is scheduled to meet Iran and Iraq later this month.
Most Olympic sports have excluded athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus since shortly after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The IOC initially recommended excluding them on safety grounds but now says keeping the restrictions would be discriminatory.
Last month 35 countries signed a statement criticizing the IOC plans to allow Russians and Belarusians to return to competition ahead of qualifying events for the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutral athletes without national symbols.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The star of Disney’s “Encanto” will be center stage at the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Actress Stephanie Beatriz has been selected to serve as the grand marshal at the Indy 500 on Sunday, May 28.
As part of her grand marshal role, Beatriz will give the traditional command for drivers to report to their cars during pre-race ceremonies. She will also walk the Indy 500 red carpet.
Beatriz currently stars in a high-octane Peacock series based on the “Twisted Metal” video game franchise.
“Stephanie has starred in dozens of popular shows and movies in recent years, and we’re anticipating the release of ‘Twisted Metal’ later this summer on Peacock,” IMS President J. Douglas Boles said.
Beatriz first gained major recognition as Detective Rosa Diaz on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and also starred in the film adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical “In the Heights” before taking on the lead role of Mirabel in “Encanto.”
Tickets to the race are still available at ims.com. You can also purchase tickets for other events leading up to the Indy 500, including Miller Lite Carb Day and qualifiers. | https://cbs4indy.com/indy-500/encanto-star-stephanie-beatriz-to-serve-as-indy-500-grand-marshal/ | 2023-05-18 15:49:25 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/indy-500/encanto-star-stephanie-beatriz-to-serve-as-indy-500-grand-marshal/ |
Breakthrough to Utilize its Expertise in Lab Development and Operations to Support Boulder's Burgeoning Yet Underserved Biotech Community
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough Properties, a leading global developer of life sciences real estate backed by a joint venture of Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, today announced it has acquired a 9.3-acre, four-building campus in Boulder, CO, which will be transformed into "Boulder 38 by Breakthrough" featuring 164,000-square-feet of office, lab and flex space.
Boulder 38 by Breakthrough is situated in the heart of the city within convenient proximity to local retail, restaurants and amenities, as well as large technology and life science campuses. Located at the intersection of 38th Street and Arapahoe, the property features easy access into and out of Boulder and is just one mile from Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, a 400,000-square-foot research and teaching facility at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"We are excited to bring the Breakthrough platform to Boulder and contribute to the phenomenal growth of a thriving life science innovation market," said Daniel D'Orazi, EVP and Chief Investment Officer. "From our fully integrated design and development teams to our highly experienced lab operations platform, Breakthrough is uniquely positioned to provide best-in-class infrastructure and amenities to meet the intense and growing demand for high quality lab and office environments in this supply-constrained market."
Research conducted at the University of Colorado and the surrounding ecosystem has helped to foster a thriving regional bioscience hub. According to CBRE market report data, the Boulder life sciences market has maintained over one million square feet of active life science requirements over the past 18 months, and workspaces with elevated amenities is a desired feature of the companies located in the area.
"Boulder has succeeded in cultivating a unique ecosystem propelled by leading research and academic institutions, creative residents and premier outdoor recreational amenities," said Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Paul DeMartini. "We are excited by this opportunity to create a world-class research campus that will serve as a magnet for life science innovation and talent."
The acquisition and redevelopment of Boulder 38 is being capitalized by the Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund. The Fund, which held its final closing in April of this year, raised $3 billion in direct capital and co-investments to scale a global portfolio of best-in-class ecosystems for dynamic early-, mid-, and late-stage life science companies.
Since its founding just over three years ago, Breakthrough has assembled a pipeline of more than 4.6 million square feet of projects in various stages of construction and pre-development across the United States and Europe.
Boulder is the fourth new market that Breakthrough has entered during 2022. Breakthrough recently announced its acquisition of 2300 Market Street in Philadelphia's burgeoning Center City district, with plans to redevelop the site to support over 200,000 square feet of life science space. Breakthrough also recently completed its first acquisitions in the Oxford and Cambridge life science hubs in England.
Other notable Breakthrough projects include The 105 by Breakthrough in Boston, home to CRISPR Therapeutics' U.S. facility; the 10-acre Torrey View by Breakthrough campus, which will house global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)'s expanded San Diego Reagent Innovation Center for its growing BD Biosciences, in San Diego; Trinity House in Oxford, England; and The Vitrum Building, located inside St. John's Innovation Park in Cambridge, England.
Breakthrough puts sustainability at the forefront of all of its initiatives with a particular emphasis on increasing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and providing healthy workspaces for users. The Company targets LEED Gold certification at its United States properties, as well as BREEAM Outstanding certification in all of its projects across the United Kingdom and EU markets.
About Breakthrough Properties (www.btprop.com)
Formed in 2019 as a joint venture between global real estate owner, developer and investor Tishman Speyer and biotechnology investment firm Bellco Capital, Breakthrough Properties is a life science real estate development company that leverages cross-sector collaboration to deliver environments that foster innovation and scientific breakthroughs. Breakthrough Properties' mission is to acquire, develop and operate the best life science properties in leading urban technology centers around the world and support scientific innovation across biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Breakthrough combines Tishman Speyer's decades of global real estate development experience with Bellco Capital's industry-making biotechnology entrepreneurship to reimagine environments where companies can create life-changing therapies for patients.
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French writer Annie Ernaux is the newest Nobel laureate in literature. She is widely admired in France and among those who love French feminist literature.
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French writer Annie Ernaux is the newest Nobel laureate in literature. She is widely admired in France and among those who love French feminist literature.
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More than three months after Patrick Holland's first shot at getting a heart transplant was ruined by winter weather that upended his travel and prevented him from getting to the Washington state hospital in time, the Alaska man has been given a second chance.Video above: Doctors warn heart attack deaths in young people have gone up dramatically in the last three yearsThe father of seven is among the thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest whose flights were canceled or redirected in December as severe storms swept through the region. But even after his airline jumped through hoops to reschedule Holland on subsequent flights, they were all canceled. The heart transplant was given to somebody else.Determined to not miss his next opportunity, Holland temporarily relocated from his home near Fairbanks, Alaska, to live near the transplant hospital in Seattle, Washington, so he could be available at a moment's notice. There, he was staying with a family who heard about his story on the news.In the passing months, a few hearts became available for Holland, who has congestive heart failure, but none of them were viable. Finally, a fifth call came last week alerting Holland to a potential transplant, and everything fell into place."It really didn't feel real until he told me, 'They told me I have like 20 minutes to say goodbye because we're going in for intubation,' and then a nurse came into the room, and he had to hang up," Holland's wife, Haley Holland, told CNN. When her husband called back, the couple had just seconds to speak before he had to go again."I barely had time to tell him that I loved him," said Holland, who has been documenting the family's transplant journey on Facebook. She and her children flew down to Seattle to be with Patrick after the surgery on Friday.Haley Holland has been giving each potential donor, whose names are not typically shared with their organ recipients, an imagined name of her own.Her husband is now recovering at the University of Washington Medical Center with a heart transplant from the donor she has dubbed "Andrew.""Number five — Andrew, as we affectionately call this donor unless we become blessed enough to find out his true name — was the perfect one," Haley Holland wrote in a Facebook post.In the days since the transplant, Haley Holland has felt and listened to her husband's new heartbeat."It feels like a miracle," she told CNN, adding that with the help of a nurse, she first felt her husband's new heartbeat through a pulse on his foot. On Saturday, she used a stethoscope to hear the beating."It just makes you cry because this isn't the heart that he was born with. It's not the heart that he spent 57 years with. This is someone else's heart. And so it's very touching and it's miraculous that Patrick now has this new heart that he'll be able to enjoy life with."Video below: After receiving new hearts, two men share a brotherly bondThough the surgery was successful, Patrick Holland's recovery is just beginning. In a Tuesday Facebook update, his wife said he has been able to stand but still has uncomfortable IV ports and extreme nausea that is making eating difficult.Haley Holland has created a GoFundMe to support the family's expenses following the surgery.As her husband recovers, Haley Holland's thoughts have also been with his heart donor."Remembering that this is Andrew's heart and that someone had to pay the ultimate price," she said. "Someone had to make an enormous sacrifice in order for this miracle to happen. So, it's a very emotional thing, feeling the pulse or listening to the heart."Patrick Holland told CNN in December that he had a "massive heart attack at 29" followed by a series of heart-related complications. He said he dreamed of keeping up with his children, who then ranged in age from 3 to 36.Following the transplant, Haley Holland said her husband is thankful."Even in the worst times he will look at me and he'll say, 'It was worth it,'" she said.
More than three months after Patrick Holland's first shot at getting a heart transplant was ruined by winter weather that upended his travel and prevented him from getting to the Washington state hospital in time, the Alaska man has been given a second chance.
Video above: Doctors warn heart attack deaths in young people have gone up dramatically in the last three years
The father of seven is among the thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest whose flights were canceled or redirected in December as severe storms swept through the region. But even after his airline jumped through hoops to reschedule Holland on subsequent flights, they were all canceled. The heart transplant was given to somebody else.
Determined to not miss his next opportunity, Holland temporarily relocated from his home near Fairbanks, Alaska, to live near the transplant hospital in Seattle, Washington, so he could be available at a moment's notice. There, he was staying with a family who heard about his story on the news.
In the passing months, a few hearts became available for Holland, who has congestive heart failure, but none of them were viable.
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Patrick Holland temporarily moved to Seattle, Washington, so he could be available for a transplant at a moment’s notice. (Courtesy of Patrick Holland via CNN)
Finally, a fifth call came last week alerting Holland to a potential transplant, and everything fell into place.
"It really didn't feel real until he told me, 'They told me I have like 20 minutes to say goodbye because we're going in for intubation,' and then a nurse came into the room, and he had to hang up," Holland's wife, Haley Holland, told CNN. When her husband called back, the couple had just seconds to speak before he had to go again.
"I barely had time to tell him that I loved him," said Holland, who has been documenting the family's transplant journey on Facebook. She and her children flew down to Seattle to be with Patrick after the surgery on Friday.
Haley Holland has been giving each potential donor, whose names are not typically shared with their organ recipients, an imagined name of her own.
Her husband is now recovering at the University of Washington Medical Center with a heart transplant from the donor she has dubbed "Andrew."
"Number five — Andrew, as we affectionately call this donor unless we become blessed enough to find out his true name — was the perfect one," Haley Holland wrote in a Facebook post.
In the days since the transplant, Haley Holland has felt and listened to her husband's new heartbeat.
"It feels like a miracle," she told CNN, adding that with the help of a nurse, she first felt her husband's new heartbeat through a pulse on his foot. On Saturday, she used a stethoscope to hear the beating.
"It just makes you cry because this isn't the heart that he was born with. It's not the heart that he spent 57 years with. This is someone else's heart. And so it's very touching and it's miraculous that Patrick now has this new heart that he'll be able to enjoy life with."
Video below: After receiving new hearts, two men share a brotherly bond
Though the surgery was successful, Patrick Holland's recovery is just beginning. In a Tuesday Facebook update, his wife said he has been able to stand but still has uncomfortable IV ports and extreme nausea that is making eating difficult.
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Patrick Holland received a heart transplant on March 31 after four potential donor organs fell through.
Haley Holland has created a GoFundMe to support the family's expenses following the surgery.
As her husband recovers, Haley Holland's thoughts have also been with his heart donor.
"Remembering that this is Andrew's heart and that someone had to pay the ultimate price," she said. "Someone had to make an enormous sacrifice in order for this miracle to happen. So, it's a very emotional thing, feeling the pulse or listening to the heart."
Patrick Holland told CNN in December that he had a "massive heart attack at 29" followed by a series of heart-related complications. He said he dreamed of keeping up with his children, who then ranged in age from 3 to 36.
Following the transplant, Haley Holland said her husband is thankful.
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The Supreme Court remains "committed" to ensuring that justices uphold the "highest standards of conduct," Chief Justice John Roberts declared Tuesday.
Roberts made the statement during an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., lightly acknowledging the ongoing attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas over ethics claims. Roberts nevertheless told the audience at the American Law Institute (ALI) that neither Congress nor the executive branch should interfere in the court's affairs.
"I want to assure people that I am committed to making certain that we as a court adhere to the highest standards of conduct," Roberts said. "We are continuing to look at things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment."
"I am confident there are ways to do that that are consistent with our status as an independent branch of government under the Constitution's separation of powers," he added.
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Roberts appeared at ALI's annual dinner to receive the group's Friendly Medal, presented by Justice Elena Kagan. Elsewhere in his speech, Roberts lamented recent threats to the safety of the court's members, highlighting the protests outside the homes of conservative justices.
Roberts added that the hardest decision he has had to make as chief justice was to erect barricades around the Supreme Court when the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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"I had no choice but to do it," Roberts said.
"But inside the court there is cause for optimism," he added. "I am happy that I can continue to say that there has never been a voice raised in anger in our conference room. Our court consists of nine appointees of four presidents. We deal with some of the most controversial issues before the country, yet we maintain collegial relations with each other."
Roberts' speech came as Thomas is continuing to face attacks over gifts he received from a wealthy friend, billionaire Harlan Crow. A report from ProPublica found that Thomas had taken frequent trips with the GOP megadonor for years, and critics argue that accepting such gifts violated ethics standards.
Democrats in Congress were quick to jump on the report in an effort to discredit Thomas, arguably the court's most staunch conservative. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called a hearing earlier in May to discuss Supreme Court ethics reform, much to the frustration of Republicans.
"This assault on Justice Thomas is well beyond ethics," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at the time. "It's about trying to delegitimize a conservative court that was appointed through the traditional process."
Thomas himself addressed the accusations in April, saying Crow and his family have long been among his and his wife's "dearest friends."
"Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years," the justice said in a public statement. "As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/scotus-can-address-ethics-as-independent-branch-chief-justice-roberts-says-amid-clarence-thomas-attacks/article_04e64589-fe52-55c8-9059-8f2a2d469d04.html | 2023-05-24 15:30:23 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/scotus-can-address-ethics-as-independent-branch-chief-justice-roberts-says-amid-clarence-thomas-attacks/article_04e64589-fe52-55c8-9059-8f2a2d469d04.html |
DUBLIN, Ohio (WJW) – Wendy’s is getting into the Christmas spirit: for the first time ever, the chain is offering a Peppermint Frosty!
“The Peppermint Frosty is our latest flavor innovation on the iconic Wendy’s Frosty that fans have come to know and love for over 50 years,” said John Li, Vice President of Culinary Innovation for the Wendy’s Company. “It’s the classic thick and creamy Frosty that our fans crave with bursts of fresh peppermint – every sweet bite will put you in the holiday spirit.”
The new addition will be on menus starting Nov. 15 and will be available for a limited time.
“Wendy’s is helping to make the most wonderful time of the year even sweeter by introducing an all-new Peppermint Frosty to enjoy during the holidays,” said Carl Loredo, U.S. Chief Marketing Officer for the Wendy’s Company.
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Statewide constitutional carry law goes into effect July 1st
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - More than 200 new state laws go into effect in July, including one which allows gun owners to carry a concealed gun without a concealed weapons permit.
House Bill 543, also known as the constitutional carry law, goes into effect July 1. A three-day waiting period to buy a gun remains unless you have the license.
Law enforcement agencies across North Central Florida shared information on the legislation to inform citizens.
“Go out and take a good training class to make sure the weapon you’re carrying is the weapon you’re familiar with, you’re comfortable with because the truth is you are still liable for everything you do with that firearm,” said Marion County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Lt. Paul Bloom.
Bloom told TV20 their deputies are trained and ready for the law to go into effect.
“We’ve already been in training with all of our deputies here making sure they understand this new law and the ways we will enforce it,” said Bloom.
The permitless carry law does not remove any gun eligibility requirements, such as who can purchase a firearm. Convicted felons, those under 21-years-old, and anyone convicted of certain violent crimes are some of those who disqualify from gun ownership. It also prohibits guns from entering certain facilities, such as schools and government buildings.
A firearm instructor in Ocala noticed an increase in sales since the law was signed, but he’s concerned people won’t be safe.
“The influx of people wanting to purchase a firearm, but also what it did is drop the amount of people actually coming into classes,” said Tomas Reyes, owner and instructor at Pro-Firearms Academy.
Reyes said he hopes anyone looking to purchase a firearm after the law is in effect does their research.
“You can carry anything that you have a really good foundation of the laws, how to carry because your responsibilities are going to be know the laws, know your weapon, and secure it when it’s not in your possession,” said Reyes.
Floridians have split opinions on the legislation. One gun owner from Dunnellon does not support the new law.
“I don’t like it,” said Charlie Purvis. “I think it’s going to cause more problems that it solves.”
A man from St. Petersburg believed gun owners should be allowed to protect themselves and their families.
“As easy as it could be to get them it would make people safer,” said Brian Auerbach. “If we’re going to have guns in this country, I think you should be able to protect yourself.”
Gun owners can carry their firearm across Florida without a permit as long as its hidden from view. The law differs when visiting other states.
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RICHARDSON, Texas, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Through efforts including donation campaigns, sponsored wish reveal parties, and payroll deductions, Service Experts has completed another successful year of giving back. Since partnering with internationally known non-profit, Make-A-Wish®, in 2018, the company has raised over $1,000,000 for Make-A-Wish children and helped grant over 100 wishes that can improve both physical and emotional well-being.
Service Experts CEO, Rob Comstock says the company "takes great pride in serving our communities. And as a long-time Make-A-Wish supporter, we've seen first-hand how wishes can bring hope to children with critical illnesses. That's why we'll continue to support Make-A-Wish in their mission". One of the most successful ways the company motivates their employees to support the Make-A-Wish mission is through their payroll deduction offer, which raised over $32,000 in 2022 alone.
In September, the company kicked off a donation campaign for National Tune-Up Day. While the official date of the holiday was September 22nd, Service Experts celebrated all month long by donating $5 to Make-A-Wish for every tune-up one of their 88 centers completed. They ended the month meeting their goal of raising another $20,000 for the Make-A-Wish team.
In addition to the donations raised, Service Experts also sponsors wish reveal parties, parties to reveal to wish kids that their wishes will soon come true, throughout the year and across the country. This year, Service Experts headed to Charlotte, North Carolina to throw a surprise wish reveal for an 8-year-old girl whose wish of going to her favorite amusement park was granted while she continues her fight against leukemia. In Florida, the CEO of Service Experts, Rob Comstock, got to personally hand a goldendoodle puppy to a 2year-old little girl. The team also brought some comic book heroes to life for a 9-year-old boy in Atlanta and surprised another boy in Florida with a backyard clubhouse (with fully running AC, of course). The company also organized a send-off party at Raleigh-Durham International Airport for a little boy headed to the year's biggest football game. They closed out the year by heading to Kansas City where they threw a Hawaiian themed, lei-making party for a girl whose wish of going on a trip to Hawaii with her family was granted.
"We know that wishes can lead to improved medical outcomes and better chances of survival, and as important as wishes are, they wouldn't be possible without supporters like Service Experts," said Leslie Motter, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. Both Service Experts and Make-A-Wish are looking forward to the continued success of their partnership in 2023.
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CANTON, Mass., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The nurses and healthcare professionals of the Massachusetts Nurses Association have released four critical priorities as part of an effort to encourage the incoming administration of Governor-elect Maura Healey to join them in ensuring patients have access to safe, high-quality care regardless of patients' unique medical needs, demographics, or geography.
"The Massachusetts Nurses Association endorsed Maura Healey for Governor because she is a true champion for workers and workers' families," said Katie Murphy, ICU RN, and president of the MNA. "She has always had an open door for frontline healthcare workers. She actively listens to our concerns, empathizes with the challenges we face, and works hard to help nurses and healthcare professionals provide quality care for our patients."
"In that spirit of ongoing cooperation, we invite Governor-elect Healey to join us in adopting these four critical priorities when she takes office," Murphy said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the existing fault lines in our broken healthcare system. Now is the time to make lasting, structural improvements that will benefit patients, caregivers, and all our communities. As we look forward, it is essential nurses and other healthcare professionals who provide direct patient care and support are empowered to be the problem solvers, rather than relying on strategies proposed by the very industry executives who seeded the ground for today's crisis."
1. Protecting Healthcare Access
Since 2009, more than 30 hospitals or units have closed in Massachusetts, according to a review of public records. In most cases, they closed even though the Department of Public Health examined the closure's impact and deemed the services "necessary for preserving access and health status in a particular service area." Hospitals make millions of dollars from DPH licenses. The state should ensure they provide necessary services, especially where closures have a disproportionately negative effect on vulnerable minoritized and under-resourced communities. These closures have hit mental health, pediatric and maternity services especially hard.
In a White Paper published in March 2021, the MNA's Congress on Nursing Practice called for a moratorium on any further closure or reduction in maternity services including midwifery services in the Commonwealth. Since then, Beth Israel Lahey closed the North Shore Birth Center despite overwhelming community and caregiver opposition.
"The Massachusetts Nurses Association identifies access to reproductive care, including maternity and birth-related services, as essential to racial and social justice," members of the Congress on Nursing Practice wrote in the MNA white paper. "Unfortunately, due to the state's lack of any viable regulatory authority to protect these and other public health services, and a privatized health care system that values a market-based health care model over its mandate of ensuring the communities it serves the full spectrum of health services, including maternity care, too many families are seeing their access to these services curtailed, placing both mother and newborns at unnecessary risk, particularly those living in poorer communities and communities of color."
Recent maternity service closures in Massachusetts:
- Beth Israel Lahey closed the North Shore Birth Center in Beverly in December 2022 despite overwhelming patient and community opposition.
- Southcoast Health closed the maternity unit at Tobey Hospital in Wareham in December 2019, forcing families to travel to an already overcrowded maternity unit at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford or further away.
- Cape Cod Healthcare closed maternity and pediatric services at Falmouth Hospital in 2020 and then announced it was cutting back midwife services.
- Holyoke Medical Center closed its entire maternity ward and an affiliated midwifery practice in the fall of 2020.
- Steward Healthcare closed the Morton Hospital maternity unit in 2018, following its closure of pediatric services. The closure especially impacted marginalized groups that were forced to travel long distances for the same type of care, including to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. There were reports of patients giving birth on the way to another hospital with the help of emergency services personnel.
- Harrington Hospital closed its obstetrics department in 2017.
Closures or proposed closures of mental health services in Massachusetts:
- All (22) mental health beds at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.
- All (28) mental health beds at Baystate Wing Hospital in Palmer.
- All (20) mental health beds at Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield.
- The three above proposed closures are part of an ongoing plan by Baystate Health to open a for-profit mental health facility in Holyoke.
- In 2020, Trinity Health closed 74 child and adult mental health beds at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital. These included at the time the only child mental health beds from New York to Worcester.
- Norwood Hospital: Flooding caused a closure of the hospital in June 2020. Reopening plans do not include a replacement for the hospital's mental health unit.
- In 2021, Good Samaritan Medical Center announced plans to permanently close its inpatient detox unit, located in Foxborough. DPH found it to be an essential service, and the company then issued notice that it was closing anyway.
- In 2017, UMass Memorial Medical Center closed 13 psychiatric beds and then opened with US HealthVest a standalone for-profit mental health hospital.
- Vibra Hospital in Springfield, a psychiatric facility, nursing home behavioral health unit and a long-term, acute care services, closed in 2017.
- The state closed 125 of 170 beds at Taunton State Hospital in 2012.
- Westborough State Hospital, a mental health facility, closed completely in 2010.
- In 2010, UMass Health Alliance Burbank Campus closed a 15-bed inpatient psychiatric unit.
- In 2009, Cambridge Health Alliance closed 60 of 127 mental health beds at Whidden Memorial Hospital.
The MNA has called on the legislature to take significant action in this area, and encourages Governor-elect Healey to support its legislation:
An Act Relative to the Closing of Hospital Essential Services will:
- Extend the official notice period to the DPH in advance of a closure or discontinuation of health services.
- Require any hospital proposing closure or discontinuation of health services to provide evidence of having notified and provided the opportunity for comment from affected municipalities before the notification period begins.
- Instruct the Attorney General to seek an injunction to maintain the essential services for the duration of the notice period.
- Prohibit the hospital from eligibility for an application for licensure or expansion for a period of three years from the date the service is discontinued, or until the essential health service is restored, or until such time as the DPH is satisfied with a modified plan.
- Prohibit the closure of beds, units, or facilities during any declared state of emergency pertaining to health care.
The Hospital Essential Service Accessibility Act will:
- Require the Department of Public Health in consultation with the Health Policy Commission to commission a study analyzing and delineating the existing cadre of services provided by the state's acute care medical and psychiatric hospitals based on the need for those services in all regions of the Commonwealth, with recommendations as how to ensure access to those services.
"By allowing these closures, our public health system demonstrates to already vulnerable and marginalized groups that their interests do not matter," Murphy said. "The Commonwealth must put patient and community needs at the forefront of this decision-making process."
2. Addressing the Hospital Staffing Crisis
The hospital staffing crisis is often described by healthcare executives as if a black hole suddenly emerged during the pandemic and nurses started disappearing. We know empirically this is not true. For example, according to the Board of Registration in Nursing, the number of registered nurses in Massachusetts went from 119,626 in June 2019 to 148,518 in February 2022. Massachusetts is gaining nurses but losing them at the bedside because of the exploitative conditions they face.
According to the 2022 State of Nursing in Massachusetts survey, more than 8 in 10 registered nurses said the quality of patient care in hospitals had gotten significantly worse over the previous two years as they described being emotionally exhausted, increasingly disengaged and more likely to leave the profession or reduce their hours.
"I have never seen nurses so demoralized by conditions at the bedside and how difficult it is to provide the kind of care our patients deserve," Murphy said. "The coronavirus has made it even harder to be a healthcare professional dedicated to safe patient care, but the pandemic alone did not create these problems. For many years, healthcare executives have focused relentlessly on profits, executive pay, and expansion at the expense of maintaining necessary community-based services and making sustainable investments in frontline staff and patient care quality."
Tackling the hospital staffing crisis will require a multi-pronged approach. The MNA has proposed solutions in several areas to help address the underlying problems and looks forward to overcoming these challenges and future issues as they arise with Governor-elect Healey:
Patient Limits and Staffing
- For decades, the MNA has advocated for safe staffing levels and enforceable patient limits at the local, state, and national level. The impact of how many patients a nurse is assigned at one time is one of the most studied topics in healthcare. Voluminous peer-reviewed evidence shows maintaining a safe patient limit helps shield nurses from burnout and protects the quality of patient care.
- In the 2023-2024 legislative term, the MNA is putting forward An Act Relative to Patient Safety and Frontline Nurse Retention. This bill would require a limit on the number of patients a nurse can care for at one time. Limits would be set by unit and determined by the Department of Public Health following a series of public hearings.
- The MNA calls for the restoration of regulations on the use and distribution of temporary agency staff. MNA nurses and healthcare professionals are concerned healthcare executives are using this crisis as a rationale for pursuing failed strategies to replace nurses with lesser qualified unlicensed staff. We saw the same failed policies implemented in response to a similar crisis in the 1990s with devastating consequences for patients in our acute care hospitals.
- The government and industry must listen to frontline healthcare workers on the solutions to the staffing crisis and not simply adopt the strategies put forward by the very industry that continues to create the environments that lead to repetitive crises.
- The current staffing crisis and others were created by healthcare leaders. The solutions to retention and recruitment therefore should rest with those on the front lines.
- Failure to center front line healthcare workers inevitably leads to healthcare leaders hiring consultants who then propose "new models of patient care delivery" that ignore or even make worse the problems that lead to these crises. Seeking solutions from those who create the problem environment is an invitation for failure.
Workplace Violence Prevention
- Earlier this year, Massachusetts lawmakers recommended that legislation filed on behalf of the MNA – An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence – be passed favorably out of committee and sent to House Ways and Means. The House bill was very similar to Senate legislation bearing the same name that lawmakers advanced to the Senate Ways and Means committee on March 31. The MNA will be filing similar legislation for the 2023-2024 legislative term.
- In the 2022 State of Nursing in Massachusetts, nurses said they were increasingly concerned about workplace violence. There was an 11-point uptick in nurses calling violence a "major challenge" from 2021 to 2022 and a 16-point increase from 2019. 38% of nurses said workplace violence was such a challenge that it would impact their decision to leave the profession sooner.
- An April 2022 survey by National Nurses United found a 119% increase in reports of violence from nurses between March 2021 to March 2022.
- On average, 44 workplace homicides to private healthcare workers occurred each year from 2016 through 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Nurses and nurses' aides are assaulted more than police officers and prison guards, according to a 2017 OSHA report.
Enforcement of the Mandatory Overtime Law
Despite a law against mandatory overtime for nurses in Massachusetts, every year hundreds of nurses are required to work overtime by hospitals because of sick callouts and other issues that clearly do not rise to the level of an emergency or catastrophe. The MNA at the local and state level is pushing back against this violation of the law and its exploitation of nurses.
- Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law a ban on mandatory overtime for Massachusetts nurses in August 2012. The law prohibits mandatory overtime, which is defined as "any hours worked by a nurse in a hospital setting to deliver patient care beyond the predetermined and regularly scheduled number of hours that the hospital and nurse have agreed that the employee shall work, provided that in no case shall such predetermined and regularly scheduled number of hours exceed 12 hours in any given 24 hour period."
- The law explicitly states, "Mandatory overtime shall not be used as a practice for providing appropriate staffing for the level of patient care required."
- Health Policy Commission guidelines issued in 2013 further clarified the legal exceptions under which hospitals can use mandatory overtime for nurses. There are only three exceptions: a government-declared emergency, a catastrophic event such as a natural disaster and a hospital emergency.
- HPC explicitly says, "A hospital emergency shall not include a situation that is the result of routine staffing needs caused by typical staffing patterns, expected levels of absenteeism, or time off typically approved by the hospital for vacation, holidays, sick leave, and personal leave."
"Mandatory overtime erodes the morale of nurses and jeopardizes patient safety," Murphy said. "By routinely failing to schedule enough nurses and forcing nurses to work past the end of their shifts, hospital executives are making it even more difficult for exhausted, overworked nurses to provide the best care for patients."
3. Investing in Public Healthcare Services
Public services are the foundation of our healthcare system. These state facilities and services ensure our most vulnerable residents have access to essential care. For public healthcare to work, the state needs to be able to recruit and retain nurses and other healthcare workers. This means providing a competitive wage, strong benefits, and positive working conditions.
"We encourage the new administration to invest in public healthcare services and forego the previous administration's efforts to privatize public services," Murphy said. "Privatization has proven disastrous for the quality and safety of patient care provided and the failure to constrain costs."
- The state closed more than 200 public mental health beds during the Gov. Deval Patrick administration.
- The Department of Mental Health's allotment of beds, both in number and geography is based entirely on the DMH's attempt to provide services based on limited funding driven by political not clinical decisions.
- We face a 40% or higher vacancy rate at many state-operated facilities.
- Many of the state's current beds are operated by for-profit providers with a history of providing substandard care. For example, Arbour Health System has been ordered in the past by DMH to take immediate corrective action on "significant patient care and life safety violations" at four facilities. The company was also the target of a U.S. Justice Department billing fraud investigation in Massachusetts.
4. Eliminating Healthcare Inequities
In January 2021, the MNA announced an organization-wide effort to educate and mobilize its membership to confront structural racism and its impact on the nursing/health professions, the health care workplace and in the broader society. The MNA encourages Governor-elect Healey and all relevant stakeholders to join us and other equity minded groups in this ongoing effort.
The MNA's initiative is summarized in its Anti-Racism Position Statement, developed by its Diversity Committee. The statement, which provides a detailed rationale for the campaign as well as a series of recommendations to be undertaken to address the issue, was approved by the Board of Directors at the end of 2020.
"As the pandemic evolved in the U.S. it revealed that African American, Black, Latino(a), and Native American communities were more likely to contract the COVID-19 virus and were also more likely to die from complications resulting from the virus (Yancy, 2020; The Joint Commission, n.d.; Office of the Attorney General, 2020). These health disparities, while shocking in the moment, are unfortunately not new," according to the MNA statement on anti-racism. "Research has consistently shown that minoritized groups/people of color, indigenous people and individuals in vulnerable communities have greater difficulty accessing needed health care services, are more likely to be uninsured, and are overrepresented in publicly-funded health systems."
The document concludes with a list of recommended actions to be undertaken, including:
- Development of educational programs for nurses on these issues.
- The establishment of a process for nurses and union members to report and document instances of racial discrimination, along with mechanisms within the union to address these violations.
- The creation of an electronic library of resources for nurses and union members to access regarding these issues.
- The establishment of relationships and participation with other groups and activists working on addressing these issues.
"We believe it is vital that we do our part to educate and mobilize our members to both understand and begin to more aggressively address the crisis that is racism," Murphy said. "We also know it will take a multitude of government and community stakeholders to eliminate inequities in the healthcare system. We look forward to building those relationships and doing this important work for the common good."
Healey's History of Support for Front-Line Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Governor-elect Maura Healey, the daughter of a union nurse, has long been a supporter of MNA nurses and healthcare professionals. She was the keynote speaker at the MNA Labor Leader Summit in 2016, was an early and stalwart ally of St. Vincent Hospital nurses during their historic 2021 strike, and as Attorney General has worked closely with the MNA and its members through the Policy & Government Relations Division, the Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau, and the Fair Labor Division on a variety of issues.
Healey also strongly supports workers' collective bargaining rights. When the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to "right to work" status for public employees, Healey ensured workers were fully protected under Massachusetts law, declaring in July 2018, "My office will always act to protect working families, ensure safe working conditions, and defend the right of workers to organize." Healey has also fought for greater transparency in situations where employers hire third-party anti-union contractors.
Healey has a strong record of opposition to hospital consolidation when it would increase costs or compromise quality. She released a report on how the proposed Mass General Brigham expansion would drive up costs – an expansion that the MNA also opposed as part of a coalition to protect community care. In addition, Healey opposed the proposed merger between then Partners Healthcare and South Shore Hospital in 2015.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Massachusetts, Healey was quick to act, helping coordinate resources for frontline healthcare workers and first responders including personal protective equipment guidance, priority testing, alternative housing options, free and discounted meals, self-care and emergency childcare.
Healey has also been a powerful advocate for equality, before and during her time as Attorney General. She brought the first successful challenge to the anti-LGBTQ+ Defense of Marriage Act, and has worked to fight bullying in schools, protect women's rights to accessible, reproductive healthcare, and combat discrimination in lending and housing. Healey has advocated for legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination in public places, a campaign that MNA nurses and healthcare professionals joined as well.
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VANCOUVER, BC and ERIE, PA, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - November 14, 2022 – Imagine AR Inc. (CSE: IP) (OTCQB: IPNFF) ("ImagineAR" or "Company"), an Augmented Reality Company that enables sports teams, businesses and enterprises to create their own AR mobile campaigns, is excited to partner with SIDEARM Sports, the nation's leading digital fan engagement platform and a LEARFIELD company, to deliver immersive college football AR experiences starting in January 2023.
"We are delighted to expand our product integrations with ImagineAR as we aim to continually provide fresh and innovative experiences for college athletics fans," says Jeff Rubin, President and Founder of SIDEARM Sports. "This partnership with ImagineAR is a great step forward in enhancing the fan experience while offering a terrific sponsorship activation opportunity for corporate partners."
Alen Paul Silverrstieen, CEO of ImagineAR, states, "Partnering with SIDEARM Sports, the premiere college sports technology company, is amazing and truly an honor. College sports has always been one of our target markets where AR is understood and expected to be very successful based upon the fan loyalty and demographics. SIDEARM is the leader in college sports mobile apps and ImagineAR is excited to execute our first SDK agreement with them."
Operating in the LEARFIELD portfolio of companies since June 2014, SIDEARM Sports is the nation's leading digital provider for college athletics. Based in Syracuse, N.Y. and founded in 2000 by Jeff Rubin, who continues to lead the business, SIDEARM is trusted by some of the biggest brands in the industry, including the majority of NCAA programs and Power Five athletic departments. As a leader in digital fan engagement, SIDEARM Sports provides the industry-leading software and technology that powers websites, mobile applications, CTV, live stats, video streaming and more for over 1,500 partners. Clients continue to trust SIDEARM for its support, reliability, customization and easy-to-use interface that allows them to tailor their content and digital presence directly for their fans.
LEARFIELD a media, data, and technology services leader in intercollegiate athletics. The company unlocks the value of college sports for brands and fans through an omnichannel platform with innovative content and commerce solutions. LEARFIELD services include licensing and collegiate sports properties' multimedia sponsorship management; publishing, audio, digital and social media; data analytics and insights; ticketing software; and ticket sales, premium seating, and fundraising services; branding; campus-wide business and sponsorship development; and venue technology systems.
ImagineAR Inc. (CSE: IP) (OTC: IPNFF) is a self-publishing augmented reality (AR) platform that enables businesses of any size to create and implement their own AR campaigns with no programming or technology experience. Every organization, from professional sports franchises to small retailers, can develop interactive AR campaigns that blend the real and digital worlds. Customers simply point their mobile device at logos, signs, buildings, (products, landmarks and more to instantly engage videos, information, advertisements, coupons,3D holograms and any interactive content all hosted in the cloud and managed using a menu-driven portal. Integrated real-time analytics means that all customer interaction is tracked and measured in real-time. The AR Enterprise platform supports both IOS and Android mobile devices and upcoming wearable technologies. The AR Platform is available as an SDK Plug-in for existing mobile apps.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) today announced that $20.6 million was granted through its Affordable Housing Program (AHP) General Fund to help finance 35 housing projects located in Illinois and Wisconsin. These funds will support the acquisition, rehabilitation, and new construction of over 1,600 housing units. Descriptions of the 2022 AHP award recipients can be viewed here.
"The 35 housing projects supported through our AHP General Fund reflect our continued investment in Illinois and Wisconsin communities," said Katie Naftzger, Vice President, Community Investment Officer, FHLBank Chicago. "This program, now in its 32nd year, subsidizes the development and preservation of affordable rental and owner-occupied housing grants through our member institutions in partnership with developers, community organizations, public housing authorities, tribal governments, and other units of government."
FHLBank Chicago annually contributes 10% of its net earnings to affordable housing programs, including both the AHP General Fund and the Downpayment Plus® (DPP®) Programs. In 2022, more than $12.2 million in forgivable DPP Program grants have been disbursed through FHLBank Chicago's member institutions to assist with down payment and closing costs for eligible households.
Since 1989, FHLBank Chicago has awarded more than $559 million in AHP grants and more than $262 million in DPP funds to help provide housing for low- and moderate-income eligible households.
"The critical need for high-quality, affordable housing is present in rural, small town, and urban communities throughout our District, but current economic pressures provide significant challenges for development," said Michael Ericson, President and CEO, FHLBank Chicago. "Rising interest rates, supply chain disruption and materials costs make the need for affordable housing support even more important to individual beneficiaries, members, and their communities."
For- and not-for-profit developers, units of government, public housing authorities, and tribally designated entities apply annually for AHP grants through an FHLBank Chicago member institution, which includes commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions in Illinois and Wisconsin.
The mission of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is to partner with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment in the Bank, and support for community investment activities. FHLBank Chicago is one of 11 Federal Home Loan Banks chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932 to promote homeownership. Our members include banks, thrifts, credit unions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions throughout our District. To learn more about FHLBank Chicago, please visit fhlbc.com or follow @FHLBC on Twitter. "Downpayment Plus" and "DPP" are registered trademarks of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.
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Earlier this year, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed House Bill 7 into law, calling it the Stop WOKE Act, or “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees.” The law seeks to restrict diversity trainings by forbidding the teaching of certain concepts, such as unconscious bias. One might expect this to have hurt DeSantis in diverse Miami-Dade County. Instead, he stunningly won the county by 11 percent — the first Republican to do so since Jeb Bush in 2002 and a reversal of 40 points from Hillary Clinton’s almost 30-point win over Donald Trump in 2016.
Miami-Dade has always been a battleground over diversity and inclusion. Even in the case of the “Stop WOKE” Act, the bill provoked strong reactions in both directions. Many scrambled to figure out how to comply with the new law. Others resisted through legal action, from students and professors in the public university system to private companies that wish to continue the workplace trainings they consider crucial to their businesses’ success. Meanwhile, the law’s supporters celebrated a victory for “individual freedom” — freedom from institutional policies designed to build awareness and competency around issues of race and inequality, which they condemn as “woke indoctrination.”
Decades ago, however, Florida produced a nationwide model for such trainings. Many called it the “Miami model” in the 1970s and ’80s: an approach derived from South Florida’s notably diverse population. This included training all kinds of health and human service professionals on how to be sensitive to the racial, ethnic, class and cultural differences among the populations they served. In other words, it encouraged people to become what diversity training critics now demean as being “woke.”
Looking to the history of the “Miami model” — an innovator in what was then called “cross-cultural training” — can help us understand why diversity trainings were created in the first place. It also sheds light on how and why diversity trainings have long since elicited strong opposition — way before “wokeness” became a pejorative term and a favored target for culture warriors.
The period of the 1970s in Miami was a “multicultural moment.” The previous decade had seen a dramatic uptick of Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro’s communist revolution. Although many thought of their exile as temporary, it soon became clear that Cubans were there to stay, enhancing the city’s ethnic diversity. There were, for instance, Black and Afro-Caribbean communities that had a long-established presence in Miami. So too had Puerto Ricans who had arrived in large numbers after World War II, many to work in the garment industry. And by the late 1960s, thousands of Haitian refugees fleeing political turmoil also came to Miami. All the while, the number of “Anglos” was decreasing not just proportionately but in absolute numbers. Miami was and remains, conspicuously, a majority-minority city.
From mainstream media to local politics, Miami was on the leading edge of not just recognizing but officially embracing non-White and immigrant cultures. Take, for instance, the hit television series, “¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A?,” which follows the life of the Peña family in 1970s Miami and the wholesome, humorous collisions of Cuban and American culture as they adapt to life in a new country.
It’s not surprising that the country’s first bilingual sitcom was set in Miami. In 1973, county commissioners had voted on a resolution to make Miami-Dade County “officially bilingual and bicultural.” Leading the effort was a Spanish-speaking task force that included Cuban bankers such as Bernardo Benes and Luis Botifoll, who felt the county was finally waking up to a “fact of life”: Miami, home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants and Spanish speakers, was already a bicultural county.
When critics complained of the costs of building a bilingual infrastructure, such as hiring translators and interpreters and printing new signage, Benes insisted that such measures would ultimately serve the city financially — especially appealing to multinational companies moving their headquarters to Miami as well as a Latin American market.
In an age of globalization, Benes and others on the Spanish-speaking task force associated cultural sensitivity with business savvy. Bilingualism and biculturalism went hand in hand with terms like “innovation,” “competition” and an entrepreneurial, “pioneering spirit.” Failing to embrace multiculturalism was bad business.
It was also dangerous to health. In the early 1970s, Jackson Memorial Hospital, the area’s major public hospital, employed a nominal number of bilingual personnel. The emergency room operated with no bilingual staff at all. This led to the neglect of the many Cuban refugees, Puerto Ricans and migrant workers who spoke little to no English. An investigation of the hospital’s bilingual capacity revealed that “From the moment of their arrival at the front desk and the signing of forms to the actual visit to the doctor, the person in need finds no way to express his illness, feelings and concerns. […] many times he leaves Jackson Memorial Hospital with far more despair and anxiety than when he went in.”
Hospital administrators responded by hiring bilingual staff and training employees on how to better accommodate patients’ linguistic and culturally specific needs.
Some drew on the expertise and experience of a small group of social scientists and clinicians based at the University of Miami School of Medicine. They had launched a project to make health care inclusive and accessible to the African Americans, Bahamians, Cubans, Haitians and Puerto Ricans surrounding the academic medical center. The model involved training health providers to understand social barriers and to become “culture brokers” — bridging a medical establishment dominated by White, U.S.-born providers and a multiethnic patient population.
Their success led to the model’s expansion to local institutions beyond the health arena — like schools, churches and the police department — as well as beyond Miami and Florida. This is how it became known as the “Miami model.” Participants underwent an intensive training, which included lectures from social scientists, religious leaders and alternative healers as well as role-playing exercises and immersive experiences in Miami’s ethnic neighborhoods. Activities were designed to encourage participants to develop self-awareness, especially of the unconscious biases they might have. Trainees reported leaving the training with a new perspective as well as practical skills for intervening with clients and achieving better patient outcomes back home.
Despite the many practical benefits of this training, by the early 1980s there was a backlash against official multiculturalism. In local news media, some reacted negatively to what they had read about cross-cultural trainings. One Miami News reader decided to withdraw her alumni donations to the University of Miami for encouraging a stance of tolerance toward certain cultural practices, especially healing rituals involving animal sacrifice.
Such criticisms soon became public policy. A local group called Citizens of Dade United succeeded in passing an anti-bilingual ordinance in 1980, reversing the bilingual-bicultural resolution that had passed nearly a decade prior. It prohibited the county from spending any funds “for the purpose of utilizing any language other than English or promoting any culture other than that of the United States.”
Like critics of contemporary “wokeness,” Citizens of Dade United argued that the bilingual-bicultural resolution had been discriminatory and divisive, even favoring those who spoke a foreign language.
Even when their English-only ordinance passed, members of Citizens of Dade United felt their job wasn’t done. In 1981, they held a march against what they called “language injustice, crime, and illegal invasion of our shores,” blaming the turmoil of the previous year on the city’s newcomers. Large numbers of Haitian migrants were entering the country as the Mariel Boatlift brought a dramatic number of Cubans. In response, Citizens of Dade United then demanded the government take action to restrict immigration. Perceiving a threat to some purer version of American culture, the group passed out fliers asking, “Is Miami in the U.S.A.?” and “Do you feel that your language and culture are being changed?”
The promise of the Miami model faded as the politics of nativism took hold, along with sweeping budget cuts to public services. The city’s decision to slash its publicly funded multicultural policy was propped up by fears conservative activists stirred about the changes that might result from sharing power with non-White Americans.
Today, as we see new attacks on diversity and inclusion, we stand to learn a lot from the political and economic context that once embraced a multicultural vision of American society. When the Miami model reigned, the civil rights struggle of previous decades had expanded the boundaries of American citizenship and showed how being self-aware and sensitive to racial and ethnic diversity might give an individual, a business or an entire city an edge in a globalizing economy.
Then and today, Americans have struggled with the problem of how to achieve social cohesion in a plural society. Diversity trainings have presented one particular solution for institutions and businesses that necessarily interface with diverse patients, clientele, customers or recipients of public goods. The goal of training is to leave the trainee changed — with new perspectives, information and skills — thereby changing the institutions in which the trainee works.
While it may be unclear how effective those trainings are, their very existence is a reminder that the process of integration is incomplete. This process requires more than just opening the door to those formerly excluded. It requires changing structures and cultures. Making “wokeness” the object of debate obscures deeper anxieties about a multiracial and multiethnic democratic project that remains unfinished. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/10/desantis-woke-miami-dade/ | 2022-11-10 11:49:07 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/10/desantis-woke-miami-dade/ |
IOWA — Before you shell out money to giant retailers in hopes of holiday deals, you might want to check out www.shopiowa.com.
Tuesday through Wednesday the Iowa Economic Development Authority is partnering with more than 600 Iowa vendors to promote goods made here at home for sale in an effort to keep dollars in the state.
“It’s an opportunity to promote and offer incentives to shop Iowa small businesses all across the state using the shop Iowa platform,” Kanan Kappelman with the Iowa Economic Development Authority said. “It’s as easy as using your phone.”
Everything from unique apparel to wall decor is ready to ship anywhere you need ahead of the holiday rush.
You can also enter to win a $500 Shop Iowa shopping spree. No purchase is necessary. | https://who13.com/news/iowa-news/inaugural-shop-iowa-day-kicks-off-featuring-over-600-iowa-small-businesses/ | 2022-10-12 11:45:47 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/iowa-news/inaugural-shop-iowa-day-kicks-off-featuring-over-600-iowa-small-businesses/ |
LOS ANGELES — Fantasy football draft season is here as the NFL goes through preseason games ahead of the start of the season on Sept. 8.
The highest scoring position is the quarterback position, however, quarterbacks are not typically first round draft selections. So once you get into the middle rounds of your draft, who are the top QBs on the board?
The experts from the Locked On Dynasty Football and Locked On Fantasy Football podcasts got together for consensus top 10 quarterback rankings. According to them, these are the top 10 QBs that should fall in your fantasy football drafts this year.
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2022 Consensus fantasy football quarterback rankings
1. Josh Allen, QB, Buffalo Bills
2021 Fantasy Points: 402
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 1st
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 403
2. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City Chiefs
2021 Fantasy Points: 361
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 4th
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 386
3. Justin Herbert, QB, Los Angeles Chargers
2021 Fantasy Points: 381
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 2nd
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 354
4. Lamar Jackson, QB, Baltimore Ravens
2021 Fantasy Points: 239 (12 games)
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 16th (12 games)
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 348
5. Jalen Hurts, QB, Philadelphia Eagles
2021 Fantasy Points: 312
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 9th
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 348
6. Kyler Murray, QB, Arizona Cardinals
2021 Fantasy Points: 300
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 10th
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 344
7. Joe Burrow, QB, Cincinnati Bengals
2021 Fantasy Points: 314
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 9th
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 311
8. Tom Brady, QB, Tampa Bay Bucs
2021 Fantasy Points: 374
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 3rd
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 342
9. Russell Wilson, QB, Denver Broncos
2021 Fantasy Points: 242 (14 games)
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 15th (14 games)
2022 Projected Points (NFL.com): 277
10. Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys
2021 Fantasy Points: 320
2021 Fantasy QB Ranking: 7th
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SAYREVILLE, N.J. (WPIX) — A man has been arrested in connection to the February shooting death of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, officials said Tuesday.
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Bynum, who is from Virginia, was taken into custody without incident outside a residence in Chesapeake City, authorities said. He is awaiting extradition from Virginia to New Jersey.
Dwumfour, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds inside her vehicle outside her home in a townhouse complex in Sayreville, New Jersey, on the evening of Feb. 1, according to authorities.
Investigators linked Bynum to Dwumfour’s killing using surveillance video, witness reports, cellphone data, internet searches and toll records, among other pieces of evidence, officials said.
Bynum’s contact was stored in Dwumfour’s cellphone with the acronym “FCF,” which is believed to stand for Fire Congress Fellowship, a church Dwumfour had previously been affiliated with, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.
The extent of their connection remains unclear. Prosecutors also didn’t provide a possible motive for the killing of Dwumfour.
“This was a very complex, extensive case with painstaking police work,” Ciccone said. “The murder has shaken the community. No arrest will bring back the late councilwoman. However, I do trust that justice will be found through the criminal justice process.”
Dwumfour had been elected to a three-year term to the Sayreville council in 2021. She was a mother and a soft-spoken devout Christian, according to those who knew her.
Dwumfour’s father, sister and pastor attended the press conference Tuesday, where the arrest and charges against Bynum were announced. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin addressed Dwumfour’s family at the press conference.
“There are no words that can be said to you that can make you whole. I know this,” Platkin said. “I know too often when we’re talking about victims of gun violence — senseless acts of gun violence — we feel the pain that you all feel today.”
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Suspected gang violence led to graduation shooting that wounded 3 in Louisiana, police say
HAMMOND, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Three people were shot and a fourth person was injured when gunfire broke out at a high school’s graduation, held on Southeastern Louisiana University’s campus Thursday.
Hammond High Magnet students were graduating at the University Center, and families were leaving the activity center around 8:15 p.m. when superintendent Melissa Stilley said the shots rang out.
Shortly after the shooting, Trent Thomas, 20, of Hammond, was arrested, WAFB reported. Officials said more arrests are possible.
Thomas is charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder, obstruction of justice, aggravated damage to property, and possession of a firearm on a gun-free campus.
Cell phone video circulated on social media shows crowds fleeing just after the shots were fired.
In a press conference Friday morning, Hammond Police Chief Edwin Bergeron said the shooting stemmed from a possible gang-affiliated altercation between Thomas and a group of people, specifically one unidentified juvenile, a former Hammond High student.
Three innocent bystanders were wounded by the gunfire, and a fourth was injured trying to escape, Bergeron said. All of the victims’ injuries appeared to be non-life-threatening.
As of Friday morning, three victims had been released from the hospital, and a fourth victim remained in stable condition.
Bergeron said it doesn’t appear Thomas has any criminal history, but “we know the people he’s affiliated with,” he said.
Thomas is being held at the Tangipahoa Parish jail in Amite.
Louisiana senators John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy tweeted in the moments following the shooting, issuing prayers and condemning the “senseless violence.”
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Scholarship Will Assist Students Pursuing an Education in Medicine and Other Fields of Study
Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
ORANGEBURG, N.Y., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynarex Corporation, a leading durable medical equipment and disposable medical products company, is proud to announce the 2023 "We Care Like Family" Scholarship — Distributor Employee Program. Dynarex will award more than $5,000 to assist students pursuing educational opportunities in the medical field and other areas of study. The Scholarship is open to the children of all employees of active Dynarex Distributors.
"This exciting scholarship program will help supplement tuition and other expenses associated with post-secondary education — such as textbooks, school supplies, and transportation," said John Burns, Dynarex University Corporate Training & Events Director. "This is just another example of how much Dynarex values its distributors and reinforces our guiding principle, 'We Care Like Family'."
Scholarship funds will be awarded to five first-place winners, each receiving $1000 — and two second-place winners, who will each receive $500.
Eligibility Guidelines
To be eligible, a candidate must be the child of an employee of an active Dynarex Distributor. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and currently attending or applying to a post-secondary educational institution or trade school. For full eligibility requirements and application guidelines, go to https://dynarex.com/dynarex-university.
Application Deadline
Applications must be received by May 31, 2023. Winners will be announced in the 2023 calendar year and scholarships will be awarded on or about July 15, 2023.
"We are so proud to have the opportunity to help our Distributors and their employees further their children's education," said Mr. Burns. "We look forward to witnessing the many meaningful contributions these young people will make in our communities in the years ahead."
For full details on eligibility requirements and to access an application form, go to https://dynarex.com/dynarex-university or contact John Burns at j.burns@dynarex.com.
About Dynarex
Dynarex is a leading medical supply company providing premium medical products and durable medical equipment at exceptional value — for an unparalleled one-stop shopping experience. Founded in 1967, Dynarex's guiding principle "We Care Like Family" exemplifies the outstanding customer service that sets the company apart in the marketplace. Today, Dynarex continues to expand its footprint with numerous warehouse locations throughout the United States and distributor partners in all 50 states as well as Canada, the Caribbean Islands, Central America, South America, and the Middle East.
To learn more visit dynarex.com or call 1-888-DYNAREX (1-888-396-2739). Follow us on facebook.com/DynarexCorp, twitter.com/dynarexcorp , linkedin.com/company/dynarex-corporation, and instagram.com/dynarexcorp
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP), a global self-driving technology company based in San Diego, California, today announced its participation in the following investor conferences.
- On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time, management will participate in the KeyBanc 23rd Annual Technology Leadership Forum.
- On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time, management will virtually present in a fireside chat at the Oppenheimer 25th Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference
- On August 10, 2022, at 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time, management will present at the J.P. Morgan Auto Conference
Management will be available for one-on-one or group meetings with institutional investors at all conferences above. Portfolio managers and analysts who wish to request a meeting should contact their institutional sales representative at each sponsoring bank.
TuSimple is a global autonomous driving technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in Arizona, Texas, Europe, and China. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready, fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) driving solution for long-haul heavy-duty trucks. TuSimple aims to transform the $4 trillion global truck freight industry through the company's leading AI technology, which makes it possible for trucks to drive safely autonomously, operate nearly continuously, and reduce fuel consumption by 10%+ relative to manually driven trucks. Global achievements include the world's first fully autonomous, 'driver-out' semi-truck run on open public roads, and development of the world's first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN). Visit us at www.tusimple.com.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday.
A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has "very high confidence" it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation's three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, provided a brief statement on the issue, saying the government continues to track the balloon. He said it is "currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground."
He said similar balloon activity has been seen in the past several years. He added that the U.S. took steps to ensure it did not collect sensitive information.
The defense official said the U.S. has "engaged" Chinese officials through multiple channels and communicated the seriousness of the matter.
The Pentagon announcement comes days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to China. It's not clear if this will affect his travel plans, which the State Department has not formally announced.
The U.S. is expanding its military presence in Asia, in a string of moves aimed at countering Beijing and reassuring Indo-Pacific allies that America will stand with them against threats from China and North Korea.
The senior defense official said the U.S. did get fighter jets, including F-22s, ready to shoot down the balloon if ordered to by the White House. The Pentagon ultimately recommended against it, noting that even as the balloon was over a sparsely populated area of Montana, its size would create a debris field large enough that it could have put people at risk.
The official would not specify the size of the balloon, but said it was large enough that despite its high altitude, commercial pilots could see it.
The official said what concerned them about this launch was the altitude the balloon was flying at and the length of time it lingered over a location, without providing specifics.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifth Eye™, a leading provider of intuitive real-time clinical analytics, today announced the AHI System™ has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates that the organization's AHI System has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Fifth Eye in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
The AHI System is FDA-cleared medical device software designed to reduce preventable adverse events by facilitating early awareness of potentially serious emerging problems – ahead of vital signs – in adult patients throughout the hospital. Additionally, the AHI System facilitates reduced lengths of stay by augmenting clinicians' judgment with objective, validated information to support timely step-down or discharge decisions.
"Hospitals are entrusted with providing care for patients. They need to know that the information that their clinicians rely on is secure and that their patients' data remains private," said Jen Baird, CEO at Fifth Eye. "We are pleased to demonstrate to our customers the highest standards for data protection and information security by achieving HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification."
"The HITRUST Assurance Program is the most rigorous available, consisting of a multitude of quality assurance checks, both automated and manual," said Bimal Sheth, Executive Vice President, Standards Development & Assurance Operations, HITRUST. "The fact that Fifth Eye has achieved HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification for the AHI System attests to the high quality of their information risk management and compliance program."
Clinicians overburdened by low staffing and increased administrative demands need help to prioritize their time. The AHI System continuously detects, trends and predicts the risk of hemodynamic instability of adult patients throughout the hospital. The AHI System has been shown to predict future episodes of instability with a median lead-time of 48 minutes ahead of vital signs in an ICU and hours earlier in lower acuity settings. Clinicians enjoy "at-a-glance" awareness of the evolving hemodynamic trajectory of monitored patients on a multi-patient screen. And that screen can be accessed by any member of the care team on any device with a web-enabled browser (e.g., phone, computer, wall monitor, etc.).
Fifth Eye Inc. is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that develops intuitive, real-time clinical analytics based on physiologic waveforms to improve outcomes and reduce costs. The AHI System™ is the first and only FDA-cleared clinical decision support software that continuously predicts the risk of hemodynamic instability earlier than vital signs. AI-powered AHI extracts information embedded in a Lead II ECG signal alone – no manual or other inputs required. Fifth Eye's machine-learning technology is licensed from the University of Michigan. For more information, please visit www.fiftheye.com.
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A state lawmaker in Tennessee resigned suddenly for an ethics violation that became public Thursday, two weeks after he joined fellow Republicans in expelling two Black Democratic legislators for protesting in support of gun control on the state House floor.
Rep. Scotty Campbell, vice chair of the House Republican Caucus, violated the Legislature’s workplace discrimination and harassment policy. The brief Ethics Subcommittee findings document from late March did not provide specifics and said no more information would be released.
Campbell’s resignation came hours after a Nashville TV station confronted him about sexual harassment allegations involving legislative interns.
Campbell declined to provide a detailed account of what happened. Asked by WTVF-TV on Thursday about the ethics panel's decision, Campbell said, “I had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off property.”
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“If I choose to talk to any intern in the future, it will be recorded,” Campbell said.
About six hours after the broadcaster questioned him, the Mountain City lawmaker issued his resignation effective immediately, according to a letter to fellow legislators.
WTVF-TV was first to report on the finding by the Ethics Subcommittee, which issued its decision in a document dated March 29 addressed to Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton.
“I can’t determine exactly when we saw it (the letter),” Sexton told reporters Thursday. “But, the determination was the subcommittee. The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action. That comes from the subcommittee.”
Campbell stayed in office following the ethics finding, and on April 6 voted to expel Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. They have since been reinstated. Campbell also voted to expel Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson, who was spared expulsion by one vote.
Jones, Pearson and Johnson were targeted for expulsion for the March 30 protest at the front of the House floor in which hundreds of demonstrators packed the Capitol to call for passage of gun-control measures.
Johnson called Campbell's ethics violation “horrendous” in a tweet Thursday afternoon.
“Yet if you talk without permission, you get expulsion resolutions,” she added.
Expulsions are extremely rare in Tennessee, and considered an extraordinary action. Republicans have faced scrutiny about how they have chosen to wield, or not wield, the power.
Campbell’s departure comes in the waning hours of a monthslong legislative session. GOP legislative leaders are trying to finish their work by the end of the week.
In 2019, lawmakers were under pressure to expel former Republican Rep. David Byrd after he faced accusations of sexual misconduct dating to when he was a high school basketball coach three decades ago.
At the time, Sexton said it was up to Byrd to decide whether he should continue in the Legislature.
“You have to balance the will of the voters and overturning the will of the voters,” Sexton told WPLN in 2019, noting the allegations dated from 30 years earlier.
Byrd decided not to run for reelection in 2022.
Former Democratic Rep. Rick Staples of Knoxville, meanwhile, resigned a leadership position in 2019 after the same ethics panel found he had violated the Legislature’s sexual harassment policy.
Often, expulsions have centered on a criminal conviction. Tennessee’s state law and Constitution disqualify convicted felons from holding public office.
State lawmakers last ousted a House member in 2016 when the chamber voted 70-to-2 remove Republican Rep. Jeremy Durham after an attorney general’s investigation detailed allegations of improper sexual contact with at least 22 women during his four years in office.
In 2017, a Republican House lawmaker resigned while facing allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with a woman at a legislative event. Before he stepped down, then-Rep. Mark Lovell denied the allegations. Instead, he said the elected position was more demanding than he expected and he needed time for his business interests and family.
Meanwhile, former Republican Rep. Glen Casada became speaker in 2019 and resigned after months on the job, amid revelations that he and his then-chief of staff had exchanged sexually explicit text messages about women years earlier. But he remained in his seat and won reelection as a lawmaker in 2020, then didn't seek reelection in 2022. The former chief of staff lost his legislative job in the texting scandal. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/tennessee-republican-who-voted-to-expel-democrats-resigns-after-allegedly-harassing-female-interns/4262707/ | 2023-04-21 13:39:51 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/tennessee-republican-who-voted-to-expel-democrats-resigns-after-allegedly-harassing-female-interns/4262707/ |
Marlene Schumacher
Published 12:53 pm Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Marlene Schumacher, of Albert Lea and formerly of the Twin Cities, died on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at Thorne Crest Senior Living Community. She was 84 years old.
Marlene Dolores (Burkhardt) Schumacher was born on March 13, 1938, to Ben and Dolores (Micke) Burkhardt in Thorp, Wisconsin. She graduated from Thorp High School and went on to attend vocational school. On October 17, 1959, Marlene was united in marriage to Louis “Lou” Schumacher.
Strong in her faith, Marlene was a member of the St. Charles Borromeo choir in the Cities and the Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Marlene enjoyed signing with friends and family in American Sign Language, reading, sewing, and crocheting.
Marlene is survived by daughters, Mary Graham, of Albert Lea, A C Schumacher (Pam Schultz), of Belgrade, MT; son, Mark Schumacher (Maria), of Colorado Springs, CO; 10 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; sister, Julie Burkhardt; and brother, Leon Burkhardt (Dianne).
In addition to her parents, Ben and Dolores Burkhardt, Marlene is preceded in death by her husband, Lou Schumacher; infant son, Jonathan Schumacher; and infant brother, Douglas Burkhardt.
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Nina Jankowicz was tapped to head the Biden administration's new Disinformation Governance Board but resigned after being deluged with online threats. Her new book is How to Be a Woman Online.
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Certification Demonstrates Company's Commitment to Reducing its Environmental Impact in the Production of Wearable Drug Delivery Devices
NETANYA, Israel, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eitan Medical, a global leader in advanced infusion therapy and drug delivery solutions across the care continuum, announced today it has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 certification for the quality management system for production of its range of medical devices including its Sapphire infusion pumps and the Sorrel™ wearable drug delivery platform solution. This accreditation certifies that the quality system related to the manufacture of these devices is in compliance with the required standards to reduce negative environmental impact.
ISO 14001 comprises a set of standards specifying the necessary requirements for organizations to establish effective environmental management systems. This standard provides guidelines for help in reducing environmental impact, including pollution and carbon footprint, in order to advance environmental conservation.
"Eitan Medical has made a concerted effort to assess and adapt our operations and manufacturing processes to meet these important industry standards. While we focus on developing solutions that heal people, we need to simultaneously ensure we aren't harming the health of the planet," said Igal Shany, CEO of Eitan Medical. "This certification reflects our dedication to creating a more sustainable healthcare ecosystem and exemplifies our core value of providing an environment in which people can live healthier and more enjoyable lives."
Eitan Medical develops connected, patient-centric drug delivery and infusion solutions that are designed to improve patient and clinician quality of life across the continuum of care, including hospital, ambulatory, pre-hospital and home care environments. Eitan Medical's product lines include the Sapphire™ infusion platform, providing connected infusion therapy systems in hospital and ambulatory settings; the Sorrel™ wearable drug delivery platform, a patient-centric on-body injector for delivery of biologic treatments; and Eitan Insights™ a cloud-based platform providing remote treatment data visibility for Eitan Medical's devices.
"As a developer and manufacturer, we are proud that the materials used in our product lines, internal procedures and waste management processes are in-line with global sustainability standards and values," said Judith Antler, Chief Quality Officer at Eitan Medical. "Our commitment extends to our educational framework, through which we provide ecological and sustainability awareness instruction, as well as new manufacturing training programs for employees to increase their knowledge and understanding of this critical issue."
About Eitan Medical
Eitan Medical is reimagining drug delivery, with reliable innovations that put patients at the center of care, making drug delivery easier and safer than ever before. Patient safety and care are only the starting point, as Eitan Medical goes beyond- delivering connected, intuitive drug delivery and infusion solutions that are designed to improve patient and clinician quality of life across the continuum of care, including hospital, ambulatory, and home care environments.
For over a decade, Eitan Medical has provided safe, intuitive, and flexible solutions that meet evolving drug delivery needs. Eitan Medical's product lines include the Sapphire™ infusion platform*, providing connected infusion therapy systems in hospital and ambulatory settings; the Sorrel™ wearable drug delivery platform, the patient-centric on-body injector for delivery of biologic treatments; and Avoset™ infusion pump, connected infusion systems for the home care market.
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- Eitan Medical Ltd is legal manufacturer of the Sapphire™ infusion pump, the Sorrel™ wearable drug delivery platform (FDA investigational device) and the Avoset™ (FDA investigational device)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Maxi Jazz, a DJ and singer who fronted the eclectic British dance band Faithless known for such hits as “Insomnia” and “We Come 1,” has died. He was 65.
Faithless announced his death on social media Saturday, saying he “died peacefully in his sleep last night.”
“He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. He gave proper meaning and a message to our music. He was a lovely human being with time for everyone and wisdom that was both profound and accessible,” the band’s statement reads.
Additional details about his death were not immediately available.
Born Maxwell Fraser in London, Maxi Jazz emerged in the British club scene in the 1980s as a DJ on pirate radio and founder of the Soul Food Cafe System. He later formed Faithless along with producer-instrumentalist-DJ Rollo Armstrong, keyboardist-DJ Sister Bliss and singer-songwriter Jamie Cotto. They drew upon such a wide range of influences that their record company described their debut album “Reverence,” released in 1996, as “folk-house-hip-hop-blues-ambience-jazz-rap for the dance floor and sofa.”
“Reverence” did not catch on initially, but eventually gained a wide following; the band went on to global popularity through its dynamic stage performances and albums including “Outrospective” and the greatest hits collection “Forever Faithless.”
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Dan Snyder’s ownership of the Washington Commanders, which has been a matter of considerable debate for many years, is coming to an end.
Snyder has an agreement in principle to sell the team for $6 billion to a group led by Philadelphia 76ers and Devils owner Josh Harris and Washington-area billionaire Mitchell Rales — a group that also includes Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Snyder’s ownership was been under fire long before he and wife Tanya even considered putting the team up for sale. Some centered around a lack of success on the field: two playoff game victories since he bought the team in 1999.
But recent events away from football put more heat on Snyder, with a series of scandals and investigations that spanned three different team names. Most recently, the Commanders settled a lawsuit with the District of Columbia for $625,000 over withholding fans’ season-ticket deposit money.
A look at what has brought Snyder to this point:
JULY 2020
Amid a national reckoning over racism in the wake of the George Floyd protests, prominent sponsors FedEx, PepsiCo, Nike and Bank of America called on the team to abandon its old name, which Snyder long vowed never to do. The team launched a review and on July 13 announcing it was giving up the name after 87 years.
Three days later, the Washington Post reported that 15 female former employees said they were sexually harassed during their time with the team.
The team retained attorney Beth Wilkinson’s firm to undertake an independent investigation into workplace conduct, which the NFL then took control of overseeing.
The next day, Snyder vowed to improve the culture inside the organization, and the league said it would wait for Wilkinson’s review before taking any action.
A week later, the club rebranded temporarily as the Washington Football Team, a name that lasted two seasons.
AUGUST 2020
The Post reported additional examples of workplace sexual harassment inside the organization, along with allegations that Snyder was personally involved.
The Post reported a former cheerleader saying Snyder invited her to a hotel room with one of his friends, and that longtime team executive Larry Michael made extra cheerleading videos for the owner showing sensitive material that wasn’t made public. Snyder released a statement denying those specific allegations and saying he was unaware of the incidents.
NOVEMBER 2020
Minority owners Fred Smith, Dwight Schar and Bob Rothman, whose shares added up to 40.5% of Washington Football Inc., sued Snyder in federal court in Maryland seeking an injunction to allow them to sell their shares of the team.
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2021
At his pre-Super Bowl virtual news conference, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell praised the organization, which he said “has made a lot of changes already.” That included hiring Jason Wright as team president in August.
Goodell said it was good to see those changes, and added he expected Wilkinson’s recommendations would add to them.
Weeks later, 20 former employees wrote a letter to Goodell, asking the league to release the final report of the investigation when it was completed.
In late March, Snyder bought out his minority owners, a move that gave his family total control of the team. Snyder’s application for a debt waiver of $450 million was approved by the league’s finance committee and then ownership at-large to make it official.
JULY 2021
The NFL fined the team $10 million and said Snyder would step away from day-to-day operations for several months after Wilkinson’s investigation found Washington’s workplace to be toxic and unprofessional, especially for women.
The team did not lose any draft picks, and no formal suspensions were handed out. The league said Snyder’s wife, Tanya, would assume formal operations while he worked on long-term issues such as the search for a new stadium.
No written report was released.
OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2021
Amid calls from former employees for the NFL to release the findings of Wilkinson’s investigation, members of the U.S. Congress got involved.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat who is chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat who is chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, wrote to Goodell on Oct. 21 seeking all documents and communications related to the investigation.
A couple of weeks later, the pair of representatives urged the NFL and the team to release individuals from non-disclosure agreements that would prevent them from discussing sexual harassment and workplace issues at the club.
In December, after the Post reported Snyder hired lawyers and private investigators that witnesses viewed as attempts to interfere with the investigation, Maloney and Krishnamoorthi asked the league to provide evidence and said, “These disturbing revelations have only strengthened the Committee’s commitment to uncovering the truth in this matter.”
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022
The House Oversight Committee announced Jan. 27 it would hold a roundtable discussion the following week with former employees to discuss workplace misconduct and sexual harassment.
Washington unveiled its new name as the Commanders on Feb. 2.
During the roundtable the following day, one of the former employees came forward with a new allegation she was sexually harassed by Snyder himself, which he denied. Tiffani Johnston, who worked for the team for eight years starting in 2002 as a cheerleader and marketing manager, told the committee Snyder placed his hand on her thigh without her consent at a team dinner and that he pushed her toward his limousine with his hand on her lower back.
The committee continued to push for the full release of the Wilkinson report, asking Goodell to release the full findings by Feb. 14 and threatening “alternate means of obtaining compliance” if he did not cooperate.
At the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, Goodell defended the NFL’s use of an oral, not written, report, saying it was done to protect the identity of anyone who wanted to speak to investigators privately, also saying the league would take over an investigation into the new allegation of sexual harassment made against Snyder.
The league hired former U.S. Attorney and Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to investigate, vowing the results would be released in written form because the allegation was made in a public forum.
APRIL 2022
The House Oversight Committee told the Federal Trade Commission the team may have engaged in potentially unlawful financial conduct, and the NFL said it would look into the most serious allegations.
The committee said it found evidence of deceptive business practice over the span of more than a decade, including withholding ticket revenue from visiting teams and refundable deposits from fans. A league spokesman said White would review the alleged improprieties, which the team denied a week later in a lengthy letter to the FTC.
JUNE 2022
On June 1, the committee invited Snyder and Goodell to appear at a hearing on workplace culture around the NFL scheduled for later in the month, which it called the next step in the investigation.
Two weeks later, a lawyer representing Snyder said he would not testify. Among the reasons given were a lack of assurance about the scope of questioning given the existence of multiple ongoing investigations and a scheduling conflict preventing Snyder from appearing in person.
On June 9, the Virginia General Assembly abandoned for the rest of the year a stadium deal that would have brought the Commanders’ games to the state. The legislation offering hefty tax incentives had already been languishing amid a series of controversies involving the team when an assistant coach called the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol “a dust-up.”
Goodell testified virtually on June 22, and the committee released a document accusing Snyder of conducting a “shadow investigation” that sought to discredit former employees making accusations of workplace sexual harassment, hired private investigators to intimidate witnesses and used an overseas lawsuit as a pretext to obtain phone records and emails.
Asked by one member of the committee whether he would remove Snyder as Washington’s owner, Goodell responded, “I don’t have the authority to remove him.”
An NFL owner can only be removed by a three-quarters majority vote of the other owners.
JULY 2022
After wrangling between his legal team and the committee over the parameters of his testimony, Snyder agreed to appear virtually.
Snyder testified for more than 10 hours on July 28. A spokesperson for Snyder said he “fully addressed all questions about workplace misconduct, described the Commanders’ dramatic two-year transformation and expressed hope for the organization’s bright future.”
OCTOBER 2022
ESPN released a lengthy report detailing Snyder’s efforts to influence other owners and the league office to maintain control of the team.
ESPN reported, citing anonymous sources, that Snyder hired private investigators and told people he has enough information to expose fellow owners and Goodell.
Days later, at the NFL owners’ meetings in New York on Oct. 18, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said there was “merit to remove” Snyder — the first public statement by one of Snyder’s counterparts that he should go.
During Washington’s next game, at home against Green Bay, spectators shouted “Sell the team!” when Tanya Snyder was shown on a video board.
NOVEMBER 2022
The Snyders took the first step toward potentially selling the Commanders: The club announced on Nov. 2 that a financial services firm had been hired to “consider potential transactions.” Asked if the Snyders were considering selling part or all of the team, which is worth billions of dollars, a spokesperson said, “We are exploring all options.”
Roughly a week later, D.C. attorney general Karl Racine filed a consumer protection civil lawsuit against Snyder, the Commanders, the NFL and Goodell, accusing them of colluding to deceive fans by lying about an inquiry into “sexual misconduct and a persistently hostile work environment” within the team. Racine then filed a second suit accusing the team of a scheme to cheat fans out of ticket money.
The next day, the Commanders settled with the state of Maryland, agreeing to return security deposits to former season-ticket holders and pay a $250,000 penalty.
DECEMBER 2022
Before Democrats ceded control of the House to Republicans, the House Oversight Committee issued a final report saying Snyder played a role in the team’s “toxic work culture.”
Drawing from hearings, interviews and depositions, the House report concluded Snyder interfered in its investigation and Wilkinson’s review, which stemmed in 2020 from former employees alleging rampant sexual harassment by team executives.
MARCH 2023
Snyder’s status was a hot topic at the annual NFL owners meeting in Arizona, even though he wasn’t a formal topic on the agenda. A person told the AP that Snyder and his attorneys demanded owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team.
On the final day of the meetings, two groups — the one with Harris, Rales and Johnson and another led by Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos — submitted fully financed bids to buy the Commanders.
Meanwhile, Goodell reiterated that the findings of White’s investigation would still be released even if Snyder sold the team.
APRIL 2023
New D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced a settlement with the Commanders over the suit filed about season-ticket holder deposit money, which included returning $200,000 to fans and paying $425,000 to the district.
After reports emerged that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos decided not to put in a bid for the team, Snyder agreed in principle to sell to the group spearheaded by Harris, which Rales and Johnson later joined.
White’s investigation remains “active and ongoing,” according to a league spokesperson.
As of the time of the sale agreement, which still needs a final contract and approval of owners, the team still does not have a deal for a new stadium after ranking last in the NFL in average home attendance last season.
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AP National Writer Howard Fendrich contributed.
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RAYMOND, Miss. - The Northeast Mississippi Community College football team upset Hinds Community College with a 20-3 decision on Thursday, September 1 at Joe Renfroe Stadium.
The Eagles entered the season opener for both teams ranked No. 7 in the latest National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I poll of the regular season.
It was the first on-the-field win for the Tigers over Hinds since 1980. Northeast had received a forfeit win from the Eagles in 2009.
Northeast never relinquished the lead. The Tigers struck first on a three-yard touchdown pass from Carter Putt to Kortlen Wilfawn on a fourth down attempt with 5:19 to go in the opening quarter.
Hinds (0-1) scored its only points early in the second quarter with a 32-yard field goal from Louie Gatlin. Northeast's Guy Gillespie countered with a 21-yard make to lift the Tigers ahead 10-3 at the halftime break.
Gillespie added another field goal from 32 yards out late in the third. Steven Edwards put the game out of reach with a 71-yard interception return for a touchdown midway through the final period.
Both teams had less than 200 total yards of offense. Carter Putt was 16 of 31 through the air for Northeast for 124 yards while Tyrell Randall caught seven passes for 77 yards.
Northeast (1-0) forced four turnovers on the evening. Kenny Byrd and Wilfawn recovered fumbles while Juwon Gaston joined Edwards in bringing in an interception.
The Tigers turn their attention to their home-opener on Thursday, September 8 against Pearl River Community College. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Tiger Stadium in Booneville.
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Friday, December 30, 2022
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736 FPUS56 KHNX 310701
ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Saturday, Saturday night, and New Years Day.
CAZ300-311200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain until early morning,
then slight chance of rain late in the night. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs 53 to 59. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Near steady temperature around 50.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 56 59 45 53 / 70 100 20 0
$$
CAZ301-311200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening, then
slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southeast winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
clearing. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds around 5 mph shifting
to the southwest up to 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs around
50.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature around 50.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 53 59 43 53 / 60 100 30 0
$$
CAZ302-311200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Near
steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower
40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 53 58 41 53 / 80 100 30 0
Merced 54 58 42 53 / 70 100 40 0
Chowchilla 53 58 41 51 / 60 100 50 0
Madera 53 58 42 51 / 60 100 60 0
Firebaugh 52 60 42 53 / 40 100 40 0
Mendota 52 60 42 53 / 40 100 40 0
$$
CAZ303-311200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Rain
showers likely through the night. Slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall
after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs around
50.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of
rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain in the morning, then chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 53 58 41 52 / 80 100 50 0
Le Grand 53 58 41 51 / 80 100 50 0
$$
CAZ304-311200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy early in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of rain in the late evening and
overnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower
40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs around
50. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature around 50.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 53 60 42 54 / 30 100 40 0
Avenal 55 60 43 54 / 10 90 50 0
$$
CAZ305-311200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 50s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower
40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Lows in
the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 52 61 42 54 / 10 90 60 0
Five Points 53 61 43 53 / 20 100 60 0
NAS Lemoore 52 61 42 53 / 20 90 70 10
Kettleman City 54 61 43 54 / 10 90 50 0
$$
CAZ306-311200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening, then
slight chance of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in
the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the evening then
becoming partly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the east around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs around
50.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows
around 40.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 53 58 44 50 / 50 100 80 10
Kingsburg 52 58 43 50 / 50 100 80 10
Sanger 52 58 42 50 / 60 100 90 10
Kerman 52 60 41 52 / 50 100 50 0
Caruthers 52 59 42 51 / 40 100 70 10
$$
CAZ307-311200-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely early in the evening, then
chance of rain in the late evening and overnight. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming
mostly sunny. Highs around 50. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs around
50.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in
the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 54 58 44 50 / 70 100 80 10
Fresno 54 58 44 50 / 60 100 80 10
$$
CAZ308-311200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy early in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of rain in the late evening and
overnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the southwest 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with chance of rain in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower
40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the evening.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Highs around 50. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the lower
50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Near steady temperature in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 53 58 41 53 / 80 100 30 0
Merced 54 58 42 53 / 70 100 40 0
Chowchilla 53 58 41 51 / 60 100 50 0
Madera 53 58 42 51 / 60 100 60 0
$$
CAZ309-311200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph
in the evening.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Lows around 40. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the morning, then
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 48 63 41 54 / 10 90 70 10
Buttonwillow 47 64 42 53 / 10 90 80 20
$$
CAZ310-311200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy late in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Southeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Slight chance of rain in the morning, then
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the
lower 50s. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with chance
of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 50 62 42 53 / 10 90 80 20
Allensworth 50 63 42 52 / 10 90 80 20
Wasco 49 63 43 51 / 10 80 90 20
Delano 51 63 44 50 / 10 90 90 20
McFarland 50 63 43 50 / 10 90 90 20
Shafter 50 63 44 51 / 10 80 90 20
$$
CAZ311-311200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Lows
in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs around 60. South winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs around
50. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then rain after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 52 60 42 53 / 20 90 70 10
Hanford 53 60 45 53 / 30 90 80 10
Corcoran 51 61 43 53 / 10 90 80 10
$$
CAZ312-311200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Near
steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Cloudy in the morning then becoming
partly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the
lower 50s. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 52 57 43 49 / 50 100 90 10
Dinuba 52 57 42 48 / 50 100 90 20
Visalia 52 58 45 50 / 30 90 90 20
Exeter 53 60 43 48 / 30 100 90 20
Tulare 52 61 45 50 / 30 90 90 20
Lindsay 52 60 43 48 / 30 90 90 20
Porterville 54 61 44 48 / 30 90 90 30
$$
CAZ313-311200-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 50. South winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to
30 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Slight chance of rain in the morning, then
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southwest with
gusts to around 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph
in the evening.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Partly sunny in the morning then
clearing. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid
40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the lower
50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the morning, then
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 52 63 45 51 / 0 90 90 10
$$
CAZ314-311200-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy in the late
evening and early morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in
the lower 50s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
to around 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Mostly cloudy in the morning then
becoming mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain likely. Highs
in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with rain likely in the morning, then partly
sunny with chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 52 63 46 50 / 10 80 100 20
$$
CAZ315-311200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain early in
the evening. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. East winds
up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Cloudy in the morning then becoming
partly sunny. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the
lower 50s. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then rain after
midnight. Near steady temperature around 50. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 52 62 44 49 / 20 90 90 20
$$
CAZ316-311200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy in the late
evening and early morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows
around 50. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
Southeast winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Mostly cloudy in the morning then
becoming mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to
the south after midnight.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain likely. Highs
in the lower 50s. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 50 64 42 48 / 10 90 100 20
Lamont 50 64 44 49 / 10 80 100 20
Mettler 48 63 42 48 / 10 70 90 20
$$
CAZ317-311200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Rain showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then rain showers likely and slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Chance of rain late in the night.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph after midnight.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then
chance of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 48 52 37 48 / 90 100 80 0
$$
CAZ318-311200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Rain
showers through the night. Slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. South winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph after
midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times. Near steady
temperature in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the
evening, then chance of rain after midnight. Total snow
accumulation up to 6 inches. Lows 32 to 38. Northwest winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 41 to 49. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs 40 to 48.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the
evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
41 to 49. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely and chance of snow in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the
morning. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 45 to 53. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 43 to
51. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 33 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times
in the morning. Highs 43 to 51. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 42 55 31 50 / 90 100 90 10
Bass Lake 42 50 32 45 / 90 100 90 10
$$
CAZ319-311200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds up to 10 mph. Gusts
up to 25 mph in the evening. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain in the
morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Near steady
temperature in the mid 40s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the
upper 40s. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain likely in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 54 56 43 48 / 80 100 80 10
Three Rivers 48 58 39 48 / 50 100 100 30
Springville 47 55 37 43 / 30 100 100 30
Tule River Reservation 53 59 43 46 / 30 100 100 30
$$
CAZ320-311200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Rain early in the evening, then rain likely in the
late evening and overnight. Near steady temperature around 50.
Southeast winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times. Near steady
temperature in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Rain may be heavy at times. Total snow
accumulation up to 10 inches. Lows 32 to 42. West winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy in the evening then
becoming mostly cloudy. Lows 26 to 36. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely and chance of snow in the
afternoon. Light snow accumulations. Highs 41 to 49. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the
evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Moderate
snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs 41 to 49.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of rain and snow in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the
morning. Moderate snow accumulations. Highs 46 to 54. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady
temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady
temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Near steady temperature
around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times
in the morning. Highs 42 to 50. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 51 52 40 45 / 90 100 90 10
$$
CAZ321-311200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain until early
morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. East winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs around 60. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Cooler. Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
rain in the morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Rain likely in the evening, then chance
of rain after midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then rain after
midnight. Near steady temperature around 50. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ322-311200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain early in the evening,
then slight chance of rain in the late evening and early morning.
Chance of rain late in the night. Near steady temperature around
50. Northwest winds up to 5 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph decreasing to
25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Chance of rain in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Near
steady temperature around 50. South winds up to 10 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Rain may be heavy at times in the evening. Total
snow accumulation up to 9 inches. Lows 34 to 40. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain and
snow in the morning. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
West winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the afternoon. Light snow
accumulations. Highs 42 to 48. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the
evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Moderate
snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around 40. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Near steady temperature in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy
at times in the morning. Highs 45 to 53. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then rain after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Moderate snow accumulations. Near steady
temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the morning.
Highs 42 to 50. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 40 47 31 37 / 40 100 100 40
$$
CAZ323-311200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Rain showers and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening. Snow through the night. Rain after
midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation
up to 23 inches. Snow level above 8000 feet. Near steady
temperature in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts
up to 60 mph decreasing to 45 mph after midnight. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 37 inches. Snow level 7700 feet.
Highs 30 to 42. Southwest winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening,
then chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in
the evening. Snow accumulation up to 12 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 77 inches. Lows 11 to 25. West winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 20 to 36. North winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 20. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Snow
may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs 23 to 35.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then
chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the
evening. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
lower 20s. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
21 to 35.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature around 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Chance of snow in the morning, then
snow and rain likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 27 to 39. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Chance
of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 12 to 26.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
23 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 21 40 5 30 / 90 100 90 20
Wawona 39 48 28 44 / 100 100 90 10
Hetch Hetchy 45 51 32 46 / 100 100 90 10
$$
CAZ324-311200-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Rain
showers through the night. Slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall after
midnight. Locally heavy rainfall possible early in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 25 mph after midnight.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs 42 to 48. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely and chance
of snow in the evening, then chance of rain and snow after
midnight. Snow accumulation up to 5 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 8 inches. Snow level 5500 feet. Lows 27 to 33.
Southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north after
midnight. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 37 to 43. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 21 to 29. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 37 to 43. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the
evening, then chance of rain after midnight. Moderate snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs 36 to 44. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely and chance of snow in the morning, then
rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times
in the afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 40 to 48.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Lows 33 to 39. Highs 37 to
45. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Lows 27 to
35.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow and rain.
Highs 38 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 42 50 29 45 / 100 100 100 10
$$
CAZ325-311200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Rain and chance of snow
in the evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Rain
may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow accumulation up to
6 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Lows 28 to 36.
Southwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph shifting
to the northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 37 to 43. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 30. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 37 to 45. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain likely in the
evening, then chance of snow and rain after midnight. Moderate
snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow and
rain. Highs 37 to 45.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely and chance of snow in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs
41 to 49. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy
at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
around 40. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 28 to 36.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow and rain.
Highs 38 to 46.
$$
CAZ326-311200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Rain and snow until early morning, then rain
with snow likely late in the night. Snow may be heavy at times.
Snow accumulation up to 18 inches. Snow level above 8000 feet.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 65 mph decreasing to 45 mph after midnight.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 37 inches. Snow level 7900 feet.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow in the evening, then snow likely
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow
accumulation of 1 to 16 inches. Total snow accumulation 1 to
75 inches. Lows 11 to 23. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 40 mph shifting to the northwest with gusts to around
25 mph after midnight. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 18 to 32. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 16. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Snow
may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs 22 to 34.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then
chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the
evening. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around
20. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
19 to 33.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature around 18.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Snow likely. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 25 to 37. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 20s. Chance of
snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow in the morning, then chance of snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Near steady temperature in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 11 to 23.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
21 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 34 36 19 27 / 90 100 90 20
$$
CAZ327-311200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times after
midnight. Snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Snow level above
8000 feet. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Snow and rain. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 36 inches. Snow level above
8000 feet. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow in the evening, then snow likely
after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up
to 18 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 64 inches. Lows 13 to
25. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 23 to 33. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 18. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Snow
may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 26 to 36.
Lows 11 to 23. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs
25 to 35.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Chance of snow in the morning, then snow likely in
the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 29 to 39. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Chance
of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow in the morning, then chance of snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows 13 to 25.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Snow may
be heavy at times in the morning. Highs 26 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 32 35 22 30 / 90 100 100 20
Shaver Lake 38 43 27 37 / 90 100 100 20
Lake Wishon 34 40 24 35 / 80 100 100 20
$$
CAZ328-311200-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely and chance of snow early in
the evening, then chance of snow and rain in the late evening and
overnight. Snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Snow level above
8000 feet. Lows 21 to 31. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up
to 75 mph decreasing to 45 mph after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Windy. Chance of snow in the morning, then snow in
the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up
to 39 inches. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Southwest
winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph. Chance of snow
near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow in the evening, then chance of
snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation up to 22 inches. Total snow accumulation up to
72 inches. Lows 7 to 19. West winds 5 to 20 mph. Gusts up to
45 mph decreasing to 30 mph after midnight. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly sunny. Chance of snow in the morning.
Highs 14 to 28. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 12 above.
West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
18 to 30.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then
chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy
snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around 16. Chance of
snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
15 to 29.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature around 14.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Chance of snow in the morning, then
snow likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy
snow accumulations. Highs 20 to 34. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. Chance
of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow in the morning, then chance of snow in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs 18 to 32. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Lows 6 to 18.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
16 to 30.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 38 50 28 43 / 70 100 100 30
$$
CAZ329-311200-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Rain likely until early morning, then rain likely and
chance of snow late in the night. Snow accumulation up to
4 inches. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Precipitation may be heavy at times.
Snow accumulation up to 24 inches. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow and rain in the evening, then snow
and rain likely after midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 20 inches. Total snow accumulation
up to 49 inches. Snow level 6000 feet. Lows 22 to 34. West winds
up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny. A 30 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. West winds up
to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 27. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain likely in the afternoon. Light snow
accumulations. Highs 30 to 42. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then
chance of snow and rain after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around
30. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of snow and rain in the afternoon. Highs 29 to 41. Chance
of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain in the
evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times after midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s.
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Chance of snow and rain likely in the
morning, then rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 34 to 46. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then snow
and rain after midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at times.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow and rain in the morning, then snow and rain
likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow and rain. Snow may be heavy at times. Near steady
temperature around 30.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow and rain.
Highs 30 to 42.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 38 43 28 35 / 70 100 100 30
$$
CAZ330-311200-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Lows 19 to 37. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 65 mph
decreasing to 40 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Chance of snow and rain in the morning, then
snow and rain in the afternoon. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 28 inches. Snow level 7900 feet.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to
55 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow and rain in the evening, then
chance of snow after midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at
times. Snow accumulation up to 23 inches. Total snow accumulation
up to 51 inches. Lows 10 to 28. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 45 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 17 to 33. West
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 2 to 22. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Snow
may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 21 to 37.
Lows 7 to 27. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
18 to 36.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Near steady temperature around 19.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Chance of snow in the morning, then
snow and rain likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 23 to 41. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely in the evening, then snow
and rain after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow and rain in the morning, then snow with rain
likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 20 to 38. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Lows 8 to 28.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
19 to 37.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 32 41 23 33 / 60 100 100 30
$$
CAZ331-311200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY...
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy in
the late evening and early morning then becoming mostly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of rain in the evening. Lows 29 to 43.
Northwest winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 70 mph shifting
to the west 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 45 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then rain and snow in the afternoon. Precipitation may
be heavy at times. Snow accumulation up to 20 inches. Snow level
7900 feet. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph shifting to the southwest 10 to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Snow and rain in the evening, then snow
after midnight. Precipitation may be heavy at times in the
evening. Snow accumulation up to 21 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 41 inches. Snow level 6200 feet. Lows 19 to
33. West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 27 to 37. West
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 28. West winds
up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 29 to 39.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
28 to 38.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Near steady temperature in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
snow likely and chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow may be
heavy at times in the afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs
31 to 41. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely in the evening, then snow
and rain after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow
accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. Chance
of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow with rain likely in the morning, then chance of
snow and rain likely in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Lows 17 to 33.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the morning, then
mostly sunny with chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs 29 to
39. Chance of snow 40 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 32 50 24 40 / 30 100 90 40
$$
CAZ332-311200-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain early in the evening. Lows in
the upper 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around
55 mph shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Colder. Partly sunny. A 50 percent chance of
rain in the morning. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 34. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Lows 32 to 38.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows 31 to 37.
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 46 to 52.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain likely. Lows 35 to 41. Highs
in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows 32 to 38.
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 42 43 29 32 / 20 100 100 40
Kernville 44 58 35 46 / 20 100 100 40
Lake Isabella 47 58 37 45 / 20 100 100 40
Weldon 49 58 39 46 / 10 100 100 40
$$
CAZ333-311200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
early in the evening. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
Northwest winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 65 mph shifting
to the west 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs 45 to 55. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Rain and snow in the evening, then rain
likely and chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at
times in the evening. Snow accumulation up to 9 inches. Lows
29 to 39. West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain and
snow in the morning. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. West winds up to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A 50 percent chance of snow in the
afternoon. Highs 37 to 47.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
and rain. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of rain and snow. Highs 35 to 45. Lows 27 to 39.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs 37 to 47.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow in the morning, then
mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 37 to 47. Chance of snow
30 percent.
$$
CAZ334-311200-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
early in the evening. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 60 mph decreasing to
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the afternoon. Highs 48 to 56. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the
south 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
and chance of snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times
after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 8 inches. Total snow
accumulation up to 10 inches. Lows 32 to 40. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny. A 40 percent chance of rain and
snow in the morning. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain and snow. Highs 40 to 48. Lows 32 to 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then rain likely and chance of snow in the afternoon.
Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Heavy snow
accumulations. Highs 41 to 49. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then rain
likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 41 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 45 51 36 38 / 20 90 100 30
Tehachapi 42 53 35 40 / 20 90 100 30
Twin Oaks 47 55 39 42 / 20 100 100 40
$$
CAZ335-311200-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Slight chance of rain in the morning, then rain in
the afternoon. Highs 49 to 57. South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph increasing to 40 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Colder. Mostly cloudy in the morning then
becoming mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs 43 to 49.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then chance of rain after midnight. Near steady
temperature around 40. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance
of rain. Near steady temperature around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the morning, then
rain likely in the afternoon. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs 44 to 50. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 46 58 39 45 / 10 90 90 20
$$
CAZ336-311200-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the afternoon. Highs 48 to 58. South winds
5 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly cloudy. Rain and chance of snow
in the evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow
may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow accumulation up to
8 inches. Total snow accumulation up to 12 inches. Lows 32 to 42.
West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming
mostly sunny. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in
the mid 30s. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the afternoon.
Highs 41 to 49. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely and chance of snow in
the evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Light
snow accumulations. Near steady temperature around 40. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs 41 to 51.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then rain likely and chance of snow in the afternoon.
Snow may be heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Highs 44 to
54. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow may be
heavy at times. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 51.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 43 48 31 39 / 10 80 90 20
Frazier Park 37 52 29 42 / 10 90 100 20
$$
CAZ337-311200-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 44 to 50. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to
40 mph decreasing to 30 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Windy. Partly sunny. Rain in the afternoon. Highs
59 to 65. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
35 mph increasing to 15 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph shifting to the west 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain in
the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs 52 to 58. West
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A 40 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows 31 to 37.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs around 50.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain likely. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 49 64 42 56 / 10 80 90 30
Ridgecrest 45 64 40 58 / 0 60 90 30
$$
CAZ338-311200-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain early in
the evening. Near steady temperature around 50. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 55 mph decreasing to 45 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Rain in the afternoon. Highs 50 to 60.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy, colder. Rain in the evening, then rain
likely after midnight. Lows 36 to 44. West winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to around 50 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of
rain and snow in the morning. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. West winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain and snow. Highs 43 to 51. Lows 34 to 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs 40 to 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 42 to 50.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then rain
likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening.
Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature in the lower
40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain in
the afternoon. Heavy snow accumulations. Near steady temperature
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Near steady temperature around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 48 57 43 48 / 10 70 100 20
$$
CAZ339-311200-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1101 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Breezy. Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest
winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Windy. Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to
30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain in the evening, then rain likely
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
25 mph shifting to the west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Gusts up
to 45 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
in the lower 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around
35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 34. West winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Rain likely. Lows around 40.
Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 52 56 45 51 / 0 40 100 30
California City 49 58 42 51 / 10 60 100 20
Edwards AFB 48 58 42 51 / 10 40 100 20
Rosamond 47 58 40 51 / 10 60 100 20
$$
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SOUTH WHITLEY — A Silver Alert has been declared for two missing South Whitley girls.
The South Whitley Police Department is investigating the disappearance of Shannon Marie Kincaid and Adalynn Fae Newman.
Shannon is a 27-year-old white female, 5’6” and 241 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Adalynn is a 9-year-old white female, 4’1” and 60 pounds with light blonde hair with fading blue tips and blue eyes.
Shannon and Adalynn were last seen in a silver 2004 Saturn Vue with Indiana Plate: 442DNA
Shannon and Adalynn are missing from South Whitley, Indiana, which is 123 miles northeast of Indianapolis. They were last seen on Friday at 4:40 p.m.
They are believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
If you have any information on Shannon and Adalynn, contact the South Whitley Police Department at 260-244-6410 or 911. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/silver-alert-declared-for-two-missing-south-whitley-girls | 2023-05-13 23:51:24 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/silver-alert-declared-for-two-missing-south-whitley-girls |
TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Leafythings, a thought leader in the cannabis industry and award-winning cannabis directory platform and mobile application, proposes a supplementary independent cannabis supply chain in Ontario.
The Leafythings platform is a digital aggregation of independent and regulated brands and retailers across the cannabis retail market. Leafythings uses Google and open-source solutions to compile all of its retailers and brands. Independent cannabis supply chains represent roughly a $3 billion marketplace in Canada, equal to the size of the regulated supply chain. Given the size of this market and the feedback Leafythings and industry leaders have received within the field, the company has a profound understanding of the Canadian cannabis consumer as well as existing operational gaps that can potentially translate to widespread industry issues.
"It is disastrous," said Nima Derak of Leafythings. "Local Canadian cannabis growers and farmers have made up the independent supply chain for 40+ years. They have worked to prove the medical and recreational benefits of cannabis through evidence-based research and development methods. These individuals have worked tirelessly with legislators to advocate for cannabis businesses and consumers, and to facilitate the legalization of consumption and possession of marijuana. They are members of the public, they are Canadians, and they have been neglected and removed from the current process. Canada is to marijuana cultivation as Belgium is to chocolate. Over-regulation and financial barriers coupled with monopolization of the cannabis supply chain in Ontario is causing major distress to independent Canadian growers and retailers and is locking them out from operating successfully.
Last week, The Ontario Cannabis Store has had to halt all deliveries to its retail partners due to an alleged hacking incident that crippled its third party logistics handlers.
"The role of Government should be held to regulating cannabis, not creating an unnecessary role as the distribution middle man. Delivery is a basic function of today's society. Could you imagine if the liquor store stopped delivering to its retail partners? This doesn't happen. It never happens within the logistics of our independent distributed food supply chain. It doesn't happen to tobacco products at the thousands of convenience stores and it doesn't happen in any other industry in Canada.."
Leafythings wishes to work together with our partners in cannabis at the OCS, to create a better and improved model now that Cannabis has been legalized for over three years. The independent supply chain has expressed substantial interest in working with regulators and contributing to the Canadian economy.
"It is not in the benefit of the Canadian tax payer to take an industry that already existed, ignore it, and put a new system in place that ignores the other 50% of consumers. Let's call it as it is: the OCS as the sole monopoly distributor and online store has acted only as another broken and redundant arm of the government," Derak states. He goes on to shed light on a logical solution to this issue.
"The $3 billion independent cannabis industry and the $3 billion regulated industry have to reconcile. It is absolutely insane to continue on the path we are on. We are making a clear and logical proposal to the Ontario Cannabis Store. The regulation and cannabis supply chains within Ontario can be managed exactly like food is. There are no mandated organic food certification companies within the food supply chain, but there are third parties who follow the principals of the Canadian Organic Standards, to certify organic food. We can create transparent Independent Cannabis Standards that support Health Canada's objectives.
Government can take on a more regulatory role. We propose the creation of an agency similar to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This agency's role would be to maintain samples and certificates of analysis from anyone who selling into the independent supply chain for the purposes of product recalls. There are hundreds of laboratories within the cannabis space, and these independent facilities can be leveraged for this capacity by independent producers. Due to the proven safe nature of cannabis, we propose no THC limits on independently produced cannabis goods. Independent producers must comply with the Federal Cannabis Act's guidelines on packaging, Says Derak, "There is no way to put this in a politically correct fashion - cannabis is proven to be safer than many non-regulated household goods and medications, and it is time we start acknowledging this."
What would this proposal mean for cannabis retailers? These companies would be able to order directly from independent manufacturers as well as the regulated supply chain, much like a grocer carrying traditional and organic foods. Some goods come directly from the manufacturer while others come from various food terminals. This would allow retailers the ability to differentiate themselves and cater to their local consumers more appropriately - and ultimately - it is the consumer that dictates the success of the retailer.
"Access to cannabis is very important to millions of people across Canada. With the recent service disruption experienced by the OCS here in Ontario, so many will have that access interrupted," states local cannabis consumer Kunal Vora. Allowing retailers diversity in their product sourcing would help ease the mind of the consumer, while managing to retain their trust in the event of another widespread industry issue.
Leafythings proposes a sensible, solutions-based approach for an economic engine like Ontario to help alleviate the burdens of supply chain management and to support the objectives of legalization.
Leafythings is empowered by a mission to help bridge the gap between consumers and businesses while supporting public health initiatives. Leafythings helps consumers find and access quality cannabis products in Canada through highly localized strategies and public education in efforts to collaboratively shatter social equity barriers in the market and improve public perception of the industry.
About Leafythings:
Since 2019, Leafythings has taken a cannabis consumer centric approach to helping Canadians find affordable and quality cannabis anywhere in Canada. Leafythings operates as a web platform, mobile application, and advertising medium. Through a series of event partnerships, advertising initiative, and grassroots marketing programs, Leafythings has developed the largest cannabis consumer database in Canada.
Leafythings is actively working with brands and retailers through partnerships and social initiatives to help drive industry credibility and reinforce the trust between consumers and their cannabis. Leafythings is committed to working with organizations, brands, retailers, and public health officials to create a better cannabis industry.
To read more about Leafythings, head to www.Leafythings.com
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PHOENIX, AZ — Don't want to cook over Labor Day weekend or have some time for some major shopping? Here’s some deals you can score in the Valley!
- DEAL: The Mexican restaurant is offering $10 off their Fiesta platters that features “a variety of Someburros’ signature bites.” According to a press release, the Fiesta Platter comes with a large bag of chips, a pint of the signature hot sauce and half pint of guacamole.
- The offer is valid from Friday, September 2, to Monday, September 5.
- Use code “LABORDAY” on the Someburros app/website or mention the code in-person at any Someburros location.
STK STEAKHOUSE
The steakhouse is offering a 50% OFF food for frontline essential workers
- According to a press release, the offer is valid for doctors, police, fire department, hospital workers, restaurant & hospitality workers and grocery workers.
- Keep this in mind: this offer cannot be combined with any other offer.
TARBELL’S WINE STORE
“Tarbell’s Wine Club members can take advantage of a 30% discount (or 25% for non-members) on full bottles of El Tesoro X Tarbell’s Reposado Tequila ($75.99 before discount) - a collaboration tequila artfully crafted by Tarbell’s and El Tesoro,” read a press release sent to ABC15.
- LOCATION: Tarbell’s Wine Store [3205 E. Camelback Road] in Phoenix
- DEAL: 10% off all to-go orders on September 4 and 5. Plus, they’ll be serving $1 national draft beer with the purchase of an entree on Labor Day [dine-in only deal and there’s a limit of two per customer.]
- LOCATION: ComicX [21001 N. Tatum Boulevard, Suite 95] in Phoenix.
- DEAL: Get 20% off an entrée on Labor Day with code LBR20, you can use this offer online or in-store.
JOANN’S LABOR DAY SALE
Just some of the deals you’ll find during the Labor Day sale running Sept. 1-3: 50% off Fall & Halloween Cotton Fabrics, 30% off Pillow Forms, Stuffing, Batting and Foam, 40% off Cricut Accessories and more.
- DEAL: The brewery will be offering the “World’s Best Happy Hour” on Labor Day from 11 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. at its Downtown Phoenix & Chandler locations.
- Happy hour specials include: $4 select Haus beers, $5 well drinks, $6 Haus margs/Haus wine, $7 steins. Plus, $3 bacon popcorn, $4 Haus mac & cheese, $5 loaded fries, $6 Haus smoked wings, and $7 happy burgers.
- There will be special holiday weekend hours [ 8:30 A.M. – 6 P.M.]
- LOCATION: Salt River Tubing Headquarters [Northeast Mesa on N. Power Road]
LABOR DAY SALES
- Outlets at Anthem will have many shopping sales running from September 3 to 5 at various stores, that include: Bath and Body Works, Coach Outlet, Vans Outlet, Under Armour Factory House, and more. You can see the full list, right here.
- DEAL: Octane Raceway will feature 50% off axe throwing all day on Monday, September 5.
- LOCATION: Octane Raceway [9119 E. Talking Stick Way] in Scottsdale.
FUN FOR THE FAMILY
- DEAL: All day Monday, September 5, the Mavrix is offering $15 Unlimited Fun Pass; the pass is good for “unlimited bowling, laser tag and billiards.”
- LOCATION: Mavrix [9139 E. Talking Stick Way] in Scottsdale | https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/labor-day-weekend-deals-in-the-valley-you-wont-want-to-miss | 2022-09-01 18:12:02 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/labor-day-weekend-deals-in-the-valley-you-wont-want-to-miss |
Tractor Trailer Driver Arrested for OUI on I-95, Sidney, Maine
Tractor Trailer Driver Charged with OUI
The driver of a tractor trailer was arrested on June 15 and charged with Operating Under the Influence after reports of the vehicle driving erratically on I-95 near Sidney, Maine.
Maine State Police Received 911 Calls
The Maine State Police received two Emergency 911 calls from around 2:16 p.m. Wednesday. Reports were that the driver of the tractor trailer driver was “almost striking other vehicles” and not staying in its proper lane as it drove erratically northbound on I-95 in Sydney.
Vehicle Pulled Over and Searched
Troopers located the truck within minutes and stopped the truck. Police said the driver was from the state of Ohio. The Maine State Police Commercial Vehicle Unit responded to the scene as well. The vehicle was searched and found “hard alcohol in the cab of the truck.”
Driver Arrested
Police arrested the driver and said his “blood-alcohol concentration was four times the legal limit of .04% while operating a commercial vehicle.”
Transported to Jail
The driver’s name was not released. He was taken to the Kennebec County Jail. Officials removed the tractor trailer safely from Interstate 95.
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—The tool, called ESPRESSO, will allow for better diagnosis of rare genetic diseases caused by disrupted RNA and for discovery of potential therapeutic targets in diseases like cancer—
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the journey from gene to protein, a nascent RNA molecule can be cut and joined, or spliced, in different ways before being translated into a protein. This process, known as alternative splicing, allows a single gene to encode several different proteins. Alternative splicing occurs in many biological processes, like when stem cells mature into tissue-specific cells. In the context of disease, however, alternative splicing can be dysregulated. Therefore, it is important to examine the transcriptome – that is, all the RNA molecules that might stem from genes – to understand the root cause of a condition.
However, historically it has been difficult to "read" RNA molecules in their entirety because they are usually thousands of bases long. Instead, researchers have relied on so-called short-read RNA sequencing, which breaks RNA molecules and sequence them in much shorter pieces – somewhere between 200 to 600 bases, depending on the platform and protocol. Computer programs are then used to reconstruct the full sequences of RNA molecules. Short-read RNA sequencing can give highly accurate sequencing data, with a low per-base error rate of approximately 0.1% (meaning one base is incorrectly determined for every 1,000 bases sequenced). Nevertheless, it is limited in the information that it can provide due to the short length of the sequencing reads. In many ways, short-read RNA sequencing is like breaking a large picture into many jigsaw pieces that are all the same shape and size and then trying to piece the picture back together.
Recently, "long-read" platforms that can sequence RNA molecules over 10,000 bases in length end-to-end have become available. These platforms do not require RNA molecules to be broken up before they are sequenced, but they have a much higher per-base error rate, typically between 5% to 20%. This well-known limitation has severely hampered the widespread adoption of long-read RNA sequencing. In particular, the high error rate has made it difficult to determine the validity of novel, previously unknown RNA molecules discovered in a particular condition or disease.
To circumvent this problem, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new computational tool that can more accurately discover and quantify RNA molecules from these error-prone long-read RNA sequencing data. The tool, called ESPRESSO (Error Statistics PRomoted Evaluator of Splice Site Options), was reported today in Science Advances.
"Long-read RNA sequencing is a powerful technology that will allow us to uncover RNA variation in rare genetic diseases and other conditions, like cancer," said Yi Xing, PhD, director of the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine at CHOP and senior author of the study. "We are probably at an inflection point in how we discover and analyze RNA molecules. The transition from short-read to long-read RNA sequencing represents an exciting technological transformation, and computational tools that reliably interpret long-read RNA sequencing data are urgently needed."
ESPRESSO can accurately discover and quantify different RNA molecules from the same gene – known as RNA isoforms – using error-prone long-read RNA sequencing data alone. To do so, the computational tool compares all long RNA sequencing reads of a given gene to its corresponding genomic DNA, and then uses the error patterns of individual long reads to confidently identify splice junctions – places where the nascent RNA molecule has been cut and joined – as well as their corresponding full-length RNA isoforms. By finding areas of perfect matches between long RNA sequencing reads and genomic DNA, as well as borrowing information across all long RNA sequencing reads of a gene, the tool is able to identify highly reliable splice junctions and RNA isoforms, including those that have not been previously documented in existing databases.
The researchers evaluated the performance of ESPRESSO using simulated data and data on real biological samples. They found that ESPRESSO performs better than multiple currently available tools, both in terms of discovering RNA isoforms and quantifying them. The researchers also generated and analyzed over 1 billion long RNA sequencing reads covering 30 human tissue types and three human cell lines, providing a useful resource for studying human transcriptome variation at the resolution of full-length RNA isoforms.
"ESPRESSO addresses a long-standing problem of long-read RNA sequencing and could usher in new opportunities of discovery," Dr. Xing said. "We envision that ESPRESSO will be a useful tool for researchers to explore the RNA repertoire of cells in various biomedical and clinical settings."
This work was supported in part by the Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Moonshot Initiative (U01CA233074), other National Institutes of Health funding (R01GM088342, R01GM121827, and R56HG012310), along with a National Institutes of Health T32 Training Grant in Computational Genomics (T32HG000046).
Gao et al. "ESPRESSO: Robust discovery and quantification of transcript isoforms from error-prone long-read RNA-seq data," Science Advances, January 20, 2023, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq5072
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
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Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older.
The hope is that an extra shot will shore up protection for kids ages 5 to 11 as infections once again are on the rise.
“Vaccination with a primary series among this age group has lagged behind other age groups leaving them vulnerable to serious illness,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in a statement.
“We know that these vaccines are safe, and we must continue to increase the number of children who are protected,” she said.
Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s kid-sized booster, to be offered at least five months after the youngsters’ last shot.
The CDC takes the next step of recommending who actually needs vaccinations. Its advisers debated if all otherwise healthy 5- to 11-year-olds need an extra dose, especially since so many children were infected during the huge winter surge of the omicron variant.
But the U.S. now is averaging 100,000 new cases a day for the first time since February. And ultimately, the CDC’s advisers pointed to growing evidence from older kids and adults that two primary vaccinations plus a booster are providing the best protection against the newest coronavirus variants.
“This always perhaps should have been a three-dose vaccine,” said Dr. Grace Lee of Stanford University, who chairs the CDC’s advisory panel.
The booster question isn’t the hottest vaccine topic: Parents still are anxiously awaiting a chance to vaccinate kids under 5 — the only group not yet eligible in the U.S.
Dr. Doran Fink of the Food and Drug Administration said the agency is working “as rapidly as we can” to evaluate an application from vaccine maker Moderna, and is awaiting final data on the littlest kids from rival Pfizer. The FDA’s own advisers are expected to publicly debate data from one or both companies next month.
For the 5- to 11-year-olds, it’s not clear how much booster demand there will be. Only about 30% of that age group have had the initial two Pfizer doses since vaccinations opened to them in November.
CDC adviser Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot of Vanderbilt University said health authorities must put more effort into getting youngsters their initial shots.
“That needs to be a priority,” she said.
Thursday’s decision also means that 5- to 11-year-olds with severely weakened immune systems, who are supposed to get three initial shots, would be eligible for a fourth dose.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech currently make the only COVID-19 vaccine available for children of any age in the U.S. Those ages 5 to 11 receive a dose that’s one-third the amount given to everyone 12 and older.
In a small study, Pfizer found a booster revved up those kids’ levels of virus-fighting antibodies — including those able to fight the super-contagious omicron variant — the same kind of jump adults get from an extra shot.
Vaccines may not always prevent milder infections, and the omicron variant proved especially able to slip past their defenses. But CDC cited data during the omicron surge that showed unvaccinated 5- to 11-year-olds had twice the rate of hospitalization as youngsters who got their first two doses.
Health authorities say for all ages, the vaccines are still offering strong protection against COVID-19’s worst outcomes, especially after a third dose.
Some especially high-risk people, including those 50 and older, have been offered the choice of a second booster, or fourth shot — and the CDC on Thursday strengthened that recommendation, too, urging anyone who’s eligible to go ahead and get the extra dose.
Still to be decided is whether everyone will need additional shots in the fall, possibly reformulated to offer better protection against newer coronavirus variants.
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Legendary college basketball broadcaster Billy Packer dies at age 82, family says
Legendary CBS and Raycom Sports college basketball broadcaster Billy Packer has died, his son Mark said on Thursday via Twitter.
Packer was 82.
"The Packer Family would like to share some sad news. Our amazing father, Billy, has passed," Mark Packer said. "We take peace knowing that he’s in heaven with Barb. RIP, Billy."
Mark Packer told the Associated Press that his father died of kidney failure after spending three weeks in a Charlotte hospital due to several medical issues.
Packer played college basketball at Wake Forest from 1958-62, leading the Demon Deacons to two ACC titles and a Final Four.
But most around ACC country and across the country remember Packer as the longtime analyst on Raycom Sports, NBC and CBS. Packer called every Final Four from 1975-2008, including seven seasons at NBC and 27 seasons at CBS. He worked with some of sports' greatest play-by-play broadcasters on championship weekend, including Brent Musburger, Curt Gowdy, Gary Bender, Jim Nantz and Dick Enberg.
The son of Anthony Packer, a longtime coach at Lehigh, the younger Packer opted for broadcasting in 1973, joining NBC while doing local games in North Carolina for Raycom. Packer continued to do ACC games for Raycom throughout his career until his retirement in 2008.
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Family of slain California deputy calls for judge to resign
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The family of a slain Southern California sheriff's deputy on Friday demanded the resignation of a judge who had previously released the lawman's shooter despite a violent criminal record.
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Riverside County Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, was fatally shot Dec. 29 during a traffic stop in the city of Jurupa Valley, east of Los Angeles.
Cordero had pulled over a pickup truck and the driver, 44-year-old William Shae McKay, pulled a gun and shot the deputy as he approached the vehicle, authorities said. Law enforcement pursued McKay in a “massive manhunt” that included a chase along freeways in two counties.
McKay was killed during a shootout with deputies after the truck crashed.
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Sobbing throughout her eulogy Friday during a memorial service, Rebecca Cordero said she last saw her son on Christmas Eve.
“We do not know how we are supposed to carry on without you,” she said. “Your selflessness and determination will not be forgotten.”
Although Cordero was officially killed by gunfire, Rebecca Cordero blamed the current political climate and anti-law enforcement sentiments, as well as San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Cara D. Hutson. Requests for comment were sent Friday to Hutson and the court’s spokesperson.
“The actual cause of death: disdain, disrespect, disregard, a dysfunctional system that has unfairly been politicized,” Rebecca Cordero said.
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McKay had a long and violent criminal history stretching back to before 2000 that included kidnapping, robbery and multiple arrests for assault with a deadly weapon, including the stabbing of a California Highway Patrol dog, according to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
The sheriff said McKay was convicted of a “third strike” offense in 2021 that should have put him in state prison for 25 years to life, but the judge lowered his bail, allowing his release, and later released him following an arrest for failing to appear at his sentencing.
“He should have been immediately sentenced to 25 years to life,” Bianco previously said. “We would not be here today if the judge had done her job.”
Cordero joined the 4,000-member strong department as a corrections deputy, worked in local jails, became a sworn deputy in 2018 and completed motor school to become a motorcycle deputy in September.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities said Sunday they have rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds.
The rescued migrants — 63 men, 24 women and 21 children — have told authorities there four other people are missing.
Reports of a sailboat adrift off the uninhabited island of Delos reached the coast guard late Saturday. It dispatched three rescue vessels and a tugboat. Early Sunday morning, rescuers managed to tow the sailboat to an islet off the nearby island of Mykonos, authorities said. The migrants were safely transported to Mykonos. They told authorities that their boat had sailed from Turkey to an unknown destination.
None of the migrants on board were wearing a life vest, nor was there any life-saving equipment on board, authorities said.
“Once again, the coast guard saved lives that the ruthless trafficking networks have exposed to mortal danger without even the barest protection measures,” Shipping and Island Policy Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis said.
Late Sunday afternoon, a sailboat with 56 migrants — 28 men, 16 women and 12 women — ran aground at an inlet on the island of Rhodes, authorities said. The migrants, who are all well, made it to the shore on their own.
In unrelated migration cases in the neighboring country of North Macedonia, police said they discovered 71 migrants in two separate operations late Saturday and arrested three men suspected of human trafficking.
Police raided a home in the northern town of Kumanovo and found 44 Pakistanis and one person from India. Police arrested the homeowner, a 41-year-old identified only by his initials as U.F. The migrants are believed to have entered illegally from Greece and were waiting to be smuggled to Serbia on their way to unidentified EU countries. They have been transferred to a migrant reception center on the border with Serbia pending deportation.
In a separate case, police discovered 26 migrants from Syria hidden in a van during a routine check on a highway toll station in the southern part of the country. The van driver and his assistant, both Macedonian nationals, were arrested, police said Sunday.
The migrants were transferred to a reception center near the border with Greece pending deportation to that country.
Police say the Balkan route for migrants, through North Macedonia, has become more active again in the past few months after many countries lifted travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If Democrats handle this effectively, they can demonstrate a split between the small number of Republicans open to real reforms and the larger number who are too captive to extreme elements in the party to entertain anything serious. This could have a constructive impact on the debate that more moderate Republicans should welcome.
Here are four things Democrats can do along these lines:
Use amendments to highlight GOP divisions
The GOP’s border-security-only bill would mean a functional end to asylum-seeking as we know it, for reasons detailed here last week. The dozens of Republicans balking at the bill cite its onerous restrictions on asylum, and its focus on only “border security,” with some calling for it to include legalization for farm workers and “dreamers” brought here as children.
Faced with this rebellion, GOP leaders appear prepared to subject the bill to a committee process and to amendments, The Post reports.
If so, Democrats could try to offer amendments that would legalize dreamers, farm workers and migrants currently enjoying temporary protected status. Amendments could replace the onerous restrictions on asylum-seeking with something more balanced.
One model could be the bill negotiated by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) in the last Congress. It would legalize 2 million dreamers and pump massive resources into speeding up processing of asylum seekers, while expediting removal of nonqualifying migrants — which Republicans who hate our “border crisis” should support.
These amendments could show that most House Republicans are hostile to balanced reforms. But — and this is crucial — it could also show that a small number can support such reforms.
“A smart strategy could give more moderate Republicans a chance to say they want a balanced approach,” immigration advocate Frank Sharry tells me. “This could show there’s a bipartisan majority in the House for a package that combines asylum reform and legalization.”
Pursue bipartisan talks with genuine purpose
GOP leaders would probably never allow a full vote on a package of asylum reform and legalization, just as they blocked full votes on reform during Barack Obama’s presidency. But that would illustrate the point: Once again, they can’t allow a vote on a balanced approach, precisely because it could pass.
This could give Democrats an opening to attempt bipartisan talks with more moderate Republicans. One might be Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), who has become outspoken in rejecting the GOP border-security-only bill and in championing legalization for dreamers and protections for farm workers.
Why not seek House bipartisan talks around something that would combine such measures with asylum reforms?
“You could have a House bipartisan working group,” Lia Parada, director of legislative advocacy at Immigration Hub, tells me. “The fact that the moderates are killing bills is a good sign.”
Such a group, Parada suggests, could work in conjunction with senators who are currently reviving Senate talks on the Tillis-Sinema proposal.
Try a discharge petition on immigration
There’s been a lot of talk about using the discharge petition process to force a House vote on a debt ceiling increase without the GOP leadership’s assent. Why not try it on immigration?
That could be one end goal of illustrating that there is a bipartisan consensus position available on reform. This could give House Republicans calling for such a consensus a way to demonstrate they mean it.
“Are they doing this just for show?” asks Tom Jawetz, a former senior lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security. “Or do they actually want to assert some power to get something done?”
Elevate southwestern Democrats as advocates for a bipartisan approach
Because of Democratic successes in the Southwest, in the four border states, six out of eight senators now caucus with Democrats. They are well positioned to argue for a bipartisan approach that includes the reforms in the Tillis-Sinema bill.
Those senators can encourage a bipartisan group in the House to undertake their own effort — particularly Republicans such as Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, who loudly denounces MAGA’s hijacking of the GOP.
The immigration reform graveyard is littered with comprehensive approaches. Their sheer size made it easier for the right to attack and harder for reformist Republicans to explain it to angry constituents.
A targeted approach would allow more moderate Republicans to get behind something bipartisan. By drawing out the extremism of MAGA foes, it would give those rebels something to define themselves against. The odds are tremendously long, but southwestern Democrats can try to lead the way. Will they?
“Rather than an all-or-nothing approach, Democrats can divide the opposition and achieve the policy high ground by proposing to make the system less dysfunctional and protecting discrete classes of migrants,” Chris Newman, counsel for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, told me. “The new leaders in the Southwest can define the terms of debate along these lines.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/23/house-gop-border-bill-maga-asylum/ | 2023-01-23 21:13:17 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/23/house-gop-border-bill-maga-asylum/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Editor's note: The above video is from April 24.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether he first needed approval from a Legislature that refused to go along with the plan.
Hanging in the balance is Pennsylvania's effort to become the first major fossil fuel-producing state to adopt carbon pricing.
On Wednesday, the state’s highest court will hear arguments on whether a lower court was right to halt Pennsylvania's participation in a multistate consortium that imposes a price and declining cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
The way the justices react could give hints as to how they might ultimately rule on whether Pennsylvania's participation — without legislative approval — is constitutional.
It is no small amount of money: Pennsylvania would have raised more than $1 billion had it begun participating in 2022 when former Gov. Tom Wolf intended, according to calculations by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
It became the central plank in Wolf’s plan to fight global warming.
Republican lawmakers, fossil fuel interests, industrial power users and trade unions oppose it, saying it will hurt the state's energy industry and drive up electric bills.
The case is a political minefield for Gov. Josh Shapiro, Wolf's successor and a fellow Democrat who was endorsed by some of the labor unions that fought Wolf's effort to join the consortium.
Shapiro has maintained that he does not support entering the consortium, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, on Wolf's terms. But he continues to fight for it in court and his top environmental protection appointee told lawmakers in March that joining the consortium is “a vehicle” that could help meet Shapiro’s “strong and very aspirational goals” to help the environment.
Meanwhile, Shapiro has assembled a task force to try to come up with something better — a task force that meets in secret and includes opponents from organized labor and executives from companies invested in fossil fuels, as well as supporters of carbon pricing.
State officials, independent researchers and environmental advocates say the money reaped by the state through the auction of emission credits can be spent on encouraging the growth of renewable energy and energy conservation. That, they say, would stabilize electricity bills, or lower them, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions and helping transition workers in fossil fuels into new industries.
Supporters of carbon pricing include the owners of solar, wind and nuclear power, whose installations would become more cost competitive as oil, gas and coal power pay higher prices to operate.
In 2019, Republican lawmakers refused to pass legislation authorizing Pennsylvania to join the consortium, then went to court with fossil fuel interests and labor unions when Wolf used his regulatory authority to join.
The lower court that halted Pennsylvania's participation is still deciding the merits of the underlying legal challenge: whether the governor unconstitutionally usurped the Legislature's authority to approve any form of taxation.
Shapiro has echoed criticism of Wolf's carbon pricing plan, saying it could hurt the state’s energy industry, drive up electric prices and do little to curtail greenhouse gases.
For his part, Shapiro’s most well-defined clean-energy goal is a pledge to ensure Pennsylvania uses 30% of its electricity from renewable power sources by 2030, up from the current 8% in state law. | https://www.fox43.com/article/tech/science/climate-science/pennsylvania-court-power-plants-pay-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions/521-7094b863-6950-436b-afb1-ceaa3674a99b | 2023-05-24 11:43:47 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/tech/science/climate-science/pennsylvania-court-power-plants-pay-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions/521-7094b863-6950-436b-afb1-ceaa3674a99b |
BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Changsha County, also known as Xingsha, in the east of Changsha City, central China's Hunan Province, puts forward Xingsha Spirit on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the launching of Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone.
Xingsha Spirit emphasizes the spirit to concern people's livelihood, to improve business environment, to step up support for the real economy, and to prioritize innovation.
For years, Xingsha Spirit has been the major source of strength for the development of Changsha County.
-- Concerning people's livelihood
Changsha County has been sparing no effort to make people's lives better.
Over the years, it has insisted on spending 80 percent of increased annual fiscal funds on people's livelihood.
It is learned that Changsha has been listed as the happiest city in China for fifteen consecutive years.
-- Improving business environment
Changsha County has been constantly improving business environment as well, laying solid foundation for its industrial development.
In 2021, it ranked first among Hunan's counties (county-level cities) in the business environment evaluation.
The County government has been streamlining administration approval and upgrading online corporate services to provide convenient and round-the-clock services for enterprises. For instance, it took only six hours to approve the cooperation between Bosch and Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, and helped SAIC Volkswagen finish online site selection in the County。
-- Stepping up support for real economy
Changsha County is the industrial powerhouse of Hunan province. For the past 30 years, Changsha County attached great importance to real economy and achieved historic leap from a backward agricultural county to one of China's top five prosperous counties.
The County worked hard and took concrete steps to build itself into a new highland of opening up that is strong in advanced manufacturing and technological innovation, and attracted a great number of large manufacturing enterprises to settle here.
Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. , Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology and other internationally renowned manufacturing companies started business in Changsha County and developed and grew stronger here.
-- Prioritizing innovation
Furthermore, innovation is the key for Changsha County's leapfrog development.
In the past 30 years, Changsha County has accelerated the cultivation of high-tech enterprises and established an all-round, whole-chain and customized cultivation service mechanism for enterprises settled down in Changsha County.
As one of China's 18 typical areas of reform and opening up, Changsha County has strived to become the pioneer of Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone in institutional innovation, and formed 12 institutional innovation achievements.
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DEAR ABBY: I was diagnosed with chronic heart failure seven years ago. It has no cure. I want to see and do more before my life is over. My husband and I have been married 29 years. After talking about this with my therapist, I was finally able to express it to my husband. He said he understands, but we will need to save for a trip and won’t be able to go until late next year.
I have told him I need to go somewhere to see more of the world very soon. I’d be willing to go by myself. He told me we needed to close out an old bank account in which there was $3,000. We have spent other money I don’t think was necessary. We are going to his sister’s wedding in a few months, which will cost around $2,500, and he’s already talking about how he’s going to take his annual vacation to see his family.
My sister said she and I should take a trip together this year to a destination four hours by car. It would be for about four days. My husband said “we’ll see” if we can afford for me to go. He doesn’t seem to realize that this is an issue about my mental health. I have explained my reasons several times. I’m tempted to just go and charge it on the credit card, but it might damage our marriage. I love him. What can I do?
— WANDERLUST IN OREGON
DEAR WANDERLUST: Your medical problem lends some urgency to your desire to scratch some items off your bucket list. In light of the fact that you are unwell, perhaps “just this once” your husband could postpone his annual family visit? Please discuss this further with your therapist. Your husband should not be controlling the purse strings to the extent he has been because it appears he has been using the money to do only the things he wants to do.
DEAR ABBY: I am at my wits’ end about my marriage. Among many other issues, today feels like the last straw. My 8-year-old son stole a small toy from a store, and I made him go back into the store with me to pay for the item. My husband chastised me for doing so, saying I humiliated the boy. I saw it as an opportunity to teach my son a lesson about taking things, and my husband is worried about him feeling humiliated?
I have tried therapy for many other issues we have, but we haven’t made much progress. After today, I’m ready to give up. Fundamentally, we just don’t have the same values or want the same things. Please tell me your thoughts on what happened with my son. It breaks my heart because it is so confusing to the boy.
— TRYING TO PARENT
DEAR TRYING: You handled the petty theft incident perfectly. You corrected your son’s misdeed and made him take responsibility for it. For that you should have been applauded, not chastised. But setting that aside for a moment, you stated that there are many problems in your marriage. Since they haven’t been able to be resolved with counseling, it may be time to weigh alternative options such as a temporary separation or divorce.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The BSA-AML Compliance Group and Dowling Advisory Group are proud to announce a list of high-profile speakers for the annual BSA/AML Gaming Conference in Las Vegas. The conference— the largest and most comprehensive anti-money laundering compliance conference dedicated to the gaming industry —will take place at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, September 27-29.
This year's conference includes speakers from 12 federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies. Whitney Case, who leads the Enforcement Division at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), will kick off the event on Tuesday, September 27 at 9:30 a.m. PDT offering guidance on fostering a culture of compliance in the gaming industry.
On Wednesday, September 28, Jim Lee, the head of IRS-Criminal Investigation Division, will deliver the keynote and discuss how law enforcement uses critical BSA data. Julie Malec, Chief of Financial Sector Investigations at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) leads the afternoon sessions beginning at 1:30 p.m.
On Thursday, September 28, Molly Moeser from the U.S. Department of Justice's Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section will deliver the keynote address, followed by a special panel discussion on "Women in Gaming".
"We are thrilled to welcome so many government officials and agencies who have agreed to share their expertise and insights with the compliance community," said James Dowling, CEO of BSA-AML Compliance Group and the Dowling Advisory Group. "Given the evolving regulatory demands, partnerships between regulators and the gaming industry are more important than ever. This conference is a critical bridge for that relationship."
Attendees will have a chance to meet face-to-face with IRS-BSA Examiners, state gaming regulators, and law enforcement to learn about money laundering, sanctions evasion, fraud, and cyber threats to their casinos.
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The annual BSA/AML Gaming Conference is the largest and most comprehensive anti-money laundering compliance conference dedicated to the gaming industry. The conference brings together regulators, law enforcement officials, and subject matter experts to help the gaming industry comply with the Bank Secrecy Act and related regulations.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte announced her candidacy for governor of New Hampshire on Monday, days after fellow Republican Chris Sununu declined to seek a fifth term.
“Gov. Sununu did a great job, but there’s going to be a vacuum there,” Ayotte said on “Fox & Friends.”
Ayotte, who became New Hampshire’s first female attorney general in 2004, would be the state’s third female elected governor, following Democrats Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.
Ayotte was elected to the Senate in 2010 but lost six years later to Hassan by just over 1,000 votes in one of the nation’s most closely watched contests. Since leaving Washington, she has served on several corporate and nonprofit boards. Ayotte said Monday she is returning to politics “to make sure that New Hampshire remains safe, prosperous and free.”
“We are one election away from becoming Massachusetts in New Hampshire, and I’m not going to let that happen,” she said. “We have something very special in New Hampshire — no income (tax), no sales tax, education freedom is so important in our state.”
Ayotte is the second Republican candidate to announce. Chuck Morse, former Republican president of the New Hampshire Senate and a former U.S. Senate candidate, announced his campaign for governor shortly after Sununu announced his decision in an email to supporters on Wednesday.
Two Democrats have already announced their campaigns, Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington. Both women have emphasized protecting abortion rights, and the issue likely will play a major role in the general election campaign regardless of who wins the nominations.
Ayotte told WMUR-TV Monday she is not looking to change the current ban on abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy that Sununu signed into state law in 2021. But a spokesperson for the Democratic Governors Association criticized Ayotte for calling for a national ban on abortion after 20 weeks of preganancy in 2014, for supporting the overturning of Roe v. Wade and opposing federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
“With her announcement today, Ayotte joins a field of losing candidates that is all but assured to grow louder, messier, and more extreme, before Granite Staters reject her once more for a candidate who will actually work to defend reproductive freedom and fix the problems they face,” the association’s deputy communications director Izzi Levy said in a statement.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat who has endorsed Craig’s campaign, dismissed Ayotte’s criticism of her state Monday.
“I’ll let the Republican primary opponents duke it out,” she said. “The Republican primary doesn’t interest me. I’m focused on what’s happening here in Massachusetts — getting a budget, getting a tax package that makes sense and working to make life better for residents in our state.”
The New Hampshire race for governor is taking shape in tandem with the 2024 presidential contest, with Republican candidates making frequent trips to the early primary state. Asked Monday which Republican will prevail in the primary, Ayotte said, “I look forward to supporting our Republican nominee.” She did not mention the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, with whom she has a tortuous history.
During her 2016 Senate campaign, Ayotte spent months supporting Trump without endorsing him. She called him a role model for children during one debate but took it back the next day. And when old recordings of Trump bragging about forcing himself on women surfaced, she rescinded her support altogether — and said she’d write in Mike Pence for president instead.
But after she lost and Trump won, his administration tapped her to help Neil Gorsuch navigate his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. And a prominent member of Trump’s inner circle in New Hampshire, Bruce Breton, is backing her gubernatorial campaign.
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According to law firm, "Significant new evidence casts doubt on claims against ballplayer
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys for Yasiel Puig announced today that significant new evidence has prompted Puig to withdraw his agreement to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal investigators and change his plea to not guilty.
In mid-November, Puig reached an agreement to plead guilty to one count of making false statements to federal investigators probing an illegal gambling ring in Southern California. Those statements occurred during a Zoom interview in January 2022 and related to betting that occurred in 2019.
Although Puig was eligible for probation under his plea agreement, he has decided to fight the allegations.
''I want to clear my name,'' Puig said. "I never should have agreed to plead guilty to a crime I did not commit.''
Puig's attorney, Keri Axel of Waymaker LLP, said significant new evidence has come to light that prompted the change in plea. She is in discussions with the government about that evidence.
"At the time of his January 2022 interview, Mr. Puig, who has a third-grade education, had untreated mental-health issues, and did not have his own interpreter or criminal legal counsel with him,'' she said. "We have reviewed the evidence, including significant new information, and have serious concerns about the allegations made against Yasiel.''
The charge against Puig stems from an investigation into a sports gambling operation run by Wayne Nix, a former minor-league baseball player. Puig, who has been playing baseball in South Korea, placed bets in 2019 through a third party and did not interact with Nix.
Nix, 46, pleaded guilty April 11 to one count of conspiracy to operate an illegal sports gambling business and one count of filing a false tax return. Four other men also pled guilty to federal charges in the Nix case.
Federal authorities said a number of professional athletes placed wagers with Nix. Puig is the only athlete targeted by authorities.
Axel said renowned civil rights attorney Lawrence Middleton has joined Puig's legal team as a consultant. Middleton was one of four attorneys who prosecuted the federal civil rights trial of LAPD officers in the Rodney King case. He also served as Chief of the Los Angeles United States Attorney's Office's Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Japan will meet next week for a summit expected to focus on expanding ties, both governments said Thursday. The announcement comes days after South Korea unveiled a major step toward resolving strained bilateral ties stemming from Tokyo’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
President Yoon Suk Yeol is to visit Japan from March 16-17 at the invitation of the Japanese government. During this two-day trip, Yoon will hold a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to the South Korean and Japanese governments.
Yoon’s office said in a statement the summit would be “an important milestone” in the development of Korea-Japan relations. It said South Korea hopes the two countries will “overcome an unfortunate past” and expand cooperation on security, economy and other sectors as a result of the visit.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Tokyo’s invitation for the South Korean leader was a result of close communication between the two countries since Yoon’s inauguration in May.
“South Korea is an important neighbor that Japan should cooperate in various issues in the international society,” Matsuno said. “Through the upcoming visit, we hope the ties between our two countries will develop further based on our relations of friendship and cooperation since the normalization of our diplomatic ties.”
The announcement on the summit came three days after South Korea said it would raise local funds to compensate Koreans who performed forced labor during Tokyo’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The South Korean plan doesn’t require Japanese companies to contribute to the reparations.
Bilateral ties suffered a major setback after South Korea’s top court in 2018 ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some of their former Korean employees for forced labor during the colonial rule. The companies and the Japanese government refused to comply with the rulings and insisted all compensation issues were settled by a bilateral 1965 treaty that normalized relations between the two countries and was accompanied by hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid and loans from Tokyo to Seoul.
The fraught Seoul-Tokyo ties complicated American efforts to reinforce its three-way security cooperation in the face of rising Chinese influence in the region and North Korean nuclear threats. President Joe Biden hailed South Korea’s announcement Monday as “a groundbreaking new chapter” of cooperation between two of the United States’ closest allies.
Since taking office, Yoon has pushed for stronger relations with Japan as a way to boost security cooperation among Seoul, Tokyo and Washington as North Korea adopted an escalatory nuclear doctrine and pushed to develop more powerful nuclear-capable missiles targeting South Korea.
The South Korean plan to end the disputes over the 2018 rulings invited fierce opposition from some of the forced labor victims involved in the lawsuits, their supporters, and liberal opposition politicians, who have called it a diplomatic surrender and demanded direct payments and a fresh apology from Japan over the issue.
On Tuesday, Yoon defended his government’s step, saying it’s crucial for Seoul to build future-oriented ties with Tokyo.
In September, Yoon and Kishida held the first summit between the two countries in nearly three years on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. During that summit, the two agreed to accelerate efforts to mend their frayed ties.
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Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/seoul-leaders-of-s-korea-japan-to-hold-summit-next-week/ | 2023-03-09 12:51:30 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/seoul-leaders-of-s-korea-japan-to-hold-summit-next-week/ |
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations secretary-general was “shocked” by a letter from Sudan’s army chief demanding the removal of the U.N. envoy to the country, Sudanese and U.N. officials said Saturday.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received the letter Friday from Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, Sudan’s top military official and head of the ruling Sovereign Council, according to U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
“The Secretary-General is shocked by the letter he received this (Friday) morning,” Dujarric said. “The Secretary-General is proud of the work done by Volker Perthes and reaffirms his full confidence in his Special Representative.”
The development comes amid fighting between the military and a paramilitary force that began in mid-April. The two sides had agreed to observe a weeklong cease-fire, brokered by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. However, the truce, which is scheduled to expire Monday night, did not stop the fighting in parts of Khartoum and elsewhere in the county.
Dujarric didn’t reveal the contents of the letter. However, a senior military official said Burhan’s letter asked Guterres to replace his envoy to the northeastern African country, who was appointed in 2021.
According to the official, Burhan accused Perthes of “being partisan,” and that his approach in pre-war talks between the generals and the pro-democracy movement helped inflame the conflict.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media.
Perthes, who was appointed in 2021 as U.N. envoy in Sudan, declined to comment on the letter.
Last year, Burhan accused Perthes of “exceeding the U.N. mission’s mandate and blatant interference in Sudanese affairs.” He threatened to expel him from the country.
Fighting in Sudan broke out in mid-April between the military, headed by Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The fighting centered in the capital of Khartoum, which was turned into a battleground along with its sister city of Omdurman. The clashes also spread elsewhere in the country, including the war-wracked Darfur region.
The conflict has killed hundreds of people, and wounded thousands of others. It also pushed more than 1.3 million out of their homes to safer areas inside Sudan, or to neighboring nations.
Burhan’s letter came after the U.N. envoy accused the warring parties of disregarding the laws of war by attacking homes, shops, places of worship and water and electricity installations.
In his briefing to the U.N. Security Council earlier this week, Perthes blamed the leaders of the military and the RSF for the war, saying that they have chosen to “settle their unresolved conflict on the battlefield rather than at the table.”
The fighting capped months of worsening tensions between rival generals, who jointly removed the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in a coup in Oct. 2021.
The power struggle between the military and the RSF has derailed internationally backed efforts to restore Sudan’s transition to democracy.
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Duggan: Stop punishing new construction in Detroit, raise taxes on vacant land
Mackinac Island — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan proposed Wednesday hiking the city's property taxes for vacant land and buildings while lowering the rate for occupied homes and businesses in a split tax plan he contends will resolve many of Detroit's blight and high property tax woes.
The proposal, dubbed the Land Value Tax Plan, would increase taxes on land while reducing taxes on homes and structures by an expected 30%, or roughly $38 million total. This would apply to every neighborhood in Michigan's largest city, requires no application and never expires.
If approved by the Michigan Legislature, and later by Detroit voters, Duggan said, the plan would provide relief to homeowners who have been struggling under the burden of high taxes, encourage further neighborhood growth and hold land speculators accountable. Duggan laid out his plan Wednesday during an annual address at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference.
Currently, private owners own roughly 30,000 neglected lots that Duggan on Wednesday described as “cheap lottery tickets” that bet on an increase in land value with no actual investment in the property. The city is forced to cut grass in the lots and remove garbage to spare surrounding neighbors while the property owners pay about $25-30 a year in taxes.
“This is what is driving me nuts,” Duggan said. “… In Detroit, blight is rewarded and building is punished.”
Under Duggan's plan, the average homeowner will see a $250 annual tax reduction, according to the mayor's office.
Owners of active businesses and land that is in productive use will also see their tax bills go down, depending on the taxable value of their assets. Currently, vacant residential lots in the city are taxed at an average of $25 annually, according to the mayor's office.
The program, which would be phased in over three years starting in 2025, would on average increase the millage rate on vacant land from 86 to 124 mills and lower the millage rate on a home from 86 to 60 mills, Duggan told The Detroit News.
House Speaker Joe Tate, D-Detroit, is supportive of the concept and is expected to spearhead efforts in the state Legislature to get the tax change passed.
Tate said Wednesday he's encouraged by relief experienced in other municipalities that have adopted similar tax formulas. Draft bill language still is being refined, but Tate said initial plans would create an opt-in program for municipalities across the state to adopt a split-tax.
"Those who would like to move forward, they can have the opportunity, but it's not a mandate for a local unit of government," Tate said in an interview with The News at the Mackinac Island policy conference.
Duggan hopes the Legislature passes the tax changes in the fall. After that, Detroit would need to hold a citywide vote because the shift would require a voter-approved increase in taxes for unoccupied land.
Duggan acknowledged during his address Wednesday that the biggest hit would be to owners of vacant lots, vacant commercial buildings, scrap yards and parking lots. Homeowners and businesses occupying Detroit buildings would be among the biggest benefactors.
Duggan said the city might see a small decline in property tax revenue because of the shift, but he was hopeful the anticipated future development spurred by the program would increase the city's income tax revenue from new residents and suburban workers.
Tax changes brewing
The effort comes as the Detroit has mobilized efforts to rectify property taxes after a class of Detroiters was over-assessed in their home property values from 2009-16, and some of them possibly lost their homes to property tax foreclosure. In 2020, a Detroit News investigation revealed the city of Detroit overtaxed homeowners by at least $600 million after it failed to accurately bring down property values in the years following the Great Recession.
Detroit Chief Financial Officer Jay Rising in April authorized the transfer of $4 million in general funds to a program that gives preferences to over-assessed homeowners seeking aid through certain initiatives. The Duggan administration and the council say the over-assessments, coupled with the expiration of resident property tax assessment appeal rights, have resulted in diminished resident household wealth in Detroit and are further exacerbated by the pandemic.
At the time, some Detroiters said the city government could do more to compensate overtaxed homeowners and criticized how much focus has been put on giving tax breaks to developers. The preferences program "just doesn't do it," and supplementing city programs "is like putting lipstick on a pig," said the Rev. Charles E. Williams II, pastor of the historic King Solomon Baptist Church.
Wayne County seized about 100,000 Detroit properties for unpaid property taxes from 2011 through 2015, about a quarter of all parcels, researchers have found. More than 28,000 families suffered foreclosures, while Detroit charged at least 96,000 homeowners double what it legally should have in property taxes.
Detroit residents, developers weigh in
Jeff Horner, an associate professor for Wayne State University’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, said the land value tax system would result in higher property tax payments for vacant land owners and provide more of an incentive to develop empty land.
“I would be very surprised if in relatively short time, maybe within about five years, that if this land tax was operational, that would lead to putting a much higher tax bill on a lot of the empty lots that are right downtown,” he said. “Specifically the parking lots. All of the vacant land that is in the immediate downtown area because it is those are very lightly taxed enterprises. Mostly parking lots."
Horner doesn't think a property tax bill will make or break any parking deals, but that owners would be making less money while paying a higher tax bill.
"But what would really would bump out a lot of those parking lots would be the immediate demand for that land in the downtown area because now developing this site just got a whole lot cheaper," Horner said.
Real estate developer Cliff Brown, managing partner for Woodborn Partners, said the land value tax will benefit Detroit homeowners as well as developers active in the city.
“The hope and goal would be that it would be more equitable to people who actually own properties and are actually taking care of their properties,” Brown said.
Brown said the tax will motivate speculators to not let their properties sit undeveloped. It will also create more opportunity for developers, he said.
Woodborn Partners developed The Coe at West Village, a townhome and apartment complex, on a former vacant lot on Van Dyke. The firm has under development The Brooke, a mixed-income apartment complex, on a former vacant lot on Bagley.
“If we're not developing something it’s because we're trying to figure out how to get the deal to financially make sense,” Brown said. “And most of the deals in Detroit just don't make sense. The cost of development is higher than the value of the property."
Charity Dean, president and CEO of the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance, voiced support for the plan, noting 70% of Detroit small businesses would likely see a reduction in taxes.
“When we prioritize small businesses, we create jobs, foster innovation and build a thriving economy that benefits everyone," Dean said. "Mayor Duggan’s Land Value Tax Plan recognizes this by providing relief to those businesses.”
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MIAMI, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Virtual Restaurant company Virturant, announced a substantial upgrade to its in-house SaaS technology suite with the launch of its Virtual Restaurant Order Manager App on the Google Play Store.
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Kentucky vs. Providence: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - First Round
An opening-round NCAA Tournament matchup will see the 11th-seeded Providence Friars (21-11) take the court as 4.5-point underdogs against the No. 6 seed Kentucky Wildcats (21-11) on Friday at Greensboro Coliseum. The contest starts at 7:10 PM on CBS. Here's what you need to know when filling out your brackets for this 6-11 matchup. The matchup has an over/under of 144.5 points.
Kentucky vs. Providence Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, March 17, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: CBS
- Where: Greensboro, North Carolina
- Venue: Greensboro Coliseum
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Kentucky vs Providence Betting Records & Stats
- The Wildcats are 15-15-0 against the spread this season.
- This season, Kentucky has won 13 of its 19 games, or 68.4%, when favored by at least -190 on the moneyline.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Wildcats have a 65.5% chance to win.
- Providence's ATS record is 16-12-0 this season.
- The Friars have a win-loss record of 2-5 with odds of +155 or worse this year.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies Providence has a 39.2% chance of coming away with a victory in the contest.
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Additional Kentucky vs Providence Insights & Trends
- Kentucky is 6-4 against the spread and 6-4 overall over its past 10 contests.
- Seven of Wildcats' past 10 outings have gone over the total.
- Providence has a 5-5 record against the spread while going 5-5 overall over its last 10 contests.
- Six of the Friars' last 10 outings have hit the over.
- The 75.1 points per game the Wildcats average are only 3.8 more points than the Friars give up (71.3).
- Kentucky is 11-7 against the spread and 15-4 overall when scoring more than 71.3 points.
- The Friars put up 10.1 more points per game (78.1) than the Wildcats allow their opponents to score (68).
- When it scores more than 68 points, Providence is 15-8 against the spread and 20-5 overall.
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North Carolina police respond to 'active shooting,' tell residents to 'remain in their homes'
RALEIGH, N.C. - Police in Raleigh, North Carolina responded to an active shooting on Thursday and were telling residents to "remain in their homes."
"The Raleigh Police Department is currently on the scene of an active shooting in the area of the Neuse River Greenway near Osprey Cove Drive and Bay Harbor Drive. Residents in that area are advised to remain in their homes," the Raleigh Police Department Tweeted.
Freeze from live footage at the scent of an active shooting situation in Raleigh, North Carolina. (FOX TV Stations)
A representative from WakeMed hospital in Raleigh told Fox News Digital that it has received three patients from the incident.
Fox News Digital has reached out to North Carolina authorities.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said that law enforcement is working to stop the shooter.
"I have spoken with Mayor Baldwin and instructed state law enforcement to provide assistance responding to the active shooter in East Raleigh. State and local officers are on the ground and working to stop the shooter and keep people safe," Cooper said.
The Charlotte, North Carolina Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been deployed to assist with the situation also. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/north-carolina-police-respond-to-active-shooting-tell-residents-to-remain-in-their-homes | 2022-10-14 00:06:54 | 0 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/north-carolina-police-respond-to-active-shooting-tell-residents-to-remain-in-their-homes |
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — Pressure is mounting at the Texas-Mexico border now that Title 42 has come to an end. Migrants trying to get into America are now in limbo waiting there.
There is a lot of uncertainty now as the U.S. has reverted back to a policy that was previously in place called Title 8.
These new rules now in place aim to crack down on illegal crossings, hoping to instead set up legal pathways for immigrants to cross into America.
However, for those who seek asylum and travel from countries in South and Central America, they would first need to seek asylum in their home countries before traveling through Mexico.
"We're excited about that victory but frankly we're concerned about the Biden Administrations revival of transit bans," Sharon Dove, director of the justice program at the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, said. "The effect of the policy is to deny asylum to anyone passing through another country before they get to the U.S.-Mexican border."
Dove said it's a policy that was put in place by the prior administration but is now back. She said she believes the ongoing economic and political struggles could hamper the safety of those traveling.
Jina Krause-Vilmar, president and CEO of Upwardly Global, told WCNC Charlotte that other countries are seeing thousands of asylum seekers also, which is creating a backlog of asylum cases.
"Most countries like Panama, Columbia and Ecuador have long waiting times as well as some people that are detained while asylum cases are pending," Krause-Vilmar said. "We also know it's not safe in Mexico and in many of these countries that people have to go through."
The Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy confirmed that there are a number of national nonprofits already drafting up litigation to try and end the transit ban, among other things inside the new laws.
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GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most spectacular tracks through the Alps.
The Rhaetian Railway company ran the 1.9-kilometer-long (1.2-mile-long) train composed of 100 coaches along the Albula/Bernina route from Preda to Berguen.
The route was designated a UNESCO World Heritage in 2008 and leads through 22 tunnels, some of which spiral through mountains, and across 48 bridges, including the curved Landwasser Viaduct.
The entire journey took over an hour. Rail enthusiasts lined the valley to watch the train’s 25 sections wind their way about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) through the Alps.
Rhaetian Railway director Renato Fasciati said the record attempt was intended to highlight some of Switzerland’s engineering achievements and to celebrate 175 years of Swiss railways. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/swiss-claim-record-for-worlds-longest-passenger-train | 2022-10-29 22:01:19 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/swiss-claim-record-for-worlds-longest-passenger-train |
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MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Spirit Airlines Inc. (SAVE) on Wednesday reported a loss of $103.9 million in its first quarter.
The Miramar, Florida-based company said it had a loss of 95 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 82 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 89 cents per share.
The airline posted revenue of $1.35 billion in the period, which met Street forecasts.
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Years ago, I was doggedly answering the questions on some standardized high school achievement test when I was asked to identify the poetic device employed in the following stanza:
That gap is the grave where the tall return.’ ”
Alliteration was presumably the answer wanted, but I’m not sure I knew that. I do remember wondering what a “midden” was. Still, the first line and its pleasing singsong of “reader to rider” stuck in my mind. Only later did I learn that they were the opening words of a poem by W.H. Auden, who would become one of my favorite writers.
Princeton University Press has just published “The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939” and “The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973,” edited by the poet’s indefatigable literary executor, Edward Mendelson. Together, the linked pair reprint each individual collection issued in the poet’s lifetime, as well as uncollected or rejected works and fragments. Meticulously detailed endnotes supply every poem’s bibliographical history and track Auden’s obsessive tinkerings and revisions. The two volumes — priced at $60 each — clock in at 2,000 pages and are a true bargain, as well as a dazzling, scholarly triumph for both Mendelson and Princeton. What’s more, they form the capstone to the monumental “The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose,” which includes six previously issued volumes gathering all the British American poet’s essays, talks, plays and juvenilia.
Many readers, admittedly, will be happy with just the Vintage paperback “Selected Poems of W.H. Auden,” also edited by Mendelson. Still, it’s easy to become an Auden completist. My own passion really caught fire at Oberlin College after I made the acquaintance of Robert Phelps, the literary journalist father of one of my roommates. Not only did Robert teach a course on Auden at Manhattan’s New School, his Greenwich Village apartment housed copies of all the poet’s books, as well as much associated material.
Through Robert’s influence, I began to discover the breadth of Auden’s genius. I remember opening the 1962 essay collection “The Dyer’s Hand” one Sunday morning during a breakfast at South Hall that featured hot, freshly made doughnuts. Much later, after Robert’s death, I inherited his copy of “The Enchafèd Flood” (1950) — Auden’s thrilling study of the romantic iconography of the sea — as well as his jacketless, scribbled-in first editions of the poetry. Nearly all these feature pictures of the author taped to the endpapers, and in “Another Time” (1940) — probably Auden’s greatest single collection — Robert left a postcard of Bruegel’s painting “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” which inspired the famous “Musée des Beaux Arts”: “About suffering, they were never wrong/ The Old Masters.”
While the meanings of Auden’s poems can sometimes be elusive, nearly all of them contain lines and passages that take your breath away. In his earliest efforts, the poet almost seems to be channeling T.S. Eliot:
“It is time for the destruction of error.
The chairs are being brought in from the garden,
The summer talk stopped on that savage coast
Before the storms, after the guests and birds:
In sanitoriums they laugh less and less,
Less certain of cure; and the loud madman
Sinks now into a more terrible calm.”
At other times, Auden’s phrases approach the surreal: “In the infected sinus, and the eyes of stoats” or “A crack in the teacup opens/ A lane to the land of the dead.” A master of light verse, he can also be very funny: “Goddess of bossy underlings, Normality!” Some poems, like “Epitaph on a Tyrant,” remain sadly all too relevant: “When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,/ And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”
In his youth, Auden planned to become a mining engineer, and he’s always terrific at depicting industrial landscapes — he gravitates to tram lines and slag heaps — but he can also survey rough terrain through the eyes of a secret agent: “Control of the passes was, he saw, the key” or “Watching with binoculars the movement of the grass for an ambush,/ The pistol cocked, the code-word committed to memory …”
Of Auden’s book-length works, I most love “The Sea and the Mirror” (1944), built around poems in various styles spoken by the characters from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The barroom ballad “Master and Boatswain” starts this way:
“At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's
We drank our liquor straight,
Some went upstairs with Margery,
And some, alas, with Kate …”
After that roistering swagger, the poem unexpectedly closes with the conjunction of the wistful and worldly:
“The nightingales are sobbing in
The orchards of our mothers,
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others.”
In the second, American half of his life, Auden grew “ashamed” — his word — of several of his most revered works of the 1930s, calling them “dishonest” rhetorical trash. Victims of this aesthetic puritanism included “Spain 1937” (“Today the struggle”), “Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all,” and “Sept. 1, 1939.s The opening of this last always feels timely, but seldom more so than now:
“I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-Second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low, dishonest decade.
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth …”
Mendelson notes that the poem was actually begun on Sept. 2 in New Jersey — at the home of the dentist father of Auden’s partner Chester Kallman — and finished by Sept. 7. So in one sense, it is dishonest. According to another revelatory note, Auden actually planned to drop his most tender lyric, “Lay your sleeping head, my love,” from his collected shorter poems, until Kallman insisted he keep it in. Great artists aren’t always the best judges of their work.
In the 1950s and 60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite. One poem from “About the House” (1965) ends with the line “the true olamic silence.” (Olamic refers to a vast period of time, eons.) Appropriately, in “The Cave of Making” — also from “About the House” — Auden lovingly describes his dictionaries as “the very best money can buy” and stresses that the windows of his study in Austria admit “a light one could mend a watch by.” Here, he concludes, “silence is turned into objects.” Need one add that those objects, wherever they were handcrafted, stand high among the best and most enjoyable poems of the 20th century?
Michael Dirda reviews books for Style every Thursday.
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Princeton University Press. 848 pp. $60
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Princeton University Press. 1120 pp. $60
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Couple killed at Texas mall shooting along with 3-year-old son had ‘perfect synergy’
DALLAS (AP) — Kyu Cho had a generous spirit and joyous belly laugh that delighted his friends. His wife, Cindy Cho, was quieter, described by those who knew her as sweet and kind. Together, the parents of two young sons complemented each other perfectly, strong in their faith and devoted to family and friends.
“That’s what I keep hearing in my head when I think of them: Just Kyu laughing so deeply and Cindy just kind of shaking her head and laughing along,” said their friend, Phyllis Myung. “Every interaction I ever had with them, we were always laughing so hard.”
Cindy and Kyu grew up in Texas. They met while pursuing their careers as young adults in Boston — her as a dentist, him as an attorney. Wanting to be near their families, they decided it was time to return to Texas when they started a family of their own.
The couple and their sons — 6-year-old William and 3-year-old James — were not far from their Dallas home when a gunman opened fire at an outdoor mall as they shopped earlier this month in the suburb of Allen. Kyu, 37, Cindy, 35, and James were among the eight people killed that sunny Saturday afternoon. The family’s only survivor was William, who was wounded.
Those killed represented a multicultural cross-section of the increasingly diverse area. Authorities haven’t yet established the motive of the gunman, who was killed by a police officer, but have said he was a neo-Nazi who left a trail of online posts describing his white supremacist and misogynistic views.
The tragedy that befell the Cho family touched so many that a GoFundMe page quickly raised over $1.8 million for before being closed. With William home from the hospital, family members said in a statement that they are focused on making sure he “leads a happy, healthy life with his extended family who love him dearly.”
Cindy and Kyu, who met through their Boston church, “really, really wanted to have kids,” Myung said.
“It was a common thing to see one of them holding one of the kids at our church,” said Myung, who worshipped with them in Boston. “They were really ready to be parents.”
Thomas Huang, another friend from their church, said the phrase that always came to mind when he’d see Kyu and Cindy together was “relationship goals.”
“Even though Cindy was definitely a little bit more on the introverted side and Kyu was more extroverted, they kind of had this balance where it was like this perfect synergy of that energy,” Huang said.
For instance, he said, Kyu was more into dancing than his wife, but at their wedding, she worked to get people on the dance floor.
“She really made an effort to dance and kind of get people into it because she knew that Kyu loved to dance and wanted to get everyone involved and get everyone excited about it,” Huang said.
Both “had incredible strength,” he said, and were like older siblings to many.
“Everywhere they’ve gone, every stage of their lives, they’ve just impacted people in such deep and profound ways,” Huang said.
Kyu, who worked as an immigration attorney at Porter Legal Group, was born in South Korea and raised in Dallas, according to the law firm’s website, which said he had “a deep pride, respect, and appreciation for the American Dream.”
He graduated with his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2007, then graduated in 2010 from the Ave Maria School of Law in Florida, the website said.
Cindy, who grew up in College Station and Houston, graduated with her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas in 2009, then graduated in 2013 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry.
The dentistry school’s dean, Dr. Peter M. Loomer, said Cindy — whose name was Cindy Kang before she married, the name she went by when practicing dentistry — was “a kind and caring student, always doing the best to help improve the health and lives of her patients.”
A Facebook post from Thrive Dental and Orthodontics, where she worked, said she was “the sweetest, most beautiful soul with the kindest heart.”
Growing up, Cindy loved reading and was serious-minded when she needed to be, said David Kim, whose family went to the same Korean church as her family in College Station. He said the families stayed close even when Cindy’s family moved to Houston, where they’d still meet up for outings to places like the old AstroWorld amusement park.
“She’s just a sweet soul,” Kim said.
Kyu was not only skilled in the art of tae kwon do but also could play everything from classical music to Coldplay on the piano, his friends said. Friend Young Min Kim said he was someone who could talk to anyone.
Adam Dame, Kyu’s roommate all four years at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, said he knew within a week or two of meeting that he’d “hit the roommate lottery.” Kyu, he said, had an “infectious, big laugh.”
“I always wanted to make him laugh because I just loved hearing it,” Dame said. “He filled you with a lot of joy.”
Myung said both Kyu and Cindy worked to make sure people felt “included and cared for and seen.” She said that as she grieves, she comforts herself with the hope she will see her friends again in heaven.
“I think that’s the only thing that’s helping the grief, is to know that one day we’ll all be laughing together again,” Myung said.
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Mason Ziegler was told at the family dinner table when he was 5 years old that he was going to try wrestling.
“My parents told me I was making a commitment,” Ziegler said. “I was 5, so I was not sure what commitment meant.
“I wanted to quit the first few years in, then I was only going to wrestle until middle school. Now, I’m here.”
Quakertown teammate Collin Gaj started wrestling at 6. He showed up for the first open workout in jeans and sneakers. He was a novice exhibition competitor his first season, then won an 8U state title the next.
The two Panthers combined for 86 victories last season, but left Hershey’s Giant Center much like they did that first season in the sport.
“I was young, had a lot to learn,” said Gaj of his freshman season. “I came in thinking I was pretty good at this wrestling thing. I was wrong. I had a lot to learn.”
Gaj finished fourth, twice losing to fellow first-year varsity standout Kollin Rath of Bethlehem Catholic. Ziegler didn’t get any medal after falling in overtime to State College’s Asher Cunningham, who didn’t take one shot attempt in regulation.
The Quakertown duo left knowing they had to change.
“It lit a fire under me,” Ziegler said. “I don’t want to feel that way again. I’m not going to feel that way again.”
So, the two embarked on an offseason wrestling odyssey.
They, along with teammate Calvin Lachman, went to Black Sheep and Stellar Trained clubs. They went to Fargo, Ultimate Club Duals in State College, Waterway Duals at Spooky Nook and Super 32.
There was no down time in the offseason.
“It takes a special breed to not shut down and grind all year and hold your weight,” Quakertown coach Kurt Handel said. “The way the state tournament ended gave them that drive to put in the time in the offseason.”
It allowed Gaj time to fix things he didn’t in the regular season because he was so successful as a freshman.
It allowed Ziegler to adjust his technique so that six quality shot attempts were better than 12 shot attempts.
“You can wrestle smarter and go harder,” Handel said. “That’s why when I tell [Ziegler] to take a day off from wrestling, he says, ‘OK, I’ll go lift and run five miles.’
“He’s learning how to bring that mentality of going 100 mph into his technique, not just go shoot, shoot, shoot. He’s gotten a lot more technical in the offseason.”
Gaj and Ziegler are ready to test their offseason learning experiences. They expect a different feeling come March.
Time will tell. Wrestling can be cruel. One thing is for sure: They won’t be outworked.
1. Explosion
Lachman went from a 14-match winner as a soft, undersized 152-pound freshman to a 38-match winner who reached the state tournament at 172 as a sophomore.
But now he’s taken it to a whole new level.
Lachman found the weight room in the offseason and apparently never left it. He is now all of 215 pounds and almost all muscle.
“He went from a boy to a man,” Handel said. “He fell in love with weightlifting, nutrition, how to eat healthy, eating the proper proteins, what shakes to drink. He’s thinking about majoring in sports nutrition.
“He makes all his own food, monitors his calorie intake. He became obsessed and it paid off.”
Now Lachman has to adjust his wrestling style because competing at 215 is not the same as 172.
“We’ve had a lot of conversations,” Handel said. “You’ve got to slow down a little bit, pick your shots. You can’t just go under people.”
Fortunately Lachman joined Gaj and Ziegler at the clubs and the preseason Duals for Stellar Trained by Chance Marsteller. Lachman worked out with highly skilled wrestlers and experienced what it was like to have all that weight on top of him.
Marsteller, who became the state’s fifth undefeated four-time state champion while at Kennard-Dale, worked with Lachman to make those style adjustments.
2. Panthers’ lineup
There are a few spots of concern because of injuries and the growth of the returning wrestlers.
Freshman Ashley Stank, a first-year wrestler with a gymnastics background, could start the season at 107 until freshman Waylen Strzelski gets healthy and down to this weight.
Junior Isaac Williams, who won 25 matches last season, will be at 114. Freshman Logan Pfistner and Ziegler could flip-flop between 121 and 127 depending on the matchups in a dual meet.
Senior Cody Stank, Ashley’s older brother, is at 133. Junior Josh Camacho, who returned after a few years off, is at 139.
Gaj will start the season at 145.
Sophomore Max Hibsman is at 152 until sophomore Gavin Carroll returns from finger surgery. Senior Zach Borzio, who was regional sixth last season, is at 160. Sophomore Dylan Fenstermacher is at 172.
Freshman Carolina Hattala could start the year at 189. Her uncle, Tommy Petko, was a state runner-up in 1997 for Quakertown. Her mother, Becky Petko, was a Division I field hockey player.
“She’s one of the strongest freshman girls I’ve ever met,” Handel said. “She’s going to medal at the girls state tournament this year.”
Lachman is at 215 and senior Drew Tibbets and junior Keon Lopez are at 285. Lopez took off the previous two years.
“Our lineup down low really changed with the kids growing up,” Handel said. “Our lineup just exploded.
“We’ll be competitive. All the kids have talked about is getting back to team states and making it to Saturday. We got the monkey off our back last year by winning a dual out there. If our .500 guys make those strides and everyone gets back healthy come January, we should be where we can get back out there.
“But we’re one injury away from not being a great dual meet team because we don’t have any depth.”
Quakertown is 16 wins shy of 600 in program history.
3. Quakertown’s 2022-23 schedule
(at 7 p.m. unless noted)
Dec. 14: Council Rock South
Dec. 16-17: X-Calibur at Wilkes University
Dec. 21: at Pennridge
Dec. 28-29: Bethlehem Holiday Wrestling Classic at Liberty
Jan. 4: at Abington
Jan. 7: Parkland Duals, 10 a.m.
Jan. 11: at Upper Dublin
Jan. 14: Escape the Rock at Council Rock South, 10 a.m.
Jan. 15: Escape the Rock at Council Rock South, 9 a.m.
Sports Buzz
Jan. 18: Plymouth Whitemarsh
Jan. 21: Quakertown Duals
Jan. 25: Wissahickon
Jan. 26: District 1 Class 3A duals
Feb. 1: at Hatboro-Horsham
Morning Call reporter Tom Housenick can be reached at 610-820-6651 or at thousenick@mcall.com
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The gas giant Jupiter is coming the closest it has come to Earth in 59 years this Monday and will be particularly visible because it coincides with another event called opposition.
When in opposition, a planet is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, so you could draw a straight line from the sun to Earth to Jupiter, all in alignment. Jupiter's opposition happens every 13 months. Looking from the Earth, when the sun sets in the west, Jupiter will rise in the east, directly opposite. During opposition, planets appear at their biggest and brightest.
Separately, Jupiter is coming closer to Earth than it has since 1963. Because of Earth's and Jupiter's differing orbits around the sun, they don't pass each other at the same distance each time. When it's closest on Monday, Jupiter will be about 367 million miles from Earth, according to NASA. At its farthest, it's 600 million miles away.
The result of both is that the views may be somewhat better than normal.
"Jupiter is so bright and brilliant that a really nice thing about it is even in a city, in the middle of a bright city, you can see it," says Alphonse Sterling, a NASA astrophysicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "So I would say that it's a good thing to take advantage of and to look at no matter where you're at."
He mentions that Jupiter is always easily visible in the night sky as long as it's not near the sun and that it might be hard for a casual observer to notice any difference in size.
Sterling says he was also able to see the largest moons of Jupiter a few days ago with just a pair of 7x50 binoculars (7 times magnification with a 50 mm objective lens).
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the four moons referred to as Jupiter's Galilean satellites. The term comes from Galileo Galilei, who discovered them more than 400 years ago.
If you don't have a telescope, you'll need a way to hold binoculars very steady to get a good view. Sterling says he used a ledge.
"I could definitely see the moons, you know, off to the side of Jupiter looking like little stars," he says. "So that's a fun thing that can be done. And that's certainly easier now than it would be if Jupiter's at its furthest."
The Galilean satellites are among Jupiter's 53 named moons, though scientists have found 79 in total.
A month ago, NASA released new images of Jupiter and its moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Additionally, NASA's Juno spacecraft has been providing excellent images since it began orbiting Jupiter six years ago.
The next time Jupiter will come this close will be in 2129.
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Expands Lawn & Garden Solutions Capabilities in Mid-Atlantic Region
ATLANTA, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oldcastle APG®, a CRH company, has acquired the bagging assets of Grant County Mulch, a leading manufacturer and distributor of mulch, soil and decorative stone headquartered in Petersburg, West Virginia. The acquired assets, which include five bagging facilities, will operate within Oldcastle APG's Lawn & Garden division.
"We are very pleased to welcome Grant County Mulch's highly complementary resources to the APG portfolio," said Tim Ortman, President, Oldcastle APG. "The addition of its solutions capability to our Lawn & Garden business will help strengthen our competitive positioning in the Mid-Atlantic US while enhancing our ability to best serve our customers across the country."
With bagging and distribution locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Grant County Mulch's geographic platform will enable Oldcastle APG's Lawn & Garden business to deepen its manufacturing footprint and provide solutions to a broader customer base in the area. Additionally, the acquisition will augment Oldcastle APG's existing plant network and manufacturing expertise.
Established in 1986, Grant County Mulch quickly earned a reputation as a leading supplier of high-quality landscaping products including hardwood mulch, color-enhanced mulch, potting soil, pine nuggets, compost and stone. The company's commitment to developing premium packaged products and environmentally conscious processes further supports Oldcastle APG's dedication to producing comprehensive and sustainable solutions for its customers. Grant County Mulch will retain its bulk mulch and other bulk products operations and facilities.
The addition of Grant County Mulch's bagging assets to the APG network follows several recent acquisitions by Oldcastle APG, including Soil Mender Products and South Jersey Agriculture Products, centered around expanding its Lawn & Garden solutions offerings in attractive markets.
Learn more about Oldcastle APG at oldcastleapg.com.
About Oldcastle APG
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Uber lost and found list includes unique items like lightsaber, fake blood and teeth
Uber Technologies Inc has released the annual list of items left in vehicles by riders, which includes several odd things, such as an ankle monitor, people’s pets, dentures and teeth.
The rideshare company released its annual list on April 27 to give people a snapshot of the most forgotten items, as well as some of which are truly unique.
The list breaks down which cities are the most forgetful, what time of day and days of the week people are the most forgetful, and global forgetfulness trends.
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Uber said the top 10 most forgotten items were clothing, phones, backpacks and purses, headphones, jewelry, keys, books, laptops and watches.
Jacksonville, Florida ranked as the most forgetful cities, according to Uber’s data, followed by San Antonio, Texas; Palm Springs, California; Houston, Texas; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
The most "unique" item left in a vehicle, Uber showed in its top 50 list, was a Danny DeVito Christmas ornament.
Other notables include a person’s toy poodle, a fog machine, ankle monitor, 16 ounces of fake blood, a printer and remote-control vibrator, and a pin of Jesus holding a slice of pizza.
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Also making the top 50 list were a Statue of Liberty green foam crown, a lightsaber, hamsters, two painted rat traps, a power of attorney document issued by a Turkish consulate, pet turtles, a slab of bluefin tuna, self-respect, a slushy machine, and a fake tooth.
Uber said it saw a significant spike in lost Disney and Harry Potter items, especially Minnie ears.
Last year, there were over 40 instances of misplaced teeth, Uber said, but there was a decrease in diamond grills.
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Passengers left a few "private" items like underwear, condoms and sex toys, as well as shawls, creating quite a few cold shoulders during rides.
The number one lost gaming device in Ubers was the Nintendo Switch, with over 70 consoles being left behind.
Uber reminds passengers to remember to leave with their medicinal and recreational marijuana, saying, "We’ve seen a ‘high’ increase in forgotten ganja goods."
Uber noted that Canadians reported losing everything from a bedsheet to an Apple pen, to a bathroom shelf, and riders in Taiwan left behind a gift box that looks like an egg yolk, a black belt, a blood pressure machine, a light-yellow dolphin puppet and dog food.
In the U.S., Saturday and Sunday ranked as the most forgetful days of the week, 11 p.m. ranked as the most common time of the day when people reported items lost, and April seemed to be the most forgetful month.
Anyone who leaves an item in a vehicle can visit the help page on Uber’s website, which outlines how to get the item back.
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Riders can also go into the app, click on the menu icon to open the main menu, select "Your Trips," click on the trip the item was lost on, and tap "Find lost item." | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/uber-lost-and-found-list-includes-unique-items-like-lightsaber-fake-blood-and-teeth | 2023-05-01 16:15:19 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/uber-lost-and-found-list-includes-unique-items-like-lightsaber-fake-blood-and-teeth |
Authorities have identified a man whose body was found Wednesday in a recycling truck, according to a Pulaski County sheriff's office news release Sunday.
The body of Terry Bailey, 68, of Hoxie was discovered after the truck emptied its contents at Central Arkansas Recycling on Ironton Road in Little Rock, the release said.
Employees found the body while sorting the contents of the recycling truck and contacted the sheriff's office.
Detectives have begun an investigation.
Bailey's body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for autopsy, the results of which are still pending, the release said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office at (501) 340-6963. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/13/officials-id-mans-body-found-in-truck/ | 2022-06-13 11:04:48 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/13/officials-id-mans-body-found-in-truck/ |
CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) is raising awareness of a systematic review indicating a wide variety of common activity significantly accelerates the release of mercury from amalgam dental fillings. Over 120 million Americans have amalgam dental fillings, which are approximately 50% elemental mercury.
The results of the study, "How Do Different Physical Stressors' Affect the Mercury Release from Dental Amalgam Fillings and Microleakage? A Systematic Review" found that exposure to static magnetic fields (SMF) such as those generated by MRI, electromagnetic fields (EMF) such as those produced by wi-fi and mobile phones; ionizing electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and non- Ionizing electromagnetic radiation such as lasers and light cure devices can all significantly increase the release of mercury from amalgam restorations and/or cause microleakage.
The study authors conclude that "specific groups such as children, fertile women, elderly and hypersensitive individuals may be at risk". These concerns mirror the Food and Drug Administrations 2020 amalgam warnings to avoid dental amalgam in these high-risk populations.
Previous studies have found that even one amalgam dental filling can exceed the minimum risk level for mercury. The mercury from dental amalgam fillings has been associated with a wide variety of adverse health effects, especially demyelination as outlined in the IAOMT's position paper on the risks of mercury amalgam dental fillings.
"Considering the mountain of scientific evidence showing harm by the mercury released from amalgam dental fillings, it's therefore important for patients with dental amalgam fillings to either avoid future mercury fillings or have them safely removed by an IAOMT dentist certified in the Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART)." Explains David Edwards, DMD, President of the IAOMT, who goes on to say, "These findings have huge implications for both patient safety and public health."
The IAOMT is committed to ensuring that dental care practices remain safe by researching potential risks associated with dental treatments, as there are substantial risks from mercury fillings, fluoride, root canal treatments and jawbone osteonecrosis.
The IAOMT is a non-profit organization dedicated to biological dentistry and its mission of protecting public health and the environment since it was founded in 1984.
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David Kennedy, DDS, IAOMT Public Relations Chair, info@iaomt.org
International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT)
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Post Malone is once again asking a court to dismiss the authorship dispute over “Circles.” This time, he’s accusing Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who claims he’s owed songwriting credit, of concealing “critical” evidence.
Law360 obtained the filing, in which the rapper argues Armes deleted text messages that would refute the claim he was present at the August 2018 jam session that created fragments of the hit song.
“These critical documents speak volumes as to plaintiff’s intent on the night during which he claims to have jointly authored musical material with defendants, and also refute plaintiff’s narrative that defendants invited him to work with them to be a co-author,” the filing reads.
Instead, the text messages show Armes was trying to make it onto the guest list to two of Post’s shows — offering to manager Dre London that he’d bring “lots of girls.” The filing notes these concealed messages are “glaringly devoid of any mention of any songwriting with Post, no less a songwriting session.”
Armes claims he’s due partial ownership of the song because he contributed a guitar riff to it.
In addition, Post alleges Armes doctored other text messages to bolster his claims. The singer alleges Armes didn’t submit London’s portion of their conversation and did so to conceal that London was unaware there was any talk of co-songwriting.
The “Sunflower” singer claimed Armes was “fully aware” he submitted incomplete evidence, which he argues “is tantamount to committing a fraud on this court.”
With this filing, Post’s team is hopeful the court will dismiss Armes’ suit and allow for sanctions to be placed upon him.
Armes’ team has responded, saying the accusations have “zero merit” and are “nothing more than a desperate ploy by Post Malone to avoid having this case decided.”
The case is set to proceed in October.
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Instead of struggling across a beach with a bag of towels in one hand, snorkel gear in the other and a cooler in the crook of your arm, load all your gear into a beach wagon for a smoother trip. Naturally, you want a wagon that will make the walk easier, not harder, so choose carefully.
Decent wagons have large wheels to roll smoothly over sand and are spacious but not too heavy.
What to look for in a beach wagon
Some wagons labeled as “beach wagons” aren’t great for use at the beach. Some struggle on the sand, while others are difficult to pull, don’t hold enough or are hard to pack up in the trunk of your car. However, once you know what to look for, it’s easier to choose a wagon that’s genuinely useful on beach trips.
Size
A good beach cart is spacious enough to carry everything you need but not so large that it’s overly heavy and sinks into the sand. One that measures around 36 inches long and 18 to 24 inches across is usually large enough to carry everything for a group of four to six.
Weight capacity
You should also consider the maximum weight capacity of a wagon. Most carry up to 100 to 150 pounds, which is more than enough for an average day of swimming and playing at the beach. However, you can find versions that hold up to 300 pounds. With that much weight, any wagon is tough to pull in loose sand, so a huge weight capacity isn’t necessary.
Foldability
Unless you’re lucky enough to live within walking distance of the beach, you’ll probably need to pack your cart in the trunk of your car. That’s why folding ones are best for beach use. They should fold up small enough to fit in your car, along with all your beach gear. Plus, they should be easy to fold and unfold so your beach trip doesn’t end in frustration.
Telescoping handle
A telescoping handle makes a wagon comfortable for people of varying heights to pull. It’s especially important for anyone significantly taller or shorter than average. The handle should also adjust upward and downward for more comfortable use.
Materials
Wagons for use at the beach should be made from materials strong enough to withstand regular use. However, since heavy carts are tougher to pull on loose sand, materials must be relatively light.
- Fabric: The body of most beach carts is made from fabric. Nylon, canvas or Oxford cloth are all durable choices.
- Aluminum: Aluminum is a lightweight frame material, but it isn’t always the strongest unless made from a quality aluminum alloy, which can be pricey.
- Steel: Steel isn’t known as a light metal, but it is strong. However, steel-framed wagons aren’t excessively heavy because they’re made from steel tubes, not solid steel.
FAQ
Which wagons roll best on sand?
A. Most wagons work well on wet or densely packed sand, but many struggle on soft, deep sand. Large, wide wheels roll better on this type of sand than smaller, thinner wheels. However, the best wagons for loose sand are those with inflatable balloon tires. These roll much more easily over all types of sand.
The weight of the cart also makes a difference. You’ll find it much harder to pull a lightly-loaded cart over loose sand than one packed to its maximum weight capacity.
How do you use a beach wagon?
A. You simply unfold it, pack it with your belongings and pull it along using the handle. It’s best to pack the heaviest items first to create a solid base for everything that goes on top of them. Once you’re back home or at your car, unpack it and fold it back up for easier transportation.
Best beach wagons
Sorin Outdoor Foldable Beach Cart
Thanks to its balloon wheels, this wagon rolls easily over soft, loose sand as well as wet and densely-packed sand. It is spacious but folds small enough for easy storage.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Alumacart Big Kahuna Aluminum Beach Wagon
It might be pricey, but you can’t beat this cart for its durability and ability to roll over all types of sand easily. It feels sturdy and is made in the USA.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
MacSports Folding All-Terrain Utility Beach Wagon
Its large, wide wheels let it roll relatively smoothly over all types of sand, though it can struggle on loose sand if it’s especially full. It is well-constructed and folds easily.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Thanks to its all-terrain wheels, this wagon is a great choice for the beach. That said, it can be challenging to haul over deep, loose sand.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Patio Watcher Collapsible Utility Wagon
With a maximum capacity of 150 pounds, this large, deep wagon can fit lots of gear. Its wide, all-terrain wheels are great for most sand, but it can struggle on deep sand if fully loaded.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Noah Song has no illusions of the challenges still ahead as he approaches the end of his first week of spring training after joining the Philadelphia Phillies from the U.S. Navy.
Dressed in white pinstripe pants and a red batting practice jersey with No. 52 and his name on the back, the 25-year old right-hander threw 25 pitches on Tuesday during his second mound session since reporting to camp Thursday.
"It's a work in progress, for sure," Song said of the session watched by Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski and manager Rob Thomson. "It's far from perfect, and I'm just hoping for an upward trajectory. Just trying to continue to get some improvement everyday."
Song walked onto the field at 10 a.m. to stretch and throw, looking the part of someone bidding to make the opening day roster.
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But the adjustment period is ongoing.
"I feel like I'm trying to be a baseball player again, I guess," Song said. "It's hard when you're around the competition level these guys are. I'm just trying to keep my head above water right now."
Song had been a flight officer training on a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in northeast Florida before the Navy granted a transfer from active duty to reserves.
"He looked like he's got a feel for all his pitches, but he's still building up," Thomson said. "So really, there's no evaluation other than he's healthy. Not commanding his pitches but just a feel for them, being able to throw strikes and spin the ball. He looks like he can do that."
That decision allowed him the chance to try and regain the skills that were impressive during his only pro season in 2019 when he made seven starts for Boston's Class A Lowell affiliate, striking out 19 in 17 innings with a 1.06 ERA. With a fastball in the upper 90s mph, he went 11-1 with a 1.44 ERA and 161 strikeouts in 94 innings during his senior year at Navy.
"I think that it's definitely just way too early to tell," Song said. "There's so much that needs to get done for me right that it's not something I could really project."
Song was taken by the Phillies from Boston in the winter meeting draft for unprotected minor league players in December. He was selected by the Red Sox in the fourth round of the 2019 amateur draft when Dombrowski headed Boston's baseball operations.
Song is not getting any special treatment in the clubhouse. His locker is one of four temporary ones in the middle of the room.
After his workout, he sat at his locker in shorts and a T-shirt working on his glove.
Regardless of the ultimate outcome, Song is having fun right now.
"These guys create a very good environment," Song said. "Definitely, the fun is not an issue right now, that's for sure." | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/baseball/professional/phillies-noah-song-making-transition-from-navy-training-to-spring-training/article_1c62f6e8-b7c3-11ed-a1d4-bb55214116f7.html | 2023-03-01 00:14:40 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/baseball/professional/phillies-noah-song-making-transition-from-navy-training-to-spring-training/article_1c62f6e8-b7c3-11ed-a1d4-bb55214116f7.html |
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A supporter of French club Marseille has been handed preliminary charges including attempted murder for allegedly firing a flare that seriously injured a visiting German fan during crowd violence at Stade Velodrome last month.
The Marseille public prosecutor's office on Friday indicted the 26-year-old Marseille supporter, who allegedly launched the flare in the parking lot when Eintracht Frankfurt visited for a Champions League match on Sept. 13. The supporter was not publicly identified.
The German fan sustained a serious neck injury after being hit by the flare and is still receiving medical care. German agency DPA has reported that a 64-year-old woman was injured when she tried to remove the flare.
Seventeen police officers were also injured during the crowd violence. Riot police intervened when opposing fans launched flares and fireworks at each other from close range for several minutes inside the stadium.
Seventeen people had been detained.
The night before the game, opposing groups of ultras and hooligans from Marseille and Frankfurt — numbering more than 100 on each side — were on the verge of fighting in the street before riot police stepped in.
The violence at Stade Velodrome came days after 32 people were injured in a mass brawl between ultras from Nice and German club Cologne before a Europa Conference League match.
Marseille plays at Frankfurt on Wednesday in another Champions League game.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A video taken Saturday shows a group displaying Nazi symbols on a bridge in Pinellas County, Florida.
In the video, a group of six people can be seen holding the Nazi flag and anti-abortion banners.
One of the banners said “End abortion, Save white babies.” Another had the word “problem” with the Star of David, a Jewish symbol, on it while the rest was obscured by the Pinellas Trail bridge sign.
“Another Nazi display, right here in Pinellas,” wrote Eric Lynn, Democratic candidate for Florida’s 13th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. “We must all condemn these acts of Antisemitism as hate must have no home in Pinellas, Florida, or in USA. If you don’t speak out against hate, antisemitism, & Nazis, they will keep coming back.”
This is the second appearance of white supremacists in the Tampa Bay area in recent weeks.
On July 22, a group of men also held Nazi symbols and pro-DeSantis flags outside Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, a conservative event for students, in Tampa. They also made racial remarks against a Black counterprotester.
The group eventually left after students attending the event confronted them.
The actions have continuously drawn sharp responses from state politicians. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is Jewish, wrote Saturday that white supremacists and Nazis “have no place in Florida” and called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to denounce the demonstrations.
“Hate must not be met with silence,” Fried said.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Democrats in the Vermont House of Representatives have selected their leaders ahead of the next legislative session.
The Democrats held a public caucus Saturday at the State House in Montpelier.
Rep. Jill Krowinski of Burlington was tapped for a second term as speaker, though her nomination must be approved by the entire House when the session gets underway next month.
Democrats also selected Rep. Leader Emily Long of Newfane to serve another term as majority leader. Rep. Kathleen James of Manchester, Rep. Will Notte of Rutland and Rep. Jana Brown of Richmond were selected to serve as assistant majority leaders.
Democrats hold veto-proof majorities in both the House of Representatives and the state Senate, making it easier for lawmakers to override any potential vetoes from Republican Gov. Phil Scott, the only statewide GOP officeholder in Vermont. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Democrats-in-Vermont-House-announce-leadership-17630472.php | 2022-12-04 18:39:18 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Democrats-in-Vermont-House-announce-leadership-17630472.php |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea’s capital on Saturday denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or major clashes from the protests near the National Assembly in Seoul. The marchers, mostly members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, accused President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government of labor oppression and ignoring what they described as the truckers’ harsh work conditions and financial struggles, worsened further by rising fuel costs.
The government on Tuesday issued an order for some 2,500 drivers of cement trucks to return to work, saying that their walkout is rattling the national economy. It wasn’t immediately clear how many truckers returned to their jobs following the order as their union vowed to continue the strike.
Thousands of members of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity union have been striking since last week, calling for the government to make permanent a minimum freight rate system that is to expire at the end of 2022.
While the minimum fares are currently applied to shipping containers and cement, the strikers also call for the benefits to be expanded to other cargo. That would include oil and chemical tankers, steel and automobile carriers and package delivery trucks under the broader agreement.
Container traffic at ports recovered to 81% of normal levels as of Saturday morning after dropping to around just 20% earlier this week, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It said more than 5,000 truckers were actively participating in the strike on Saturday.
Tuesday’s order marked the first time a South Korean government exercised its controversial powers under a law revised in 2004 to force truckers back to their jobs.
A failure to comply without “justifiable reason” is punishable by up to three years in jail or a maximum fine of 30 million won ($22,400). Critics say the law infringes on constitutional rights because it doesn’t clearly define what qualifies as acceptable conditions for a strike.
Officials say they issued the “work start order” to cement truckers first because the construction industry was hit hardest by shipment delays. They say they are considering expanding the order to drivers transporting fuel as a second step, citing concerns about possible shortages at gas stations.
The strike’s impact has so far been mostly limited to domestic industries and there has been no immediate reports of major disruptions to export industries such as semiconductors.
Yoon’s government has offered to temporarily extend the minimum freight fares for another three years but balked at the demand to widen the scope of such payments.
The truckers say the minimum-rate system is crucial for their finances and personal safety, saying that without it they are forced to increase their deliveries and drive dangerously to make ends meet. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/ap-thousands-protest-in-south-korea-in-support-of-truckers/ | 2022-12-03 19:50:06 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/ap-thousands-protest-in-south-korea-in-support-of-truckers/ |
Ledecky stretches 22-medal record at worlds with 800 title
By CIARÁN FAHEY
AP Sports Writer
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky has extended her record haul of medals from the world swimming championships to 22 with her latest 800-meter freestyle win. Ledecky clocked 8:08.04 to win the event for the eighth consecutive time at a worlds or Olympic Games. It’s her 19th gold at a worlds and her fourth this week. She helped the United States win the 4×200 freestyle relay final on Wednesday, two days after she won the 1,500 freestyle, which came two days after she won the 400 freestyle on the first day of racing in Budapest. Ledecky has the most medals for a female swimmer in world championships history. Only Michael Phelps has more. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/06/24/ledecky-stretches-22-medal-record-at-worlds-with-800-title/ | 2022-06-24 19:04:54 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/06/24/ledecky-stretches-22-medal-record-at-worlds-with-800-title/ |
Only 73 southern resident orcas that live along the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia remain as of July 1, according to the latest census from the Center for Whale Research.
In the last year, three whales died — K21, K44 and L89. Meanwhile, two calves were born in February and April.
The census found the L pod, currently sitting at 32 orcas, at its lowest point since the study began in 1976. The K pod and J pod sit at 16 and 25, respectively.
According to the center, K21 was last seen “severely emaciated” in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in July 2021. He was declared dead after he failed to appear alongside others he was social with.
K44 was alive as of this spring, but was not seen in subsequent encounters with his family. According to the center, the body of a juvenile killer whale with consistent markings was found entangled off the Oregon coast in late June. He has not been formally identified, the center reported.
L89 was not seen in 2022.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Most Republican candidates running for the Virginia legislature this year are centering their pitches to voters on issues such as education, the cost of living and gun rights.
But for a small segment of contenders, former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a rigged 2020 election have remained an important campaign selling point heading into Tuesday’s primary.
“There’s still an underlying distrust of the election process by Republicans,” said state Sen. Amanda Chase, who is in a three-way primary for a GOP-leaning seat in suburban Richmond.
Chase has persistently repeated Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen, once called for martial law to overturn the results and was censured by the state Senate for telling falsehoods and voicing support for those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
She is one of at least six Republican candidates for the General Assembly who attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally or the subsequent march to the Capitol. All say they did not enter the building during the riot, and none has been charged with a crime. Another GOP candidate is a lawyer who worked on Trump’s attempts to reverse his loss in Wisconsin, a result that was affirmed in recounts and audits.
Nearly three years after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House, the Virginia candidates’ messaging shows the durability among Republicans of Trump’s claims, something that’s been reflected in previous election cycles and echoed in polling. In interviews, recent appearances or social media posts, those candidates who were in Washington on Jan. 6 have either defended claims that the election was rigged, worn their attendance as a badge of honor or pledged to pursue major changes to Virginia voting laws if elected.
Virginia is one of the few states that holds its state legislative races in odd years. Every seat is on the ballot in a year where control of the General Assembly, which is split between Democrats and Republicans, is up for grabs.
In last year’s midterms, candidates who rejected the 2020 results fared poorly, with deniers losing every bid for statewide office in the swing states of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Virginia, a quasi-swing state with its unusual off-year election cycle, is closely watched for hints of voter sentiment heading into the following year’s midterm or presidential cycle. How some of the Jan. 6 attendees fare this year could offer further insight on voters’ willingness to back candidates who continue to embrace the false claims by Trump, who lost the state to Biden in 2020 by about 10 percentage points.
Most of the Virginia statehouse candidates who attended the Jan. 6 rally or march said that if Republicans can win majorities in both chambers, they would push to roll back voting changes enacted by Democrats. They expanded access to early voting and absentee ballots, and eliminated the previous voter ID requirement.
John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL and current House of Delegates member, has said in interviews that he wants to change election laws in order to “turn Virginia red again.”
“If we can lock arms and get the House, get the Senate, change the election laws, get rid of election season, get a voter ID, ban these drop boxes that are not secure, we could have a red state that could be in play for 2024,” he said in an April interview on the John Fredericks radio show.
To be clear, the 2020 election was not stolen from Trump, who is dominating early primary polls for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. Multiple reviews, recounts and audits in the battleground states where Trump contested his loss validated Biden’s victory. Even Trump’s former attorney general said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and dozens of judges, including several nominated by Trump, rejected his claims. An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by Trump found no evidence of widespread fraud.
None of the six Virginia legislative candidates is running in any of the highly competitive swing districts that are expected to help determine party control in the fall. In all but one case, the winner of the Republican nomination is almost assured of winning the seat.
McGuire has already won a party-run Senate nomination contest in a heavily Republican district after receiving Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s endorsement. Another, former Chase aide and House candidate Jody Pyles, recently lost his bid for the GOP nomination to an incumbent in a different party-run process. Neither responded to requests for comment.
Philip Hamilton, a longshot candidate with no primary opponent in a heavily Democratic Senate district that includes Charlottesville, said he questions whether Biden was legitimately elected but isn’t emphasizing the issue in his campaign.
In addition to Chase, the other Jan. 6 participants on Tuesday’s ballot are current state delegates Dave LaRock and Marie March.
LaRock did not agree to an interview request from the AP but responded to questions by email. He has made 2020 a central part of this year’s campaign as he competes with seven other Republicans for the party’s nomination in a deep red Shenandoah Valley-area Senate seat.
“I have no regrets about participating in the peaceful, political free-speech rallies on January 6. I spoke out against the violence and lawbreaking as soon as I learned of it through news reports,” he said, adding that people who did not break the law “had every right to be there.”
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who at one point suggested that Trump could invoke the military to stop Biden from taking office, endorsed LaRock last month. He lauded LaRock for his “faithfulness to the cause” when LaRock wrote a letter asking then-Vice President Mike Pence to delay the certification of Virginia’s presidential electors in the 2020 race.
March, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, told a crowd about her Jan. 6 participation in April, mentioning at a campaign event that restaurants she owned were “attacked relentlessly” because she was there.
March faces a primary contest against another delegate, Wren Williams in one of the state’s few incumbent-on-incumbent matchups, a result of new district maps created through redistricting.
Williams, who worked on Trump’s Wisconsin legal team, said in an interview that the 2020 election was “absolutely rigged” but that liberals are the ones keeping the issue front and center. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin and the lack of any widespread fraud has been affirmed through recounts and a nonpartisan audit — even a partisan investigation ordered by legislative Republicans.
“I feel like the left is the one more interested in 2020 and the 2020 election and Jan. 6 because they inevitably have very little record to run on with Joe Biden’s administration and the wreckage and the damage that they’ve done to America over the last few years,” Williams said.
The six candidates who were in Washington on Jan. 6 are among a longer list of Republicans running for office in Virginia who have pushed false claims about the 2020 election, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee said in a new research report.
The group’s research counts 16 total candidates in Virginia’s 2023 state legislative races who have engaged in what the DLCC calls “election denial or other anti-democratic activity.”
Among them are candidates who attended local “Stop the Steal” rallies after the 2020 election, shared false claims of voter fraud or promoted the debunked film “2,000 Mules.”
Heather Williams, interim president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said those types of candidates “are an ongoing threat to our democracy.”
“State legislatures are the most impactful level of the ballot when it comes to our elections and voting rights, and with these extreme candidates and lawmakers running, the stakes couldn’t be higher this cycle,” she said.
Rich Anderson, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, pushed back on that argument. He said in an interview that while he thinks most GOP candidates are looking forward, candidates should have the license to freely discuss their beliefs on any issue.
America is a “sturdy” nation that has been through “lots worse than somebody who may feel concerns over the process of the 2020 election and its ultimate outcome,” he said.
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Swenson reported from New York.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The pilot of a small plane that crashed in Alaska earlier this month decided to make a forced landing after fearing the plane would not be able to safely climb over the mountainous terrain, according to a preliminary report released Thursday. Two passengers died in the crash.
The report from the National Transportation Safety Board cites information provided by the pilot to an agency investigator during a brief conversation in an emergency room. Clint Johnson, chief of the agency’s Alaska region, said the pilot’s injuries had delayed a more in-depth conversation with investigators but that one was planned.
Alaska State Troopers identified those who died as Byron Chitwood, 91, of Texas, and Rodney Murdock, 73, of Kodiak.
According to the NTSB report, the crash on July 2 occurred minutes after the plane left the airport at Old Harbor, which is on the southeast coast of Kodiak Island. The plane, carrying four passengers and their baggage plus the pilot, was bound for Kodiak, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) away.
The pilot and one passenger sustained serious injuries and another passenger was critically injured, the report states.
Johnson said the wreckage has been recovered and the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/pilot-of-plane-that-crashed-in-alaska-killing-2-attempted-forced-landing-report-says/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-13 20:15:27 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/pilot-of-plane-that-crashed-in-alaska-killing-2-attempted-forced-landing-report-says/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Fire consumes trailer in same mobile park where tiger cub was found
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An overnight fire burned down a trailer in the same park where a tiger cub was found, according to Albuquerque fire crews. It was the second tiger case in the metro in just a few months.
No one is confirming if it was the same trailer on fire or not.
This past week a call about a bystander shot at a convenience store led to a trail of blood and a tiger cub inside a trailer.
“I don’t know who’s that crazy to keep a tiger in one of the trailers.”
“That’s an exotic animal, and they shouldn’t have it.”
Police say they arrested someone on Zuni, but didn’t say if the tiger is connected when we asked again this weekend.
Now, the 20-pound Bengal tiger cub is safe and healthy at the Albuquerque zoo. It will eventually go to a reputable sanctuary.
But another tiger is still missing.
This week we saw new body camera video from a search in August.
Officials think this one-year-old weighing 50-or-more pounds was in this northwest Albuquerque home.
Body camera shows the suspect talk to officers about the cub.
“So, you guys are just looking for the tiger, basically? We’re looking for information on the tiger. He’s not here anymore, man. He’s gone.”
Officials wanted a tiger, but they got an alligator, guns, and pounds of heroin and cocaine.
Experts say you can trace the cute cubs directly to powerful drug cartels which use some as killing machines.
“They would use animals to torture or kill their rival gang members,” said Mike Vigil, a former DEA agent.
Vigil says these cases are definitely tied to cartel members, and there are probably more tigers hiding in homes in the metro. | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/fire-consumes-trailer-in-same-mobile-park-where-tiger-cub-was-found/ | 2023-01-16 14:26:18 | 0 | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/fire-consumes-trailer-in-same-mobile-park-where-tiger-cub-was-found/ |
A Connecticut court issued a second 55-year prison sentence to a man who attacked two people with a samurai sword, killing one and severely injuring the other.
It's the second sentence — and identical in length — for Peter Manfredonia, 26, who also fatally shot a man and kidnapped his girlfriend before leading police on a six-day manhunt across several states in 2020.
Manfredonia was a senior studying finance and mechanical engineering at the University of Connecticut when he "just flipped," according to his arrest warrant, and fatally struck 62-year-old Theodore DeMers with a sword on May 22, 2020, outside the man's home in Willington, Conn.
Manfredonia then attacked the man who came to DeMers' rescue, John Franco, who was 80 years old at the time, leaving him with severe injuries to his hands, neck and head.
Manfredonia broke into a nearby home and took a third man hostage for 24 hours. A day later, he drove across the state to Derby and fatally shot a former classmate and kidnapped that classmate's girlfriend. He let her go, physically unharmed, at a rest stop in New Jersey.
After a six-day search, police arrested Manfredonia at a truck stop in Hagerstown, Md., without incident.
On Wednesday, the defendant was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the second killing and the kidnapping. On Thursday, he was sentenced to an additional 55 years in prison for the sword attacks, court documents show.
Between the two cases, Manfredonia pleaded guilty to five counts of murder, assault, kidnapping and home invasion. Both of his sentences will run concurrently, and he agreed not to seek early release as part of his plea bargains, The Associated Press reports.
The victims and their families in both cases agreed to the plea bargain after months of discussion, according to reporting from Connecticut Public Radio.
This weeks' sentencing hearings came with several days of emotional testimony from victims and eyewitnesses.
Cindy DeMers, the widow of the man killed by samurai sword, told the court she believed her husband's killer deserved the death penalty, even though Connecticut outlawed capital punishment in 2016.
"It was like being in a war zone," she said, according to the Associated Press. "All I could focus on was reassuring Ted that he was going to be OK and we would put his body back together. We will get through this. We had gotten through so much together up until this point.
"He was still alive when he was taken away, but he never came home," she added. "My husband's life was stolen from him viciously. Life as I knew it [was] stolen from me. My world as I knew it came to an end."
State Attorney Matthew Gedansky said that Manfredonia was in DeMers' neighborhood because he planned to kill his ex-girlfriend, who lived nearby, the AP reported. Michael Dolan, the defendant's lawyer, said his client has bipolar disease and anxiety and was actually planning to commit suicide in front of the woman as part of a psychotic episode.
Witnesses said DeMers thought Manfredonia had crashed his motorcycle and was offering to help when he was attacked, according to several media accounts of the trial.
Manfredonia apologized twice in court this week, directing separate comments to each of the victims and their families.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An ambulance on the way to an emergency call was hit broadside by an SUV that, sources say, was being pursued by police on Friday morning in Northeast Philadelphia.
The crash happened around 10:30 a.m. at E. Cheltenham Ave. and Saul Street.
In video obtained by Action News, the ambulance's siren can be heard just moments before it is hit broadside by an SUV.
The ambulance is pushed off the road and onto the sidewalk, nearly tipping onto its side.
The EMTs inside the smashed ambulance, a 42-year-old man and 51-year-old woman, were hurt. The female medic suffered broken ribs and a broken leg.
The SUV driver was also injured.
No patients were inside the ambulance at the time.
Sources say a marked squad car was in pursuit of the SUV, which was reported stolen. Sources also tell Action News officers found a gun and drugs inside the vehicle.
The 27-year-old man driving the SUV was arrested. His name has not been released.
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NYON, Switzerland, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hublot has been the Official Timekeeper of the FIFA World Cup for the 4th consecutive edition and will time all 64 games at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. The 129 official referees will be timing the game with the new timepiece on their wrists.
From the countdown to the FIFA World Cup™ Final, Hublot will be at the heart of the action. Before the tournament starts, the Big Bang e FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ will be in countdown mode, keeping track of the days until the opening match on November 20. Then, with 15 minutes to go before each match, the watch will deliver team line-ups and player profiles, so the wearer can feast on the details from the comfort of their wrist.
As a game kicks off, the watch will enter "match mode" and activate "timeline", a feature created exclusively for this watch that will help fans capture the most important moments in football.
At any point during a game, the wearer can replay these events by scrolling around the dial using the watch's crown. This legible, ergonomic, interactive functionality is unique to the Big Bang e FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.
The timepiece is a blend of fine watchmaking techniques and high-end electronics. The exquisitely engineered 44mm case in micro-blasted and polished black ceramic and black titanium echoes Hublot's mechanical watch icon, the Big Bang.
In place of state-of-the-art watchmaking mechanics is a Qualcomm® Snapdragon Wear™ 4100 processor powered with the latest version of Wear OS by Google™ (Wear OS3). A dedicated tailor-made app offers the wearer a seamless experience worthy of one of the world's most exclusive watch brands.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Whenever the president travels, a special bullet-resistant lectern called the “blue goose," or its smaller cousin “the falcon,” is in tow. Lately, President Joe Biden is rendering them all but obsolete as he increasingly reaches for a hand-held microphone instead.
From casual fundraisers to more formal remarks on disaster response or inflation or the like, Biden has opted for a hand-gripped mic more than a dozen times in recent months — even when he's standing in front of the fixed double microphones on a presidential-seal-adorned lectern.
Those who know him best say the mic swap makes Biden a much more natural speaker, and he knows it.
There's an obvious change when he makes the switch. His shoulders relax. A smile spreads across his face. He walks the room, making eye contact.
“There are two tricks to public speaking, and neither is really rocket science, said Mo Elleithee, a former Democratic consultant who’s now executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service. “First, you want to be as comfortable as possible. Second, you want to be authentic. And the two go hand in hand.”
Elleithee said one of Biden's strengths is his authenticity — "love or hate his politics, he’s a real guy who comes across as one. That’s because he’s most comfortable when he’s talking with people, as opposed to talking at them. Standing at a podium is stiff. It’s formal.”
The president, who has acknowledged his difficulties as a public speaker and struggles to overcome a persistent stutter, is often stiff when reading prepared remarks. As a candidate and now as president, he has eschewed the traditional glass-paned teleprompters normally placed just off the corners of the lectern, instead preferring larger teleprompters on television screens.
His public style is meant be everyman, down-to-earth — even folksy — as he works to connect with audiences. He tells dad (or grandpa?) jokes, talks about his parents, his wife, his children, his many years of government experience. But that sense of empathy and connection that he’s able to cultivate in person often doesn't come through in some of his larger events, nor through the livestream.
The mic, in some ways, is as an attempt to bridge that divide.
Last week, as the president surveyed the hurricane damage in Florida, he spoke at first into the fixed microphones, gripping the sides of the lectern. But midway through his speech he called an audible.
“Let’s see if this thing works, is this one working?” Biden asked as he grabbed on to the hand-held mic. The president then stuck a hand in his pocket and turned toward the crowd as he continued talking about the administration's disaster response.
Aware of the power of stagecraft, Biden isn’t eschewing the iconic presidential lecterns entirely: They still hold paper copies of his remarks (in case the teleprompters have an error) and often a glass of water. But the built-in microphones are increasingly turned off.
The boxy dark blue and dark paneled lecterns — there are many — are a symbol of the modern presidency.
It’s from behind them that President Bill Clinton said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” President Barack Obama declared that Osama bin Laden had been killed, and Queen Elizabeth II was rendered nearly invisible except for her hat when she was welcomed on the South Lawn by President George H.W. Bush.
Now, when Biden staffers place the leather-bound folder with his written remarks on the lectern, they're also tucking in the handheld mic.
During his South Lawn celebration for the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden donned his aviators and pulled out the mic on a warm, sunny day.
“With your permission, I’m going to take my coat off," he told the crowd as he relaxed into the moment. "That doesn’t mean I’m going to speak any longer.” Then he said: “Folks, welcome to the White House, everybody.”
Inevitably, there are times when technology fails him. During a Democratic fundraiser for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the mic feed kept going in and out, making it nearly impossible to hear Biden. But Biden is not deterred.
Delivering remarks recently at the headquarters for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Biden spotted the handheld microphone.
“I’m going to use this” he declared. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Give-him-a-hand-Biden-ditching-lectern-for-17501368.php | 2022-10-11 14:52:08 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Give-him-a-hand-Biden-ditching-lectern-for-17501368.php |
EAGLE, Idaho — Police were at the Banbury subdivision in Eagle early on May 4 investigating a shooting that had occurred the previous night.
Eagle Police received reports of shots fired inside a home in the Chiden Blvd./ S. Locust Grove Road area around midnight.
When they arrived, police found a 46-year-old man deceased and an adult woman who was badly injured. Police are reporting that the two knew each other.
According to a coroner's report released later that afternoon confirmed that the deceased individual died by suicide.
The woman was transported to a local hospital where she is currently being treated for her injuries, some of which appear to be life-threatening.
No other victims have been identified and though this is an ongoing investigation, the Ada County Sheriff's Office is reporting no active threat to public safety.
As the investigation progresses, Idaho News 6 will continue with updates on this story. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/idaho-police-investigate-deadly-shooting-in-eagle-subdivision | 2023-05-04 20:34:36 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/idaho-police-investigate-deadly-shooting-in-eagle-subdivision |
The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday.
The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. That’s up from about 862,000 abortions in 2017, when national abortion figures reached their lowest point since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide.
About one in five pregnancies ended in abortion in 2020, according to the report, which comes as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn that decision.
The number of women obtaining abortions illustrates a need and “underscores just how devastating a Supreme Court decision is going to be for access to an absolutely vital service," said Sara Rosenbaum, a George Washington University health law and policy professor.
Medication abortions, the two-drug combination sometimes called the “abortion pill,” accounted for 54% of U.S. abortions in 2020, the first time they made up more than half of abortions, Guttmacher said.
The COVID-19 pandemic may have pushed down the numbers in some states, according to the report. In New York, abortions increased from 2017 to 2019, then fell 6% between 2019 and 2020. One in 10 clinics in New York paused or stopped abortion care in 2020.
Texas saw a 2% decrease between 2019 and 2020, coinciding with pandemic-related abortion restrictions in the state.
Elsewhere, the pandemic may have limited access to contraception, some experts said, or discouraged women from undertaking all the health care visits involved in a pregnancy.
Yet, abortions already were inching upward before the coronavirus upended people's lives. One contributing factor: Some states expanded Medicaid access to abortion.
Illinois, for example, began allowing state Medicaid funds to pay for abortions starting in January 2018. The state saw abortions increase 25% between 2017 and 2020.
In neighboring Missouri, abortions decreased substantially, but the number of Missouri residents traveling to Illinois for abortions increased to more than 6,500.
“If states are paying for abortions I hope they are also looking at how to support childbirth, so a woman doesn’t think abortion is the best or only option,” said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, which opposes abortion.
Guttmacher conducts the nation's most comprehensive survey of abortion providers every three years. The tally is considered more complete than data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that omits several states including California, the nation’s most populous state.
In 2020, fewer women were getting pregnant and a larger share of them chose abortion, the researchers found. There were 3.6 million births, a decline since 2017.
The abortion rate in 2020 was 14.4 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, an increase from 13.5 per 1,000 women in 2017.
Abortions increased by 12% in the West, 10% in the Midwest, 8% in the South and 2% in the Northeast.
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Project expands salt marsh in Franklin County for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
WINTER GARDEN, Fla., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Sea & Shoreline announced the completion of a project that will help to restore and enhance the intertidal and coastal habitat adjacent to Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory (FSUCML) on St. James Island in Franklin County, FL. With funding from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Sea & Shoreline was contracted to excavate unsuitable soils within the existing salt marsh area, excavate suitable soils from an existing dredge spoil disposal area on the FSUCML property, and place the suitable soils to expand the salt marsh area waterward.
The project was designed by Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc., and intended to address the shoreline along the FSUCML which is highly impacted as a result of dredging that occurred during the 1960s to create a boat basin, navigational channel, and boat ramp critical to the research conducted at the FSUCML. The primary mission of the FSUCML is to conduct interdisciplinary research focused on the coastal and marine ecosystems of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
"We are excited to complete another project for FWC," said Sea & Shoreline's Vice President of Project Management Dr. Andy Risi. Sea & Shoreline recently completed other projects for FWC including Lake Istokpoga Revegetation, Moore's Creek Eelgrass Planting and Exclosure Relocation, and Blue Springs Bank Stabilization. The company is also currently working on the Warm Mineral Springs Restoration and Enhancement.
Since its inception in 2014, Sea & Shoreline's heralded experience with scientifically validated methods of aquatic restoration has proven successful across more than 150 environmental projects. The company continues to be the industry leader in rehabilitating threatened and corrupted aquatic environments, with proven success in places such as Crystal River, Homosassa River, the Caloosahatchee River, and the Indian River Lagoon.
Sea & Shoreline, LLC is a Florida-based aquatic restoration firm that restores fresh and saltwater habitats to healthy and self-sustaining ecosystems. Services include seagrass, oyster reef, coral reef, and propeller scar restorations, dredging, living shorelines, vegetated retaining walls, wetland plantings, berm and bank stabilizations, and seagrass mitigation banking. For more information, please visit seaandshoreline.com, or follow us on social media LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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‘It was horrible’: Teen saved from dog attack by neighbors
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WTKR) - Police in Virginia shot and killed a pit bull after authorities say it attacked a teenager, leaving him seriously injured.
Police say the call about the dog attack came in around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday from a Virginia Beach neighborhood. The victim is believed to be 14 to 15 years old.
“I’ve never seen a dog attack anyone, like only on TV, not in person. It was horrible,” neighbor Terri Hall said.
Witnesses say the teenager was waiting to pick up his sister, who was being dropped off by a school bus, when the dog attacked him. It’s unclear how the dog, believed to have been a pit bull, got loose and if it lived in the neighborhood.
Hall and another neighbor, Tyjuan Walker, jumped into action to help the teen.
“The little boy was saying, ‘Help. Don’t let me die,’” Walker said. “The dog was too vicious.”
Hall says she put the dog in a headlock and swung it around, succeeding in getting it off the victim.
“I’m going to be honest, she saved that little boy’s life,” Walker said.
Hall says she has a daughter about the same age as the victim, and she was thinking about her at the time.
“My adrenaline kicked in, and I just did what I did,” she said.
As officers were giving the victim aid, police say they were “confronted by the dog and euthanized it” by shooting it twice.
The victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Amazon Echo (4th Gen) review
In an era of same-day shipping for online purchases and order-ahead options for most stores, it’s no surprise that smart home devices are soaring in popularity. However, many people wonder whether a smart speaker is worth it and which one is best for their home.
The Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is a smart speaker touting a lengthy list of features, including voice control, a built-in Zigbee smart home hub and privacy protection. Whether you’re throwing a dance party, asking a puzzling question or creating a calendar event, Alexa is happy to help. As a bonus, the packaging is made from 98% recycled sources, and the device enters low-power mode when it’s not in use to reduce energy consumption.
To determine whether the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is worth it and lives up to expectations, we put it to the test. Here’s what we found.
Testing the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)
To figure out how the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) works in the real world, we tested it out for several weeks in a home environment. We took advantage of every feature, such as asking Alexa to play music or connecting it to a smart plug to manage lights. Our tester has experience using a comparable smart home hub and high-quality speakers.
What is the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)?
The Amazon Echo (4th) Gen is a smart speaker and digital assistant capable of checking sports scores, making calls and turning on your favorite song using only voice commands. Whether you experience low mobility and rely on a smart home hub to help your home run smoothly or just need it to set a timer, there are many helpful uses for the Amazon Echo.
This model is the fourth generation of Amazon Echo devices. The design is the most obvious change, moving from a cylindrical to a spherical shape with a fabric coating. There are also upgrades in sound quality and internal connectivity from the third to the fourth generations.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) price and where to buy
The Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is available at Amazon for $59.99.
How to use Amazon Echo (4th Gen)
While the Echo came with an instructional guide for setup, it still took some time to run through the process. For instance, you must download the Amazon Alexa app and add a new device to your Wi-Fi network. However, it took a few tries for us to successfully connect to Wi-Fi, which was quite tedious. After troubleshooting this issue, the rest of the process was straightforward. We also appreciated that we could name our device and the room it’s in, making it convenient to identify if you have multiple devices.
Here are some of the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) features:
- Premium sound: Since it’s primarily a smart speaker, the sound is one of the most critical aspects of the Echo, which automatically adapts to the sound in any room. It has powerful speakers with clear highs and deep bass, and it features multi-room music to synchronize all Echo devices in each room. If you pair your Echo with a Fire TV device, the speaker also creates a home theater.
- Voice control: By saying “Alexa” or “Hey Alexa,” you can ask the Fourth Generation Echo almost any command, such as streaming songs from Spotify, setting a timer or the answer to your homework question.
- Smart home hub: Without the capabilities of the smart home hub, the Amazon Echo is just a smart speaker. However, this feature allows you to voice control compatible locks and set up compatible Zigbee devices.
- Hands-free calling: You can call other friends who have an Echo device or the Alexa app or connect to other devices to tell the house that dinner is ready.
- Privacy controls: Earlier models had some privacy issues and users had concerns since the smart speaker was always listening. However, the Fourth Generation Echo has a mic-off button, the ability to delete your voice recordings and wake word technology.
- Alexa Guard: This feature sends you a mobile alert if your Amazon Echo detects the sound of glass breaking or a smoke alarm while you’re away.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) benefits
Our first thought after opening our twilight blue Amazon Echo was how contemporary it looked and that it seamlessly fit in with our home decor. Even with our connectivity issues, the instructions were helpful and clearly outlined every step of setup. We also received smart plugs to operate our lights, which were simple to use and performed flawlessly.
Regarding the sound, we feel the quality is clear at a low volume, but it can’t compete with the bass of a high-quality Bluetooth speaker. However, it’s perfect for everyday listening and fills the room. When we used the hands-free calling feature, we heard the person we were talking to loud and clear, and they thought our voice sounded clear as long as there wasn’t any background noise.
Overall, we appreciate the convenience the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) brings into our life. In addition to playing music or telling us the weather, we often used voice commands when guests were over to lower the music volume or control the lights.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) drawbacks
There were a few features that worked well most of the time, but we found them lacking at other times. For example, while saying, “Hey Alexa” worked well the majority of the time, there were instances when our Echo device didn’t recognize our command. Also, it understood us when we wanted to send a text message using voice control to a friend with a simple name but didn’t recognize complex names in our contact list.
While we appreciate the quality and volume of sound when we’re by ourselves, we wished it was louder to accommodate a large number of guests. Also, we couldn’t use the hands-free calling when there was any background noise or the person we talked to couldn’t understand us.
Should you get the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)?
Overall, we think the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) lives up to its expectations. The smart speaker has decent voice recognition and makes life much more manageable with voice control and smart home hub capabilities. Based on our experience, this smart speaker is a handy addition to any home familiar with Amazon products, including a Firestick or other Amazon-compatible smart home devices. We recommend the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) to anyone who wants more convenience at home.
Consider other products
With voice assistant, you can stream music, audiobooks and radio using Wi-Fi. Plus, you can mix and match several Sonos speakers to create an immersive home theater sound.
Google Nest Audio Smart Speaker
By saying, “Hey Google,” you can instantly find out the local weather, schedule an alarm or play music. It’s also compatible with smart lights and smart thermostats, so you can control everything in your house without lifting a finger.
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If you appreciate the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) but want better audio, the Echo Studio is a step up. It still offers many of the same features as the fourth generation Echo, including voice control, privacy protection and a built-in smart home hub.
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HONOLULU (AP)Dedrick Parson ran for two first-half touchdowns, Penei Pavihi returned and interception 50 yards for a touchdown and Hawaii beat Duquesne 24-14 Saturday night.
Parson finished with 11 carries for 52 yards.
Duquesne (1-2) took nearly-8 minutes off the clock with a 14-play, 56-yard drive in the first quarter before settling for a 26-yard field goal by Brian Bruzdewicz that made it 3-0 but Parson answered with a 5-yard touchdown run less than 2 minutes later and scored on a run from 17 yards out to give Hawaii a 14-3 lead early in the second quarter.
Bruzdewicz added a 30-yard field goal as time expired in the first half but after Pavihi’s pick-6 early in the fourth quarter before Matthew Shipley made a 29-yard field goal with 6:33 to play that made it 24-6.
Malik Hausman intercepted two passes for Hawaii (1-3).
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Jan. 6 committee set to give closing arguments, referrals
WASHINGTON - After 16 months, a thousand witnesses, and tens of thousands of documents, the Jan. 6 House investigatory panel says they have created the most comprehensive look at the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries.
The committee will make its final public presentation Monday about the unprecedented effort by Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win.
The committee's closing arguments wrap up a year-and-a-half-long inquiry and will detail findings about the insurrection, which the committee has called an "attempted coup" that warrants criminal prosecution from the Justice Department.
RELATED: Jan. 6 committee may recommend insurrection charge against Trump
How to watch Jan. 6 hearing
The meeting will include closing arguments, referral announcements, and a preview of the committee’s final published report.
It will begin Monday at 1 p.m. ET. You can watch live on LiveNOW from FOX.
FILE - U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) (C), Chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, presides over a hearing with J. Michael Luttig, former U.S. Court of Appeals judge for Fourth Circuit, and Greg Jaco
Will charges be announced?
Not exactly.
The committee has been hinting that they will be announcing both criminal and civil referrals, but a referral isn’t an official charge. Think of it as a recommendation, of sorts, that the panel is giving the Justice Department to take over and explore further.
Federal prosecutors will then decide whether to bring charges.
What referrals are expected?
Referrals are expected to be announced against Trump and his allies, who, according to lawmakers, broke the law or committed ethical violations.
The committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the referrals may include criminal, ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations.
Lawmakers have suggested in particular that their recommended charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United State, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and insurrection.
The committee on Monday could also make ethics referrals against fellow lawmakers who ignored congressional subpoenas.
Lawmakers who did not comply with subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee included House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California, as well as GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama.
RELATED: What to watch for during Jan. 6 panel final presentation Monday
The committee’s final report
Lawmakers have promised that Monday's session will include a preview of their final report, which is expected to be released Wednesday. The panel will vote on adopting the official record, effectively authorizing the release of the report to the public.
The eight-chapter report will include hundreds of pages of findings about the attack and Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy, drawing on what the committee learned through its interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses.
In the report will also be the committee’s ideas for how to strengthen and expand the guardrails that protected the Electoral College certification in 2021.
Additional evidence, including some of the massive trove of video footage and testimony the committee collected, is expected to be released publicly before the end of the year.
What happens next?
The committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans is set to dissolve at the end of the year, and the investigation will be in the hands of the federal government.
Additional evidence, including some of the massive trove of video footage and testimony the committee collected, is expected to be released publicly before the end of the year.
Once Republicans take the majority next year, they are not expected to renew the committee, instead launching a slew of investigations that will focus on the Biden administration and the president's family.
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Pre-dawn shooting at Ohio nightclub leaves 2 dead, 4 wounded
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A predawn shooting at a Columbus night club left two people dead and four wounded, Ohio authorities said.
Officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to an after-hours club called Tha Plug on the city’s south side, emergency dispatchers said. One person died at the scene and another was dropped off at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and was later pronounced dead, dispatchers said.
Two other victims were taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center and two more to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, authorities said. There was no immediate word on their conditions.
The ages of the victims and other details weren’t immediately available. No arrests have been reported.
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BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) — The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BSCO) has released information on a man found dead on Monday. They’ve identified the man.
Deputies discovered the body of 43-year-old Cheyenne Barela near Isleta and Mcewen.
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They have not yet said how he died, but investigators believe foul play may be involved.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Jalen Green scored a career-high 42 points and the Houston Rockets held on for a 119-114 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night to snap a 13-game losing streak.
Green, the second overall pick in the 2021 draft, had 21 points by halftime and kept up his strong play in the second half to lead the Rockets to their first victory since Dec. 26 at Chicago. They ended their longest skid of the season and also a 10-game home losing streak, winning at home for the first time since Dec. 13 against Phoenix.
Green bounced back after shooting just 3 of 13 with 10 points in a loss to the Timberwolves on Saturday night.
Coach Stephen Silas could see the drive in Green to perform better from the start Monday night.
“He was ready for tonight,” Silas said. “It was time for us to buckle down and have a focused game for 48 minutes and he was the leader of that tonight.”
Green said he was “a little bit in my head” after his bad game Saturday but was determined to turn things around. He was thrilled that his big game helped Houston end its skid.
“It feels good,” he said. “My guys relied on me, coaches relied on me. We needed that. We were desperate for it. We came out and executed.”
Anthony Edwards had 31 points and D’Angelo Russell tied a season high with 30 for the Timberwolves, who had won two straight.
“You are what you repeatedly do,” Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. “We’ve repeatedly struggled with these types of games so focus… has to be part of the problem, but we just didn’t have enough guys play well either.”
Rookie Tari Eason talked about the Houston’s mindset entering Monday’s game.
“I just told the team before the game, just be desperate,” Eason said. “And I think that’s what we did tonight. Everybody played desperate. Everybody played their tails off.”
The Rockets were clinging to a one-point lead before Green scored the next five points, capped by a 3-pointer, to make it 105-99 with two minutes to go.
Edwards made the second of two free throws before Green struck again, knocking down a long 2-pointer to leave Houston up 107-100 with 90 seconds to go.
Kenyon Martin Jr. then stole the ball from D’Angelo Russell and finished on the other end with a dunk to extend the lead to nine with less than a minute left.
Edwards made a 3 for Minnesota after that but Green hit a 3-pointer for Houston seconds later to make it 112-103 with 41 seconds to go. Minnesota closed within four with 12 seconds remaining but Green answer with a free throw.
Green swished a 3-pointer as time expired in the third quarter to leave Houston up 90-81. The Timberwolves used an 8-0 run, with five points from Russell, to cut the lead to 92-89 with about nine minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Houston went on a 7-0 run, with a 3 from Garrison Mathews, to take an 81-74 lead with less than four minutes left in the third quarter.
Austin Rivers made a 3 for Minnesota second later, but the Rockets scored the next six points to make it 87-77 with about two minutes left in the quarter.
TIP-INS
Timberwolves: Taurean Prince sat out with a sprained left ankle. … Rudy Gobert had 15 points and 16 rebounds in his return after missing three games right groin soreness.
Rockets: Rookie Jabari Smith Jr. missed a second straight game with a sprained right ankle. … Kevin Porter Jr. missed a sixth consecutive game with a bruised left foot. … Alperen Sengun had 21 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
THE BASEMENT
Houston, which finished with the NBA’s worst record in each of the last two seasons, is again the league’s worst team this season at 11-36. Silas hopes a game like this is proof that his team is improving despite its record.
“We’re a work in progress for sure,” he said. “We still made mistakes.. but we played through them tonight and that’s the important thing.”
UP NEXT
Timberwolves: Visit New Orleans Wednesday night.
Rockets: Host Washington Wednesday night.
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